The NXR Podcast - THE FRIDAY SPECIAL - Gentlemen, I Regret To Inform You… Boomers

00:00:00.000 today the entire economic system is set up with the assumption of dual incomes they have

00:00:08.560 intentionally made providing for a household on a single income extremely difficult they want

00:00:15.120 households with moms staying with the children to be an upper middle class luxury lifestyle

00:00:20.900 totally inaccessible to the majority of the population in the middle and working class

00:00:26.600 for the generation just starting out today things are far more difficult the boomer might well be 0.99

00:00:33.720 right that the millennial and zoomer just doesn't have the work ethic his generation had but he does

00:00:40.900 not consider how much greater that work ethic was rewarded in his day this is one of my favorite 0.81

00:00:47.780 chapters by far because the reality is that that life is more difficult for for for younger people

00:00:56.600 today and you know and i and i and i see it from both perspectives just like just like you said in

00:01:01.400 the book andrew you know yes there is a work ethic problem with some people there's no question about

00:01:06.080 it but also um i know a lot of very hard working you know zoomers or whatever we call them nowadays

00:01:13.680 And there's a lot of frustration and angst about the difficulty of things.

00:01:19.460 And so this chapter kind of, you know, does not does not try to put that under the carpet or anything like that.

00:01:26.260 It meets it square on. This is a mountain. This is a cliff to overcome.

00:01:30.840 It might be steeper than it was when when your dad grew up or whatever, but it doesn't mean it doesn't need to be climbed.

00:01:36.820 It still needs to be climbed. Right. Right. Yeah. No, I agree.

00:01:40.780 it it's objectively harder. I mean, when you look at just housing prices and, you know, like you'll

00:01:46.980 hear the older generation say, well, I remember in the seventies, you know, we had 15% interest

00:01:52.200 rates, you know, it's like, yeah, sure. On, on a $50,000 principle, you know, but the cost of the

00:01:58.260 house that drove down the cost of the house is doing the opposite. Now, like the inflation is

00:02:02.160 still crazy. It's still crazy. We're getting close to 15% rates. And granted, you know, I think it

00:02:06.240 would be crazier. So like my house, you know, we, we bought it in 2020 and we were able to buy it

00:02:12.380 for under $400,000. It's now, you know, it actually got up at the peak. I probably could

00:02:20.600 have sold it for 650 if I had sold it in the summer of 2021. Yeah. Just about a year, a year

00:02:27.780 after I bought it, but then by, you know, 2022 and then 2023, the time of this recording you

00:02:33.520 you know, it's, it's come down. And part of that, you know, in large part is the, the raising of

00:02:38.920 the interest rates. So I do think that they tamped, you know, they, they tamped down principles. I

00:02:43.060 think things would be outrageous if it wasn't for the interest rates, but the problem is they,

00:02:46.920 they, they tamped things down to an extent, but they did not really lower prices. So you still

00:02:52.800 have outrageous principles and you have, you know, 7% interest rates to where like, if I was going

00:02:58.520 to buy this house today, not only is it worth more than when I bought it, I was able to get a

00:03:03.140 2.785, you know, or 2.875 interest rate. It's essentially free money. Yeah. Yeah. It would now

00:03:09.060 be, you know, probably a 7% interest rate on a principal that's about 30% higher than what it,

00:03:15.660 so when you, when you look at like buying a 500, it's probably now worth, you know, like up to 650

00:03:20.540 and then came down to probably like sitting at like 525. If I was to buy that at 7% now,

00:03:25.160 even with a 20% down payment, which I don't know if I'd be able to do. The point is that my mortgage

00:03:31.260 would be, you guys correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure with property taxes in where I'm

00:03:37.040 at in my county in Texas, looking at like probably 2.6% high property taxes, all those things

00:03:43.860 considered, I'd be, I'd be, I think over four grand on the mortgage. Yeah. It probably would

00:03:48.720 double your payment. It would double your payment. Yeah. And this is the thing that, that story you

00:03:52.360 just told of the, the, the value of your house. Right. And you know, two years, a year later,

00:03:57.080 it's uh you know two hundred thousand dollars more right or whatever it is that is all fake

00:04:01.620 that that's that doesn't happen in in reality yeah a normal situation in a normal situation

00:04:06.980 you don't get that huge rise and then it comes down again in one year in one year yeah that's

00:04:11.720 all fake that is all artificial that doesn't have to be that way and and it shouldn't be that way

00:04:16.240 um but it's been engineered to be that way right and the fact that they can affect the the value

00:04:21.400 of your house which they you really can't the house is its value is what it is right yeah but

00:04:25.940 But to just, you know, a few percentage points on the interest rate, and that's all artificial too.

00:04:31.160 It's not like a real interest rate where market conditions are dictating it.

00:04:33.780 It's based on the supply of money.

00:04:35.240 Yeah, it's not like that.

00:04:36.560 They're just designing what it is.

00:04:38.540 That's all artificial.

00:04:40.180 And so when you recognize that, you realize that the housing prices are artificially, like they make them what they want them to be, essentially.

00:04:49.060 Yeah.

00:04:50.480 And it seems, if that's the case, then it seems like they don't want people to be able to own a home.

00:04:55.000 not today except black rock if you count those as people they want they want you to rent from

00:05:00.560 those people that's right they want you to own i mean it's they want you to own nothing and be

00:05:04.600 happy that's right that's that's not just some crazy conspiracy theory that's that's reality

00:05:09.080 they they don't want people to have ownership of anything they don't want you to own small

00:05:12.300 businesses i mean it's it's not a surprise that um you know during the lockdowns in 2020 the thing

00:05:18.520 that wasn't you know all the big giant corporations are allowed to be open the small businesses that's

00:05:22.980 They got to be closed.

00:05:24.040 That's right.

00:05:24.420 And what happens to them?

00:05:25.640 You can't be open.

00:05:26.620 We're not making any money.

00:05:27.560 Right.

00:05:27.720 And you go belly up.

00:05:29.180 And so all of these small businesses closed down in 2020 and are never coming back.

00:05:32.840 Right.

00:05:33.200 And all the property gets bought up by big giant corporations.

00:05:35.980 What a coincidence.

00:05:37.060 You know, it's funny, even with like, I think of, you know, Christian nationalism and thinking about our nation and not that far of a distant past and like Sabbath laws.

00:05:44.220 um you know aside from um all the you know the religious uh value of you know a day of rest you

00:05:52.960 know where people can go and worship the lord even just economically um the sabbath laws like

00:05:59.080 were in a great equalizer yeah uh when it came to the marketplace like uh because uh one of the

00:06:05.960 reasons why like an amazon and these kind you get to a certain point like you could say like this

00:06:11.420 you know you can and even this take with a grain of salt but you could say bezos earned his first

00:06:16.000 billion but the the second billion was given to him like you know like like i mean he the dude

00:06:21.340 did start in his garage and those kinds of things you know you know he created there was work but

00:06:25.980 the point is so it's not like guys who who have these massive corporations didn't do anything to

00:06:30.600 get there but once you're there you're like you you can just you pay absolutely yeah you can

00:06:37.400 absolutely just neutralize all the competition. And one of the reasons why these businesses thrive

00:06:42.760 throughout COVID is because all these small businesses that were brick and mortar, flesh

00:06:46.920 and blood, mom and pop, they were forced to shut down. Whereas the businesses that already had the

00:06:52.620 infrastructure of delivery and this factory over here and all, they were able to implement, you

00:06:57.540 know, to, you know, to salute the overlords with all the COVID, you know, mandates and abide by

00:07:03.920 this and abide by that and then also they're open 20 i mean they're virtually in a virtual sense but

00:07:08.760 in a real sense they're open 24 7 every second of the day every second of every day so you can't

00:07:13.340 compete you like if you're starting a small business you cannot compete with something

00:07:17.260 that's open 24 hours a day seven days a week but the sabbath if that came in and said no no even

00:07:22.820 online there will be no there will be no purchasing no buying on on the lord's day uh the market is

00:07:29.640 closed on the Lord's day across the board, uh, that, that, that creates opportunities for the

