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New Chicago mayor pledges commitment to progressive strategy, asks for unity
"Brandon Johnson was sworn in as the mayor of Chicago. Johnson is the former organizer for the Chicago teachers union and former Cook County commissioner and has no experience within city government, Chicago has a higher per CAPiTA homicide rate than New York or Los Angeles. We don't want our story to be that Chicago beast came so traumatized by violence and despair that our residents felt no other choice but to leave. Johnson is asking chicagoans to set aside deep differences and confront challenges together. A safe Chicago means a safe Chicago for all. No matter what you look like, who you love or where you live. During his inaugural address, Johnson talked about the growing migrant crisis. We don't want our story to be told that we were unable to house the unhoused. Chicago is already struggling to provide shelter and other help to hundreds arriving from the southern border with family sleeping in police station lobbies. I'm Ed Donahue
The Eric Metaxas Show
Dr. Simone Gold and Brandon Straka Unpack the Trans Nightmare
"Doctor gold, you brought something up, which I think qualifies. So I've always been wondering, now that I'm sitting here with you, Eric, and you Brandon, the LGBTQ, et cetera, all the initials. XYZ, my name is lesion. The extensive, I believe, as a doctor that that movement was hijacked. By the whole transgender movement. And I'm just speaking as a physician, I'm very offended at the fact that doctors perform these very high risk surgeries, which have unbelievably high complication rates that in no other area of medicine would we be allowed to legally do. But they're doing them because they're called experimental. So as long as a person signs away, they can't really bring a malpractice suit against the practitioner. But they should be absolutely illegal. It's assault. It's terrible. But I'm just kind of wondering if you as a gay person, feel as though the LGBT movement was hijacked by the transgender movement. Yes. Short answer is yes, but it's also complicated because I think that there's an enormous amount of people now that are calling themselves transgender who are not even transgender. So it's a little bit complicated. I mean, so now there was a time when I was growing up where there were people who had gender reassignment surgery and they would say they felt like they were born in the wrong body and we called those people transgender. Now we're calling 14 year old girls with purple hair and nose ring trans because they say that they fall somewhere on a gender spectrum or they're neither male nor female. That to me is an absolute high jacking. And then the second part of it too is that the whole gay rights movement began with stonewall in 1969 and it was a group of mostly gay men who got tired of having the bar that they were going to being rated night after night by police. They were being beaten and finally one night they fought back. Well, now the sort of radical Marxist movement is saying, well, that didn't happen. It was actually black trans women who were fighting back against these officers at stonewall and that this history has been whitewashed. And it's not true. So yeah,
The Eric Metaxas Show
Why Do People on the Left Reject the Holocaust As a Moral Lesson?
"You know, I never do panels on this program, but they bullied me into doing one. I said it would never work. I was wrong. I love talking to doctor Simone gold and Brandon strock, who just happened to be here at the same time. But we have some things in common. Simone, you were just talking about the deeper principle behind standing up for you, it was the Holocaust. It was that that background Brandon for you was being bullied as a kid. And just seeing the injustice of it, feeling the injustice of it. But why do you suppose so many people on the left? I could say in the gay community in the Jewish community, don't make that connection. What does either of you think is at work there? Because you are both leaders in a sense in doing that. So Simone. I think there's a reluctance for parents to actually teach absolute moral truth to their children. We're all like, hey, whatever feels good, whatever is good. It's all very equal, co equal. People, for example, in I've got children in the children's school, they would call the teachers by the first name. And I was a huge advocate of trying to get rid of that. I said that that's a problem that the kids are thinking the teachers are equal. There is a certain kind of hierarchy that you have to teach children. Really honestly for them to go on to happy productive. Okay, now this is deep, right? Because we're normally given a choice between this kind of sloppy false egalitarianism, right? I would argue, as a Christian, a genuine egalitarianism comes out of the Bible. We're all equal in God's sight. He loves every one of us equally, period.
The Eric Metaxas Show
What Made Brandon Straka Stick His Neck Out?
"The same question to you, Brennan strock. What do you suppose it was in you that said, I'm going to stick my neck out there. I know I'm going to be vilified. But what was there a moment or how did that happen for you? Well, I think by nature, I am a rebellious person, and I'm comfortable being rebellious, it's like not wearing a tie right now, for example, super rebellious. What is wrong with you? Probably the most rebellious thing I've ever done. No, I think there's that. I'm comfortable not going along with the herd or the flow. But that stems from a place ultimately that I care about people. And I actually care about people individually and I care about the collective as well. As I have told you before, I mean, the whole reason why I wanted to speak out about insert walk away was because ultimately I realized I was being lied to and manipulated. I realized that black and brown and LGBT people and immigrants and all different kinds of people are being manipulated. And I realized that this division that exists in our culture doesn't have to exist. We're all being exploited. We're being used. We're being manipulated. I wanted to do something about it. So I mean, believe me at boomerangs, it's backfired in my face, numerous times. For people who haven't woken up yet, I'm extremely hated by black and brown and LGBT people who don't yet understand what I'm doing. But someday they will. And I think that it'll be appreciated that I spoke out at some point or so I hope. Or I'll be dead for one
The Eric Metaxas Show
Eric Brings Dr. Simone Gold and Brandon Straka Together
"I have the joy and the privilege of sitting with two friends to warriors for freedom, Brandon struck, and doctor Simone gold in the same room together. I've interviewed you separately, but I thought it'd be fun to have a few minutes to talk to the two of you together because you have some things in common, why don't we talk about those things? Let's do it. You ready? I'm ready. You ready? Mmm um. All right, what do you guys have in common? Fashion? There you go. That's good. We both get into a lot of trouble. Yes. Troublemakers. Right. Yeah. Well, seriously, what you have in common is pretty dramatic. Both of you have suffered at the hands of tyrannous elements within our own government, not that there's anything wrong with tyranny, who are we to judge. But you both have. And so I think it's what endears you both to me is that you've been willing to put yourselves out there in a way most people aren't. And so let me start with you, Simone. What is it in you that you think enabled you to be a voice to be a face in the midst of the madness when everybody's sitting back and thinking, I don't know what to do. You stepped up. What do you suppose it was in you that enabled you to do that? I think everybody faces those moments in their daily life. I don't think I'm unique in facing those challenges. So one day I was at work as an emergency physician and there was a patient in front of me who needed early treatment for COVID and the government said I couldn't do it and the hospital said I couldn't do it. And I remember thinking, well, that's nonsense. The person in front of me needed that. And I knew that I'd face repercussions for doing it. But it was not relevant to me in the moment of the question and the query from the person in front of me. Everything that has happened in the three years since it was April of 2020 has followed from that one decision. So I urge everyone that in their daily life, every day you have a crossroad, a decision to make every day you're going to do the right thing in the wrong thing
