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The Second Vote

January 31, 2024
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For The KingRocky Ramsey

We all know of our civil ability to vote, but could there be another second vote that is more economic in nature? We hope this episode provokes some thought, for the king!

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Hello, For The King listeners. I am not your host, Rocky Ramsey. My name is Will Drzimsky, a brother in Christ and friend of Raku's, whom he has generously invited onto the show in order to verbally showcase my artwork to you in 50 seconds.
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Once again, that's ReflectedWorks.com, all one word, and I'm looking forward to helping you further the kingdom of God right now here on this earth by putting some of your free wall space to productive use. Thank you very much for your kind attention, and now, enjoy the show. With a rod of iron.
And I'll not apologize for this God of the Bible. Oh, friends, welcome to the For the King podcast. This is your host, Rocky Ramsey, and I am joined this episode with Keegan Flood.
How you doing? There he is. How are you? Doing all right, man. In person.
We are in person filming this, so you know, I don't get that a lot here on the For the King podcast, so I appreciate you. They drove out tonight to spend some, spend the evening with the family, so we really appreciate them coming out and getting to do a little podcast. Oh, yeah.
So what are we discussing this evening? So what we're going to do first is Keegan is going to read a text for us out of God's word, and we're going to use that as the anchor like we usually do here on the podcast to help direct our conversation. So can you go ahead and read that and we'll you just introduce the topic as well. Just based on that.
Rock on. Yeah, let's do it. So it's in Jeremiah 29.
We're going to start in verse five, not the famous verse 11. Verse five. Well, let me start in verse four.
It says, thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon, build houses and live in them, plant gardens and eat their produce, take wives and have sons and daughters, take wives for your sons and give your daughters and marriage that they may bear sons and daughters, multiply there and do not decrease. But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile and pray to the Lord on his behalf for in its welfare, you will find your welfare. Well, pause there at the end of verse seven.
So I'm really introducing the topic of this movement of parallel economy in the second vote where we put our money and how we balance supporting Christian economy while also not wishing for the destruction of our wicked nation. Yeah, perfect. That is what we're discussing.
Yeah. Okay. So first, the second vote idea, because I find that intriguing, I think what we're trying to tap into here is there's your first vote.
Obviously, that's implied in the idea of a second vote. Your first vote is just your civil duty, civics, the way that we have our reaction to cast our ballot. And that's good.
There's a source of power there in demos, the people, you know, we're not a pure democracy, but there is a democratic element to our representative Republic, constitutional Republic, where we send representatives on behalf. So that's good. But how else can we be represented in our society, in America? And that's through this idea you presented me with the second vote.
I've never heard it posed that way, but I think it's proper. It is our second vote. You vote with your dollars.
It's a source of power. And each dollar is a little delegate you're sending to represent you. On my behalf, my dollar is representing where I find value, you know, like a dollar is just the way that we have in our society represented value.
So if you do purchase something, you're proclaiming to the world, I ascribe value to this and not just this product, but even maybe all the forces behind the product. So that's what we're going to get into the parallel economy. The forces behind the product also are there's a power power hierarchy there because they're producing the product and providing it.
So that's how I'm kind of thinking about the setting up. Do you like that framework? And then there. Yeah.
Yeah. I love that. And also, I think the first vote should be a podcast for you to the first.
Yeah. How should you vote for it? Do civics. Yeah.
I think it'd be fun. So what do you think is wise? When we're thinking about a second vote in light of Jeremiah 29 here, what are some principles you think we can extract from this text to help us make decisions in our daily life about our second vote with our dollar in the parallel economy? So we see, I think two principles here of yes, look out for your own. God is telling them still to build houses, live in them, plant gardens, eat the produce, take wives and have sons and daughters.
And that's all directly from the commands of within Israel. Don't mix with the pagans, don't mix with the Gentiles. Within Israel, do these things.
And so we do still need to be looking out for our own, but also seek the welfare of the city that I've put you into exile, which is a pagan disgusting city. And so how do we wish the welfare but also protect and guard our own morals? And so to me, it's just that when you're growing gardens, think of the local farmer's market that you go to. You grow a garden and then you're gifting that or selling that and you're probably doing that within other Christian circles.
