Hello everyone and welcome to a uh disappointing video I guess, well the video itself is not disappointing but the news is because a while ago if you remember there was this old great game called Jurassic Park Builder! It's one of the games that founded my channel and um if it wasn't for that game I wouldn't be here, I wouldn't be making content um and it was just because Whitney showed me that that game ages ago I decided to make a video on it and the rest is history you're asking well the Jurassic World game however also came out and those two games even though they were basically the same uh kind of you know ran parallel to each other for a long time until eventually Jurassic Park Builder was cancelled like the servers were shut down but it had gone for such a long time back when there was no Jurassic Park games at all we had Jurassic Park Builder wasn't much but it was something however now something has happened where we have had another Jurassic game cancelled or well Jurassic World game game that's cancelled is Primalops no no it's not Jurassic World the game no no no it's not Jurassic World the live Primalops has been cut that you remember the game where you used to like run around shoot dinosaurs summon other dinosaurs or shoot hunters I should say that game that came out about was it six months ago hold on I want to find out January 12th 2022 I made my first episode on Jurassic World Primalops it looked like this cool game that um you know had showed a lot of potential it definitely was something different from what we're used to when we you know it comes to a lot of park builders Jurassic World the game Jurassic Park Builder Jurassic World Evolution it was so nice to you know at least have something different and little did I know that you know in seven months from that video the game would be cancelled and they've released this statement on Twitter we hope you enjoy Jurassic World Primalops on October 31st 2022 the game server will be shut down in-app purchases have been disabled and they haven't put it here but basically the game you could if you haven't downloaded it you can no longer download it so from this video this is the first of September there is now a basically two months where you can play the game if you've already downloaded it and what's brilliant as we'll get into the game they basically unlocked everything for you think you know if you're gonna go out it that's a good way to do it right don't you mean at least give the players who have spent lots of time lots of effort in this game they get to unlock everything and get to do everything and pretty much we can see what the game would have been at its end state you know we barely even got there in Jurassic World alive just what the game we kind of got there but those games just go on forever so you never know what you know it finally is but this one we finally get an ending whether it's a it's a good thing or a bad thing is kind of up the debate I've known this cancellation was coming for a while now um because I was working on a sponsored video for them I didn't sign any NDA I'm pretty sure about that so hopefully I'll be able to say that um I'd finished my video I'd sent it to Universal for approval um and they'd sent like like two or three times they sent changes and it was basically from my perspective as a content creator it was for the worse basically they were like oh this edit take that out oh that music that's not from the game take that out basically just make it a bland boring piece of media which is just like you play in the game I mean did you want it to be successful did you just want me to make a video on it uh but anyway that went back and forth for a while and then just communication stopped two months later um behavior the company that may dress a world primal ops got back in touch with me and said they've decided to cancel it thankfully they still want to repay me for my time and effort that I'd put into the video which is very kind of them but this does set a kind of dangerous precedent they haven't told me why it was cancelled they basically said that it was hard to keep up with the mobile game market which I find a bit weird because they make other mobile games I'm pretty sure they make the walking dead game I've heard through the grapevine through other sources um that the reason why it was cancelled might have been due to universal and basically that it was not making as much money as they wanted it to uh which is very very interesting if we take that into account that means that there was never any real want to make a Jurassic game except to make money and now we're only going to be seeing games or projects that I mean yes it's a business at the end of the day but that's fine if you're in something like stocks and trade but this is a license this is Jurassic this means this is more than you know numbers this is people's nostalgia this is you know they have a love for the franchise and to see a game that didn't even last a year and people could have spent money on it and now it's gone um I mean the reason why it probably was Universal looked at the you know the money this was raking in in comparison to the giant enormous pile of money that Jurassic World Alive is raking in and went yeah it's not worth it is it just can it and that kind of sucks in a way I mean I'm not going to say this was the best game in the world but it definitely didn't deserve to be canned this quick to put it perspective Jurassic World Alive has been out since 2018 and the game has been out since 2050 this had six months or seven months and they just introduced season pass which is you know you pay a certain amount for every month and you get rewards they just introduced that and now they've cancelled the game it's very obvious to me that they looked at how much money they got from the season pass and from there determined whether it was worth it or not that doesn't seem good to me and this is probably the reason why we don't see other Jurassic games because Universal knows that you know if you do a game this way like Jurassic World the game or Jurassic World Alive and mobile game with in-app purchases you're going to make loads more than a game you know like a AAA game like Jurassic World Evolution because it's just constant you know that a new dinosaur comes out a new thing and DLC kind of works like that but you're only going to get a certain amount of money from a person whereas with Jurassic you know the mobile games you could get unlimited because they could put a new incubator in Jurassic World like and I'll hold my hands up I did that and it was horrible I'll never do it again I still have not bought an incubator since that whole rexie escapade because that's way more money than anybody ever should spend on that game but I know that if I if I don't keep doing that I'll just start dropping in the ranks if that's something I care about so let me know in the comments down below what do you think of this cancellation from my perspective it wasn't the most engaging game it was good to burn you know an hour or so if if you even could do that but in the end it wasn't a game that really held my attention and maybe the cancellation is warranted maybe people just didn't play it but it does feel like they looked at other games went yeah you're not making as much money as that bye anyway now we jump into the game because you know I played this game for a while and I was playing at this off-screen grinding for dinosaurs and this is where my account stood I never got more than a stegoso the now that was it that was the only epic dinosaur I ever got and there was a glitch with a package of the source where I couldn't get a level two and basically these were all the dinosaurs I never got the uncalice or blue deloves so all these new ones that even added the giga into the game and then it was cancelled like we always I remember when I was playing this game I was thinking well gigas gotta come eventually and here it is and the game's now just like nah you no longer play it but despite all this if I go into my mail here we go a message from the game team thank you so much for playing Jurassic World Primalops unfortunately effective immediately we are discontinuing development support for Jurassic World Primalops and there will be no further content or functionality updates on October 31st 2022 the game server will shut down completely game progress in game items and user data will not be saved and that that's the dangerousness of this right because you put so much time and effort and money into these mobile games and then that's it it just disappears and I'd spent a load of money in Jurassic Park Builder and that's gone I it's not like I can play offline mode and just look at my park and play against computers no no no no you don't get a download yourself you don't get to play it anymore it's like somebody goes into your your you know your device and just wipes it because you can't you can't connect to the the servers and it would it's just gone that server's terminated it will it'll get defrag to whatever you want to call it and format it and it'll just be put on something else so everything just it just it doesn't feel right to me when they do this but anyway uh in our purchases are gone so they also say please accept this gift which should enhance your experience until the servers are shut down and they say enhance but they basically mean here's everything 10 million dna 10,000 power which means that you basically you could probably play for all like all day and never need any more um power and kyla saw the love of sore blue so I'm just going to collect all this and we're just going to see what we're going to get here because it's going to be a lot so we got oh wow it's actually different numbers and kyla saw the love so blue I know so giga a giga what is that thing I have no idea what that is does it say gojira source okay give me go tell it spina so oh that's even spina so that's the um them not the Jurassic two-legged it's the bipedal swimming one pyro raptor as well with his spino 2p triceratops t-rex and tyleth fella or whatever you want to call it and boom we're probably are we going to end up going through oh god the service having to load like so many new dinosaurs I think here we go all the new dinosaurs I mean we saw when this game first launched that they were basically just taking pictures from drasig world evolution um but at the same time there's so many models weren't you I don't know how many were copied the dilophosaurus I kind of just want to go through all this and just just just just witness it blue yes and we continue yes what's the next one and I played this game when it was in