Podcasts about solei

Vælferðin, sum vit kenna hana í dag, er í vanda. Soleiðis ljóðar sterka ávaringin í Várfrágreiðingin hjá Búskaparráðnum. Tað einasta, sum kann steðga tí, er um politisku myndugleikarnir fremja stórar bygnaðarligar broytingar. Johnny í Grótinum, formaður í Búskaparráðnum, Ruth Vang, landsstýriskvinna í fíggjarmálum, og Elsa Berg, næstforkvinna í Kommunufelagnum, vitjar í útvarpsstovuni. Gjørt sendingina hava Sigurjón Einarson, Hallur av Rana, sum var redaktør, og Kári Annand Berg, sum var tøkningur.

Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava noorte koreograafide sarjas PREMIERE debüteerivad Maria Solei Järvet & KOOSSEIS.

Jesper Brochmand varð føddur 1585 og doyði 1652. Hann var eitt vitugt barn og á ungum árum varð hann professari við lærda háskúlan í Keypmannahavn og Sæland biskupur og soleiðis eisini biskupur í Føroyum. Hann skrivaði eina lestrabók, sum kom í allar kirkjur í Føroyum. Hesir lestrar vóru langir og drúgvir og fólk høvdu ilt við at halda seg vakin í kirkjuni. Soleiðis kom hugtakið, sum enn er livandi í føroyska málinum at nakað "er sum ein brochmandslestur". Jákup Reinert Hansen, lektari í kirkjusøgu, sigur frá.

Marco Braico"Il prossimo passo"Editrice Effatàwww.editrice.effata.itSimone, quarta scientifico, si addormenta in classe. A casa la sua vita è complicata: la sorella, affetta da una sindrome rara, rende le notti insonni per tutta la famiglia. L'aiuto inaspettato arriva dal professor Solei, il carismatico insegnante di matematica, e dal suo fidato amico Salvatore. Insieme intraprenderanno una serie di rocambolesche avventure per scoprire qualcosa di poco chiaro del passato che ha come protagonista proprio la ragazza. Un romanzo «alla Braico», che mescola emozioni profonde e leggerezza, esplorando la resilienza di una famiglia e il potere dell'amicizia.Preparatevi a una storia che vi scalderà il cuore e vi terrà incollati alle pagine!Il silenzio torna.Adesso siamo tre persone diverse, molto diverse.Un padre ferito, un professore inerme e una tigre con gli occhi iniettati di sangue.È inutile tornare a sporcare con la sofferenza e il rammarico il sentiero percorso in questa storia, l'unica cosa da fare che può avere un senso è pensare a quale sarà il prossimo passo.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarewww.ilpostodelleparole.itDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.

Nghe trọn sách nói Nghệ Thuật Quản Lý Nhân Sự trên ứng dụng Fonos: https://fonos.link/podcast-tvsn --Về Fonos:Fonos là Ứng dụng âm thanh số - Với hơn 13.000 nội dung gồm Sách nói có bản quyền, PodCourse, Podcast, Ebook, Tóm tắt sách, Thiền định, Truyện ngủ, Nhạc chủ đề, Truyện thiếu nhi. Bạn có thể nghe miễn phí chương 1 của tất cả sách nói trên Fonos. Tải app để trải nghiệm ngay!--Làm thế nào để tạo ra hoặc nuôi dưỡng một nền văn hóa sáng tạo tại nơi làm việc? Làm thế nào để tận dụng trí tưởng tượng và sáng tạo để khiến doanh nghiệp của chúng ta trở nên mạnh mẽ và kiên cường hơn?Thông qua cuốn sách Nghệ thuật quản lý nhân sự, Welby Altidor, cựu giám đốc sáng tạo của công ty giải trí Cirque du Solei, sẽ trả lời những câu hỏi trên với một khuôn khổ linh hoạt và biến đổi dành cho những cá nhân tổ chức muốn vận hành và đổi mới ở cấp độ cao nhất, từ đó cung cấp không gian mang tính xây dựng, truyền cảm hứng và trao quyền cho nhân viên, nhóm và cộng tác viên của họ phát triển. Cho dù bạn làm việc độc lập hay là một phần của nhóm, cuốn sách này sẽ mang đến cho bạn tầm nhìn, sự can đảm để dám sáng tạo và nghĩ khác mỗi ngày.--Tìm hiểu thêm về Fonos: https://fonos.vn/Theo dõi Facebook Fonos: https://www.facebook.com/fonosvietnam/

In today's episode, Dinah Hampson discusses: The importance of providing performers with the tools and resources to have sustainable career Challenging the narrative that dancers must suffer and have short careers Her online platform, Pivot Dancer, which offers resources and classes to help performers take care of their bodies and prevent injuries The need for empowerment and mental performance skills for dancers Abuse and unsafe practices in dance and the importance of creating a supportive community Injury prevention, the importance of sleep, and the need to normalize strength training in dance Dinah Hampson is a Physiotherapist who is passionate about enjoying life and using her knowledge to promote high performance in others. Dinah holds many certifications including the Sport Physio Diploma and International Sports Physiotherapist qualification, the Diploma of Manual & Manipulative Therapy and Pelvic Health Physiotherapy. Dinah is the Founder of Pivot Sport Medicine, a multidisciplinary clinic in Toronto, Canada and Pivot Dancer, a virtual dance injury prevention platform with worldwide membership. Dinah has been on the Canadian medical team for over 15 multisport games, including the Olympics, Youth Olympics, Paralympic, Pan American, World University and Commonwealth Games. Dinah trained in classical ballet, and brings a technical eye to her treatment of dancers and artistic athletes. Dinah works regularly with professional dancers from companies such as the National Ballet of Canada, Joffrey Ballet, Dutch National Ballet, Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre, Singapore Ballet and, Cirque du Solei. Dinah is active in dance science research and is a regular conference presenter. RECEIVE 15% OFF OF ALL THINGS PIVOT DANCER USING THE CODE: THESTORYPROJECT Follow along on Dinah's journey: @dinahhampson @pivotdancer Transcript available on our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/storyproject/support

Ich bin Zirkus-Fan. Und deshalb wurde mir vor einiger Zeit auch Lea auf meine For-You-Page gespült. Seitdem folge ich ihr und bin fasziniert von ihrer Artistik, vor allem von ihrer besonderen Hauptdisziplin, dem Cyr-Rad. Sie hat mir einen Einblick hinter die Kulissen der großen Zirkusse dieser Welt gegeben, von Moulin Rouge bis Cirque du Solei, und erzählt, wie ihr Alltag auf Reisen aussieht. Seit sie nach der Schule von Zuhause ausgezogen ist, hat sie nie dauerhaft an einem Ort gewohnt. Sie erzählt mir, wie sie ihre Partnerschaft trotzdem pflegt und warum sie ziemlich aus dem familiären Raster fällt. Lea ist ein richtiges Energiebündel und man spürt ihre Leidenschaft für diesen Beruf mit jedem Wort. Mich hat aber auch interessiert, wie sie Sexismus im Zirkus erlebt und ob sie ihren Körper versichert hat. Wir sprechen über behinderte Artist*innen, über Körperbilder und warum Cafés eine große Rolle in ihrem Leben spielen. Manege frei für Lea Toran Jenner!Leas Empfehlung:CircArtiveDiese Folge wurde dir präsentiert von Schindler Aufzüge. Willst du noch mehr über Aufzüge erfahren und vielleicht mit uns ganz nach oben fahren, dann steig gern ein. Unter schindler.de/karriere findest du viele Möglichkeiten für Einsteiger und Senkrechtstarter.Steady: So kannst du meine Arbeit unterstützenHier findest du mehr über mich: WebsiteInstagramTwitterLinkedInDieser Podcast ist eine Produktion von Schønlein MediaProduktion und Schnitt: Anna GermekCoverart: Amadeus Fronk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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It is a privilege to welcome accomplished singer-songwriter Robbie Fitzsimmons to The Jake's Take with Jacob Elyachar Podcast.    He is no stranger to the music industry, as Robbie has spent a good portion of his career not only writing his own music but also working behind the scenes with some of the industry's biggest recording artists and producers. He is mentioned in songwriting by Paul Simon and has performed around the world at iconic music festivals, including Burning Man, Coachella, the Electric Daisy Carnival, and Glastonbury.    Robbie also holds Platinum RIAA status for his work on Lana Del Rey's “Ultraviolence” and Guy Lalimberte (Cirque du Solei). He takes pride in extending his gifts into the world of other artists in multiple musical genres. His songwriting is deeply personal, and as an LGBTQ artist living with bipolar disorder, each production comes from a place that is genuinely authentic and soulful.   Robbie Fitzsimmons believes that vulnerability transcends conversation and can be heard, felt, and understood through each song he creates. His new LP Blue Meets Orange will be released this year, and in 2023, he released the highly praised EP The Mountain That Turned Upside Down.   In this edition of The Jake's Take with Jacob Elyachar Podcast, Robbie Fitzsimmons spoke about performing at Burning Man, working with Lana Del Rey, and the stories behind his songs.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/jake-s-take-with-jacob-elyachar--4112003/support.

In this episode, Mindy and Cheryl recount their 1st big adventure of 2024! Aerial Silks...think Circ de Solei.  They talk about things that surprised them, the importance of making time and plans for adventures, and an unexpected visit.We are so glad you are here. Want to stay in touch?Follow us on social media: Mindy - @strongover40_dietitian Cheryl - @training.with.cheryl Mindy & Cheryl - @mcfitadventures Email us: mcfitadventures@gmail.com Thank you so much for listening to Sweat & Laughter. M & C

Tímir tú at bera tallerkin yvir í køkin? Kanst tú sløkkja telefonina nú? Tímir tú at lata teg í jakka? Fleiri foreldur munnu kenna til støður, har tey vita, at taka tey eina avgerð fyri barnið, ja so er grátur og ósemja í væntu. Men tað er umráðandi, at foreldur tora at taka tær ópopuleru avgerðirnar, tá tað er tað besta fyri barnið. - Børn og foreldur skulu ikki vera bestu vinir. Børn hava tørv á hjálp og vegleðing frá teimum vaksnu, og í flestu førum vita tey vaksnu betur enn barnið. Soleiðis sigur Sára Gullfoss, sum er heilsufrøðingur.

Kongeord. Soleiðis eitur bókin, har nýggi kongurin, Fríðrikur tann 10., við egnum orðum fortelur um tankar og hugleiðingar um kongaorðið - Forbundne, forpligtet, for Kongeriget Danmark. Bókin bleiv útgivin mánadagin 15. januar, dagin eftir at Fríðrikur tann 10. hevði tikið við sum kongur. At talan er um eina populera bók, er eingin ivi um. Bókin bleiv alt fyri eitt útseld frá forlagnum, og bókhandlar í Føroyum siga, at fólk høvdu skrivað seg upp á listar fyri at tryggja sær eitt eintak av bókini, tá hon kom aftur á handilshillarnar.

- Munurin er ómetaliga stórur. Soleiðis sigur Leif Abrahamsen, stjóri á Gjaldstovuni, um munin at vera stjóri í dag og fyri 30 árum síðani. Á Leiðaradegnum í fjør gjørdist Leif Abrahamsen ársins leiðari í almenna geiranum. - Tá eg byrjaði í stjórasessinum sum 32 ára gamal vildu starvsfólkini siga tygum við meg, men tað dámdi mær als ikki. Harafturat komu øll til mín við alskyns spurningum. Í dag er tíbetur øðrvísi, og mær dámar tað væl, sigur Leif Abrahamsen.

Tveir til fimm minuttir í ísakøldum vatni. Soleiðis byrja flestu morgnarnir hjá Gvøðny Miriam Gunnarsson. Alt árið stendur ein wiskey-tunna við ísakøldum vatni á altanuni í Leynum, har Gvøðny Miriam Gunnarsson og maðurin, Janus Gunnarsson, búgva. - Eg føli, at minuttirnir í kalda vatninum eru góðir fyri meg, serliga sálarliga, sigur Gvøðny Miriam Gunnarsson, sum hevur havt tunglyndi. Í royndini at broyta ymiskar vanar fyri at fáa tað betri byrjaði hon at sita nakrar minuttir í køldum vatni. Og tað ger ein mun.

"They say blood pressure is a silent killer because it has no symptoms, right? But it does; they're subtle, and you don't necessarily see or think about them. The same thing is true in a business." - Steven L. Blue.In today's episode, the internationally recognized business transformation expert Steven L. Blue joins us to talk about leadership, growth, and innovation for CEOs, Executives, and team leaders. Steven is the President, CEO, and Director at Miller Ingenuity, a global supplier of high-technology systems that protect assets, preserve the environment, and save lives. Steven also authored five books, including "Mastering the Art of Success," a book he co-authored with Jack Canfield, and became a best-seller on its second day of publication.Throughout our conversation, Steven shares his thoughts on (not-so) silent business killers, the importance of embracing conflict instead of running from them or pretending they don't exist, and the only way of dealing with toxic employees. Steven also talks about his challenging upbringing and how that molded his spirit, how to create healthy environments for innovation, how to develop a Cirque du Solei culture in your company, and much more.Tune in to Episode 411 and learn how to double and even quadruple your company's growth by applying Steven's principles.Some Questions I Ask:You are a troubleshooter. In other words, people can turn to you to get things done. How do you do that? (5:40)What are the silent business killers? And how can they be avoided? (12:20)In This Episode, You Will Learn:About Steven's background and upbringing (3:00)Conflict should be embraced, not avoided (13:40)It is not possible to fix toxic employees (17:30)Steven's advice to be successful (23:00)Resources:Book: Jack Canfield, Steven L. Blue, et al. - Mastering The Art of SuccessConnect with Steven:WebsiteYouTubeLinkedInTwitterFacebookGet Steven's booksBecoming Your Best Resources:Becoming Your Best WebsiteBecoming Your Best LibraryBook: Becoming Your Best: The 12 Principles of Highly Successful LeadersBook: Conquer Anxiety: How to Overcome Anxiety and Optimize Your PerformanceFacebook Group – Conquer Anxiety Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Transcript with LinksEric Topol (00:00):This is Eric Topol, and I'm so excited to have the chance to speak to Melanie Mitchell. Melanie is the Davis Professor of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico. And I look to her as one of the real, not just leaders, but one with balance and thoughtfulness in the high velocity AI world of large language models that we live in. And just by way of introduction, the way I got to first meet Professor Mitchell was through her book, Artificial Intelligence, A Guide for Thinking Humans. And it sure got me thinking back about four years ago. So welcome, Melanie.Melanie Mitchell (00:41):Thanks Eric. It's great to be here.The Lead Up to ChatGPT via Transformer ModelsEric Topol (00:43):Yeah. There's so much to talk about and you've been right in the middle of many of these things, so that's what makes it especially fun. I thought we'd start off a little bit of history, because when we both were writing books about AI back in 2019 publishing the world kind of changed since . And in November when ChatGPT got out there, it signaled there was this big thing called transformer model. And I don't think many people really know the difference between a transformer model, which had been around for a while, but maybe hadn't come to the surface versus what were just the deep neural networks that ushered in deep learning that you had so systematically addressed in your book.Melanie Mitchell (01:29):Right. Yeah. Transformers are, were kind of a new thing. I can't remember exactly when they came out, maybe 2018, something like that, right from Google. They were an architecture that showed that you didn't really need to have a recurrent neural network in order to deal with language. So that was one of the earlier things, you know, and Google translate and other language processing systems, people were using recurrent neural networks, networks that sort of had feedback from one time step to the next. But now we have the transformers, which instead use what they call an attention mechanism where the entire text that the system is dealing with is available all at once. And the name of the paper, in fact was Attention is All You need. And that by attention is all you need they meant this particular attention mechanism in the neural network, and that was really a revolution and enabled this new era of large language models.Eric Topol (02:34):Yeah. And as you aptly pointed out, that was in, that was five years ago. And then it took like, oh, five years for it to become in the public domain of Chat GPT. So what was going on in the background?Melanie Mitchell (02:49):Well, you know, the idea of language models (LLMs) that is neural network language models that learn by trying to predict the next word in a, in a text had been around for a long time. You know, we now have GPT-4, which is what's underlying at least some of ChatGPT, but there was GPT-1 and GPT-2, you probably remember that. And all of this was going on over those many years. And I think that those of us in the field have seen more of a progression with the increase in abilities of these increasingly large, large language models. that has really been an evolution. But I think the general public didn't have access to them and ChatGPT was the first one that like, was generally available, and that's why it sort of seemed to appear out of nothing.SPARKS OF ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCESentience vs IntelligenceEric Topol (03:50):Alright. So it was kind of the, the inside world of the computer science kinda saw a more natural progression, but people were not knowing that LLMs were on the move. They  were kinda stunned that, oh, look at these conversations I can have and how, how humanoid it seemed. Yeah. And you'll recall there was a fairly well-publicized event where a Google employee back I think last fall was, put on suspension, ultimately left Google because he felt that the AI was sentient. Maybe you'd want to comment that because that's kind of a precursor to some of the other things we're going to discuss,Melanie Mitchell (04:35):Right? So yeah, so one of the engineers who was working with their version of ChatGPT, which I think at the time was called LaMDA was having conversations with it and came to the conclusion that it was sentient, whatever that means, , you know, that, that it was aware that it had feelings that it experienced emotions and all of that. He was so worried about this and he wanted, you know, I think he made it public by releasing some transcripts of his conversations with it. And I don't think he was allowed to do that under his Google contract, and that was the issue.  tThat made a lot of news and Google pushed back and said, no, no, of course it's not sentient. and then there was a lot of debate in the philosophy sphere of what sentient actually means, how you would know if something is sentient. And it Yeah. and it's kind of gone from there.Eric Topol (05:43):Yeah. And then what was interesting is then in March based upon GPT-4 the Microsoft Research Group published this sparks paper where they said, it seems like it has some artificial general intelligence, AGI qualities, kind of making the same claim to some extent. Right?Melanie Mitchell (06:05):Well, that's a good question. I mean, you know, intelligence is one thing, sentience is another. There's a question of whether, you know, how they're related, right? Or if they're related at all, you know, and what they all actually mean. And these terms, this is one of the problems. Of course, these terms are not well-defined, but most, I think most people in AI would say that intelligence and sentience are different. You know something can be intelligent or act intelligently without having any sort of awareness or sense of self or, you know, feelings or whatever sentience might mean. So I think that the sparks of AGI paper from Microsoft was more about this, that saying that they thought GPT-4 four, the system they were experimenting with, showed some kind of generality in its ability to deal with different kinds of tasks. You know, and this, this contrasts with the old, older fashioned ai, which typically was narrow only, could do one task, you know, could play chess, could play Go, could do speech recognition, or could, you know, generate translations. But it, they couldn't do all of those things. And now we have these language models, which seemed to have some degree of generality.The Persistent Gap Between Humans and LLMsEric Topol (07:33):Now that gets us perfectly to an important Nature feature last week which was called the “Easy Intelligence Test that AI chatbots fail.” And it made reference to an important study you did. First, I guess the term ARC --Abstract and Reasoning Corpus, I guess that was introduced a few years back by Francois Chollet. And then you did a ConceptARC test. So maybe you can tell us about this, because that seemed to have a pretty substantial gap between humans and GPT-4.Melanie Mitchell (08:16):Right? So, so, so Francois Chollet is a researcher at Google who put together this set of sort of intelligence test like puzzles visual reasoning puzzles that tested for abstraction abilities or analogy abilities. And he put it out there as a challenge. A whole bunch of people participated in a competition to get AI programs to solve the problems, and none of them were very successful. And so what, what our group did was we thought that, that the original challenge was fantastic, but the prob one of the problems was it was too hard, it was even hard for people. And also it didn't really systematically explore concepts, whether a, a system understood a particular concept. So, as an example, think about, you know, the concept of two things being the same, or two things being different. Okay?(09:25):So I can show you two things and say, are these the same or are they different? Well, it turns out that's actually a very subtle question. 'cause when we, you know, when we say the same we, we can mean sort of the, the same the same size, the same shape, the same color, this, you know, and there's all kinds of attributes in which things can be the same. And so what our system did was it took concepts like same versus different. And it tried to create lots of different challenges, puzzles that had that required understanding of that concept. So these are very basic spatial and semantic concepts that were similar to the ones that Solei had proposed, but much more systematic. 'cause you know, this is one of the big issues in evaluating AI systems is that people evaluate them on particular problems.(10:24):For example, you know, I think a lot of people know that ChatGPT was able to answer many questions from the bar exam. But if you take like a single question from the bar exam and think about what concept it's testing, it may be that ChatGPT could answer that particular question, but it can't answer variations that has the same concept. So we tried to take inside of this arc domain abstraction and reasoning corpus domain, look at particular concepts and say, systematically can the system understand different variations of the same concept? And then we tested this, these problems on humans. We tested them on the programs that were designed to solve the ARC challenges, and we tested them on G P T four, and we found that humans way outperformed all the machines. But there's a caveat, though, is that these are visual puzzles, and we're giving them to GPT-4, which is a language model, a text, right? Right. System. Now, GPT four has been trained on images, but we're not using the system that can deal with images. 'cause that hasn't been released yet. So we're giving the system our problems in a text-based format rather than like, like giving it to humans who actually can see the pictures. So this, this can make a difference. I would say our, our our, our results are, are preliminary .Eric Topol (11:57):Well, what do you think will happen when you can use in inputs with images? Do you think that it will equilibrate there'll be parity, or there still will be a gap in that particular measure of intelligence?Melanie Mitchell (12:11):I would predict there, there will still be a big gap. Mm-hmm. , but, you know, I guess we'll seeThe Biggest Question: Stochastic Parrot or LLM Real Advance in Machine Intelligence?Eric Topol (12:17):Well, that, that's what we want to get into more. We want to drill down on the biggest question of large language models. and that is, are they really you know, what is their level of intelligence? Is it something that is beyond the so-called stochastic parrot or the statistical ability to adjudicate language and words? So there was a paper this week in Nature Human Behavior, not a journal that normally publishes these kind of papers. And as you know it was by Taylor Webb and colleagues at U C L A. And it was basically saying for analogic reasoning ,making analogs, which would be more of a language task,  I guess, but also some image capabilities that it could do as well or better than humans. And these were college students. So , just to qualify, they're, they're not, maybe not, they're not fully representative of the species, but they're at least some learned folks. So what did, what did you think of that study?Melanie Mitchell (13:20):Yeah, I found it really fascinating. and, and kind of provocative. And, you know, it, it kind of goes along with a, a many, there's been many studies that have, have been applying tests that were kind of designed for humans, psychological tests to large language models. And this one was applying sort of analogy tests that, that psychologists have done on humans to, to, to large language models. But there's always kind of an issue of interpreting the results because we know these large language models most likely do not think like we do. Hmm. And so one question is like, how are they performing these analogies? How are they making these analogies? So this brings up some issues with evaluation. When we try to evaluate large language models using tests that were designed for humans. One question is, were these tests at all actually in the training data of a large language model? Like, had they, you know, these language models are trained on enormous amounts of text that humans have produced. And some of the tests that that paper was using were things that had been published in the psychology literature.(14:41):So one question is, you know, to what extent were those in this training data? It's hard to tell because we don't know what the training data exactly is. So that's one question. Another question is are these systems actually using analog reasoning the way that we humans use it? Or are they using some other way of solving the problems? Hmm. And that's also hard to tell. 'cause these systems are black boxes, but it might actually matter because it might affect how well they're able to generalize. You know, if I can make an analogy usually you would assume that I could actually use that analogy to understand some new, you know, some new situation by an analogy to some old situation. But it's not totally clear that these systems are able to do that in any general way. And so, you know, I tdo hink these results, like these analogy results, are really provocative and interesting.(15:48):But they will require a lot of further study to really make sense of what they mean, like to when you give, when, when the, the, you know, ChatGPT passes a bar exam, you might ask, well, and let's say it's, you know, it does better than most humans, can you say, well, can it now be a lawyer? Can it go out and replace human lawyers? I mean, a human who passed the bar exam can do that. But I don't know if you can make the same assumption for a language model, because it's the way that it's doing, answering the questions in a way that its reasoning might be quite different and not imply the same kinds of more general abilities.Eric Topol (16:32):Yeah. That's really vital. And something else that you just brought up in multiple dimensions is the problem of transparency. So we don't even know the, the specs, the actual training, you know, so many of the components that led to the model. and so you, by not knowing this we're kind of stuck to try to interpret it. And I, I guess if you could comment about transparency seems to be a really big issue, and then how are we going to ever understand when there's certain aspects or components of intelligence where, you know, there does appear to be something that's surprising, something that you wouldn't have anticipated, and how could that be? Or on the other hand, you know, why is it failing? so what is, is transparency the key to this? Or is there something more to be unraveled?Melanie Mitchell (17:29):I think transparency is, is a big part of it. Transparency, meaning, you know, knowing what data, the system was trained on, what the architecture of the system is. you know, what other aspects that go into designing the system. Those are important for us to understand, like how, how these systems are actually work and to assess them. There are some methods that people are using to try and kind of tease out the extent to which these systems have actually developed sort of the kind of intelligence that people have. So, so one, there was a paper that came out also last week, I think from a group at MIT where they looked at several tasks that were given that GPT-4 did very well on that seemed like certain computer programming, code generation, mathematics some other tasks.(18:42):And they said, well, if a human was able to generate these kinds of things to do these kinds of tasks, some small change in the task probably shouldn't matter. The human would still be able to do it. So as an example in programming, you know, generating code, so there's this notion that like an array is indexed from zero. The first number is, is indexed as zero, the second number is indexed as one, and so on. So but some programming languages start at one instead of zero. So what if you just said, now change to starting at one? Probably a human programmer could adapt to that very quickly, but they found that GPT-4 was not able to adapt very well.Melanie Mitchell (19:33):So the question was, is it using, being able to write the program by sort of picking things that it has already seen in its training data much more? Or is it able to, or is it actually developing some kind of human-like, understanding of the program? And they were finding that to some extent it was more the former than the latter.Eric Topol (19:57):So when you process all this you lean more towards because of the pre-training and the stochastic parrot side, or do you think there is this enhanced human understanding that we're seeing a level of machine intelligence, not broad intelligence, but at least some parts of what we would consider intelligence that we've never seen before? Where do you find yourself?Melanie Mitchell (20:23):Yeah, I think I'm, I'm, I'm sort of in the center ,Eric Topol (20:27):Okay. That's good.Melanie Mitchell (20:28):Everybody has to describe themselves as a centrist, right. I don't think these systems are, you know, stochastic parrots. They're, they're not just sort of parroting the data that they, they've been trained on, although they do that sometimes, you know, but I do think there is some reasoning ability there. Mm-hmm. , there is some, you know, what you might call intelligence. You know, it's, it's, but the, the question is how do you characterize it and, and how do you, I for the most important thing is, you know, how do you decide that it, that these systems have a general enough understanding to trust them,Eric Topol (21:15):Right? Right. You know,Melanie Mitchell (21:18):You know, in your field, in, in medicine, I think that's a super important question. They can, maybe they can outperform radiologists on some kind of diagnostic task, but the question is, you know, is that because they understand the data like radiologists do or even better, and will therefore in the future be much more trustworthy? Or are they doing something completely different? That means that they're going to make some very unhuman like mistakes. Yeah. And I think we just don't know.End of the Turing TestEric Topol (21:50):Well, that's, that's an important admission, if you will. That is, we don't know. And as you're, again I think really zooming in on, on for medical applications some of them, of course, are not so critical for accuracy because you, for example, if you have a, a conversation in a clinic and that's made into a note and all the other downstream tasks, you still can go right to the transcript and see exactly if there was a potential miscue. But if you're talking about making a diagnosis in a complex patient that can be, if, if you, if we see hallucination, confabulation or whatever your favorite word is to characterize the false outputs, that's a big issue. But I, I actually really love your Professor of Complexity title because if there's anything complex this, this would fulfill it. And also, would you say it's time to stop talking about the Turing tests that retire? It? It's, it's over with the Turing test because it's so much more complex than that .Melanie Mitchell (22:55):Yeah. I mean, one problem with the Turing test is there never was a Turing test. Turing never really gave the details of how this, this test should work. Right? And so we've had Turing tests with chatbots, you know, since the two thousands where people have been fooled. It's not that hard to fool people into thinking that they're talking to a human. So I, I do think that the Turing test is not adequate for the, the question of like, are these things thinking? Are they robustly intelligent?Eric Topol (23:33):Yeah. One of my favorite stories you told in your book was about Hans Clever and the you know, basically faking out the potent that, that there was this machine intelligence with that. And yeah, I, I think this, this is so apropo a term that is used a lot that a lot of people I don't think fully understand is zero shot or one shot, or can you just help explain that to the non-computer science community?Melanie Mitchell (24:01):Yeah. So, so in the context of large language models, what that means is so I could, so do I give you zero, zero shot means I just ask you a question and expect you to answer it. One shot means I give you an example of a question and an answer, and now I ask you a new question that you, you should answer. But you already had an example, you know, two shot is you give two examples. So it's just a ma matter of like, how many examples am I going to give you in order for you to get the idea of what I'm asking?Eric Topol (24:41):Well, and in a sense, if you were pre-trained unknowingly, it might not be zero shot. That is, if, if the, if the model was pre-trained with all the stuff that was really loaded into that first question or prompt, it might not really qualify as a zero shot in a way. Right?Melanie Mitchell (24:59):Yeah. Right. If it's already seen that, if it's learned, I think we're getting, it's seen that in its training data.The Great LLM (Doomsday?) Debate: An Existential ThreatEric Topol (25:06):Right. Exactly. Now, another topic that is related to all this is that you participated in what I would say is a historic debate. you and Yann LeCun, who I would not have necessarily put together . I don't know that Yan is a centrist. I would say he's more, you know, on one end of the spectrum versus Max Tegmark and Yoshua BengioEric Topol (25:37):Youshua Bengio, who was one of the three notables for a Turing award with Geoffrey Hinton So you were in this debate. I think called a Musk debate.Melanie Mitchell (25:52):Monk debate. Monk.Eric Topol (25:54):Monk. I was gonna say not right. Monk debate. Yeah. the Monk Debates, which is a classic debate series out of, I think, University of TorontoMelanie Mitchell (26:03):That's rightEric Topol (26:03):And it was debating, you know, is it all over ? Is AI gonna, and obviously there's been a lot of this in recent weeks, months since ChatGPT surfaced. So can you kind of give us, I, I tried to access that debate, but since I'm not a member or subscriber, I couldn't watch it, and I'd love to actually but can you give us the skinny of what was discussed and your position there?Melanie Mitchell (26:29):Yeah. So, so actually you can't, you can access it on YouTube.Eric Topol (26:32):Oh, good. Okay. Good. I'll put the link in for this. Okay, great.Melanie Mitchell (26:37):Yeah. so, so the, the resolution was, you know, is AI an existential threat? Okay. By an existential, meaning human extinction. So pretty dramatic, right? and there's been, this debate actually has been going on for a long time, you know, since, since the beginning of the talks about this, the “singularity”, right? and there's many people in the sort of AI world who fear that AI, once it becomes quote unquote smarter than people will be we'll lose control of it.(27:33):We'll, we'll give it some task like, you know, solve, solve the problem of carbon emissions, and it will then misinterpret or mis sort of not, not care about the consequences. it will just sort of maniacally try and achieve that goal, and in, in the process of that, for accidentally kill us all. So that's one of the scenarios. There's many different scenarios for this, you know and the, you know, debate. The debate was, it was very a debate is kind of an artificial, weird structured discussion where you have rebuttals and try, you know. But I think the debate really was about sort of should we right now be focusing our attention on what's called existential risk, that is that, you know, some future AI is going to become smarter than humans and then somehow destroy us, or should we be more focused on more immediate risks, the ones that we have right now like AI creating disinformation, fooling people and into thinking it's a human, magnifying biases in society, all the risks that people, you know, are experiencing immediately, right. You know, or will be very soon. and that the debate was more about sort of what should be the focusEric Topol (29:12):Hmm.Melanie Mitchell (29:13):And whether we can focus on very shorter, shorter immediate risks also, and also focus on very long-term speculative risks, and sort of what is the likelihood of those speculative risks and how would we, you know, even estimate that. So that was kind of the topic of the debate. SoEric Topol (29:35):Did, did you all wind up agreeing then thatMelanie Mitchell (29:38):? No. Were youEric Topol (29:38):Scared or, or where, where did it land?Melanie Mitchell (29:41):Well, I don't know. Interestingly what they do is they take a vote at the beginning of the audience. Mm-hmm. And they say like, you know, how many people agree with, with the resolution, and 67 percent of people agreed that AI was an existential threat. So it was two thirds, and then at the end, they also take a vote and say like, how many, what percent of minds were changed? And that's the side that wins. But ironically, the, the voting mechanism broke at the end, . So technology, you know, for the win ,Eric Topol (30:18):Because it wasn't a post-debate vote?Melanie Mitchell (30:21):But they did do an email survey. Oh. Oh. Which is I think not very, you know,Eric Topol (30:26):No, not very good. No, you can't compare that. No.Melanie Mitchell (30:28):Yeah. So I, you know, technically our side won. Okay. But I don't take it as a win, actually. ,Are Your Afraid? Are You Scared?Eric Topol (30:38):Well, I guess another way to put it. Are you, are you afraid? Are you scared?Melanie Mitchell (30:44):So I, I'm not scared of like super intelligent AI getting out of control and destroying humanity, right? I think there's a lot of reasons why that's extremely unlikely.Eric Topol (31:00):Right.Melanie Mitchell (31:01):But I am, I do fear a lot of things about ai, you know, some of the things I mentioned yes, I think are real threats, you know, real dire threats to democracy.Eric Topol (31:15):Absolutely.Melanie Mitchell (31:15):That to our information ecosystem, how much we can trust the information that we have. And also just, you know, to people losing jobs to ai, I've already seen that happening, right. And the sort of disruption to our whole economic system. So I am worried about those things.What About Open-Source LLMs, Like Meta's Llama2?Eric Topol (31:37):Yeah. No, I think the inability to determine whether something's true or fake in so many different spheres is putting us in a lot of jeopardy, highly vulnerable, but perhaps not the broad existential threat of the species. Yeah. But serious stuff for sure. Now another thing that's just been of interest of late is the willingness for at least one of these companies Meta to put out their model as an open Llama2. Two I guess to, to make it open for everyone so that they can do whatever specialized fine tuning and whatnot. Is that a good thing? Is that, is that a, is that a game changer for the field? Because obviously the computer resources, which we understand, for example, GPUs [graphic processing units] used-- over 25,000 for GPT-4, not many groups or entities have that many GPUs on hand to do the base models. But is having an open model, like Meta's available is that good? Or is that potentially going to be a problem?Melanie Mitchell (32:55):Yeah, I think probably I would say yes to both .Eric Topol (32:59):Okay. Okay.Melanie Mitchell (33:01):No, 'cause it is a mixed bag. I, I think ultimately, you know, we talked about transparency and open source models are transparent. I mean, I, I don't know if, I don't think they actually have released information on the data they use to train it, right? Right. So that, it lacks that transparency. But at least, you know, if you are doing research and trying to understand how this model works, you have access to a lot of the model. You know, it would be nice to know more about the data it was trained on, but so there's a lot of, there's a lot of big positives there. and it also means that the data that you then use to continue training it or fine tuning it, is not then being given to a big company. Like, you're not doing it through some closed API, like you do for open AI(33:58):On the other hand, these, as we just saw, talked about, these models can be used for a lot of negative things like, you know, spreading disinformation and so on. Right. And giving, sort of making them generally available and tuneable by anyone presents that risk. Yeah. So I think there's, you know, there's an analogy I think, you know, with like genetics for example, you know, or disease research where I think there was a, the scientists had sequenced the genome of the smallpox virus, right? And there was like a big debate over should they publish that. Because it could be used to like create a new smallpox, right? But on the other hand, it also could be used to, to, to develop better vaccines and better treatments and so on. And so I think there, there are, you know, any technology like that, there's always the sort of balance between transparency and making it open and keeping it closed. And then the question is, who gets to control it?The Next Phase of LLMs and the Plateau of Human-Derived Input ContentEric Topol (35:11):Yeah. Who gets to control it? And to understand the potential for nefarious use cases. yeah. The worst case scenario. Sure. Well, you know, I look to you Melanie, as a leading light because you are so balanced and, you know, you don't, the interest thing about you is what I have the highest level of respect, and that's why I like to read anything you write or where you're making comments about other people's work. Are you going write another book?Melanie Mitchell (35:44):Yeah, I'm thinking about it now. I mean, I think kind of a follow up to my book, which as you mentioned, like your book, it was before large language models came on the scene and before transformers and all of that stuff. And I think that there really is a need for some non-technical explanation of all of this. But of course, you know, every time you write a book about AI, it becomes obsolete by the time it's published.Eric Topol (36:11):That that's I worry about, you know? And that was actually going be my last question to you, which is, you know, where are we headed? Like, whatever, GPT-5 and on and it's going, it's the velocity's so high. it, where can you get a steady state to write about and try to, you know, pull it all together? Or, or are we just going be in some crazed zone here for some time where the things are moving too fast to try to be able to get your arms around it?Melanie Mitchell (36:43):Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I, I think there's a question of like-- can AI keep moving so fast? You know, we've obviously it's moved extremely fast in the last few years and, but the way that it's moved fast is by having huge amounts of training data and scaling up these models. But the problem now is it's almost like the field is run out of training data generated by people. And if people start using language models all the time for generating text, the internet is going be full of generated text, right? Right. HumanEric Topol (37:24):WrittenMelanie Mitchell (37:24):Text. And it's been shown that if these models keep, are sort of trained on the text that they generate themselves, they start behaving very poorly. So that's a question. It's like, where's the new data going to come from?Eric Topol (37:39):, and there's lots of upsettedness among people whose data are being used.Melanie Mitchell (37:44):Oh, sure.Eric Topol (37:45): understandably. And as you get to is there a limit of, you know, there's only so many Wikipedias and Internets and hundreds of thousands of books and whatnot to put in that are of human source content. So do we reach a, a plateau of human derived inputs? That's really fascinating question. I perhaps things will not continue at such a crazed pace so we can I mean, the way you put together A Guide for Thinking Humans was so prototypic because it, it was so thoughtful and it brought along those of us who were not trained in computer science to really understand where the state of the field was and where deep neural networks were. We need another one of those. And you're no one, I nominate you to help us to give us the, the, the right perspective. So Melanie, Professor Mitchell, I'm so grateful to you, all of us who follow your work remain indebted for keeping it straight. You know, you don't get ever get carried away. and we learn from that, all of us. It's really important. 'cause this, you know, there's so many people on one end of the spectrum here, whether it's doomsday or whether this is just stochastic parrot or open source and whatnot. It's really good to have you as a reference anchor to help us along.Melanie Mitchell (39:13):Well, thanks so much, Eric. That's really kind of you. Get full access to Ground Truths at erictopol.substack.com/subscribe