00:07:35.240 little guy, not in an egalitarian forced kind of way. Uh, but it, it actually, it actually takes

00:07:40.620 crony capitalism and, and reels it in. All right. And that's, I mean, just even the concept of six

00:07:47.300 days you should work on the Lord's day you shall rest. Uh, it's, it's claiming all, all time belongs

00:07:53.740 to God and he gives us six days as a grace and devoting that seventh day to him is, is an act

00:08:01.480 of, of worship, right? Well, and, and a recognition that all time is his, right? And so by getting

00:08:09.400 rid of the Sabbath and by having commerce on, on a Sunday, um, man is saying all this time belongs

00:08:17.160 to me all this time belongs to me all all seven days and they're we're reaping something or we're

00:08:23.820 sowing something that's going to be reaped right um and and that's i mean we sowed trash world and

00:08:29.500 we're going to reap the destruction that comes from it and and every all all every institution

00:08:34.400 everything that we have being um you know being ground under and and cut down at the knees um

00:08:41.240 that will have an effect in the future and we're already seeing the effect of it now all the all

00:08:46.580 the you know all the social problems that exist that are continuing to get worse it's because of

00:08:52.380 things like this right because we we exchanged the the things that god wanted us to do uh for a

00:08:59.460 little bit more money i mean i i always go back to thinking you know years and years ago when i would

00:09:04.040 think about you know ancient israel and how they committed idolatry like you read the book of

00:09:08.800 judges you read first and second samuel and first and kings and israel's constantly or the prophets 0.82

00:09:14.420 right israel's constantly uh worshiping these gods and and you you think why would they do that

00:09:21.840 like what they have god himself right there and he's done all these things for them they've seen

00:09:26.820 the things even even in the exodus right they see the things that god has done and they rebel against

00:09:31.480 him and they and they worship they they create the golden calf and and say that's our god and they

00:09:36.520 they commit idolatry why would they worship all these false gods when they've seen what god has

00:09:40.280 done and well it's because right well baal and molek and all of these gods uh were real demons

00:09:46.620 and they actually gave stuff to people right oh you offer one child to to molek one son little

00:09:53.580 baby son and burn him in the fire well you're gonna get 10 kids because you saw your neighbor

00:09:57.840 that worships molek you know now he's all of his wives are pregnant with sons and uh your wife is 0.99

00:10:03.760 barren and so it's like well what are you gonna do are you gonna trust uh the lord or are you 0.77

00:10:08.360 going to trust moloch right and and so that's why they exchanged you know it was an economic

00:10:13.160 calculation right i want my fields to be to be full of bounty and i want my my wife or my wives

00:10:20.240 to be pregnant uh that's why they did that all right that's why they did that it wasn't just 0.99

00:10:24.340 like oh they're silly superstitious stupid people and we're so much better than them it's and then 1.00

00:10:28.600 you think about our modern context we're just like them yeah we do all the same things we do 1.00

00:10:33.480 all those same things i mean it starts with the sabbath and it works to every other thing that

00:10:37.860 god has made where it's like oh we don't really need to do that we're modern men and this will

00:10:42.620 make me more money right so we will financialize everything we'll squeeze every ounce of blood

00:10:47.400 from the turnip in order to make more money and we will you know we'll rob peter to pay paul

00:10:53.280 right we will we'll look to the future and we'll think long term this will be better for me as an

00:10:59.360 individual or my family or for the entire country in our economy long term continuing to do the

00:11:04.900 things we've always done that would be for the best but we can make a lot more money right now

00:11:09.140 if we do x y or z right and we choose x y or z rather than the long-term health i mean one of

00:11:15.200 the examples is like why don't we just import you know 100 million foreign people right we'll have

00:11:20.600 that'll drive labor costs down the gdp will go up and everything will be great we'll have so much

00:11:25.420 money and and you know throughout the 70s and 80s and 90s that's what happened and it's like oh what

00:11:31.700 what if we move all our factories over to China, right?

00:11:34.200 They pay, we could pay workers pennies

00:11:36.640 compared to dollars that we pay Americans.

00:11:40.100 And even though the cost of shipping stuff overseas

00:11:42.440 and bringing it back, there's some cost there,

00:11:44.400 but we'll save so much money

00:11:45.940 if we move all our factories to China

00:11:47.460 and to foreign countries, moving to Mexico, right?

00:11:50.540 We'll make way more money.

00:11:52.460 The economy will do great.

00:11:53.620 The stock market will boom.

00:11:55.020 It'll be awesome.

00:11:56.020 But then what happens, the center of your country 1.00

00:11:58.660 and all of the working class people 1.00

00:12:00.980 now they don't have jobs that's right right now now they're now you've impoverished your own

00:12:06.000 people in order to make a lot of money at the very top and the the the working class people

00:12:13.660 who are right near the end right they had a pension that's tied to the performance of the

00:12:16.900 company or they had 401ks and iras and things like that they're in the stock market well they

00:12:21.940 benefit from that so like you know the boomer retirees right they watched throughout the 80s

00:12:27.660 and nineties, their 401k or their pension go up and up and up and up and up and thought, well,

00:12:32.500 this, you know, I don't like that. All the factories are getting moved to China and I'm,

00:12:35.960 yeah, I might lose my job. Uh, but I'm gonna have a nice retirement. Right. That's good.

00:12:41.240 I'll be able to, I'll be able to move to Arizona or Florida and, and, uh, you know, and enjoy,

00:12:46.140 you know, do the, the, um, John Piper thing and collect seashells on the, on the beach and all

00:12:53.060 of that but like that's the mindset is like i don't care about tomorrow right i don't care about

00:12:58.620 my children or my grandchildren because right that's their problem to worry about they just

00:13:04.320 need to work hard like i did i'm gonna get mine right now and i worked i did work hard um and

00:13:11.100 all of these giant macro economic forces that are way outside of my control right those don't

00:13:16.060 really matter because well the big line went up the gdp went up stock market went up and i'm able 0.91

00:13:21.460 to cash in so that's good well i think that's the one big difference between the boomers and the you

00:13:27.540 know the ancient pagans right that you know you said like well in some sense they're the same you

00:13:32.460 know like that somebody sacrifices one kid to moloch so that you know moloch who's a real

00:13:37.560 much more subtle than that yeah yeah it's not like over like well yeah oh this is a demon i'm 0.79

00:13:42.880 worshiping i understand yeah i'm not saying i'm not accusing the boomers of uh you know being

00:13:47.400 moloch worshipers not all of them yeah people still worship demons yeah mammon is a demon yeah 0.56

00:13:53.980 that's right and so um but instead of uh i'm going to sacrifice one kid so that you know

00:13:59.480 moloch will give my wife 10 um the the one difference to me as i was listening to you talk

00:14:05.720 is that at least the ancient pagans uh still thought about their posterity they thought about

00:14:11.040 yeah that's right they thought about legacy they thought about so they thought about their

00:14:14.980 ancestors looking back and they thought about their posterity looking forward like they you

00:14:19.520 know so as they were doing this tit for tat like i'll make a sacrifice here they understood trade 0.97

00:14:24.120 offs too yeah so they were doing trade-offs just like the boomers but they were doing trade-offs 0.73

00:14:28.400 for a few uh not just for themselves not eat and drink for tomorrow we die it wasn't just a trade-off 0.93

00:14:33.960 for me now it was a trade-off for my line like in there it was selfish it was sinful but what i'm

00:14:40.500 saying is what i'm saying is that we western modern man has become so utterly corrupt it's 0.70

00:14:46.100 a whole nother level of sin because the sinful pagan was thinking selfishly but even in his 0.78

00:14:51.400 selfishness um he he still would have recognized that if god cuts off my line it's a curse yeah 0.98

00:14:58.300 right so even the the selfish his world was less fake that's right than our world he's a corrupt 0.90

00:15:03.960 sinful pagan is still thinking right um still thinking i want sons he's operating in the 0.83

00:15:09.740 created order that god has made right even though he's doing so sinfully exactly so he's sinful 0.96