soft launch before it was you know properly released and I never got close to unlocking these dinosaurs I played it a lot there it is giga which kind of looks like an acrocanthosaurus it definitely seems to have that animation which is a bit of a shame because that's very uh what you call it uh drasig world evolution and this thing I don't even know what this is but apparently it has a frill it's basically a dilophosaurus just slightly reskilled the mirroring guy oh that's quite nice actually I like that model different to drasig world alive it's not the first time we've seen it um no dinosaurs and what's also interesting is that dominion is now ended the drasig world franchise has come to an end and just as that comes to an end I mean all of us who make content oh that looks so cool like look at this we're gonna lose it we're gonna lose it whether it's in a bad game or not if it's debatable but it was just nice to have another decent dinosaur game and with the franchise over we've now had this game canceled and you know content creators on youtube and all over people dinosaur fans Jurassic fans are now left wondering what's next I know I am hence the reason why I'm you know I'm over in Japan because it's like well I want to make content but I don't know if Jurassic because for the past since 2015 I've known that there's Jurassic coming a new movie probably new games and other content right but now I don't know so I was like well I'm gonna go to Japan to make content there because there's lots of stuff to do so that's what I did so it's it's just such a shame look at these models man I mean that is I've never understood the ginormous heat of the sticky but there it is look at all this and a tapijar is a good tapijar oh it is I like that head looks like it could carry lots of fish in its goobles new dinosaur and the triceratops you know what we're gonna we're gonna level up all this I think they've given you enough to level them all up this thing oh wow I love it you could like a little little angry eyebrows but really big eyes oh we still got more I thought we were done that was the last one oh of course we never unlocked rexy herself and here she is um they've went a bit too crazy with the bump map uh why does she look like oh the surface is sandpaper probably want to tone that down a little bit go on what's it I don't I used to know an app that would be able to control the normals and stuff like but anyway I'm sure you're a team you know what you're doing so here we are now we're going to dinosaurs do I have everything unlocked that's right all the epics have been unlocked but if you have a look all these other dinosaurs like Harara source albertasaurus uh pterodostro um there's there's so many other dinosaurs that I just never got to unlock the metric antasaurus so repellent whatever this thing is it looks like the god you resource irritate you there was even a triceraptor be you know came into this game with giga you know all this dominion stuff and then it was just cancel I don't know what is going on with his mouth there but hey huh uh so did I I didn't do like oh I did get enough for stegoso I can rank it up yes oh look at this rank five so I don't think I have enough to oh god we're going to get a lot of these yeah I'm just clicking the middle there we go so I don't think you have enough to actually max it up oh no yeah so six for every one percent stamina missing gain one percent increased damage huh so if you use stegoso on your or oh this the stego stamina so as this health goes down it basically gets stronger so what's interesting is they haven't completely broken this because you can rank up the dinosaur but you can't level them up so you basically unlock all the perks like 50 damage bonus to grenadier enemies and stuff like that um but I think we should have a t-rex uh the gigasaur giganodosaurus or giganodosaurus and of course spinosaurus I think we need to do that team hell yeah you do not have a oh does it cost gold to rank them up oh it does oh well well that was me too uh what about leveling okay yeah I don't even have enough for that but we do have a level one spinoe uh that I can't even oh no I can rank it up once level two sweet I probably shouldn't have spent that all in this stegoso that was a bit silly of me but actually saying that there you go there you go boom what's that 4 000 amber in game credits oh yes you know what maybe universal was the one that gave this game the chop but behavior were the ones the you know the studio behind this game behavior interactive I think it's called because I remember when I did the sponsored video I had to be I had to re-edit myself saying behavior interactive but not just behavior um they're the ones that have made this a fun experience now yes the games you know it's going into the sunset but at least we get to have as much fun with it as possible actually that is a oh look at that I'm level 29 whoa so 50 damage bonus two feared enemies oh that's interesting okay so we've got 900 000 I kind of do like this I know though as well that's really cool but we want the original that the scientifically accurate spinole of 2003 where are you there you are yes oh god yep yep keep going boom and then of course the spinole family goes up look it's got like a little shock to moji what is this apply panic to nearby enemies after defeating an enemy oh interesting uh so let's get the giga let's rank up that giga as much as we can boom so you can get to level six so for whatever reason oh could I not do with the stegoso because I didn't have the currency oh maybe not hold on yeah no I could have I just I just ran out of currency at the time okay so that's six level six here it's level six um spino and a level six giga oh okay let's do that let's do that let's run out of game let's see what we can do uh chapter three oh this is on hard mode now how easy oh yeah apparently the game for whatever reasons decided that I've never played it before so it keeps on giving me basically tutorials so put t-rex in take take you guys out put t-rex spino and giga boom and apparently the enemy is like way stronger than me for some reason which I'm not exactly sure um it's yeah it's it's warning me but I'm pretty oh you know what it is it's because I haven't leveled them up at all ah they're high rank but they're not high level oh well we'll give it a shot I might have to it should be easy I just want to some of them of course it's night why is it always night in all the games god damn it right see who should we put out first apparently spino's only six and giga is all right let's put out the giga go on giga how easy are you gonna be killed you're gonna yeah I thought you were gonna blow that up are you gonna do any oh oh you are really not doing anything I think we need a t-rex to come in here as well yes and if we can this is spino gonna be able to what we'll do we'll do one of these and then we'll just max them up as much as possible look at them yes so the more um the more we level them up the longer they should stick around for as well oh look at that look at them they're beautiful oh this is brilliant I love how there was one guy um a little bit of mythos on this because this game is basically dead now apparently um there was a dude who managed to find an exploit in the game that allowed him to basically open up crates over and over again um to get like one rexy dna each time or something like that oh they even updated the uh the chests as well it's quite nice they put a little t-rex skull on it but it still took him like ages absolutely ages to unlock the dinosaurs because he had to sit there and open crate after crate after crate um but after he made that video his account was deleted um which is so weird when I I don't think there was much time between that happening and the game being axed uh so but if anything at least you can log in now and get all the epics for free so you know it could be worse it could be I like how the uh the pictures of the dinosaurs change but as you can quite clearly see oh look at the public's expression that's cool I've never seen that before uh yeah I I'm pretty oh god thanks spine who just walked into a crater blew me up cheers and there it is some sort of comm system which are this kind of mission I've done a million times before Spino's just gonna run through we've got a t-rex he doesn't notice he's right behind him so I don't know if it was t-rex or Spino that oh my god oh yeah there's the panic yes fear the mighty presence yes oh yeah and Spino there we go we gotta get the three bad boys in here so it okay and then we'll level them up and just see what the difference is I'm pretty sure it's gonna like absolutely trounce anything ah it's a shame it's a shame but you know oh look at that you got 15 sinus aerotops d a day oh yeah so they added not only daily bonuses but weekly bonuses and then VIP members got like a hundred DNA so yeah the VIP was a thing that you could get and it really felt like they were starting to flesh this out and before it could really get off the ground and try different things yeah just completely axed fun and Spino let's get you to at least level 10 oh yes thank god I just had loads of like dinosaur currency to spend because uh I don't I don't even know what I was saving for I had nothing to level up because the game was like uh yeah you weren't being really stingy we're not letting you unlock like anything at all so thank you and now look you're over you've been cancelled I want to see this other thing like this other Spinosaur this looks awesome what what do you do oh god we're still getting the t-rex families munch generates a shockwave increasing the range of their attack and applies a lacerate on hit as a 30% damage bonus to gunner enemies uh 100% increased stamina against fang force 100% increased damage bonus to fang force so yeah I mean what I liked about it it really felt like it was you know it did look it was very similar to a lot of the other games that were like run around shoot a thing and then level up your stuff but you know it was at least trying something a little bit different and let's be honest it wasn't a park builder thank god there we go get them all completely maxed up a level 60 Spino level 60 giga and a level 60 t-rex all have apparently the same power level but have different stamina in fact if you look at Spinosaur's stamina in comparison to giga and t-rexes yes it's not as good maybe it does more damage I don't even know chomp no no no it does half as much damage has half as much stamina maybe that's why the game was cancelled it loads of Spino fanboys ringing up and going yeah make a benefit they were like yeah this is just cancel the