In this episode, Cole talks about spirituality with certain political candidates. He brings up the concept of aligning your actions with people who have similar beliefs and shares clips of how the candidates believe in God which he thinks is important. this episode ends with a song from The Retrograde who is receiving 60% of your Satoshi Donation.
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Cole McCormick:
The Holy of Holies. What's up everyone? It's America Plus. I'm your host, Cole McCormick, Happy Easter. Happy resurrection Sunday. Happy Easter. Whatever when whatever when you wanna say it. Folks, we are celebrating here at America Plus with a glass of copola wine. Beautiful wine. It's a beautiful time to be alive, folks. Welcome to America Plus. It's another amazing week of figuring out better narratives for the world, for the country. I've had an incredible week, guys. I just came off a a a pretty, good shift at work. I had to work on Easter. I'm working on every single holiday. What is going on here? This job in the kitchen is teaching me to just be okay and to just get through working during the holidays, because I never want to work on a holiday. Who does?
I don't mind podcasting on a holiday, but I really don't wanna chop any potatoes on a holiday, dude. Like, what is that about? Why am I chopping potatoes? Why am I chopping potatoes here, dude? But we got through it. We did it. We chopped £60. We did our thing, and we clocked out. And now we're here. We're chilling. We're good. We got the glass of wine here. We're celebrating Jesus Christ's blood with this glass of wine. Okay? That's what we're doing here. This is a rare a rare occasion, and now I'm just gonna pour myself some more here. Is the mic picking that up? I hope so. This is a rare occasion where yours truly is actually drinking. I've been high before, but I've never really been drinking on the podcast before. This is an experiment.
This is an expression, and it's just a moment in time right now, guys. Like, happy happy March 31st. We're really going for it. We're talking about God this week. We're talking about politics this week. We're combining these two things. You know the thing that nobody wants to combine? We're combining these two things. Okay? This week has been a really wild because it's Easter week, it's, of of course, been another week of insane political news, and, where do I wanna start off with? Oh, okay. The the let's actually we need to commemorate this. It is Sunday. It is the Lord's day. I have a bunch of clips. Okay? It is a clip episode, so get ready to ready to listen for some things. Okay?
Let's commemorate this Easter Sunday with a beautiful American prayer.
[00:02:50] Unknown:
Dear lord, baby Jesus, or as our brothers in the south call you, Jesus. Jesus. We thank you so much for this bountiful harvest of Domino's, KFC, and the always delicious Taco Bell. I just wanna take time to say thank you for my family, my 2 beautiful, beautiful, handsome, striking sons, Walker and Texas Ranger, or TR, as we call them, and, of course, my red hot smoking wife, Carly, who's a stone cold fox.
[00:03:21] Cole McCormick:
Come on. If you rate her ass a 100, it would easily be a 94.
[00:03:25] Unknown:
Also, I wanna thank you for my best friend and teammate, Cal Knott Junior, who's got my back no matter what. Shake and bake. Shake and bake. Dear old baby Jesus, we also thank you for my wife's father, Chip. We hope that you can use your baby Jesus powers to heal him and his horrible leg. And it smells terrible, and the dogs are always bothering with it. Dear tiny infant Jesus Hey, you know, sweetie,
[00:03:50] Unknown:
Jesus did grow up. You don't always have to call him baby. It's a bit odd and off putting to pray to a baby. Well, look, I like the Christmas Jesus best, and I'm saying grace.
[00:03:59] Unknown:
When you say grace, you can say it to grown up Jesus or teenaged Jesus or bearded Jesus or whoever you want. You know what I
[00:04:04] Unknown:
want? I want you to do this grace good so that God will let us win tomorrow.
[00:04:10] Unknown:
Dear tiny Jesus.
[00:04:11] Cole McCormick:
Your tiny Jesus. Golden
[00:04:14] Unknown:
fleece diapers with your tiny, little, fat, bald up fist paw on it. He's a man. He had a beard. Look, I like the baby version the best. Do you hear me? I win the races and I get the money.
[00:04:25] Unknown:
Finish the damn grace.
[00:04:28] Unknown:
I like to picture Jesus in a tuxedo t shirt because it says, like, I wanna be formal Right. But I'm here to party too. Because I like to party, so I like my Jesus to party.
[00:04:38] Cole McCormick:
I like to picture Jesus as a ninja fighting off evil samurai. Hell yeah. I like to think of Jesus
[00:04:44] Unknown:
like with giant eagle's wings Yeah. And singing lead vocals for Lynyrd Skynyrd with like a angel band. And I'm in the front row, and I'm hammered drunk. Hey, Cal. Why don't you just shut up? Yes, ma'am.
[00:04:57] Cole McCormick:
Shout out to Will Ferrell. That's probably the best example of what America is, and that's why I had to play it here on America Plus. The American prayer is real, folks. Who is baby Jesus to you? On this Easter Sunday, who is Christ to you? It's a it's it's a it's a big question. You might think it's simple from a Christian perspective, but let me tell you, everyone is gonna have their own version. Everyone has their own interpretation. Everyone has their own viewpoint. A certain a certain point of view. And that's how I wanted to start it off with, in political news, we had a, a certain candidate, Robert Kennedy junior, announced that he had a a new vice president, man. He announced a RFK Jr. Announced that he has a, this woman named Nicole Shanahan is his is his VP.
And, you know, the last time I talked about RFK Jr, I talked about, like, his spirit. You know, it was called the Kennedy spirit. I think that was actually a Satslinger, back in the day. Back in the sat slinger days. Go back to that one, why don't you? And I was focused on how he was talking about, like, spirituality and God, and like what he's been through and you know, RFK Jr, he has a really commendable story of him being addicted to drugs and alcohol, and and he found God through sobriety, and, you know, he has like a good story of healing himself. And, he picks this VP, and people have been criticizing this VP, Nicole Shanahan, and if you do a simple Google search, you know, the news isn't too good on her. Okay?
First of all, she was married to the founder of Google, Sergey Brin. She had a kid with him, and, and then they got a divorce in, like, 2022 because, allegedly, she had an she had a brief affair, with Elon Musk. And but they've both denied it. Okay? They both denied the affair. But now she's married to to some Bitcoin guy, and, the the press has not been nice to her. And she goes to Burning Man, and she got a $1,000,000,000 in the dirt, through the divorce, and, she met this she met this other guy at some yoga no. She met Sergei at a yoga retreat, and then she met this other guy at Burning Man. And so she's one of these, like, super hippie dippy Silicon Valley rich girls, and people were criticizing her because it seemed like she was super hard on the Democratic side.
And the the day or, like, the week that they announced her vice presidency, she did a podcast with 1 Rick Rubin on, what is this? I I think this podcast is called the Telegram or Telegraph or whatever. I forget the name of it, but the Rick Rubin Podcast. She has a whole conversation with him. And in the first two minutes, the first like minute and a half, this clip I have here is 2 and a half minutes. She goes just deep, deep into, like, what she believes in, her views on, like, life, and, like, the world, and nature. And what I wanna do now is, like, just talk about like, we have to talk about this. America Plus has to talk about the presidential candidates. Okay? It's not a simple choice.
It just isn't. And I'm still undecided. I don't know. I definitely know that I'm not voting for Biden, but when it comes to me choosing a person for president, am I gonna choose them based on their spirituality and their character, or are or am I gonna base, vote for them based on something else? Okay. And that's what we're going through right now. So this Shanahan gal, what are her views on God and nature? Just listen to this. See if you have are there do any red flags pop up? And let's just discuss this.
