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00:03:58.000It's the tale of two senators out of the state of Utah.
00:04:00.000There is, so there was a Politico, a ProPublica article, rather, that came out alleging that Don Jr. had done some nefarious things, right?
00:04:13.000So the ProPublica report stated that a Putin linked Russian oligarch named Umar Kremlev secretly covered hundreds of thousands of dollars for Don and Bettina's May 2026 Bahamas wedding, including a private island rental and fireworks.
00:04:41.000Initiated a $620 million Pentagon loan to Vulcan Elements, a rare earth magnet startup that Don Jr.'s VC firm, 1789, I mean, Don's involved, but it's whatever.0.73
00:04:52.000Capital had invested in just three months earlier.
00:04:54.000It was the only such deal pushed by a top presidential aide.
00:07:10.000Even though he didn't have to pay it back because there's nothing illegal about letting a friend buy you a wedding present.
00:07:16.000Thirdly, the difference between Don Jr. and Hunter Biden is that Hunter Biden didn't, there was no fishing expedition.
00:07:25.000We had to claw and scream and wail to get any type of investigation done because there was plenty of evidence of pay for play influence peddling by the Bidens.
00:08:39.000We have Republicans that are doing the dirty work of Democrats that are going to do it anyways, by the way.
00:08:45.000Just to be clear, John Curtis has, there's nothing in this for him.
00:08:49.000But here's the connection I want you to make.
00:08:50.000ProPublica then has come out with another investigation this morning alleging that Senator Susan Collins in Maine, oh, just so happens to be Maine, a big, hotly contested Senate race.1.00
00:09:03.000Alleging that she is corrupt and that she was giving out contracts to military contractors.
00:09:36.000You can rely on the second senator from the state of Utah who, when he's not pushing amnesty, is doing the dirty work of Democrats to come after the president and his family.0.96
00:09:52.000So, this is the anatomy of a smear campaign, of a hit piece, of an op.
00:09:59.000And I want you guys to be well aware, I want you to be informed, right?
00:10:03.000So, ProPublica is saving all this stuff for the lead up to the midterms, of course.
00:10:09.000Because it's a far left activist organization that shrouds itself in the austere, respect, reverential label of an investigative journalist outfit.
00:10:49.000I don't know why this is his priority, but that's fine.
00:10:52.000He's going after Don Jr. wants to drag him before Congress for it.
00:10:56.000And now they're going after Susan Collins.
00:10:58.000So here's what they say ProPublica tweeted about it.
00:11:00.000They say Senator Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navitech, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign.
00:11:09.000The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers.
00:11:29.000Former Navitech CEO Martin Cow, who was later convicted of illegal campaign contributions, it's true, told the FBI his firm systematically traded donations for federal contacts.
00:11:39.000Collins was described as Navitech's most important patron.
00:11:42.000Her office helped steer millions in Navy research funding to the company while it and Cow's network donated to her.
00:12:30.000They're obviously wanting Susan Collins to be elected, but they are completely different entities and they're not allowed to coordinate legally.
00:12:38.000So the super PAC was the ones that were talking to Navitech CEO Martin Cow.
00:12:43.000And the get this Susan Collins even paid back the money once that they it was surfaced that these donations were illegal.
00:13:42.000She has a way of winning that state, and that drives the Democrats crazy.
00:13:47.000So here comes the op, and here comes the other op against Don Jr., who also paid back the money.
00:13:54.000And this is why we can't have nice things.0.81
00:13:57.000Because instead of defending your allies, instead of rallying around and saying, we're not going to fall for this garbage again, we're falling for it again.
00:14:05.000And Senator Curtis out of the state of Utah is acting principled by drawing false equivalencies between Hunter Biden and Don Jr.0.94
00:14:13.000Here's the real thing it's that we are six weeks out from an election, and he's a senator where, let's be real, what's one of the biggest headwinds we face in this election?
00:14:24.000The fact that this U.S. Senate has not delivered on things that President Trump ran on.
