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Do it. I am the Senate. I'm good. How are you? I'm doing good. Well, actually, I'm not doing great. I'm doing great. I'm doing poorly.
Yeah, I'm doing... Let's see. I guess I'm doing bad. Oh. Yeah.
I'm sorry to hear that. Hold on. Yeah, I'm doing bad. Oh.
I'm doing bad. I have a bone to pick. Okay. With you. Oh.
It doesn't need to be on the radio. Oh, oh, oh. But I think part of me thinks you might know where I'm going with this.
I promise I don't. You got to take your shoes off. You got to take the Christmas shoes off. I don't like the jingle bell shoes. You don't like the Christmas shoes? I don't like the jingle bell shoes. There was a moment where you got up earlier and I heard sleigh bells.
Yes. And I said- That was a happy day. And Dr. Shah even was looking. He was like, what is that noise? And somebody said, yeah, sorry, Ryan has Christmas bells on his shoes. I do.
And I thought for sure they were joking. No. Even knowing you, I thought for sure he wouldn't wear Christmas shoes mid-November, like early November. Absolutely, I would. Then I heard the sleigh bells ring jing jingling, a ring ting tingling too.
You walked back into the cafe, lo and behold, on your feet were green Christmas shoes with sleigh bells on them. Yep. And so I figured we should hash this out because of course I've got a big problem. And I was hoping- Yes, I agree you have a big problem.
I got a big problem with it. And I was hoping you could maybe explain to the people what possessed you to do such a thing in November. This is mid-November. Well, my birthday was a couple of days ago. And I received those as a birthday gift. From Elizabeth? I did. I received those as a birthday gift.
I was like, oh, cool. These will be fun. I'm not going to wear them every day because hearing sleigh bells every day is going to be really annoying.
Especially in November, yeah. Sure. We don't need to have that.
It's going to be annoying if you hear it every day. Yeah, you can take that out if you want. I'm kind, I'm considerate. Demir. So I was like, I'm going to wear them on a Friday.
Friday, you know, it's a fun little silly day. Yeah. Golly, I don't even really know where to go to this. Here's the thing. I'm not a Scrooge.
I'm not a Grinch. I think Christmas is great. I think it's fine. It's the birth of our Lord. Amen. And we should be celebrating it. We should be celebrating it on December, like in December-ish.
We should be celebrating it in December and November and January and also February. I guess I just don't understand. Like when you, okay, so, so. Here's here. Can I, can I just level with you? Here's my thing. Do we celebrate the Valentine's season? No. No, it's Valentine's day. Valentine's day.
Yes. Do we celebrate the Thanksgiving season? I would say Thanksgiving should probably be a season. I don't want to, I don't want to ask people- No, Thanksgiving is a day. I don't want to ask people to be grateful just for a day. I think they ought to be- No, gratitude isn't, isn't limited to Thanksgiving. Like, it's March. Sorry.
I'm not grateful for anything. Do we celebrate the, I don't, Arbor Day season? Arbor season. Do we have that? No, we have Christmas- Season?
Right. Shouldn't we have just Christmas day? Just Christmas day. What are you with Christmas Eve?
I mean, yeah, Christmas Eve is fine too. It gets two days. It doesn't need two months. Christmas gets two, you've lost every bit though. It doesn't need two months. Do you, do you think Christmas- I agree it doesn't need two months. It needs four. So okay, here's another thing.
It needs a third of the year. If I were in your shoes, no pun intended, I would've- Jingle, jingle. I would've put those on, stepped out of my house, heard the sleigh bells and be like, you know what? People might not like this. Let me go back inside and change. You walked out, heard it, either didn't have the thought or you had the thought like, oh, this might get on people's nerves. That's going to be a good bonus for the day.
What I thought, I'll tell you exactly what I thought. Sure. This might get on people's nerves, but I don't have to move around very much. So I'll just sit quietly. And then when I have to walk, it'll be, there's sleigh bells in the hallway.
Workers fight. Like they came to replace our fire extinguisher and you were leading them around the church in jingle, jangle Christmas shoes. Correct. Why- You know what they said? What?
I like those shoes, man. Why weren't you embarrassed? I'm not going to ask if you were, because I know the question. I know the answer. Why weren't you ashamed to be leading around workers- The bedrock of that? Like blue collar workers?
The bedrock of that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't care what they think about me. I see. I see. I don't care.
I'm sure they thought I was strange. Like this is a 36-year-old man walking around in sleigh bells shoes. Yeah, this is a dorky Christmas guy.