00:15:14.580 that's the yeah that's it so it's sinful but not fake yeah but what we have now it was corrupt

00:15:20.900 um it was corrupt but real what we have now is corrupt and fake that's a whole nother level

00:15:26.380 we're going against not only god but going against the rebellion against god has has um

00:15:31.980 it has increased so far to the degree that now it's it's even blatant rebellion against nature

00:15:37.940 itself, God's natural order. And so that I think is the real difference between the boomer and

00:15:43.060 the ancient pagan is that both were willing to make, uh, I'll sacrifice this so that you give 0.93

00:15:48.680 me that. And both cared about mammon in different ways and cared about reason, you know, this guy

00:15:53.180 wants a herd of goats and this guy wants, you know, another retirement home and whatever, but

00:15:56.980 it's, it's all resources. It's all mammon. Uh, but the difference is that at least the ancient pagan

00:16:02.440 included in his selfish, sinful worldview was, um, I want my family line to be powerful and to 0.95

00:16:11.820 exist and to, you know, whereas the boomer is literally, uh, it's not, um, I'm willing to do 0.93

00:16:17.160 corrupt things in order for my family line to, to, uh, be superior to everybody else's for the 0.71

00:16:23.240 next 200 years. No, he's like, I'm willing to, to, to sell my birthright, um, for, for, uh,

00:16:29.720 for just 18 holes on a golf course generation esau for 15 years it's it's hezekiah yeah it's

00:16:37.320 hezekiah you know it's like 15 more years these things but uh these things won't happen in your

00:16:41.500 lifetime good all right fantastic that's the boomer mentality it's like okay yeah the world's

00:16:46.820 going to crap but i'll be gone i'll be dead i'll be dead yeah and it's like wait a second you're

00:16:51.200 a christian yeah yeah and you talk like that all right i'm just gonna say it this show is fantastic 0.98

00:16:56.260 You know it's fantastic, I know it's fantastic, but I'm willing to admit there is one singular

00:17:01.980 problem, the waiting zone, right?

00:17:04.080 You've got to wait a whole week for each new episode of this show to drop on Fridays at

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00:17:23.260 all in one day.

00:17:24.660 so this is a season-based show, right? The whole idea is a deep dive on one singular topic so that

00:17:31.880 you know everything there is to know. Each season comes out in a quarter, right? So a three-month

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00:17:55.380 by week by week for the next episode to publicly drop so you know what to do don't waste any more

00:18:01.700 time binge watch the whole season today and that's the thing it's like it because it isn't

00:18:07.680 you bowing down to some big gold statue and offering your child up to it it doesn't seem

00:18:14.720 like idolatry right and of course that's the like most overused big eva uh term there is

00:18:21.340 is anything that that someone in big eva doesn't like that's idolatry that's idolatry that's

00:18:25.640 idolatry right uh they they throw out the john calvin quote all the time about the human heart

00:18:30.740 being a factory of idols and so any any if you like a thing that's probably an idol uh but then

00:18:35.980 they ironically they would never touch something like this they never touch real idols yeah they

00:18:41.420 would never talk about i mean they wouldn't talk about abortion as as literal human sacrifice and

00:18:47.220 it's a human sacrifice for mammon like why do why do women kill their children it's because it's not

00:18:52.220 typically because their abusive boyfriend says you need to go kill this kid right it's i have a 0.74

00:18:57.920 career and a job and i don't i can't be a mother i don't want to be a mother that i i will i will 0.86

00:19:02.840 lose money if i be i'll i'll be in poverty if i become a mother it's it's mammon right they're 0.66

00:19:07.800 they're offering their child uh to the planned parenthood moloch because they they want the

00:19:13.160 financial reward for it so it's it's obvious in that sense and sometimes they'll maybe approach

00:19:18.440 talking about that although they'll never blame women for murdering their children um but like

00:19:24.940 economic idolatry um nowhere will they ever ever ever touch um because they they're fundamentally

00:19:32.880 egalitarian they don't think about things in in these terms of generations right they don't

00:19:37.780 they don't think at all about the next generation the generation after that um and so they can they 0.82

00:19:43.240 can watch the country get sold uh to the highest bidder um you have all the all the economic

00:19:50.540 production industrial production being sent overseas um having you know literally like

00:19:55.740 100 million like a third of the population added to the country since 1965 um in order to drive

00:20:02.140 down wages right that's the whole point is the people in wall street want the wages to go down 0.82

00:20:06.920 how do you do it well you double the workforce by adding women to it and then you also bring in 0.83

00:20:11.500 all sorts of foreign people uh to drive down the lowest wages and um and then you profit 0.94

00:20:17.880 it's just basic supply and demand right and and regular people don't see this or they don't have 0.99

00:20:24.420 anyone to to stand for them so you see like in 2016 why were people so you know enthusiastically

00:20:29.840 in favor of trump because he actually talked about this stuff right right and and so like

00:20:34.460 the evangelical people, evangelical leaders, they don't talk about this stuff at all because then

00:20:39.000 you, then you start sounding like Donald Trump or before that, like Pat Buchanan, right? Oh,

00:20:43.200 and that, those guys are bad. They're, they're fascists. And the mindset of Big Eva, you know, 1.00

00:20:48.540 part of it also is, I mean, since we're calling everything an idol, you know, like, well, you

00:20:53.000 know, I'll just take a page out of their own book. Evangelism is one of their idols. You know,

00:20:57.980 and that like, you know, I remember hearing guys say this, I think even Ligon Duncan might've said

00:21:02.980 this uh but you know what if you know when it comes to global evangelism you know like you guys

00:21:07.680 are talking about borders you're talking about this but what if this is god's providence a lot

00:21:11.080 of theonomists say that too yeah yeah well theonomists say that too a lot of sometimes

00:21:14.960 yeah like who yeah like uh uh what's joel mcderman i'm sure i'm sure he said before what's his little

00:21:22.500 buddy too that what's the guy's name boadar bojadar said that yeah yeah yeah yeah some of

00:21:29.360 the more like left-leaning theonomists definitely yeah with libertarian type yeah yeah um you'll

00:21:35.220 you'll see that i can't i can't think of any i know some other examples but i don't want to say

00:21:39.060 names that i'd be wrong that i might be wrong about i don't want to accuse people i have one

00:21:43.540 in my tongue that i don't want to name either i believe um but like that's that's part of it is

00:21:48.600 like um then then it just becomes like the ben shapiro idol of big line must go up right uh

00:21:54.340 worshiping the free market economy and it's like my borders are a hindrance to the movement of

00:21:59.060 of labor and capital and so yeah we want we want the big line to go up and so well maybe there are

00:22:05.300 sociological and political and cultural reasons why you have borders and distinct nations and

00:22:09.340 those things are good uh and you're upsetting that and destroying that and you are you're

00:22:14.740 destroying the very thing that makes the american economy so productive is the american people right

00:22:20.000 there it's not just all the natural resources and the size of the country and things like that it's

00:22:23.920 actually the the people that live in your country the big line going up though is is is also so fake

00:22:28.740 I mean, it's just, you know, you ship out your actual production of goods. Right. And then if you all that goes somewhere else, you know, China, Mexico, wherever. And then your line back home goes up. And that's great. And that sounds great. Right. But but the problem is you're actually all the the actual economy. That's actually not there anymore. Now it's in China. Yeah. Yeah. You don't own that stuff anymore now. Now. And if China, you know, for whatever reason, cut us off on anything, we're in a scramble now. Right.