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And every last fucking one of you. I love you to the core, my soul. So this week here, we've got branchy Solei back again, and we are here to teach you about the crucifixion of Jesus and what it means for you. And this year, the specially important as we roll right on into this Easter weekend.and look, Jesus is the core of this podcast and it [00:01:00] brings me so much joy to be able to spend a couple hours talking about him. And of course, that's the reminder of my new book, sex, drugs, and Jesus, a memoir of self-destruction and resurrection. It's out. I started taking notes on this book back in 2013, and then it took me two years to finish it.Once I got started around the beginning of the pandemic almost two years ago. So I'm very proud of it. Please check it out. Sex drugs, and jesus.com. I hope you enjoy this episode and happy Easter, everyone. Well, welcome back to the sex drugs and Jesus podcast. Everyone. We have a branch Easter laid back with us for like the fifth, the 1000th time. I don't know. He's like a resident guest at this point. So expect to be seeing a more from him and hearing more from him. The man has like about a thousand books, which you can see it as website Manoj.Oh, publishing.com. I will put all of it in the show notes as I always do. [00:02:00] He's an incredible author. He's an incredible podcast guests. And today we're going to be talking about the sweet baby Jesus as we were coming up on the crucifixion day which is also known as the one day in the year. Some people go to church.Hello, branch, how are you doing? That's how I feel. So I love the Lord and I know you do too. And like, I'm not that I wouldn't say that those of you who only go to church once a year on Easter, you know, I kind of, I would like for this, I would like for one of you to reach out to me and tell me why you only go one day out of the year, is it out of guilt, out of a sense of obligation?Is that your one trip up to the sanctuary to repent? Like they did back in the old Testament. So I would be curious to know and no judgment. I've just always found it to be particularly titillating. What do you think about that brand? [00:03:00]Branch: Yeah. You know, I grew up as a C E Christian, Christmas and Easter. And I don't know whether my parents thought that's all we needed or they were just too busy. You know, that, that was the obligation of the year. I can understand that I am in agreement with you. I'm not sure why, but you know, we all make our choices.At least at least we'll go at Easter, go and, you know, and recognize the importance of that day and, and its symbolism and that connection with the Lord.De'Vannon: Hallelujah tabernacle and praise. This reminds me branch. The when I was at Lakewood church in Texas, before I got kicked out for not being straight, but it's an image that will always be plastered my mind because I got up into this thing in the adult choir [00:04:00] at Lakewood. And the first Sunday that I sang was an Eastern. Good initiation.they haven't got an initiate until the church has always packed. Like big of a church with every seat filled. I was like, so in the fucking zone. And so I rocked out with my cock out was probably part of the reason why I got kicked out,you know you know, I used to shake it for the Lord up in those cars thing. I will loopseveral people. Look, they can find some YouTube videos of their cameras did love me. So anyway, we're not here to glorify me. We're here to glorify Jesus. And so. The show that receipt at this one has to do with the Eucharist and communion. We're going to touch back on that a little bit later in this episode.So the way it [00:05:00] went according to recorded Hebrew history is that Jesus came was on the earth. He did all those miracles starting as, from what we know with turning the water into wine at the wedding in Cana of Galilee, which is why I keep me some red wine on stock at all times to honor my savior.Hallelujah. And then he did these miracles. He worked with people, he stirred up controversy just by being himself. He made the religious leaders mad and angry and he hurt their feelings. And then so they wanted to kill him off. You know, people don't like it. They just want to kill you. This is the way the devil works.And so we see he's now at communion Washington's disciples feed. The breaking, the bridge, drinking the sweet, sweet, and wine or bitter bitter. Why? I don't know, I probably would have served bitter wine considering what was about to happen. And so so Jesus has, is a snitch, a criminal informant, a CAI, a confidential [00:06:00] informant.His name we have learned is Judas, Iscariot and main wish he'll ever be marred. The Bible tells us that at some point, the devil entered into Judas and begin to turn him against The Lord that scripture has always stuck out in my head because that means that Judas wasn't always against the Lord at some point, some sort of thoughts, some sort of emotion, some sort of influence came over him that made him feel this way.He did not counter this influence or question that he went along with it and made the deal to sell what he does out for. The legal was 30 pieces of silver. And you know, I had my own informant back when I was dealing drugs. I wouldn't say gee, now we're in the exact same business when we had our informants, but cops work the same way then as they do now, they want to get to the head of the organization.They get a snitch, a weak link in the chain and they send a man find out where you're going to be on a certain day at a certain [00:07:00] time. Then they come NAB you that much. I do have in common with the Lord. We both got sold out. So what do you think about Judas? Branch: Well, you know you, you made an interesting comment just now about. Being, none of us are originally against the Lord. You know, we come into this life as babes, obviously, and we know nothing, and we are brought up in a family and a community, whatever that may be religious or not. And none of us is against the Lord.And certainly the Lord is not against any of us that are our transition from being ignorant to being neophytes, either on the spiritual path or not on a [00:08:00] spiritual path, you know, is a result of who we are and how we grow. So Judas was not against the Lord to begin with. Obviously he was one of the original 12 disciples.And like you say he was tempted and then coerced or bribed to go against the Lord and then similar or the same kind of fashion we today are often tempted or bribed by the world and things of the world to a go against the Lord, or even worse than a lot of cases is just be indifferent or ignore the Lord.So we have that in common with Judas Iscariot.De'Vannon: Okay. So then this beckons [00:09:00] beckons us back to what, how I always say to pay attention as to why we believe what we believe and why we think what we think and not to accept every thought that comes to us. So it might not be a group of jealous religious people coming to, to NAB your soul, to get you to fill out for 30 pieces of silver.It could be betraying, thought, feeling and emotion. I don't know of anyone out there ever. Just, you see somebody in a wave of disliked comes over you towards this person. Suddenly you just feel like you don't like Felicia or Pam or Jim or whoever. And you even know why you don't like them. You just don't like them.I've heard people say that before that they're like, say they just have this problem against somebody. I'm all like, what'd they do to you? I don't know. I just don't like them. I'm like, well, that's okay. You can just, you know, Branch: Well, you know, we see that in evidence every day in our day and age with just to name a few labels, racist homophobes, [00:10:00] phobes, misogynist, you know, they dislike other people's. Because of their skin because of their color, because of their beliefs or their actions. And yet they have really no foundation for that hatred or that dislike other than in most cases, just the way they were brought up the environment that they grew up with and the biases that they grew up with.You know you might've found an idea certainly in, in the military when you're thrown in with a bunch of different kinds of people, with different beliefs and backgrounds, from different parts of the country you have a tendency, you know, to kind of go with your own to begin with, but it doesn't take long in the military for me to realize.You know, the value that others bring into your [00:11:00] unit or into your company. And a lot of times, you know, we're able to and motivated go look beyond those initial bias that we might've come into the military with. I think it's a real good experience for people to give them an opportunity to grow as people doesn't work for everybody, but certainly worked for the group of guys that I was with back in the Vietnam era.De'Vannon: I think everyone. Wait tables or a few months and go to the military. But for a few months, I think some countries do have like a mandatory military thing. And I really think it makes all the difference. I ain't saying it eliminates all the foolishness and people, cause some people are just going to be foolish no matter what, no matter what, but certainly grant some perspective when you have to deal with bitchy, Karens, and shit, coming in to make unreasonable demands at restaurants and then they won't even tip.[00:12:00]And then you go up to go, then you go to the military and your life is on the line and you're, and you don't have a choice. You're going to participate and get along with people no matter how, unlike you, they are. So you don't have this luxury of being like, well, I just don't like him, so Branch: life, life, life, and tasks can make a big difference in one's attitudes.De'Vannon: right. And You know, when we all grow in tour for different reasons the life and death has made a difference in my attitude. And I'm because I've been exposed to so much of death in my time, which I appreciate. And so I find myself having to make myself be patient people who haven't been exposed. I had to grow up fast like I did, because I went to the military at 17.So, you know, I'm like, okay, you got some more experiences go through. You are mature and your time. I hope Branch: Okay.De'Vannon: [00:13:00] so. Let's see here. So there's this time. Okay. So Jesus went into, I believe it was the garden of gets Semini to pray as he was nearing this crucifixion. And he knows that this is what he was called here to do. He knows this is what it's. Now he's the son of God, God manifested in the flesh, but he had some trepidation leading up to this.And I believe that he chose to be vulnerable and transparent in this moment as a guide for us. Now, he didn't call the Legion. Legions of angels were coming to rescue him when he was tempted by the devil. You know, he didn't exercise his power in a way to save himself specifically. And so he, he toiled with this, you know, we asked the Lord, we ask God, you know, is there like a, is there another way, you know, let this cup [00:14:00] pass for me now. I know God to be very negotiable. There've been times I've been in a lot of trouble and, you know, he chose to bring me out of it. Whereas, you know, others might've been in probably surely would have been ensnared. And who knows. Sometimes we ask God, you know, God will say like one thing in. And we may be like, okay can we do that another way?For instance. So like when I was growing up in church, my profit has evangelists Nelson. You know, when I say prophetess, I mean, someone to whom God speaks like Isaiah, Jeremiah, somebody who's really, really has their ear, the mouth of God gifted in all gifts of the spirit she was and all of their prophecies, you know, like came true.And so, and there's a litany of people who are, you know, across the world who will testify to that. So there's one woman, you know, here in the south, they would stand you up in church. The profits of stand you up and, you know, whenever God gave them a word and they would minister this word on to you. And so she told her that the Lord gave the church [00:15:00] member who she was talking to or had given this woman a vision of who her soul made it. Now evangelists, Nelson and her clairvoyance see other people's visions that God had given to other people, even if they didn't tell her what that vision is. And so, and so she told us a woman, you know, God gave you this vision of your soulmate, but this woman, the church member didn't want this man. She wanted a different person.And so now one would think that God would be like, okay, no bitch. I already told you who the is going to be. That that's my story. And I'm sticking to it, but that's not the way it was. The Lord worked with her in the Lord, shifted in and created her soulmate into this other person that she wanted. And then, then let the other one go. And and so God has. A very negotiable way. Some stuff is from like that stuff. I went through, like being homeless and done all of that, that had to happen. That was like foretell than prophesied. I had dreams about it. [00:16:00] I didn't know what, you know, what, what the bad stuff was, was going to happen, but there's no way that I could have gotten around that.You know, that, that, that was a permanent thing in my life that was fixed. But trouble, other troubles and stuff like that, we were able to negotiate around. So when we talk about it, when we pray, understand you're talking to a being who has a very reasonable mind, you know, and he's, he has all power, he can do anything he wants to do. Okay.You don't want that soulmate if he feels like it'll just give you another one, you know, you know, you can do whatever he wants to all about your faith in what you believe. That woman that charged me would probably had enough faith to believe that God was able and willing to shift it for her. But it's probably played a lot of part into that. And so. Jesus asked, you know, can this cup pass from me? What do you think about what was going on with the Lord while he was, while he was going through in sweating and all of this going on, going through all these [00:17:00] changes.Branch: Well, we have to remember that Jesus was a man, you know, he was man and God. So he experienced and felt and had the emotions you know, the successes and the highs, as well as the depression and the lows from living among men and women in his day and age, so that, you know, he is part. He is the, he is the reflection and the connection for us as humans to the spirituality of God, father and spirit.So in experiencing what we experience as human was, he understands us and he understands, you know, what we're going through and what we're struggling with. That's an interesting statement. He [00:18:00] makes about, you know, when you take this cup from me, that's the one time in Bible scripture that we actually see his humanity in evidence as it applies to both him and to us and in him asking that, you know, that's that human response.I don't want to die. I don't want to give up what I have right now in my life and in the next thought and the next breath he says, but not my will, your will be done. And that's what kind of, what you're describing with within lady is he wants us to recognize God wants us to recognize and acknowledge and have competence that we can accept his will [00:19:00] for us.Because as a loving father you know, he wants what's best for us. Most of the time he wants what's best for us, even more than we want what's best for us. He has our best interest. Always at heart and therefore his actions on our behalf, like the changing of the man for that lady his actions on our behalf can be made to align with our wants, but we have to be willing to make that surrender just like Jesus did not my will Lord, not my will father, but yours be done.So in that moment of his humanity and his response, similar to what our response would be, I don't want to die by so rendering [00:20:00] in order to fulfill his design and his purpose, he chose to. The father's will accept what was coming at the end of that night. And so we've got the surrender of my will to his will.We've got the acceptance of my deaths for his purpose, but that's a great, great example of his humanity. You know, that you bring up about the, the garden of gifs 70 event.De'Vannon: Look, so thank you for that breakdown brain. So look, y'all, it's okay to feel weak. You know, this, this is something that I struggle with is trying to be too perfect and too precise and too good, like all the time. I get a lot of that from military. I get a lot of that from the Pentecostal church, this idea that you must be [00:21:00] perfect and especially in the millet, well, both of them are kind of like if you put one toe at a line, then bad things are going to happen.And in the military is the air force is all about protection. Everything has to be perfect. Perfect. Perfect, perfect. Perfect. From the way you folded your socks to the way you fix a part of him playing at the beach down to the last step, down to the period dot everything. And I was very impressionable in my teens and stuff like that.And I internalize too much of that. I didn't filter it at all. And so I still struggle with being like to right all the time. And then Bible talks to us about the, the, the dangers of trying to be over righteous, you know, and not accepting the fact that you're gonna mess up and that you're going to feel weak.The Bible tells us that in his, in our weakness, that God's strength is made. Perfect. So he's designed us to have this humanity in these weaknesses and these shortcomings, and he's also giving us, given us Jesus to have a way out. So, so it's okay for us to have these garden and get so [00:22:00] many moments, You know, and stuff like that.And, you know, but in this garden, Jesus is praying is like my evangelist Nelson used to say all the time. And the name of her show that she had was called prayer changes things. And so know, Jesus did, did you know his, his, his share of praying and I'm reminded right now, as, I'm talking about the the Mount of transfiguration I don't, I don't really know necessarily that this ties directly into the crucifixion. It was one of those moments when, you know, Jesus was you know, off praying and everything. And he had taken two of his disciples with him. I do believe. And I do believe while he was praying, then they were appeared unto him. I think it was Moses and Elijah, maybe. I think it was those two that appeared to him in spirit. So, so what does this tells us? Jesus needed encouragement. You know, this was the, see his [00:23:00] humanity. There really was no one. Fit on this earth who could like say encourage Jesus, you know, you know, he's pretty much as high as it gets, you know? So the Lord had to sin people from eternity to talk to him is something that I would think about, say like with my evangelists, you know, really high spiritual people in this earth, you know, like who in the hell can counsel them when they're counseling everybody else all the time.And so so even Jesus needed a good talking to, you know, some encouragement. He needed a couple of homeys that look, he didn't have 50,000 friends, you know, I don't care what your social media tells you. You don't have that many true friends. So he, God sent two people to hold peopleto come and cheer him up. Go ahead, branch.Branch: You know, as, as usual you've, you've said [00:24:00] lots of different triggers for me. Yeah. That the, that instance of transformation was evidence to the disciples who were there of his holiness and Moses and Elijah coming to stand there, be with him was a real important vision for a couple of reasons. Number one, Moses and Elijah will be the two witnesses who come during the first half of the tribulation to warn the world.Of what's about to come and the events that are unfolding during that first three and a half years in the tribulation, they will be the two witnesses who come and physical form and stand on the steps of the third temple in Jerusalem, prophesizing about the end of the world. The second thing [00:25:00] that, you know, you said that's important is about the discipline in the military and keeping your socks in a certain way.And everything you do in the military is discipline. Well, you know that, of that word discipline, that's where we get discipleship. So someone who is a disciple is practicing discipline. And for us as believers, you know, our faith is the practice of discipline. In our obedience to the word of God. So all of these things have a connection.You know, one of the great things about learning to read the Bible is you discover literally in sentences and paragraphs in stories. So many aspects of life, that if you reflect on what's being told [00:26:00]and, and expressed, you can see it taking place in your own life. And I just wanted to comment about that. Discipline in the military discipline in any job situation, you know, every career you've got has a certain discipline to it. There are certain rules that need to be followed in order to be successful in that endeavor and discipleship or obedience to the word of God. Isn't the same thing. That's what discipline is all about.It's having self control to listen and see and understand, you know, what you're experiencing and how it applies to your everyday life. So I just want to comment about that discipleship and discipline relationship.De'Vannon: You better preach. Hallelujah, tabernacle and praise. So you mentioned read the Bible and when you said that I, I, I believe that I understood that I should [00:27:00] give this warning to people do not try to rush through and read the Bible in a year and do not read it from Genesis to revelation. I've heard it said that it can actually like hurt your mind to try to read the Bible from front to back.I've I've heard that said I did it. I think I read the Bible from front to back like two or three times. And I tell you though, Do it do not hurt yourself that way. So this is my older self telling my younger self, this advice. If I was talking to my younger self or my kid, or if I could transform one of my cats in the real humans, I've tried, it didn't work.And I would be like, okay, look, look, look a little motherfucker. You don't take this Bible in parts. Now the whole reason you're reading it in the first place is to try to get closer, to know this God that you, that you're thinking about serving, or you decided to serve. Now, you live in an age where you have the internet, so you [00:28:00] can Google things.You don't have. You know, you don't have to go to a library. You know, like I had to when I was a kid. So first thing you want to do is understand the structure of the Bible. The thing doesn't go in chronological order from front to back, it skips around, and then there's some overlap some in some intersectionality in there and understand you're reading a historical book.That's given us snapshots of what writers deem to be important, what God deemed to be important and have collected record from the middle east. You know, like people from back in the day, and we're going to glean the themes and the, from, from the lessons that God clearly wants us to learn through these readings about how other people handled it. I would tell my younger self or my newly trans mutated cat to human kid, that everything is not in the Bible. I'd say a [00:29:00] lot of stuff is in the Bible, but not at a hundred percent of everything. Because the world has changed. It's changing all the time. And I would say go at it in pieces. I might tell you to start in the new Testament before you get in the old Testament, I probably would tell you to start with grace before you talk about all those rules and laws and stuff so that you don't get confused and start to think that you try to, that you have to live like a Hebrew in the old Testament, which is how I was, you know, that's what I would say.So what do you think about that? Branch: Great summary. You know, we need to think of the Bible as sort of the cliff notes version. The Bible, the canonized Bible that we have today is it's a story about one person basically, but it's not a novel and you're right. You don't read it from front to back. It's divided up into two different sections, the old Testament and the new Testament, the old [00:30:00] Testament is about God's relationship with the Israelites, the Jews, and the new Testament is about his relationship.With everyone, but particularly the Gentiles, the Christians, the non Jews, non believers in Christ. There's two different focuses about Jesus, you know, as spirit and as man there's lots of books you left, you made it a good point. There's lots of material. That's not in the Bible. You know, there's the Apocrypha, which is a collection of writings and books that are not in the Bible.We have to remember that the Bible, like you said, is a historical record that goes back about 3,500 years. So there's no way, you know, everything could be in there. The Bible is a compilation of books and letters from people over that [00:31:00] 3,500 year period. And much of it was passed down orally. Especially the Jewish part was oral tradition, not written records.And the Bible books that we have was a compilation decided by a council of church leaders, our elders in the third century, you know, they, they couldn't have everything in one book. So they decided these are the things that are most important to have textualized for people, you know, coming after us. It's just like the encyclopedia.There's no way you can have everything. Not all knowledge can be found in one book. So you take the highlights and you know, the things that can. Have a correlation to other important things. And then that's the tech [00:32:00] we have. So there's lots of things outside of the Bible itself that we can read and gain knowledge from.So think of the Bible as sort of the cliff note version of this history of the world and civilizations, but with the focus on the most important person who has an effect on our lives and that's Jesus Christ.De'Vannon: Right. I concur. And then now as you all the reading through it, it doesn't contain everything, but I'm going to say you, you want to When you come across the part that that might be controversial to you, you want there's these things called commentaries, which is like other people have made within archeological research or anthropological research and different things like that.And they're giving you a more historical context to it. You can get concordance to this, which are these really thick books that actually write [00:33:00] down each word in its original Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic pencil, how deep you want to get with it. You don't have to launch it right into all of that from the get go, you know, take your time and just have baby steps that if you come across something that you felt like it might change your life.So you're not straight. And you come across in there where it's talking about, man shall not lie with man. And you've heard people use these scriptures to try to tell you that you're wrong. Okay. Well, we know that the word homosexual, for instance, wasn't added to the Bible until sometime in the middle of the last century.So humans have taken. Some liberties with certain certain phrasiology within here. I think that within the Bible, and I think that that's abundantly clear the Waze wouldn't have a thousand different translations of the same texts. You know, somebody got creative somewhere, you know, I really don't understand why we have to have so many translations, but at the same time I do, because people want to, they have people have different agendas in certain, certain translation.So if the [00:34:00] Bible had been written in Spanish and say, we were going to say El Gato S Moya Flocko, which is how you say the cat is very skinny in Spanish. L means the Gato means cat S means is Moines means very Flocko means skinny. You don't need a whole college of, of spiritual people. That archeology is and everything to give you 50 different translations of that.So, so, so Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic. Are not what would be considered simple or like romance languages. They're just not, they're very complex in order to interpret them. It's a very subjective template that you employ, which means that a person's biases, prejudices and the way they feel about shit certainly comes into play.When they are interpreting ancient languages. Now they feel like they're smarter than YouTube, because most people they're not going to go and dig up these old [00:35:00] languages and stuff like that. But I'm going to tell you, you don't have to do it for every word in the Bible, but when you come across certain scriptures that make you raise an eyebrow and make you question yourself, then go and get a second and third opinion by doing further research, which is now readily available at your fingertips on the internet.Don't read through there. And get somebody's take on something or let a preacher tell you something's wrong with you before you go and do your research yourself. I let them influence me that way. And they cause me to doubt myself. They had me thinking masturbation was wrong and wine was wrong. And me secular music was wrong and everything was wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, based on their reading of this Bible.So we got to read it for ourselves and be patient and just take it easy when you're doing it. When you come across something that may or may make you think something's wrong with you, or something's the matter with you, I want you to stop and pray and do further research before you just internalize that. [00:36:00] Now, even though this book was written by people and it didn't have everything in it, there's still power in the word of God. I, when I've been reading through the Bible, there's been times where I may have felt like a chill pass over me and I knew God was healing me or something like that. Or I've had like spiritual experiences.I don't know how God is going to deal with each of you out there. But I do know that if you reach for him, that he will reach back to you and reading your Bible and trying to learn is certainly a way of you reaching out God. So I'm not saying expect chills to pass over you, but what I do pray, so the Lord to manifest themselves to each and every last one of you in a way that you're going to know that it's him and what does cause he did that with me.He got all kinds of things he could do. So I would just say be open-minded to your own unique experiences, because I can't expect somebody to, you know, follow a God that doesn't present himself to them, you know, in some way. And I think that that's fair. [00:37:00]Branch: Hey, man. Couldn't agree more, De'Vannon: Oh, Branch: but I don't know of, we talked about this before or not. I think we probably have, but for those people who want to get into scripture, what read the Bible. Here's my suggestion. And I've made this before. Get a red letter version of the Bible. That's where Christ's words are printed and read star in the book of Matthew.You're going to read Matthew, mark, Luke and John. The four gospel books and all you read is the red letters. Anything that's printed in red, if it skips from one paragraph to the next that's okay. You just read the red letter. And what that will do is number one, it will give you an exposure to Jesus, his thoughts, his words, and his [00:38:00] deeds.Number two, that will help you establish that base of relationship that the advantage just had mentioned. And number three, it will open your eyes to what the Bible is and what its purpose is and how it relates to you in your life. If you just read that part, you'll be able to start from there and establish that relationship with God through Christ.You know, that's been the desire of your heart. We all feel that we're missing something. And that missing part of us is not being spiritually grounded. If you want to get spiritually grounded, I have found, and I often suggest to people who ask me, you know, this is the easiest way to sort of jumpstart that relationship.Red letter version, [00:39:00] just read the red letter text, and then go from there.De'Vannon: Right. And in terms of the, all the different sorts of translations and stuff they have out there.Bible gateway.com is a pretty easy to use website and app. They have it very organized and you can pick, you know, just kind of go through and get something that, that you can understand that it's not. Make you feel intimidated.It's a lot of people don't fuck with the king James version for that reason. You know, however for whatever it's worth, the king James version is maybe like one of the closest versions that actually where the people actually worked hard to give you somewhat, it's a little bit more accurate, you know, although all of them are quite subjective.So, but you got to pick a version that, that, that, that that's gonna appeal to you. You mentioned the word canonized. When you talked about this, I want you to tell people what that means exactly in the, in the way that you're [00:40:00] using it. Because I don't think you mean it like so. Branch: No, no. Yeah, no. The Canon is the label that's used for the Bible. You know, the Catholics have their own version of the Bible. Not that it's completely different, but they've got some things added. Into, you know, their holy book for their catechism, which is instruction. So the cannon refers to the old Testament and the new Testament books, the 66 is sort of the quantified or the, this is the final version for the lay people to read.So Canam simply means that it's the approved version. It's the one that all the deciders got to get. It's like the constitution, you know, when they sat down to [00:41:00] drop the constitution, everybody had an opinion as to what would be in it. And so after all of the back and forth and discussions in the meetings, they all finally agreed, okay, this is what the cost tuition will say.And this is what the bill of rights would say. And they all signed off. So you could say that the constitution was canonized, it was the final version. And so that's what the Canon means is the official version final form.De'Vannon: All right. Good enough on that. So, so do you get sold out in a, you know, Judas does his thing, the guards come, Peter shanks. One of them slices in ear off, you know, as we do. And so Jesus is so nice. He picked his ear up and stuck it back on the, on the food's head. I bet you, that had a lasting impression on that guard.[00:42:00] Now he just received a miracle while he's going to arrest the person who gave him a miracle. So now Jesus is bought before religious leaders of the day and well put putting, you know, it, the religious leaders know exactly what's right, that the man hadn't done anything, but they chose to put the what other people want, what their constituents want over, what they know is right. I'd be willing to say that these people were probably Republicans.I'm just going to allow myself that bit of shade here. Cause it's my show and I didn't do what the fuck I want. And so that wouldn't, you know, it, that religion in front of politics, you know, I think the two of them make strange bedfellows. And so go ahead, branch. Branch: Well, instead of Republicans, we might say hypocrites, you know, that's what Jesus called them. That's what he called the, [00:43:00] the leaders of the Jewish community and the religious leaders of his day. There was the farracies, which were the scholarly. And official religious leaders. There, the Sadducees, which were the sort of the next group down, they work, they were religious people.They're like Christians today versus versus, you know, the priest and the Pope. So the priest and the Pope would have been the Pharisees and the people who attended church would have been the Sadducees. They were also a lot of the merchants in the more wealthy in society of that day. And then you had, you know, all the mass of people who were the workers and the downtrodden and the poverty stricken, and Jesus addresses the leaders, the rich, the powerful as hypocrites simply because they say one thing [00:44:00] and they do another.And so. You know, if you look at our day and age, we have a lot of hypocrites also in our time that say what we should be doing and then turn right around and actually do the same thing. So he called them hypocrites. And not necessarily all Republicans, certainly they're sitting the Democrats, but if we think of them as hypocrites people who are, you know, telling us how we should behave and holding up the Bible as their evidence of how we should behave and then behind closed doors or in our world today, blatantly in the media, in front of everybody, they continue to behave the exact ways that they're declaring that others should not behave.So [00:45:00] hypocrites of Jesus. Hypocrites of our days. Same people, different time, you know, different label and different clothing.De'Vannon: Facts. And the thing is not, it's not be fitting for us to waste emotion, being angry at the hypocrites of the day because these things are ordained of the Lord. You know, if everybody was acting right and everything back in the day, then the crucifixion wouldn't have never happened. You know? So even the evil, they see the Bible says that God creates the evil and the good, you know, but he uses them all according to his purpose.So once we understand and accept that, then we stopped being angry. Like say, when kids die, when crazy shit like Donald Trump happens, you know, you know, when the Corona virus happens, you know, as bad as these things are. Good still comes out of them in some way. But at the end of the day, the Lord is ushering this world towards its inevitable end.But until that [00:46:00] time comes, there are certain things that God wants to happen. And he's using all of these people. I would never want a public high position like that because you know, all authority belongs to God. And if you have something to do with charting policy, that changes literally the course of history and the whole world, you, you know, God was like, just so has its fingers on you.Like, I look at them just like. I think it was on a chess board. So it doesn't matter if you're the president, the vice-president a Congressman or whoever public servant you. I mean uh, you're you have your accountability before the Lord is like very, very, very, very high, you know, in my opinion, because what you do affects like everyone, you know, and nothing you do is done in a corner.And therefore and I do believe the Bible says something about like judgment will start like at the church, you know, you know, it's, it starts with those who have to do with the rendering judgment. And it's so easy to fall into being a hypocrite. The [00:47:00] moment you start to nitpick at somebody else for not living the way you think they should.I do believe that you've become a hypocrite because we all sin every day. And the Lord says all sin is the same. So where the not you stole a toothpick or a woman went to go get an abortion. You, you, you toothpick thief cannot stand there and pull it up. You know, the pictures of the gross babies outside the abortion clinic with a stolen toothpick in your pocket, thinking that it's going to be all right for you when you stand before the Lord.So I'm going to say this again, people, we were not put on this earth to straighten everybody else out. We were not put on this earth, the fuck with other people. Some people go in here and change brands. Some people are just gonna be so caught up in their own insecurities and inferiorities that they just can't help, but try to demean and belittle other people so that they can feel better about themselves, but leave people alone.Our God said it. If you show mercy, you will receive mercy. But if you show judgment, then you will receive judgment [00:48:00] without mercy. So which one do you want? But you can't, you can't do nothing but reap what you saw. And so it doesn't matter how good stuff is for you now. Everything is subject to change.You don't know what tomorrow holds or not even what a day may bring. So you might have money and procedure and position. You don't know that these times are changing so fast. You know, everyone was talking about the cocaine or do you use with, I think Kevin McCarthy and his little friend who decided to snitch last week and the Republican party, you know, and Kevin McCarthy didn't have nothing to say about, you know, You know, Lauren and Barbara and all this crazy ass people, but the mama, they started talking about cocaine or these where he may have been involved.And all of a sudden he's available to speak,not judging you, anyone for having cocaine or these I've done it myself. However, you don't, you don't see me telling people what they're not supposed to do either. You know, I'm leaving everybody alone. So [00:49:00] I'm trying to get into heaven myself. So,oh Lord Jesus. So, so the, so the politicians of the day I knew believed the Bible said that, you know, they didn't want to cause a stir amongst the people. So they just gave them what they want. We do not hold public office. Branton. I don't have the platform that we have to just do what the fuck we want.You know, we have a mandate in our, we have a great responsibility to people. So these leaders weren't praying, they didn't, I didn't read and there we need them prayed, you know, what should I do? You know, or anything like that? They let the voice of the people sway them. They didn't go into their prayer closet.They didn't reach out for the Lord. You know, I didn't see any of that, you know, you know, and these are the things that are shared Jesus onto the cross. So he's onto the cross. They didn't flatter the thorny crown, slap them, spit on him. One person helped him, [00:50:00] everyone else just looked. And so, so so now he's up there on this cross.I believe he has like a murder and a thief on either side of him. He actually wasn't crucified by himself. So, this is where we get this whole cross from. So you see crosses hanging around with people's necks on the back of their fucking cars next to the fish in all of these different Christian symbols and so on and so forth.So what was it, all this Jesus stuff about? Why did he come here one earth? How does seem dying all them years ago? Do anything for me? You know, this is the, this is like the meat of why we're having this whole discussion today and why Easter is such a big deal. Take it away brand. Branch: well, let's back up a minute demand because you said something about the crowd there. And I don't know if we had talked about this before. I don't think so because of the crucifixion, Passover is the [00:51:00] celebration that the crucifixion takes place. There's a weekend three day weekend. We call it Easter. The Jews call it Passover.And what it is is celebrating the. Jews and the Israelites leaving Egypt getting out of bondage would Moses led them out of Egypt towards the promised land. And so Passover symbolizes them symbolizes and recognizes. And it is a celebration to acknowledge that Moses taking the Jews out of bondage in Egypt, when Jesus entered Jerusalem for Passover, Passover happens obviously every year and same weekend.What we call Easter Christians call Easter and in Jesus's day, [00:52:00] virtually everyone in the country who could travel to Jerusalem. Orthodox Jews and practicing Jews would travel to Jerusalem for this festival for the celebration. And when Jesus entered the city he had the entire route into Jerusalem, was lined with people, celebrating his, coming into the city for that celebration jump forward.Two days later, when he's standing before the CEP two agenda, which is the 70 members of the Jewish high order both political and religious, primarily religious, the religious leader for also the political leaders. He's standing before them in sort of a trial situation. And they're condemning. To [00:53:00]death for being a rebel, a zealot who they believe is going to overthrow their authority, because he's got so many of the people supporting him, they think he's going to cause a rebellion and they'll get thrown out of office.And so they have a trial, they condemn him to death, but because they have no authority to actually put him to death, they send him over to the Romans, to just pilot, the governor of Judah and Jerusalem at that time, governor of the province. And they send him over to stand trial a second time, a pilot listens to, it says he's not guilty.Sends him back to the Septuagint and. They refused to hear it. And they sent him back to Pontus, pilot, Pontus pilot says, you know, [00:54:00] I'm not going to condemn him to death. So I'll let you, the Jews decide, you know, what he does. He gets a prisoner out of the prison cell or Rabis and brings him around in the stage and brings Jesus out on the stage and then asks the people who are assembled below, you know, who they should save and who they should put to down.My point is the number of people who were there at that time at the death sentence time was certainly less than the people who were lining the streets two days prior, celebrating Jesus's entry into the city. And you've got to probably imagine that the crowd who was at the was hearing. Was probably made up of some hand-picked people you know, sort of like the religious or political people, getting their shells to [00:55:00] be in the crowd.So when pilot says who you all made it release, but rabbits or Jesus, you know, they all cry out Barabis and that's how it comes to pass that the death sentence is actually decided now because the Jews can kill anyone. The Romans had the duty and the honor to actually put Jesus to death. So there's a, there's the big difference in the crowds and their demeanor towards Jesus. Just kind of you know, the fix was in, so to speak much like we, we experienced today and so. Situations that we are part of, or we are part of as observers, the fix was,De'Vannon: Yeah, shouldn't be being. And Branch: the system [00:56:00] was rigged.De'Vannon: as it was then, so it is now, but it looks, it looks a rig to us, but the Bible says that the lot may be cast in the lap, but its every outcome is of the Lord. His stuff is not random to him. But do you see is not isn't that required for us as humans to understand that every freaking thing, you know, God understands everything and all of the random stuff it's his will.It is so, so Jesus is on the Kraus. Scott hanging out, you know, it's not like, you know, he, then they're challenging him, you know, Hey, if you're really the son of God, you just get yourself down from there, you know, making a mockery of him while he's up there, he's got two homies on the right and the left, one-to-one throwing shade at him.And the other one's like Hey, I believe. And so and so they [00:57:00] mix vinegar with gall, but it on a sponge, they extended up to Jesus' mouth, all these hanging out here on this Crouse. And I think he held him well, was it from the show? I can't remember. I think it was about three hours. So that maybe he wasn't up there on that, on that cross that tells you specifically in the gospels, but it wasn't like.I like that super quick death or anything like that. It was like in my opinion, a long drawn out, slow, miserable death. And so they mixed this vinegar with gall and they put it up to his mouth. He tasted, he spits it out. I think some Bibles might call it wine. I think some might call it like a mixture of concoction.And so I wanted to talk about the difference between a NAZA right and a Nazarene, because I do believe that there are those people who would use a scripture like this to try to further condemn the consumption [00:58:00] of alcoholic beverages. Okay. I want to be, I just want to say that there's nothing wrong. If you want a drink, you a Cabernet Sauvignon or some damn Jack Daniels.I mean, for what it's worth. I mean, the liquor is a derived from fucking plants and all this Scottish shit, you know, but the Bible does warn us against excessive drinking. Again, God's rules and laws and principles are there to help us. When you think about them, they kind of make sense. Common sense.Wouldn't want to over-drink anyway, you get all fucked up. You spend way too money. He may wake up in jail or thinking body parts and shit. And I've been through enough drunken revelry in my life. I think God had the right idea, you know, a sip or two will do. And so So I'm just going to read this. So in the Hebrew Bible, a Nazarite is one who voluntarily took a vow.These vowels are described the [00:59:00] numbers, chapter six, verses one through 21 Nazarite comes from the Hebrew word Nasar meaning consecrated or separated. Those who put themselves under NAZA right vial, which is how like Samson was in the book of judges. That's why he, you know, his strength was in his hair and he wasn't supposed to cut his hair. Those who put themselves under Nazarite vow do so by adding onto themselves a degree of sanctity, as it says for some length of time. So they do things like they abstained from all wine and anything else made from the great vine plant, such as cream of tar, tar, GrapeSEED oil, et cetera. They refrain from cutting their hair. And then they, they, and they, then they do not become ritually impure by contact with corpses or graves, even though it was a family member. So Jesus has raised people from the dead touch, plenty of corpses, you know, turn the water into wine and everything like that. So he was not a, I don't see him as a NAZA right now.A Nazareen is simply [01:00:00] somebody who's born in the city of Nazareth. And so it was fascinating to me when I came across as this difference here. And I really wanted to point that out. But what do you, what do you think about that? Branch: While you're talking about people who are fundamentalists or, you know, like the people we see in Jerusalem and Israel today in the garb, there has Siddiq, is there sort of their sector, their label, and they are fundamentalist Jews. They are you know, practicing old Testament kinds of rituals and lifestyles.And that's like the fundamentalist and any religion, you know, have sort of a set of rules that they adhere to pretty stringently. One thing we have to remember, especially in Jesus' day, but literally up until [01:01:00] at least the 19th century and into the 20th century. Most people drank alcoholic beverages, beer, and wine being, you know, the, the core of alcohol not because they wanted to get drunk, but because the water was not good to drink so much water, they didn't have any purification systems or methods.So all the water that they drank came from Wells and streams and rivers, and most of it was contaminated, you know bacteria, all kinds of things growing in the waterways. So it was not the best health conscious thing to do to drink the water. And that's why people would drink wine and beer because it had been through a fermentation process that helped cleanse that water that was being [01:02:00] used in it.So it wasn't so much. A cultural thing. It was a health issue. And you know, like say this was all up until at least the 19th century and 20th century, most water systems were not running with Predix or pure water. So there was a health factor involved. So if you abstained from drinking beer or wine, except in a ritual or worser situation, that it would be like a fasting scenario where you were, you know, keeping your body from indulging orient by being in something that the common man or the common person did on a regular basis, drank wine and beer. Because they couldn't, or wouldn't drink for water. And so as a fundamentalist, you would only partake in those things that had to do with your worship [01:03:00] service or, you know, your religious traditions or doing it for religious purposes. You wouldn't just go out and drink wine or beer. And that may be what the common person was doing simply so they could be hydrated.So there's a couple of different ways to look at that, but the fundamentalists there, their whole intent is to stick as closely as possible to what their principles and they're gone. And their liturgies describe as a holy life.De'Vannon: Right. And so was the Pentecostals who. tried to drill that into me. You know, that drinking wine is, you know, like the devil and everything like that. And I think they meant well,but at the end of the day, what they told me, wasn't the truth, you know? And it was founded in, in a, in a gross [01:04:00] misunderstanding of the word and how to look at it, which is why I'm such a big proponent of reading and studying the Bible for yourself in, and I'm not really so much for denominations anymore anyway, about growth in those.But but you know, it was a good start, some good training wheels. I love new churches as training wheels, you know, use them as you need to, but you know, you got to graduate from college at some point, you know, I don't see why people shouldn't need a church to teach them how to reach God that he died for the rest of their lives.At some point you should get the. You know, you should, you should learn. So, okay. So he's nailed to the cross. His blood is flowing, so to take the spear, shanks him in like his rib and some water comes down. And so oh, wait a minute. I, wasn't going to talk about Daniel. Cause you've mentioned about taking a [01:05:00] break from wine.So Daniel, there's a book of Daniel in the old Testament. This is probably my second favorite book in the Bible. Second, only to the book of revelation because they talk so much about the same stuff in revelation or these angels and all this stuff going on. And I just love, love, love, love, love. And so angel was gone, the angel Daniel was going through some changes baby.And when he was in Babylon and, and they, and, and they say that he took a break from wine, you know, for like three weeks. To fast for the deliverance of his people. And so I believe that that was stated for a reason, you know, why did, why did the Lord want us to know that he took a break from wine because Daniel was turning up and he was drinking wine for all the reasons brands just said.So we have precedent that it is okay. To have you some wine, he took his fasting break, like you were just saying for spiritual purposes. And that's when the angel Gabriel came and flew to him with his visions and everything. And we have all, all of the [01:06:00] beauty of the book of Daniel. And so so we're up here on the cross.Jesus is bleeding. So branch, if I'm new to Christianity of I'm considering this, but explain to me how this guy hanging on a cross, getting killed and bleeding with this water coming out of the side and mixed with blood. What, what, what does it do for me today? I don't understand, like how does it, what does it do for me?How did they even help me? Branch: wow. Well, the, the innocent, I pulled out one Ephesians one. Verse seven says very simply in the ham, meaning Jesus, we have the redemption, meaning the path of spiritual reconciliation to God, the father, through his blood for the forgiveness of sins. And so [01:07:00] what the blood of Christ does is release us from our sins that we've committed.So in him, we have redemption through his blood for the forgiveness of sins, and that's what that whole blood flowing represents. He gave himself as a sacrifice for us so that we could Or not experience death. And that's what the blood of Christ is. It's covering our sins so that we don't have to die and be separated from God.De'Vannon: So, yeah. So when he says the death, y'all, he means like a spiritual death as opposed to physical. 'cause we all got to die physically once, you know, as the scriptures [01:08:00] say, so in the old Testament, if somebody wanted to be forgiven of sayings, they used to have to go to the priest. And there, you know, it'd be a lot of animal butchering.You know, this is a principle. This is where human understanding. You just, at some point, once God has said something, he's ordained structured, it is what it is. Now. God does not have to explain himself to us. And so us as humans, we got to gain some humility about that and understand who has the power and who doesn't.God is the ultimate. One of authority, not the president, not ourselves, you know, no, nobody but him. He requires a blood sacrifice. This is the way it's always been. I didn't ask him why it is what it is. And so Jesus was the like last sacrifice. So we don't have to do, like they did in the old Testament and take a bull and a Ram or a dove or whatever, and go down there and chop it up for the blood to flow.You know, it's something about when God sees the blood, [01:09:00] you know, it changes, you know, he goes from being angry to cool. You know, that's just the weight that this does, that is just an ordinance that just exists. And so and, and, and the buck stops there. So Jesus, his whole purpose. He's this bloody sacrificing on this cross from this point on no more animal sacrifices needs. We don't have to make a trip to the temple we can. And so when we say we call on the sacrifice that we call on the blood of Jesus, we're not asking him to pour blood all over us. What we're saying is that we would like to take God up on his offer of what the sacrifice represents to forgive us. Now, I was listening to somebody having to do with the war on Ukraine, a lady who was Ukrainian, she was saying, she's not afraid to die.Jesus. She's just afraid to die because she hasn't had a chance to make it to confession yet. Okay. And I'm listening to her and thinking, [01:10:00] I get what you're saying, lady, and I'm here for your strength. You're kicking some serious Russian ass over there, but this concept that we have to wait to go to a confession, to talk to a human before we can get right with God defeats the entire purpose of Jesus. And so by that that's so wholesale, the practice is going back to the old Testament and being like, Well, I can't get right until I leave my house and go talk to this person so they can mediate for me. Jesus, didn't done that. And so he released you from this whole thing. And when I heard her say that I'm thinking, Hmm, wonder she's Catholic.And I don't know, there's other religions out there that still make you go through a person to get absolved of your sins, but babies y'all, don't have to do that wherever you're at. You can just be like, Jesus, I thank you for that sacrifice. I believe that you exist. Please forgive me my sins. And it's done the [01:11:00] moment you believe in you, even if you can't speak, just believe it in your heart.I don't know. I'm just going to be quiet. I just cannot with this whole going to a pre thing to get forgiven, I just can't. I can't. Branch: there's, there's two scriptures. People should keep in mind. Right? Describe and answer all that. You've just said, number one, Matthew seven, verses seven and eight. If you want to know how you get that relationship with God through Jesus Christ started Matthew seven, seven, and eight describes that when you've gone there, then go to Romans 10, 9, 10, and 17.And that will give you what Davanon was just trying to describe. [01:12:00] It gets you, you invited Christ into your life. He's responded and Romans 10, 9, 10, and 17 describes what that woman in Ukraine needs to do instead of waiting to see an Orthodox priest. To get right with God for possible demise. That's how simple a relationship with Christ is.And that's how easy it is to get to God when you pass away. Yeah, there's, there's a lot going on and there's a lot of people, you know, who are confused and frightened about, well, what happens when I die and am I going to get to heaven? And those two scriptures will answer all those questions.[01:13:00]De'Vannon: Yeah. And you know, the Lord hasn't given us a spirit of f