Yeah, in November. Okay. I don't care. They made me happy.
We need to- we need to- yeah, I got a text message from someone in the room. That's David. He said that you're confusing Christmas and winter. You can have the winter season. I'm not confused. I'm not confusing Christmas and winter.
I'm replacing winter with Christmas. Let's- I'm not confused about it. Let's go to break, because I feel in my heart of hearts as though this- I'm not going to change your mind. So- You won't. I can guarantee you that. We're going to just kind of have this little back and forth. Hopefully by January it'll subside and then maybe next November we'll- I promise it won't. We can bring it up again. I promise it will not. We're going to hold strong through February.
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The big horn rimmed glasses and that laptop around her neck. Where's Amanda, please? Dr. Shaw is a great, great day.
The only thing making this day a little bit less great is that we're mid-November, and unfortunately we're trying to ram Christmas down everybody's throat. Good grief. Look at Ryan's shoes.
Look at his shoes. They jingle bell up and down the halls. I know good and well that during lunch today, we had some people coming in who were... Yeah, we had people coming in. So we did the intro, then we went to lunch.
We had people come in who were looking to be like, hey, I know you had an appointment with us today. And we're like, oh yeah, right this way. And all we heard down the hall was what? Jingle bells down the hall.
And I know good and well Dr. Shaw was looking around like, yeah, as far as I was like, where does that sound? And then we had to explain, oh, sorry, it's a 33-year-old man's shoes. I'm 35, by the way. Wow. Actually, at the time of this recording, I'm 36.
Wow. By the time it airs, you mean? Yeah, by the time it airs. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm 36. So what are your thoughts on, and I know that we do this every year because of who your wife is, but what are your thoughts on preeminent Christmas, like preemptive Christmas celebrations? Preemptive? Like, Christmas way too early. It's mid-November. Oh, wow. In our home, Christmas songs start in October. Really?
For real? Oh, yeah. As they should. I love Christmas. So I don't have a problem with them starting early. October- It's a little too early. It's too late.
It's a little too early. Like, pre-Halloween is crazy. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
It's definitely pre-Halloween. Yeah. But I don't fight with it.
You know what I mean? You just kind of go with it. I'm like, whatever.
Here's my take. Obviously, I'm a Christmas guy. Okay? And that's not changing.
It's not changing. I am respectful enough to keep my enjoyment of Christmas kind of quiet. I disagree because you have jingle bell shoes. Hold on. Hold on a second. Let me finish my statement. Okay.
Prior to November, I'm listening to Christmas music in July. Like that's just- For real? Mm-hmm. Wow. Absolutely. That's just because I like it.
That's a little too early. I enjoy it. That's crazy. But I don't blast it far and wide for everybody. I just like, in my headphones- It's like secret Christmas.
Yeah. In my headphones, I'll put a little Christmas in there. Like a secret Santa. I might wear some Christmas socks. You know, kind of underneath the outfit.
Nobody knows about them. Okay. Once November 1 hits, it's Christmas time. So does Thanksgiving just get a day?
Yeah. There's no Thanksgiving season? No. No. What is the Thanksgiving season?
Obviously, there's not one. November. I would say all of November is Thanksgiving season. No. All right. Thanksgiving season?
No. November is more Thanksgiving than it is Christmas. I'm thankful that it's Christmas time. I don't know what to say. I don't see the jingle bell shoes as subtle. Also, I'm- Don't you say- Have you ever known me to be subtle about anything?
First of all- Well, no. Second of all, I'm not trying to ram Christmas down anybody's throat. I just- Jingle bell shoes are. I got them for my birthday. I got them for my birthday present. So I decided to wear them. So you're wearing it early?
Yeah. Didn't Nicole have the Christmas tree up? She didn't take it down after last Christmas, did she?
I think even Christmas before last, she stopped. So has your Christmas- This is two years now. The Christmas tree's been up for two consecutive years.
Right. But it's not sitting where the Christmas tree usually sits. It's sitting in the corner of the room, and it's not decorated with the Christmas tree lights.
Different lights. So she keeps it up not to keep Christmas alive all year, but just so she doesn't have to break it out every year? That's what she says. I think it's so she can just have something- A little bit above.
Got you. A little bit of Christmas- A little bit. Without going all out Christmas throughout the year. Has the fireplace come on yet this year? It did, actually.
Okay, really. About a week ago when we had a little bit of a cold burst. Yeah, it was a little cold snap. Yeah. So, yeah, Nicole did turn on the fireplace.
