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You know, we often say life is a journey, but is it one that you're actually enjoying?
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Do you feel like there's more to life than what you're currently experiencing right now?
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Or maybe you're already walking down a particular path and not sure how it's going to shape
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up?
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Well, today we're going to look at one of the most iconic journeys out there.
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One that you can honestly say has inspired a lot of anime since its debut way back in
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the mid 80s or mid 90s.
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And of course, I'm talking about the one, the only Dragon Ball.
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Hey what's going on guys?
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My name is Nate and you're listening to the Otaku Liberation, a show where we help you
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break free from the chains that are holding you back in your life by connecting biblical
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principles with themes from your favorite anime.
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And again, no need for a spoiler warning, because I'm sure we've all have seen Dragon
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Ball in one form or another.
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So I'm going to dive right in.
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So what is Dragon Ball?
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It was created by Akira Toriyama and its initial run was from 1984 to 1995.
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And its original premise was, believe it or not, kind of based on the journey to the West.
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Alright, basically just, forgive me, I don't know how the journey to the West is myself,
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but I do believe it's by a character called Son Goku, who I believe is like the Monkey
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God or Monkey Deity, something along those lines.
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And it was about its journey.
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Alright, and that's kind of the inspiration Toriyama took when he was first creating Dragon
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Ball.
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And initially, Dragon Ball's whole premise was to find, believe it or not, the Dragon
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Balls, right?
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The seven mystical orbs that when you gather them all, you can have any wish that you want
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granted, right?
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And the reason I say that was the initial goal, because again, if you've been keeping
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up with Dragon Ball, then you know the Dragon Balls have almost been long forgotten, right?
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The story has changed drastically from how it was in the early 90s to where it is currently.
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And you know, whether good or bad, I think that does symbolize how our own journey and
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our own lives can take.
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Because you may start off with one goal in mind, one particular thing that you're trying
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to do and accomplish, and along the way, life happens, and you have to pivot.
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You have to change direction.
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You have to figure out, okay, so maybe that's not going to work out.
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What am I going to do now?
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And for some people, you can take it in stride and just kind of go with it, roll with the
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punches, kind of go with the flow.
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And others may have an actual issue with it, right?
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They're like, no, this is my plan.
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This is what I had planned to do.
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It's supposed to go X, Y, and Z. Now it's more Z, Y, X, and I don't know what to do,
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and I'm just going to get real frazzled and frustrated.
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And I know for a long time that I was the latter.
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If things didn't happen the way that I envisioned them or how I planned them out to be, then
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I would actually get really upset about it.
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And it would bother me for days on end.
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Something happened on Monday that might have thrown off my plan I'm still mad about on
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Thursday.
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And when you're stuck in the past like that, you can never move forward, right?
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You're always just stuck.
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You always have a sense of just anger and frustration over things that you can't control,
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right?
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That's the biggest thing is that typically we're the most upset over things that we have
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no control over whatsoever.
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And why waste that energy?
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Why not direct that energy towards things we can control over, right?
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Because we can't control what happens to us.
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We just control how we respond to it.
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And that's been the biggest kind of journey I've been on in the last couple of years
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is just, okay, just kind of taking my hands off the reins and letting God work through
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me and work out how things are going to work out, how they need to work out, right?
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Now, I'm not saying don't do anything.
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Don't just say, have your hands up and just say, all right, God, you got it.
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I'm just going to sit here and twiddle my thumbs.
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No, don't do that.
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Because again, he wants us to participate in our own journeys, in our own lives and
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just take the helm because I heard it this way and I thought it was pretty interesting
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that God doesn't want puppets.
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He wants partners.
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Again, God doesn't want puppets.
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He wants partners.
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And when I heard that, it really resonated with me because again, one guy gave us free
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will so we can choose to follow him.
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We can choose to be obedient and follow his will or we can choose not to.
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We can very, very much so choose to go our own way and to do our own thing.
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But if you've been around long enough, you know that never worked out the way you expect
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it to.
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And you know, it's worse.
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It's always going to be worse.
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And if you just listen to what he said and follow his direction, his guidance, then you'll
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be much better off.
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Even if it doesn't seem like it now, because again, like any journey, like any journey
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in life when you're trying to learn something new or even if you're improving on something
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that you've already learned that you can.