00:15:01.000It's all of these people, these summertime patriots, as Charlie would like to complain, that they love to think if we were to win, they'll come out and say, oh, it was our.
00:15:12.000Measured leadership that the voters were turning out for.
00:15:16.000To the extent we win anything, it is because of the vision that was offered by President Trump and his supporters of major change in this country.
00:15:23.000And then, who has always been the obstacle to getting serious wins within this movement?
00:17:28.000By the president, by this messaging, we need to go back to a more responsible mode of government, turn back the clock, and it will be turning back the clock to a time where the Republican Party was achieving nothing and losing all of the time.
00:17:41.000And that's so much more comfortable to a person from a, frankly, a red state like Utah, where they don't have to worry about the burden of real government.
00:17:51.000This is the tempting thing about being a beautiful loser that you get to complain a lot and critique a lot, but not have responsibility for delivering on things.
00:18:06.000They want to win and they want us dead.
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00:20:28.000I wish last year when we started this that we would have asked more about Trump to have more comparable results like this.
00:20:36.000But the assassination question, we do have a comparable question on Andrew, and we're only about three points higher.
00:20:42.000And I mean, so when you look at it and you say, Well, that's the lowest where assassination is an acceptable form of affecting political change, three in ten.
00:21:06.000And I'll just say this real quick, wrapping this up.
00:21:08.000What I've been concerned about over the last year, and I am starting to see evidence of in this survey we're doing now, which is basically done, it'll be out soon, is if the right feels that they're literally being hunted and that the system doesn't protect them and maybe even offers them up.
00:21:28.000I worry that at some point you might start to see acceptable levels, you know, or you would start to see the right also accepting kind of in ridiculous levels violent actions to defend themselves.
00:21:42.000Because, like I told you last year when we did our survey, this comes from a feeling of self defense on the left.
00:21:47.000They don't understand the difference between sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.
00:21:53.000They don't understand that speech and physical violence are two different things.
00:21:58.000So, when you ask them about why they accept this stuff, Brother, they think they're defending themselves.
00:22:03.000And I know that's twisted, but it's the way they view it.
00:22:08.000Just out of interest, out of point of comparison, was this ever asked during the Biden years, for example, do Republicans, would you support an assassination attempt on Joe Biden?
00:22:18.000Do you know of any polls of that nature?
00:22:23.000We have seen others do it, but we didn't, we started this after Charlie was killed.
00:22:28.000That's why I said, you know, someone's got to look at this a little bit more deeper.
00:22:32.000So that's a good and fair question because.
00:22:35.000We have seen partisans, you know, shift depending on who's in power, shift what they think.
00:22:40.000I would just say this, though I would still have been skeptical of any polling showing that there were acceptable levels like we see on the left because the right has a different worldview, or at least they did when we started this.
00:22:54.000And again, my concern is that they'll start to accept it too.
00:22:57.000But they just have a different worldview where I don't try not to insult anybody, but their first instinct is not to view.
00:23:06.000Politics and their political beliefs as the center of their world.
00:23:11.000They have other things at the center of their world.
00:23:14.000So the left almost obsesses over this stuff in a way the right, we just don't see from the right.
00:23:20.000And so it makes that, it kind of raises the stakes for them, for the left.
00:23:33.000What fills in that gap for progressives is.
00:23:36.000The cause du jour, the cause of the day, the next thing, the thing that they want to go rally in the streets for, whether it's ICE or opposing Trump or the socialist takeover of America, that is their church.
00:24:21.000And you actually wrote about this, and it was a great video where you talked about, you know, someone has to do it.
00:24:30.000See, when I say that, everyone knows exactly what I mean.
00:24:34.000Which is, I think that shows that there is a lot of anger, a lot of resentment, and untapped potential, untapped revolutionary potential, as a matter of fact.
00:25:19.000Similar comments like that from people like Madonna.
00:25:23.000And, you know, I mean, I know everyone started to fall in love with him during the Amber Heard, you know, festival, whatever you want to call it.
00:25:30.000It wasn't a trial, you know, it was a show.
00:25:32.000But Johnny Depp and others that have made comments like this in the past.