AP News Radio
Pirates lose 6th straight, Belt 2-run double lifts Blue Jays
"6 Blue Jays had a two hit game as Toronto roughed up the pirates 8 two, Brandon Belt drove in a pair of runs as part of a four run first inning for the Jays. Kevin kier Meyer also played an apparent Kevin biggio head two hits, impressive for a player that's been in and out of the lineup for manager John Schneider. I know it's tough for players when they're not in their consistently. And when you are in there, you have to make kind of the overall contribution like cabinet today. Jose barrios allowed two runs over 6 and a third inning striking out 7 for Toronto. Now 20 and 14. Jack zawinski Homer for the NL central leading pirates, which have lost 6 straight. Josh rowntree Pittsburgh.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Exposed: Radical Left's Strategy to Destroy Conservatives
"Number 13 in the rules for radicals. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it. And polarize it. Rule number 8, keep the pressure on rules for radicals. Is one of the many, let's just say pieces of literature that radical left wing activists considered to be their gospel, how they operate. It's more of the technical side than the philosophical side. The philosophical side we've gone through, but the technical side of how they operate can be best explained through rules for radicals, amongst many other pieces of literature. But I think this is really important. Pick the target freeze it personalize it and polarize it. That's what they're doing right now to clearance Thomas. They've done that Tucker Carlson. They've done that to James O'Keefe. They see the movement makers on the right. They see the people that are willing to be effective, courageous, bold. You notice that they don't go after John Roberts? You notice that? John Roberts is not a big point of controversy. I don't know about Neil Gorsuch. Yep, but clarence Thomas is number one. And let's just be honest. The reason why they hate clarence Thomas is the same reason why they refuse to put clarence Thomas in the black history museum brought to you by the Smithsonian right there in downtown D.C.. It's because they consider clarence Thomas to be a race trader. That's how big it did these people are. They consider clarence Thomas to be a traitor to the black race and its white liberals that largely believe this because they believe they can control black people the same way that Democrats control black people through poll taxes and segregation, which they're doing again. And also through slavery, they just control black people differently through government handouts and goodies and voting for the Democrat party while white liberals remain rich and powerful, blacks continue to line up to vote for the American Democrat party. The whole thing is a scam. Candace Owens, Brandon Tatum are doing a great job of exposing that scam.
The Eric Metaxas Show
New Walk Away Social App Takes on Facebook's Fascism
"To Brandon strock, walk away, campaign, Brandon, you're being sued in our two, I want to get into this with you. Really, really loony, insane stuff that folks, you can't miss it. You don't want to miss this. This is all on rumble in case you're lame radio station, only carries one hour of this program. And we spit on them. But I got to tell you, I want people to know how to reach you. So I want you to spend the next few minutes because there's a short segment before we get into all of the Looney Ness. How what you've created, this new social app. Sure. So as I was saying before, Facebook are walk away grew on Facebook to over 511,000 people sharing their stories, making videos, et cetera. And then we woke up and it was gone. The group has gone to content was gone. So I had a decision to make if I was going to try to move this movement onto other social platforms, which I didn't really want to do. Also, most of them don't have the capabilities to sort of function the way we need, like Twitter, true social don't have the mechanisms we need to make it work. So I built my own. It took a long two years working with developers, but I launched walk away social about a month ago. To be clear, we're not trying to be the next Facebook, Twitter, true social gather. This is not an open-source social media platform. What we do is we have people sign up, create a profile and once they create a profile, they join our groups. We have a testimonial group, a discussion group. We have state groups. It's actually quite amazing, and it functions very similarly to Facebook, but it's ours. We own it. And it's not as fascist as book. And it's not run by a creepy little martinet named, what is it? Zuckerberg? That's how our sponsor Mike lindell for first just Zuckerberg has suck a book. So how do people find this on they go onto the computers of their phone? Where do they go? So the walkway social app is available everywhere on the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store. So if you're an Android user, you can go to your Google Play Store if you're an iPhone or iPad user, the Apple App Store, and we're also available on the web at walkaway social dot com for people who prefer to use browsers, computers. So it's everywhere.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Brandon Straka Shares an Update on His Walk Away Campaign
"Back, talking to Brandon strock, Brennan, how do you spell that STR AKA? I like the way you really punch it too. Struck. Brandon struck STR a KA. See, now you're starting to say struck the Peter struck. It's a struct. Struck. Yeah, you got it. Struck. You got it. All right, so you woke up to this nightmare that you had been lied to, you had believed, swallowed the lie, and now you're coming out in the other side of it. And like a lot of people, it makes you angry. Like, you feel like you've been abused and now you're aware of what's been going on. And you don't just want to change your point of view. You want to help others see that they've also been lied to. So you started walk away, walk away. Yeah, it's a betrayal. I mean, it's a deep, deep betrayal when you realize that the institutions and the people that you trusted not only are duplicitous and not actually meaning what they say and have your back. But in fact, they're manipulating you and exploiting you. And your fear. And when I started to see the way that they're manipulating minority communities, black people, brown people, LGBT people, immigrants, et cetera. That's when I really became, I think, enraged and wanted to do something about it because the division that we experienced in this country, all this fragmentation is stems directly back to the media. They're the ones who have caused all of this. So I wanted to create a movement of people to walk away from the political left, walk away from the Democratic Party, the liberal media, the ideology of liberalism, leftism, whatever you want to call it. And so I put out a 6 minute video in 2018, detailing all of the reasons why I was walking away from the left. And I created at the time a Facebook group called hashtag walk away campaign, encouraging other people to make testimonials, videos written testimonials and tell their stories. We grew over two and a half years to 5 over 511,000 people in the movement and thousands of videos and written testimonials. And then on January 8th of 2021, Facebook pulled the plug and deleted everything.