And so you have your own smaller economy, that's a Christian economy, but there's going to come a time where you have to go and buy something from the bigger city, from the pagan place. And so how do you go about doing that and doing it well? I think is, I guess I'm posing it back as a question, but the timeless principle here, to me, is twofold of hold to your values, but also seek for the welfare of what we're in America at the same time. And don't wish for the destruction of that.
And so the actual application to me is don't shop Amazon, don't shop Starbucks. You know, we've cut out, personally, we've cut out Kroger and Walmart and Target and now we've got Adidas on the list. And I'm not much of a drinker, but Anheuser-Busch would most certainly be on that list, because they've all gone gay and woke.
And instead, find a local place and preferably a Christian place that is serving coffee, serving beer, making your clothes, making your books, whatever it may be, and give them your money. That's your vote. You're saying, no, I'm going to give my money to you to support you so that you can grow big and compete now.
That's good. Yeah. This is randomly coming to my mind.
So there's a guy I like to listen to a little bit on YouTube.
I mentioned him earlier to you, Keegan, RedeemZoomer. He had an interesting thought about how we can kind of take back some of the power dynamics in our society.
One of the stats that was economic driven, talking about Christianity, is liberal sex of Christianity, they will go broke eventually. They're going to run out of donors. Aaron Renn had a guy on from a Lutheran conservative resurgence in the Lutheran church, and eventually they ran out of money.
So I guess to tie it in with what you're saying, to stop shopping at this places. Okay, that actually has an effect. Like, money is not, well, for the federal reserve it is, the government will print it, whatever, right? Eventually, that will cease.
You can't print money forever. You can only inflate the currency so much and still have a stable currency.
So same thing with these big, huge megalithic companies like Amazon.
Amazon's not going to be here forever. There was a time when Amazon wasn't here. And if there's a big enough shift in the consumer base, they will eventually run out of money.
They don't have infinite money. So it may seem, it may be a longer battle, I guess, than we suppose. But whoever, it's kind of like a staring contest, whoever holds out the longest wins, right? So if conservatives actually stand their ground and spend their money in different places long enough, eventually it will put a dent in that traditional economy.
And the parallel economy can grow.
So, I don't know, there's just some thoughts I have there. Like, it actually has an effect, I guess, is my point.
And the reason why, I guess, the last point here, the reason why I think a lot of conservatives think it has no effect is because they've never actually been tried long enough to see them run out of money. You know, it will happen. Yeah.
Well, and also, you don't have to see the effect. Do it for your own morals, do it for your own family.
That's a great point.
You know, I've already said this way where the dragon in The Hobbit, Smaug is his name, right? I haven't read The Hobbit. But the reason that Smaug was able to be destroyed is because of a chink in his armor put two generations ago. So we may just be putting the chink in the armor of Amazon by me not shopping there.
But two generations down the line, maybe they're finally
so broke that they crash. And I think that seeking for Amazon and Jeff Bezos to crash is totally in line with this and not saying I want the nation to crash. And we're seeing that because we've seen target stock plummet.
And that's even before, I think, conservatives and
Christians even know where else to put their money. And now we have these things like Public Square, which we should probably plug. That's not a sponsor, unfortunately, you need to get them to sponsor.
That would be great. But yeah, Public Square is great. Yeah.
They're literally building
an alternative Amazon that is only Christian or not sorry, only conservative companies and they're vetted before they come on. And so anything that you buy from them is guaranteed to be supporting a conservative company. Yeah, that's great.
That's phenomenal.
So Christmas this year, y'all that are listening, don't go to amazon.com, go to publicsq.com and buy everything from them. Yeah, seriously.
Yeah, that's great.
And it's going to take a little bit. That's how Amazon won.
They they post us based off convenience.
It's going to be here in two days max. And it's super easy.
Anything you want to shop for,
you just search it and we're going to pull everything together. No, it's going to take a little bit longer probably to get to your door. It's going to be a little bit hard to find, but probably it's going to be better made.