[00:09:03] Unknown:
I love to read philosophy, and I love to read about the philosophy of the ancients in particular and what has survived from ancient philosophy. So I tend to find a writer or a thinker and then I'll go through as much as their work as I can consume. You know, 7 years ago, I was really into Aldous Huxley and prior to that, I was into Emerson. And then prior to that, I was looking at female writers in Rome and the first woman who ever wrote a dialogue was in the 1400 and she wrote a dialogue on the infinity of love. Her name is Tullia de Aragon. And then right now, I'm reading a lot of Peter Kingsley, a philosopher from the UK who has done a marvelous job helping his readers understand where logic and reason comes from in Western civilization and he looks at pre Socratic notions of logic and reason and the initiation process of receiving logic and wisdom.
And a lot of it is quite divine. There's this element of connection to the sacred, And there's no difference between the connection to the sacred and logic and reason. It's actually one thing. And he teaches that Parmenides and Empedocles, who were the earliest fathers of Western civilization, they brought forward logic and reason from Persephone, the goddess of the underworld. And and he talks about why that matters because, you know, Persephone is where life on earth comes from. And if life on earth comes from the same place that logic and reason comes from and nature comes from the same place logic and reason comes from, then perhaps they're the same thing. And the impact that has had on me today, you know, looking at the age of AI, is that we need to look to nature as our source of guidance on how we go about framing AI's purpose in our world.
Our world is a natural world, and we're going to have to find a way to integrate that and the technology that we now have, you know, permeating every aspect of our life.
[00:11:33] Cole McCormick:
Wow. She really just got goes deep in that, dude. She brings up AI. We need why do we need nature guiding us to create AI? She brings up these these, Greek philosophers. Okay? And I guess, they brought up this goddess, Persephone, as a way to explain logic and reason, and I guess Persephone within the Greek mythology was the she was like the female side of the guide of the underworld, and I don't want to connect it to negative energy. I be because, listening further to her, I am not willing to say that this Shanahan gal is evil or of the ill mindset. I don't think she's on the side of death.
I don't think she's on the side of selfishness. She actually sounds quite sincere. She has a kid. Her daughter is autistic, and one of the reasons why she aligned herself with RFK Junior is because of, his words on vaccines possibly, causing autism, or I should say the stacking of vaccines, you know. No one really knows. There hasn't really been much research on that, but her daughter being autistic and RFK Jr. Staying on vaccines, like, that was a that was a good combo for her, and she found sympathy in that. But what guides her as a human being is this philosophical idea that logic and reason and nature, they come from the same thing.
So I think it's safe to say that she believes in God. And right off the bat, I think that's good. I think it's good. And I wanna bring up a tweet that she posted today. She doesn't use Twitter a bunch. She literally just, like, opened up her Twitter, like, a few days ago, I think. And I wanna read what she wrote about Easter. You know, everyone's talking about Easter. Tim Cook tweeted about Easter, and then the very next tweet, he tweeted about trans visibility. We got Joe Biden tweeting about trans visibility on this Easter Sunday, which is the most insane thing ever, dude. But Nicole Shanahan, she does not bring up the transgender visibility. She says, happy Easter.
Jesus and Salugenicists. What the fuck is Salugenicis? She says, Easter was one of my favorite holidays as a child. Celebrating rebirth and the celebration of Jesus' life, who was at his core a healer. Jesus believed in the infinite capacity of the human spirit to heal. I wanna share on this day the concept of salugenicis, the opposite of pathogenesis, which is where our healthcare system is stuck in stuck on today. Salugenicis is placing focus on the healing cycle and how to overcome chronic disease. I read a paper on the topic last year, and it changed my life and my perspective on overcoming disease. Posting that link here.
Be well, everyone, and sending lots of love to you on this special day, and remembering the extraordinary life of Jesus Christ. So, I mean, right at the bat, like, that's like that's a good tweet. I have zero understanding of what Salveugenicist means. Maybe I've heard that, maybe I haven't. It seems like a word that I've heard before, but then she links to a PubMed link on the NIH website talking about something about mitochondria, like, there needs to be more mitochondria in your body to heal yourself. I don't I I I don't wanna go deep into that, but, like, she's on this, like, scientific meets holistic side of medicine, and I don't know, man. Like, it seems interesting to me because right off the bat, whenever when RFK, like, announced her, people were, like, she's a Democrat. She supports George Soros' people in the d a.
And there's not a lot of, like, confirmation of all that Because when you go into it, when you really like, when you listen to her, like, as I was listen listening to her on the podcast, she seems sincere about people being healthy, and she also, like, she brought up AI out of the blue, but it, like, it can feel like it's out of the blue, but it's also super relevant because, you know, AI is relevant, like, everyone is using AI. Whether it be for something simple or someone's talking about it in a really complicated term, it's AI dude. Like, the 2020's are about AI, and I I see it. I see it for what it is. And so she's saying that we need to use our perspective this is my interpretation. We need to use our interpretation of God to help align AI for the betterment of people.
Like, okay. Okay. I can get behind that. I can understand that. I can figure that out, or at least I can be aligned with it. It's it's definitely not something that I, I agree with maybe. She says that we need to use nature. I it it it seems like she says nature is God, possibly, but, you know, as a human being, like, I can definitely, like, be more aligned with her than not. And this brought me to RFK Jr himself, like, how is RFK Jr how is Robert Kennedy Jr thinking about God? This is a quick clip, of course there's music with it, but this is a quick clip, from him with him on the Lex Fridman podcast. How does RFK Jr think about God?
[00:17:25] Unknown:
What is your relationship, and, what is your understanding of God? Who is God? Most philosophers would say, well, we're inside the mind of God. And so it would be impossible for us unders and actually what God's form is. So then the question is, how do you start believing in something that you can't see or smell or hear or touch or taste or acquire with your senses? And Jung provides the formula for that. And he says act as if you fake it till you make it. And so that's, you know, what I started doing. I just started pretending there was a god watching me all the time and kind of life was a series of tests. And each there was a bunch of moral decisions to my higher power, like to my god. And when that when I do those things right, so much about addiction is about abuse of power. All of us have some power, whether it's her, you know, good looks or whether it's connections or education or family or whatever.
And there's always a temptation to use those to fill, fulfill self will. And the challenge is how do you use those always to serve and said God's will and, you know, the the good of our community. And that to me is kind of the struggle. And when I do that, I feel God's power coming through me and that I can do things. I'm much more effective as a human being. That gnawing anxiety that I lived with for so many years and, like, god, it's gone. And that I can kind of, like, put down the oars and hoist the sail, and the wind takes me. And I can see the evidence of it every day of my life.
[00:19:04] Cole McCormick:
Wow. RFK Jr. Just bringing this beautiful viewpoint. He really that that was on his own YouTube channel. They're really pulling the heartstrings with that one. They really want you to know that he believes in God, which is a good thing, I guess. How many people don't believe in God? Like, does Joe Biden believe in God? Do you believe in God? Like, I understand that there's, like, this, like, paradoxal paradoxical thing where it's super important, but it's also, like, just normal. So many people believe in a god or in a higher power. Why are you putting any emphasis on your interpretation? Because your interpretation might not be aligned with another person's interpretation.