00:25:37.000The difference now, though, and I tried to stress this last year when that survey came out, our first one came out, they're not just, oh, I'm a student at a college and I'm trying to find myself, Andrew.
00:25:49.000I'm like searching for my identity and clinging on to, like you said, the The issue du jour, the movement du jour.
00:25:56.000These are people who are professional class established.
00:26:01.000You know, they, guys, you trust them with your health, both physical and mental.
00:26:06.000If you get in trouble, you pick up the phone, you call a lawyer, you trust them with your freedom or a fine or whatever it may be.
00:26:13.000They are, they have permeated the ranks of the professional class in this country.
00:26:18.000And when you're going over these results, you just look at them and you can't, it's not just students, you can't help but say, where are the adults?
00:26:25.000These are the right, like these are the group of people in society.
00:26:30.000And Charlie used to call them, don't say educated rich, call them credentialed, right?
00:26:34.000Credentialed, called them the credentialed class.
00:26:36.000These are supposed to be the professional credentialed class.
00:26:40.000They're the ones who are supposed to be the adults, and they have some of the most.
00:26:44.000And he chose that word revolutionary ideas, you know, radical revolutionary ideas than, you know, your average working man or woman in this country.
00:26:53.000Yeah, I mean, I think we all saw that, of course, with Charlie, where a thing that stood out to me was after Charlie died, it was.
00:27:00.000We, of course, saw people celebrate it.
00:27:02.000But what stood out to me, and I ran into this personally many times, was that people clearly had the immediate impulse of, This is a good thing.
00:27:12.000Can I go now find a reason to justify why I think it's a good thing?
00:27:16.000And that's why you saw Washington Post reporters spelunking years into the past to say, Oh, here's the random word Charlie said that meant that he deserved to have this happen to him about MLK, about pilots, about gun rights or something.
00:27:30.000And it was, they got their five or six good quotes and then it went out to everyone.
00:27:50.000It was a, you know, because that was whitewashing it.
00:27:52.000It sent a message to everybody that, hey, if you do this stuff, there is a whole apparatus, a whole machine that will message to make it okay.
00:28:01.000That will launder this through the media apparatus of the country.
00:28:05.000There's another poll here that just came out.
00:28:07.000It's a new story from the New York Post that was published yesterday.
00:28:34.000Provide a dangerous and quote unquote sobering picture of cancel culture on U.S. campuses, according to the expansive six year study of almost 300,000 college undergrads nationwide.
00:28:44.000The atmosphere isn't just cautious, it's hostile, the study's authors wrote.
00:28:48.000Students continue to show low tolerance for controversial speakers and, troublingly, more believe it's acceptable to shout down a speaker, block access to an event, or even resort to violence to silence campus speech than ever before.
00:29:02.000We're going in the wrong direction, Rich.
00:29:31.000I know it's coming to the end here, but this is why I remember when Richard Spencer and others were getting shouted down off campuses before.
00:30:18.000Just another guy standing in the way of getting that 2029 new vote there and reform, seeing if they can take over, which would be great, but they are constitutionally limited in that country.
00:30:29.000So 2029 is still probably when relief could come.
00:32:35.000Yeah, I'm telling you, I put a post up about this the other day.
00:32:38.000We could wipe at least three to five points off of the generic ballot lead if we just got more motivated.
00:32:46.000I mean, looking at the 2022 electorate, the 2018 electorate, Republicans are doing three to five points better.
00:32:54.000In these, you know, I say would be electorates, but electorates change over time.
00:33:00.000The problem is there are always new voters.
00:33:03.000In a midterm, it won't be a ton like a presidential, but the margin among those voters, and this is what bothers me so much, we just won all of these kind of voters, guys.
00:33:13.000Two years ago, less than two years ago, that was part of the magic of Trump.
00:33:17.000I remember talking about this with Charlie constantly.
00:33:19.000Like, this is the first time I've never seen it before, Charlie.
00:33:22.000We're actually winning the new vote, the inactive voter, what USA Today would always call the unlikely voter poll.