It's going to feel better. It's going to
taste better. It's going to look better whenever you've purchased.
So do it,
put in a little bit of extra time. Yeah. And do it.
Yeah. Because we need these things to end.
Yeah.
And the reality is every dollar that you give to Amazon, you are saying I support
your your LGBTQIA movement, your gender mutilation movement, your gay movement, your abortion movement. I'm supporting this. Every dollar they're going and giving it to these horrible companies.
Yeah. We have to stop. Yeah.
You're right.
I think I think other companies to mention would be Azure. If you want to purchase food instead of going to your supermarket, go buy from a local farmer or start shopping at Azure.
GAB is putting together a parallel economy directory right now for
businesses. You can also find the business I just started Heritage Permaculture on there. We put in our information on that business directory so you can get interested in getting some permaculture consulting work done.
We can do that for you. And Keegan would be happy to do any
email marketing or e-commerce kind of website if you guys are interested in that. Keegan can happily do that.
So just send me an email for the King podcast at gmail.com and we can
get that hooked up. But there's Christians doing work out there, I guess is the point. And if you want to look for that and support local Christian businesses if you can.
I'm going to
have an interview coming up here soon if you're in the Indianapolis area from a winery run by Christians called Rejoicing Vine Winery right down the street actually from here. So again, look for Christians doing good work and providing a good service and then partner with them. Now let's switch the conversation a little bit.
Let's say,
tell us real quick your example with your kids and how you had to buy something off of Amazon. And then let's talk about if you are out of options, how you should go about selecting. Yeah.
So my children a couple of weeks back were unfortunately stricken with the hand,
foot and mouth that were that just was spreading all over the place. And they were miserable immediately. No, no store around me had the medication I wanted.
I found the place that
made the medication. It was going to take seven days or five days to get to us or Amazon can get it to us in two days. So we actually broke our two year streak of not producing anything from Amazon and purchase from Amazon for this to get one little bottle of medication.
And it was painful, but I had to seek the welfare of my children and I had
to consider that over this conviction that I have of not supporting Amazon because there is a time and place and wisdom and I think grace and mercy in doing this and choosing this. Yeah. So yeah, do you want to speak on that? I was going to use another example as well.
Do you go for it? Yeah, go for it. I think other examples because we can't unfortunately Christians bailed quick on commerce and technology and let the day is on the world. And we should have never done that, but this is the world we live in.
So, you know, you're probably stuck with Visa or
MasterCard. You know, there's no, there's no Christian credit company out there. You're stuck with iPhone or Samsung, Android.
Those are both pagan. There's no Christian phone cut.
Like there are certain things you're just going to do that are just going to be supporting something.
And I'm not saying that you're a bad person if your dollar goes to something evil or are you sitting, but I do think there's time and the time is now to be wise and say, do I really need to give my $5 to Starbucks or can I go give my $5 to the local coffee shop down the road? Do I really need to give my $5 to Amazon or can I go find a local shoe maker or leather maker that's in the area, give him a little extra money and wait a little bit longer and have a shoe that lasts four times as long that you've just supported that man and his family and not Jeff Bezos to go and buy up all the real estate and jack up all the rental prices. Yeah, that's a great point. Yeah, we need to be thinking like that more, especially like the older I get as a kid, oh, money comes in the door goes out the door.
And now the older I get the more I'm realizing,
okay, I can be very, very pointed with my money and my money, like you said, it's a vote. The way my old pastor talked about it, it's like a soldier and you can send the soldier out to die. You can send the soldier out to recruit more troops through investing or something like that.
Or you can keep the soldiers to yourself and your reserve, your army reserve, that would just be saving money. But whenever you use your money, it's a little soldier, it's a little like we're saying, it's a little representative of yourself where you're putting value. So if you find your community valuable and you love that little shop at the end of the street, you're like, oh, it's just such a cute little shop.
And I like having out there
knowing that somebody that's a little family owned mom and pop shop, well, they go purchase something from them. You can go buy something, right? Yeah. Even if it's frivolous, like if you have the budget to be a little bit frivolous, you don't need a cup of coffee every day.