And so you I can't help but think that these two mindsets of God have somehow like, come together. You know, him and Shanahan. And when you look at their perspectives of God, you know, I see alignment with that, and I see, like, within my own self. I can get behind the way that these people are interpreting God, and that can can give me more hope into their leadership. But is that reality? Is that what I really want? You know? Do I even care? Do I even care? As I'm drinking this glass of wine on this Easter Sunday, as I'm trying to figure out how I like, I I grew up Christian, you know, and within the realm of Christianity, there is very specific things that you need to believe in.
And on this Easter Sunday, you need for you to be a Christian, the thing to believe in, to be a Christian, officially, is that you believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross and rose again. I'm gonna drink. That's something that you need to believe in. If you don't believe in that, then you're not a Christian. Simple as that. That's what they say. And I've been on this journey of taking in information and figuring out, you know, like could what's the difference between truth and doctrine? What is the truth and doctrine within Christianity?
And I don't wanna go too deep into it right now because I don't wanna be an authority, or I'm I'm never gonna pretend to be an authority on Christianity, but I'm reading this cave guy on Twitter. This cave guy on Twitter. I I brought him up before, and he has some information about, like, the the Pleiadians, the UFOs, that there is a he's presenting a totally different narrative of the last moments of of Jesus' life. If you're a Christian, you believe that he died on a cross and he rose again 3 days later. And then after the 3 days, he was around for, like, 30 or 40 days, and then he ascended into heaven. Okay? That's what Christians believe.
If you're reading Cave on Twitter, he says that Jesus never died, and he was taken up by a UFO. And, like, the soul of Jesus was actually this other being from this other world who had a mission to come to Earth and to help people figure out how to love more, and how to have a higher vibration, and how to have just, like, just just love people more so they can get people ready for New Earth, because that's all like like like, this is all prophesized within the Bible. And that's a completely different story than the Christians. Okay? And I bring that up because that's just what I'm seeing right now, and that's what I'm working with right now. That's what I'm working through right now. So does this view of God do these political candidates view of God align with anything, any Christian, or any person who can identify a God, does it align? Does it simply align? Maybe.
Maybe. I don't know. It might but, like, it sort of aligns with me, but this takes me to the to the final clip I have. This final clip I have is is, of course, Trump's view of God.
[00:23:59] Unknown:
The Bible certainly is one of if not I mean, it is the book. Let's pray together, may we? I believe in God. I am Christian. I'm a Protestant. I'm very proud of it. Presbyterian to be exact. I'm Presbyterian. Boy, that's down the middle of the road, folks, in all fairness. I mean, 7th day Adventist, I don't know about. I have great relationship with God. I have great relationship with, the evangelicals. And I go to church a lot. Always on Christmas, always on Easter. Mhmm. Always when there's a major occasion. And during the during the Sundays, I'm a Sunday church person. I like to do the right thing where I don't have to actually ask for forgiveness. When we go in church and and when I drink my little wine, which is about the only wine I drink, and have my little cracker, I guess that's a form of asking for forgiveness, and I do that as often as possible because I feel cleansed. We were having fun when I said, I drink the wine.
I drink. I I eat the cracker. If I do something wrong, I think I just try and make it right. I don't bring God into that picture. My wife and I pray for you. Thank you. Well, I need it probably more than anybody in this room. You can stay if you want it because you need the prayer more than I do, I think. I wanna just pray for Arnold, if we can, for those ratings. I can understand the evangelicals to a certain extent saying, well, maybe he's not as nice as we want him to be, but they also wanna see the country be great. Why do you think those voters are drawn to you? Well, I'm protestant. I'm Presbyterian, which means something. Maybe he's not as perfect on the bible, but I did go to Sunday school for many years, I wanna tell you. I get sent bibles by a lot of people. Where were all those bibles, anyhow, now? Well, actually, we we keep them in a certain place, a very, very nice place. We keep them in a very certain place.
[00:25:45] Cole McCormick:
Did you see Trump selling a Bible? Trump's selling a Bible for $60. I might buy it. I might buy this Trump Bible, this, God bless America Bible. It seemed it's so ridiculous. I might need to buy it. Maybe on the next paycheck. We'll see. But Trump's view on God is so much more entertaining. Can I get an amen on that, please? Can I get an amen, please? Amen? Trump's view is so much more entertaining, people. Like, there's nothing there's no other way to say it. It's just more entertaining. What did Elon Musk say? Elon Musk said, the most entertaining outcome will happen.
Like, that's his view on on, like, on how the future happens, on how people make decisions, the most entertaining outcome will happen, and I can't stop but think about like, that's sort of why people voted for Trump in the beginning in 2016 because he was the most entertaining guy, and he's still entertaining, including his view on God. And, I love God. I have a great relationship with God. Me and God, we get along. I'm a Presbyterian. I'm a Protestant. Those are 2 separate things if you didn't know. He says these 2 incredibly separate things, but Whoops.
He says these 2 separate things, but then he says it as if they're the same thing. Oh, man. It's just funny dude. It's just funny, and America's in a wild spot right now. I think America's figuring out what they what they believe in. Everyone's sort of figuring out what they believe in right now. I'm seeing a lot of people go into Catholicism, like, as in like people who weren't in Catholicism are going into it, and I've chosen to be a bit more open, and to post more. Just not just in the podcast, but I've been posting more on Instagram and Twitter about about God, and just trying to discuss it more. Just trying to talk about Jesus more. What was, like and my thing is the teachings of Jesus.
I'm really trying to dive into the teachings, the message of Jesus. Because when it comes to the to the religion, Christianity, I see a lot of doctrine, and I don't wanna be aligned with doctrine. I wanna be aligned with truth. Truth is what I want. Truth is what I seek. And, hopefully, these three people these three different people seek truth. You know, I'm not really gonna try to make a prediction on the 2024 election, but we'll see what happens. I sort of align with Kennedy, but I think Trump is more entertaining, And I also just want the country to be better.
I want the economy to be better, man. So what do we do? What do we do in that? And this is where I wanna bring in your perspective, the audience. What do you think about all this? Is when it comes to the perspectives of God, does that have any weight with you when it comes to voting for a candidate? Because it has some weight with me, and it has like a lot like for a good majority of the country, it does have a good amount of weight, but for others it doesn't. So tell me that. Give me what you got. Give me the value that you got, dude. Okay? What else do I have here? I don't think I have any other clips.
I just wanted to talk about that, honestly. I just wanted to talk about these political candidates on this Easter Sunday talking about God. It seems to be something that again, it's like this paradoxical thing where we all agree on it, but none of us agree on it. And so I'm trying to figure out where I agree on it. And where do you agree on it, man? And that's all the value I got, man. We're gonna head on into the value for value section, folks. The boostagram section, everybody. If you didn't know, America Plus is a value for value show. What that means is I put up what I have, I bring this content to you upfront. I believe this is good content. I I I I think it's awesome, and I just present myself to you in the most authentic way, as I sip my wine.
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[00:33:17] Unknown:
And now as the French say, it is time for Le Boost.
[00:33:22] Cole McCormick:
Thank you, Shannon, so much for that. Yeah. I go back to that episode last week. I put a little cat photo, if you like cats, as one of the chapter photos. It's, you know, it's a cat. People love cats. This next one comes in from at joelw. He sends in his usual 1,111 sats. And he says, happy birthday. And he sends a bunch of emojis, like, the little confetti emoji, blowing into the little tube emoji, whatever you call that. Mushroom, beer, steak, champagne, rock on emoji. And LEGOLAND sounds awesome at any age. My bedroom was essentially LEGOLAND as a kid. I had all the sets, almost
[00:34:07] Unknown:
literally. Really? It's basically, you put Bitcoin with anything, and all of a sudden, that is more efficient. Joel, that's sick. I didn't know you're in into Legos.