00:33:28.000Because they're so key because they can literally change the outcome of an election.
00:33:34.000They can make the underdog win, or they can make the party or candidates ahead win easily.
00:34:07.000The most popular one, Andrew, that we polled, and we did share with them.
00:34:12.000I'm like, look, here's, I think, actually, we give them 12, but the one that I think could have the biggest political impact is to remove protections for vaccine manufacturers who cause vaccine injuries.
00:34:27.000There are also food freedom issues that are super popular, but at this point, I think you have to go toward, you have to do something that speaks to holding one of these groups of society that people, you know, Donald Trump was supposed to be the retro elites, right?
00:34:47.000You have to do something that really just shakes the foundation of something, you know?
00:34:52.000Well, I know another one was they had that summit, I think, of the House, that political summit, and they said one of the issues that pulls best is removing the ability to do insider trading.
00:35:52.000You know, you never would think public health officials somehow would pervert science and data and to the point that they're not going to do it.
00:35:58.000Well, that's the MAHA coalition, Rich.0.99
00:35:59.000The MAHA coalition is one of those areas we had huge gains with independence, with women.1.00
00:37:00.000I mean, right now, if you had to take a snapshot, Rich, like what do you think we're going to lose in the House and the Senate if nothing changes?
00:37:30.000And Mark Halpern, who spoke to him and about him in that analysis, they're right because when you hit that four point barrier in the generic ballot, yes, that's how the map helped structurally Republicans.
00:37:43.000But once they get above like those six to eight, you know, where you have them at right now, the levy breaks and those likely ratings fade away, guys.
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00:42:07.000At the very beginning, when I first started learning about this, I thought that the possibility that she was really affected by a dangerous cocktail of SSRIs and other psychiatric drugs could have affected her mentally so much that it.
00:42:25.000You know, compelled her to do this horrible act.
00:42:27.000I thought that that case could be compelling.
00:42:30.000Now, I was never in the camp of saying maybe Patrick did it, or maybe she shouldn't go to jail, or maybe there shouldn't be justice done here.
00:42:41.000I was always for justice for the children.
00:42:43.000But I gave a lot of credence to this argument because I've been, you know, anti the overprescription of SSRIs for a long time.
00:42:50.000But then the more I looked into it, the more I realized that she wasn't on very many medications.
00:42:53.000She had never been diagnosed with postpartum depression or postpartum psychosis.
00:42:58.000Hearing the medical testimony of the doctors who treated her before she killed her children, saying, Yeah, she actually didn't have any of these diagnoses.
00:43:15.000And it has been very, very sad seeing people go off vibes and social media rumors trying to indict the father of these murdered kids.
00:43:23.000Well, I think that that's kind of, I think we're all in pretty much agreement on Clancy herself specifically.
00:43:29.000But I think that's what's become the more interesting thing that it seems to have sucked in millions of people who've aggressively taken, Her side very radically.
00:43:39.000And it seems in the most extreme case, we're articulating an idea that I was joking with Andrew before.
00:43:47.000It seems a lot of people have the attitude that we could probably construct an excuse where no woman or no mom should ever go to jail or prison if she kills her kids under the age of two.
00:43:57.000We can always come up with some explanation that would absolve anyone of guilt for even the most heinous crime imaginable.
00:44:04.000What's going on there on a psychological and spiritual level?
00:44:08.000You know, there is this idea, and I think it's in popular culture.
00:44:11.000I think it's in a lot of the books that we read, a lot of the songs that we sing from pop stars that women can never truly be agents of evil, that even if they do commit some evil act, they're also a victim.
00:44:23.000There's also always a good reason behind why they commit acts of violence.
00:44:28.000And so that probably has gotten into our psychology, in addition to all of the typical left wing stuff that we talk about a lot intersectionality, that really the villain is always the white, cisgendered, heterosexual male.
00:44:41.000And that women, if they act out, it's always because of some form of oppression.
00:44:47.000It's because of some system, capitalism, the patriarchy, marriage, motherhood, whatever.