The Eric Metaxas Show
How Dark Forces Are Working Against America
"We are operating against dark forces. We understand that it's thrown and dominions and principalities. But they work through the Department of Justice, the news media. And we have to do our part. So Brandon, you and I wouldn't be doing everything we're doing individually if we didn't have hope. You have really just bravely resurfaced. You've created this new walk away social app. You're working hard to help this country find its feet again. And I just want to say thanks for that because some people just kind of wither away and say I've had enough. And you and I are hoping that what we do will make the other side say we've had enough. Well, I'm hoping to at least do everything I can possibly do to push back against the forces that are working against us. You made a comment earlier about Tucker Carlson and that this is a time that people need to find God or lean into God. And certainly I don't have any opposition to that, but what concerns me is that particularly particularly with conservatives, there tends to be this sort of like, well, I'll put my trust in God and then I don't have to do anything. Thank you for saying that. Yeah. I wrote a whole book, my most recent book is called letter to the American church, where I basically deal with that. I talk about that on this program all the time. If your faith is just faith without works without action, it is dead, God is not blessed by your fake faith by your cheap grace, the devil laughs in your face.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Brandon Straka of Walk Away Social Continues to Be Attacked
"Welcome back. I'm talking to Brandon struck, walk away social. I already got the app on my phone. Brandon, you know, I'm just so proud of you. This journey you've been on. It's magnificent and inspiring. I want to talk to you about what you just mentioned a moment ago. I mean, you continue to be attacked, and this is tough. This is tough. And that's why I say to people, folks, if you're not in the fight, you're letting people like Brandon take all the heat, which is wrong. It's a moral. So what else are you going through right now? Well, so here's what I would like to say. This is my hypothesis, my theory, and the whole thing. I believe that I was set up since day one. And I think that many people who got ensnared in this January 6th thing were set up. But if you're a normal person with a normal heart and a normal soul, you don't have the ability to predict what these people are doing in the ways in which they pervert and twist and contort the law and the system to work against you. Now, in the case of the January 6th plea deals, which the majority of defendants are taking plea deals because they're getting charged with four or 5, 6, 7 felonies.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Brandon Straka: Former Liberal's Journey to Understanding Trump
"I am really, really thrilled to have with me in the studio Brandon struck Brandon. I am just tickled that you are here. In the studio, some people know your story, some people don't. We've got a lot to kind of go into some new stuff in your life, but tell me, tell my audience who's not familiar with your story, the nutshell version of who is Brandon struck, what's the walk away campaign and so on? Sure. Brendan strock is somebody who was a lifelong liberal and Democrat two time Obama voter actually voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016, had a nervous breakdown when Donald Trump got elected, crying on Facebook, going crazy. And then went on a journey of research to understand how the media that I trusted, CNN, MSNBC, New York Times, et cetera, had gotten the election so wrong in 2016. I was all but promised and guaranteed that Hillary Clinton was going to win. And so I was confused and shocked and outraged, but also scared because I believed also the media narrative of what Donald Trump was. Like many of my friends and former friends still do. They believe you. They earnestly believe that stuff, which is why I feel obliged to give them grace. Because they really believe he's Hitler two. And we've got to do anything we can. And it is fascinating to sit here and to talk to somebody who was one of those people and who kind of amazingly went on a journey and found your way out of that. So that's a loan fascinating because how did that when you say you did that? I mean, did you know growing up that you were the kind of person that would do that kind of because most people just kind of go with the flow. The idea that you were so independent minded that you could be crushed by Hillary's defeat and then go on this exploration is investigation. Well, yeah, and that wasn't my intention. I mean, my certainly my intention was never to come to a point where I was okay with Donald Trump or his supporters or that I legitimately just wanted to understand it. I mean, my journey began with just a couple of questions. How did the media get it so wrong? And why would anybody vote for a man who was so terrible?
The Eric Metaxas Show
Brandon Straka Continues to Expose Lies About January 6th
"I are talking about your story. Now, I don't know where to start because you kind of told your story about waking up and you create this movement. This walk away movement now part of this culminates and we have talked about that in depth on this program of how you went to the capitol on January 6th as was your right as a citizen under the former United States of America. And the powers that be who are working for Satan since we don't have time to break it down. Put you through hell. Yeah. It's still going on. You told that story on this program in depth, where are we now? Sure. Yeah, so just to kind of refresh anyone's memory who doesn't know. One, I never entered the capitol on January 6th. So it's true. I was in D.C., I was a scheduled speaker on January 6th because there was supposed to be a second permitted event on lot 8 of the capital grounds. A march from the ellipse to the capitol where I'd be speaking. And as I was arriving on capitol grounds, I started hearing that people were going inside the building, which sounded curious to me. So I walked up to the east side steps, stood outside for 8 minutes and shot a video. And then I uploaded that video to Twitter. Never went inside. And during the course of that 8 minutes, a man came out of the capitol, got on a bullhorn and said, they've cleared Congress, everyone left the building, move out, move out, and I immediately turned around and moved out. Somebody told me they decapitated Nancy Pelosi. And I thought she doesn't have a head anyway. But seriously, the more you hear about what happened on January 6th, the more you feel, you've been lied to. And the powers that be in D.C., not just the Democrats. A lot of the rhino Republicans, which is most of them, they either push the lie or themselves earnestly believe these lies of an insurrection.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Eric Would Not Endorse Proposed Age Limit for US President
"Number one, would you, Eric metaxas, support a quickly ratified amendment to the U.S. Constitution at reads, no person shall be eligible to the office of president of the United States who shall attain to the age of 75 years during a full or partial term of service if it resulted in neither Joe Biden or Donald Trump being reelected in 2024. Absolutely not. I don't think age has anything to do with anything. I think first of all, I believe Donald Trump will be our next president. If the election isn't stolen as it was in 2020 by the guy pretending to be president, I won't mention his name. But listen, if you're a bumbling idiot at age 40 or age 76, it's really not relevant what age you are. If you are an anti American corrupt treasonous hack at 40 or at 76, that's to me the issue. The issue of age is such a non issue. This is where I disagree with our friend Steve dates. He's just wrong. It's got nothing to do with anything. I know people who are 90 who are sharper and brighter than any 50 year old, I know. This is completely irrelevant. If you're a buffoon and a hack and corrupt and shouldn't be president, that's got nothing to do with age. So the answer to that is a simple ixnay no, I would not.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Should the Movie 'Nefarious' Be Turned Into a Play?