[00:34:16] Cole McCormick:
Did you ever have the Millennium Falcon 1? Did you build the Millennium Falcon? Did you build the Death Star? What's what's, Joel? Tell me what's the craziest thing you've built in Lego. Okay. That's the real trick. And then I also wanna give a shout out to to Frillis. I don't see it on fountain right now, but I know Frillis sent in a good amount of sats. Dude. Okay. This is the hard thing about Podcasting 2.0. I'm not able to see all the boostograms, all the boost really like in in a really simple way. I need to hone down this. I need to just write this down, just first of all. But Frillace, shout out to Frillace. I see you streaming, and I see you boosting.
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[00:35:35] Unknown:
Boosting is loving.
[00:35:36] Unknown:
As the French say, it is time for Le
[00:35:40] Cole McCormick:
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If you didn't know this, America Plus always ends on ends on a little song. I don't wanna play the song yet. I wanna go back to what we're talking about. Let's go back to God real quick. Because I I I I've been sort of I I low key rushed it, but I did I don't wanna rush it. God. How do you view God? I know that the inventor of podcasting, Adam Curry, he recently became a Christian himself, and, you know, just put him on the list of other people coming to God. If I were to be real with you right now, and I always wanna be real with you, I firmly believe that this earth is going through a transformation, and we are humanity is heading into a new Earth.
If you know what I'm talking about, you know what I'm talking about. And with that, what comes what comes to mind is morality. Morality. Are you aligned with morality? And you gotta figure out, like like, I believe everyone is able to figure out what is morality. You look at you look at what's in front of you, and you discern. You choose. You choose the path. You choose the choice. You know what I mean? Like, it it's like a video game. You are able to choose what to do. And when we're in these insane times on planet Earth, you have a responsibility.
And I'm telling you right now, like, this is where I am an authority on. You have a damn authority. You you have a damn responsibility to discern what is good and what is bad. And I'm on that journey as well. I am figuring out, you know, what is the best path to take in my life. You know, I'm sure just working right now. I'm in the kitchen. I'm doing podcasting in my kitchen. I'm I'm just a guy on earth, but I am able to see what is right in front of me. And I am able to to say that, okay. This is the bad path, this is the good path. I'm not sure if you've, known or have heard about this, like, there's this thing going on in Europe right now.
It's called CERN, c e r n. CERN. The CERN Collider or something like that. This the CERN collider collides particles, and recently, this past week, they announced that they had there was this like, 4th dimensional entity within this CERN collider. Okay? And the reason I'm bringing this up is because from the most insane perspective ever, the scientists who are colliding particles have announced that they have a ghost. They have a 4th dimensional being within their within their collider within their machine. And that's some scary shit. And we're in a moment in time where people on earth are colliding particles and just freely expressing that they're interacting with the 4th dimension.
And this isn't speculation. This is some for real headline that that scientists are able to like think about, and see, and discern, and I even have confirmation of it as well. Like Earth is is getting crazier and crazier, And what's important is for you to discern what is light and what is dark. And that's why I keep playing these clips. That's that's why I keep talking about God on this podcast because people need to figure out what is good and what is bad. Morality. You need to choose morality, and you have that free choice. I believe in free will. You have that free choice, man.
And what I wanna express on this podcast is it's about where your heart is and where you align your heart. And the reason why I'm able to look at these candidates on any level, is because it seems as if their hearts are aligned with light. I like to think so. I like to think so. We'll see if I'm we'll see if I'm accurate. We'll see if I'm not. Along with that, anytime when you watch the news, you know, it's there's always these really simple narratives of this person's a terrible human being. This person is evil. This person is so good. Like, there's these very these very clear presentations of who is good and who is bad are always brought in front of you.
But what I'm telling you is that you have the ability to discern. And I ask you I invite you to discern morality right now in your life. Because that is that affects life, like, at large. That affects Earth. That affects humanity. Your discernment of what is loving is so important. And if you don't look at that, if you don't seek love, if you don't align yourself with love, then you're bringing yourself down, and you I don't know dude. Like, you might be distracting others. You might be bringing others down. I don't wanna bring anyone down. You know? Like, I wanna bring people up. We gotta ascend people. We like, we gotta pick people up.
Like, we need to. We need to. And maybe this is just, like, I'm just way too drunk right now. But, dude, like, we need to focus on Jesus. We need to focus on the teachings of Jesus. Love the lord your god with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and love your neighbor as you love yourself. Those were Jesus' commands, the 2 commandments of Jesus. It doesn't get any like, forget like, even if you were to try to erase the name of Jesus, which is almost impossible but let's just say, hypothetically, if you erased the name of Jesus, and there was just like, this anonymous person said, love the lord your God with all your heart heart, soul, mind, and strength, and love your neighbor as you as you love yourself. Like, that's fine. That's good. Who's gonna be against that?
And if you did not do that, then that simply means that you are against that. Right? So I'm really trying to do my best to love, like, to love God, to love my environment, you know? Because here's where I align with Nicole Shanahan, and maybe this is like a good a good little bow tie, and then we can play the song. Everything that I see in front of me, God created. Every person, every squirrel, every tree, every little bug, every snail, God created. And I am a part of this creation. And I have a choice to align myself for the life in front of me to thrive.
And it's within my soul to inspire you and to get you thinking about life thriving. Again, maybe this this is the wine, but I don't care. You need to do everything you can to sustain and to increase life. Life must thrive, my friends. This is America plus. Life finds a way. What did Jeff Goldblum say in Jurassic Park? Life life finds a way, folks. That's my message, man. That's this week. That's the that that's this that's this Easter Sunday, folks. Life finds a way, and you must choose to bring that life forward. It's up to you in the little moments, and it's up to you in the big moments. Don't be afraid of this.
Don't be afraid of whatever weight that is on your shoulders of bringing more life forward. This is so important. This is so important. Alright. Let's get into the song, shall we? We we gotta play a song. I I I got out. I was listening to Adam Curry the the other day. Actually, today. I was listening to Adam Curry today. And, this song is coming in I think this song was just posted on Wave Lake. This is coming in from a band called The Retrograde. It's called I Need A Little, and this song is just awesome. It's a great rock song. Just a quick quick breakdown, quick info. Whenever you hear a song on America Plus, a part of value for value is when I play a song, the artist gets excuse me. Too much wine. The artist gets 60% of your satoshi donation.
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The Holy of Holies. What's up everyone? It's America Plus. I'm your host, Cole McCormick, Happy Easter. Happy resurrection Sunday. Happy Easter. Whatever when whatever when you wanna say it. Folks, we are celebrating here at America Plus with a glass of copola wine. Beautiful wine. It's a beautiful time to be alive, folks. Welcome to America Plus. It's another amazing week of figuring out better narratives for the world, for the country. I've had an incredible week, guys. I just came off a a a pretty, good shift at work. I had to work on Easter. I'm working on every single holiday. What is going on here? This job in the kitchen is teaching me to just be okay and to just get through working during the holidays, because I never want to work on a holiday. Who does?