game it's way easier all right here we go so they should last a lot longer and because Spino's stamina is a lot less oh look at this yeah in one this is the hardest difficulty as well yum at this point the grind was real man it it took such a long time to like kill enemies the only dinosaur I had that would actually do damage to enemies was a level 10 like Stegosaur even then oh my god look at that Spino go I just couldn't get Stegosaur DNA like at all and now the game is well yep now broken record it's it's over but at least you know we get to have some fun and even if you haven't played the game or sorry if you have played the game but you only played a little bit now you get the opportunity to do you know this game is probably going to see way more play than it ever has however you know it's obviously going to make no more money from it because it's all the in-game stuff has been cancelled which is great I mean at the same time what would be even better is if anybody has actually spent money on it then you know it's it's it does seem a bit odd that mobile games can do this where you spend money on things and then you just you know the game gets cancelled and you don't get a refund seem right to me really but you know it's probably in the claws of when you buy things like oh by the way if anything happens to the game you go get your money back and even when Jurassic Park builder disappeared the only thing that they would give people was if they had never played Jurassic World alive or Jurassic World the game before and then they would give people like extra in-game currency that was it if you've already been playing those games which let's be honest you're playing Jurassic Park builder at the time you would have been playing those games you don't get anything so uh yeah a last final hurrah for all of these dinosaurs well you know what it was fun while it lasted but but it's over now into the twilight we liked you while you lasted so if you have enjoyed this video guys leave a like let me know what your thoughts are down in the description below i think this will be the last video i ever create on primal ops because well there's nothing else to do i mean you you can have fun in the game now i'd say you know what if you've played it and it wasn't for you i'd say give it one more shot with everything you may as well what what what kind of chances do you you don't get chances that there's very often that you just basically have whatever you want on the game and this was supposed to be the end game how good was it supposed to be i'd say check it out and they're not telling me to do anything like this i just kind of want to but if you enjoyed this video guys leave a like and until next time i'll see you cutie later oh bye bye oh i never asked you to sign us aerotops sweet


Turn to Ecclesiastes chapter 9. We're going to be looking at this entire chapter. Don't be afraid. That's I knew you're like Wait, that's a lot of verses. I got to go to Chili's here. I got a note. Don't worry about it. I'll be done before that But it's going to be a great study here. The message I've entitled this morning is called reality check so you're going to have a reality check this morning and We'll be looking at verses chapter 9 all the whole chapter pretty much I'm going to read the chapter and that way we can go through for the sake of context But in Ecclesiastes chapter 9 As Solomon is writing Solomon says for I considered all this in my heart So that I could declare it all that the righteous and the wise and their works are in the hand of God People know neither love nor hatred by anything they see before them All things come alike to all one event happens to the righteous and the wicked to the good the clean and the Unclean to him who sacrifices and to him who does not sacrifice as is the good So is the sinner he who takes an oath as he who fears an oath This is an evil in all that is done under the sun That one thing happens to all Truly the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil Madness is in their hearts while they live and after they go to the dead But for him who is joined to all the living there is hope for a living dog is better than a dead lion For the living know that they will die But the dead know nothing and they have no more reward for the memory of them is forgotten Also, their love hate their hatred and their envy have now perished Nevermore will they have a share in anything done under the sun Go eat your bread with joy and drink your wine with a merry heart For God has already accepted your works like your garments always be white and let your head lack no oil Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your vain life Which he has given you under the sun all your days of vanity For that is your portion in life and in the labor which you perform under the sun Whatever your hands finds to do do it with all your with your might for there's no work or device Or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going I Returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong nor bread to the wise Nor riches to men of understanding nor favored to men of skill, but timing chance happened to them all For man does not know his time Like a fish taken in a cruel net like birds caught in a snare So the sons of men are snared in an evil time when it falls suddenly upon them This wisdom I have also seen under the sun and it seemed great to me There was a little city with few men in it and a great king came against it besieged it and built great snares around it Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city yet No one remembered that same poor man Then I said wisdom is better than strength Nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised and his words are not heard Words of the wise spoken quietly should be heard rather than the shout of a ruler of fools Wisdom is better than weapons of war But one sinner destroys much good Over the past few years television has been filled with reality shows that are not reality But if you think about it in reality you and I will not be stranded on a deserted island and forced to survive I don't think any of you guys have gone through that. I've never been through that if you have I want to talk to you afterwards not only that but Guys single people. Let me just say this You're probably not going to have the opportunity to pick a spouse a group from a group of model type people Who are competing to marry you? I don't know about that, right? You know sometimes a single people I've talked to many, you know, they were praying for their spouse They can't find a spouse and whatnot so I You know, I mean you could pray for a group, but I doubt that Not only that but as you go throughout the reality reality TV shows We're not going to eat worms walk across the top of a moving semi truck for a million dollars We're not going to have our houses extremely made over in a week Perhaps these shows would be better labeled as escape from reality And let me ask you this Are you dealing with reality? Or are you trying to escape reality? You see the book of Ecclesiastes is one of those books that you miss in the Bible It's in there you thumb through the Psalms and you go through his Ecclesiastes And when you make the attempt to read Ecclesiastes, you're like, what is this? This guy's talking about life and it's depressing. I mean the chapter one. He says life stinks. That's my interpretation His observation about life is like I see people being oppressed. I see people who are depressed I see people that are working very hard and they die life stinks. That's his premise. That's the way he starts Ecclesiastes It's interesting too that as you get into the book and we're gonna look at this here that when he talks about death He's got an interesting perspective In fact Jehovah Witnesses will take this book and they will build the doctrine of annihilation by reading Ecclesiastes We're gonna go through some things in here that you're gonna be like whoa, wait. I'm in here But I'm gonna explain these things to you so you're not coming out if you're dizzy spiritually if you will But the book of Ecclesiastes is a fascinating book and I believe that this book is in this Bible to give us a reality check Because when we look at this book We're gonna be looking at this that Solomon delves into the heart issues of life and attempts to find Satisfactory answers that prevent despair How can you live a life without dealing with despair? How can I live my life on this side of heaven without suffering without going through all of that chaos that we see in this world? That's the whole thing about Ecclesiastes This morning what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna give you four reality checks that are in life And I'll begin with the first one based on verse one here Reality check number one. We are not the sovereign masters of our destiny Notice what it says in verse one. He says it very clearly He says I considered all this in my heart so that I would I could declare it all that the righteous and the wise and their works are in the hand of God Unquestionable truth right there under the hand of God Solomon acknowledges here in the very first verse of chapter 9 that God is sovereign over everything and everyone right away and We see that in Proverbs 21 verse 1 Solomon said this about the sovereignty of God He says the king's heart is in the hand of the Lord. He directs it like a water course wherever he pleases. Isn't that great? Hey listen, we are about in our in our nation. We're about to change presidents when I read this verse I'm like amen to that Lord Those candidates are not in full control God is in full control So there's peace just comfort in my heart and we see that Solomon himself made it very clear that The heart of the king's heart is in God's hand. He directs it like a water course. I love that David said this about life Psalm 31 15 my times are in your hands Deliver me from my enemies and from those who pursue me.  It was a good year for him and he said something interesting and I'm gonna read it to you don't have to actually turn there but when he saw this Crops and all of this stuff. He said, you know what? I don't have room in my barns to build to put them in So what did he do? This is what he said Jesus said this He thought with it himself saying what shall I do since I have no room to store my crops? So he said I will do this I will pull down my barns build greater and there I will store all my crops all my goods And I will say to my soul. You're the man. That's my interpretation. All right. He didn't say that He said this and I will say to my soul soul. You have many goods laid up for many years Take it ease.  