"Question number two, here's the topic, nefarious. It's a movie, right? What if it were a play? A traveling play, Eric, let's combine your idea and mine. Yes, the movie nefarious should be a play. Only I have a different actor in mind for the play. That person would be max McLean. This would be a perfect production for the center for performing arts as a traveling show, max could pull it off as he was screw tape if you remember. I could try to pass this idea on to him, but he'd be more likely to listen to you or taxes. Thank you. Yes. Well, I have mentioned that I thought that the Steve dais film nefarious should be put on as a stage play. I mean, it almost reads like a stage play, even the film. It has that feeling. So I think it should be a stage play. I would not see my friend max McLean in the role of the demonically possessed. Criminal murderer just because screw tape is a very urbane C. S. Lewis kind of demonic compared to the raw horror of the character played in nefarious. So maybe max would want to do that and could do that. But I wouldn't see that. I would see my friend Brad Stein. I actually mentioned this on the air, I think, the other day. Yeah, you did, yeah. Brad Stein or someone who can really, really play a dark, twisted, disturbed character, because that's who Brad really is. I wish I had lunch with him. That's who he is 24/7. Brad Stein, the comedian is a genius who I think could pull that off. Yeah. And I would say they ought to make it a stage play. The film, by the way, if you haven't seen it, you got to go see it, folks.
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The latest in sports
"AP sports I'm David Schuster, it's round two for both the NBA and NHL playoffs and Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden. It was game two between New York and Miami and Tom Marion was there. The next show some heart when they needed it most to beat the heat one 11 one O 5 and game two to tie their Eastern Conference semifinal series at a game of peace. The Knicks already down a game where down 6 points of the heat with 7 minutes remaining, but outscored Miami 24 12 the rest of the way, as Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart combined for 20 points down the stretch. Jimmy Butler missed the game for the heat with an injured ankle, but Julius Randle returned from his ankle sprain to score 25 for the Knicks. Brunson let all scores with 30. Meanwhile, out in the Bay Area, Anthony Davis had 30 points at 23 rebounds. The Lakers taking game one against Golden State one 17 one 12. Over in the NHL, it was game one between Florida and Toronto and John leatherbee has the details. Part of her hanky scored the tie breaking and eventual game on a goal in the second period as Florida doubled up Toronto four two at Scotiabank arena for hanky took a breakaway pass beating Ilya Samsung for his third goal of the postseason. Nick cousin Sam Bennett and Brandon montour also scored for the peppers, while Matthew nyes with his first NHL goal and Michael bunting replied for the buns. Charlotte widow for four on the power play at Sergei bobrovsky made 34 stops for the win. Game two is Thursday night. And down in Dallas, Yanni gourde scored the game winner in overtime Seattle prevailing 5 four over the stars, turning the baseball, the Yankee snapped their four game losing streak forward to over Cleveland, Gary Cole, with another good outing. It was a good punch and counter punch and I was glad to be able to get deep enough that, you know, we could use our guys, you know, and leverage if we did indeed get the lead, which we did. In Tampa, the rays improved to 24 and 6 with a four one victory over Pittsburgh. Elsewhere, Ryan monkcastle hit two home runs Baltimore 11 7 over Kansas City, and Connor Wong had two home runs, Boston 7 6 over Toronto and back in pro basketball, Joel embiid of the Philadelphia 76ers named the league's MVP. I'm David Shuster, AP sports.
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Panthers top Maple Leafs, take Game 1 of second-round series
"For hegi took a breakaway pass beating Ilya Samsung for his third goal of the postseason. Sam Bennett and Brandon Montreal scored for the packers while Matthew and I with his first NHL goal and Michael bunting replied for the buns. Toronto widow for four on the power play as Sergey borowski made 34 stops for the win.
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Panthers oust record-setting Bruins 4-3 in OT in Game 7
"35 into overtime to end the Boston Bruins record season and send the Florida Panthers to the second round after a four three win in game 7. Matthew kachak assisted on verghese OT winner giving him 11 points in the series to help take down a record 65 win and 135 point bruins team. Let's be honest, nobody in the whole world thought we were gonna win this series except for the guys in that room. So it's pretty cool feeling right now. Florida's Brandon montor scored twice, including the tying goal with less than a minute remaining in the third period. Geth and kuba, Boston
Unexplained Mysteries
"brandon" Discussed on Unexplained Mysteries
"Year old brandon. Swanson loved the landscape of minnesota. His home state as a teenager growing up in the small town of marshall one of his favourite activities was speeding down the countryside in his green chevrolet lumina he also loved. Seeing the wind turbines that dotted the landscape. Brandon was passionate about the environment and believed in the importance of renewable resources in two thousand seven after graduating from marshall high school he enrolled at the local technical college to study wind turbines located in the town of can be. His college was only a thirty mile drive from home. The proximity allowed him to commute to classes without having to stay on campus. Five days a week brandon made the forty minute. Try a straight shot down. State highway sixty eight may thirteenth. Two thousand eight was the last day of the academic year rather than go home after his final classes random state out and celebrated with his friends. He started the night at a house party in lind minnesota a town about seven miles south of his home in marshall. He had a few drinks over the course of several hours and then said he was heading to another party in can be friends at the party. Didn't believe brandon was drunk at the very least. He wasn't acting like it so they didn't worry about him. Driving brandon made the mile journey back to can be without incident in joined a second set of friends. He had another shot of whiskey but still he seemed sober enough to drive around one. A m brandon finally headed back home. He said goodbye climbed back into his chevy lumina and drove off into the minnesota night. It was the same drive. He'd made so many times before right down highway sixty eight but this time. He was driving toward disaster at one fifty four. Am and net and brian. Swanson woke up to the sound of ringling cell phone when they answered the call. Brandon told him. He needed their help. He recounted the accident describing how the car slipped off the gravel road and into a small ditch while he wasn't injured and the car wasn't damaged. Brandon said he needed to be picked up. The swanson's asked for their sons location. He said he was on state highway. Sixty eight somewhere between the towns of marshall and lind is parents hopped in their car and drove. It wasn't far brandon and his parents believed they were within a ten minute drive of each other but when a net and brian swanson arrived at the midpoint of the desolate highway between lind and marshall. They didn't see their son anywhere.