I don't mind podcasting on a holiday, but I really don't wanna chop any potatoes on a holiday, dude. Like, what is that about? Why am I chopping potatoes? Why am I chopping potatoes here, dude? But we got through it. We did it. We chopped £60. We did our thing, and we clocked out. And now we're here. We're chilling. We're good. We got the glass of wine here. We're celebrating Jesus Christ's blood with this glass of wine. Okay? That's what we're doing here. This is a rare a rare occasion, and now I'm just gonna pour myself some more here. Is the mic picking that up? I hope so. This is a rare occasion where yours truly is actually drinking. I've been high before, but I've never really been drinking on the podcast before. This is an experiment.
This is an expression, and it's just a moment in time right now, guys. Like, happy happy March 31st. We're really going for it. We're talking about God this week. We're talking about politics this week. We're combining these two things. You know the thing that nobody wants to combine? We're combining these two things. Okay? This week has been a really wild because it's Easter week, it's, of of course, been another week of insane political news, and, where do I wanna start off with? Oh, okay. The the let's actually we need to commemorate this. It is Sunday. It is the Lord's day. I have a bunch of clips. Okay? It is a clip episode, so get ready to ready to listen for some things. Okay?
Let's commemorate this Easter Sunday with a beautiful American prayer.
[00:02:50] Unknown:
Dear lord, baby Jesus, or as our brothers in the south call you, Jesus. Jesus. We thank you so much for this bountiful harvest of Domino's, KFC, and the always delicious Taco Bell. I just wanna take time to say thank you for my family, my 2 beautiful, beautiful, handsome, striking sons, Walker and Texas Ranger, or TR, as we call them, and, of course, my red hot smoking wife, Carly, who's a stone cold fox.
[00:03:21] Cole McCormick:
Come on. If you rate her ass a 100, it would easily be a 94.
[00:03:25] Unknown:
Also, I wanna thank you for my best friend and teammate, Cal Knott Junior, who's got my back no matter what. Shake and bake. Shake and bake. Dear old baby Jesus, we also thank you for my wife's father, Chip. We hope that you can use your baby Jesus powers to heal him and his horrible leg. And it smells terrible, and the dogs are always bothering with it. Dear tiny infant Jesus Hey, you know, sweetie,
[00:03:50] Unknown:
Jesus did grow up. You don't always have to call him baby. It's a bit odd and off putting to pray to a baby. Well, look, I like the Christmas Jesus best, and I'm saying grace.
[00:03:59] Unknown:
When you say grace, you can say it to grown up Jesus or teenaged Jesus or bearded Jesus or whoever you want. You know what I
[00:04:04] Unknown:
want? I want you to do this grace good so that God will let us win tomorrow.
[00:04:10] Unknown:
Dear tiny Jesus.
[00:04:11] Cole McCormick:
Your tiny Jesus. Golden
[00:04:14] Unknown:
fleece diapers with your tiny, little, fat, bald up fist paw on it. He's a man. He had a beard. Look, I like the baby version the best. Do you hear me? I win the races and I get the money.
[00:04:25] Unknown:
Finish the damn grace.
[00:04:28] Unknown:
I like to picture Jesus in a tuxedo t shirt because it says, like, I wanna be formal Right. But I'm here to party too. Because I like to party, so I like my Jesus to party.
[00:04:38] Cole McCormick:
I like to picture Jesus as a ninja fighting off evil samurai. Hell yeah. I like to think of Jesus
[00:04:44] Unknown:
like with giant eagle's wings Yeah. And singing lead vocals for Lynyrd Skynyrd with like a angel band. And I'm in the front row, and I'm hammered drunk. Hey, Cal. Why don't you just shut up? Yes, ma'am.
[00:04:57] Cole McCormick:
Shout out to Will Ferrell. That's probably the best example of what America is, and that's why I had to play it here on America Plus. The American prayer is real, folks. Who is baby Jesus to you? On this Easter Sunday, who is Christ to you? It's a it's it's a it's a big question. You might think it's simple from a Christian perspective, but let me tell you, everyone is gonna have their own version. Everyone has their own interpretation. Everyone has their own viewpoint. A certain a certain point of view. And that's how I wanted to start it off with, in political news, we had a, a certain candidate, Robert Kennedy junior, announced that he had a a new vice president, man. He announced a RFK Jr. Announced that he has a, this woman named Nicole Shanahan is his is his VP.
And, you know, the last time I talked about RFK Jr, I talked about, like, his spirit. You know, it was called the Kennedy spirit. I think that was actually a Satslinger, back in the day. Back in the sat slinger days. Go back to that one, why don't you? And I was focused on how he was talking about, like, spirituality and God, and like what he's been through and you know, RFK Jr, he has a really commendable story of him being addicted to drugs and alcohol, and and he found God through sobriety, and, you know, he has like a good story of healing himself. And, he picks this VP, and people have been criticizing this VP, Nicole Shanahan, and if you do a simple Google search, you know, the news isn't too good on her. Okay?
First of all, she was married to the founder of Google, Sergey Brin. She had a kid with him, and, and then they got a divorce in, like, 2022 because, allegedly, she had an she had a brief affair, with Elon Musk. And but they've both denied it. Okay? They both denied the affair. But now she's married to to some Bitcoin guy, and, the the press has not been nice to her. And she goes to Burning Man, and she got a $1,000,000,000 in the dirt, through the divorce, and, she met this she met this other guy at some yoga no. She met Sergei at a yoga retreat, and then she met this other guy at Burning Man. And so she's one of these, like, super hippie dippy Silicon Valley rich girls, and people were criticizing her because it seemed like she was super hard on the Democratic side.
And the the day or, like, the week that they announced her vice presidency, she did a podcast with 1 Rick Rubin on, what is this? I I think this podcast is called the Telegram or Telegraph or whatever. I forget the name of it, but the Rick Rubin Podcast. She has a whole conversation with him. And in the first two minutes, the first like minute and a half, this clip I have here is 2 and a half minutes. She goes just deep, deep into, like, what she believes in, her views on, like, life, and, like, the world, and nature. And what I wanna do now is, like, just talk about like, we have to talk about this. America Plus has to talk about the presidential candidates. Okay? It's not a simple choice.
It just isn't. And I'm still undecided. I don't know. I definitely know that I'm not voting for Biden, but when it comes to me choosing a person for president, am I gonna choose them based on their spirituality and their character, or are or am I gonna base, vote for them based on something else? Okay. And that's what we're going through right now. So this Shanahan gal, what are her views on God and nature? Just listen to this. See if you have are there do any red flags pop up? And let's just discuss this.
[00:09:03] Unknown:
I love to read philosophy, and I love to read about the philosophy of the ancients in particular and what has survived from ancient philosophy. So I tend to find a writer or a thinker and then I'll go through as much as their work as I can consume. You know, 7 years ago, I was really into Aldous Huxley and prior to that, I was into Emerson. And then prior to that, I was looking at female writers in Rome and the first woman who ever wrote a dialogue was in the 1400 and she wrote a dialogue on the infinity of love. Her name is Tullia de Aragon. And then right now, I'm reading a lot of Peter Kingsley, a philosopher from the UK who has done a marvelous job helping his readers understand where logic and reason comes from in Western civilization and he looks at pre Socratic notions of logic and reason and the initiation process of receiving logic and wisdom.