He was gonna die and here he thought he was on top of the world.  So all of the stuff that you have Who's it gonna go to? Solomon adds that you will neither know love nor hatred. He says it here What does that mean? Literally, it means whether it will be love or hate no one knows in other words What he's saying is this we don't know God's providence neither do we know whether we are going to be objects of love or objects of hatred We don't see it coming. We don't see love coming. We don't see hatred coming We just don't know Solomon's point is this there are no guarantees as to what life will bring. That's his whole point We just don't know God knows because he's on he's he's he's sovereign. He knows he knows the future You guys remember this the movie force gone Remember that little quote that little saying that that he said everybody gets you know and quotes it I'm gonna quote it today This is what he said Mama always says that life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get right remember that That's the only part I could do That's true though. Seriously. Yeah, that's a movie But that's true because life is full of surprises. Listen if you've been living long for a very long time You know life is full of surprises, right? You know it is if you're young you're like no, it's not wait until you get there life is full of surprises and We see here very clearly that no one will never know whether what will happen next and the thing is this you are not in Control of that that's the hard thing about life that because life is full of surprises We don't know what's coming next yet. We don't have control over that at all Proverbs 27 one says this do not boast about tomorrow for you do not know what a day will bring We don't know whether we're gonna be objects of love objects of hatred in fact The that uber that crazy uber driver that shot those people They didn't know that they were gonna be objects of hatred They didn't realize that that day was their last day as they were walking on the street a guy pulls over and shoots him They didn't know that That's what Solomon is kind of saying here But we don't know whether we're gonna be objects of lover objects of hatred But there is a certainty that I want to tell you about There's one certainty in life and you can count on this certainty and that certainty is this is that God is involved in the lives of those who trust him So don't worry But Robert you don't you see how the world's going I mean terrorism is here now and and all the things that are happening I can't even take an uber car because now I don't even know what this guy's gonna do listen One God is in control and to Trust them. He is involved in your life.  He's with you as you leave and this is a promise So reality check is this that God is the one is in control.  I hear this loud noise coming from behind me I don't know what it was.  You know what I mean? I mean something really loud and all of a sudden this motorcycle Flies by me at least a hundred miles per hour Zooming by and if it was you here, you're in trouble now use a Hundred miles per hour and I'm thinking the first thing that came of mine I'm like, you know what dude if a car cut, you know crossed in front of you you are done and I'm thinking doesn't this guy have fear that one False move this guy is gone.   No, no, I'm fine Well reality check number two is that we are gonna die death is a common destiny for all people for all people Solomon can actually summarize verses two and three here with the words under the sun. You're done You could really summarize it in that way I Read a story Recently about three guys good friends a doctor a teacher and a comedian that were actually heading out going out Just hanging out to fellowship as they were driving their car crashed and they rolled over and they all three died unfortunately all of them So they were ushered into heaven and they were in this waiting room an orientation kind of thing and an angel comes to the To the first guy the doctor and he said hey listen What do you want to hear people say at your funeral? So the doctor sat for a moment is thinking well I want to hear people say at my funeral that I was a good doctor and I saved many lives Okay, he goes to the teacher and he says teacher What do you want to hear people say at your funeral? He said well, I want to hear people say at my funeral that I was a good dad I love my children my wife and that I influenced a lot of people in the school system for the Lord So the angel goes to the comedian. He says oh, what do you want to hear people say at your funeral? He's kind of thought for a moment. I Want to hear people say look he's moving I'll let you guys think about that one the first service was ten minutes later. They left Death is one of those subjects. We just don't like to talk about right I Mean if you were to call a friend today and say hey, I want you to come over for coffee I want to talk about death with you. You wouldn't have friends You know what I'm saying? Death is something we don't want to talk about. It's just it's weird, you know, sometimes people will shush you Shh, don't say that. What do you mean?  I've never ran into a magazine called death You know what I'm saying? I mean that sounds morbid doesn't it? I mean I guarantee you there'd be people that would buy that magazine But the majority of the people wouldn't buy or touch a magazine called death life. I'll buy that But but we see though very clearly that that people don't want to talk about death and instead of using the words dead Died we say things like passed away Returned home or they've gone to a better place because after all death is a depressing subject. It really is Most of us I'm sure all of us here have been in that lounge waiting room waiting to get your name called in to go Your doctor You know that that that holding tank I call it, right? You're sitting in there waiting for that nurse come through and say mr. Baltadano We you know doctor would like to see you and you go through those pre things, you know wait and all that good stuff Have you noticed that when you're in that room? It's very quiet and when you look around people are sad. It's almost like I'm in a funeral Seriously make you guys you're alive. I mean It's it's weird and you talk It's like my little goes like why you talk and we're in a waiting room. There's nothing. I'm not a funeral home You're just here for the doctor. You know what I'm saying But people get depressed and they're sitting there depressed in a room waiting to see their doctor Perhaps it's because of their illness But you see when I think about that I think about earth being like this big lounge or this big waiting room Waiting for our word. We're just here waiting for our time to go up But the thing is this though on this side of heaven as a Christian It shouldn't be depressing waiting to go home and it shouldn't be sitting We have worked to do don't we? We've been called in Matthew chapter 28 to go out and make disciples of all nations We have things that we need to do and that's what Jesus said So we see here that Solomon tackles the subject of death head on He's not afraid to talk about it and neither should we that's okay to talk about death Many years ago I used to work in Anaheim and I had a friend or actually co-worker who would make fun of me because I was a Christian I Was called Reverend because I was going to Bible college at the time so I called Reverend I was called preacher Bible Thumper all this stuff right and It was really starting to take me off right, you know, I'm thinking like okay I'm gonna get into that spirit of John the Baptist You're gonna start really going down on these guys, you know, so anyways we were Filing it was just him and I just on our own away from the main office And we were just doing a little thing packing boxes and whatnot and and I said, you know what? I need to talk to this guy cuz cuz I'm getting bitter, you know what I mean So I wanted to evangelize this guy so I just said to him very very Gently and straightforward. I said Jerry.  And the guy looked at me with this like deer and headlights looking at me and he said and he just Didn't even say a word.  I Wonder if there's something here that would say I don't know I hope I make it Well Solomon here is talking about death and he's making it very very clear that we will die Proverbs 30 verse 16 says there are three things that are never satisfied for That never say enough the grave The grave is very hungry you know, I just recently saw that This this world clock, it's called the world death clock It's this dynamic clock that calculates the number of people who are dying in the world every second There's this ticker going like this of all the people that are dying. I don't know how accurate it is I didn't really do that much research, but I found it on Google. You know if it's not in Google doesn't exist So this is real So I'm seeing this thing ticking and I'm just overwhelmed and they says it is estimated that 56 million people die a year That's a lot of people 56 million people die 56,000 million people 56 million people die every year And then I read this fascinating Article about the governments around the world are kind of worried because we don't have enough earth to bury people Did you know that? We don't have enough earth to bury people So there's this Brazilian architect that came up with this unique So cool thing that he called it the skyscraper cemetery idea It's the world's tallest existing cemetery. That's it right there. That's not the Hilton a 32 story high where tombs are rented by the year and private moral rooms go for about a hundred and five thousand dollars I mean Stories that the capacity here that capacity holds a hundred and forty seven dead people Governments are scared. We're running out of earth. So this in Brazil this guy built this thing Could you imagine somebody going to this place thinking it's a hotel really seriously? Mom I saw it on the on the internet. It's beautiful. Look at that. It's right behind this beautiful hill, you know It's like why are people sleeping though?  