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One more week. I am so thrilled to have you with me again, and I love you all so very much. And I am grateful for you. Exciting news and my memoir, which I've been working on for like 10 years. It's finally out. You can check it out@sexjugsandjesus.com.Please support it, please like it. Please share it. Please love it. So today I'm talking with branching, Solei branch is now a resident [00:01:00] guests on the podcast. You've seen him. You love him, you know who he is and he'll be back again today. We're going to be talking about. Communion the Eucharist, whatever you want to call it with Easter right around the corner.I wanted to give you some head knowledge about this and show you how to do it yourself at home. And besides this, we'll be talking about spiritual independence, breaking free from independency on churches and how to just grow in the Lord on your own. Take a listen.Branch ECLA. Thank you so fucking much for coming back on the sex drugs and Jesus podcasts for the umpteenth time. How are you? Branch: Doing well, my brother doing well. How are you today?De'Vannon: Oh,I'm fan fucking tastic. You you know, we're definitely winning for the person who's made the most appearances on this show and I don't see any signs of that changing. You're like our first standing resident guests. Branch: well, thank you. I appreciate them. It's [00:02:00] always a joy being with You De'Vannon: Yeah, you, Branch: get to talk freely and openly and, and hopefully that that's helpful to listen.De'Vannon: yeah. You're the only person who has a heart for Christ who can. Who's not offended by my, what some would call vulgarity and who will respond to me every time I called wanting to have a conversation about Jesus. So, you know, it's meant to be. Branch: Well, it's, you know, it's, it's interesting. I was on a podcast yesterday and we were talking about one of my books that's sexually oriented, you know the stories that are all around sexual interaction and all sex, but for play and, you know, intimacy and in the conversation somebody said something about, well, how can you write about Christian subjects and then turn right around and write, you know, what we consider erotica [00:03:00] and.My simple answer is, you know, sex is part of life. It's part of who we are as a species and as part of our behavior. So, you know, if you have a problem with it, I can understand that, but you know, God made sex part of our, our relationships in our life. So it's part of who we are and what we do. So I don't see the transition as being a problem, but, you know, everybody has their opinions and I feel the same way about, you know cussing as they say, or swearing I have yet to meet.So I have people who, you know, are offended by some of the language that they hear and they, they may use. And my point is, you know, at some point in your life, I'm sure you've said that. So You have to get over it or get through it. And it, you know, it's part of life. It's who we are and [00:04:00] what we do. So what can I say?De'Vannon: I concur God created sex. It wasn't our idea. And you know, but if someone wants to try to, to, to play that game with it, then, you know, there's plenty of biblical references to people who, Branch: No. De'Vannon: you know, look at king David, he reigned an earth. He said to rain again, you know, you know, you know, at the end of the world and Branch: Yeah. De'Vannon: like that, he had plenty of pissy, kinds of wives and concubines and shit.So he was highly sexual, but this is a man who God said was a man after who is a man after his own. And so end of story done, you can totally have, have a strong sexual life and be super close to God. don't have to, it's not one or the other. So. Branch: I guess it's a matter of, you know, what people consider sin and I'll often share with people, you know, in God's eyes, a sin is a sin. [00:05:00] There's no difference in degrees of, you know immortality inaction, all a sin. And as believers in Christ, and this is a hard concept for a lot of people to their head around.are forgiven of our sins present and future, even though we may sin again. And, you know, in the human sense, we may sin again in the future, as followers and believers in Jesus, we are forgiving those actions. Now, does that mean we should sin Figure it's okay. Because we've been forgiven as Paul says, of course not.You know, the whole reason we have a relationship with Christ is so that we are tempted to sin in our lives you know, we, we think twice about it and we call on his spirit to guide [00:06:00] us, you know, in our next action. So it's all a matter of belief and trust in him that he has paid for our sins, but we are not sitting in the future simply because he is paid for our sins.You know, we, we are who we are and if our heart like David's was is with God, then we have that communion with God and that communication with God through Christ and he guides our steps. So.De'Vannon: It's really just that simple and I'll quote my favorite line from the movie trip with Jayda Branch: No. De'Vannon: and all them fabulous, divas. My favorite quote from there says, you really can have it all. And So.it is humans that have complicated. There's a life, not the Lord. And so before we get on the the topic of today, a branch [00:07:00] is a website isn't manna, oh, publishing that And that will go in the show showy notes. He has like about a thousand books, he's written poetry and everything like that. He had run his own publishing house and everything like that. And Branch: Um, De'Vannon: a podcast guests Xtrordinair. He's like a porn star with that shit. He's always up on somebody's podcast.And I absolutely it. I met him through pod match.com, which is a phenomenal website. God bless Alexan Felipo for sending that gift to the world through him. a beautiful thing. When I, when I see it being done just right, like way he's doing it, that is his purpose, at least one of his major purposes.And I think nobody would disagree with me on that. And so stuff about pod match will also be in the show we notes. Now, speaking of the complications humans gave to things today, branch and I are going to be focusing on communion. Easter is upon us, and I felt inspired to [00:08:00] enlighten the world communion, some call it the Eucharist.had all of these different names for the same things, it's the little cracker. Usually people eat in some great juice or some wine. I got my setback here. I got me some fucking Cabernet and mine Cabernet Sauvignon, baby, and my unbelieving bread. The Lord drank his wine and his first miracle was turning water into real wine.I'm not about to have great juice, what I'm doing something to commemorate the creator of the entire universe. So we're going to have the real thing. And so. I wanted to do this show because I want to show, I want to show people how to do communion because you can totally do this at home. You don't have to go traipsing to somebody's church to do anything that connects you to Jesus Christ.You do not have to have a church and you don't have to have a preacher. So I want to talk first about why people go to church, [00:09:00] why people get into it in the scripture that I've found with Hebrews 10 and 25. This is the scripture. They always told me growing up. And it says to foresight, not the gathering together of yourselves.And, and they use this scripture to say, you see there, here it is. And Hebrews, you got to always come to church. And if you don't, you're forsaking the gathering together of people and you're breaking the rules and you're sending, if you don't come to church. So what are your thoughts on that branch? Like historically, like what was going on, do you think.That you know, culturally during that time, that would make them write such a thing. Branch: Well, of course, you know, AF after the death of Christ, when the first Christians which, who were actually Jews got together to celebrate what he had taught them and what they had learned they met in what we would call a home church or home environment. You know, they met in small [00:10:00] groups they share what they knew and what they had to learn and what they had experienced when Jesus walked among them.And out of that, No this communion or Eucharist right of passage almost your emotion and your commitment to Christ. So, you know, the church out of those small gatherings of in that first century. And by the second and third century, know, Christianity had spread throughout the Roman empire and the gatherings became bigger and a little more formal leadership could play.So once you get that kind of a structure, you know, you need a bigger place. And then I started building churches and it became a religion as an outgrowth of [00:11:00] that sharing knowledge of Jesus Christ our lives, in our daily lives. Just like every other religion, grew from a seedling of a master of scripture they grow into behemoths where faith part and the closeness to master often gets diluted with the politics of the church.That's who we are as people that's that's our human nature is to try and gain control of it, know, so that we're in control. And that we, once we have control, we have the power to reel over other people in that case, you know, in a church situation over the congregation. So, but you know, you don't have to go to church or show up in a building to have that relationship with Christ, just the abuse, know, have [00:12:00] just pointed out it's it's a person.Spiritual relationship.De'Vannon: It's personal before it is anything else. And like what I did before, when I had made mistakes about. My understanding of God when I got kicked out of Lakewood church and I let that caused a division in between me and God. You see, I was putting the preachers and the pastors and the worship leaders in the church a pedestal and making an idol out of them.And I didn't realize that I was, how do I know that? Because when I got kicked out, I got angry at God and I stopped talking. I stopped going to all the churches and I stopped praying and I stopped doing everything because I had conflated and put God on the same level as Joel Olsteen and Victoria O'Steen and and all the worship leaders in the church itself.And the service I was doing for the church, should have happened is, as soon as I saw that they didn't want gay people serving with the [00:13:00] children. I should have just left the whole church to begin with for them being specifically exclusionary towards a certain group of people. But but since I didn't do that, if they were going to kick me out, for some reason, I should have just said, fuck them, but not fuck God.I shouldn't, I should. Just went to a church that accepted gay people and kept my relationship with God. But I let, what, how people treated me tear my whole religious construct down. So it was torn down. It was able to be torn down because it was built on a weak foundation to begin with in terms of my understanding of it.So I'm doing much of what I do to prevent people from knowingly falling into that same trap giving these preachers in these churches too much damn credit. You know, you don't, they just don't, they don't deserve to have all that. And they're not all that. And they're going to be wrong about shit and they already are.And so when the scandals come out and we have our Jerry Falwell's fucking the pool boys and fucking everybody, who's not as white, know, there's no need for us to [00:14:00] be shocked. You know, this is, these preachers are people they do in everything. Everybody else is doing. And we don't know what the hell they're not doing when that, around us, that the image they present at church is just one side of them.doesn't matter who they are. They still got their own habits and things like that. So it's time for us to get to know God for ourself, because when shit gets worse than this earth, we can't be needing to go run to a preacher to get a prayer through. We can't wait till we get to church, define God. We can't go find a priest to confess, to, to get forgiveness when Christ has already handled that job, you know, I'm trying to bring people face to face with God.Like he wants to be, he said, as near as the air, we breathe, as near I'm near, but you got to go through somebody to get to me, you know, that's not what he said. So. Branch: Well, we live in a fist. We live in a physical world and we grow up in a physical world and that's all we [00:15:00] know, you know one of the big concepts that are hard to understand is worshiping and having a relationship with something on seem, right. And that's what faith is all about is having that relationship with the unseen supremacy of God.And we are a world. By its very nature tries to separate us from God and put him so far away from us that it's necessary for us to go through some ecumenical person, a priest, a pastor Pope in order to reestablish that relationship with God. And because that's the nature we grow up in, that's what we believe to be the only truth.He said it best a moment ago when you send your understanding. When we [00:16:00] understand that God, as our creator is within us and with us all the time, if we choose to acknowledge his presence, then we know that we can have that personal relationship with or without. A church setting or a gathering of fellowship believers. There's certainly nothing wrong with being a believer and attending church, as long as know, you're grounded spiritually in that relationship with God through Christ Christ is our ecclesiastic mediator. He's the one that we go through get to God, necessarily the priest or the pastor or the Pope.So De'Vannon: Right. Branch: right on my De'Vannon: So what's your thing, your, what you hallelujah on a Friday morning. So what'd your thing is what I would agree with. [00:17:00] So people gotta, gotta, gotta start in this physical realm somewhere. Cause that's what we see. And then as they mature, then they can get to a point of what I'm talking about. Branch: Yeah, exactly. Jesus said, you know, we're babies, we get. And as we mature into adults than we can handle the meat. the exposure is the milk, the relationship and the growth, you know, with Christ is the meat.De'Vannon: Right. And so what for me, what maturity in God looks like is going to church. If I feel drawn to not, because I feel like I have to in my personal time with him alone, I feel like I learned more than I can from any preacher. So. Branch: Yeah, sure, De'Vannon: That's what it looks like. Branch: Yeah. That well, that's what communion truly all about is that that talking with God, you know, in our minds with our mouth, that [00:18:00] connection that we have every day it doesn't have to be one hour on a Sunday or Saturday or Wednesday night. It can be every time think of him, spirit, God, the father and God, the son, or any one of the three, they are responding every time we're making that connection.the further you go down the spiritual path and the more they are part of your thought process, the more you'll see his spiritual power working in your life.De'Vannon: Yup. Cause what you want. If so like when, when we die, we don't want to be in a position where we're standing at God and it's, and we feel like we're talking to a stranger, we gotta be facilitating that relationship now. So when we actually see his face as though we've had a long distance relationship with someone who we're finally getting to meet, or we're totally familiar with, so this means I need you to push a social media [00:19:00] way and spend a little bit more time, you know, with God praying fast, want to reading your Bible and doing the things that you can looking at different scriptures, different ways to look at it online, different commentaries, you know, different things than me get serious because this walk with God is kind of like we're dating him.When we date people, we get to know them. We experienced them in different environments, different settings and things like that. So I want people to really get intimate with God, you know? And you were at your best with that when there's no one around and it's just you and him, period. And so, so we're talking about communion.Why am I talking about communion? This communion is a beautiful thing. We first see this act of communion in the gospels, Matthew, mark, John, all of them, when Jesus is getting ready to get crucified, he calls all of his disciples together and he has you know, communion and he tells [00:20:00] them them the wine, the unleavened bread represents his body, is about to be broken.in the blood represents his blood is about to be shared. I believe in communion when I was young and I was a nosy ass kid, poking my nose in places where I believe that should be going So no matter who said where it shouldn't be going, damn it, I needed to know shit. And so the preachers in those days would go around the older people who didn't go to church bring the communion to them and communion consist of great Jews actual fermented wine.Like I said, I got my Cabernet my wine, my communion cutting back here and then unleavened bread, because that was an Israelite thing. Especially during like Passover and stuff like that. They didn't fool with the leaving and that's a whole other topic there, but you know, it's a peer purification thing.So the bread didn't have any leaves. [00:21:00] So the preacher comes, administer his, now this, now we're at her house. We're not in church. And he asked me and I followed him into my grandmother's house and he asked me if I want to commute. And I was like, sure. And I must've been like five or six, just, just a nosy, fucking kid running around.And so I took the brand, gobbled it on down. And then when I took that great juice from the cup or whatever, I drank it. And then immediately, immediately I I felt like I guess you could best describe it as kind of like an electric chill move through my body from like the waist not the top of my body, just the waist down.And it was so much so that I like my legs buckled and they gave out and I like leaned up against my grandmother's bed, which, you know, granny's bed. It's like a thousand Branch: Okay. De'Vannon: tall, so it can certainly support any body. For a few days after that, it's like, my body was clicking that [00:22:00] I was moving faster than I'd ever moved before.Just like in a regular walking straight, I had a new burst of energy in life. This is sort of thing that happens when like God or an angel, you come in contact with one of them. You get, you get in live. And, and I don't know what it did. I didn't know that I needed to touch, but I know when I drank that grape juice out of that cup, that, that preacher had prayed over.Something happened to me. And so I know the power is real. And I want to bring this power to everybody. And I'm not saying every time you drink the cup, you're going to catch the holy ghost. So you're going to feel tingly, but see, sometimes we don't feel anything at all and God is moving a whole, whole lot.So we don't judge. Whether or not, God is doing anything about what we can necessarily see and feel. That's what faith is all about. Believing whether or Not we can't see it. So, oh, no brunch here. Have you ever had, had, or witnessed any sort of personal experiences happening current around.Branch: Not that I can recall that [00:23:00] was that kind of a awakening, what you described two things. Number one, when we have a relationship with Christ, we have relationship with God, the father, through his spirit in Christ, as Christ is in us, you will find your connection to the Trinity is heightened and you will notice his presence in your life.Sometimes it's physical, sometimes it's audit honorable or audio, and sometimes it's just a sense you have He's there guiding your steps. The great thing about his presence is if you recognize it, you will discover later on. At some point could be quick time, or it could be or weeks later, his presence will show up in your life where you will definitely recognize something happened. It's just the way it works and it, you know, it's hard for [00:24:00] non-believers or those who are struggling with that relationship to grasp. It's, like I said, the other day in a show, the further you go down that path with Christ, the more you'll see him working in your life. And once you start seeing it and recognizing it, you'll see it more and more often, and it will become almost second nature.So that every time in your daily life, you think about the Trinity father, son, and or spirit, there'll be a recognition for you that they are recognizing that connection with them. It's just, it's all a spirit thing. And I think you and I talked about, you know, the principalities of light and dark and spirit and the world before, and that's what happens, the greater, your spiritual growth.Takes place with Christ. The more often you see him working and being in your life, and it just becomes second nature and you [00:25:00] automatically turn to him at every juncture when you're or under stress. he responds. And it's just, it's the nature of, you know, his unconditional love and his compassion for each of us as believers in him as the son of God.De'Vannon: Yeah. So just give it time. This is a, a thing of patience. You can't run out and become a spiritually mature overnight. You can't rush any relationship. It takes time.Branch: Yep.De'Vannon: So, so the Eucharist deals with the body and the blood of Jesus. Now I've heard some people say before that the, the concept of the blood of Jesus just sounds disgusting to them. They're like, who wants to be covered in blood? That just sounds like a horror moviebecause you know, people in churches you'll hear them say, you know, I plead the blood of [00:26:00]Jesus or I'm covered in the blood of the lamb, you know, or something like that. You care to explain to us what does it mean to plead the blood of Jesus already to be covered in the blood of the lamb? How does that transfer translate from Jesus's physical blood spilling to the spiritual ways meant today? Branch: Wow. There's about three different things in what you just said. First of all, it's symbolism, right? The bread is a symbol of his body. The wine is a symbol of his blood, as you said, the body was broken and the blood was shed to be covered in the blood of Christ is to take on righteousness, you know, as the, as the sacrifice for our sins.And then when we die, we will be refined by his spiritual power. That was, you know, [00:27:00]when he, when he shed his blood for us, he became the living son of God for us. So, you know, the it's just like the that people were, you know, around their neck or somewhere on their body as a symbol of their, Christian identity.It's a symbol and people who, you know, sort of get caught up in the drinking of the blood and that kind of concept just are missing the whole point. Then, you just, can't, some people just refuse to walk to understand have clarity. And they're not at that place yet. That's all that they're not ready, you know, to make that leap of faith and understand who Christ was, why he came the first time and why he's coming back again.So it's all symbolism. You have to [00:28:00] look past the, the actual wine and see what it represents.De'Vannon: Right. So then if I say I plead the blood of Jesus, our Lord covered me with your blood. What I'm saying is God, I, I understand the sacrifice for me. And I believe that that power is still alive. That day. I'd like to cash in on that. You know, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not saying dump a bucket of blood on me. I just, I would like to cash in on the work that you did spiritually speaking. Branch: Yep.De'Vannon: So. So here we have Jesus before he was about to be betrayed. We know Jude Judas Iscariot was the ultimate criminal informant in history of, oh Jesus, wasn't a criminal. I had an informant who snitched me out to the cops before SWAT came and kicked my door in. So I can understand, you know, Jesus feeling betrayed, you know, it's bad when you got somebody who's been running with you close to you, who also don't like you, who platen against you, which is what [00:29:00] Judas was about.So that's where the term, when people say, oh, he's a Judas. It's something like that. You know, we're talking about the ultimate snitch. And so Jesus turned to him and he said that what you do do quickly gone and sell me out for the 30 pieces of silver is already arranged to go cause those secure the bag.So we can get on with this crucifixion thing and then branch and I will be talking about the crucifix. Next week. And now we're going to go into detail about what this whole authority crowns and why, what does a man carrying a cross and dying on the cross have to do with me today? You know, we're going to talk about the crucifixion next week.And so here we are, Jesus. He's already washed his disciples feet and they're sitting down to have this, what we call the last supper. When you hear somebody say the last supper is this, the last time Jesus is having communion or commuting hanging out with his disciples before he's to go to, to get crucified.So this is where the [00:30:00] concept comes from now. First Corinthians chapter 11 is where the apostle Paul kind of lays it out. And he starts started saying for, I have received of the Lord. So it seems to me like maybe this came to him in a vision or something like that, where he learned about the act of communion from God, from Jesus himself.And this was a scripture that they always preach. Every time we had communion and Sunday in the Pentecostal church, every time we did it, they always did it first Corinthians 11. So anything you'd like to say at this point, Bernie. Branch: No, go ahead. Go De'Vannon: Okay. Branch: And it can help. It can also be found in Luke 22 you know, with actual disciples at the supper, but De'Vannon: Okay. Branch: same coach, same scripture.De'Vannon: Right. And so and so basically they, they, they just, there's a lot of information and there's a lot of things that are said [00:31:00] that don't really directly have to do with the bread and the wine, but are still important all the same. So I'm just going to focus on the bread and the wine, because that's what we're here for today.And so. The body represents the physical sacrifice. He said, take eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. This do in remembrance of me. Then it says after the same manner, also he took the cup thing. This is my blood drink it, you know, as often as you do this and remember me, so the way he's phrasing this, as often as you do, it means that something that can be done again and again and again, and this wasn't a one-time thing that he shared with his disciples.said this do in remembrance of me. So Jesus wants us to a physical way to remember his sacrifices. You know, when we do things. Physically, it reinforces it in our conscious and our subconscious minds our spirit. And it makes us sacrifice a reality [00:32:00] today in the present, even though it was done many years ago.So he wants us to sit down and celebrate it. I kind of get the feeling of how we do our birthdays or an anniversary or something like that. know, we want to always commemorate it and find a way to keep it alive and fresh. And so that to me kind of like the breakdown of how communion came about to be gave the first example, and then we picked it up from there. Branch: Well, a lot of people, you know, anyone who prays before a meal and, and thanks the Lord for what they're about to receive. That's the same outward expression of what he was talking about. You know, at that last supper, he was trying to describe to the disciples. These are people, these are men who had been with him, you know, up to three years.And an ed walked with him and learned from him every day and still many of them [00:33:00]misunderstood what was happening. And so he tries to describe the suffering. He's about to go through on the cross and why he's going to do it, you know, for his day in four hours. And so what he's asking them to do is every time.You know, you're sitting down to eat or drink in a supper situation, just like we do at supper or dinner. He's giving us that opportunity to reconnect with him through what we're taking in, what we're consuming in our body. If we're remembering him by prayer, before we do that, then we're recognizing that reestablishment of our spiritual consumption of him with us today.And so it's, it's that transfer of the physical to the spiritual, both in his day and for us. And so we, you [00:34:00] can do it. The van and said, you can do it at home whenever, but you can do it every time you sit down for a meal, you can remember, you know, the Lord by what you're taking in. And you're, re-establishing that spiritual reconnection and taking him back in.So go ahead, my brother.De'Vannon: And I've heard it. That's a very good breakdown. My man, I've heard it said. You know what, when you drink that, that grape diesel, that wine, you know, you're drinking actual physical healing yourself. You know, your faith can take you as far as you're willing to go with it. And so, you know, I've heard, it said, you know, you know, when you eat, you eat, eat the bread of represents his body.Then you're taking that life into yourself. You know? So that concept, there are bins around the act of community and attractive heal, physical infirmities. I'm not going to take that away and say that it's impossible, especially not after that touch that I got one [00:35:00] that day when I was a kid, you know, you know, this is, this is, this is a, this is a powerful tool that God has really given us.And so, I mean, it says as often as you do it, if you want to do communion week, every day, you know, that's in between you and God. I ever, you know, it's a one other way. We have the field close to him. But my point in doing this today, as we approach Easter, is to let you know. You did not have to wait until you go to church to experience this communion with God.And so at this point, I am going to show you how I do it. And I'm just gonna reach back here and get this little piece of unleavened bread. It took me a while to track this down on the internet, as you know, it's, there's really yeasty, you know, in this country. But I finally found me some on leaving bread or maybe I went to whole foods.I think I went to whole foods and actually able to get this. And so you can read the [00:36:00] scripture and the Corinthians or a different one if you want to not. So when I do it, I try not to be so super formal about stuff because I don't want to lose the meaning in ritual and in formality, know, I like it to be real.Like I'm just having a conversation with my boyfriend. I don't have. That I use to talk to him you know, I just don't, I just flow. And then, and that's the same way I try to be with God, because it's real because God judges the hearts and the rains, he does not judge the outward actions like that. He's looking into the real reasons why you're doing what you're doing.So it's not really, which no man is qualified to do so. And so it was really about the heart of the matter. So whenever I'm ready to feel a little bit close to the Lord, I will me some unleavened bread like this sucker right here. And maybe I'll say a prayer like Lord, I'm about to take this communion with you.I appreciate the sacrifice that you gave for all of [00:37:00] us all those years ago. That sacrifice is still just as alive today as you are. And I know that as I take this communion, that. Lining up and sinking into and tapping into and becoming one with eternity and within you with you and with all that you are, all that has been is, and what will be actually to take me with you on, into your strength and on into your grace.And as I take it as a bread, and as I drink this wine, want to thank you for what you've done. I want to thank you for what you are doing. I appreciate what you're going to do, heal me and cleanse me and making me right and make me whole by your standards that nobody else is in Jesus name. Now, some people like to break the bread and do it.doesn't matter to me because it's going to be broken once you start crunching on it. whatever suits your fancy, oh My cup, you can get [00:38:00] communion sets off the internet. Really expensive. And you had like a whole, a lot of them and they had like a short expiration date. And so you could get you like some Welch's grape juice honey, or a bottle of wine, like this Cabernet I have right here. And you'll be in a better position.You just drink it. And that's all there is to it. And now I believe the Lord heard that it's a simple thing. I'm a little bit goes a long way with Christ. Like I said, he judges the hearts and the rains, the motives behind things, just because we sat down and take the time to do something special before. And with God, he can't help, but honor that because we take time to do so much everything else that brings us pleasure in life.And I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with that, but how much do we travel? Fuck [00:39:00]drink alcohol, go out, have fun party, go to museums, social media for God's sakes. You know, we play our video games. How much time do we spend doing all the fuck we want to do? But if we were to take a snapshot of our time spent in a week or a month, how much time do we actually personally spend with God versus all the other stuff that he's empowered us to go out and do you know, I really want to put him first, you know, with balance, you know, I don't overdo it.I don't underdo it, but if I'm going to be having all of my amenities and things in life for damn sure. Well, I'm going to sit down and take the time to get close to the one who's who's enabling me to do it all, but got to say about it.Branch: Well, you have to think of communion as you just described communicating with God. anytime that we express that either, [00:40:00] know, the way you just did with the bread and wine in prayer or in petition or in our behavior, how we respond, what it got say. And Matthew Love God first and most and love your neighbor as yourself.when we respond to the event, And the people in our lives with compassion and understanding and love, you know, we are communicating, we are communion communing with God because we are responding the way Christ responded. When he walked this earth in the way God would have us respond our daily life.So it's about communion. It's about communicating. about having that relationship where God's spirit active within us. It's part of us. So it's us to have that communion in that communication the, where we [00:41:00] can then in our actions express that we emulate we do what Jesus would have done in the same situation.in that emulation of Jesus thought word, indeed, we further. Children of God and everything we do then an act of obedience because that's what we wish to do. We wish to emulate or use Christ as our example. There's, there's lots of ways to have that communion physically, mentally, psychologically, emotionally, but you've got to have that living spirit within you.So you've got that connection.De'Vannon: And what do you think about in Corinthians that says that not the the body and blood of the Lord and worthiness. For, if you do. So you [00:42:00] bring condemnation on yourself and for this many, for this reason, many are weak and sickly among you and many sleep. So in the church, when I was growing up, they, they wouldn't use that part of the scripture to basically be like, if you come up here and take this communion, unworthily without repeating for your Sans first, then you could get sick or die or some sort of condemnation would come upon you.I wonder. Do you agree with that sentiment?Branch: Not at all, not really. It, it reflects to me, you know, that power that the priest or the pastor is trying to use over the people in the pews. You know, one of the things about with God is the power is the spiritual power. Again, I can't say this enough when you've got the spirit of God living within you.The one thing that you will recognize in your life is [00:43:00] And once you start living with truth in your life, see the fallacy and the fakeness and the false who of the world that you know, and this is not to condemn priesthood, but again, man has manipulated religion, no matter what religion, has been Islam, you know, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, the original master had from God and had writings, which glorified God our nature.once those masters passed away, then people in the church. Oh, where the sin God, you know, took control. And if you are not in that same spiritual place with the [00:44:00] master, then it's very easy to get sucked into the politics and the hypocrisy of religion. no matter what religion it is and the deeper and the more power that the church or the religion gathers in garners, the more it tries to impose on its membership.The fact that, you know, God is up here and we're down here. And the way you get to God is through us. Just like we're trying to express today. The way you get to God is through Christ. So it's, you know, it's power and manipulation of, of men over other men or, you know, clergy over the congregation, they can say, and.Trick people into believing just about anything, because they have convinced people that they are God's representative here on [00:45:00] earth to that group. You know, you have to break free of that. Again, there's nothing wrong with going to church, going to synagogue, as long as when you're there, you're being fed the word and your heart, you know, you you'll know in your heart, whether it's bullshit that they're trying to put out and control you with or whether it's really what God would have you do and respond to.De'Vannon: Mikey often say the church has an agenda. Branch: Yeah, definitely. You know, their agenda is to get more money out of you. You know, w why any church needs to collect funds? Is beyond me. If, if, if their congregation is being fed the truth and being fed a relationship with God through their master or Christ [00:46:00] or Eamomm Muhammad, whoever may be, there's no reason that they, that the congregation won't voluntarily tide.No, you don't have to brown beat them into collecting money, but here again, religions are a human entity with an agenda and that agenda has to be funded. So you know, the Catholic church is one of the richest entities in the world, and yet they still collect tides and dues.De'Vannon: Oh God, the Catholic. Branch: Yeah. Well,De'Vannon: I've been watching on HBO plus the young Pope with Jude law's sexy ass as the young Popin have to say that series, it's quite titillating, it's quite titillating. And I actually want, there was a friend of mine whose family was [00:47:00] greatly damaged by the Catholic church. And I really, really want to have her on my show to talk about it, because I'm just how to say this about the Catalytics, you know, do what you do.And I head judged nobody, but personally there's no way that I would kiss the Pope's ring. I'm not about to are doing it, the doctrines and stuff that they do and the whole confessional and everything. I just don't understand. We're all the rules and stuff came from that they follow it's almost like they have their own Bible or something.I'm like who the hell came up with this shit in. And that way the people wait and hang the, on the on every word, the Pope says, you know, they can't decide for themselves if this is right or wrong until he says it. And then you have the one Pope who may rule one way on something. And an another Pope rule was a different. Something, but then they're both supposed to be the ultimate voice of God. Okay. Well, then there's some human error in here. Some fucking where cause otherwise one poke shouldn't have a different [00:48:00] opinion than the next. So there it's supposed to be like the holiest guy or whatever the fuck he's supposed to be.I don't like that. The actress of the Catholic church, the big robe, it's the big ass hat that dude wears all, all the extra shit. I'm all like what happened to just Jesus? Like what is all of this? And so, so many of my friends are ex Catholics, man. And they, ain't never seven foot in the church. Again, they don't give a fuck.They are done whatever the hell happened to them. And that in that Catholic religion has scarred them and they are over it. They're over all with it. They're not having any of it. Although once they, you know, she's, she's cool with God, but just fuck the Catholic church forever. So then, you know, some of them haven't lost it all, but I don't know people like, they ha they, they have like a PTSD when they leave the Catholic church.Some sort of some right in there, you didn't have that many people saying the same thing. Like they just felt abused. Be it the poor Ulta boy, actually getting fucked [00:49:00] by the, by the priest or like she's like mental abuse. Like that much hurt shouldn't come from a church and I don't care how much money they have.Branch: Well, we live in a world where, know, everyone has. Suffered some form of reviews. You just have to realize that that's way of nature and that's human nature. And it's been going on since the beginning of mankind, you know, no one grows up totally absent of a dysfunctional family. our very nature, we are dysfunctional and the groups that we joined being they religious or social or civic they all have dysfunction within them, by our human nature.We are aggressive and selfish. And you exhibit had those kinds of desires of, [00:50:00] you know, what's in it for me, or it's all about me when we live our lives that way. We are going to cause harm to other people. And, you know, that's what happens when you have societies that are absent of spiritual grounding.And when you have people who, who have been sort of sucked into the world's ways, believing that, know, this is the only way you can live. And that reason, that's the way I'm going to live. You know, they are absent of spiritual grounding. They're unaware that, you know, what is happening is not healthy.not healthy mentally. It's not healthy physically. So it's not just the church situation or the church community has issues. Every community has issues and every group has issues. It's a [00:51:00]matter of how they play out. And of course, know, because religions rely on this power from God as God's representatives to those particular groups, they can use that power to cause a lot of damage and a lot of harm, but that's not just indicative of religions.That's the world we live in. That's why spiritual grounding is so important.De'Vannon: Hmm. So I would say everybody, when we're dealing with churches and preachers and priests or whatever, all of them is to look at them through a filter, you know, like they could be right. They could be wrong. They might be a righteous person. They might not be a righteous person. What they say could be accurate, what they say could be inaccurate.You got to try, try, the tree for the fruit. It bears try these spirits. Jesus said there would be many spirits. And basically he's saying don't believe [00:52:00] everybody, you know, feel it out, research, do your own homework. So we got to stop approaching preachers and churches. Like they're automatically right there.Like they're automatically correct. You. We gotta deal with them. Like we would anybody else like, okay, let me see what you say and make sense, know, like that as opposed to, okay, they're right. I'm wrong. So I'm just going to twist my thinking too, to be in line with whatever comes out of their mouth. That's not going to work. Branch: Well here again, the key is spirits of grounding. If you have the spirit of God living in new food belief in Jesus Christ, you will see fallacy the truth they speak of. You'll recognize. This is the problem with, you know, people who are injured. Who don't have spiritual grounding. They believe what they're being told. like we have today, many people believe what they're being told by [00:53:00] politicians De'Vannon: Yeah. Branch: corporations. And, you know, they're filled with lies because they have an agenda of self enrichment. when you don't know what the truth looks. You can believe anything. And with today's technology, know, they can make anything look true to your eye. You can't tell what's real and what's not real anymore because technology so far advanced. And so you have to have, you have to have the truth living within you so you can recognize the truth or the false hoods that are being presented to you by the world and by the people in the world and the events in the world.do you get that spiritual How do you get God's spirit living within you? So you can see the truth. You go to Matthew seven, ask, you, see you knock Jesus [00:54:00] Christ to come into your life. And what he tells us in John 14 and 26 is when you ask me, I will send my spirit to be with you, to live with you and to guide you.And that's all you have to do. And once you've done that, his spirit, the spirit of God, as creator will come, you, his holy spirit will come through Jesus Christ and live within you. And from that moment on, you will begin to see and recognize the truth at church at synagogue, at temple in your life, in your relationships in your world.And you'll recognize the truth and you'll know what's true and what's not true. And then you have the choice to live by either that truth or the faults of the world. And that's how easy it is to change your life.De'Vannon: And truth is something we must discover for ourselves. Like I say, I don't argue with [00:55:00] people on social media over like politics and stuff like that. I did for like a hot second when I first became political back when all the Trumpy foolishness was happening. And then I quickly realized like, okay, nobody's changing here.And then I Branch: Exactly. De'Vannon: I also realized everything everyone was saying was a third party account. So they're either listening to Fox news MSNBC. And I told them, I think the last thing I posted in regard to politics was this, like none of us have verified any of this information for ourselves.You're choosing to believe a media outlet, but you weren't there. You didn't go get the report. You weren't on the ground. You didn't have boots on the ground. This is not your information. is somebody else's information. So why sit here and argue with you about what Joe Scarborough toe, what I heard Joe Scarborough say, you're trying to tell me what Tucker Carlson said.bitch, neither one of us [00:56:00] went there to go and actually get the shit. And neither did Joe Scarborough or Tucker Carlson. So, and I saw this manifested with somebody who was new to Christianity. When I first met him, he was like agnostic or some shit. He just didn't believe in anything, somewhere along the way he got converted and he decided to become Christian.And so I asked him where his, what his stance was. LGBTQ issues as I tend to do with people who I might be seeing from time to time, because I don't fuck with people who have a problem with my with my sexuality. I refuse to do it because I'm not going to let myself be abused that way again. So he gave me the textbook answer of well, you know, it's not me who has a problem with it.I'm just telling you what the Bible says. And then I told him before I dismissed him and I never talked to him again. Not because we were different, but because when people have these adverse [00:57:00]thinkings about my community, I don't know if they're going to do something to hurt me one day. And so that's why I don't want people like that close to me.Not because we disagree, but because the way they disagree can be violent at times towards me. And so so I tell them, well, that Bible, that you're reading is an American is from the middle east. And it was not a written in English. You know, it was written in ancient languages, which I can already tell you haven't bothered to read, because first of all, you just started walking with Christ like yesterday and you ain't in.So I encouraged him to, as he's going through the Bible to remind himself of the fact that this is someone else's account and you are not an expert on what somebody else said, you can't be because you didn't say it. I mean, you didn't, you didn't research. It is not your fucking shit. And then S and then I encouraged and I told them that.So what you're doing is trying to tell me my life is wrong based on someone else's interpretation of someone else's look. And I refuse to accept that from him. He could not argue [00:58:00] with this logic because it's because it's simply the truth. And so I caution people to why they believe what they believe.You know, if you believe this about this group of people, or you believe whatever's right or wrong, Y you believe. Something about politics. Why is it truly, because you've done the hard work to determine the fact you do your own fact finding and fact checking. Are you just listening to what someone else said or just reading what someone else wrote the right convincing words and the right tones of voice.Many people can be manipulated. So, or, you know, then media outlets will use your emotions to manipulate us we'll preachers. So we've gotta be careful about why we believe what we believe. And most people, I challenge brands about why they believe what they believe cannot respond to me because the reason they believe it is because someone else said it.So. [00:59:00]Branch: Well, we generally believe what we grow up with, you know, and what we, as children are taught and a doc tornado. What, what our family believes is our first fundamental belief, because that's all we know. And so each one of us grows up believing what we've been told and what we've been exposed to. And, you know, for a great number of people that's, as far as it goes, they have no desire or no inclination to step outside of that box and have a broader view of the world.You know, this is why I always encourage people, take the blinders off and see the world for what it is good, bad, and ugly. And there's a lot of people, you know, who, especially in our country who refuse to get out of that box [01:00:00] and they dig their heels in as to their. And in their hearts and minds for them, you know, that is truth.And we live in a world where there's lots of agencies and corporations who are willing to help you continue in those beliefs. That's why we have the world. We have it's not the world that we will experience after this world for believing Christians, but it's the world that we live in now. And that's why it's so important to recognize truth from fallacy and fiction and fabrications. I can't express that enough. You know, the way you get to that place is to have the spirit of Christ living and growing within you. Then you will see the truth and you'll have the option and the choice in the decision. As to how you're going to live your life, you know, with the truth and with [01:01:00]Christ in your life, guiding your steps or battling the world with the world's waves,De'Vannon: You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. Branch: man.De'Vannon: So also want me to say so for anybody who might get hung up on, and we were talking about how tell people use the scripture to say, if you take communion, will be judged and condemned if it's really bothering you, or if you want to, just to be sure you have a clear conscious, all you merely need to do is just ask the Lord to forgive you of all your sins right before you take it. we should be asking for forgiveness of our sins everyday in way. But but you can just be like, Lord, forgive me, my sins, anything I may have done wrong. You've seen it all. I confess it. I'm not going to hide anything. I'm not running from you. Please forgive me. And I accept that forgiveness in the name of Jesus.And in that moment you're done, everything's clear so that you can go ahead and take your communion just in case those scriptures put any [01:02:00] kind of fear or trepidation in you. And so Well, for the, you know, for your listeners who are listening to this and have wonder, or now are a little bit better versed in what community is, they can start to do it. If they choose to and know the reasons that it took place and what it represents and how it can connect them to the Lord, how they can commune with the Lord.Branch: So I think it's been good, you know, for people who've wonder, didn't know, now they understand a little bit better and they can make it part of their lives if they so choose to. But at least they'll know a little bit more than they might've before. So good job.De'Vannon: And so it. That's all I'm going to say. I wanted to do for us. This is a quick video. We've been talking for an hour, but we usually go for like two hours. So this is probably like our [01:03:00]short is starting the interview to date. So with that, you can go ahead and have our closing word. Did anything you'd like to say, go ahead and say it, man.Branch: I want to thank all the listeners and keep tuning in to demand. The podcast, you know, podcasting is a great opportunity for people to learn a lot of different information from a lot of different people. It's sort of the last bastion of free speech and because it is free, there's podcasts out there on virtually any interest area or any subject matter that you might want or need in your life. We're glad you're here with Davanon and myself. We talk about, you know, Jesus Christ and spiritual growth, and we'd love for you to come back as often as you want.De'Vannon: Hallelujah tabernacle And praise.Branch: And man.[01:04:00]De'Vannon: Thank you all so much for taking time to listen to the sex drugs and Jesus podcast. It really means everything to me. Look, if you love the show, you can find more information and resources at sex, drugs, and jesus.com or wherever you listen to your podcast. Feel free to reach out to me directly at DeVannon@SexDrugsAndJesus.com and on Twitter and Facebook as well.My name is De'Vannon and it's been wonderful being your host today and just remember that everything is going to be all right. 