00:44:52.000And then, in addition to that, whenever you attach the word postpartum to anything, it garners sympathy, whether it's true or not.
00:44:59.000Postpartum rage, postpartum overstimulation, postpartum depression, all of these things.
00:45:04.000I'm not saying that none of those are real, but they almost become justifications for evil.
00:45:10.000And that is a really, really dangerous place to be.
00:45:14.000Man, so let's get into these clips of Patrick Clancy.
00:46:15.000I remember. Early on, having a dream, maybe six months or a year after, and I'm in the kitchen at the house, and Cora walks in, and I just look at her, and I it was like I basically just said, Where have you been?
00:46:34.000and she comes up to me and gives me a big hug.
00:46:38.000Those dreams are so real, it's like I'm lucid in those dreams.
00:46:48.000This man lived through the most horrendous.
00:47:05.000Yeah, there was another clip that I saw, and I had not realized that Callum, the baby, was alive for four days in the hospital after Lindsay tried to kill him.
00:47:16.000And that Patrick stayed in the hospital with Callum, held his hand, held him as he died.
00:47:22.000And that little baby took his final breaths in the arms of his dad.
00:47:27.000And I mean, the guy's gone through more trauma than most of us could even imagine losing all three of your children in that way.
00:47:55.000So, but, you know, the Clancy attorney, the defense attorney, wants a probe into the lone holdout juror, the guy that made sure she didn't get off with murdering her three kids.
00:48:55.000Well, I think that, or a rational jury.
00:48:57.000It needs to be sequestered in the future for sure.
00:49:02.000But we have these concerns when thinking about Charlie's trial.
00:49:04.000You know, the jury selection process in that has to be robust and very sophisticated.
00:49:10.000One of the things that disturbed me the most is this went, Viral yet another interview from one of those jurors where she was saying, We saw this in the jury as an opportunity to get a victory for women at large, that we could come out and we could talk about postpartum depression.
00:49:26.000And a very good response I saw from someone was to point out that we only have good things in our society because of people trying to do the job right in front of them, such as, You are a juror in this case.
00:49:39.000What is the just decision in this case?
00:49:42.000And a huge amount of harm has been caused by everyone getting in their head, What's the greatest good I can do for?
00:49:47.000All of humanity in this case right now.0.87
00:49:49.000How can I strike a blow for 5 billion women around the world instead of how can I do the good thing right in front of me?
00:49:57.000Well, there was a good thing right in front of, in my opinion, in front of all of us.0.99
00:50:01.000And that was listen, Travis Kelsey scored a touchdown and his wife, are they the Swifts or the Kelseys?
00:51:01.000A lot of like toxic mommy culture, toxic wife culture online just makes it seem like marriage and motherhood are such a drag and that your husband and your kids are holding you back.
00:51:12.000And here she is celebrating it and saying, I love it.
00:51:15.000I'm proud of my husband and his accomplishments.
00:51:20.000So, what you just hit at, though, is so key.
00:51:23.000If you go on TikTok or Instagram, and I'm sure many of the people in the audience listening right now know this experience very well, all it is is like the woman being mad about the husband kept his, you know, His shorts on the floor, or his toothpaste is in the wrong position, or he's in the bathroom, or something.
00:52:09.000You're not going to have a frictionless life or a frictionless marriage, but all of that is what makes it fun and exciting and beautiful.
00:52:15.000And I think it's good when you have someone like Taylor Swift who is saying, This is fun and I love it and I love my husband and I'm proud of that.
00:52:26.000A husband is someone, it's one of the great things about marriage is when your spouse does admirable things, it like the aura goes on to you as well.
00:54:22.000Be a part of something bigger than yourself.1.00
00:54:24.000Women need to get together and get this sorted.1.00
00:54:27.000Allie Bestucky is the right person for the job.1.00
00:54:32.000If you're looking at your investment portfolio and feeling pretty smart right now, remember a bull market can make anyone look like a genius.
00:54:39.000If you've had a good run, the question is whether you keep it.