The Brandon Triche Show
"brandon" Discussed on The Brandon Triche Show
"Yeah. I woke up in the ambulance on way. Awesome god so they had like knocked me out the last thing. I remember Took it in the head. And last thing. I remember out is stumbling behind the tree. Out from subledger okay. Why am i thank you better. I don't like read a little bit. Alex birsh considering what you just described. You look really good. Sam thank you. It was like my. I was completely bloodshot. And my whole like ice hockey. It was swollen like fucker mellon that while you're very very lucky that you walked away with Believed sounds like you know pre almost superficial injuries. You could've gotten really really hurt or even killed. Yeah they killed me. They actually be down. beatdown conscious body and stopped in my face when i was conscious damage to my face. Wasn't there when i was conscious. So internal brain bleeding. I had a fractured skull fractured face. Bones hospital three days three days. Own my god. You are so lucky. Sam wow did you. Did you get a license plate at all or anything like that now. I style remembered it. Apparently came back some other car but it was a black suv but they pay with credit card. So there are actually. The police are subpoenaed the bank accounts right now to see who are so. They're hopefully gonna catch that way. Hope these guys Honestly i more pissed us pissed off. Obviously they tried to kill me more. Pay three hundred and fifty dollars for the god damn told charge car travesty of it. So can i ask you a quick question. Sam what what prompted you to do that. I mean 'cause beginning story. I've done that too. I hate litter. And i tapped people's window and said excuse me you drop something and obviously being sarcastic but i also two reactions to that. Nobody would any metal pipes of course but you get some pre tertiary response to that. What what should take away from that. I mean what. What obviously don't mess with people got pipes but what's your take away from that experience. Yeah i mean well from now on. I'm not gonna yell anyone for littering good hours not listen and to learn the I just moved here too. So i just moved here about a month ago but this was like a week after. I'd moved here three days for my birthday in the hospital. My birthday. oh wait. Let's sing now. I'm getting but where did you move from gainesville. Oh north florida okay. All right so so yeah. This is south florida. You learn it if you can make a pass the first year you'll stay forever there. This is culture shock. This is south florida. It's a whole brand new thing Very different from gainesville. But let's let's let's let's go to your that. Your recent trauma. Mind if i ask him a couple of questions we brandon no go ahead so You've had trauma throughout most of your life correct. Yep okay could you..
The Brandon Triche Show
"brandon" Discussed on The Brandon Triche Show
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The Brandon Triche Show
"brandon" Discussed on The Brandon Triche Show
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"All in there and literally guys. They're putting fenton all in everything. Everything including we'd this sprinkling a little bit in there because they figured well you know if that's addictive. This is more addictive. And and and the the measurements of fenton. That will kill you. A a match fencing. All will kill you a match it. A pin head of carpet will kill you. A pinhead. Now is a difference. You know car fan knows what they used to anesthetize. A big game like elephants and rhinos not much marketable stuff for it here but fenton is here and finals coming over by the boatload from china and i hate that sounded like the hills isn't oh well guess what happens they have pill processes and what they're doing is they're they're selling Zanex putting federal in the pill press and giving it out in the street and so what happens. Is you think you're taking his annex when reality you're taking fen off and you're dead you're dead if there is a match offense in that and what they're doing is they're making the entire thing at of world you're dead now. I'm not trying to scare people. You can't scare addicts. I'm trying to enlighten educate them. It's dangerous out there. You know like i said it's not a table. Contents on you know is not a table contents. You have absolutely no idea what you're getting when you when you purchase this stuff. Works abegg of anything. Anything could possibly will have gotten all at it. So you're saying anything on the streets. Anything like yeah. You're not buying it from a doctor per se. You could be right if you're not being prescribed doctor that you go to. Cvs pick it up from there. You're literally taking the revolver spinning the chamber and putting a to your head. Anything can happen here that that twenty six year old kid that i had never did an opiate. He's dead and his mother just loved him man she just loved him and he you know he comes down to florida trying to get himself right..
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"At every time. You went to that restaurant taiwan that and then then you love one says hey listen. Let's go to that restaurant we used to go to. That's a compromising position compromising situation because it's going to put you in danger. It's gonna trigger these little things in your head called cravings and it's going to put you in a position of a danger so what a loved one should do is not put them in that situation. I mean eventually yes. You can go back to that the that restaurant eventually. Yes you can do everything that used to do but to be put in that position at the at the beginnings of your treatment at the beginnings of your recovery is is is so so dangerous and demoralizing. Because what happens is the wife. Can't i go where everybody else goes. Well why can't i go back to my favorite restaurant. I won't drink. Guess what that's not. What happens the lou. Little man inside of us goes they got you know Devil on one side and angel on the other little devil goes room while you what we could have like a near beer. You know by the way when they put alcohol free on on on the beater like oh duels. There is alcohol right it just below the legal limit but there is alcohol right so you know. We'll go we'll why can't i be like everyone else. Guess what you're not like everyone else. You have a brain disorder called addiction and you can't be like everyone else. It would be akin to a person with diabetes go. Why can't i cake like everyone else is on how to do it brandon. Exactly how want you wine like that. But i do go back to the moment where i was sitting at the table and i was really uncomfortable and nervous. Energy was just going and going at it. Couldn't stop like. I was just sitting there and i you know i wasn't tempted in drinking a beer but it was in the back of my brain if i went down this road. Maybe i could have a beer right. Well you know. Yeah and these are the things that we have to be critically in tune to. You know who knows brandon better than brandon knowing you know yourself you know what positions a good few positions that are bad for you so so you have to set ground rules. You have to be able to set a newer today. Listen carefully. It's called the boundary boundary with them God really. I've never heard that an attic who struggles with foundries you such an unusual addicts you have but you have to be able to. That's.