Nicole and I are cut from the same cloth when it comes to Christmas. I guess so. 100%.
I guess so. Not with the heat and cold thing. No, not with the heat and cold. I like cold. Nicole don't like the cold. I like cold. She wants Christmas day to be cold and snow. And I'm like- And then get rid of it.
And I'm like, I'm from India. Christmas can be Christmas without cold and snow. I saw your sister.
If I put Christmas decorations in shorts, I'm in a bad mood. So last, a couple weeks back, a couple weeks back was their first service in our new sanctuary. I went outside to like double around to get something, or it might have been the week before that, but it was a little bit crisp. It was cool.
Yeah. I saw your sister, Dr. Shaw, bundled up like she was in the Antarctic. What was she bundled up with? With some big black coat, some big puffy coat.
She had it wrapped as far around her as it could go. And when I say it was a little crisp, I mean, I stepped outside- I was in the fifties. I mean, it was a cool day. But I mean, I stepped outside, I was like, ah, this is kind of annoying. She was like, she was blue. I was like, what's wrong?
She was like, I was like, Nicole, what's wrong with her? Hypothermia is setting in. She don't like this cold.
She sneezed and like icicles came out. I was like, golly, she really is not used to the cold. How cold does it get in India? Like what's the coldest it would get? Now where we grew up, Christmas time was cooler.
Now, I'll be honest with you, growing up, Christmas was cold for us. Now it's not. Not so much. Over in India or now?
In India. I guess not. To me, it's not. So growing, maybe it's the shift in the weather patterns, has something to do with it. But Christmas would probably get to, on a cold, cold night, would be probably 50. OK. That's still kind of cold.
Maybe, maybe a little bit less. Where I grew up, because you go up north to Kashmir, I mean, you have snow. So we're not talking about that. India has snow, by the way. How interesting. I was going to ask, I was going to ask, did you ever see snow in Busaval where you grew up? No.
I saw a lot of hail one time. OK. I think we talked about this one time.
I think we did. Yeah. You said there was snow in like the, what's that mountain range in India? The Himalayas. The Himalayas, yeah. But never in like your hometown.
No, no, no. Never, ever snow. But wintertime, which is Christmas time, it would get colder. Like some of those Christmas carols, we had jackets on. We had mufflers.
We had, you know, what do you call it, toboggan. We used to have the gloves on. So I know we've got to get into the verse of the day, but your grandmother had the remedy for it get too hot, which is like put an onion in your pocket. Does she have a remedy for like, hey, don't go out there while it's cold? For cold, yeah, they would talk about covering up your throat to make sure that you don't get sore throat.
I don't know how much that's real. Yeah. My grandmother, I remember one of the, I don't know if you've ever heard this, Ryan, but like in the South, a lot of older ladies would say, a lot of grandmas would be like, you can't go out.
If it's cold, you can't go outside with your hair wet because instantly you catch pneumonia. Oh, 100%. Yeah, they would say the same thing. Same thing. Yeah.
Also, this has been over the past 20 years ago. The big thing in India during the wintertime was wearing these earmuffs. Have you seen those?
Like they're just earmuffs. Yeah. They're not here anymore, right? People don't wear them. No, not so much.
I've not seen them. Oh my goodness. It took the country of India like a storm. Every person. When did this happen? This was back in the 2010s. Everybody, even the homeless people were like, you know, and I'm like, where do they get these things? That homeless man has a bedazzled earmuff.
Didn't they get some? How odd. Oh yes. My dad had it.
But I was like, where do you get these things? Did you see a picture of your dad with earmuffs? I saw him.
In person? Yeah, because this was in 2009. I went to visit and it was November, I think it was. It was getting a little colder. And I remember my dad put it in and I was like, what is that? And he said, oh, it's really cold. So I said, oh, yeah, you get ear infections.
He said, you get ear infections. I know we're running long. But the coldest I remember ever being in my entire life is when we went to Israel. We went on Mount Hermon the first year and then the second year, that was really cold.
But then the second year in 2020, we went to the Golan Heights and we were way up north and when I say it was so cold, I've never been that cold in my life. There was a man selling this hot tea for like, I don't know, it was like $5 or something, but it was expensive for like a little paper cup of tea. But every single person bought it, took a sip of it and instantly was like, this is not good.
Oh, no. But I can't dump it out because it's so warm. It's the only thing that's warm. And I saw Thomas, Dr. Shah's youngest son, I saw him take a sip of it, looked at it, looked at me, tossed it right on the ground.
He was like, I'd rather be cold. Right. That is funny. That's funny. Yeah.