But if you're, if you know the family running your local coffee shop, I don't know why I keep picking on coffee. It's just easy. Yeah, go and do that.
Go give them your five bucks
every day because that means the world to them. You're literally supporting, they had a, they had a business dream that now you are supporting. Exactly.
And in my little area of
I'm building websites and, and helping people run their Shopify for e-commerce. Now I have this connection. He wanted t-shirts.
So I was like, Hey, I know a Christian,
Missy can give you t-shirts. And I knew another Christian that did film and he wanted to do a really nice like film work that was like showing his work behind the scenes. So I called up my Christian buddy and like, so use those resources and have this because other people will start doing it too.
And then we can compete against this to print who I'm guessing is probably pagan. I don't
know that. And, and these other places that can record stuff.
No, go and go and do a little bit
of research and find them. Yeah. Do your work.
And that's what's good about, I think that's the
beauty of good Godly Christian networking. Like when you go to church, it's not bad to network. Right.
We need to redeem networking. Don't, don't view networking as a way of how can I benefit myself? Right. Networking should be, how can I benefit my community? What good service do I, can I offer? What does God give to me with and how can I serve others? And then other people are going to be doing the same thing.
And eventually we'll have this beautiful community of people helping each other.
And sometimes that help comes through, yes, they're paying me to do it, but I'm still helping them by giving them the best quality product because the pagan is not going to do as good of a job. Right.
And of course they're paying you. Like the Christians should be so, I don't like,
yeah, just like the Christians should be so eager to serve. They should also be so eager to pay because it's like, oh, I've seen that my money is now being given to Keegan who's now supporting his wife and four children.
He's trying to strive to let his wife stay at home full time. Yeah.
You know what? Like, of course they should want to pay you.
They shouldn't be mad that
as a Christian, you aren't giving away services for free. Yeah. So I want to spend a question to you now of as Christians, people that provide services, should we only provide service to other Christians? Yeah.
So I think that that's a no. If it compromises our morals, it goes against
God's word. Yeah.
So we've all heard the example of the gay wedding cake. That is a good time to
stand your ground. If your good or service is permissible based on what they're asking you to do, then you should do it for them, regardless of who they are.
That's part of loving your
neighbor. Christ didn't say only love Christians. He said, love your neighbors yourself and your neighbor is any human that you come into contact with.
Yeah. And Galatians says, do good to the
household of God. Sorry, do good to all people, but especially to the household of God.
So that
you are supposed to do good to others and it's, you're not doing your good or service. Like I said, your profession, it's just because somebody's paying you doesn't mean you're not helping someone again. You still are providing them a good service at a good price.
Right. That's how
economics works. So if you're good at something and a non-believer asks you to do it, you should do it to the glory of God and show them how good of a work ethic you have because you're a Christian when you're doing it.
Yeah. It's an opportunity to show that when I don't work for you and I'm
working for the King, my work is going to be a million times better and you are going to be absolutely stunned. And it's not for, it's not for your, I don't want your praise.
Yeah. Praise
God. In the commerce, in the public square, and we should be 100 times better than anyone else.
I know we don't have the money to do it, but we have the skills, the aptitude, and the mindset that's going to absolutely one day long-term crush Jeff Bezos because he's only in it for himself. Exactly. And crush Bill Gates because he's only in it for himself.
Yeah. You know, we are in it
to serve the King and to further the kingdom. And so our mindset is to so much greater and greater that our work is going to be that much better.
Exactly. Exactly. So yes, like it says
in Jeremiah 29, do good to the city.
Do good to the city is using your gifts and talents
for not only the kingdom of God, but part of building the kingdom of God is representing Christ well when being requested to do work. Right. Yeah.
So two of the things I wanted to
bring up another example of where you can use your second bill properly would be with health insurance. So through my work, I was offered just pretty mainstream, large, conglomerate health insurance. It was cheaper for me actually to not do that.
And to go through Christian
healthcare ministries or Samaritan ministries is also another good Christian healthcare cost sharing. So they're not like traditional health insurance. They just share bills.