00:22:58.560 you know what i mean with computer chips or whatever it is you know like that's one of the

00:23:01.840 reasons why i think um and i you know by the time this gets on youtube we're recording you know

00:23:06.660 several weeks early so i could be totally wrong about this and everyone will laugh at me um or

00:23:11.160 they won't be laughing because we'll be dead but one of the reasons i don't think world war three

00:23:14.800 is going to happen is because or at least in the scale of something like world war ii

00:23:19.800 we could not outfit and supply um millions of american troops because we don't have the

00:23:26.700 factories to produce the uniforms the guns the ammunition the artillery shells the missiles like

00:23:31.440 even just the missiles that we sent to ukraine we are like five years behind to refill that stock

00:23:36.540 that's why like all the stuff with israel is like well we can't actually give any missiles to israel

00:23:40.180 because we're fresh out um and so like i think world war iii can't happen or a draft can't happen

00:23:46.640 because i would have to dress myself to go yeah to go join the army right that's right i'd be in

00:23:52.540 my suit um and so it like that's that's a big part of it is we we don't even have the factories

00:23:57.760 to supply the factories that would build the artillery that's right uh that like that i mean

00:24:02.760 the reason we won world war ii i mean there's several reasons but because the united states

00:24:06.700 was separated by two oceans and had all the factories in the world and the reason we had 0.53

00:24:10.840 all the success from the boomer generation um in those 50 years is because the rest of the world 0.99

00:24:16.880 had all their factories bombed and had to rebuild them over the next 20 years and we're the only 0.98

00:24:20.540 people supplying anything to the entire world yeah so yeah uh actually industrial production

00:24:25.800 really matters quite a bit we supply uh dollars to the rest of the world that's what that's our

00:24:30.500 export and we hold the gun to their head it says use our dollars or else and everybody complies

00:24:37.020 right now but as they see like the military disasters in afghanistan and even even ukraine

00:24:42.760 the the american power is not as strong as everyone thought um then other countries can

00:24:48.940 be like well maybe we'll maybe we don't need to use maybe we don't need to use the dollar anymore

00:24:52.040 and so the the major strength the financial strength and really the bedrock of the american

00:24:56.240 economy is is not going to exist and so this is another one where i'm like i hope my wife's not

00:24:59.980 listening because like yeah the next 40 years could be really bad economically for america but

00:25:04.840 but the other the flip side of it is if it forces you know industrial production to return to america

00:25:11.120 that actually would be good long term oh absolutely you know absolutely so we could 0.90

00:25:15.300 be in hard for in for hard times but it'll end up being well it'll be the boomers had good times 0.99

00:25:20.860 that created bad times right so it was making you know we'll sacrifice the future yeah but but i

00:25:26.380 mean economically like we'll sacrifice the you know the economic future to have you know to just

00:25:31.420 have it now um and and we may have you know some hard times that but but but the things are better 0.95

00:25:37.280 in the future because of that but all that being said back to the boomers i don't think that you

00:25:41.060 know just for the record for the you know the average person who's you know in their 60s or

00:25:44.760 70s who might listen to this um i i don't think the average person i don't think my parents for

00:25:49.520 instance um knew uh some of these things oh no and yeah like they had no idea it's not like the

00:25:55.260 right yeah it's not like the regular there were some guys on the top who absolutely knew but the

00:25:59.240 regular when we're saying this we're not saying that 90 percent of the boomer generation this is

00:26:04.560 what i consciously knew this and they voted for it and did it anyways because they hate their kids

00:26:08.780 you know like yeah so we're not saying that but this is what i do want to say though this is what 0.86

00:26:13.280 i think boomers especially those who profess to follow christ where they should be convicted

00:26:17.300 is not saying that you were complicit you knew this was deliberate you sold our you know sold 0.56

00:26:23.240 our future for your present uh convenience and wealth and blah blah blah i'm not saying that

00:26:28.660 but what i am saying is um you didn't know and if and if i had been born in your generation

00:26:33.500 and when i was in my 30s and 40s in the 70s the 80s the 90s like you i probably wouldn't have seen

00:26:39.000 it either so no harm no foul but you know now yeah i know now that's right you know now we all

00:26:45.660 know and and we all know now and if you're uh if you're a boomer so what i'm talking about is what

00:26:51.320 do we do today because it's not condemnation disparaging somebody for something that happened

00:26:55.360 years ago but today if you're a boomer and you're refusing to recognize that your kids and your

00:27:02.080 grandkids economically are going to have things exponentially harder than what you had if you

00:27:08.840 recognize it hey you know what households i'm a christian right you're a boomer and you profess

00:27:13.400 to follow christ you say households are a good thing husband and wife and a single income household

00:27:18.940 is not a luxury that's god's ordinary design that's a good thing that that the kids get to

00:27:25.080 grow up with mom like my kids like your kids did your kids got to grow up uh with with mom you know

00:27:31.140 I did too.

00:27:31.900 Right, exactly.

00:27:32.640 So if you're a boomer listening to this today and you profess to believe the Bible and to

00:27:37.060 follow Jesus, you say households are good, single income, the man can go out and work 0.62

00:27:42.760 and provide, the mom gets to actually be there in the home with the kids.

00:27:46.300 All that I'm challenging you with is not taking some kind of false responsibility for what

00:27:52.120 happened 30 years ago when you were just working at a factory and didn't even know.

00:27:55.380 what i'm what i am though asking you to do challenging you to do is uh to say um there's no

00:28:25.380 and if, and if you're not willing to say, um, you know what, the world is messed up. But the

00:28:31.100 one thing that I have is I got to, I got to work during the eighties and nineties. Yeah. I didn't,

00:28:37.380 you know, but if you got to work in the eighties and nineties, you have an unparalleled blessing,

00:28:42.360 an unparalleled financial blessing. You were reaping during the seven, you know,

00:28:46.540 Joseph's seven years of plenty. And now your kids and grandkids, they're coming into the

00:28:51.500 workforce in the seven years of famine of famine so can you just recognize that and say i'm going

00:28:57.160 to help them out not because and and not this is the boomer thing that i think is sin when it's 0.89

00:29:03.240 like well i worked hard and made my own way and they should have to make their own nobody helped

00:29:08.160 me you made your own not atomized people you're connected to your kids you're connected to your

00:29:13.220 grandchildren you made you made your own way sure you worked yeah and if your parents didn't help

00:29:18.000 you like that's on them right right they should have helped you that's right that's right they

00:29:21.760 should have helped you and they didn't you know but you yeah sure you made your own way but you

00:29:25.500 made your own way during a time of plenty seven years of plenty um making your own way in seven

00:29:30.740 years of famine it's sure there are some young people that don't have good work ethic but there's

00:29:34.820 also young people who uh the reason they don't have much to show for their efforts is not because

00:29:38.860 they're lazy um it's because we're having to do agriculture in in a metaphorical sahara desert

00:29:45.220 yeah yeah you got you were doing it in next to the nile river we're we're in the sahara desert

00:29:49.820 that's a really important point that um like incentives drive things right and so no matter

00:29:57.800 how hard you work right i've been at jobs like this where you can just bust your butt and work

00:30:03.400 as hard as you can and the other people that are doing the same job as you do they do the bare

00:30:08.520 minimum and you all end up getting the exact same right right i mean and it's of course it's it's

00:30:14.140 you think of like Jesus parable where uh you know the different guys come at a different time of

00:30:19.600 day and they all get paid the same amount um and the point of that is not to say oh it's fine to

00:30:24.740 pay people different wages you know that's not the point Jesus is making um but you you see how

00:30:29.740 incentives drive things and if and if that that landowner was operating that same way every single

00:30:34.300 day he would not be able to find anybody to work the first hour of the day like like I know how

00:30:39.480 this guy operates I'm gonna wait until the 11th hour yeah it was his right to but he wouldn't be

00:30:43.420 be able to operate. You know what I mean? You can't continue to do that.

00:30:46.080 Yeah. The point was about the master having a right to be generous.

00:30:49.460 Yeah. Yeah. And the master in the parable is God.

00:30:51.860 It was not teaching economics.

00:30:53.440 Yeah, exactly. Exactly. And so, um,

00:30:56.240 learn how to read a parable.

00:30:57.280 That's right. Yeah. And the point,

00:30:58.900 the point here is that if,

00:31:01.660 if hard work is disincentivized and it majorly is today in a way in the past,

00:31:06.420 it wasn't right.