Hang on to the heat for dear life. Yeah. And I was telling this, it's like very friendly, it was a cough tea and I was like, oh my goodness. I think he was just picking up dirt from the side of the road. Heating it up. Putting it in water.
I don't think those are tea leaves, buddy. No. It was disgusting. It was nasty. It was terrible. It was really disgusting. And I was like, what is happening here? That's crazy. That's funny.
All right. Our verse of the day today is coming to us from Deuteronomy 11, verse 15. And I will send grass in your fields for your livestock that you may eat and be filled. You're going to hear a lot of talk in the coming days. I mean, we've already been hearing it a long time, but I think you're going to hear it more and more about how depraved America is, how just empty it is, how morally bankrupt it is. But at the end of the day, I mean, the truth is that we live in a very, very great nation. We live in a nation of abundance. And I think that's, I think back to verses like this and it's just a reminder of God's promise.
Yes, yes, yes. And I hope people will receive this promise and hold onto it and realize just like the show we did some time back, I think it was the last one or whatever, where these women are trying to be punished themselves to punish men. Let's not do that. Let's live in the land of abundance. Let's live glorifying the living true God. Let's live in peace and harmony. Let's enjoy life.
Let's help the poor, the needy. I mean, we can do this. We can do this. We can.
We don't have to punish ourselves right now because Donald Trump is in office. Come on. What are you talking about? These are the extemporaneous solutions that are coming into play where people are just trying to, they're trying to get something in the here and now to respond to what's happening.
You know what I mean? And it's not that it even doesn't make any sense. It's just, it's nonsense. And it's nonsense. It's just a bunch of nonsense.
Totally absurd nonsense. Yeah. I got to go ahead and give myself a round of applause for extemporaneous. Well done.
Very good job. Who is coming up with these words? So, so I want to announce it on the show since it's Friday starting next week, Dr. Shah is getting in on the secret word we're going to, we're going to have, he's going to have a word every week that he's trying to get by us.
I'm not sure how exactly we're going to structure it, but we're going to, we're going to make some changes to the secret words. But anyway, we were kind of talking about that today, about how this, everything is very backwards where the people who are claiming to be oppressed don't realize that they're cheering on the people who are actually oppressing them. Right? Yes. I mean, it's, it's Stockholm syndrome in full display for us. I think so. And, and, you know, Dr. Shah, maybe you can speak on this because being from India, you've seen what it's like when people in the government truly are taking advantage of their people when they're, you know, when they are, what am I trying to say?
When they're actively working against the best interest of the people. Yes, yes, yes. Now, now to explain Stockholm syndrome just for a minute, this is back in 1973 where this this bank robber, he goes in and he abducts three or four, I watched a whole documentary on this and it was amazing because they, they have the actual footage of everything that happened.
Wow. So he, he abducts these three or four people and then the police are trying to negotiate and then this and that and the other. And then finally it got to a point where the hostages or especially this one was almost an ally to her kidnapper, to her abductor. And so somebody came up with the, with the name Stockholm syndrome, where you actually become a supporter of the very person who is oppressing you. And then later on, you know, people have said, eh, that's not really true. She did that. You know, they said that this whole Stockholm syndrome stuff is a myth because it's not really that she was like brainwashed, she was just trying to survive.
So that's what they say. And that may be true, that may be true, but there is something there where in a weird sort of abnormal relationship where the very person who is harassing you, who's making your life miserable to the point of death, you actually become, you start feeling sorry for them. Right, right. You start feeling like this person is the good guy. Just like this lady who was one of the, you know, kidnapped, was actually more in favor of the kidnapper. And later on, she was saying like, the police, I was scared of the police, the police, we didn't know what they were up to. I mean, they were being random and blah, blah, blah. And then later on, this lady also came back and said, yeah, well, this abductor was going to probably, you know, kill me.
And I'm not sure what he was. So I think the older she got, she began to realize, maybe. But I mean, I see something like that happening in our culture on a larger scale, where there are people in power who are actively trying to make life worse for you, so that you depend on them, so that you depend on keeping them in power and lining their pockets. And it's all under the guise of their moral virtue. They're such a kind person, they're such a good person. And really, you don't understand, and you said it just a minute ago, and I had it and I lost it, but you don't see that you're falling in love with your actual oppressors.