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"Put them in your mouth. I tell you let me let me run through that for your brand because you seem a little confused you take the cotton out of your ears and you put it in your mouth. You know that that. That's a catchphrase that they use in the meetings in other words go like this. This ready shut the f up because really because you know guys like me when we first came in you know we didn't know anything about getting clean and sober. We had to learn how to be clean and sober. And i believe you do that. Through twelve step recovery. And you do that through therapy whether you gotta go into a treatment center or yet to see a therapist like me you know. You need the assistance you know. If you could conquer yourself brandon you would have done it on a long time ago but you know so you need the help of others for me and i just recently understand going back to the relapsing as a as an active at. I'm sorry as like a person in addiction. Trying to get you know getting cleaned the halt has come into place a lot like and so sometimes when you're hungry angry lonely tired that that can put my head in like a crazy spin space. And how does that happen like how does that. Even it's you know it really is remarkable again another catchphrase halt hungry angry. Lonely tired all right. That's what hold stands for. But i don't know about you being half tien if i'm hungry. I'm grouchy if i'm angry. I'm probably hungry lonely. This is a lonely disease. This disease likes to stay in the dark and likes to creep up on you. And if i'm tired i'm also angry and lonely on all those things so you have to worry and be wary of that hungry angry lonely and tired especially in early recovery in all you need to realize that about yourself if you're hungry eat something if you're angry down Friend speak to your therapist..
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"Brandon trish and this is brandon tricia and this is our first version of the live brandon christner's so welcome to the show to anybody. That's watching we appreciate any support. That's out there for us right now today on the show. We have ernie richardson. He is a licensed addiction therapist in the state of florida. Welcome to the show. Ernie thanks so much brandon as usual. Thanks for having me. So i guess today we're gonna talk bout a relapse and that kind of stuff so let's start off with a question. What tends to be the behaviors for people that are before they go through relapse. Okay well the standard line is that relapse happens. Way before ingestion of the substance or that behavior so The of it is the actual ingestion of the substance or the behavior. But you'll see people's behavior start to change. You'll see the not acting the way they act in a normal sober way You'll see them cut back on meetings. You'll see them Not have the involvement. They used to have But it doesn't have to be twelve stepped base somebody indications are this sleeping alive. They're angry ally You know just behaviors that are counter intuitive to what they usually present as a clean and sober man or woman. So when you're talking about like behaviors like sleeping a lot. How how would you know that. Somebody just not naturally tired or or if they're actually added sleeping at six o'clock at naturally tired you know. Everyone needs a nap. Now dan you know maps good but on a consistent basis if somebody is missing appointments or Missing work just again normal things level or who knows the loved one as well as as as you do. No one does so you know what normal behavior is brandon. You abnormal behavior is so you know you start looking for little little indicators like that and again on jumped down the first conclusion like oh they slept in today must be using..
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"Doesn't impasse. she made some money. So do you look in their family. Lines with The brown. Newsom pelosi all connected. They are all. Yeah and then. The connection china feinstein our senator. For twenty five years you know. She had a Spy chinese spies driver for twenty years. I think is was a while back right. I don't think despite. I think those are handler. You think it was her The person that kind of ller yes they're owned by the acp. Her handler knows. Weird on the inauguration behind joe biden China's the different. It was a little odd. Might be his handler. I saw that. But i actually. There was a friend of mine that was really close with trump and said the same guy was actually around him as well. I don't know man. I dunno i but you just think about in your question it you know in in swallow well connected chinese. How many of them are connected by the. Cpi why they keep forcing why they keep Shutting down free speech. Why why do they wanna get rid of the people. That are mad about pedophilia. What do we like about them right. Why don't you tall twitter. Why why they shutting down parlor fake. We're four free speech but not only the speech we like. I guess in your opinion what happened at the capitol like was that. So i've seen videos lots and one on mike wiser cameron taking a picture of the guy with the horns. Like a cameraman. Nice camera and then you saw the dude. That's literally in an uber. Commercial as spell the speedskater going from the webex. Somebody also leader van tiba full. Yes jake solvent. I think he got his name is So he's an uber. Commercial for like driver guy. Did this on on part time but also like speed skater. But then he's also in black lives matter telling them like we needed. Burn the white house down something like that. And then he's at the caught on with the cnn Journalists believe Saying we did it we did. We accomplish what we need it right..
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"So and they're they're giving information to the people to show them what's been going on for the last thirty forty fifty years you know since they assassinated kennedy. That's when they came up the works conspiracy theory to up there were conspiracy theory to discredit people have said the government killed kennedy interesting right so then they call queue on conspiracy theorists work. You know. I think the one thing was when jfk was supposedly like supposed to come out at the at the allow. Yeah i that's where it kind of went a little off. So the anna knows so people are making their predictions doesn't mean it's true. You know like say that you know. I mean there's actually peaceful energetic no like he literally said But people predict this stuff like that you know. So that's in stock market you know. Do people always a hammer at this will buy this stock. It's going to go up a guarantee it and then falls down like. Oh you predicted wrong. Then hold everybody to it. It's it happens right now so They try to hold anna's too cue said even though they're separate you know what i'm saying. Yes oh i. It just is mind. Boggling truths do. Come out of the queue conspiracies even though there are some random like flyway stuff but that yeah that are unbelievable but and i try to separate myself reading through which one you use disarmament. Think for yourself. Does that make sense. You know just question things you know 'cause it's like Do you ever seen the movie. The truman show along time ago and he didn't know what's going on. He thought he was a real life. If that's like the media always showing you the same thing same images. Is that real john you. That's a good analogy man for the matrix you know like. Are we in the matrix. Because you're coated the see certain things you know like how come check this out. Why can they find q. On counts and removed them so quickly on twitter..