Oh death is just part of life No, it's not did you know that death is not just part of life You know that that we were created to live forever In fact, it was our rebellion or the wages of a rebellion and sin against God that brought death Listen to this Romans 512 therefore just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin And this way death came to all because all sinned Romans 6 23 the rage the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord We were created to live forever Adam and Eve had an amazing relationship with God Eternally and they blew it they sinned and because of that Death entered the world death entered the human race That is why Jesus came to earth to die on the cross for our sins Because that's not the way God created us We weren't supposed to die, but we do now So Jesus conquered death and now as born-again people as we've accepted Christ and the death the Sacrifice on that cross now we have become born again So then when I die when I close my eyes on this side of heaven and I open them up I'll be in eternity with him He's bringing me back into that relationship that was once lost in the Garden of Eden Listen, Jesus wants to have a relationship with all of you here You know that and and if you are not connected to Christ if you're not connected to Jesus if you're not following Jesus He is bummed out because you were created to worship him. You were created to relate to him You're not your own island You're a creation of God and he wants to bring you back into that relationship with you I'm gonna give you an opportunity this morning towards the end for that But that's the whole thing Death is ugly and We see here that Solomon is making it clear here That the only way we're actually in the New Testament the only way to get rid of death is to get rid of sin That's the only way to get rid of death is to get rid of sin That day is coming did you know that? Revelation chapter 21 verse 4 says this there will be no more death. I Love that. How about you? there will be no more death in Eternity people don't die in eternity people live forever and it's not based on Quantity it's based on quality. It's a quality of life is what it is Because you think about living forever like that. That's kind of tiring because I need my nap I get hungry. I need to eat listen That's why the angels look down at us. We're like what is going on here? These guys sleep and eat up there. They don't do any of that stuff. It's a totally different place well Solomon is telling us here that life is better than death Now again, this is where it gets a little sticky Solomon is going to give us a perspective That is under the sun as Christians. We know there's more to life than this life, correct? We know that when we die, there is a better heaven waiting for us On this side of heaven is what he's talking about He's looking at it in that way and this is what he's saying in verses 4 through 6 not as what it says here He says but for him who is joined to all the living there's hope for a living dog is better than a dead lion It's interesting.  Did you know that I? Was recently recently in a Home Depot with my little four-year-old and as I'm walking through I ran into I actually bumped into a Lady who had a big dog in in there, and I'm thinking like Do they know there's a dog in here, you know So I'm walking by just ignored it, and then I went to another I'll another dog And I'm thinking like is this Home Depot right? This is honey. Is this Home Depot, right? Okay, and I just I just had to find out why is there why are there dogs in here? So I went to one of the Clerks, and I said excuse me ma'am. I said, um, do you know there's dogs in here? Yeah, we allowed dogs in here. I'm like you kidding me really now. I can't go anywhere without dogs You know I'm saying now. I think it was a I forget where I was at a park, and I see this couple Pushing their stroller, and I'm thinking I'm gonna see this beautiful little baby, you know what I mean? And as I'm walking by you know because I'm gonna show off my little grace and one-year-old. I miss a year of it What's that? How was your hairy one? How old is he? You know and it's like You spent money a stroll. It's $300 to put a dog in there. I'm sorry.   See here's I'm being an object of hatred right now probably And I didn't see it coming More power to you in Bible times dogs weren't pampered when you see a dog when you saw a dog in the streets You'd kind of it.  There's no purgatory. There's no reincarnation There's no eternal reoccurrence of life none of that stuff the moment you die. It's over Bible says in Deuteronomy or not Deuteronomy. I'm sorry Hebrews chapter 9 verse 27 that man is appointed to die once and then after that is Judgment so there's no going back. There's no like okay got bring me back What Solomon is saying is that listen being alive is better than being dead is what he's saying Not as a side note. This is a good passage to offer one who is contemplating suicide Living is better than dying living is better than death why Because relationships can be healed sickness can be cured work can improve It never makes sense to take your life just because life is not treating you well It's better to live You know, it's sad when you hear people jumping off over passes that happened like a week and a half ago There were two up to 57 sad Solomon is saying there's more hope for the living than there is for the dead But of course as Christians, we know that there is more life beyond the grave Solomon has said that it's better to die at the beginning of the book. He wanted just to say it's better for us to die here He's saying no There's hope for the living. He's kind of changing all of a sudden But life is a gift from God it really is we should enjoy life, you know We heaven is our eternal home, but but this life is very special because God created you for it Got created life and we should enjoy life. We should take advantage of the life that God has given us You know Paul even said I know he was kind of torn He says, you know, I want to stay here with you But I also want to be with Jesus and he says which is far better We know heaven is far better But there's work to be done here and I want to see my kids grow up I want to be used on this side of heaven because once the Lord takes me home this whole thing here It's done and no more preaching no more teaching no more Sunday night live. No, no that stuff. I mean the eternity I'm enjoying Jesus now But this experience on this side of heaven is only once And we see here that this is what he's talking about What is lost? He says here when you're dead according to Solomon Rewards presence of his lost emotions love hatred and envy in verses five and six Reality check number three Life is short life is short Solomon reveals five requirements that promote living life to the fullest by using the words go eat drink and joy and do Notice what he says there and verse seven Go eat your bread with joy drink your wine with Mary with a merry heart for God has already accepted your works Legs your garments always be white and let your head lack no oil Verse seven go and eat food and bread or just bread and wine is referring to the provisions of God This is not giving us the license for wild living. It's not there. It's not in the text The Solomon is not saying go out and party go club hang out get drunk That's not what it's saying here, and that's not biblical as most of us know What Solomon is saying listen you have one life to live enjoy it He's going to give us some elements to that which is kind of cool here. You're going to see it here But the idea here is talks about meals because meals in ancient times was very communal And the idea here is to enjoy your meal because you never know when you're going to die to enjoy your meal We need to enjoy God's blessings. God's good gives and celebrate life with other people and quit being always in a hurry I Can't I can't meet with you. I can't do this I can't do that. I know people like that. They just don't have time I don't want to be like that.  I guess you guys are like Amish you guys don't do you guys don't do anything? Wait a minute.   It's like I can't enjoy a Dodger game. I can't go out and hang out at a restaurant I can't use electricity. I have to use gas lamps and I have to find a horse and buggy It's like wait, that's that's not Christianity man Christianity's not about that Christianity is loving God serving God loving my neighbor and enjoying the life that God has given me in Christ's yeah, there are some things that I have to stay away from I Mean when you look at the Garden of Eden, but when you see God said to Adam Adam enjoy this garden But stay away from the one in the middle remember that He gave him a parameter. He gave him a boundary says listen enjoy all the fruit enjoy everything here But just get away from this tree the same thing in life God will say to you listen enjoy life is stay away from sin stay away from while living but enjoy life travel enjoy it and And we see here This is what Solomon is trying to drive the point here is that that this enjoyment is God's will for us and he says in verse 7 God has already accepted.  Listen to what Jesus said John 10 10 The thief does not come except to steal and kill and to destroy I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly. I love that word the abundant life What does that consist of? It consists of living in Christ and enjoying his blessings That's cool that as a Christian I can enjoy life You know, I've had more fun being a Christian than being a non-Christian. Do you know that I? Remember my my my non-Christian days It's done. It really did the outer appearance of partying and clubbing and getting drunk was cool And I remember at one time Every weekend I remember Friday and Saturday were my days to party with my friends. I wanted to go out Hey, what's the next club that we want to hit? Hey, where are the chicks? Hey, where do we go and I would get drunk before I went into a club because I was cheap I didn't want to buy this stuff inside. I sit in a car with my friend just drinking It was crazy. It's dumb and I go in tweaked eye and couldn't see what I was doing and That happened weekend after weekend after weekend and I got to the point where I was like, this is boring It's like it was almost like it was a dude like somebody was paying me to get drunk It was paying me to have this kind of lifestyle and it got to a point was like this is not life This is boring. This is this is so redundant. There's got to be more to life Fast forward. I'm a Christian now. I love life It's exciting to know Jesus. It's exciting to tell somebody about Christ exciting to be used by God. It's fun I love being a Christian And my friends were not Christians to this day. They've never experienced this life. I've been in their shoes They've never been in my shoes. That's the advantage you have with a non-Christian when they try to put you against the wall Oh, really? Theologically they're trying to destroy the Bible says listen. I've been in your shoes. I know what it's like to drink I know what it's like to do this and that you've never been in my shoes You don't know what it's like to be a Christian But I'll tell you what it's like You talk