That's how the Christians, these Christian businesses do it. And actually, if you're in Indiana, I think a few other states, Christian healthcare ministries is actually thought of as a donation and you can use it as a tax write off deduction on your taxes, while also possibly getting bill shared if you have some kind of health emergency. So super cool.
But that's
another example. These, these healthcare companies, they provide abortions and transgender surgeries, they'll chop little kids, penises off and remove little girls breasts, right? They're, having that taken out of our paycheck each week at work when we can just withhold that, not have that taken out and select a Christian healthcare ministry that's building up Christendom. So little stuff like that you can do.
That's another good example. Back to just employing
brothers, helping to provide for his family. King's brother actually is a general contractor.
So again, if you live in the Indianapolis area, you can look out for that rejoicing vine podcast, I have coming up of that, that winery and Keegan can do your e-commerce. And if you need any kind of structure built, steadfast construction, you can go on my sub stack and go to my parallel economy tab and he's on there. So if you're in Indianapolis, which most of my listeners is in Indianapolis area, then you can have that done and you can support a brother and also get a great product because his construction techniques are actually more historic.
If you want some
timber framing done, he can do that. That's a lasting structure. That's why the cathedrals in Europe are still standing because they're timber framed.
They're a thousand years old,
but they're made out of wood. How's that happen? Because they're timber framed. Exactly.
They're not modern day cheap stuff. Exactly. So, you know, you got a lot of people
and we need to network more.
We need that. We need to work together. So those are two other
thoughts I had.
But I wanted to go on one other place unless you had something else.
No, go ahead. Okay.
Another way we can vote with our dollars is through the tithe. Okay.
The tithe, you don't just have to vote with your dollars by getting a good or service in exchange for your value, your money.
You can also just give it away. Just being generous with
your finances is also a way that you vote with your money. So how do libtards build up their political campaigns for their candidates? Well, you get donors.
You get people that literally
just give money because they love to see little kids get their penises chopped off. And because they love that kind of stuff, they will give money, lots and lots of money to people for free so they can continue shaping culture in the way they want it to go. Christians have the exact same thing.
It's actually command of God. It's called the tithe.
So rather than they feel they don't have to be told to do it.
They just do it because they
know it's powerful. God commands it because obviously he knows it's powerful and it's his money anyways and he deserves it. Right.
So that is our basically the tax, the tax of being
in the kingdom of God is the tithe basically. And we're obligated to pay it to God. Now, how do we pay it to pay it to him through his means, his ordinary means here on earth, which is the church, right? Or any type of kingdom work.
Okay. So I guess my main point
there to wrap it all up. I find ways to support brothers and sisters in my own church that are doing good work for the kingdom of God.
So the way I do it, and I've written on
this before is I think the 10% tithe is still in operation today. What I do is I 5% of that goes straight to my local church. Cause that's where I'm receiving the most benefits of the preaching.
And that needs to go there. The other 5% I divvy up
in a bunch of different ways to a bunch of random different Christians that are doing work and as a pure gift. So support the King's hall podcast, you know, support the guys, the guys on refuge, just support Can Plus support a bunch of different sub stacks, guys that are writing articles on sub stack of big culture shaping stuff.
So those are
some places I support a missionary, right? So find a bunch of different ways that the kingdom is being expanded and fund the kingdom. Okay. That's how you can also vote with your money.
So you can do it through the goods and services you buy, but then
also just straight up giving money away through the tide. So I don't know if you have any thoughts on just being generous with your money, but that's another element of this is back to Jeremiah 29, building up your own community. We need to build up the kingdom of God.
So the 10% tithes and then with your goods and
services, you build up your city, you build up society. So it goes outside of just the church and the kingdom and it starts going into society through your gifts and talents. Yeah.
The only thing I think I want to say right now is
there's also nothing wrong with donors. Like if you are blessed with historical family wealth and you're at a local church where they're struggling to fund a pastor's salary and you can support his salary straight up on your own, do it. There's nothing wrong with that.