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Life has ups and downs, right?
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It has peaks and valleys.
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And so nothing is not going to be sunshine and rainbows all the time.
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And it's not going to be dark and gloomy all the time.
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They come in ways.
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They come together.
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And it's really about navigating that.
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It's really about navigating the high points and the low points and really relying on the
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one thing that's constant and all that.
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Right?
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God, he's never changing.
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He's always constant.
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And the way that kind of is, you know, back to Dragon Ball, if you guys have, you know,
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if you've been around long enough, if you've seen Goku's journey from when he was a child,
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again, Goku is the main character for those who haven't seen Dragon Ball.
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Dragon Ball literally begins from when Goku was a child to where we are now.
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You know, he's actually he's a granddad now, believe it or not.
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His oldest child has a daughter.
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And we've been along on that journey with Goku since, you know, essentially since day
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one since he was an infant.
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And some of the trials that he's gone through, you know, dealing with King Piccolo, dealing
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with the Red Ribbon Army, you know, then as he got older, became an adult, dealing
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with his older brother that he never knew, Raditz, and then dealing with the kind of
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self discovery when he realized, OK, I'm not human.
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I'm I'm an alien.
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I'm a Saiyan.
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And finally, other Saiyans and other people like him for the first time in his life.
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And, you know, they show up and they're trying to destroy everything.
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Right.
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And then it's we used to go from those moments to moments of, you know, this peace.
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And we know he married wife, Chichi, he has a family in nothing.
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He's saving he's saving the universe on more times than any of us can count, really.
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And one thing that Goku does consistently throughout the series is that he just enjoys
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life.
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Right.
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He enjoys every bit of it.
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Well, I should say every bit of it.
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But you know, you don't understand.
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You understand what I'm saying.
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Even when his back's against the wall, even when the whatever, whoever he's fighting
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against him, like they have to up a hand, he he gets serious, but he's always reveling,
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just loving every single bit of it.
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I mean, that's what Saiyans are.
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They enjoy they enjoy a good fight.
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They enjoy embracing the challenge, embracing the struggle, because on the other side of
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it, they know they're going to be better off for it.
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They know they're going to get stronger.
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They know that they're going to get to that next level so they can take on the next big
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thing that comes that comes their way.
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And I mean, I know athletes definitely understand that, you know, when you're when you're practicing,
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no one likes practice.
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I don't care what you say.
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No one likes practice.
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If you do, I love you, but you're you're a little strange.
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And you know, whether it's practicing skill, whether you're lifting weights and getting
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stronger and practicing your craft, you know, you're if you're a writer, you write a bunch
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of rough drafts or things like that.
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It's the the the the progress of getting from point A to B very rarely.
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People actually really enjoy every bit of that.
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Like most times we enjoy the end result more than what we did and what it takes to get
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through there, which is fine.
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I mean, it is what it is.
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But so we take it again, I was kind of just rewatching Dragon Ball, rereading about it
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and just understanding the dynamic.
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It's like, you know, as much as he enjoys training, Goku enjoys the real thing more.
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He enjoys the actual getting in, getting his hands dirty and going to work.
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Right.
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You know, Goku, Vegeta, you know, all the sands.
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And because that means that that's what they do.
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They live to fight.
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They live to really, you know, give it and give it the best that they can possibly give.
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And whatever life throws at them, they're running into a full force.
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And and honestly, I can look back at it now and see why that's inspired so many people.
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You know, even outside of just like our anime community, just like people in general, they
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can not only quote Dragon Ball, but they know what Dragon Ball is.
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Right.
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They understand the concept, the principles behind it, of, you know, hard work, you know,
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hard work helps you get to and get to your goals, get to that next level that you're
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trying to see.
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And just because you may lose once or twice doesn't mean you're out for you're down for
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the count.
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Right.
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Long as you can pick yourself back up, along with you keep going and take a step by step
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by step and then just keep going.
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Every time you get knocked down, you get up, dust yourself off and keep moving forward.
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And it was really just inspiring.
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And honestly, if you just look up on YouTube, how Dragon Ball changed my life.
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I'm sure the vast majority of them was like, I'm a fitness guy.
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It's too good to be fair.
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Because I mean, I know when I was a kid and I saw these dudes bulging muscles, you know,
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using martial arts and stuff like, yeah, that's cool.