to people that way. It's not like you're missing out. I'm missing out somebody came to me. Oh, Rob You're missing out man. No, no, I'm not. I know exactly what's going on. I'm not missing out Well Solomon here says that we have a life to live and he says enjoy it notice in verse 8 garments always be white in other words fine garments and fine oils is what he's talking about here all of oil was used to refresh the face it was Used as a deodorant perfume and what he's saying here is get out the best garments and fine oil. I Was at a beauty supply yesterday with my wife Kareen, okay? Make sure I said that at the end We just were hanging out I flew in last yesterday that she picked me up from the airport And so we went out to dinner and whatnot and then she had to get some supplies and stuff like that And we went in there and I was overwhelmed by all the products that That that that you ladies buy I Just couldn't believe the colors. I mean as a guy I was attracted to the color and the designs of the bottles but I'm like there's there's like 20 things of this 20 things of that 20 things of that and I'm like Are you guys being scammed? I'm like you guys really use all of this and and is there a product that nobody buys I mean it's there on the shelf Sorry ladies. This is the guys thinking here guys are like a man to that Did you know that in the old days in the Bible times they use olive oil for all that stuff? You want to save money use olive oil? You use it as deodorant Facial cream you name it We see here very clearly that Solomon is saying this Have a blast while you last that's what he's saying Have a blast while you last and I love what he says in verse 9 notice he says Enjoy he says live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life You know what's interesting about this?   I mean, how could you do that, right? enjoy your wife and this is cool because He's saying basically that he's talking about notice. He uses the word vain the word vain means Fleeting and it's referring to the shortness of life, which is our third reality check that life is short He says enjoy your wife. So let me encourage you men.   Listen, hold on relax. No, no, I Did not get this response from the first service. So they were in the right mindset. All right This is where I'm going with this. All right Wow, I lost my turn of thought here because of that. I got scared enjoy your wife So when your husband comes to you and says honey, let's go out to dinner Don't say why Don't question him. Listen Don't block that channel of enjoyment. In other words, let him take you out. It says get on the best garments and Deck yourself out and go out for a night and enjoy you like well Robert. I have we have kids So do I I have a one-year-old and a almost five-year-old very active wonderful babies and When my mother-in-law is here and she's in this crowd right now.  You guys know right? You have to be strategic. You have to be purposeful. You have to find ways to enjoy your wife and That's what Solomon is saying enjoy your wife and ladies make it easy say hey, absolute. Let's go. I love Chipotle. Let's do it Doesn't matter where you go, right? It doesn't matter as long as you guys spending time together. That's what counts, right? Taco Bell, whatever As long as you're both face-to-face and having a conversation And talking I know it's a challenge In these days for marriages to have that enjoyment. It's it's hard to parents working and and there's a lot of commotion and whatnot And sometimes marriages are not doing well, but pray and enjoy each other. That's what Solomon is saying Have a blast while you last and he says something about your portion notice. This is your portion He says this is what God has given you now Where God has you today is where God wants you today. That's your portion. That's that's what God has given you And I know sometimes it's very hard to accept the portion in life like you're like God Why you know, maybe you're a person who's dealing with sickness Maybe maybe you're going through some issues or whatnot and you're like this is my portion Robert I don't I don't care for this portion, but listen trust the Lord Just don't do what Jonah did when he did not like his portion When God came to him and says Joan, I want to use you big time I want you to evangelize the Assyrians and I want an entire capital to get saved and he says nope He went the other way Don't do that He rejected that portion that God was given him, but you know what happened God and eventually brought him back But he says to enjoy Your portion Verse 10 he says whoever whatever your hands finds to do he says he says it very very clearly there And I love how he says it He says whatever your hand finds to do do it with your might for there is no work or device or knowledge or wisdom in the Grave where you're going Well How do you enjoy your job? You're like I don't like my job Robert. I don't like my job Give it your best effort and remember you're working as unto the Lord If you give your job your best effort with the ability that God has given you you're going to see change in your own heart Whatever you are able to do do it with your heart as unto the Lord the word hand suggests ability The word find suggests opportunity and the word might suggest Intensity so what Solomon is saying is that we only have one life to make our contribution one life Do you know that work is a privilege? It really is work is a total privilege if you don't think so Talk to someone who's been out of a job for a long time talk to somebody who's been unemployed for a couple years You're gonna be very privileged to have a job especially nowadays Solomon says Whatever your hands finds wherever your hands finds to do do it with your might with the ability that God has given you Reality check number four and this is our last one Life is unpredictable life is unpredictable Expect the unexpected Expect the unexpected verse 11. There's a list of people in four areas. There's a race an athlete There's a battle a military a service There's there's a wise person There's a person who has favor Those who are skillful in their work are not always favored Do not he talks about the wise that even though your wise it doesn't always guarantee that you're gonna have a good earning But generally it's the strongest who wins Generally speaking, it's the smartest that make more money The skillful ones are reorganized and the popular ones have more friends, but not always But not always. That's what he says here. The results are uncertain here and beyond our control Hey, listen going to the best college finding the best college doesn't guarantee you Wealth doesn't guarantee you a job I know friends that have gone to college and they've spent not tons of money and they're still they have they're not in their career So it doesn't matter how where you go and and what you find. It's all uncertain.  David won the little guy won so it's not always the strongest that wins David and Goliath Goliath had the strength David had the faith Totally different.  I want to read this for man also does not know his time Like fish taken in a cruel net like birds caught in a snare So the sons of men are snared in an evil time when it falls Suddenly upon them. That's the key word in that verse if you want to underline it suddenly that's the whole point right here suddenly Nets and snares there are people who go about in life thinking that they have it under control when suddenly something happens We see that in professionals professionals will go through big Explosions of money and whatnot and then suddenly something happens Perhaps you know somebody who at first was very wealthy very very Well off, but then suddenly they were hit with a sickness and lost everything That's the unpredictability of life and Solomon is hitting it very well here. I mean even with athletes athletes who are guaranteed millions of dollars and suddenly they get hurt and Their career goes down the hill. They don't play anymore Well Solomon in verses 13 through 18 appreciates the wisdom in others and He says it very clearly 17 and 18 will close with that Words of the wise spoken quietly should be heard rather than the shout of a ruler of fools Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good God's wisdom especially God's wisdom is really cool to see in scripture when God used Moses To part the Red Sea that was wisdom when God used Joshua to bring down those walls. That was wisdom When God used Joshua to bring down those walls that was wisdom It wasn't through might it wasn't through anything, but God's power his wisdom So let me close with a few things here One is that life on the horizontal level is unpredictable. It really is on the horizontal level is unpredictable We don't know What comes next One missionary said this and I love what he said and I quote the unknown gives adventure to life Listen guys as a Christian The unknown shouldn't scare you the unknown should excite you Because Jesus said don't worry about tomorrow He is the God of your tomorrow. He already knows what's gonna happen tomorrow.  That's the cool thing about being a Christian. I Cringed when I hear people that are not Christians you are on your own When you go through your trials and things you're on your own when I go through trials and things I got Christ's I Have somebody I can turn to and talk to and pray It's so cool to see this because the unknown gives adventure to life and it's so it's so true And the fact that our days are numbered out to motivate us to live earnestly for Jesus It shouldn't scare us it should drive us to earnestly love the Lord in light of the brevity of life We must live with seriousness recognizing the importance of a life well invested and what is that about? Well, a well-invested life is one that is lived in Christ alone Why is that important? Because life is short Death is certain That's why see death is like the great equalizer. You know what I'm saying. It's like the big equalizer death plays No favorites overlooks. No one regardless of your looks regardless of your talent regardless of your strengths regardless of your wealth You're gonna die That's what his that's his point the works that we accomplished on this side of heaven is The basis of our words in the next. How are you investing in the kingdom? Where are you in your walk with Christ? Is it strong? Is it passionate? Or is it like I just come to church and go home and Then I come back and think of God next Sunday The question that you have to ask yourself is this are you living for Jesus? Are you living for Jesus? I'm not asking do you know Jesus because you may know of Jesus, but do you truly know him and are you living for him?