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"Schweitzer About all the back back backroom deals he talks about all that he's part of the system isn't isn't his wife being elected or i'm sorry Investigated right now. I think are trying to do know shipping. Yeah so i mean. It's i mean china The politicians on both sides on both sides and trump is disrupting their flow money. That's the problem. So they're like We gotta get him out no matter what. Why do you think they're trying to teach him. He's out of office. Read the constitution. Have you sat. read the constitution. You impeach somebody in office to get them out remove them. We camped that out because you can't remove already out so they just don't want him ever be on hold off again 'cause they don't want someone that's outside the system. They can control in there. Do you have a theory on what the game plan is now as far as like with biden office Well i mean that gets into what is going on right now. I think i'm hoping is the yet to like the q. Stuff like that So there's there is that the insurrection act was signed before he left right now. We have a fake government in store. We have a government. That's in control of united states of america. The of eighteen seventy one which is the incorporation of america so. Dc's actually a territory wide surrounded by fences right now. Why is the national guard state. Now what's going on. Why did biden not flying on a government plane right odd. I i've ever in history. Why do you have his own security Why did it. I've heard that it was televised. Ten hours early in saint was. It prerecorded lot of weird things going on. Yeah you know. I think i also saw were like the marines had turned their back on him as well or something like that while in the motor right correct and they're not supposed to do that if they're not commander-in-chief why did chump leave early. Does he have. The new crypto ball is now way that gets passed up. Who's really in control. you know. there's a lot of weird things going on like. Have you seen mike. There's videos of biden signing documents. And there's nothing on their on there. I x ray. It and there's no print initial want trump doing it and you can see the print on there and it's like is he just hiding blank pieces of paper like and then once There's a video of two where they pass someone like one of my signing here and it just signed what's going on here it doesn't add up. Nothing adds up so you think that the executive order the seventeen executive orders that he signed are just bogus and completely like they were just blank sheets of paper acting like he was signing something i think sometimes you have to show people the darkness before you can show you have to walk them through it and right now. You're seeing everything. He said he wasn't gonna do. He's doing on ban cracking shed. Some keystone pipeline killed fifty thousand jobs jobs in his first day. Like go good job. What are you doing dude. Like your terrible kills sports. Okay now we can have. Male athletes grow sports. Now i have a daughter. No that's not okay. That's not okay. After know bike what it's nuts like people are like well. That's kinda crazy. Or here's glenn raise the price of insulin. How does that benefit anyone. Great people need insulin and epipens and then he just oh..
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"Check glaze to walk. Go go go. yeah. I know it's inconvenient but we're talking about your life fear you're gotta have that stuff in line ready to go okay. But again it's not for forever. It's situational depression. Edgy going through. I found that like before. I really wanted to get cleaned in my life that i would intentionally hide things from the doctors specifically because i want to continue using certain scripts that i knew that they'd right which is terrible. I know i know. But that's how we manipulate situations. We manipulate these doctors. If their full training to go to one eight meeting. I could play. This guy can play ago before the computers role locked up together allegedly allegedly. I might have. I forgot if a guy onto this doctor here. This start today. His doctor in queens. This one in brooklyn string on air brandon allegedly looking at me closely allegedly got it got it got it. That's why i yes. I go got the wrong impression on me right. You're you're above board one hundred percent all your life. I am don outright lights podcasts. In here you you know but I mean i guess. Is there anything that you wanna cover On our way out like that. We didn't cover this time that you can think of well. I just wanted to reiterate how important all the moving parts to get together. You know there's a lot of moving parts. Don't get discouraged. Don't get disappointed. You know rolling back to psychotropic. Medications is about ten or fifteen that we use at different varying dosage sometimes in combination with each other. You know so. It's hard for us to throw a dart and get the right one. Sometimes you have to play with it. Sometimes you do you increase this year decreases and all the while you. The patient is feeling the symptoms. And it's easy for you to throw a handsome add is crap doesn't work but stick with it stick with because you know what would all these moving parts and a site how important a psychotropic medication pieces stick with it. Just go through the feelings console with adopted. Be truthful about the efficacy of of of the medication. he prescribed And that's really. I wanted to drive that point home. That's so so important and stuff. We said i could wrap up. You know talk for out three three hours. We're we're going to have you on quite a bit so really breathes it and i wanted to thank you again brandon for for bringing me on your podcast. It's so important to get the word out there it's so important to let addicts know and love ones that that you're not alone you're not alone. There's a whole community out there. That's ready to help you so please embrace that community. Get a good therapists if you want. One I you don't mind if i give him my my phone number data go for up at the web website at the end right. I was so it's nice by four two one three three nine to three all right. So let's get in touch with me bait your addiction now dot com correct beach addiction. Now that's perfect while again brandon..
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"Bill wilson or whoever came up with this chimps some really knew what they were doing because these increments thirty six cm ninety one twenty those times when a post acute withdrawal syndrome paws really kicks in it those intervals. Don't ask me why. I should have done so research but for some reason sophia to pick up that that chip. It's a positive reinforcement for you for you and what it does for. The room is tells the room. Like hey i did this. If he can do this. I can do it now and again. It's a positive reinforcement. Okay so drill. Real employed real real important. Does it matter whether or not you pick it up at your home group as just work. I know you're gonna find it hard to believe. But i'm a little egomaniac and enjoy my year medallion. I'm picking it every f in meeting. I'm going to arm picking it. Alabama picking it up bumping christina. What does nothing better. The accolades man fellow fellow people in recovery. A proud of you man. They're applauding throwing jabs at you. What it's it's it's important. Isn't it so important. I believed chip system is so important you know i know an they give out key tags a they give out chips. You're gambling with your life since you brought up pause. Can you explain pause a little bit. I write pause central post acute withdrawal syndrome. Okay now what it is is in these increments. People thought to have different things happening. Okay one of the main things post acute withdrawal syndrome. Is the brain chemistry. Your brain in these individuals or just continually is going like this with the brain chemistry you know. We've you know our bodies in our mind especially is not built to to have all these things happening to it. You know what i mean. The flooding with these chemicals certain brain shuts off production. That's what it is. The apathy is very very Common to at certain times because the feel good hormones that are in your brain brain is shut off..