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INTRODUCTION:This episode sparks the beginning of a relationship with an astounding man whom I look forward to many years of friendship with! He, like me, is a former drug dealer, he's been to jail, he's been homeless, and like myself he understands his mission is to do all he can to help others now that he's been given a second chance. His name is Branch Isole and he is a poet, a storyteller and the author of 22 books! Branch was born in Osaka, Japan (my favorite country) and has the traveled the world extensively!  In this interview we are going to be focusing on his book titled GOD… i Believe. I wanted to focus on this book in particular because of how easy it is to read and understand. It is also written from a perspective that all world religions have value and it doesn't place Christianity of a lofty pedestal. Branch graduated from Texas State Univ. B.S.Ed., did post graduate work at the University of Houston, M.Ed Adm., and holds an Oxford M.A. Theology degree from Trinity Bible College and Seminary. Branch shares how strength of choice can change consequences and  this man is known worldwide for his contemporary short story prose that reveals emotions and issues often experienced, but not always voiced. This is the longest interview I have ever conducted, and the subject matter is so important that the full version of this episode will be available to both paid and non-paid listeners. I really hope this helps someone… INCLUDED IN THIS EPISODE (But not limited to):·        Personal Stories From Two Former Drug Dealers·        A Detailed Look Into Branch's Book: God…i Believe·        The Purpose Of Life·        What Happens When We Die?·        A Better Understanding Of God And Jesus·        Is Everything About Life Really Covered In The Bible?·        The Difference Between Religion And Spirituality·        Discovering Spiritual Truth·        A Bit About The End Of The World (A Full Episode About This Is Coming)·        Breakdown Of “Attitude – Belief – Perception”·        Baby Steps To Starting A Spiritual Life ·        The Importance Of Choosing A Spiritual Path (Whatever That May Be)·        Failings Of Christianity ·        Why Tithing Is NOT Mandatory·        Exploration Of World Religions             - Judaism             - Islam             - Buddhism             - Hinduism             - Animism             - Atheism             - Christianity  CONNECT WITH BRANCH:God…i Believe: https://amzn.to/3gwgi1NWebsite & Other Books: https://www.manaopublishing.com/FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/thevoyeuristicpoetLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/branch-isole-851433201/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzN66BkAUAemYX76Smnn0GA DE'VANNON'S FAVORITE GOSPEL ALBUM:·       I'll See You In The Rapture by The Mississippi Mass Choir         https://music.apple.com/us/album/ill-see-you-in-the-rapture/98028289SDJ MEMBERSHIP (FULL EPISODES):·       $2.99 per month.·       Donate any amount for 30 days of access.·       $25 per year.https://www.sexdrugsandjesus.com/membership-account/membership-levels/ TRANSCRIPT:[00:00:00] You're listening to the sex drugs and Jesus podcast, where we discuss whatever the fuck we want to. And yes, we can put sex and drugs and Jesus all in the same bed and still be all right. At the end of the day, my name is Davanon and I'll be interviewing guests from every corner of this world. As we dig into topics that are too risky for the morning show, as we strive to help you understand what's really going on in your.[00:00:24] There was nothing on the table and we've got a lot to talk about. So let's dive right into this episode.[00:00:34] De'Vannon: This episode sparks the beginning of a relationship. Well then astounding man, whom I look forward to many, many years of friendship with. He liked me as a former drug dealer. He's been in jail, he's been homeless and like myself, he understands his mission is to do all he can to help others. Now that he's been given a second chance, his name is branch east LA, and he is [00:01:00] a poet, a storyteller, and the author of 22 books.[00:01:03] Ranch was born in Osaka, Japan and my favorite country. And he has traveled the world extensively in this interview, we're going to be focusing on his book title. God, I believe I wanted to focus on this book in particular because of how easy it is to read and understand. There's also written from a perspective that all world religions have value and it doesn't place Christianity on a lofty ass pedestal branch.[00:01:28] I graduated from Texas state university with his bachelor's in education. He did post-graduate work at the university of Houston. Got out of there with his master's in education administration. And he also holds an Oxford master's of theology from, uh, Trinity Bible college and seminary brand shares. How strength of choice can change consequences.[00:01:50] And this man is known worldwide for his contemporary short story pros that reveals emotions and issues often experienced, but not always a [00:02:00] voice. Now this is the longest interview I've ever conducted. And the subject matter is so important that the full version of this episode will be available to both paid and non-paid listeners as well.[00:02:12] I really hope this helps someone.[00:02:16] Branch, thank you so much for joining me on the sex drugs and Jesus of podcasts that I'm so excited that today we get to talk a lot about Jesus, who was a part of our namesake here. How are you feeling today? [00:02:32] Branch: Hey buddy. I feel great. Thanks for having me on your show. I've been looking forward to this time together.[00:02:39] De'Vannon: so have I and what delicious and sweet time it will be. And so, uh, so today we're going to talk a lot about the beginnings and the root work that is done when somebody is considering a spiritual path, you've written many, many, many, many books, and one in [00:03:00] particular, God, I believe I thought really is like a cornerstone for people who are curious about religion and spirituality, undecided, or looking for a new point of view or perspective.[00:03:14] And so I'd like you to tell us what was your motivation for writing God, I believe in a little bit about your own personal encounters with Jesus and conversion stuff. [00:03:26] Branch: Okay, thanks. Um, that's a great place to start obviously. Um, like most people, my early years and my upbringing were pretty normal, pretty average.[00:03:38] Um, I wasn't influenced or exposed to a lot of religion. Uh, my family was Christian, but that was about as far as it went, you know, we were seeing E Christians, uh, Christmas and Easter. And beyond that, you know, it was, um, well, it's out there, [00:04:00] but that's about all we know. So, you know, my first 20, 30 years were pretty normal in terms of growing up in American society and education and the job and the career and all of those kinds of things.[00:04:15] Um, about 35, I had some real south self doubts about who I was and what I was doing. And I was trying to figure your out if I'm not who I want to be, how do I become the person that I think I want to be? And that initially led me to a decision that I wanted to explore and try and find truth in my life and to come from the truth in my life.[00:04:46] So that was the trigger point. That was the jumping off, um, Point for me and that search for the truth, um, I found was easy and difficult at the same [00:05:00] time. Um, the truth is all around us. It's pretty self-evident. But if we are consumed by and buried by the layer of the world and society, the truth is often hidden from us, even though it's in plain view, you know, our concepts and our decisions, um, get colored by ourself desires and the things that we want out of this life and, and from the world.[00:05:32] So the, the conflict for me began almost immediately with, uh, what is the truth? How do I find the truth? How do I embrace the truth? Um, for the next 15 years, My struggle. And my path took me from the world into the spiritual path and from the truth, because I didn't get the answer. I started [00:06:00] exploring different religions and mysticism, um, Buddhism, you know, the Eastern religions, uh, as much information as I could find in this search for proof, if proof is out there, then there must be a medium where it exists.[00:06:19] And of course, this is what all religions are trying to portray and sell is that they have the truth. They have the way to the truth. So my exploration went from the truth as a concept to activities involving all of these different religions. And then finally, I had some experiences that sort of solidified for me where the truth lies, where it is to be found and what to do with it when you find so with that background, when I decided to write this book, I was [00:07:00] moved to write this book.[00:07:01] It was primarily designed for fallen away Christians, because I am a Christian and others who had, who might be on the same path that I was on of being a seeker and a searcher. You know, for truth. So that was the motivation for the book. And as a result that the contextual presentation of the book is basically a layman's study, a comparative study of the world's different religions or faith belief systems.[00:07:38] Um, and, and what I've done in the book or tried to do for the average reader is present them with the opportunity to know a little bit more the foundations or the basics of each of those religions and compare their answers to the same [00:08:00] set of questions so that the person who's looking for a spiritual path and doesn't know which one they might want to be going down.[00:08:10] They've got a base of comparison between all of those systems of belief. And then once they know a little more information about each one, they might be able to make a more informed decision as to which one is their choice. Um, so that's how the book came about and the foundation for, you know, my motivation to write that first book based on that struggle and that search.[00:08:43] And then what that search actually looks like. You know, practice for today's, um, purported religions and, and systems of belief [00:08:55] De'Vannon: now, uh, thank you for that explanation. Now, you said that you had, um, [00:09:00] a series of profound experiences that helped you to see what truth was while you were exploring. And, um, I want you to tell us what, you know, what, what some of those, uh, what, what, what was the profound moment that she said, okay, this is true.[00:09:22] What was the experience that happened to lock it in for you? Because you had been experimenting with all of the experiencing all the different religions. You could get your hands on. What made you settle on Christianity? What happened? [00:09:37] Branch: Um, okay. Uh, I have been on this venture for five years. Um, you know, trying to discover truth, what it means, what it looks like, what it truly was.[00:09:51] And many of your listeners may not believe this story, but since you asked, I'm going to tell it, um, one night I was getting [00:10:00] up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and the bathroom was right across. From my bedrooms. And there was a small hallway between, and I was sort of half asleep. You know, I, I stumbled out of the one room headed for the next room and in the middle while I was in the hallway, a voice in my living room called out to me and it startled me so much that it blasted me awake and I turned around and I said, okay, um, there was no answer.[00:10:36] And I was in the apartment alone. So there was nobody else in the apartment with me. And at that moment, um, I realized that the voice that had called out to me had to be one of two voices. It was either God, or it was the devil. And since I knew, if it was the devil, [00:11:00] he wouldn't have responded. When I said what, then I realized that it was the spirit of the Lord calling me and all during this previous five years, I had been struggling with trying to read the Bible and trying to understand scripture as you know, my exploration into Christianity, along with my other explorations of religion.[00:11:24] So at that point, that epiphany to me indicated that the Lord had. Something in mind for me. And he audibly called my name. And when I responded, his spirit came within me, his holy spirit came to live with my spirit. So that was the first epiphany that really took me off of, you know, the multiple paths and onto the Christian path.[00:11:57] Um, yeah, I, [00:11:58] De'Vannon: at that time, [00:12:00] oh, go [00:12:00] Branch: ahead. Yeah. At that time in my life, my secular being, I was a drug dealer and that's how I made my living. Um, so there was a real conflict between the way I was living my life and the desire of how I wanted to live my life. And that's where my conflict was. Um, my second epiphany was shortly thereafter.[00:12:31] I was arrested and, uh, arraigned and looking at 99 years in prison. Um, luckily or blessedly for me two weeks before I was set to go to trial. Um, my lawyer called and he said, uh, I was living in one state, had been arrested in a different state and my lawyer called and said, uh, you, you can come [00:13:00] back. Um, your case has been dropped and you can come back and get your vehicle and all the things that they took from you.[00:13:08] And so that profound experience, having spent some time in jail, you know, after the arrest and spent the next three months, um, sort of for, in foreboding mode of what I was about to face and what was about to happen to me, that was like a weight lifted off of me. Um, you know, like you can't imagine, but circumstances were such that the case was dropped and that was the end of my, um, drug life and my jail time life.[00:13:47] Um, know, so, and the third experience I'll tell you real quickly was the main change. And, and I had, um, decided to change my [00:14:00] name and quick experience. Gave me the name that I took, which is branchy Solei. But when I accepted that name change, it solidified me as a servant of God. One, when God gives you a commission or a task, or tells you to change your name and gives you a new name and you accept those things, then you are committed to service to him.[00:14:29] So those three experiences, um, over a 10 year period, after the five years of exploration period, uh, put me on the path and have, um, led me down this path where I attempt to share with others who are seeking and searching and wondering about, there's gotta be more in my life. Where is it? What is it? And how do I find it?[00:14:56] So that's my, you know, my [00:15:00] job today is to share with people, um, how to find the Lord in their life. [00:15:08] De'Vannon: Right? Okay. So I'm going to go back and touch on kind of like all three of those, because they were also fascinating. So, and I love these, this, this sort of transparency here, branch, because see the Lord comes in here.[00:15:25] Talks to people and deals with people in all sorts of ways. And maybe sometimes they may be thinking they're the only ones something super strange is happening. And so I like it when we can talk about this so that listeners can go, okay, well maybe I heard a voice too, or maybe I had, maybe God was speaking to me in this dream or in this trance or whatever.[00:15:45] So, um, and you know, for those who it is meant to believe they will, for those who it is not, they will not. And so, but the, you know, a personal here transparency like this, and if the Lord wants to, he will strike a chord in them. Whereas my grandmother would call [00:16:00] it, uh, a spiritual note or like when, um, people were singing and we're singing in church, you would call it a spiritual net when someone would get to get happy if they would say.[00:16:12] And, um, because what happened when I was young, I was, and I was sleeping in the bed with my grandmother when I was little, I heard an audible voice like that in slumber, in the middle of the night too, but it was not the Lord calling me. It was the devil, um, trying to, it was a, it wasn't an enticing.[00:16:38] Slithery like voice. And it was like, it was saying like, um, the van and the van, and I believe he said it twice. And it was a such that I touched my grandmother and I was like, you know, you know that you call me, you tell me what was that voice that I heard. And so both the devil and God have the [00:17:00] power to speak verbally.[00:17:01] People don't talk about that a lot. So I don't think your story is strange at all. Um, and then your, your second experience with drug dealing. I was a drug dealer too, for some time in Houston, Texas. And then, you know, I got arrested as well. Um, yeah. Going to jail and, and facing long sentences and stuff like that can be a life-changing could put you on a path.[00:17:24] And then when you get delivered from it, you get this strong sense of, okay, you know, I have this second chance and now what am I going to do with it? And it's not meant to, for, for people like us and for people who have been delivered from, you know, from, from strong things like that, that try to captivate your whole life, uh, to dissent quietly.[00:17:51] You know, it is for us to open our mouths and talking about what happened so that others may be delivered, whoever it is. That they'd gone as [00:18:00] intended. And then the name changes that you speak of, um, reminds me from the old Testament of Jacob, you know, you had a Jacob experience there and, um, and what happened, you know, Jacob wrestled with an angel all night and then the Lord turned, gave him his name from, uh, changed his name from Jacob to Israel.[00:18:24] Or you could say you had a, uh, a road to Damascus experience where we're Saul's name went from Saul to Paul. So sometimes certain things happen to us in life and we come out of it. Some people shave all their hair off, I'm already bald. So I can, I can identify with that. Some people do all kinds of things to signify, and a lot of times is after trauma has happened, but a whole name change totally counts too.[00:18:50] Um, I think that some children, when they're adopted should be given completely different names because they're coming from such disadvantaged [00:19:00] backgrounds and everything. And that way it really drives the point home with that child, that whatever, whatever it was that was going on with you before we're coming to help you and save you that's over you now have a new name, a new life, a new path, a new purpose, a new destiny, a new everything, or is it says in the book of revelation, he who sets up on the throne, said behold, I make all things new.[00:19:24] And sometimes, sometimes why, who we need a whole. The whole redo. And so, so I think it's wonderful. I bet you, somebody out there is going to find the Lord and change their name just because you did. And I love it. [00:19:40] Branch: Well, you know, a couple of those things you said are just so important because the Lord has a plan for everybody and that plan involves them coming back to him.[00:19:55] And I think that there's one of [00:20:00] the greatest things about all these podcast options and availabilities today is we're able to reach out and touch or expose a lot of people who have not been exposed to their options in their life. And I believe there's a, you know, a big revival coming in the future.[00:20:19] And so. All of these people around the world who are involved in ministry. And that's what you're doing and I'm doing is, is a little ministry, but we're trying to share the gospel, share the word, share the importance of a spiritual relationship. And this is the way the word is. The Lord is work through to lots of people in order to reach lots of other people.[00:20:46] And so what you've said is exactly right. You know, he speaks to us, he comes to us in different ways. He'll use whatever method or medium he can to awaken us to who [00:21:00] he is and what he's got planned for us. And, you know, people shouldn't be surprised if they see in the world of the Lord working in their world or in their life, he's doing it through lots of different people, um, in lots of different mediums.[00:21:17] So as a listener, don't be surprised if the Lord is reaching out to you because he is and, um, be cognizant of it and welcome it. It'll change your life. [00:21:31] De'Vannon: Amen and amen on a, on a Tuesday morning. And, uh, and, and it, everybody, I had said that we were going to touch on a little bit of, um, in times, uh, things which has to do with the end of the world.[00:21:49] And stuff like that, but actually I think we're probably going to do like a whole other different episode that talks about eschatology and things of [00:22:00] that in, um, but this, but I just don't, I'm going to do that because a lot of people are thinking that, you know, do this might come back any second of today and things like that.[00:22:14] And I think a lot of people don't understand the political implications that are in the book of revelation and things like that. And so it bears the whole episode. So just for now, you don't have to worry about whether or not the world is going to crumble, you know, like any second, a lot more has to happen and we're going to do it in, in some end up, at least one ended up episode on that.[00:22:37] So you can stop worrying about it because God, when I was growing up, you know, all the old people were like, you know, the, in this coming, it's going to be any day now, you know, at any moment, you know, so, you know, the kid, you know, looking out the window, you know, because Jesus up there anxiety that, you know, I just really didn't need.[00:22:57] So it was there anything branch you would like to say [00:23:00] to kind of broach the topic of the end times and then after that we'll dive right into the book. [00:23:05] Branch: Okay. The end times. That that's without a doubt. And we see the precursors of what's described as end-time events happening in our lives today. And, and you're right.[00:23:20] Um, we need more time to get into it. You're also correct. People don't have to worry that, you know, the sun's not coming up tomorrow and it's over, there has to be some things that are going to take place, um, before those times happen. But you know, it's interesting. And I'll just say this real quickly, when you start to look at end time prophecy and what the word of God tells us about the end times, and then you recognize some of the things that are happening.[00:23:52] What it's trying to do is give us a warning and make us aware that these things will [00:24:00] take place. And now is the time to get right with the Lord. If the Lord's not in your life, there's no better time to start than today. Because when you start down this path, these events that are unfolding right before our eyes will become self-evident as to their relationship to the end times and the last day events.[00:24:26] And as they open up and make themselves known, we can be prepared for them. Um, and we can also be prepared for whatever the consequences may be, because we will have that relationship with the Lord, but don't worry. It's not happening anytime soon, but it is likely going to happen. You know, there's going to be a lot of people alive today who see it take place.[00:24:55] De'Vannon: Okay. Um, oh, can you explain to us [00:25:00] the difference in between spirituality and religion please? [00:25:05] Branch: Wow. Um, in a nutshell, uh, religion is ma a man-made system to interpret the word of God. And spirituality is the word of God inaction. Um, know one comes from God and one manipulates. What comes from God. [00:25:35] De'Vannon: Uh, when you say that, I think about, uh, what my next book is going to be kind of centered around, which is the fuckery that has become the Christianity in America, in the, in like the 50 million different versions of it that you have and stuff like that.[00:25:54] And so, um, that's another thing that people can stay tuned for, but for right [00:26:00] now, what, what branch is saying is that. Spirituality is like your one-on-one time. Like you, you and the Lord and religion is this sounds like it's getting into rituals and practices and things like that that may not necessarily have anything to do with your walk of faith.[00:26:16] More like maybe platitudes or superficial things. And so [00:26:22] Branch: well, for, for, for the, for the individual, who's wondering, you know, and, and asks themselves. The simple question to ask is, is this religion asking me to use it, to get to God? Or is it allowing me to come and get to God on my own? You see, that's all religions.[00:26:49] If you look at them, their intent is to bring people to God, however, their re their rights and worship [00:27:00] services and those kinds of things that they go through require that you go through the priest or the pastor or the mom to get to God. So if, you know, if, if you get fed in a religious situation, That's what's important that you have, you know, you get that word that you need to help make you a better person in your life.[00:27:26] However, if the religion requires that you come through the priest or the pastor or the mom in order to get to God, unless that's where you want to be, you probably are more interested in the spiritual path than the religious path. The spiritual path, as said, is open to you to go to God at any moment in time every day.[00:27:50] I mean, it's, it's, it's what a personal relationship, personal spiritual relationship between the individual and God is, [00:28:00] um, you don't need to go through some mediator to get to God other than for the Christian. Of course we go through Christ. [00:28:10] De'Vannon: You're right. Absolutely. No human is needed because we already have Jesus.[00:28:15] Branch: Exactly. [00:28:17] De'Vannon: Exactly. Okay, cool. So now your book is broken down into three parts, attitude, belief, perception. I love me something that's very organized and I can't remember. Yeah. I spent six years in the air force and I don't remember only what I was MIT. And I don't remember when I was super, I was pretty organized before then, but certainly after that and, um, that I've never lost that.[00:28:40] So I love it. You know, attitude, belief, perception, and there's different chapters under each section. And so then if a person feels drawn to one section, we feel like they need help with this or that. You know, it was very clearly defined where you can go and seek that, which you need. [00:29:00] So we're going to give an explanation of what each section is about starting with attitude, and you defined it as a mental position or feeling with regard to a fact, or a state, a manner of showings one's feelings or thoughts or one's disposition or opinion.[00:29:19] So tell us though, at further about the attitude section of the book, [00:29:27] Branch: but like you said, and I'm glad you pointed out, you can start, you don't have to start at page one with this book. You, you can know pick where you want to begin. Um, whatever your interests may be peaked from the table of contents, attitude.[00:29:42] You know, we have an attitude towards virtually everything in our life from birth on, and it's interesting that a lot of self-help, um, books and gurus, um, Base [00:30:00] everything that they're selling or sharing or teaching on a change of attitude. And that's how powerful, uh, you know, one's attitude can be, is you can go into a situation and, and your, your mention of the military is such a great example because in the military, you're in a very regimented environment and things are pretty well-defined.[00:30:28] And if you've ever been in the service, which Nevada, Anna and I both have, um, there comes times when, you know, you're required or requested to do things that you might have a problem with or an issue. But you know, you go ahead and you do them. What you find is a simple change in attitude can make any task, no matter how regimented the situation be, can make [00:31:00] any tasks, less threatening and less of a challenge to do.[00:31:05] So attitude is so important in our daily lives. Um, changing your attitude can make all the difference in just a moment's notice of change of attitude, you know, your whole. Perspective on what you're being asked or required to do. It can be totally different. That's the power of one's attitude. Um, so this is particularly important when we're talking about something as life-changing as spirituality or a religious commitment can be, um, that in and of itself takes a totality of one's investment of self to go from a non-religious or non-spiritual position in your [00:32:00] life.[00:32:00] And to then invite that new application and concept of spirituality or religion in your life. That essence of attitude is absolutely necessary from you to go from a secular only, or non-spiritual non-religious life into a new commitment as a spiritual or religious neophyte. So attitude becomes important, um, particularly in this realm of spirituality and religion, because it's going to change your life, whether you want it to or not.[00:32:44] Once you make that commitment and step on that path of spirituality. Or religion, your life will change and your attitude needs to be one that can accept that change and then [00:33:00] make the most out of that change. Uh, you can't do it without a change in attitude. And that's how important attitude is. Um, you know, even beyond our daily activities and daily life kinds of situations, when we're talking about making life changing changes than attitude is certainly one of the cornerstones of making that new exposure successful.[00:33:31] De'Vannon: Okay, well put sir, and then the next section is belief. Um, trust or confidence is how this is, uh, defined in the book or, or the conviction that certain things are true. Break that down further for us please. [00:33:49] Branch: Well, you know, we all believe certain things and from our earliest memories and indoctrinations as [00:34:00] children and the environments and families that we grow up in, we learn and accept certain belief, structures, and patterns.[00:34:12] Um, you'll see this evident in behaviors today. That are outside of what we once considered, you know, the norm and the way people respond to other people today, um, in very negative ways and very negative actions, all of our actions and all of our responses are grounded in our belief system, whatever that might be, uh, here, again, for people who are not on a spiritual or religious path, it's sort of one of those, um, attitude is all, it's all about me or what's in it for [00:35:00] me.[00:35:00] And therefore the grounding of my belief system is I can do whatever I want and I will do whatever I want, no matter who it harms or what turmoil it may cause. So that's the strength of belief and belief is, uh, essentially grounded in who we are, who we become, um, is the tap root. That's tied to who we believe we are by who we were, you know, who we grew up as being.[00:35:38] So that's the importance of belief. Now belief in myself and belief in my world can change. But for a lot of people, that's, that's a difficult jump to make. And again, we see that evidenced in our world today just by the, um, [00:36:00] and the crazy things that are taking place and the way people choose to behave towards, you know, other people, um, all of that's grounded in, in our belief system of who we are and what we believe to be true or trust to be true.[00:36:21] De'Vannon: Okay. Well put, well, I believe all of that, which you just said, then the third section perception, and that you say that this is an awareness of one, the environment through physical sensation or the mental grasp of objects through the senses insight or intuition knowledge and just it by pristine thing.[00:36:47] Tell us, tell us what we should be perceiving here. [00:36:52] Branch: Well, the question is what are you perceiving? You know, and I'll give you a great, well, I'll give you the prime example for where we are [00:37:00] on July the 27th, 2021 as the, uh, insurrection congressional hearing starts. You have an action that took place that was seen across the planet, uh, in real time.[00:37:18] And yet today we have a variety of different perceptions of what actually happened. So our perception of ourselves or the people in our lives, or the events in our lives are colored by the previous two things. We talked about our belief system and our attitudes towards that belief system perception can be, it's like a magician.