It's June the 9th, 2022, it's Wednesday, excuse me, it's Thursday, Thursday it's 11 o'clock and it's time for American Issues Take Two. I'm Tim Appichella filling in for Jay Fidel, who's on assignment and with us today is our very special, special Stephanie Dahl, sorry Stephanie, help me out. At the bookstore, remember? That's right. And they used to rob the banks. Yes, today's title, believe it or not, is Fox Viewers Won't Watch January 6th hearings. In about an hour and a half, two hours, we are going to see the first opening, if you will, for the Select Committee January 6th hearings and it is going to be televised on all the major stations. I don't know who's not going to air it except for one company, one media company. They allegedly go by the name of Fox News, but we all know that news channels do exactly that. They report on the news. They report things that are important to the society, to politics, to business, even weather, they report on it, but not Fox News. Fox News is not going to air these Select Committee hearings. Gee, what a surprise. Stephanie, welcome. What's your take on this? What's your take that Fox News has blocked the January 6th Select Committee hearing? Thank you, Tim. And hello. I appreciate the question. It has been one because I've been thinking about it. And one reason is the disappointment of that to find out that a major today station actually is not running this topic when it's a historical event that is going to be listed always going forward and in textbooks and I'm a little bit disappointed. But I think it also validates the different approach to all of this information that Fox doesn't report to do. In other words, there's nothing about their work that tries to unify or develop any consensual approach or just getting everybody on the same page. They're not doing that. And I believe that that is one of the reasons we're so fractionated, fractionalized. And so that's where we are now. I find it very difficult. And I think it even just really hurts because it contributes to the demolition of our democracy. Well, I guess I keep referring to Fox News as Fox Entertainment or Fox commentary. And I don't care. It's fine if you're Fox commentary. But I think it's problematic that they keep labeling themselves as Fox News and basically pulling the wool over the viewer's eyes and reporting it as news, which it's not. And this is a classic example where this particular topic doesn't fit well with their politicized agenda. And it's not the first thing they haven't televised. I don't think they televised a lot of the impeachment hearings. If they did, they did so very sparsely reported, covered it. I'm not sure to what extent they went with the state of the union addresses that we've had before with Joe Biden. So, I mean, what are we to say about a news station, quote unquote news, that refuses to cover the news? And the second part of this question is, are the Democrats, are they missing the opportunity to seize on this moment and point out that Fox News is running away scared from this topic? I think that you've got a really good point, Tim, that that they're ignoring an opportunity. And I think that making sure that the people who are going to report on Fox News, who will be called in to talk about the showing of this topic, because I have heard some say, well, I am going to be on Fox News talking about this presentation. But CNN and the others that MSNBC and others ought to be making that point harder so that people will know it will be shown. But on the other hand, it's deplorable that they're not showing it. And to tell you the truth, I can't remember exactly who, if all of these other events have been televised by Fox News, because I have such a difficulty staying on the program, which I know our colleague, Jay, has also mentioned. I leave after a while because it's I can only watch until I hear the first lie. And he says, I never get into a minute and a half of Fox News because it doesn't take long for them to start. Something happens. So it's never an unadulterated just run it like they're going to run it. And that's okay. If they don't want to do that, run it and then do the criticism every inch, you know, after every five minutes go in and lambast it. That would be a more of informational news approach, media, a responsibility, but they're not even doing that. So I do agree that, you know, and I think that nationally it has been addressed, it has been labeled as more of an entertainment show. There are more conclusions being drawn that's more an entertainment or it's not, it's not up to the standards of the media industry as to be a an informational and a news. You know, I had Chuck Crumpton on yesterday and yesterday's show and he said it really doesn't matter what they cover, what they don't cover. It's all about control of the narrative. And to control the narrative, certainly you don't want to hear anything contrary to your narrative. And I suspect at one o'clock this afternoon in Hawaii time, we're going to start hearing things contrary to the GOP narrative. If you're, you know, if you're a senior producer at Fox News, what do you think went into the decision making process not to air a huge national event, the hearing? I think it's just as you say, they've managed to convey the notion that this wasn't a nothing and that it didn't, it didn't present near and present danger to anybody there or to the nation as a whole or to our political beliefs. And that's a real problem because they have succeeded in that and by not running it, they are only going to be continuing to make sure that they support that stance, that understanding, that belief. My friends that go traveling in other places and come back from red states where, you know, they're in homes or around places where their television's running and they're always running on Fox News. And so in order to do that, I don't think it's just the political topics that have to be on. It has to have that entertainment side of it. So in other words, I see that's one of the differences too because it's more fun to watch Fox News. They do more things. Well, Fox does appeal to a cultural leaning, if you will. And the bottom line is with that leaning becomes viewership. They do well with it. I also think that there are those who, as you just mentioned, who are dedicated, who are dedicated to Fox 100 percent of the day of day and night watching. I mean, that's what they do. So there's both a cultural attraction, also the political leanings of Fox. And that's why it's on 24-7 in their households. Do you think any of them will escape the gravity of Fox and dare turn into a CNN or a PBS or an ABC network to watch these hearings, or they're going to be satisfied not to know anything? And that helps them confirm what they want to believe? I think they're satisfied with it, Tim, unfortunately. And I think that there's a cooperation here of Fox trying to find what this base that Trump is conjured up, they want to make sure they keep it happy. So I think that they're purveying what their research tells them these people want. And that's what they get. So that's why they've had the loss, I think. Okay, we might be slow feed here on your video. So I'm going to kind of kick in here.  Oh, really? Yeah, your video feed is getting a little frozen here and there. So let me go to the next question, because I really didn't hear your answer on that last one. We had Chris Wallace as Shepard Smith. They seem to be the last two journalists on Fox. They have vacated. They've left the building. And can you think of anyone that fills their shoes? I mean, are there any journalists left at Fox that are notable and do their job as a journalist ought to? I always liked Geraldo Rivera when it started watching him so long ago, because peeking through Geraldo Rivera's comments are sometimes some rather more progressive attitudes that he wants to actually present it. But I think the others unfortunately have gone. One was another person. He had been on NPR radio and went to Fox and he stayed there a long, long time trying to push through, punch through and keep them balanced in it. But now he's gone. And then there are Mike Wallace's in that level. Those people are gone. And Bill O'Reilly, sadly, he left, but he was a little bit of a balance to some of the others that they have there. He was a little more moderate, it seems. I haven't done any study of this. These are just impressions that I've had. But no, I agree with you. I think that it's been left to its own devices, which is they've succeeded in preferring to address the desires, the preferences of the people that are in the Trump base. And remember who those people are. They're not sophisticated and they're not analysts and people that want to understand the nuances of the news. They are the people that want to have a little fun while doing that too. Yeah. You know, something just came to mind when you were speaking. And that is, remember some of these texts to Trump administration, particularly the chief of staff, Mark Meadows. And some of those texts came from Fox personnel, Fox news host. Do you think that might be a motivation that's a little too close to home? And that could be a potential motivation why they don't want to air this to see their correspondence or they're not correspondence, their talking heads involved in the hearings, their names specifically. Well, I think they're already named. They're out there in the news and hopefully, and I guess they're, I think that they are just going along with their general outline of making sure. So nothing, nothing special. Just, you know, business as usual. If it's anti-Trump or anti anything that would make the GOP look bad, then don't cover it. Pretend it never happened and talk about Benghazi. Exactly. Let's do the Benghazi again, which got nowhere. That's, to me, it's hysterical. It's not funny at all. But the fact that Hillary Clinton had to go through such an investigation when these people aren't even willing to show the actual tape of things that we have. But she went through 16 hours of interrogation, if you will. I like that term. 16 hours where half Mark Meadows and half the staff won't even show up for a subpoena. I think, and the leader of that investigation or interrogation of Hillary Clinton had promised at such a high level to be able to reveal the true facts in that tragedy. And they got nothing out of it. And Hillary Clinton sat there through all of those 16 hours and talked and talked coherently. So it truly, you know, at one level was hysterical, but actually a tremendous blob. And he's still credited with that being a success. I've heard, you know, they claim, there's a claim given to him for that interrogation. Right. And it yielded not one iota of information beyond what. Well, it revealed it was a tragedy and it was, you know, a circumstance, you know, events that took place that were badly timed and maybe some bad decisions were made and it did cause the lives of Americans. But, you know, after, after 18 months of investigation, and then the talking about it for another 24 months, you know, I guess, enough's enough. But I don't fault Fox for doing it. I fault Fox for saying they're a news station. And I guess, you know, I, you know, I've said this about 40 times on one show or another saying, let's get back to the days where the news desk was the news desk and then commentary editorial desk was just that editorial commentary and have have located literally at two separate desks and not confused viewers that your your opinion now is the news or its factual news. Right. We gotta get back to those days and I don't know how we do it. That's totally devoted to the care and feeding of the base. And that is the desperate situation of that kind of media production. And that's a big step along our way to losing the democracy. So that's what is so worrisome is that they are supported and reinforced for understanding things at the level that they already do, because that's what Fox is trying to find. What is it that will keep that audience intact and keep them on their base of ideas that satisfy them to be behind the candidate, the Republican agenda. It's really, really frightening. And, you know, so it just shows you how far along, I believe it's an indicator of how far along we already are out of the democracy. And the other thing that it's doing is it's taking advantage of people that have never been around for the major challenges that the U.S., the major global challenges that the U.S. has faced and participated in and solved to the benefit of the whole world. And none of these people were alive, many of these people weren't alive during all, you know, the World War II thing, the thirties, the depression, and even more recently, you know, the, the, they were here for the Vietnam's, but they missed that even their they're mentioning now that they've missed also the seventies and the inflation experience that we had there. So they don't have this background of experience at all that Fox needs to be bothered about. They, they can fill them up because they're kind of like a, I guess, the blank slate that comes from the experiences that they've had since they've been in the country. So they probably cannot even imagine what will happen to them if this democracy starts to really disintegrate. Then where do they think, where are they going to get their social security check? Because that's the first thing these corrupt people are going to go cash. I mean, that's going to be over. And so all of their choices of their rights, this is what I wish Hollywood would do something about. Because remember, we've got that wonderful movie, Don't Look Up, when the asteroid is coming. So what about, what is it going to be like without democracy? Has anybody thought about, where's that program? Where's that documentary? This is what it's going to be like. You want rights? Are you kidding me? Well, sometimes people want something they don't realize what it's going to be like.  