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I want to do that.
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Like this.
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And I'm sure you hear a lot of similar stories like that.
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But in another kind of under arching premise behind Dragon Ball, besides just, you know,
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enjoying the journey and just taking everything in stride is a concept of redemption.
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And honestly, I didn't really realize this until I was preparing for this episode.
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And throughout the history of Dragon Ball, Goku has had the uncanny ability to change
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foes into not only friends, but honestly, some of the closest friends that not just
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to him, but as for the whole group in general.
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I mean, it started off with started off with Yamcha back in Dragon Ball.
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I mean, no, Yamcha is a meme now for those who know.
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But he wasn't a really a villain villain, but he wasn't a friend either.
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Right.
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And he's still around.
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And of course, the big ones we know is Piccolo.
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We go to beat King Piccolo.
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He was evil.
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He came back.
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He still was kind of evil.
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But through his relationship with Gohan and being around Goku and the rest of the guys
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over time, Piccolo became one of the most loyal companions that anyone's ever had.
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And that that says a lot.
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Then, of course, for the biggest one that all of us will know is Vegeta, who came to
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Earth literally to kill Goku, to kill all of them.
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Everyone he's friends with now.
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I say friends loosely because it's Vegeta, but everyone he's friends with now, he literally
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came there to kill.
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Right.
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And.
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And all because Goku made the decision to spare his life back in the day.
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Honestly, if Goku didn't make that decision to it to, you know, try to get the words right
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to extend that that type of offering that forgiveness towards this man, that honestly,
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they all would have died a long time ago because that single moment changed the course of a
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lot of things that happened later on in the series.
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You know, I'm talking about when they fought, you know, they fought Boo and even later on
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in Super and things like that.
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For those who keep up.
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Right.
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If Vegeta wasn't around, none of them would be.
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And that that whole thing stemmed from Goku deciding to, you know, just say, hey, you
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know, you don't you don't you don't deserve to die just because of what you've done.
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And that in of itself, I think speaks volumes for a lot of us is that our past doesn't define
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us, how we choose to move forward does.
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And honestly, this really, really hit home for me in a lot of ways because I serve out
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in one of our local jails where I'm at and just being there and worshiping with the guys
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there who, you know, whatever they've done to get in those into those positions, you
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know, that that's their business and and not there to cast judgment on them.
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We're just there to have them know the word of God and just know that again, your past
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doesn't define you.
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Whatever decisions you may have made to land you in whatever predicament you're in now,
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it doesn't have to be that you don't have to stay there.
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And through the grace of God, God was he was Goku in that moment, extending his arm when
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he gave Jesus to die for her, saying that you don't you don't have to die for your
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transgressions.
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You do have a shot at redemption.
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And just to know that you have that type of hope, you know, really put everything in respect,
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at least for me, at least for me, it did.
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And I'm talking about this whole journey that is life, right.
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Knowing that as long as you truly change.
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I mean, that's the key part.
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That's the key.
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You don't don't get it twisted.
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Don't think you can, you know, your past doesn't matter, but you keep doing the same thing
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over and over and over again.
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And it's like, no, no, no, you have to make the decision to change, to truly and genuinely
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want to change and change for the better.
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I'm not saying you got to you have to do an entire 180 overnight because, you know, let's
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be honest, that doesn't happen.
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But making the conscious effort to decide, OK, each and every day, I'm going to get a
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little bit better.
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Like I said in one of my previous episodes, you know, just get one percent better each
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and every day.
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And in a year from now, you you won't even be able to recognize yourself and you won't
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even believe that, man, I used to do that.
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Man, I used to be like that.
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Man, I'm glad I'm saved.
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I'm glad I was extended at Olive Branch to, you know, change my life.
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And really, and that could happen at any at any point in your life, no matter how old,
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how young you are.
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You may think, you know, you've made too many too many mistakes or you've made just this
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last big mistake was was it that was the nail in the coffin.
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And I say it's not because again, this life thing has has ups and downs and some downs
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are really, really, really down.
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And some ups are really, really, really up.
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Right.
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And if you give up now, you're never going to see that.
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You're never going to allow yourself the opportunity to experience that.
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And I don't want you to be like that.