[00:37:52] You know, you perceive one thing that's happening and the reality is it's not happening. And [00:38:00] this is the strength of perception. All three of these attitude, belief and perception is sort of like a three-legged stool that holds the seat of one's reality. And our attitude can be changed. Our beliefs can be changed and our perceptions can be changed, but we have to be the ones to change those.[00:38:25] Um, otherwise, you know, the difficulty to break those bonds. Are so great. And the struggle is so great because you have to look at yourself and that gets into a whole nother realm. Am I willing to look at myself? And if I do, am I willing to accept what I see? Only when I get to that point, can I spread the path where I might be willing to [00:39:00] change my attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions.[00:39:03] So, you know, we can perceive things, but our perception is colored by our beliefs and our attitudes. It's all [00:39:12] De'Vannon: connected. So, um, all connected. Tell us branch, you, you write in your book that one of the greatest challenges that we face when we're starting a new relationship with the Lord is grappling with our feelings of unworthiness.[00:39:31] I feel like since you stated such a bold statement, it was worth bringing up in the interview to talk to us about this unworthiness of where it comes from and why it's such a hindrance[00:39:46] Branch: as people, we all crave, two things love and approval. And again, these things start in childhood [00:40:00] and. Transmuted and transmitted as we grow and they morph and change. According to our attitudes, beliefs, perceptions, our environment, um, you know, our family situation, all of those factors that are part of life as we grow, um, all make who we are and who we are and who we wish to become, um, are all interconnected.[00:40:40] So[00:40:44] ask asked me, I lost my train of thought here. I was going down the wrong path. [00:40:50] De'Vannon: No problem. We were talking about the feelings of unwell. [00:40:53] Branch: Oh yeah. Unworthiness. Well, this, this, this craving for love and approval right. Starts with our parents and [00:41:00] works out as our, the ripple of our life expands. And what we find as we go through the lessons in life is we have lots of opportunities to doubt ourselves and to question ourselves and to beat ourselves up about some of the choices that we make, all of these sort of negative.[00:41:28] Vibes and negative consequential experiences feed into this idea of, well, I'm not worthy of love or approval. And if I'm not worthy of love or approval than my life basically is worthless or has no worth to anyone else. And if it has no worth to anyone else that it has no worth to me, this is one of the importance of developing a spiritual [00:42:00] relationship is that spirituality gives you a connection with something greater than yourself, outside of yourself that can show to you and prove to you that you are worthy.[00:42:18] No matter your situation, no matter, you know, the decisions and choices that you you start to make, or that you continue to make spiritual growth is all based on you understanding that you are worthy, that someone does love you. That being the Lord and that his love is unconditional. Um, unconditional love is, is the greatest thing in the universe.[00:42:49] And it's the most difficult thing, or one of the most difficult things for us to understand. We can't understand unconditional love because we live in a world [00:43:00] that, you know, denies that, that exists. This is why, again, a spiritual path and a spiritual relationship is so important. It shows you that God's unconditional love for you no matter who you are, no matter where you are in your life.[00:43:18] No matter of the mistakes that you've made, you have a worthiness to him simply because you are, he, as the creator created you, your spiritual energy comes from him. It is therefore part of his spiritual energy. It's part of his spiritual existence. And for that reason alone, you are worthy to be loved.[00:43:48] And regardless of how much approval you crave for yourself, that approval is unnecessary. This is why, you know, unworthiness in itself [00:44:00] can be such a downer. I mean, it can just drag us and keep us into the depths of our own despair. Finding out and realizing that we are worthy because we're worthy of God's love.[00:44:14] That's all we need to establish our worthiness. Now it's our position and our responsibility to allow our worth, to grow and to show it to the world. Um, the interesting thing about life, as you know, we're all in the same situation, we're all struggling. We all have problems. We all have relationship issues.[00:44:41] We have to, you know, divorce ourselves or allow something greater than all of those struggles to be part of our life. When you allow a spiritual relationship to be ignited in your life, your sense of worth, all [00:45:00] of a sudden becomes real. And you realize I can face these struggles because I am worthy. I don't have to keep beating myself up about decisions or choices that I made that make me believe that I'm unworthy.[00:45:17] So you know, this unworthy and worthy concept, it's like a two-edged sword, whichever sword side we've got up and choose to use is the one that will continue to build its strength within[00:45:35] De'Vannon: the important. The spirituality reminds me of the, um, of the fact that it's important for people to make a spiritual choice on what they're going to believe or into, and to really work on themselves spiritually. Because if not, then, you know, we're out of balance. And I don't think, I think most people agree that we all have some [00:46:00] sort of spirit, soul, something unseen living on the inside of us at the center of our being, no matter what path of faith that a person believes in.[00:46:12] Um, and so when we don't actively get after spiritual enlightenment and understanding, then invasively leaving a part of ourselves on nourish, unfulfilled and unsatisfied, and then that throws us out of balance. And then what happens then is we go out in the world and we have problems and things like that.[00:46:31] And when we can't figure out why we keep running into those problems, or where is the problem coming from? Well, you know, it's like, you know, starving yourself. If you don't eat, you're gonna fall out and leaving your poor little spirit there with no direction and no food, no nourishment or nothing like that.[00:46:51] It going to throw you completely out of balance. It's like trying to drive a car on three tires. It's not going to work. And so, and what I love about [00:47:00] this book is it's not necessarily saying one. Religion is better than another. Talk about this, that later on in the interview, but it breaks down the different options that are out there.[00:47:12] You got to find something though and do something with that spirit. It's all sitting inside of you in a, rather than because a lot of people just take a casual approach to spirituality. Like they'll find it eventually, or they, maybe they think they'll find it in their travels across the globe, but it's not like you really have to go to the other side of the world anymore to even experiment experience different things.[00:47:35] You can go online, you know, do zoom calls and things like that. And talk to, you know, different people who are, who are, who are from different religions and stuff like that. You can go to church online these days, if you want to, and you can look anything up online. So what I'm saying is the knowledge is at your fingertips, that this book gives you a good overview of it.[00:47:56] But if we really wanted to do something with our spirits and our souls, just like [00:48:00] when we want to go out and do anything else, make money, have sex, you know, follow our advices. And I'm not saying there's anything wrong with those things, but I am saying that we go after what we really fucking want to go after and dealing with our spirits, shouldn't be something that's left to chance or, you know, I appreciate the Wednesday whenever the day may come, you know, [00:48:23] Branch: well, life is about choices and consequences and, uh, you know, spiritual cognition is one of those choices.[00:48:34] One of the interesting things about God is whether you're a spiritual person or not, or religious person or not. And it doesn't matter what religion we're talking about. One of the most interesting things is God demands, nothing of us, except one thing before we die, he will demand whether or not we will [00:49:00] believe that Jesus Christ was his son and came here for a reason, that reason being salvation.[00:49:10] Um, no, I don't want to go down the rabbit hole with different religions and, and Jesus or no Jesus or any of those things. People choose the religion for the reasons they need that religion, whatever that religion may be. But for the Christian, we are obligated to decide whether or not, or for the professed Christian, you know, somebody who says, well, I'm, I'm a Christian, regardless of whatever that may look like in action or thought word, indeed, if you claim to be a Christian, that at some point you will have to decide whether or not you truly believe what Christianity is.[00:49:57] And Christianity is Christ like [00:50:00] behavior. So are you going to emulate Christ, believe who he was, who he steady was and who the scriptures say he was or not? And this is the struggle for Christians today. Many Christians I'm a Christian, but my actions and my thoughts, words and deeds are not Christ-like.[00:50:26] So how much of a Christian am I? [00:50:29] De'Vannon: And in terms of the actions, uh, Jesus summed it up like this. He said all the laws in the books and the profits getting, hang on to whether or not you love your neighbor as yourself. And if you love the Lord, your God with all your heart and with all your mind, with all your soul and all your spirit.[00:50:46] So that means you don't be an asshole. It means you don't be a Karen, essentially speaking.[00:51:00] [00:51:03] Branch: No. And people asked me, you know, can you, can you explain to me the old Testament and the new Testament, and there's greater minds than mine that have grappled with that question. But when the seeker and searcher asks me the easiest way to describe to them, Is to send them to Exodus 20 and to Matthew 2237, the entire, the entire Bible is about one person and that's Jesus Christ, both the old Testament and the new Testament both have the same focus and intent, and that's on the life and teachings of Christ as the Messiah.[00:51:55] But the old Testament is summed up in the 10 [00:52:00] commandments found in Exodus 20. And the new Testament is found in Matthew 2237, which you just quoted love God first and most treat your neighbor as yourself on these two, hang all the laws and the prophets, meaning every law that God had given, whether it's the 10 commandments or the 632 that he gave to Judaism and all the words of all the prophets old and new Testament, all boil down to those two things, love God most first and most and treat your neighbor as yourself.[00:52:40] You see, that's one of the problems we have today in the world, but particularly in the Christian world, we call ourselves Christian. But we don't go out with an attitude, a belief and a perception that my desire is to treat others the way [00:53:00] I want to be treated. And for me, that's the biggest failing of Christianity, regardless of the denomination.[00:53:08] Someone may be in the totality of Christianity is summed up in that statement by Christ. And yet we've got lots of Christians who refuse to no trust and abide in the behavior. There's that would emulate that statement. [00:53:31] De'Vannon: Correct. And, um, I want to add too. So like, so like y'all, wouldn't branches saying the old Testament is some of the, in the, uh, the 10 commandments, um, and those 10 commandments reflect the heart of Jesus.[00:53:45] I agree with that now for, for people who are aware and a lot of people are of all the other rules in the old Testament. Like you can't eat, you know, this beast, if their foot is clove in, or if they chew the cud, you know? Okay. [00:54:00] So that has a lot to do with the culture of the Israelites and different things that were going on with them at that time.[00:54:07] And, um, and so I'm just going to say this to set people free from a lot of confusion that prevails in the book of acts, which is in the new Testament, there was this whole kerfluffle. Between the Jews and the people who are of the bloodline of Abraham and everybody who wasn't the Gentiles. So even though Jesus came and did his ministry, it's not like those of us who were not of the bloodline of Abraham were just as welcomed in, on a nice rosy carpet, you know, do people had to really, really fight for acceptance and things like that.[00:54:41] And so it got to a point where were, where were the apostles of the day? And everything had a meeting and said, okay, the Gentiles are here to stay. So what is it that they have to do? What don't they have to do? And when they came out of that meeting, they released everybody who was not of the bloodline of Abraham from all [00:55:00] Israelite, customs and traditions, with the exception of like eating strangled meat and things sacrificed to idols or something like that, they all had to do with life consumption of some sort of thing.[00:55:11] But in terms of anything traditional like that from the old Testament that doesn't have anything to do with, with, with those of us who are not of the bloodline of Abraham. And then even from my understanding, if they don't want to, they don't have to, because that was a whole, you know, it was the one thing Jesus accomplished.[00:55:28] You gave everybody a new path, but if people insisted upon holding to the old traditions, they could, but nobody really had to any more, but especially those of us who were in grafted in through Jesus Christ in, you know, And I, and, um, I'm going to put my foot in the rabbit hole a little bit and say that I believe that that released all of us from like the commandments, the thigh, and a couple of other things, because those things started, you know, back in the old Testament for the nation of [00:56:00] Israel and we are not of the nation of Israel.[00:56:02] And so, and so don't worry about you eat whatever you want to baby. The Lord was still loving you.[00:56:12] And, um, [00:56:13] Branch: you know, the God gave the Israelites, you know, some fundamental laws and decrees, and so much of the time the Israelites, you know, rather than trusting in the Lord, they wanted to be like other people, you know, they wanted a king, so they got solved. They wanted laws. So they get, they got lost, they got 639 laws in Leviticus and Deuteronomy and, and ways that they would be required to live Christ did away with all of those things for believers and followers in Christ, the Jews, the Hasidic Jews, particularly the Orthodox Jews, you know, still live with those kinds of [00:57:00] traditional mores and that's their lifestyle and their life choice.[00:57:05] Uh, the Zionist Jews. You know, are like the, um, purpose driven Christians, they kind of pick and choose what it is they want to, um, honor and obey Christ's coming. And the new Testament writings like the man, Adam says releases us from those old traditions. Um, his, his sacrifice for us pays for all of our sins as believers.[00:57:40] Um, so it, you know, if you don't want to eat bacon, don't eat bacon, but if you want to enjoy bacon, um, you know, it's not a sin to eat bacon, uh, at, at this point, you know, in you're right about the, uh, doing a way with this [00:58:00] division. It's interesting that there were so much conflict between the traditional keeping Jews who be, who were becoming Christians and the rest of the Christians who were, you know, trying to understand what this new religion was all about.[00:58:18] Um, the circumcision, right? What was kind of the, the focal point that brought it all to a head, but Jesus, his presence for his followers, it doesn't negate the past, but it puts away the sin. Of disobedience of the past. It's a new life. You're a new creation in Christ. And so as a new creation in Christ, as a believer in Christ, then our duty and our obligation, um, by accepting him as our Lord is to, you know, emulate him in thought word, [00:59:00] indeed.[00:59:00] And it's not about being circumcised or not, or not about eating bacon or not. It's about loving God first and most and treating your neighbor as yourself, whether or not the bacon are circumcised. [00:59:12] De'Vannon: Well, I love me, um, bacon and my bloody Mary's kidney. That's about the only thing I really have vacant is when it's, when I'm throwing me back.[00:59:21] One of those and, um, [00:59:26] Branch: well, that's interesting, you know, what's, what's, what's advice. Vice is like, what's a vice [00:59:34] De'Vannon: vice vinyl. Oh, I thought you were asking. Yeah. W [00:59:38] Branch: w no, what do we consider a vice, right? For me of ice may be eating bacon, um, for someone else it's not. So who determines, you know, what's a vice, what's a sin who determines what's a sin and what's not a sin.[00:59:55] Um, you know, [01:00:00] it's, that's what forgiveness is all about. And that's what. Repentance is all about, um, I can choose to not eat bacon, um, that doesn't make it a sin or a vice I can choose to repay. It's just, you know, there's a difference between spiritual grounding and understanding of sin and sin nature.[01:00:23] And then there's a difference between vice and San Anna legalistics situation or legalistic terms. And you see, that's what you find in most traditional applied religions, Judaism, Islam, um, some of the Eastern religions, you know, it's a vice, because we say it's a vice or it's a sin because we say it's a sin.[01:00:48] Or, you know, our holy book says it's a sin, but for the follower of Christ, whether it's a sin or [01:01:00] not in legal terms or traditional religious terms, the love of Christ and the forgiveness of Christ covers those sins. So this, this question of is that a sin or not a sin, is this behavior a vice and not a vice?[01:01:15] Is this behavior. Sin becomes irrelevant except to the self-righteous and hypocritical one who wants to hold that as the standard for reward or punishment. And this is the importance of spirituality. That spiritual connection, you know, covers you from this past behavior that others might have said was a sin.[01:01:48] They can still call it a sin and still be, you know, lambasting you as sinful. But the hypocrisy is in their own statement, [01:02:00] a sin as a sin, um, in God's eyes, you know, murder is no more or no less a sin than covetousness. So that's where we, you know, religion encourages us to get caught up in this hypocrisy of I'm right.[01:02:19] And you're wrong, or this behavior is okay, and this behavior is not okay. And whose to make that judgment and that determination while the hypocrites love to be the judge and the jury. Right. Um, whether it's the ISIS faction of Islam or the evangelical extremists in Christianity, they love to throw stones, um, you know, at others who are sinning, but their sin is okay.[01:02:54] You know, I, I, there's an old joke. Um, and I'll, I'll tell you just because you're from [01:03:00] the south and I live in the south and it's, um, why do Baptist never make love standing up? They're afraid somebody is going to see them and think they're dancing. I see. So, you know, who's going to determine sin activity and righteous activity.[01:03:23] Well, ultimately God is going to determine that he's the judge, um, and his justice is right. So, you know, if somebody says your activity is sinful and you shouldn't be doing that, first of all, let them look at their own sin, you know, get that speck of dust in that plank in correct proportions. And then you, you worry about, you know, how you're going to a tone when you stand in front of God, it's between you and him.[01:03:54] And here's the whole point of Christianity. If you're a believer and a follower in Christ, [01:04:00] he's already covered that sin for you. You will not have to stand in front of God. You will be judged. But Christ's sacrifice for you as a Christ, believing Christian, and one who emulates Christ will be covered. So don't worry about, you know, who calls you a sinner?[01:04:22] Um, let them worry about themselves. You do, you know, love God first and most and treat others the way you want to be treated. And you're on the path to becoming less sinful in the eyes of God. Um, right. [01:04:37] De'Vannon: And, um, I like to say, I agree with you said, and the simplest way I've learned to look at it, is that okay?[01:04:49] So in the Bible it says that like the Lord changes us and deals with us, like a line upon line precept upon precept here, a little there, a little bind by, [01:05:00] so we don't have power to change like our behavior necessarily ourselves and, uh, [01:05:11] Branch: or we would, [01:05:12] De'Vannon: or we would, but you know, the Lord, you know, already told us that, you know, we, by taking thought cannot add one cubic of height to ourselves.[01:05:19] And so he was, he was telling us, you know, it was him that's going to change is what he's not going to do it until he's ready to do it. And so in its simplest form, as long as you are true in your pursuit of the Lord, He, you just left that, you know, as long as you're really getting after him and sincerity, that anything that's that he doesn't want you to be doing, eventually you're going to naturally fall out of agreement with it anyway.[01:05:43] Amen. [01:05:44] Branch: Amen. [01:05:44] De'Vannon: That's it. And then you [01:05:45] Branch: don't need it. Yeah. Become a new creation in Christ. When you give your heart and soul to Christ and choose to start following him, you will change your behavior, your [01:06:00] thoughts, your desires change, because the holy spirit now lives within you and with him in you. This is the great thing about Christianity for the believer.[01:06:10] Every time you have to make a choice, whatever it may be something, you know, monumental in your life or something simple in your life. Every time you've got to choose, you have a choice to make, you can say, am I going to do this my way or the world's way? Or am I going to do it Christ way? Am I going to do what God would have me do?[01:06:32] And when Christ spirit lives within you, his holy spirit is the same holy spirit of God. The father, when that spirit is alive within your spirit, and you ask in this situation, what am I going to do? Your next question is what would Jesus do? In this same situation, I find myself, what would he respond? How would he respond?[01:06:59] What would he [01:07:00] do? And when you ask that question, his spirit living within you will answer and we'll show you the consequences of not being obedient of not choosing God's way. Look, God, nobody in your life has your best interest at heart, more than God himself. That's why he sends his spirit to be with us, to help us, um, get through the day.[01:07:29] And so when you have a choice to make, and you say, what am I going to do? Um, what do I want to do with the carnal world branch thing would want to do, do I want to do what's in it for me? Or am I going to do what Jesus would have done? I have a choice to make, but if I choose to do it my way, then I will, you know, reap the benefit or suffer the consequences of whatever that choice has at the end of the [01:08:00] road.[01:08:00] If I choose to do it God's way or ask, what would Jesus do? His spirit living within me is going to show me right then the consequences of doing it my way of doing it, the world's way. He's going to show me the downside to that decision. This is the amazing thing of God's love. He will show you your future before it even takes place.[01:08:28] Before you put into action, the choice of the decision you've made, he will show you the downside, the negative outcome of choosing the world's way. When the closer we get to God, that becomes more and more self-evident. So our behavior on our actions automatically begins to change. We change ourself with the strength of God's spirit living within us.[01:08:58] That's what spirituality [01:09:00] is all about. That's what a relationship with Jesus Christ or a relationship with God through Jesus Christ, because we now possess his same spirit. He will show us the way and that keeps us out of trouble. It keeps us away from the holes of adversity. It allows us to not go down that path.[01:09:24] The greatest thing about the love of God is the further you go down the path, responding the way he wants you to respond, because he has your best interest at heart. The more you respond that way, the more he begins to bless your life. And those blessings could be run the gamut. It could be material blessings, it could be, you know, possession, blessings.[01:09:50] It could be psychological blessings relationship wise. It doesn't matter. The love of God and obedience to his [01:10:00] spiritual leadership fills your heart. That's the true blessing. Your heart is filled. Like nothing else can fill it. There's nothing of the world that can fill your heart. Like the spirit of God, if it did, you wouldn't want that new car or that new house, or, you know, another appliance that desire for material goods is the core.[01:10:25] Of the world and that's where its tests and temptations know live in our house. This is why you never can grasp happiness through the ways of the world because the world, no matter what, you have always encourage you to want more and to desire more when you have the love of God in your heart, because the spirit of God lives within you, your heart and your soul are full.[01:10:51] There's nothing that the world can offer you that can fill you more than that spirit. And when you have his spirit within [01:11:00] you and you are fulfilled, you see the truth in the world, you see the folly in the world and you realize that the fall is nothing more, you know, than illusion. The love of God will, will reward you more than you could possibly imagine.[01:11:22] And this is why going down the spiritual path led by the light of Christ brings you closer to God. And the closer you get to God, the more like Christ you are. So your natural action and your natural inclination is against the sin of the world. [01:11:41] De'Vannon: And, um, and so. And so branch is not saying there's anything wrong with cars and houses and stuff like that.[01:11:48] What he's talking about here with balance and perspective. And, um, and as it says in the Bible to learn how to be content with whatever state that we're in and to be happy there with, um, he's [01:12:00] also talking about how, um, in the book of Hosea, how it talks about like the more God blessed people, it's like the less, they want it to be close to him.[01:12:08] He's talking about not making idols out of the blessings that we have and remembering who it came from and being sort of at our passion is greatest for God of all things, no matter what, there's also another part that says that the eye's not satisfied with seeing nor the ear with hearing. And so we, so we just gotta mind ourselves and be careful how we let ourselves get carried away with things in there's life.[01:12:31] But that's a, that's a part of, you know, this life. And when, uh, when branch is talking about the Lord will tell us and deal with us, you know, always use the fit in church. In wonder when people would say the Lord spoke to them, or he showed them something. I'm like, okay, how, you know, how does this, how does that go?[01:12:48] So it could be, for me, it's in brings a lot. I've always been a gift that dreamer, and as I was a child, you know, things, that's the, my dreams come true, you know, and stuff like that. It could be audible voice. It's like [01:13:00] what we talked about earlier, it could be through a friend, a loved one, a family member, a relative, or a total stranger.[01:13:07] It could be an inclination, a no. You know that it really comes deep within you, but you'll know that it's him without a shadow of a doubt. God speaks to us in many, many different ways. So when we say, God will tell you, he will talk to you. One thing I would suggest to add to your prayer life as you're seeking this sort of God to speak to you, you know, and, and to really, I wish he's going to do this anyway, but it never hurts to, I think, state the obvious, especially when you're, or at least when you're new with God, and you ask him to talk to you in a language or in a way that that's gonna mean something to you.[01:13:41] And so that you'll know that it's him and, um, [01:13:46] Branch: excellent, excellent, excellent point. You know, it, if you're open to the Lord, he'll answer, um, as nothing he wants more than for you to turn towards him so he can embrace you with all he [01:14:00] is. Um, it just, uh, and I don't want you to think new cars. Aren't nice. Uh, God wants us to be good stewards of the things that we have and the things that we get.[01:14:14] If you look, if you know the stories in the old Testament, you know, virtually every wealthy person in the old Testament, um, gained their wealth through their obedience to God. And he made them even more well. When they stayed that course and stayed obedient. So what he did for them, he'll do for you and me.[01:14:36] Um, you know, I have, I was 40 years on the world's path and have nothing but regrets for the damage I did and the people I hurt. Um, my 40 years on the spiritual path has been nothing but blessings. And, you know, I was homeless once. Like a lot of people, I started out at the bottom, like a lot of people, [01:15:00] but you know, every blessing that I have has come from him and I recognize that and what he has done for me and for others he'll do for you.[01:15:10] We're not special. Um, we're just here walking the path, just like you are trying to figure out, you know, what's in our life for us and how do we be the best person we can be? [01:15:24] De'Vannon: You know, I was homeless at one point in here. It's nothing like starting from the bottom and being rebuild. Um, I want to, we're going to get into the whole, like self-confidence self-sufficiency movement and X, but just for a second, I wanted to talk about like your thoughts on tithing, because I know that's, that's a really big deal and people who are going to be new in the faith, especially if they come across any kind of Christian Church is going to be hit with offerings, top ties and offerings as they call it.[01:15:57] And, um, From my [01:16:00] experience, it was always presented in a threatening way. Like if you don't give this, then something bad will happen to you. If you do then great things are going to happen to you. And, um, and they use old tests, they use an old Testament scripture in Malakai, where it says that you'll be cursed with a curse.[01:16:18] You know, that that was going on with the years of her lives back then. And like I said before, when they had the meeting in the book of acts, they released us from everything that has to do with that culture, with the exception of eating strangled, with meat and, and crazy shit like that, that, you know, we wouldn't, you know, who, who would want to do that anyway, but probably somebody we have to say that.[01:16:37] But, um, so I don't feel like tithing is necessary. I feel like it's just like all of the other tradition from the old Testament. Like if you want to use it as a guide, if you want to do it phenomenal, if you don't want to do it, you're not about to get struck by lightning and maggots. And I'm about to eat of all your food, you know, which is something that happened when, when they left Egypt and the whole other thing, [01:17:00] but, you know, bad things are not going to happen to you.[01:17:02] You're not going to get flat tires and you're going to get fired from your job. But because anybody new and brave is gone and somebody is going to try to get money out of them and they're probably going to get threatened with it. And so I wanted to dive into that. What do you think about Tyler? [01:17:21] Branch: Okay, well, tithing cake cake that you know, was sor