And a lot of it is quite divine. There's this element of connection to the sacred, And there's no difference between the connection to the sacred and logic and reason. It's actually one thing. And he teaches that Parmenides and Empedocles, who were the earliest fathers of Western civilization, they brought forward logic and reason from Persephone, the goddess of the underworld. And and he talks about why that matters because, you know, Persephone is where life on earth comes from. And if life on earth comes from the same place that logic and reason comes from and nature comes from the same place logic and reason comes from, then perhaps they're the same thing. And the impact that has had on me today, you know, looking at the age of AI, is that we need to look to nature as our source of guidance on how we go about framing AI's purpose in our world.
Our world is a natural world, and we're going to have to find a way to integrate that and the technology that we now have, you know, permeating every aspect of our life.
[00:11:33] Cole McCormick:
Wow. She really just got goes deep in that, dude. She brings up AI. We need why do we need nature guiding us to create AI? She brings up these these, Greek philosophers. Okay? And I guess, they brought up this goddess, Persephone, as a way to explain logic and reason, and I guess Persephone within the Greek mythology was the she was like the female side of the guide of the underworld, and I don't want to connect it to negative energy. I be because, listening further to her, I am not willing to say that this Shanahan gal is evil or of the ill mindset. I don't think she's on the side of death.
I don't think she's on the side of selfishness. She actually sounds quite sincere. She has a kid. Her daughter is autistic, and one of the reasons why she aligned herself with RFK Junior is because of, his words on vaccines possibly, causing autism, or I should say the stacking of vaccines, you know. No one really knows. There hasn't really been much research on that, but her daughter being autistic and RFK Jr. Staying on vaccines, like, that was a that was a good combo for her, and she found sympathy in that. But what guides her as a human being is this philosophical idea that logic and reason and nature, they come from the same thing.
So I think it's safe to say that she believes in God. And right off the bat, I think that's good. I think it's good. And I wanna bring up a tweet that she posted today. She doesn't use Twitter a bunch. She literally just, like, opened up her Twitter, like, a few days ago, I think. And I wanna read what she wrote about Easter. You know, everyone's talking about Easter. Tim Cook tweeted about Easter, and then the very next tweet, he tweeted about trans visibility. We got Joe Biden tweeting about trans visibility on this Easter Sunday, which is the most insane thing ever, dude. But Nicole Shanahan, she does not bring up the transgender visibility. She says, happy Easter.
Jesus and Salugenicists. What the fuck is Salugenicis? She says, Easter was one of my favorite holidays as a child. Celebrating rebirth and the celebration of Jesus' life, who was at his core a healer. Jesus believed in the infinite capacity of the human spirit to heal. I wanna share on this day the concept of salugenicis, the opposite of pathogenesis, which is where our healthcare system is stuck in stuck on today. Salugenicis is placing focus on the healing cycle and how to overcome chronic disease. I read a paper on the topic last year, and it changed my life and my perspective on overcoming disease. Posting that link here.
Be well, everyone, and sending lots of love to you on this special day, and remembering the extraordinary life of Jesus Christ. So, I mean, right at the bat, like, that's like that's a good tweet. I have zero understanding of what Salveugenicist means. Maybe I've heard that, maybe I haven't. It seems like a word that I've heard before, but then she links to a PubMed link on the NIH website talking about something about mitochondria, like, there needs to be more mitochondria in your body to heal yourself. I don't I I I don't wanna go deep into that, but, like, she's on this, like, scientific meets holistic side of medicine, and I don't know, man. Like, it seems interesting to me because right off the bat, whenever when RFK, like, announced her, people were, like, she's a Democrat. She supports George Soros' people in the d a.
And there's not a lot of, like, confirmation of all that Because when you go into it, when you really like, when you listen to her, like, as I was listen listening to her on the podcast, she seems sincere about people being healthy, and she also, like, she brought up AI out of the blue, but it, like, it can feel like it's out of the blue, but it's also super relevant because, you know, AI is relevant, like, everyone is using AI. Whether it be for something simple or someone's talking about it in a really complicated term, it's AI dude. Like, the 2020's are about AI, and I I see it. I see it for what it is. And so she's saying that we need to use our perspective this is my interpretation. We need to use our interpretation of God to help align AI for the betterment of people.
Like, okay. Okay. I can get behind that. I can understand that. I can figure that out, or at least I can be aligned with it. It's it's definitely not something that I, I agree with maybe. She says that we need to use nature. I it it it seems like she says nature is God, possibly, but, you know, as a human being, like, I can definitely, like, be more aligned with her than not. And this brought me to RFK Jr himself, like, how is RFK Jr how is Robert Kennedy Jr thinking about God? This is a quick clip, of course there's music with it, but this is a quick clip, from him with him on the Lex Fridman podcast. How does RFK Jr think about God?
[00:17:25] Unknown:
What is your relationship, and, what is your understanding of God? Who is God? Most philosophers would say, well, we're inside the mind of God. And so it would be impossible for us unders and actually what God's form is. So then the question is, how do you start believing in something that you can't see or smell or hear or touch or taste or acquire with your senses? And Jung provides the formula for that. And he says act as if you fake it till you make it. And so that's, you know, what I started doing. I just started pretending there was a god watching me all the time and kind of life was a series of tests. And each there was a bunch of moral decisions to my higher power, like to my god. And when that when I do those things right, so much about addiction is about abuse of power. All of us have some power, whether it's her, you know, good looks or whether it's connections or education or family or whatever.
And there's always a temptation to use those to fill, fulfill self will. And the challenge is how do you use those always to serve and said God's will and, you know, the the good of our community. And that to me is kind of the struggle. And when I do that, I feel God's power coming through me and that I can do things. I'm much more effective as a human being. That gnawing anxiety that I lived with for so many years and, like, god, it's gone. And that I can kind of, like, put down the oars and hoist the sail, and the wind takes me. And I can see the evidence of it every day of my life.
[00:19:04] Cole McCormick:
Wow. RFK Jr. Just bringing this beautiful viewpoint. He really that that was on his own YouTube channel. They're really pulling the heartstrings with that one. They really want you to know that he believes in God, which is a good thing, I guess. How many people don't believe in God? Like, does Joe Biden believe in God? Do you believe in God? Like, I understand that there's, like, this, like, paradoxal paradoxical thing where it's super important, but it's also, like, just normal. So many people believe in a god or in a higher power. Why are you putting any emphasis on your interpretation? Because your interpretation might not be aligned with another person's interpretation.
And so you I can't help but think that these two mindsets of God have somehow like, come together. You know, him and Shanahan. And when you look at their perspectives of God, you know, I see alignment with that, and I see, like, within my own self. I can get behind the way that these people are interpreting God, and that can can give me more hope into their leadership. But is that reality? Is that what I really want? You know? Do I even care? Do I even care? As I'm drinking this glass of wine on this Easter Sunday, as I'm trying to figure out how I like, I I grew up Christian, you know, and within the realm of Christianity, there is very specific things that you need to believe in.
And on this Easter Sunday, you need for you to be a Christian, the thing to believe in, to be a Christian, officially, is that you believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross and rose again. I'm gonna drink. That's something that you need to believe in. If you don't believe in that, then you're not a Christian. Simple as that. That's what they say. And I've been on this journey of taking in information and figuring out, you know, like could what's the difference between truth and doctrine? What is the truth and doctrine within Christianity?