00:54:42.000The people who act early do it from a position of strength.
00:55:54.000Chasing down Foster Freeze in a white cowboy hat at a conference in Dallas.
00:55:59.000And I was in the middle of a conversation with Foster about hedge funds in the market.
00:56:04.000And there came Charlie in his, you know, I don't know, it was a Brooks Brothers, old Brooks Brothers suit, ratted, and he was full speed ahead.
00:56:11.000So, you know, it was a brief meeting, but I'll never forget it.
00:56:16.000And what a great person and, you know, what great work he did for our country and the world.
00:58:55.000So go back in time to the global financial crisis.
00:58:57.000Markets are down 50%, and I'm searching for answers, just like people are searching for answers today, right?
00:59:02.000What's going to happen with the economy?
00:59:03.000What's going to happen with the markets, right?
00:59:06.000And really, Wall Street didn't have any clear guidance at the time, and the church wasn't providing the answers I needed.
00:59:12.000So I began to search the Bible literally line by line, verse by verse, every word in a spreadsheet.
00:59:21.00031,000 verses, 20 hours a day, much like we'd do on Wall Street.
00:59:25.000So I basically applied my seminary training and my Wall Street research training and looked at every single line.
00:59:31.000And what I discovered changed everything, Andrew.
00:59:34.000The Bible is about business from beginning to end.
00:59:37.000God works, we're created to work, and we're going to be rewarded for our work.
00:59:41.000And it literally had me fall off my chair at the office and say, wait a minute, I need to rethink our Mondays through Friday.
00:59:49.000So there was a big gap then between what Wall Street was saying and what the church was saying.
00:59:54.000And today, There's an even bigger gap between Sunday and Monday.
00:59:59.000We have a 90% biblical illiteracy rate in the church, and 60 to 70% of pastors are biblically illiterate, meaning they don't know basic Bible facts.
01:00:08.000But more importantly, we're not teaching our next generation, and we haven't discovered in this generation what does the Bible say about Monday through Friday, and how do we apply our faith and work Monday through Friday, which is what really makes a difference.
01:00:54.000If you had to kind of sum it up for our audience, like, what is the business Bible?
01:00:58.000So, the business Bible is a topical Bible.
01:01:01.000It's everything the Bible says about business from beginning to end.
01:01:05.000And it's filled with articles, briefs, case studies, and gold letters that help people navigate through the Bible and discover what the Bible says about business and how to apply it to their life and work.
01:01:28.000If you think about my background in theology and economics, my native language is business.
01:01:33.000And so when I did the work of creating the business Bible, I thought of the people that are going to be reading it and what can we discover about business.
01:01:41.000So, in the beginning, for example, we often call Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob the patriarchs, but that's a religious designation, right?
01:01:50.000Abraham and Isaac and Jacob were the founders of business as we know it today.
01:01:56.000Abraham had a division of labor with Lot.
01:02:00.000Isaac took great risk and planted during a famine and a recession and returned 100x.
01:02:06.000Jacob, his employer changed his wages 10 times, right?
01:02:11.000And yet he still was able to manage his business and take care of his family.
01:02:16.000So the Bible's filled with these case studies, but it takes a new perspective.
01:02:21.000We have to begin to look at it from the lens of business and discover what it says.
01:02:25.000All of these case studies and principles are hiding there in plain sight, and business people will recognize them because they're all about best practice.
01:02:33.000You know, it's interesting as you're saying that.
01:02:36.000I've been reading the Old Testament to my kids at night.
01:02:39.000So we have this children's Bible and we're going through it.
01:02:41.000And it's like one by one, especially in Genesis, they're all like, and God blessed their flocks and they flourished and they had too many, you know.
01:02:48.000And then you got the story with Laban and what's that?
01:03:16.000But it was occurring to me just last night that I was like, man, these guys were really.
01:03:21.000Accomplished, you know, because I think our modern day, we like to demonize success, right?
01:03:27.000You know, the DSA is basically just one big vengeance grievance campaign against producers and wealthy people, people that have been successful.