In this episode, Circus Medicine Specialist, Emily Scherb, talks about all things circus. Today, Emily talks about recreational circus, how physical therapy comes into play, common circus injuries, and the things physical therapists should be aware of. How is “circus” defined? Hear about important lingo, one of Emily's favourite circus stories, and get some valuable advice, all on today's episode of The Healthy, Wealthy & Smart Podcast.     Key Takeaways   •       “Circus is everything that can happen in a performance environment that would be defined as ‘circus.'” •       “Ask questions. It's okay to not know. With these artists, they're expecting you to not know.” •       “Figuring out the demands of the sport can be really challenging if you don't speak the language.” •       “Every circus artist has a video of them training on their phone.” •       “Use the knowledge you have, and then seek more information.” •       “Circus really is for everyone.” •       “Be brave enough and take the time to listen more. It really does take bravery to admit you don't know everything.”     More about Emily Scherb   Dr. Emily Scherb is a physical therapist specializing in circus and performing arts medicine. Through her 30 years of training and working in the circus arts she has gained deep insight on how circus bodies work in the air and on the ground. Emily now teaches workshops for circus artists, instructors, and healthcare providers with the mission of improving health and safety in circus training and performance. Her bestselling book Applied Anatomy of Aerial Arts was published in 2018.     Suggested Keywords   Circus, Physiotherapy, Medicine, Artists, Safety, Injuries, Lingo, Performance, Healthy, Wealthy, Smart, Healthcare, Training, Fitness,     Get 80% OFF Emily's Course: Learning The Ropes Course 12 Weeks of Circus-Based Knowledge and Content: Circus Fusion   Circus Vocabulary List: Circus Vocabulary   Get Emily's Book: Applied Anatomy of Aerial Arts       To learn more, contact Emily at:   Email:              Emily@thecircusdoc.com Website:  https://www.thecircusdoc.com Facebook:                        The Circus Doc Instagram: @thecircusdoc Twitter:    @thecircusdoc LinkedIn: Emily Scherb   Subscribe to Healthy, Wealthy & Smart:   Website:                      https://podcast.healthywealthysmart.com Apple Podcasts:          https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/healthy-wealthy- smart/id532717264 Spotify:                        https://open.spotify.com/show/6ELmKwE4mSZXBB8TiQvp73 SoundCloud:                                    https://soundcloud.com/healthywealthysmart Stitcher:                       https://www.stitcher.com/show/healthy-wealthy-smart iHeart Radio:               https://www.iheart.com/podcast/263-healthy-wealthy-smart-27628927   Read the Full Transcript Here:  Hi, Emily. Welcome to the podcast. I'm happy to have you here. Speaker 2 (00:06): Hi, thank you so much for having me. It's really exciting to get, to spend some time talking about circus with you. Speaker 1 (00:11): Yes, and I'm excited because as we were talking before we went on the air it was, it sort of changed my outlook on what circus is and what circus quote unquote performers are. So we're going to get into all of that, which I think the audience will really love. But before we do that, can you talk a little bit about your journey into this niche, into working with circus performers or circus athletes? Speaker 2 (00:40): Absolutely. I started off as a kid who loved gymnastics love to flip and fly and just be in my body and move through space. And I stumbled on circus as a hobby at a summer camp when I was a kid. So I started doing circus and I was really young and realized that I loved to perform way more than I love to compete. So the competition aspect Gnostics was fun for me, but I really just liked being out there in front of the judges and smiling and doing my thing. And I realized I could do that with circus. And it was a really collaborative collaborative environment and very challenging and very similar ways. And so I started circus as a kid went through high school, continuing to expand my knowledge about spickets and my own body. When I could, there was not a lot of resources for learning circus at the time. Speaker 2 (01:27): And after high school, I moved out to the West coast and joined some aerial dance companies to continue to pursue professionally knowing I'd go back to school eventually. And I did. So I went, I went to undergrad every summer, either working at a summer camp teaching circus, cause that was a popular place for circus schools to be, or wherever I could get a job teaching circus doing circus during the summers after college, once again, much, much to my parents' chagrin. I took more time off to go back and do more circus. And I moved to New York to your neck of the woods, spent some time there working with a dance company called strep and with trapeze school, New York while I was there and teaching circus, doing circus and professionally using my body through space as a performing artist before going back to grad school. And then even in grad school, I may have taken residencies and done my clinical rotations where there were circus schools. So captain was part of my life for sure. Speaker 1 (02:29): That's amazing. And now before we go on, can you define what circus is? So you're teaching circus and people think, wait, circus is, I thought circus was a show or an event. So I'm a little confused. So can you define what that is? Speaker 2 (02:47): Really great question. When I say circus, it's also going to be slightly different than when someone else says circus circus is everything that can happen in a performance environment that would be defined as circus, which is debatable even in the circus community. So circus is acrobatics. It's aerial artists, it's juggling, it's clowning, it's acting, it's dancing, it's communicating through movement, it's performing arts and what qualifies a circus is kind of the definition of the individual company members that are involved in the, in the creation. When I say I'm teaching circus for me, I'm primarily teaching aerial arts, I'm teaching flying trapeze or I'm teaching aerial silks. It's like that fabric that hangs down or I'm teaching a static trapeze or rope or web there's lots of different apparatus and lots of different challenges for the body. I just prefer my challenges to be off the ground and in the air. So when I say teaching circus, I personally mean Ariel. Generally I have taught tumbling as well. But circus is a huge, huge arena for challenges to the body and performance challenges in space. Speaker 1 (04:09): Awesome. And now when, when we're talking circus and when people think of circus, they might think of Ringling brothers, Cirque de Solei, these, you know, grand extravagant performance artists. But I know what you want to talk about is the growth of what we would call recreational circus, recreational circus athletes, let's say. So I want you to talk a little bit more about that. I'm just going to throw the mic over to you to let the listeners know what the heck is that and where does a physical therapist come into play? Speaker 2 (04:47): Absolutely. so circus in the U S has grown exponentially in the last 15 or so years. We went from having maybe 10 schools for all levels. But like I said, I started a summer camp. That was an opportunity. A couple of the universities around the country have had circus schools. So like Florida state university has one. There's some youth circuses in, in like circus Ventas in Minneapolis, Minnesota when actually youth circus out here in Washington where I am, those have been around for a really long time, but then there's this phenomena of circus rapid rapid growth in this last 10 years. We've gone from those 10 or so schools to having over 800 schools in the U S that I know about, and that's counting circus schools. That's not including aerial yoga. And that's not including pole-dancing studios that might have an apparatus or gymnastics gym that might have an apparatus or two in their space. Speaker 2 (05:46): So circus has not only grown for recreational use of it's not only grown for recreational artists across the country to, to try to do after work or on the weekends. It's also growing in these other niches and, and kind of just keeps expanding. So there's things that we can all do after work or on the weekends to keep our bodies healthy. This can be our, you know, our soccer game instead of soccer game, I'm going to go take a class and I'm going to stay fit and stay strong and build my community through the circus world. The other thing that's really happening in, in an interesting way in circus is the development of what's called social circus, which is using social using, just using, Speaker 3 (06:35): There we go Speaker 2 (06:38): Social circus, which is using circus to do outreach and community building through specific groups often involving a social worker or using trainings that have a lot of which have been developed by search delay through a program, they call sick demo to do outreach in schools and in different settings that make people grow and increase physical literacy to also increase health literacy. There's a urban youth circus in St. Louis called circus harmony. That's been around for decades. I should know when, but it's been around for decades and they have youth classes and they also have these youth performers performing every weekend at a, at a museum. And they perform every weekend. They have the social responsibility of showing up, getting their work done. They, they really have that community building element. There's also been studies all over the world, but the one I'm thinking of in Canada in the fiscal education system that uses circus is as PE class to have an equal growth of both boys and girls. Speaker 2 (07:47): And they find that that does not have a gender differentiation. Everyone has an increase in physical literacy in those, in those groups. So it's a great way of reaching out that way. Here in Seattle, we have a women's group, a women's circus group. That's run by a social worker here which is a really great resource for, for these women. We also have a boys and girls club group that comes in and we have on the other side of things on the more medical side of things, we have circus it's been adopted for anyone to participate. There are juggling tools that don't actually involve throwing and catching. They involve rolling in gliding so that they can be a little more accessible. We can take our aerial apparatuses and lower them down to the ground. So we can use it like the aerial silks, more like a sling or a hammock where you can tie the bottom together. Speaker 2 (08:36): And you can use that for compression. You don't need to have quite as much balance or grip strength. So we've been able to do work with kids with cerebral palsy and had great work with them on the trampoline, kind of getting some, some input with them there and then taking them to the air and they get to do things that are cooler than their friends. They have to go back into and tell stories. And on the other side of that, we have adults with Parkinson's and we have a Parkinson circus group and using the novel learning novel movement, learning of circus with Parkinson's to make improvements and give them more comfort moving in their bodies as well. So circus has just really expanded into the recreational world and into every aspect of movement, which has been incredible boon to, to see, and, and to be on the sideline of, as a physical therapist, my personal interests tend to be more on the orthopedic side, but if there's someone out there who really loves working with pediatrics, and you want to get involved with circus, how cool, you know, someone, someone comes in your door and they have difficulty with dorsiflexion, but what if the goal is to hook their foot on something instead of just trying to make their ankle move, you know, and it gives different goals and different levels of excitement for all sorts of artists of all ages and abilities. Speaker 1 (09:53): I mean, this is so much more than I was thinking. I was literally thinking that what you do within circus medicine is just working with like Cirque de Solei or professional. Like I had no idea, the large umbrella that is sort of circus and that is circus performing and yeah, so much more fun, Speaker 2 (10:19): So fun and so cool. And it's incredible because all these schools have popped up that most of us can within a couple mile radius find a circus school to take a class in on the weekends if we want, or are likely to, as healthcare practitioners have a client will walk in the door, who's taken a class and wants to get back to doing it as their physical activity. Speaker 1 (10:39): Okay. Well, let, now let's talk about that. So, because let's say you're a physical therapist and maybe this is not your specialty, but like you said, if there's this huge rise in recreational circus, we may be seeing people who are coming in for an injury that maybe they got well doing circus. So let's talk about what are some, and if there are common injuries that one may see understanding to all the listeners understanding, like we said, this is a huge umbrella, so we're not going to go over every single injury, but let's talk about some common ones that maybe the everyday PT might see from one of their recreational circus athletes. Speaker 2 (11:23): Probably the most common one that I see in my practice is chronic overuse of the shoulder. And when I say overuse, I mean under preparedness for the activity that they're undertaking and that's because most of us live our day-to-day life, especially right now in front of our computers, typing away with their arms in front of us and reaching out to our laptops. And then when we go into the circus world and we're all of a sudden asked to bring our arms all the way up, overhead stabilize our entire body weight, without relationship to the ground, or only in relationship to the ground, if our legs are over our heads and we're in a handstand, our shoulders just aren't necessarily prepared for that level of load. And so there's definitely a pattern of different shoulder problems that crop up. So there's, there's a lot of chronic shoulder pain. Speaker 2 (12:13): And some of my job is also go into the circus schools and educate these artists that, that chronic shoulder pain is not normal and that they can get rid of it. So that's also a huge, huge thing is there's a, a saying in circus that is pretty pervasive, which is circus hurts and circus does hurt in that you're pushing your body in new ways. You may be having pressure against an apparatus. Maybe you get a bruise and that's okay, but circus shouldn't hurt like an injury hurt like deepen the joint hurts. So that's one of those things I try to get out there and, and explain to people there's of course, more acute injuries both of the shoulder and the rest of the body, but that, that's one of the biggest ones, especially in my aerialists and a little bit in my hand balancers. Speaker 2 (13:01): And even my recreational contortionists, that is a thing we have recreational contortionists now, which is incredible. The other really big injury is hamstring strains, proximal, hamstring strains are a huge one. I can. Same thing. Yeah. So we're getting to end range possibly with dynamic motion. So maybe if there are tumbling and working in the ground and they go to do a Cartwheel for the first time as an adult, or the first time in a very long time as an adult, and you're kicking your leg approaching end range rapidly without necessarily the preparation, strength and control at that end range. So that's, that's another one that's really common. And then, Oh, go ahead. Oh, say one of the, the third, probably most common injuries are ankle sprains, either from landings or falling off mats. So often protective equipment can also be in an interesting challenge as well. Speaker 1 (13:55): Oh yeah. That makes a lot of sense. I was a gymnast for many years when I was younger and I always had an ankle sprain. So I would feel like I remember being on crutches at least once a year, once every other year from an ankle sprain. So I can definitely see that now let's say you're a physical therapist like me or others who do not don't have like this vast knowledge on circus and what is involved. And someone's coming in to see me with chronic shoulder pain. I don't expect you to go through a whole eval here, but what are some things, maybe some questions we want to ask some things that we should be aware of and then maybe even some resources you can send us to, to look at, Hey, what are these people doing? Speaker 2 (14:45): Yeah. So great question, because I think it really will be a challenge that we will face soon. I hoping circus keeps growing beyond the pandemic. And as, as circus schools keep keep expanding. And I hope that you will get to see eventually a circus status walk into your clinic. So the first thing is, ask questions, ask questions, ask a lot of questions. It is okay to not know with these artists, they're expecting you to not know. They, they probably learned relatively recently, all the things that they're learning about circus. So ask questions, ask them what their discipline or their apparatus is. Ask them if they're an aerialist or a ground Acrobat. Are they doing handstands on the ground? Are they doing handstands on another person holding them up? Are they hanging from a bar or a horizontal apparatus grabbing kind of like with normal shoulder flection or are they holding a vertical apparatus? Speaker 2 (15:43): Like those aerial silks where they might be grabbing one hand up stacked on top of each other. Let's just give you, gives you an idea of what kind of shoulder range of motion they're going to need. And what they need to do with their body is also asking what level they are. Because as recreational circus grows, circus artists people are defining themselves as circus artists in different ways. So the recreational artists may still say, I'm a circus artist. And so might your professional. And so really diving down, what does their training look like and who are they? And then specifically to the shoulder, I just want to reassure everyone that circuit shoulders aren't that different. They are just functioning at, at end range. So you just need to make sure that all the things you normally look at are working and are working at and range. So if they need to get into field reflection, making sure those last 10 to 15 degrees, if their mechanics look perfect and I do a lot off the ground sorry, I do a lot on the ground without them being in the air. And you can learn a lot just by watching their movement through everyday activities. Even if they're not having pain with those, they may only have pain with their circus activity, but there's still things you can see with your professional life that really can be helpful. Speaker 1 (16:57): Awesome. And then obviously when you ask those questions, you look at that end range being so important, and then you get into the treatment. And again, this is where, you know, as a physical therapist, you're looking at, what are the demands of the sport? What does this person have to do? And how can you create a plan around that? Is that about right? Speaker 2 (17:17): Yeah. And so figuring out the demand to the sport can be really challenging if you don't speak the language or you don't know what the apparatus, the discipline is that they're doing. And here's the cool thing. Every single circus artist has a video of them training on their phone. Speaker 1 (17:31): Oh, that's so smart. Of course. Right? Speaker 2 (17:33): So everyone's like setting their phone up in the corner and watching themselves trained. If they have a move that's painful, they usually have a video of that too. If you didn't ask them in advance to take one, if you have that opportunity, that's fantastic. And if not, just ask them, Hey, you have a video of you doing that and you can get a general idea of what they're doing. If you, and, and that's interacting with your patient as well, in a way that's kind of building that trust trust with them, that that level of interest, if you have advanced knowledge and you kind of know what's going on, Google it, it's amazing. There's so many beautiful performers out there and you can Google almost any apparatus and see how they interact and what they need to do. Again, it's going to depend on their level, but it gives you an idea or even better. If you do have access to a circus school, taking a class, if you have the have the ability to do it, or just go out and observe and see kind of what's going on with their bodies it can be really fun and educational and the, both the students and the coaches usually love it. They love knowing that healthcare providers are interested and want to get involved with their bodies and help them perform better. Speaker 1 (18:41): Awesome. That's all great tips and great advice because I just don't want PTs to walk away from our conversation and be like, well, that was really cool, but what am I supposed to do? Well now, you know what to do. Speaker 2 (18:53): Absolutely. Yeah, yeah. There's plenty of resources out there. There's not plenty of resources out there. There are, there are resources out there to seek knowledge in how to work specifically with circus artists, but there's so much you can do with the knowledge that you already have. And that's the real key is use the knowledge you have and then seek more information. The artists are great resource themselves, and they really want to get the most out of the treatment and that interaction. I have learned so much from my artists. I give them an exercise, they come back making it three times more relevant, and I've taught me so much over the years, which is just absolutely incredible. Speaker 1 (19:35): Yeah. That's pretty amazing. And is there like lingo or jargon that if you're going to be working with this population that you should really know, Speaker 2 (19:46): There is some lingo, some jargon I can happily get you a link to a vocabulary list that I have. And I'll, I'll get that over to you. So that there's a little bit of a little bit of lingo that, that helps. There's some things that just having a few words mean so much to these artists to just feel welcome. So taking the time to look over and things like that is great. Some of the lingo you should know is Ariel is anything off the ground. A bass or a Porter is a person who throws someone else or move somebody off. And they place them in space, either from the ground or from hanging the flyer is the person who's being manipulated. Right. And then some other things that are really helpful, kind of coming from the domestics world, the idea of opening or closing a joint is kind of a similar to flection or extension opening in the shoulder cases. Speaker 2 (20:47): And closing would be extension hips. Closing the joint would be fluxion opening extension. So like when they're artists are saying things like that inversions are hand balancers are doing inversions when they are turning upside down. Our air lists are inverting when they turn upside down as well, but they're hanging from their hands. So that's another really common place that there's pain is as we're changing through all those planes of motion. That's another really helpful term to note as well. And then that, that vocab sheet just has some of the common ones on it. Of course the circus being so broad, it doesn't cover everything, but it gives it a good starting point, at least a starting point for us. Speaker 1 (21:29): Yeah, absolutely. And, and I'll have that in the show notes at on the website under this episode so that people can, can click and download that. And, you know, as you're saying all of this, gosh, it does sound a lot like the competitive cheerleaders, the flyers, the base. So, you know, learning about the rehab, learning about rehab within the circus space can really translate out to a lot of other areas of, of athletics, I suppose, Speaker 2 (22:03): And the other way around. So if you are working with St gymnast or park core artists or climbers or cheerleaders there's, there's so much inter relatedness of the movement, other, so there's so many connections in, in how there's so many connections and how these artists move to other things, because circus is so broad, it comes from a tumbling background, it comes from a climbing background. It comes from all these things that have been pulled into what is now currently circus either in a contemporary or a more traditional sense. Speaker 1 (22:38): Yes, yes. I think that's great. And, and for me, this cleared up a whole heck of a lot because I had no, I mean, I had an idea of maybe what a physical therapist can do, but boy, it's so much more, it's just so much more, so it was great. So much more than I thought. Like, I, would've never thought of working with children's cerebral palsy or adults with Parkinson's or the recreational, the growth of recreational circus didn't even come into my head and I'm in New York city. I see that trapeze on the Hudson, you know, like I know it exists and I know it's not professionals using it. Know, we all saw that sex in the city episode when Sarah Jessica Parker was flying on that trap piece. Right. Speaker 2 (23:27): Absolutely. I was happy to be involved with that school at the time. And it was a blast to be there. Speaker 1 (23:33): Yeah. Oh, I bet it was. Yeah, I bet. So I, so when people, when therapists say, Oh, I'll probably never see anyone that works in the circus, ah, you don't have to be a professional. So you might, Speaker 2 (23:48): I don't have to be a professional and those recreational artists need help. And if I have a moment to tell a story, I would love to, one of my favorite stories is I had the pleasure of talking to someone, not a patient actually. She's 72 year old woman. And she was telling me her story, which is she went golfing and she hurt her shoulder, playing golf for club into the ground, hurt her shoulder. And she was fine doing everything she does except for pole dancing because she was also a recreational pole dancer. And so she went to go see her doctor. And she said, doctor, my shoulder hurts my pole dance, but I'm fine. Otherwise I heard it playing golf. And he said, well, you shouldn't pull down. That's dangerous stick to golf. And it's like, it's just so interesting. Our preconceived notions of what our normal activities for our body. She's 72, she's spinning in space. She's holding her body weight up. She's doing proprioceptive training, strength, training full body movement, mobility work. How much better could it be than that? And, but golf is the normal activity. So the more we normalize recreational circus and make it more part of our practice, the more helpful we can be to keep our patients healthy and active in doing the things they love. Speaker 1 (25:01): Amazing. And now I have to tell you, after watching the super bowl halftime show, not this year, but last year with Jayla and Shakira, I was like, okay, I think I, I need to do some pole dancing here because, Oh my gosh, like J lo is out of this world, you know, Speaker 2 (25:20): It's an amazing fitness tool. It really is. Yeah. It's on so many aspects. Speaker 1 (25:25): Yeah. Oh, and I never thought of that as being in circus again, under that circus umbrella, but of course it is. It's just your apparatus is the pole versus the silks. Speaker 2 (25:35): Exactly. Exactly. And again, it'll depend on the person and how they want to define circus because it keeps changing. But there are many circuses now that do include pole and there's even something called swinging pole or hanging pole that moves in space instead of just staying. Speaker 1 (25:50): Oh my gosh. No, thank you. Oh my gosh. That's crazy. Well, is there anything, do we gloss over things? Is there anything that we didn't hit that you're like, Ooh, I really want the listeners to take home this. Speaker 2 (26:06): I just really want the listeners to understand that circus really is for everyone that you can go take a class right now and that you might have a client in your waiting room at any moment that has at least some experience with it. And being able to speak that language or having a little understanding of what they do can really go a long way. Speaker 1 (26:23): Excellent. I love it. Now, where can people find you? Where what's your website? Where are you on social media? If they have questions, they just want to say, wow, this was awesome. Where can they find you? Speaker 2 (26:34): They can find me on social media at the circus doc on Instagram, on Facebook, on Twitter. I'm on most of the things I was going to say, all the things that I'm on Tik TOK yet. But I am out there on at the circus doc and my website is the circus doc.com. And through there you can find the courses I teach and lots of information lists of physical therapists that like to work with circus artists and other resources to help improve your knowledge about circus bodies. Speaker 1 (27:04): Amazing. Well, thank you so much. And before we sign off, I have one last question and that's knowing where you are now in your life and your career. What advice would you give to your younger self let's say right out of, right out of PT school? Speaker 2 (27:18): I think the biggest thing is taking the time to you. The biggest thing is to be brave enough to take the time to listen more. I think it really does take bravery to admit you don't know everything and to do more listening and do more and better question asking both of my patients and of mentors and of just the resources around me. I think in the last couple of years, I've just done such a better job of connecting with humans like yourself and, and taking the time to ask questions because you just never know what you're going to learn and where you can help each other on this great journey that we're not in competition and having the bravery to collaborate. Speaker 1 (27:58): Amazing. What great advice, Emily, thank you so much for coming on. This was great. I'm like so excited because I feel I learned now and like, I was like, I want to go take a class. So next time I'm in New York, we'll go together. Perfect deal. I will hold you to that. Thank you so much for coming on. Speaker 2 (28:15): Thank you so much, guys. This was a bunch of fun, Speaker 1 (28:17): Everyone. Thanks so much for listening. Have a great week and stay healthy, wealthy and smart.  