00:31:07.420 Because we live in an insane world where, um,

00:31:10.320 there are different priorities besides, uh, hard work that get rewarded. Um, you'll, you can have

00:31:15.540 people that work, don't work hard and they get rewarded because they are the, the right diversity

00:31:19.320 score. Right. Um, and so, um, you, if you're a young guy, you know, a zoomer or, or younger

00:31:26.140 millennial, that's, that's just starting out. Um, like you, I mean, there's a few things you 0.97

00:31:31.420 have to think as well, where you might have, um, boomer or older Gen X parents who lived in the

00:31:38.500 time of plenty. And they're completely clueless about how bad things really are. And there's also,

00:31:44.320 you have to recognize the circumstances you're in and understand they might never get it,

00:31:49.420 right? They might never get it. And they might have that bumper sticker on the car

00:31:52.960 of spending my kid's inheritance and think it's just the funniest joke in the world

00:31:58.000 and not get how hard you have to toil just to keep your head above water.

00:32:02.800 And so you can't be bitter towards them. That's right.

00:32:05.260 right you cannot be bitter towards them because that's not going to solve anything at all that's

00:32:09.040 right i mean it's it goes back to like the like the manosphere and red pill kind of discussion

00:32:13.240 like that we had before where guys who get it and get how the you know the intersexual dynamic

00:32:19.000 um is totally messed up today and so then what do they do they just start hating women yeah right

00:32:24.340 it's like you can't do that the sin has to stop with you at some point the sin has to stop yeah 0.68

00:32:29.180 you know even if the boomers don't get it you have to be the one you have to get it and you

00:32:32.640 have to act upon it yeah yeah absolutely what i just had a thought what you guys were talking

00:32:37.780 and this is it kind of made me sad just now and i never thought of it in a sad way before but

00:32:41.940 um when i when i was a young man you know i wasn't looking for a house or anything i didn't have a

00:32:48.300 wife at this point i found out that when my father bought his first house that my grandfather had had

00:32:55.340 lent him some money to make the down payment and uh you know and then for christmas every year he

00:32:59.760 would cut off a few you know points or whatever um anyway but uh when i found that out i was like

00:33:05.380 like shocked i was like why why would why would he lend you money i didn't know and that's that's

00:33:11.760 like sad that i was shocked about that like isn't that shouldn't that be normal yeah right yeah like

00:33:16.100 dad i don't have enough money for the down payment but you know i'm starting a family

00:33:18.940 can i borrow you know whatever it was five thousand dollar and who knows what it was

00:33:23.100 and that was normal that in those days and i just now thought to myself like

00:33:27.000 that's sad that i was shocked by that yeah right yeah totally of course yeah of course that should

00:33:32.360 be normal and that that being said you know to i and i i'm hesitant to say it i i want to say

00:33:38.880 because i want to boast um on my my in-laws but i know that they would just be nervous they don't

00:33:44.680 want me they don't want me to brag on them yeah yeah but we when we moved here um they were very

00:33:50.260 generous and helped with the down payment and so yeah so this is not to say that um no boom and

00:33:55.520 they're boomers yeah and god bless them for their generosity their kindness towards us so we're not

00:33:59.200 talking about everybody we have to be able to talk about groups we have to be able to talk about

00:34:03.520 generalities that we're not saying you to every individual that's because that's part of the

00:34:07.560 problem is we make the footnote if we can find one exception you know there's one guy who's a

00:34:11.940 quadriplegic so we can't ever say that men should work out right there's one uh boomer couple that's

00:34:16.500 generous so we can't ever say you know like the danger of centralized power is often represented

00:34:21.700 by the word king. As Americans, we hate the word king. Civilian ownership of body armor is about

00:34:29.900 helping people to have increased power to resist tyrants and criminals. And so Armored Republic

00:34:37.260 is about helping you to preserve your God-given rights to the honor of the Lord Jesus Christ

00:34:42.200 because he is the king of kings and he governs kings and he will judge them.

00:34:46.560 this is armored republic and in a republic there is no king but christ

00:34:52.920 we are free craftsmen and we are honored to be your armor spread of choice

00:34:59.340 yeah and my my parents are an exception too like they they helped my wife and and me out

00:35:16.500 a ton when we were first starting out financially and so and there's other ways to do this besides

00:35:20.800 money by the way like right and in the book you talk about this you know with the kids and stuff

00:35:25.180 like that you know and you know my wife doesn't work we're pretty blessed in that way but my you

00:35:29.440 know my wife's parents we live in the same town as them they're taking the kids all the time yeah

00:35:33.780 you know my folks do too i need time to go to the store you know and they're there and they're

00:35:38.240 willing to do it and they want to do it and same with us that doesn't require a dime i mean you

00:35:42.320 you know maybe a few uh you know lunches here and there but yeah you know what i mean but it

00:35:46.440 also means like if especially in the current housing conditions like if you're single there 0.98

00:35:52.380 is absolutely zero shame living at home absolutely none at all like anybody's like you're a loser who 1.00

00:35:57.820 lives in your mom's basement it's like no you're an idiot that pays a thousand dollars a month for 1.00

00:36:01.620 an apartment for a studio yeah absolutely foolish take that thousand dollars that you're not paying 1.00

00:36:06.900 and save that up so have a down payment and you could have one fairly quickly yeah a couple years

00:36:11.200 No, you're absolutely right. Yeah. So, and part of the reason why we moved here to Texas,

00:36:16.620 to central Texas was we don't just have my wife's parents, but we have my parents. So we have both

00:36:21.380 sides within my wife's parents are, I think it's a 3.7 miles. And then my parents are like 12 miles. 1.00

00:36:28.300 That's amazing. And so like all the help that we get with the grandkids, like my mom right now is,

00:36:32.840 she's teaching piano lessons to my wife because she grew up and they were, you know, a sports thing.

00:36:38.160 my family was all music it was like you're going to learn math english science and music is right 0.93

00:36:42.180 you know so like so they so they you know they did sports and they're dumb you know and like

00:36:48.680 you know but my family did music and so my wife like she's learning like it's cool seeing my wife

00:36:56.240 developed this friendship with my mom yeah and like they're talking about musicals you know and

00:37:00.420 and they're you know she's teaching her piano lessons and these kind of and so anyways all

00:37:04.140 But having the grandparents in the life of your children and having generosity if it's needed, and often it is, you know, financial generosity, but other forms of service and generosity and wisdom and just time and energy and just that's all of it.

00:37:19.900 So anyways, what I want to say is this,

00:37:22.040 that I think as we're trying to chop down

00:37:24.460 old Donner's Oak, you know,

00:37:26.240 and then not just that,

00:37:28.080 but then rebuild one of the quickest ways,

00:37:30.080 you've heard people say like,

00:37:31.520 one of the quickest ways we can beat,

00:37:33.220 you know, the clown world, you know, whatever,

00:37:35.020 is just conservatives having kids 0.92

00:37:36.640 and then keeping them out of the public school.

00:37:38.580 And there's some truth to that.

00:37:39.780 Like, you know, go ahead.

00:37:41.420 Yeah, it's like, yes,

00:37:42.580 but it's like the critique of the Benedict option.

00:37:45.280 It's like, oh yeah, fall back

00:37:46.400 and have intentional community.

00:37:47.660 And it's like, then what?

00:37:48.720 Right, right, right, right.