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I don't want you to feel like, you know, because of the mistakes you've made, because of your
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decisions that you don't deserve happiness, that you don't deserve to, you know, have
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that goal, have that dream, have that vision.
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And kind of honestly, no one else can say that for you.
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No one else can can honestly take that from you.
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Right.
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At the end of the day, you're only in control of you.
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And that's true for everybody.
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You know, not your mom, not your dad, not your sister, brother, uncle's aunts, cousin,
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best friend, your teacher, your boss, your co-worker.
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No one else has control over you besides you.
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That's it.
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Point blank period.
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No one else can can keep you where you are and no one else can drag you out of where
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you are either.
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You have to you have to be willing to take that first step.
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Now, people can help you.
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They by all means get around people who support you, who and not just support you blindly,
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but who tell you about you, right, who knows the good, bad and the ugly and who are willing
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to just to be out there and to tell you off.
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We need to be told off.
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It also lift you up when you need to be lifted up.
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Right.
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And they walk in stride with you because, you know, again, life again, like I said,
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you know, life is a journey and it's better when you do it with people who who are equally
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yoked like you are.
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That doesn't that doesn't mean they think the same necessarily.
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But they we all had the same same goal of trying to get trying to better ourselves and
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just to be better people just in the world and have everyone be elevated, everyone be
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lifted up because it's when we come together, beautiful things are beautiful things are
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made.
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I mean, there's so much so much power in one in one person that if you multiply that by,
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you know, even even like 10, 10 to 20 people.
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That's that's enough to move mountains.
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And again, you again, we just we won't be able to ever to experience that if we get
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stuck on what what was or what what could have been right.
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Not necessarily the past, but a possible future that we feel like we gave up on that we didn't
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get the chance to experience.
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And so I just really getting a real on the hammer that point home for you guys and just
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like really say it just because you feel like it's over now and doesn't mean it is just
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because you feel you've messed up now doesn't mean it's over.
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Right.
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I mean, look at Vegeta.
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Vegeta was a ruthless, bloodthirsty killer, and now he is he's a he's a proud papa of
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two children and a wife that he begrudgingly admits that he loves.
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Right.
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Anyone who's seen the Battle of the Gods movie, he said, you know, that's my Bulma.
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He straight up just said that that's that's his wife.
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That's his joy.
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That's, you know, the reason why he fights.
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Right.
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The reason why he pushes past his limits, the reason why he goes beyond what you know,
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whatever whatever opposition he's facing.
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Right.
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And I'm not going to go too much into detail on that because you know, there's no wink
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wink that may or may not be next next week's episode.
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But anyway, so I want to give you guys this description when I was reading and it's Collosians
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in verse 14, it says in him, we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
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The one line just says it all right.
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And in him was him being God, we have redemption, the forgiveness, forgiveness of our sins.
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So I mean, again, no matter what you've done, no matter how dark and bleak it may seem through
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him, like we got God and Jesus, God sent Jesus to pay the price for all of this.
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Right.
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We just have to accept him as our savior and and truly repent.
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Right.
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To turn around, to not be stuck in the same things that we are currently stuck in right
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now.
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Just in this saying, OK, God, forgive me.
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Keep doing the same thing.
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OK, God, please forgive me.
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I won't do it again.
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Does the same thing.
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You know, none of that.
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Maybe I encourage you to today and right now at the end of the deal, at the end of this
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this episode to really, really let us see it.
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Let us sing for a moment.
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Really reflect and say, is this how I want my life to continue to be just down down this
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one path or let us just nowhere in sight?
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Or do I want to do I want to start making some changes today?
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Do I want to be brave enough to step out in the face, to step out and bet on myself?
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Because God already bet on me when he sent his only son.
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So on to you, you take your pick.
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You take your pick.
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Would you rather sit there and just die and die spiritually speaking and live here in
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your own darkness, in your own in your own mind?
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Or are you willing to take the chance at a brighter future?
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I think about it.
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So again, just want to thank you guys for tuning into today's episode.
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I pray that you got what you needed out of that.
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And hopefully you learned something new about yourself and something that you can apply
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to your life starting today.
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And feel free to subscribe to the podcast and leave a review.
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I love reading you guys reviews and comments and I use them to help improve each and every
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episode.
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So again, always remember you are the main character of your story and that story doesn't
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end until he says so.
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All right.
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Thanks for watching guys.