If You Want To Add More Joy To Your Life, You Should: Integrate daily movement practices that boost your Dopamine, Oxytocin, Serotonin, and Endorphins Join or create a community that makes you feel included and supported Start viewing joy as a non-negotiable part of every single day   When I think about the most important things in my life, the list includes family, friends, health, and joy. But a lot of us can struggle with that last part, especially during times of adversity. The good news is that you can create more joy in your life by making it a priority every single day and coming home to the community around you.   Joy Should Be Non-Negotiable with Radha Agrawal My friend Radha Agrawal literally oozes joy. She is the co-founder and CEO of DAYBREAKER, a global community focused on creating joy through movement practices, co-founder of Thinx, and author of Belong: Find Your People, Create Community, And Live A More Connected Life. Radha’s joy-sparking power has earned her global recognition, an opening spot on Oprah’s latest tour, and has brought her her greatest joy in life, her 20-month-old daughter Solei.   The 8 Core Pillars of Joy After feeling lost and distracted in her 20’s, Radha decided that she wanted to come home to herself and reprioritize her joy in her life. This realization lead her to identify the 8 core pillars for finding joy in your life and has made a daily commitment to practicing those pillars. Practicing joy, making friends and building community have become a touchstone in her life and she has launched her businesses as a way to help others do the same.   Using DOSE To Reverse Engineer Your Happiness Chemicals Radha’s mission is focused on helping others open up their neurochemical pathways through movement practices. These practices don't take much time, but they are a daily investment that is simply non-negotiable. By joining a space where a community can gather and create joy together, you can reverse engineer your happiness chemicals (Dopamine, Oxytocin, Serotonin, and Endorphins) to create functional happiness for yourself and the people around you. By inviting joy into yourself, and then spreading it to those you interact with, you will be able to integrate pleasure stacking into your life and start enjoying more than you ever thought possible. Are you ready to DOSE your life and pleasure stack through joy practices and movement? Share how you are going to cultivate more joy into your life with me in the comments section of the episode page.   Quotes: “Sometimes along the way we lose ourselves. And for me, at 30, I had kind of lost myself. And I sort of said to myself, ‘okay, this is the beginning of my path to returning back to joy, returning back to myself, returning home to the deepest sense of belonging and belongingness in me, and then in the humans, I surround myself with, and then all of life's juice will open from there.” (8:14) “It was just such a wild experience, to support 15,000 people in opening up to their 2020 vision. Little did we know that Covid would happen, but in that time, in that experience, in that stadium, it was this joy bubble that I will never forget as long as I live.” (16:26) “How grateful I am at 42, and at 40 years old for my body to have a baby. So to juggle for me is actually a gift, and I really see it as that. So in those moments where I am feeling stressed or feeling overwhelmed with all the responsibilities of being a mom and being a professional, I am constantly reminding myself what a gift it is.” (19:32) “That’s what practicing joy is, it's finding movement practices in moderation that aren't going to crush your body, but that's going to invite something that you want to do every day because it feels good.” (28:42) “The reason why men separated us was because they knew if women were too connected and too supportive of each other, that we would just instantly take over the kind of sex species in terms of who would be leading the planet. And I just think this is really the time for us to hold hands as a community of sisters.” (38:02)   In This Episode Learn about the ‘secret sauce’ to the successful community that is DAYBREAKER (11:00) What it was like to navigate new motherhood while on tour with Oprah (13:55) How the DOSE method can help you show up during times of serious adversity (21:58) Ways to incorporate joy and movement practices as part of your daily routine (30:15) The power of community and surrounding yourself with a supportive collective of women (37:40)   Resources Mentioned: Free 2 week trial of DOSE membership plus 50% off the first month with code "drmariza" DAYBREAKER Website Follow DAYBREAKER on Instagram Follow Radha on Instagram   Other Resources: Check out the full show notes page Keep up with everything Dr. Mariza Follow Dr. Mariza on Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Youtube Podcast production & marketing support by the team at Counterweight Creative