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"They'll suck you dry and the point of that is not to scare. Somebody added a business which i may have done inadvertently over the years but to to really promote self care. It's so important for the therapist to take care of themselves to do self care. That's why i have. I have meetings. I have a lovely wife of forty three years. God that sounds like a long time. I take care of myself. So i can be in the trenches which is where i belong. I sounds hokey. I said it last time. This is a calling me. I'm in the trenches. I belong in the trenches. I need to be your shoulder with the clients sorry. I think that it's kind of like you know how can you that old saying. How can you take care of other people if he can't take care of yourself but i've in my career. I've seen some really affect up therapists. You know a lot of them. I used within the company. Yes president company brandon a. But anyway let's get back to. Let's get back to a in a it's got what's what do you think the the main idea behind doing service work for you like especially inside of the program okay. I my old home group. Which i was a member of fourteen years. I volunteered to be in a greeter. And i did that for fourteen years now. Greeter somebody who by the and welcome spe- blend and i had a unique way. You find it hard to believe that. I had a unique way of greeting people but i would shake the hand i say. Welcome again pre covid. Welcome we've been waiting for you and people intern arielle. But i stole at from lowest wilson. Who is the wife of bill wilson. Who was one of the co founders and in the early meetings should stand by the door and she would say welcome. We've been waiting for you..
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"I made a promise to myself in the people. I work with as a substance abuse. Counselor my job is to do whatever every can to knock people off that line and people to aaron recovery. It's their job to knock people the line however they can and that brandon's my story. I got here that that's a man. I love the analogy. That you just made with the gun. Because that's that's it's so true. I mean people get so. I mean that's kind of what going back to the same thing. Repeating the same habits over and over and over again. That's exactly what it's like and when you're in it it's almost impossible to see outside of that peripheral view right. You're blind. You're blinded by the behavior. You blinded by The chemical working on your brain chemistry. You know you're a brain disorder to begin with addiction and substance working on the brain. It's it's like a chinese fire drill no offense to chinese firefighting but but but it's like slightest rather raise running around and go and like go to work and act normal just to hear an accountant. Yeah no problem. I got to cover it. It's crazy Well as far as like when since you brought up the twelve steps earlier what exactly like. What exactly is the twelve steps to you per se going forward to anybody. That's actually not familiar with the big book. Okay great question. Really really good and an important question. Twelve steps is a program that fashioned. It's nothing new. It's just that it's in a very specific order and it's a very poignant people who are battling addiction. You know all the while. I don't want to scare anybody but it is a it's a program that spiritual in nature and and i didn't say religious notice the word they use i said spiritual it spiritual in nature that helps you with the malady of addiction. Okay so you know you make man as you say what..
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"Why now brennan where i grew up in brooklyn his how you handle a situation like that. I walked over to my daughter. My wife is the only other person room. And i whispered in my daughter's ear michelle. Please tell me the name of the young man who did this family can identify the body. Third quarter and i went outside and i looked up and said hi. This is going to be real interesting. 'cause i don't know about you but i never had a any sort of book manual as to what to do when you're seventeen year. Old goto tells us she's pregnant. I don't think all that are no. It was pretty devastating. I was outside. My wife came out and said what do you wanna do. I still well. Diane is two things we can do. We can go inside and say michelle. Mom mandate thinks. She made the biggest mistake. Your life package stuff go or we can say show. Mommy and daddy think he'd made the biggest mistake life. We love you. We want to be there for you. I think we should do it. A ladder so i went inside. I said michelle mommy and daddy. Things should made the biggest mistake alive. We love you want to be there for you. How pregnant at all you. you said. Seven months and she pulled his shirt tight and it was a bump now seven months brought brand and she's changed her style of clothes. She went from like really tight fitting close to. He's loose things. It was a fashion statement. I didn't know she hiding being pregnant as the sidebar. The next day we took my daughter to get prenatal care and they put the they put the little thing on a summit to figure out what the sex of the baby is. The nurse goes with elements to richardson within a look at whether we find a hotdog or a hot dog. Bun put that little thing on and hotdog band. so i have a beautiful granddaughter. who's eighteen. congratulations thank you. Thank you. And i have a grandson. But i'll one final thing. My son is one of us. When i say one of us. I mean somebody who is in recovery. Ever since he's a little kid. I saw tendencies so when he was sixteen he got arrested. He went to juvenile jail. It was it was terrible. Every other week we'd be going down to prison on. Southwest full hundred second street brandon southwest four hundred. Twenty second stras. I've never heard that. It's it's south of florida city. I mean you couldn't get any more advocates and my baby. My son was in a an institution with thirty foot. Wia bob oil fences electrified and we go down there brandon every other weekend. My wife and i visited him..
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"Know they. they just lost my train of thought. Hang hang on a second We were saying when you actually like if you're an an active a little if you're an active addict right now then what and you want to go back into recovery like it's hard. It's hard going back into recovery. Right it just came back. And they say they say that a head full of a and a belly full beard work it ruins your your usage. You know whether you're an na or a because once you have the knowledge that this works once you have the knowledge that this works. There's no turning back. There's no turning back. You may be in certain levels of denial but twelve step recovery works. Therapy works when you put the two of them together. They work better so you know i. Unfortunately i currently working at an agency that supports the twelfth philosophy so tune with not only my clinical abilities but my personal abilities as well because Even after all these years i still my hong group. I still go to. I still call my sponsor In i think yourself why. Do you need a sponsor thirty three years clean. Well i still don't think clearly. And i got a bounce stuff off with my sponsor i happen to choose a sponsor who is a former marine and a former outlaw motorcycle a guy. Interesting combination their exact. Exactly exactly you know. Can you tell them. I need a little pushing her. That's why rosa. He stood out craziest guy in the room. I said he's for me that's awesome. Yeah so that. That's that's some of the vice but you know it's it's a tough tough disorder. It really really is you know. And there's a lot of challenges. There's a lot of people who you know continually go in and out in and out and would fed in all being out and being so prevalent. It's it's it's really super dangerous. It's it's it's very dangerous. It's literally like a game of russian roulette you know early is i mean just knowing specifically people close to me that are addicted to I mean it's it's it's a beast so yeah yeah it is. It is so you know. I don't know if you want to hear a little bit about how i got to this point. Absolutely okay well. You know for the people who aren't familiar with tosa recovery. You know we we usually have people come in. They tell less story and in doing so people get to relate to To each other so I've been asked many many times. Tell my story. it's always a great honor It's also thank you a great honor to be here on your broadcast brandon..