And I don't wanna go too deep into it right now because I don't wanna be an authority, or I'm I'm never gonna pretend to be an authority on Christianity, but I'm reading this cave guy on Twitter. This cave guy on Twitter. I I brought him up before, and he has some information about, like, the the Pleiadians, the UFOs, that there is a he's presenting a totally different narrative of the last moments of of Jesus' life. If you're a Christian, you believe that he died on a cross and he rose again 3 days later. And then after the 3 days, he was around for, like, 30 or 40 days, and then he ascended into heaven. Okay? That's what Christians believe.
If you're reading Cave on Twitter, he says that Jesus never died, and he was taken up by a UFO. And, like, the soul of Jesus was actually this other being from this other world who had a mission to come to Earth and to help people figure out how to love more, and how to have a higher vibration, and how to have just, like, just just love people more so they can get people ready for New Earth, because that's all like like like, this is all prophesized within the Bible. And that's a completely different story than the Christians. Okay? And I bring that up because that's just what I'm seeing right now, and that's what I'm working with right now. That's what I'm working through right now. So does this view of God do these political candidates view of God align with anything, any Christian, or any person who can identify a God, does it align? Does it simply align? Maybe.
Maybe. I don't know. It might but, like, it sort of aligns with me, but this takes me to the to the final clip I have. This final clip I have is is, of course, Trump's view of God.
[00:23:59] Unknown:
The Bible certainly is one of if not I mean, it is the book. Let's pray together, may we? I believe in God. I am Christian. I'm a Protestant. I'm very proud of it. Presbyterian to be exact. I'm Presbyterian. Boy, that's down the middle of the road, folks, in all fairness. I mean, 7th day Adventist, I don't know about. I have great relationship with God. I have great relationship with, the evangelicals. And I go to church a lot. Always on Christmas, always on Easter. Mhmm. Always when there's a major occasion. And during the during the Sundays, I'm a Sunday church person. I like to do the right thing where I don't have to actually ask for forgiveness. When we go in church and and when I drink my little wine, which is about the only wine I drink, and have my little cracker, I guess that's a form of asking for forgiveness, and I do that as often as possible because I feel cleansed. We were having fun when I said, I drink the wine.
I drink. I I eat the cracker. If I do something wrong, I think I just try and make it right. I don't bring God into that picture. My wife and I pray for you. Thank you. Well, I need it probably more than anybody in this room. You can stay if you want it because you need the prayer more than I do, I think. I wanna just pray for Arnold, if we can, for those ratings. I can understand the evangelicals to a certain extent saying, well, maybe he's not as nice as we want him to be, but they also wanna see the country be great. Why do you think those voters are drawn to you? Well, I'm protestant. I'm Presbyterian, which means something. Maybe he's not as perfect on the bible, but I did go to Sunday school for many years, I wanna tell you. I get sent bibles by a lot of people. Where were all those bibles, anyhow, now? Well, actually, we we keep them in a certain place, a very, very nice place. We keep them in a very certain place.
[00:25:45] Cole McCormick:
Did you see Trump selling a Bible? Trump's selling a Bible for $60. I might buy it. I might buy this Trump Bible, this, God bless America Bible. It seemed it's so ridiculous. I might need to buy it. Maybe on the next paycheck. We'll see. But Trump's view on God is so much more entertaining. Can I get an amen on that, please? Can I get an amen, please? Amen? Trump's view is so much more entertaining, people. Like, there's nothing there's no other way to say it. It's just more entertaining. What did Elon Musk say? Elon Musk said, the most entertaining outcome will happen.
Like, that's his view on on, like, on how the future happens, on how people make decisions, the most entertaining outcome will happen, and I can't stop but think about like, that's sort of why people voted for Trump in the beginning in 2016 because he was the most entertaining guy, and he's still entertaining, including his view on God. And, I love God. I have a great relationship with God. Me and God, we get along. I'm a Presbyterian. I'm a Protestant. Those are 2 separate things if you didn't know. He says these 2 incredibly separate things, but Whoops.
He says these 2 separate things, but then he says it as if they're the same thing. Oh, man. It's just funny dude. It's just funny, and America's in a wild spot right now. I think America's figuring out what they what they believe in. Everyone's sort of figuring out what they believe in right now. I'm seeing a lot of people go into Catholicism, like, as in like people who weren't in Catholicism are going into it, and I've chosen to be a bit more open, and to post more. Just not just in the podcast, but I've been posting more on Instagram and Twitter about about God, and just trying to discuss it more. Just trying to talk about Jesus more. What was, like and my thing is the teachings of Jesus.
I'm really trying to dive into the teachings, the message of Jesus. Because when it comes to the to the religion, Christianity, I see a lot of doctrine, and I don't wanna be aligned with doctrine. I wanna be aligned with truth. Truth is what I want. Truth is what I seek. And, hopefully, these three people these three different people seek truth. You know, I'm not really gonna try to make a prediction on the 2024 election, but we'll see what happens. I sort of align with Kennedy, but I think Trump is more entertaining, And I also just want the country to be better.
I want the economy to be better, man. So what do we do? What do we do in that? And this is where I wanna bring in your perspective, the audience. What do you think about all this? Is when it comes to the perspectives of God, does that have any weight with you when it comes to voting for a candidate? Because it has some weight with me, and it has like a lot like for a good majority of the country, it does have a good amount of weight, but for others it doesn't. So tell me that. Give me what you got. Give me the value that you got, dude. Okay? What else do I have here? I don't think I have any other clips.
I just wanted to talk about that, honestly. I just wanted to talk about these political candidates on this Easter Sunday talking about God. It seems to be something that again, it's like this paradoxical thing where we all agree on it, but none of us agree on it. And so I'm trying to figure out where I agree on it. And where do you agree on it, man? And that's all the value I got, man. We're gonna head on into the value for value section, folks. The boostagram section, everybody. If you didn't know, America Plus is a value for value show. What that means is I put up what I have, I bring this content to you upfront. I believe this is good content. I I I I think it's awesome, and I just present myself to you in the most authentic way, as I sip my wine.
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27 will your will be your best year yet. Heart emoji. Thanks for the cat chapter picture. Also, your economy chart was spot on. Boost.
[00:33:17] Unknown:
And now as the French say, it is time for Le Boost.
[00:33:22] Cole McCormick:
Thank you, Shannon, so much for that. Yeah. I go back to that episode last week. I put a little cat photo, if you like cats, as one of the chapter photos. It's, you know, it's a cat. People love cats. This next one comes in from at joelw. He sends in his usual 1,111 sats. And he says, happy birthday. And he sends a bunch of emojis, like, the little confetti emoji, blowing into the little tube emoji, whatever you call that. Mushroom, beer, steak, champagne, rock on emoji. And LEGOLAND sounds awesome at any age. My bedroom was essentially LEGOLAND as a kid. I had all the sets, almost
[00:34:07] Unknown:
literally. Really? It's basically, you put Bitcoin with anything, and all of a sudden, that is more efficient. Joel, that's sick. I didn't know you're in into Legos.
[00:34:16] Cole McCormick:
Did you ever have the Millennium Falcon 1? Did you build the Millennium Falcon? Did you build the Death Star? What's what's, Joel? Tell me what's the craziest thing you've built in Lego. Okay. That's the real trick. And then I also wanna give a shout out to to Frillis. I don't see it on fountain right now, but I know Frillis sent in a good amount of sats. Dude. Okay. This is the hard thing about Podcasting 2.0. I'm not able to see all the boostograms, all the boost really like in in a really simple way. I need to hone down this. I need to just write this down, just first of all. But Frillace, shout out to Frillace. I see you streaming, and I see you boosting.