The Senate is one big gridlock. So nothing's passing. Nothing's getting done. And then you're right for criticism from both sides that, gee, democracy doesn't seem to work because nothing gets done and the country falls apart. At least a strongman like Donald Trump, he knows how to get things done, which he didn't. He really never got that much accomplished. But it's the perception that Donald Trump was doing things. He was a businessman and he knew how to get things done. Well, bologna. And that's why the dictator, the king, is such a satisfactory default. And it still is the default. Obviously, even with the success of this American democracy over 200 years, if we can call it that, but since it's the only one there is that done what it has done, I would say it's pretty successful, but they don't understand what that means to have that and that it can go away and that they will be left with the options. The options over the 10,000 years have been dictators and pharaohs and kings. And that's the default. And that's what they're doing with Trump. And I really believe that. And, you know, people have a tendency towards that because we haven't been out of all of that for very long. We've been more in that way of governing and trying to make it better and better. 240 years isn't that long as far as the spectrum of time and governance of countries. You're a good point. Very good point. Yeah. And without education, okay, getting around to hearing about Hammurabi, you know, thousands of years ago and how that was real good, but he was also like a pharaoh or a king. So what does that mean? So many, many people are not in touch with history, as you know, and I think that the beleaguered historians come on and talk about that a lot that people do. And they ought to. You know, we've said this, you and I've said this on multiple programs in the past. I mean, where did civics 101 go? It just left. And most of these students today don't even have a clue on how their local city government, state government, federal government, they don't have a clue on that on how it's compromised or compromised, comprised. And the bottom line is they ought to. They really should. So, hey, do you think there's anything out of the hearing that we're going to hear right out of the gate that's something new and something earth shattering or is it going to be something we've been hearing all along in the dribs and drabs and nothing really new until far later into other hearing dates? Okay, I'm going to assume that you're not paused to contemplate what's going on here. So I'm going to just continue with this line of questioning and you may or may not be able to answer. The question was, are people going to carry on? I mean, they're going to, you know, are they going to hear anything new during these hearings? And I guess the question is been posed, but now will they come up with something new? And I think people are looking for not the same proud boys, you know, imply implication, they're not looking for the oath keepers. They know those guys have been charged with sedition. They've pled guilty to sedition. I think people are wondering if how high just goes up the ladder? Does this go up to the Gohmerts or, you know, those politicians in Congress that maybe have aided this whole process? Do you think that's what they might see in this hearing either today or days following? Well, Tim, I think that is a very valuable goal. I think we really, it's needed. It needs to show how these foot soldiers who are the white supremacists and the proud boys and all of these are the foot soldiers. What is this coup? And so when is it that we're going to get up out of that so much of the investigation? Yes. Hasn't it mostly been targeting these hundreds and hundreds of people who are these quote foot soldiers on quote, but now we got to move it on up to understand the roles of Roger Stone and when people like that. Do you think that's part of the motivation for people to tune in? They want to see who gets implicated in all this and how high this thing goes up? Similar to Watergate.  So I'm going to answer for you. Please do. I don't know why I'm frozen. I'll be working on it here. All right. So go ahead and I don't know if you heard that question. Is that the motivation for people to tune in to see how high this goes up as Watergate was watched by a lot of people? Myself as one of them? Well, don't you think that people want to defend certainly Trump? They're on the line for that. They don't want anything negative to come and spoil their icon. So yes, I think they come would want to see it for those reasons. Yeah, because they assume already that he's not culpable. And so they want to make sure that that case is still made and that courts can still be accused of just being political in their attempts to do anything with him. As they're laying out the case for this hearing, I mean, they probably know that if you're one of the 33 percent that are GOP, there's no reaching you on a message. There's no facts that will change your opinion. There's no testimony that will make you think twice about the fact that, you know, stop the steal and Donald Trump was robbed of his victory for President of the United States for a second term. So they probably know that that audience is lost. Who do you think they're crafting the message for? Is it independence or to re-energize Democrats or a combination of both? I don't know. Well, I've been hearing that the assumption is that all of this is about doing it the next time. So that what where they are now is that they've got all the pieces that they need to know how to work and they are working almost all of these pieces. Like I said, their long term goal, they've been in it for the long run. Well, you know, they're in the long run for being able to have this coup be successful next time. I.e. if Trump wins, if Trump wants runs and doesn't win, then they will have all the pieces in place where they can actually turn it over and take hold of the Electoral College. And so that that means that a lot of including Lynn Cheney doesn't seem to be in favor of doing anything about the Electoral College or about a law that would keep a single political office influential in overturning an election. So that, you know, when he got down to it, if he got 28 states versus one last state, that one person could influence it by a vote. So that's what's pretty scary here is that it's beyond kind of the basic questions of interest and knowledge. It's what is what are the tactics and are they yet are they successful enough to have control of this? And right. Hey, you mentioned Liz Cheney. You know, she's already announced that she certainly will not run for President of the United States in 2024 that she's interested in, you know, retaining her Senate seat in Wyoming. How does she come out of all this, this hearing and her really admirable position to defend democracy, if you will, to defend the Republic. But how does she come out of all this with her constituents? Well, I think I certainly respect her for this effort. And I laud her for trying to point out where what it really means and get the evidence to support that meaning and make it accessible to everybody. But I've been, I've just been so disappointed in what the news is saying are her numbers in Wyoming that it doesn't look like she's going to be elected again, because Trump's had rally out there and that they're like she's like 50 points behind, I mean, a large number of points behind her challenger. Now on the other side of things, she has a huge war chest. So she's got lots of money to deploy towards winning this election. But I don't know if she's started to do that yet or not, but it'll be interesting to see what she does. Because at this point right now from what I've heard recently on the news, she's not going to win. And that would be a big blow to those of us who respected her courage and her integrity on this matter. We're out of time. And so before I ask you for your last words and your last opinion, how do you think this is going to go? How do you think viewership is going to be on this hearing? Do you think it's going to be a success as far as viewership or is it a nothing burger? That's a really good question, Tim. That is because are people going to be looking for the upward bound nature of this investigation and where it's going to go, and if they're going to actually find out who took it on as in the leadership?  Because we're going to see the same thing we saw at the beginning of the January one committee. So I venture a guess that they're smart enough. I mean, the people on that committee hopefully know how to do this or have been supported to understand how you do this kind of a presentation for success with an audience. Hopefully they've had that. And we'll all be there really seeing the roof. What did the senator say? Blow the roof off the top? You know, I have one more question to me. I can't help myself. I asked this to Chuck Grumpton yesterday. Did the Republicans make a mistake by not agreeing to do a commission, a bipartisan commission? And remember, commissions, you tend not to leak anything out.  Did they make a mistake not going that route versus forcing the hand of the House to do the select committee hearing? Yeah, I think, Tim, that's such a good question and good point because there's the matter of how much choice did they have? I mean, I think that I'm sensing that it's fortunate that they're able to do what they've got. And now it's all being criticized as political because they only have two Republicans on it. But what choice did they have? Right. It was all stopped up before. Well, I'm talking about the GOP not thinking it was a wiser decision to buy off on a commission, where you won't have the dribs and drabs of leaking all this horrible information for the last 17 months. And I'm not sure if that served the GOP well or maybe it did. That's I think that's a really good point. And I think that they were trying to it's another reveal that they want to control the story. They want to control the information. So I think it maybe addresses that that they wouldn't they would want the least informative procedure in place that they could manage. And so that's that's what they've got. And I think that's what they want. They don't want this out. Maybe we would never heard another thing about it. Yeah, we wouldn't know. Yeah, good point. Yeah.  And what do you think? I'm excited that it is going to happen. I'm grateful for their work. And I think it's more about our education and how this democracy is supposed to work and how we can make it work better. And that will continue to be an outcome as we go forward as to how the other side responds to it. And that may be there'll be some understanding that our representation in our governing bodies is not sufficient to hold back this kind of thing coming over us again. But anyhow, we'll learn a lot from it. And I appreciate that work and that our representatives finally feel like we're getting something out of the Congress. Good point. Yeah. Alrighty, well, I'd like to thank Stephanie Stoll-Dalton for her, her sage comments, although they were frozen at times. I'm sorry. All right. Thank you very much, Stephanie, for joining us. I'm Tim Appichella. This is American Issues Take 2. Please join us next Thursday at 11 o'clock, and we will hope to see you then. Until then, aloha.


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