Right. It can also lead to a skewed perception of yourself. I have this article pulled up on Stockholm syndrome. So it's skewed perception of your abuser or your captor, but it's also a skewed perception of yourself. It says that children who've experienced abuse at home, it develops a sort of Stockholm syndrome to where they think they deserve to be abused, or they deserve to be punished, because that's this person who was supposed to love and cherish them, that's what was displayed to them. So they think, this is what I deserve, this is what needs to happen to me. And if I can add something to that, they even feel like, I understand why this person does what they do. I understand, and I get it why they do that. That's why we need to support them. And the reason we're even talking about this today is because on social media, you're seeing not as much, praise God for that, but you're hearing few people posting things that are so anti-Trump or saying things that are like, one Christian theologian, I don't even know if he's Christian or not, I mean, that's up to him and God, I can't speak on that.
I'm not saying he's not, I'm just saying, I don't know. And I mean, he's talking about a dog returning to his vomit and stuff like that about President Trump being back in the office, and it's like, what are you talking about? Was your life that bad? You see one of the, yeah, that's a great point. One of the things that abusers will do is they will make enemies out of other people. And so the only rhetoric that we've heard the entire 107 day, I think Kamala Harris had like 107 day campaign, all we heard was Trump is bad.
You have to vote for me, not because of my accomplishments, not because I have a plan for the country, but because you don't want him. And so that's what, and when people go through that, of course, they're like, yeah, yeah, you have to be good because I keep hearing that you're bad. And even prior to that, I would say, you know, initially in the Biden presidency, but then it sort of slowed down and just kind of faded away until the primaries began in the election with, you know, in the past, like you say, 107 days. But even prior to that, during the Trump presidency, you had people saying things that are just rhetoric. It's just propaganda. And it's not true.
They're like, man, you're about to lose all your freedom. Okay. Tell me which one. Based on what?
Which one? You just don't know. It's bad days coming.
Which freedoms exactly are we losing? And I know we're going to have a bumpy ride, folks. Hang on. Just hang in there. Just remember, I love you. Yeah.
Like, what are the bumps? Please tell me. Yeah. Where's your evidence? Yeah. It's just like that, they begin to sympathize with the people who are the propagandist.
How significant do you think it is that it's now happening, not just on an individual level, like your example with the woman in Stockholm, but like on a societal level that this thing is happening? You know what I mean? Like, not that it's a mental condition that people just have or don't, but it's something that people can actually more or less buy into. They're not thinking. Stop and think. Stop repeating the same mantra. Stop and think.
Think what's happening. Is it really? Is it really? Yeah. Those four years that we had under President Trump, did we really go to war? Right. Guys, I'm telling you, he's going to push us into a war, war after war, and that's what's going... Which war? Which one? Yeah.
Based on his previous presidency, what wars? Right. So you're buying into the propagandists who tell you that, and then you start feeling sorry for them. It's like, man, these are the people trying to warn me against this stuff.
Against what? What if they're lying to you? What if they're giving you a bold-faced lie, only so that you would put them in office so they can get wealthy? Oh, I remember what I was going to say earlier. You were saying just like that woman, she grew up and she realized like, okay, maybe I was kind of messed up.
I do have some hope because a lot of the people who did vote for President Trump this year were former Democrats. Right. I think they're finally waking up. They took the minute to think. They stopped to analyze the data.
They stopped listening to the rhetoric. And it was very clear, it's like, oh, wow, coming out of this slumber, I mean, I've been dazed. Yeah.
Rip Van Winkle over here. Yeah. Which is what we're saying here. This lady came out of the Stockholm syndrome. Now, it may not be a syndrome in the sense of, you know, a mental health situation. She may, you know, may have grown up and realized, wow, for a man to do what he did, he was not a nice guy. Yeah, right.
Of course. He put a gun to my head. Now, at the moment when I was just a teenager or maybe I was just 20 years old, I don't know how old she was, maybe I was looking at him in the sense of, you know, the sense of save the world, you know, when young people have that idea that I can change somebody, I can change the world.
Maybe at that moment I saw him like that. But looking now in my 60s or whatever, how old she is now, no, that was a bad person. Right. Very true. Time has a way of changing our mindset. And I'm hoping some of the people who are so, have drank the Kool-Aid will stop and examine the cup.
Yes. That's a great way to put that. That's a great point. Great point.
I love that. Who's the people who have the Kool-Aid stop and examine the cup. Yeah. Look what's in it. Take a minute and think. Use your critical reasoning skills and look at the entire picture.
Could it be the people you've been listening to don't have your best interests in mind? Inform yourself. That's why we care about things like this on The Clearview Today Show because we want to inform you about the issues and make you aware of what's going on so that you can be informed and make an informed choice.
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