Barri Griffiths is the host of the YouTube channel Wrestling With Real Estate, where he interviews people from all aspects of the industry. His goal is to help educate as many people about the amazing benefits of real estate. For the past decade, he has been working in the entertainment industry. He previously starred in the U.K. Version of U.S. Gladiators, as Gladiator Goliath. Then went on to wrestle on tv for the WWE as Mason Ryan, where he wrestled the likes of John Cena, performed on Pay per views, and regularly appeared on Monday night RAW. He is currently performing for Cirque du Solei at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

A 9-year-old Brooklyn girl whose mom and two half-sisters were fatally gunned down by her dad hid in a closet and wept to a 911 operator, “Daddy was coming over for my birthday — and he shot people.’’ The stricken child’s “heartbreaking’’ emergency call was placed amid the bloodshed that occurred during the little girl’s birthday party in Brownsville on Monday night, NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig told reporters Tuesday. Click here to watch the video. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/leah-gordone/support

We talk about where we are from in Spanish

 Todd has had an outrageously diverse career in the entertainment industry. From Broadway to recording artist. Film to Cirque du Solei he has truly done it all! Favorite credits include, WICKED and MOVIN' OUT on Broadway. Cirque du Soleil's Zumanity... and the Films, The Get Down on Netfilx, and Christmas on the Square. Grab Your Rabbit Apparelyoubookeditpodcast.com/nycbuns @toddburnz@nycbuns SFX by Zapsplat

CW: Parental death, suggestion of self inflicted wounds and loss of limbs, loss of memory. We meet a new Warden, will Kian be able to make Mother Myrtle proud and plant the fragile seed in their care? Kian asks pointed questions about the heart trees, Mother Myrtle must say goodbye before she's ready, Solei gathers all for the Ritual of Masks. Meanwhile, Toland and Ashtarae must give it their all, as they enter a dangerous place of broken mirrors and blood red gold. In this session we are cozy as a rainy night, going in for full sadness. We all agreed at the end of this session that we need to have a well deserved bath house scene next session! Brinkwood: Refuge is my second fan game for Brinkwood: The Blood of Tyrants. Brinkwood is currently on Kickstarter! Refuge is a stretch goal, which we met a few days ago! Please consider supporting indie games here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/erikthebearik/brinkwood-the-blood-of-tyrants/ Here is a description for Brinkwood: The Blood of Tyrants - In Brinkwood, you take on the role of renegades, thieves, and rebels struggling for freedom and liberation in a castylpunk world controlled by vampires. Radicalized by tragedy, you have taken up arms and fled into the forests, where you were taken in by unlikely allies - the fae, forgotten creatures of myth - who offered a different path and the means to fight back against your oppressors. Brinkwood: Refuge is about the quieter side of the revolution. The refuge is a place in the Brinkwood that holds the heart of the revolution. In this game we play characters and physical spaces of the refuge. It focuses on healing, connection, and interacting with fae magic. It's my hope that Refuge can be played between sessions of Brinkwood. If a GM is unable to run, if players can't show up, you can pull out Refuge and play that instead. It's a GM-full game, where players take turns playing different parts of the refuge and guiding play for everyone else. It also has a "base building" mechanic, in that you can grow aspects of the refuge. Brinkwood:Refuge is currently in development. If you would like to get sneak peeks at the game and help me support my TTRPG design career, please consider become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/swordqueengames You can find my other games here: https://temporalhiccup.itch.io/ This game is part of the Gauntlet Calendar, and online gaming club were folks sign up for dozens of game every month! We play indie games, story games, and OSR! You can find out more here and join us: https://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/online-gaming.html You can check out Josh's great games here: https://ostrichmonkey.itch.io/ You can find Ben's fantastic games here: https://kyotoben.itch.io/

In this session Solei the Keeper join us! This opens up the Shrine in the refuge too! And lots of great Masks stuff, which is an important aspect of the orig...

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This week Chris Ianson and I explored Renew (Alien Dawg) from Solei Cannabis. Under the Aphria umbrella Solei lists their strain names as Renew, Unplug and Balance to name a few. A higher THC indica it's better in the evening and will definitely relax you. With Chemdawg and Alien Technology this strain has some major landrace lineage and a very cool backstory involving a U.S. soldier and Afghanistan. You can find full episodes and more here. 

With just a quick picture from your smart phone you can find out the health of your cannabis plant!!! Sounds pretty good doesn't it. Dave Damer of Testfire Labs created an app called canari.ai that can diagnose the health of your grow op. AI technology is a big part of the cannabis industry right now and there are big plans from Testfire Labs.  Chris Ianson of the Jasper Ave Nova Cannabis location and I explored Renew from Solei. It's their version of Alien Dawg which exists because of a U.S. soldier brought back some seeds from Afghanistan. Malka Labell of the Green Generation Company joined me for The Business of Cannabis where we discussed marketing and education when it comes to cannabis, Spiritleaf as a changemaker and a local and green supply chain for Canadian businesses. The Cannabis Question is about your go to Wake 'n Bake strain. The Cannabis Character is Val Kilmer's Sherpa from Entourage and as usual you can get 50% of DNA Kit from Lobo Genetics, just for using the promo code provided in the episode. Enjoy! Subscribe! Review! 

Today’s guest is Emma Leavitt, also artistically known as Solei. In her words, “as an artist, I embody the notion that we exist as reflections of each other.” She’s been working in the Boston area for the past five years as a muralist and curator, collaborating with many local businesses, collectives and organizations. Emma currently works as the Creative Director of Brain Arts Organization and Gallery Director of the Dorchester Art Project, platforms she uses to empower others and facilitate community-building arts experiences. We talk about how to maintain creativity during quarantine, making art to connect more to ourselves, and the imperative value of connection. Emma Leavitt is the real deal as a figure of authentic, artistic expression and genuine, artist community building. Now more than ever is the time to show up in support of each other and to lift up local art organizations that are treasures to our society. Creativity liberates, and our conversation about building up artist communities starts now. - [LINKS] - Like and follow Emma’s work (instagram.com/soleiarts)(soleiarts.com) - Support the Brain Arts Org fundraiser (withfriends.co/brain_arts_organization_inc/join) 
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Matt and JJT spoke to Jonathan about what life is like as a Cirque du Solei performer, the pros and cons to that career, and if it helps him to pick up chicks. They are performing a special show Super Bowl week in Miami. Support the show.

Welcome to 2020! For the first Return to Reason of the year, we've got updates on impeachment, the Democrat Primaries, and a non-Patriots Superbowl. We also look at who Qasem Soleimani was, the responses to his death, and the internal stability of Iran. Lastly, we glance at "Strategic Silence" as rationale for asymmetrical perspective bias, and the encouraging circumstances surrounding Dave Chapelle and Ricky Gervais.  

I met Skylove Solei at a private sound healing that featured water beds with the instruments hooked up to giant bass speakers that were UNDER the water beds so the vibrations literally blew open your third eye and blasted you into outer space. Sound crazy? IT WAS. It was at the Pyramids of Chi in Bali, a sacred hippie dippie next level yoga compound where people of all walks of life (as long as they are wealthy) come to harness their root chakras. Sometimes, when I write words like this, I feel like I've been abducted by yoga aliens and they are in fact now typing for me. He was all angles, all muscle, lean and mean and only dresses in the kind of fancy drapey white Tulumenti robes that is usually reserved for people who like to drink Kool Aid in group settings. He seemed to glide about the room. I could never hear his footsteps. He had a heart wrenching singing voice, and could play literally every instrument I've every seen at once time. He was cool as a cucumber, and I wanted to know everything about him. So I met him again, this time for a group sound healing where women were moaning so loudly I thought either I was going bananas or someone's pineal glad was located inside of there clitoris. Hard to know either way. So we sat, inside this pyramid, surrounded by candles and giant instruments and he showed me how to play them and how he had to come to cross my path in Bali. I'll say this about Bali, no matter who you are, it's hard not to fall victim it's palpable spirituality, and eternal search of self....so much so that it's easy to become obsessed with a singular pursuit of a higher consciousness. I do not come from a world that believes in any of this, but I too, have drank the Kool Aid and I'm all about, this crystal bowl life now. But I'll say this, there is so much love in this community, and in the pursuit of their highest self, I have found the people that I would have completely written off before as looney tunes, to welcome me with open arms, listen to my skepticism and offer me their life stories simply as a testament to what can happen when you stop believing that god is out to get you and only you, and start to believe that the collective consciousness is on your side. Also included a bonus snippet I couldn't fit into our longer conversation at the very very end...I just couldn't help myself. THANK YOU SKYLOVE. You can check out all of his art at https://skyloveart.com Check out Pyramids of Chi here! https://pyramidsofchi.com I AM LOOKING FOR SUPERFANS. Please email me at genuinelyfalse@gmail.com if you want to participate in a one on one survey about how I can be a better podcast creator THANK YOU!! If you want something close to this in NYC go to Woom Center https://www.woomcenter.com Music: Love Light: Soul Clap Edited with kindness and charisma my Emily B. Armstrong You can find me here! www.zoenightingale.com

”OutBound 2019 is Cirque du Solei takes over a rock concert to disrupt a sales meeting.” -- Mark Hunter “That's how over the top OutBound is. It's an amazing event because it's all about outbound prospecting, 100% outbound prospecting,” says Mark Hunter, co-founder of the conference, nationally in-demand sales speaker, and the best-selling author of High-Profit Selling: Win the Sale Without Compromising on Price and High-Profit Prospecting. For the third year in a row, the OutBound Conference (Atlanta, April 23-26, 2019), promises to rock the world of sales with the themes of Prospecting, Productivity, and Pipeline. This year's speakers includes: Jeb Blount, Anthony Iannarino, Mark Hunter, Mike Weinberg, Colleen Francis, Andrea Waltz, Victor Antonio, Jeffrey Gitomer, Bob Burg, Waldo Waldman, Shari Levitin, Jen Gluckow, Larry Levine, James Muir, Max Altschuler, Chris Beall, Bernadette McClellan, Meredith Elliott Powell, Lee Salz, and Gene McNaughton.

Hello Listener, Did you know that the power of smiling is real?You can smile yourself happy, The University of Kansas found that smiling reduced tension and helped the body manage stress reactions. This study links smiling to lower blood pressure and the University of Cardiff in Wales did a study on the effects of Botox and how the paralysis of the frown muscles can actually make people happier overall. This isn’t an episode about cosmetic injections though. Today Mika wants to encourage you to smile, to hug yourself and to celebrate your successes, however small.So go ahead and smile, acknowledge your wins.Our strain pairing is called TGIF and comes from Xscape and boasts a THC level of 16-24%. This sativa dominant strain is not known to cause drowsiness but as usual, if are considering using cannabis as a medical treatment we advise you first consult a physician.Xscape selections can be found at Fire & Flower stores.Follow Mika on Instagram at @cannabislovesus or The Her(B) Life at @the_herblife for news and updates. Subscribe to our email list and get notifications of new episodes as they become available. Learn about Free and get more information about each strain from Solei by checking out the Solei Facebook page and on the website.When she isn’t recording guided meditations, Mika Unterman helps producers and brands bring their cannabis derived products to market. She is passionate in advances in cannabis discoveries and legislation and always has her finger on the pulse of the industry. Having spent time coaching cannabis users as a community manager, Mika has a deep understanding of consumer needs and product choices. Armed with this knowledge, she works on product development and commercialization at MediPharm Labs Corp.Music Credit: Lobo LocoProduced by Her(B) Life and Blue Dream MediaExecutive Producer is Gill Polard

Hello listener, In today’s meditation Mika reminds us that there is a divine light in all of us. You carry your own light and it costs nothing to share it with another. Breath deeply and take a moment for yourself today.Our strain suggestion is a CBD dominant selection from Solei, Free is a Sativa-Hybrid that gives you a comfortable body experience. Like a day at the spa but without the hefty bill.CBD strains are gaining recognition as potentially suitable treatments for multiple anxiety disorders including generalized anxiety disorder, PTSD and social anxiety disorder. The Journal of Psychopharmacology published a study in 2011 on CBD and its effects on social anxiety disorder where participants were given either an oral dose of 400 milligrams of CBD or a placebo. The results showed that those who took the CBD dose experienced overall reduced anxiety levels.Before starting any treatment, you should talk to your doctor. CBD is generally considered safe, however, some people who take CBD may experience side effects, including:gastrointestinal discomfortsleeping difficultiesmood changesdry mouthdizzinessfatigueFollow Mika on Instagram at @cannabislovesus or The Her(B) Life at @the_herblife for news and updates. Subscribe to our email list and get notifications of new episodes as they become available. Learn about Free and get more information about each strain from Solei by checking out the Solei Facebook page and on the website.When she isn’t recording guided meditations, Mika Unterman helps producers and brands bring their cannabis derived products to market. She is passionate in advances in cannabis discoveries and legislation and always has her finger on the pulse of the industry. Having spent time coaching cannabis users as a community manager, Mika has a deep understanding of consumer needs and product choices. Armed with this knowledge, she works on product development and commercialization at MediPharm Labs Corp.Music Credit: Lobo LocoProduced by Her(B) Life and Blue Dream MediaExecutive Producer is Gill Polard

Plus spécifiquement, le "Renouveler" qui est le nom de marque pour la variété "Alien Dawg", produite ici par Solei. Enjoy!

Stewart and Bonnie talk about the closing of the Palace Theater on Broadway this month  after more than a century of live Broadway entertainment . But the duo talk about their renovation plans for iconic theater as well what is new on BroadwayHD. The additions include Jerry Springer the Opera and a number of very cool shows from  Cirque du Solei all worthy of checking out,Stream On is powered by the Vivid Seats App. Want theater tickets? Perhaps you want to go to a concert or maybe a game well Vivid Seats is the answer. Go to the App Store or Google Play and download the Vivid Seats app. Use promo code WILLIAMS for 10% off your first purchase with Vivid Seats.  https://www.vividseats.com/app* Promotional and sponsor consideration from Sling TV the best streaming live television service on the market. Become a Slinger today. For all of your streaming video needs visit Boom Media, where you can get the best gear on the market. Ask questions and follow us on social media @JWMediaDC on Twitter. on Tumblr and  Facebook

Stewart and Bonnie talk about the closing of the Palace Theater on Broadway this month after more than a century of live Broadway entertainment . But the duo talk about their renovation plans for iconic theater as well what is new on BroadwayHD. The additions include Jerry Springer the Opera and a number of very cool shows from Cirque du Solei all worthy of checking out,Stream On is powered by the Vivid Seats App. Want theater tickets? Perhaps you want to go to a concert or maybe a game well Vivid Seats is the answer. Go to the App Store or Google Play and download the Vivid Seats app. Use promo code WILLIAMS for 10% off your first purchase with Vivid Seats. https://www.vividseats.com/app* Promotional and sponsor consideration from Sling TV the best streaming live television service on the market. Become a Slinger today. For all of your streaming video needs visit Boom Media, where you can get the best gear on the market. Ask questions and follow us on social media @JWMediaDC on Twitter. on Tumblr and Facebook

Stewart and Bonnie talk about the closing of the Palace Theater on Broadway this month after more than a century of live Broadway entertainment . But the duo talk about their renovation plans for iconic theater as well what is new on BroadwayHD. The additions include Jerry Springer the Opera and a number of very cool shows from Cirque du Solei all worthy of checking out,Stream On is powered by the Vivid Seats App. Want theater tickets? Perhaps you want to go to a concert or maybe a game well Vivid Seats is the answer. Go to the App Store or Google Play and download the Vivid Seats app. Use promo code WILLIAMS for 10% off your first purchase with Vivid Seats. https://www.vividseats.com/app* Promotional and sponsor consideration from Sling TV the best streaming live television service on the market. Become a Slinger today. For all of your streaming video needs visit Boom Media, where you can get the best gear on the market. Ask questions and follow us on social media @JWMediaDC on Twitter. on Tumblr and Facebook

Dre Energy, one of Cirque du Solei’s most sought out drummers, talks about how he scored the biggest gig of his career.

June 20, 2016 #YaJagoffPodcast / Episode #026 We grab our recording stuff and go to the Pittsburgh Party Pedaler with a cooler full of ice and “lemonade.” Comedian and “Puck Off” Podcast co-host, Joe Bartnik comes on the ride with Pittsburgh comedians, Andy Picarro, Collin Chamberlin and Matt Light. We’re talking about the time Matt Light took out Joe on the ice and made him bleed! The Food Tasters joined us for the ride and, when we took a pedaling break in Market Square, we pigged out at Pizziaola Primo and talked to pizza maker, Kevin Konn. MORE LEMONADE PLEASE! LISTEN to the Podcast show right here below or on iTunes, Soundcloud, Google Play Music and TuneIn via “Pittsburgh Podcast Network” Episode 26 Line-up: “Live From the Pittsburgh Party Pedaler” Episode Music: Queen, “Bicycle Race” 00:55 We are on the Pittsburgh Party Pedaler and…. Well…. It was a BLAST! Meet all of our riders… some pedaling and some not! 02:15 Tasha from the Food Tasters pedaling away and tells us about the upcoming Cirque de Solei show, “Toruk” and some great places to eat while you’re in downtown Pizziaola Primo Nine On Nine Proper Brick Oven G & G Noodle Bar Capital Grille (Chef D is giving us a fancy Wine Dinner for 4! Enter to win on The Food Tasters website) Another Giveaway: Tickets to “Toruk” on opening night, Wednesday, June 22nd -- Click HERE to enter to win! 06:38 Comedian Joe Bartnick from the “Puck Off” podcast. We interview him in between all of the screams back and forth between the people on the streets. 12:41 This is when it starts to get NUTZ! We are joined comedians Matt Light, Collin Chamberlin and Andy Picarro who played hockey with Joe on his last trip to Pittsburgh and, someone took him out at the legs! At some point, Craig and I lose complete control of the mics and Andy, Collin and Joe have at it. Andy and Collin’s “Unhealthy Scratch” Hockey Podcast (as Andy says, two guys who are too fat to play hockey) 22:25 Kevin Konn, certified Vera Pizza Napoletana pizza maker at Pizzaiolo Primo at Market Square. Kevin, Casey and their staff, along with Tasha from The Food Tasters made sure every one of our Pittsburgh Party Pedaler guests had a happy stomach before pedaling back to the garage! How to Listen Regularly: – All shows on the “Pittsburgh Podcast Network” are free and available to listen 24/7 On-Demand in your hand on smartphone and tablet and on your laptop and desktop. – Apple users can find it on the iTunes Podcast app or player. – Android users can find it on the SoundCloud, Google Play Music or TuneIn website or app. * SEARCH: Pittsburgh Podcast Network • iTunes • Google Play Music • SoundCloud • tunein Don’t forget, we have a phone number, i.e. a heckling line. Call us 412-444-8JAG Find daily #Jagoffs posts at www.YaJagoff.com Thanks, To: Photo Credits: The Food Tasters The Pittsburgh Podcast Network Production: Frank Murgia and Wayne Weil Follow these Jagoffs on Twitter: The Podcast @YaJagoffPodcast John Chamberlin @YaJagoff Craig Tumas @CraigTumas John Knight @JKnight841 Pizzaiolo Primo @pizzaiolo_primo Proper Brick Oven @ProperPGH Nine on Nine @NineOnNinePGH Capital Grille @CapitalGrille Six Penn Kitchen @sixpennkitchen Primanti Bros. @primantibros Collin Chamberlin @CollinComedy Andy Picarro @AndyPComedy Unhealthy Scratch Podcast @unhealthypod Matt Light @MattLightComedy Joe Bartnick @JoeBartnick Puck Off Podcast @puckoffpodcast The Food Tasters @TheFoodTasters Follow us on Snapchat: Search: PghPodcast and YaJagoffPodcast Produced at talent network, inc. @talentnetworktv by the Pittsburgh Podcast Network @pghpodcast

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This is a continuation of the last episode discussing Pride48 Las Vegas 2014.   By the end of this you’ll be saving up your pennies so you can join us next year and make memories of your own.  All listeners are encouraged to attend. For all your Creamie needs visit us at: www.cocktailsandcreampuffs.com Email us at: mail@cocktailsandcreampuffs.com You can call our listener line at: (716) 989-0189 Follow us on Twitter @Creamies Follow us on Instagram at http://instagram.com/cocktailsandcreampuffs “like” us on Facebook: facebook.com/CACPShow

Hallo, heute gibt es einen kleinen schnellen Snack, den ich (vermutlich nicht ganz korrekt) nur unter dem Namen "Solei" kennengelernt habe. Ein richtiges Solei ist aber etwas anderes. Dennoch kann ich jedem diese kleinen, würzigen Häppchen nur wärmstens ans Herzlegen. Wir brauchen: Hart gekochte Eier Salz / Pfeffer Senf Essig Öl Worcestersauce (oder ein - zwei Tropfen Maggi) Ich hoffe es schmeckt und der ein oder andere kannte diese Variante noch nicht. Uwe Folge direkt herunterladen