Shout out to Frillace. He says, happy birthday, Cole. Thank you, Frillace. Thank you for those satoshis, sir. And then this last one of the week oh, wait. Let me give you a little Boosting is loving. Thank you, Frillis. And then this last one says, it's from atmere mortals podcast, our friend, Kyron Down from down under, from Australia. He sends in, a beautiful 2727. 2,727 sats. He says, birthday boy. 27 is a great age. Easily the best year of my life so far. Enjoy yourself, brother.
[00:35:35] Unknown:
Boosting is loving.
[00:35:36] Unknown:
As the French say, it is time for Le
[00:35:40] Cole McCormick:
Boost. Oh, I'm enjoying myself, Karen. I'm enjoying myself very much, sir, right now. Folks, those are the Boostagrams. If you wanna be a part of the community, a part of the America Plus community, download Fountain, download any pod any modern podcast app [email protected]. There's a whole new economy growing with Bitcoin, and these people are a part of it with me, so be a part of that. Send in a message, and, yeah, man. It's just awesome. Podcasting 2.0, value for value. This is where the real value is at, man. Thank you to all those people who wanted to be a part of it. That's beautiful. That's beautiful.
If you didn't know this, America Plus always ends on ends on a little song. I don't wanna play the song yet. I wanna go back to what we're talking about. Let's go back to God real quick. Because I I I I've been sort of I I low key rushed it, but I did I don't wanna rush it. God. How do you view God? I know that the inventor of podcasting, Adam Curry, he recently became a Christian himself, and, you know, just put him on the list of other people coming to God. If I were to be real with you right now, and I always wanna be real with you, I firmly believe that this earth is going through a transformation, and we are humanity is heading into a new Earth.
If you know what I'm talking about, you know what I'm talking about. And with that, what comes what comes to mind is morality. Morality. Are you aligned with morality? And you gotta figure out, like like, I believe everyone is able to figure out what is morality. You look at you look at what's in front of you, and you discern. You choose. You choose the path. You choose the choice. You know what I mean? Like, it it's like a video game. You are able to choose what to do. And when we're in these insane times on planet Earth, you have a responsibility.
And I'm telling you right now, like, this is where I am an authority on. You have a damn authority. You you have a damn responsibility to discern what is good and what is bad. And I'm on that journey as well. I am figuring out, you know, what is the best path to take in my life. You know, I'm sure just working right now. I'm in the kitchen. I'm doing podcasting in my kitchen. I'm I'm just a guy on earth, but I am able to see what is right in front of me. And I am able to to say that, okay. This is the bad path, this is the good path. I'm not sure if you've, known or have heard about this, like, there's this thing going on in Europe right now.
It's called CERN, c e r n. CERN. The CERN Collider or something like that. This the CERN collider collides particles, and recently, this past week, they announced that they had there was this like, 4th dimensional entity within this CERN collider. Okay? And the reason I'm bringing this up is because from the most insane perspective ever, the scientists who are colliding particles have announced that they have a ghost. They have a 4th dimensional being within their within their collider within their machine. And that's some scary shit. And we're in a moment in time where people on earth are colliding particles and just freely expressing that they're interacting with the 4th dimension.
And this isn't speculation. This is some for real headline that that scientists are able to like think about, and see, and discern, and I even have confirmation of it as well. Like Earth is is getting crazier and crazier, And what's important is for you to discern what is light and what is dark. And that's why I keep playing these clips. That's that's why I keep talking about God on this podcast because people need to figure out what is good and what is bad. Morality. You need to choose morality, and you have that free choice. I believe in free will. You have that free choice, man.
And what I wanna express on this podcast is it's about where your heart is and where you align your heart. And the reason why I'm able to look at these candidates on any level, is because it seems as if their hearts are aligned with light. I like to think so. I like to think so. We'll see if I'm we'll see if I'm accurate. We'll see if I'm not. Along with that, anytime when you watch the news, you know, it's there's always these really simple narratives of this person's a terrible human being. This person is evil. This person is so good. Like, there's these very these very clear presentations of who is good and who is bad are always brought in front of you.
But what I'm telling you is that you have the ability to discern. And I ask you I invite you to discern morality right now in your life. Because that is that affects life, like, at large. That affects Earth. That affects humanity. Your discernment of what is loving is so important. And if you don't look at that, if you don't seek love, if you don't align yourself with love, then you're bringing yourself down, and you I don't know dude. Like, you might be distracting others. You might be bringing others down. I don't wanna bring anyone down. You know? Like, I wanna bring people up. We gotta ascend people. We like, we gotta pick people up.
Like, we need to. We need to. And maybe this is just, like, I'm just way too drunk right now. But, dude, like, we need to focus on Jesus. We need to focus on the teachings of Jesus. Love the lord your god with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and love your neighbor as you love yourself. Those were Jesus' commands, the 2 commandments of Jesus. It doesn't get any like, forget like, even if you were to try to erase the name of Jesus, which is almost impossible but let's just say, hypothetically, if you erased the name of Jesus, and there was just like, this anonymous person said, love the lord your God with all your heart heart, soul, mind, and strength, and love your neighbor as you as you love yourself. Like, that's fine. That's good. Who's gonna be against that?
And if you did not do that, then that simply means that you are against that. Right? So I'm really trying to do my best to love, like, to love God, to love my environment, you know? Because here's where I align with Nicole Shanahan, and maybe this is like a good a good little bow tie, and then we can play the song. Everything that I see in front of me, God created. Every person, every squirrel, every tree, every little bug, every snail, God created. And I am a part of this creation. And I have a choice to align myself for the life in front of me to thrive.
And it's within my soul to inspire you and to get you thinking about life thriving. Again, maybe this this is the wine, but I don't care. You need to do everything you can to sustain and to increase life. Life must thrive, my friends. This is America plus. Life finds a way. What did Jeff Goldblum say in Jurassic Park? Life life finds a way, folks. That's my message, man. That's this week. That's the that that's this that's this Easter Sunday, folks. Life finds a way, and you must choose to bring that life forward. It's up to you in the little moments, and it's up to you in the big moments. Don't be afraid of this.
Don't be afraid of whatever weight that is on your shoulders of bringing more life forward. This is so important. This is so important. Alright. Let's get into the song, shall we? We we gotta play a song. I I I got out. I was listening to Adam Curry the the other day. Actually, today. I was listening to Adam Curry today. And, this song is coming in I think this song was just posted on Wave Lake. This is coming in from a band called The Retrograde. It's called I Need A Little, and this song is just awesome. It's a great rock song. Just a quick quick breakdown, quick info. Whenever you hear a song on America Plus, a part of value for value is when I play a song, the artist gets excuse me. Too much wine. The artist gets 60% of your satoshi donation.
So while you're listening to this song, I Need A Little by the retrograde. The and if you choose to boost in a modern podcast app, they're getting 60% of this thing. Alright? So just remember that. And just a quick shout out to Adam Curry, Bustagram Ball. I heard this song on Boosseagram Ball, like, today or 2 days ago, or yesterday, whatever it was. This song is legit. It's a rock and roll song. Just hang out with it. This is I Need A Little by The Retrograde. Enjoy. Don't forget to burst. That's America Plus, bitch. Stay free.