00:37:49.360 have kids keep an eye on the public school but like then what yeah right right what do you fill

00:37:53.380 them with what do you what do you have them do yeah exactly you don't just have them and then

00:37:57.940 that's it right but have kids yeah keep your kids don't send them to caesar yeah um and then with

00:38:03.980 you know christian schools uh give them a good solid education whether it's through homeschooling

00:38:08.860 or through you know a classical christian school whatever it may be but also one one way that we

00:38:14.100 can chop down that you know that pagan tree and and actually do something rebuild christendom

00:38:20.200 is like could you imagine i hear so many um of the boomer generation saying like we'll be gone soon

00:38:26.740 and man things are bad now they're gonna get really bad once we're gone you know like we're

00:38:31.120 the lone bulwark you know holding back the tide you know and they kind of are they kind of are

00:38:35.760 yeah but they know how to fix like make things work that's true that's true like yeah and so

00:38:40.460 my generation doesn't right so but what i was going to say is that like imagine if every christian

00:38:44.980 boomer uh just like one of the ways that christendom was built is that christians left

00:38:51.140 an inheritance to their children yeah yeah that's literally built into the bible a good man or a wise

00:38:56.900 man uh not only leaves an inheritance to his children but his children's children like could

00:39:01.620 you imagine if all all the the wicked you know so and think of it like the wealth of the wicked

00:39:06.320 laid up for the righteous okay so let's say there really is some wicked wealth that has been laid

00:39:10.000 up during the 80s and 90s and by the boomer generation you know just just a smidge you know

00:39:16.220 but like let's say like there was some wicked wealth accumulated um on on the backs of some

00:39:20.940 corrupt dealings and things that were wrong and and maybe certain boomers you know who were just

00:39:24.960 middle class and just trying to live a life they didn't know what was going on in those back rooms

00:39:28.480 they didn't see but they see it now okay great then then you've got some of that wicked wealth

00:39:33.180 and you yourself didn't necessarily do a wicked thing we're not blaming you but you've got some

00:39:36.740 wicked wealth during this time of plenty where where the future was sold and it's not your fault

00:39:42.240 okay so take do the what the bible says take the wealth of the wicked and give it to your christian

00:39:48.580 kids and your christian grandkids and and just for the record be thoroughly biblical with this

00:39:53.380 if your kids if your millennial kid um has denied the faith write him out of the will

00:39:59.100 disinherit him don't give him a dime yeah and give and give his portion to whatever one of your kids 0.55

00:40:06.020 didn't go trance yeah right and like that's how we win yeah yeah cut off the wicked i want to say 0.67

00:40:12.100 this too because i want to give advice to both sides of this right the boomers and then the

00:40:16.560 younger guys yeah um here's the thing you you can't assume that the other is gonna know what

00:40:23.280 to do here so so exactly if if if you have an idea or a feeling that maybe your kid needs help

00:40:29.460 right yeah ask him this is good ask him if he if you can help him yeah because he's not gonna know

00:40:35.000 to ask he's not going to know he can ask you he might be in my situation where that's completely

00:40:39.180 foreign to him yeah you know and i put myself in that situation what if i was you know you know

00:40:43.420 20 23 and i and i was about to start a family would i have asked my dad for help i don't know

00:40:48.140 that i would have you know what i mean because i didn't even know it was really a thing right

00:40:51.500 yeah so so that's that's the one thing don't wait to be asked the other thing on the on the younger

00:40:56.200 man's side ask right yeah ask for help and they might say no and they might say no they might say

00:41:03.140 But ask, be the one that's at least reaching out.

00:41:05.840 And that's what I did with, you know,

00:41:07.460 I knew the situation between my parents and my wives.

00:41:10.340 And so I sat down with, you know, with one set

00:41:13.600 and that I felt comfortable asking,

00:41:15.800 knowing their position.

00:41:17.340 And they did a really, you know, and I asked,

00:41:19.300 and it was really good because I asked

00:41:21.160 and I'll just throw myself under the bus here.

00:41:23.560 They came back and said, okay, yeah,

00:41:27.180 we actually were already thinking about that.

00:41:29.980 But I think you're going too far.

00:41:31.700 You need some skin in the game.

00:41:33.140 okay so okay we're gonna we're gonna split the difference here you know and so we're gonna help

00:41:38.300 with this much and but uh if you're gonna own something i i we need a little blood when we see

00:41:44.500 you and they were right yeah that was good that changed my perspective they were absolutely right

00:41:48.760 yeah and uh and so i they they were able to teach me in that moment you're actually pretty smart

00:41:53.520 they are so it was like absolutely so it was both it was both um generosity and conviction

00:42:01.760 and some discipleship that came with us some wisdom that came and but yeah but we have to

00:42:06.480 be able to have that conversation without them getting offended i can't believe you asked

00:42:10.360 yeah you know and they did and they did it you know and then them pushing back and saying

00:42:14.260 okay um so you're asking for generosity but maybe you actually work a little too

00:42:18.580 maybe get a job you know and without me getting offended and saying okay sure mom dad that's

00:42:27.320 that makes sense and they might they might think you're really lazy and i tell you that like we

00:42:31.260 we would help you but you're super lazy and and we need to see something and maybe they're right

00:42:35.880 and maybe they're wrong and you're able to explain no actually can i can i just show you the hours of

00:42:39.700 my week and what i've been doing and unfortunately this is what and but but like many things often

00:42:45.080 the truth is somewhere you know you split the difference and uh you know what maybe we should

00:42:50.020 be working a little bit harder you know and then also hey maybe you also uh you've got something

00:42:54.700 that yes you built but also in the province of god you built during a time when building really

00:42:59.660 paid off and you know and there's there's truth on on both sides yeah some of it too is you know

00:43:05.980 if there if there is some kind of wealth i mean you see this a lot where um and i don't i don't 0.60

00:43:11.100 mean to like throw the boomers under the bus totally because i mean i don't think you are

00:43:14.740 yeah anytime that you like bring up the intergenerational thing like especially

00:43:18.800 people in the boomer generation get extremely offended because they worked extremely hard

00:43:24.500 and they know that they worked really hard and they see the younger generation not work hard

00:43:28.220 and so they they think you're just ragging on them for being old and and not with it um and and i

00:43:35.780 can i can see how that's like really insulting uh because when you work hard for what you have

00:43:39.680 somebody saying you don't deserve that makes you really mad yeah um and so i'm not saying that at

00:43:45.960 all but i what i do think i see all the time is like um someone from that generation will work

00:43:51.840 hard they'll build up a business it'll it'll be successful they'll they'll work their entire

00:43:56.200 lives to build this and they have kids they could bring the kids into the business and hand the

00:44:01.440 business off to the kids or or set up an arrangement where they can buy it from the parents or whatever

00:44:05.620 but more often than not what do they do they reach retirement age they sell the business yeah right

00:44:11.680 where here's this business this money generating wealth generation machine that you've devoted your

00:44:16.900 entire life to to making right and good for you for doing that and yeah god bless you for doing it

00:44:22.180 But you have posterity that could be part of that and should have been part of that, that maybe you didn't include, maybe they didn't want to at a time or whatever.

00:44:30.560 There's all sorts of different particularities, right?

00:44:33.420 But so often the case is they'll cash out and maximize how much money they can get for it rather than giving it to their son or their sons or their son-in-law at a discount.

00:44:47.280 And they're going to make less on it.

00:44:49.000 They could keep working at it a little bit semi-retired.

00:44:51.040 you see a lot of that happen too but but more often than not it's we're cashing out of the 0.67

00:44:55.400 business you go build your own right remember who was the guy so part of this is the the pietism so 0.51

00:45:01.000 the the idea so some some boomers will actually because here's the deal you're forced to be

00:45:05.860 generous at the end of your life you can't take it with you yeah so everybody you know i remember uh

00:45:09.780 you know talking to somebody about tithe and they're like what do you think about tithing and

00:45:13.180 you know and that's a big conversation yeah and so we're talking about tithing and like so i've

00:45:17.800 never talked about money in my church once now granted the church is two and a half years old

00:45:22.100 we're a church plant um and i'm not even bragging about it jesus talked about money all the time so

00:45:27.500 it's fine and it's a huge idol in a lot of people's hearts and so you know so i i plan to talk about

00:45:31.940 but part of the reason i haven't talked about is because i recognize i planted it halfway through

00:45:36.040 2021 we quickly came into 2022 and 2023 and i'm just like these like everybody is barely getting

00:45:43.200 by yeah i know how hard it is right now i am sympathetic as a pastor yeah and and by the

00:45:48.560 grace of god um we've made some good decisions my wife and i over the years and things like that

00:45:53.780 but also just god's kindness towards us and so i know that you know my family is in a better

00:45:57.520 situation financially than a lot of families in the church and it's not because the church pays

00:46:01.820 me some exorbitant salary or anything like that but other other financials i saw the private jet

00:46:05.480 parked out in the front actually i saw the private jet park yeah yeah you guys you guys know because

00:46:12.740 you've been borrowing my car all week long. I didn't even rent you a car. I let you borrow

00:46:17.660 my car. And it is, it is nice. Yeah. It's good. It was like the suspension is 2003 or 2004. It's

00:46:27.160 bad. It's a bad car. But that was another good decision. I bought that bad boy in cash for five

00:46:34.100 grand. Exactly. So anyways, all those things being said, my point is part of it is the pietism

00:46:41.540 situation that, that I think you, so I was having the conversation with a dude about time. That's

00:46:47.580 how I got there. And I said, here's the deal. He was like, well, how much money should you give?