I get a Vody Baucom's emails and they're like two or three times a year he asks for donations and he says, like, I know some of you could literally write a check and fund everything. And then in parentheses, he says, seriously, write that check. Like I'm good with that.
Go ahead. If you can't do it, there's nothing wrong with that. But also any amount helps.
If you can only support us 20 bucks, give us $20 because it's better than not having the $20. And yeah, so definitely ties to your local church and then find other places, you know, the Vody's Heart Crime Missionary Society. Oh, that's what I do as well.
Yeah. You mentioned the Can Plus and you know, so based podcast King's Hall podcast. I know it's not only so they, but you know, yeah.
Yeah.
But I think I think my biggest takeaway here is we're Christians stop shopping Amazon. Like our life is not about convenience.
So don't even fall for that trap.
Stop streaming on Disney Plus and do Lore.TV, which is now taking off like crazy. Yeah.
Yes. Thank you for saying that. That's another good one.
It's a huge one. Because when you give them money, again, you're not donating, but you are supporting because they're going to, they have a profit margin on that. They're going to make money off that.
So in a sense, you are donating when you, when you sign up for Lore. So yeah, give them money. Yeah.
Give them your money. And then they actually take their money
and give it to the content creators. So it's a really neat structure.
And it beats Netflix.
It beats Disney Plus. Yeah.
It's good Christian content, but it's not just
VeggieTales garbage. It's good stuff. So you can do Canon Plus as well as stuff like that, but also Sherwood Entertainment just launched this week.
So sign up for Sherwood. That's more
of an educational media resource for your kiddos. Yeah.
That's their main goal, but they
have other things. But it's not going to be a gym driven. It's not going to get you gay.
It's not going to try to push you into being an atheist or evolutionist. It's, it's good, solid stuff. And so do just take that extra step.
Stop falling for the convenience. I'm
just going to go on Amazon. I'm just going to go buy Starbucks.
First of all, Starbucks sucks.
Like crappy coffee. It tastes horrible.
Amazon products suck. I remember the last few times
I purchased an Amazon, they break him like six months. Don't get crap from there.
Just,
just cut it out. And again, I bought from Amazon just a couple of weeks ago. There is grace in that, but you're about to start Christmas shopping.
See if you can go find your local guy. I know
there's an amazing woodworker in Greenfield. I cannot remember the company name.
I plug it
right now. He crafts amazing kitchen utensils that last forever. Yeah.
Go and buy from him
and gift that stuff. Don't get cheap crap anymore. Cause they're going to support a family.
You're
going to support a Christian family. And every dollar that you don't give Amazon is a dollar they can't spend on transgender mutilation or abortion. Yeah.
You just can't beat that.
Yeah. And I guess one other exhortation as we wrap up here, um, like you just said, it's not, you don't have to be 100%, but the goal is to approach that.
Yeah.
Try to mitigate as much as you can your involvement in wickedness. Yeah.
Um, that shouldn't be a Christian's goal. That should be a Christian goal. Yeah.
So we're just, we've been become blind to our spending. I feel like we need to open our eyes to that. Yeah.
We need, we need to recapture the value of money big time. Um, God cares about
money. That's why he requires a tithe that like, again, the scriptures talk about everything.
Do,
do a little gloss over, uh, money, uh, the Bible and what God thinks about wealth. Right. It's important to him.
Okay. Yeah. And he wants to expand the borders of his kingdom with your
wealth.
He's, he's the one that's giving it to you anyways. He's the one that's, that's
a portion of all things in his providence and in his wisdom to allow you to have the funds you have. So fund his kingdom.
If we're like, I guess back to just big picture stuff, if we're
Christians, right, we don't want to partake in wickedness. We want to shine the light on wickedness as it says in Ephesians, expose the, the deeds of darkness, then let's do that through our dollar and through the way we spend one other point there. Yeah.
So, so let's, let's, um, have that as a goal when we go about spending our money.
And that's actually not, like you said, just blindly spend money based on convenience. Let's take some, some critical moments to think and to have wisdom, um, and try to mitigate as much as we can, uh, when we're, when we're spending money.
Yeah. So absolutely. I thought
I think that, I think that's great.