01:03:34.000But the Bible's patriarchs are literally these successful entrepreneurs that are, you know, in the time of their day, they had great wealth and God blessed them.
01:03:43.000Like, so I guess I don't know if there's a question in there, but it's just an interesting reorienting of the way we think about the Bible and the people that founded Israel, essentially.
01:04:22.000And so, you know, His parable, The Talents, records an investment process on how to multiply capital.
01:04:30.000And the Bible is clear about it reveals that we have been given the power to create wealth to benefit others, right?
01:04:36.000Business meets people's needs better than government does, better than the church can.
01:04:41.000It's what business is designed to do.0.79
01:04:44.000And so when we begin to look at the Bible through this lens, it equips us Monday through Friday.
01:04:48.000It empowers us to create wealth and live generously, take care of the poor, and create a society that flourishes.
01:04:57.000Well, so go into the parable of the talents.
01:04:59.000Sorry, I'm going off script here a little bit, but it's just like, you know, the parable of the talents, when you say it's a, it's sort of a recipe for, you know, creating wealth.
01:05:09.000Explain what you mean by that, because I think it's spot on.
01:07:19.000So just imagine, you know, I'm a Wall Street guy on Wall Street for 20 years, and I'm reading this parable after having read it many times and seeing it different for the first time and realizing that what Jesus is talking about is what the best money managers in the world do every single day on Wall Street.
01:07:34.000And so two of the managers are rewarded for doubling the money, 2x, multiplying their capital, right?
01:07:40.000And that's every manager's mandate, right?
01:07:43.000And they do it through a disciplined process.
01:07:45.000But what's fascinating is he calls the third manager worthless because the third manager was afraid.
01:09:07.000What would you say if people are saying, you know, you got young entrepreneurs out there, maybe old entrepreneurs, and they're like, okay, what can the business Bible do for me?
01:09:19.000So, Andrew, it's not just a narrative, it's one of the primary narratives.
01:09:23.000Just think about that God, He works in creation.
01:09:26.000And he creates us to work, and then he commands us to work six days.
01:09:30.000So, God wants us to do the thing that he created us to do and that we love to do, right?
01:09:35.000And so, the Bible helps us discover work the way he originally designed.
01:09:39.000And so, for young people, entrepreneurs, business people, the first step is to discover that we are created to work, and work is how we meet our own needs, and business is how we multiply our work and meet others' needs.
01:09:52.000And one of the seminal questions Jesus says is Who is the wise and faithful steward?
01:09:58.000I will reward him for all his work and put him in charge of all my possessions.
01:10:01.000So, this isn't an interesting take on the Bible.
01:10:29.000It's important for us to begin to discover, rediscover work the way it was originally designed, especially these young entrepreneurs and students.
01:10:37.000Yeah, I totally love this, reorienting the way that you think about business.
01:10:42.000With the Bible at the center of your pursuit of your next project or your next business entrepreneurial project.
01:11:15.000Global poverty has been, and starvation and malnutrition has been alleviated through business, through supply chains, all of these amazing innovations.
01:11:25.000So I love this because it's reframing business as a force for good, as a force for righteousness if we steward it well.
01:11:32.000So I guess we are working with you on this here.
01:11:36.000So people can get this at thebusinessbible.com, right?
01:12:03.000But one of the greatest things we can do to change the world is go to work Monday morning and find purpose in our work Monday through Friday.
01:12:11.000You know, business is designed to meet people's needs, and good business does that well.
01:12:17.000And so it's just a change, it reorients our.
01:13:46.000Solomon said he was the wisest and wealthiest man ever to walk the face of the earth.
01:13:51.000His wealth was even greater than Elon Musk's.
01:13:54.000And when you do the calculation, Solomon said there's nothing better than being satisfied in your work.
01:14:00.000And I've really found that to be true.
01:14:02.000When we can express our faith at work, when we can use our God given abilities and talents at work and in business to meet other people's needs, there's nothing better.
01:14:13.000And I think it'd be great for our country to rediscover the purpose of work Monday through Friday and build a better future together.