00:46:51.100 And I said, really, the question is, is to who and when should I give? We always think how much,

00:46:57.560 but, but really I would think timing and, and to, to, to who do I give? So think more about when

00:47:04.420 and who, not just about what, because, because the answer is for all of man, whether you're 0.82

00:47:09.820 christian or not you could be a just a rank pagan uh the with all of humanity if we're talking about

00:47:15.560 how much all of every single human being who has ever lived has given 100 that's the number so if 0.53

00:47:22.520 we're talking about the what how much will i give uh eventually you will give it all it'll either go

00:47:27.900 to the state you know with some death tax or whatever or it'll go to you know some some

00:47:32.760 southern california millionaire is going to give it to her dog you know or like write them into 1.00

00:47:37.180 the way. So you give it to the state, you give it to the dog, you give it to your kids, you give it

00:47:40.840 to, but everybody's going to give it to someone. And this is the, I think part of the problem with

00:47:45.140 Christians who have adopted pietism is that, well, I'm not going to give it to the state. 0.99

00:47:50.340 I'm not going to give it to my dog. I'm going to give it all to the church, but not my kids. 1.00

00:47:55.640 And so I think it was Hobby Lobby. This is what I was trying to get back to. I think it was Hobby

00:48:00.860 lobby the owner of hobby lobby uh it came out a few months ago that uh instead of giving his

00:48:07.860 business to his son who wanted it and was a part of the business i think on the board and all these

00:48:12.360 kind of things uh he's selling the whole thing and giving it all to charity yeah it's like a

00:48:17.400 reverse corbin law thing yeah like the parable that we talked about yeah it's just in the reverse

00:48:21.760 exactly exactly and a lot of people see it as like a lot of older you know christians who are

00:48:26.600 more pietistic oh how they see it as wow wow look this christian business is now is now going from

00:48:34.180 the christian caterpillar into the cocoon and coming out the christian butterfly it's the full

00:48:38.140 this is the full climax of a christian business that glorify god and now is going to glorify god

00:48:43.500 infinitely more by being sold for parts and given to a church you know or some christian charity

00:48:49.120 where i'm like no hold up like one of the ways we build chrysidom is not just giving to 501c3s

00:48:57.020 like one of the ways you build chrysidom is is you you actually make a good product i think it

00:49:02.520 was steve jobs and there's plenty of problems with him but it's it's still worthwhile he was

00:49:06.700 talking about bill gates ragging on bill gates and between the two give me i'll take steve jobs

00:49:10.620 you know any day of the week uh but he said this he said uh people are like well bill gates gives

00:49:15.800 way more to charity than you do and he said well bill gates has to give to charity uh because um

00:49:21.000 he doesn't have any skills to offer like that's the only way the reason why he gives to charity

00:49:26.900 is because that's his only way of being generous he said i've given to the world by actually

00:49:31.200 producing something good yeah yeah of course people are like that's so arrogant but it's like

00:49:37.000 yeah it's based but it's not necessarily area it's true and steve jobs never forced me or tried

00:49:42.140 to force me to take a vaccine that's right amen he's not trying to make me eat so all that being

00:49:49.160 said but the point is we don't think of generosity in those terms like you know ron martin has some

00:49:53.580 good stuff on this talking about like rockefeller you know and things like okay here's this guy

00:49:57.380 he's uber uber rich but but his contribution think about it like this with his contribution

00:50:02.740 did he become a billionaire and then everybody else you know uh at the expense of everyone

00:50:08.160 everybody else went down a little bit no no no he went way up and in him skyrocketing into the

00:50:14.480 stratosphere everybody else actually went up not as much as him but they went up some too because

00:50:19.640 production was lengthened the hours of production you've got oil burning you know with lights and

00:50:24.680 all these things and so anyways all that being said in terms of like what can i give to the next

00:50:29.180 generation it's not just a check and i think boomers need to know that it's like these last

00:50:34.120 it could be your last 15 years of life and maybe you don't have a ton of money maybe it's like

00:50:38.240 joel i don't know what boomers you're talking about but i ain't one of them i got just enough

00:50:41.960 in my 401 okay uh you know 401k and there's in with everything that's happening you know with

00:50:47.620 the stock market all these things i i'm nervous that i'm i may not make it i might have to go

00:50:51.880 back to work i might outlive my money and that's a real thing so but right now you're like but right

00:50:56.240 now technically i'm not having to work right now or i'm only having to work 10 hours a week or

00:51:00.440 blah blah blah great so you don't have any money to spare but you have time you have wisdom you

00:51:04.140 have insight you have experience that's right so help help um help your son or help your grandson

00:51:09.180 start a business sweat you know a little bit you know that's right indoors in air conditioning i'm

00:51:14.240 not saying break a hit you know but like but you know some of them will you know work ethic's still

00:51:18.700 there right these guys do you know so there's a lot of ways to be productive and generous yeah

00:51:23.080 yeah i think i think when it comes to like buying a house and and things like that um like i said

00:51:27.800 there's a lot of angst out there yeah if you can get help then get it some people can't get help

00:51:32.360 right um it's going to take more effort from you you just have to come to terms with that

00:51:38.840 it's going to take more effort it's going to take more patience it's going to take a lot more than

00:51:43.300 it took your your father or you know your grandfather or anything like that the reward

00:51:47.340 might not be as big and the reward might not be as big you know and and i you know i bought my

00:51:51.280 house probably right around the same time you did joel um and i bought a smaller house than i could

00:51:56.480 afford it at the time. I was concerned about the economy after COVID. I didn't know what was going

00:52:00.840 to happen. That was the end of the world as far as I was concerned. So I did all the things that

00:52:05.040 you should do. At the end of the day, though, you're going to have to be able to compromise,

00:52:13.040 I think. You might not be able to buy your dream house. And very few people do buy their dream

00:52:18.020 house the first time around. Or maybe you'll never be able to buy your dream house. But the thing is,

00:52:21.840 you can put up with a lot more than you think you can you know i've got uh four kids and uh we know

00:52:27.140 we live in a 1500 square foot house we have one bathroom i think you were mentioning you guys do

00:52:31.180 too um and you know what you know it could be that um we'd never move out of that house and i have to

00:52:37.160 put in a bathroom or we have to deal figure out some kind of strategy with four boys and then me

00:52:42.380 and my wife right well yeah i mean i i like to think about it like when when you know everyone's

00:52:48.760 complaining in my house because someone's using the bathroom we all have to go right i i like to

00:52:52.620 think back to okay when my great great grandparents had eight kids yeah that's right and they lived in

00:52:58.140 a smaller house than i do now yeah how did they live right was it did they view themselves as 0.98

00:53:03.180 living in squalor no they didn't right and that is one thing about the boomers they survived you

00:53:08.220 know and thrived rewarded more uh for their work but um they also were very hard workers and they 0.52

00:53:16.400 were way more frugal they were not spending six dollars on a coffee every day yeah they would

00:53:21.780 never do that right they were just you know like but there's truth in that like absolutely it's

00:53:27.200 like we drink uh we drink crap coffee yeah every day yeah and you know and that's just what we do

00:53:32.460 and it's cheap and you know so there there was a frugality absolutely like yeah i know coffee guys

00:53:37.980 are gonna hate me for saying this but there's very little difference between the really cheap

00:53:41.600 coffee and the really expensive coffee you can get by and it's fine is this is this episode

00:53:45.960 sponsored by it might be i don't know you're gonna have to cut that out yeah but seriously though i

00:53:52.280 mean you know you you might not you might have a house that you need to actually fix up and you

00:53:57.020 don't know how to do it right you're gonna need to figure that one out and i see and you can with 0.97

00:54:01.140 youtube and you with youtube but but i think even the boomers that won't help you with the money 0.70

00:54:05.220 they they already know how to do a lot of the stuff you need to do and and if they can help

00:54:09.620 you in that way but you're gonna have to get a little bit out of the comfort zone that you're

00:54:13.440 expecting to be in yeah you have to tell your dad dad i don't know how to put up drywall

00:54:17.380 can you do can you show me you know yeah and then like oh you know i'll show you how to yeah

00:54:23.460 exactly it was like you know uh reverse psychology you know it is like right dad i don't think you

00:54:28.840 know how to make put drywall in it's like oh yeah let me show you i don't think you can change a

00:54:33.920 transmission in the car so what you're saying is you may not be able to get your boomer father to

00:54:37.760 buy you a house, but with enough reverse psychology, you can get them to build you a house.