I think I won a long time now. Yeah. I think there's a lot there.
But hopefully that gives you guys something tangible to walk away with. Again, I try to be really practical on the podcast, give you some really practical things you can walk away with that change your life. So, so actually try to consider this and adopt this into your life.
I mean, I really want to challenge you with that. Um, if, if we think that the gospel is the most important thing on the earth, fund the work of the kingdom, fund it, the gospel goes forth through the ordinary means of grace that we just was preached on at church. But those ordinary ways are some general contractor, some e-commerce guy talking to you on the phone or coming over in a consultation and seeing that you have a Bible on your desk.
And then there's a gospel presentation. Like again, there's so many random ways the gospel goes forth and it comes through just ordinary means all the time. Yep.
And even if you can't,
so, you know, they're saying, Keegan and Rocky, that's great. I can stop shopping on Amazon, but I don't have a Christian place. Great.
Your lack of dollar to Amazon is still a victory for
the kingdom. Yep. You know, just, and then you can at least give it to a local family, even if they aren't a Christian family, at least you can see the face that you're supporting.
Yeah. At least you can see the family you're supporting and it's not going because they probably aren't funding an abortion clinic all on their own. Right.
Exactly. And so at least
pull your funds and then, then do the research. But like Christmas is in two months.
You should
probably, you're probably already doing a Christmas shopping. Seriously. Go to public sq.com. Like they, they just recoded everything to where it's like an Amazon.
Every brand is now one shopping cart at the end. Yeah. Go, go there.
Do that. You sick and tired
of all the gay crap on Netflix. Great.
Go to lore.tv. Yeah. Try it out. I'm sure they
offer a free trial.
I don't know. I don't have a TV anymore, but like, like there,
there are way more options than we give credit to. Exactly.
And, and you know, like my, my gift list
this year, like right now, I want a bunch of Brian subways albums just to give them, just to give them my money or to get, make other people spend money for it to him. But like, I don't listen to records all that often, but they look really cool. They're beautifully done.
I know he put a lot of time and effort into him and I want to reward him for that. Exactly. So let's give him money to do that.
Exactly. Yeah, that's exactly right.
That was a huge tangent at the end there.
What's that diaper company?
Public SQ public squares, what their actual name is, they made their own diaper company. Cause crazily enough, companies that are driven by funds for babies, like people that have babies need diapers and wipes. They're killing babies.
They're supporting abortion and they're supporting
pro vaccine movements and pro transgender movements. They're literally trying to kill the life that they're supposedly protecting and trying to, you know, so public square made a true Christian conservative. It's called every life.
And, and, um, it's like, you can do a subscription.
It's, it's very, if you are someone, and probably if you're listening to this, you are that cares about chemical free, uh, no dyes, no, this, no, that it's just a regular old diaper. That's not going to poison your child.
That's what this type of company is. And it's totally comparable to
other places in price. And a bunch of the funds are given back to, I think like pregnancy care centers or they donate diapers or something like that.
So they actually raised more money.
Just the diaper brand raised more money for Hawaii during the wildfires than the U S did. It's crazy.
There you go. So there you go. So guys, this is, that's a great example.
Yeah.
Look at a conservative company did something and look at what they're, they're making waves. So support that.
I know I'm switching over all my diet. I didn't know they existed until you
just told me a few weeks ago. Yeah.
I'm sweating. That's where we're getting our diapers now.
Cause we just had our first child and I'm sure we're gonna have many more.
So for the next,
they have a customer now for the next 10, many years, 10 years, the next decade, they're gonna have me giving them money. So go support. Uh, we are calling you to action.
That's really what this podcast is for calling you to action. We need way more Christians on board with this. Do the best you can to mitigate any involvement you have in the forces of evil that, that, um, have power through companies.
So thanks for listening,
guys. Thank you. Can you know, it was really good thoughts.
That was a good challenge on the,
on the topic today for the podcast. So thanks brother. Um, and I always end with the dots all in a first Timothy one 17th, the king of the ages and more of invisible, the only God we honor and glory forever and ever.
Amen. Sole day. Oh,

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