00:54:43.200 He's on a plot of land. I mean, they have that work ethic where they just want to show you that

00:54:49.220 they can do stuff and it doesn't take much to get them to want to do it. I've got a very

00:54:55.920 industrious friend of mine who lives in the same town as I do. And he is currently right now, he

00:55:02.820 he bought a house on his, on his father's like plot of land. And it was, you know, it was very

00:55:07.220 old and very broken and stuff like that. So what he did was he bought it. And then he, and he also

00:55:12.340 bought like a, you know, an RV, like a, not a gray RV. And they're living in the RV right now,

00:55:17.280 like a breaking bad while he's fixing the house. And, you know, we've got two families in our

00:55:22.560 church doing the same thing, right? Well, that's the way to do it. He's fixing up this house and

00:55:26.480 he got the house, you know, for a reasonable price and everything. It might take something

00:55:29.960 like that it might you got to find these kind of workarounds like and that's the thing it's like i

00:55:34.280 don't want to exalt poverty like i want even in the book when i'm when i'm telling you know what

00:55:38.880 that you're in the cold open um some people read that and think like oh he's telling young guys to

00:55:44.060 just not even try to go to college and things like that i'm like no no if you should go to college

00:55:48.140 you should like if if it was 1960 or 1920 and you were the kind of person that would have gone to

00:55:53.780 college yeah to go be an engineer or a doctor or a lawyer or something like that if college is for

00:55:58.060 then go to do it don't do that but if if if you don't have if you wouldn't have had any business

00:56:02.400 being in college then you shouldn't try to go now just to get some degree um as a credential

00:56:07.760 for working because you're you're going to be your ceiling there even though generally speaking

00:56:12.280 the ceiling is pretty high your personal ceiling is going to be low and and you should go to pursue

00:56:18.260 something that will be the most benefit to you and your own abilities and and so it each i'm

00:56:25.280 writing generally uh understanding that there are particular particularities and everybody is

00:56:31.980 different right everyone's situation is different if you're the type of person who would not have

00:56:35.960 gone to college in the 1960s you probably shouldn't go now don't go uh and and what that ends up you

00:56:41.760 know meaning is different people are different yes different skills and abilities and that that

00:56:46.460 is good and and i want people to pursue the most productive ends for themselves so that they can

00:56:52.560 they can have this so i'm not i'm not exalting like like poverty either like yeah live in a 1400

00:56:57.340 square foot house with your eight kids because that's that's truly godly living it's like no

00:57:02.360 you you should want the big house that you can fit your large family absolutely you should want

00:57:06.420 a nice car you should it's not wrong to want these things it's not idolatry to want nice

00:57:10.560 things for your family and for your children um but um when you're in tough times you you might

00:57:17.780 have to make that sacrifice to get there you might there may be a season where you have to do it i

00:57:22.400 remember growing up like my parents um were extremely frugal like we would maybe go out to

00:57:27.160 eat on vacation yeah maybe once or twice a year right and when we did i'd be like oh i want i want

00:57:33.640 a pop i want a pop can have a pop you're getting water every time the first time i ever had a pop

00:57:40.120 uh going out to eat was when i was in college so yeah it's like uh like they really were that

00:57:47.900 frugal and they really did squirrel away money and save and scrimp yeah and and they you know

00:57:53.060 the ones that are retired now you know we've kind of like joked around about retirement um the ones

00:57:57.240 that are retired enjoying their life and yeah they're they're going golfing in florida or

00:58:01.220 whatever um that it's not wrong for them to enjoy that they worked extremely hard to get to that

00:58:06.240 point it's the question of what trade-off are you making necessarily to be able to do that

00:58:11.520 um for the like because you do have duties to your kids and your grandkids are you making a 0.99

00:58:17.080 trade-off there that is not a good one right it only becomes idolatry if you do stupid things to 0.98

00:58:22.980 get what you want right you do things that are sinful to get what you want yeah and so you know 0.96

00:58:26.640 you you can want the nice car right yeah but if you're um abandoning your children to get it

00:58:31.380 yeah um then that's that's that's a problem yeah and and likewise if you're a young man and you

00:58:35.960 want a nice car that's nothing wrong with that but if you're putting yourself into debt slavery to

00:58:39.980 get it yeah um that's a problem yeah you know what i mean right absolutely absolutely yeah so it

00:58:45.060 seems like another marker of trash world is back to you know you were talking about there are 0.99

00:58:48.820 disparities between people and that's a good thing god didn't create this androgynous world

00:58:53.240 i not everybody's going to be uh not everybody's going to be you know a rocket surgeon yeah that's

00:58:59.940 right that's right certainly not me certainly not the guy saying rocket surgeon you know so like

00:59:05.780 not everybody's going to be you know a rocket scientist you know brain that was intentional

00:59:10.000 but uh yeah so like not not everybody's gonna be able to do that joke uh but man one of the biggest

00:59:15.920 graces uh in my life is just been you know not viewing yourself more highly than you are but

00:59:21.420 viewing yourself with sober judgment and just and just at an early age coming to terms with okay

00:59:25.640 here's my skill set here's what i'm good at here's what i'm weak at and just stay in your lane just

00:59:31.740 do your thing just you know and and be a blessing to uh to humanity and and honor the lord by

00:59:38.480 working hard and the thing that you can do well and for some people that's going to be brain

00:59:42.960 surgery and for other people uh that's going to be plumbing you know and uh and you know like i

00:59:48.700 think of the office episode where uh dwight shrewd you know there's three people he's like one of you

00:59:53.100 is going to be rich one of you is going to be mediocre and one of you is going to be a really

00:59:57.740 great mother. So whatever it is, just doing it, knowing who you are, doing it to the glory of God

01:00:15.240 and realizing it is a grace. It is not oppression. It is a grace that we live in a world that is not

01:00:21.920 androgynous. We do not live in an egalitarian world. We live in a world of hierarchy and the

01:00:26.960 sooner you accept that reality at every level, for male to female, from older to younger,

01:00:35.800 but then also with each individual person in terms of this guy's smarter, this guy's not

01:00:40.360 quite as smart, this guy's stronger, this guy's weak, and just recognizing, okay, we're different

01:00:45.780 and learning your role as a man, learning your role as a young man or an old man, married,

01:00:51.580 single at every single level as a woman uh learning your place in god's created order

01:00:57.380 yeah will pay dividends yeah no matter no matter what you do uh it's going to be go much more well

01:01:04.660 well for you uh if you know who you are you know god's world and you know where you fit and you

01:01:10.820 accept that with joy and get to work yeah you know so yeah and that flies in the face of every like

01:01:17.620 elementary school that's right teacher where it's like every single one of you in this classroom is

01:01:22.080 going to become president of the united states right and that you actually that's true like not

01:01:26.100 all of them could be surgeons but but we have seen that anyone could be the president there is no

01:01:33.460 disability that that was a dark prophecy that sadly has been fulfilled so all right thanks for

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The NXR Podcast - February 23, 2024

THE FRIDAY SPECIAL - Gentlemen, I Regret To Inform You… Boomers

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