And we are live for the first time in a long time.
Welcome to episode 36 of To the Unknown Pod, a TGFB podcast.
My name is Jordan Bush.
I am the executive director of TGFB Media, which exists to help Christians understand
and use Bitcoin for the glory of God and the good of people everywhere.
I am joined by a single solitary island boy today.
We'll get a little bit more information on where the other two are,
including one that will just blow your minds uh but uh in the in the case of Oshawa but Ryan go
ahead introduce yourself man yeah I'm Ryan Finley uh father of six I'm an entrepreneur and uh yeah
doing helping my my kids start their various businesses and uh yeah it's good to be here
Ryan uh I am thrilled to have you you are one of the people who is uh one of the most encouraging
people in my life, uh, just both by just talking to you and just the example, uh, as, as a father
of kids who are a little bit older than ours, uh, really appreciate you. I'm also appreciating you
because right behind your, uh, your left shoulder, I see a copy of the orange umbrella, our brand new
kids book that just came out. Uh, there's, there's a few copies out in the wild for those of you who,
who have ordered them and still have not received yours, just know that they're on their way. Uh,
We basically have, we fulfilled about 300 orders that were the initial Kickstarter orders,
but we ended up not having enough books.
So there were two people, can you believe this?
There were two people who ordered 21 copies each to either give away or just to huddle.
I don't know what they're doing.
And so we ended up having to postpone some of those.
And so those shipments are going to be fulfilled within the next week and a half
because the shipment of 1,400 books that we have that was supposed to be here probably by now,
basically we got stuck in a port in California and is not going to be here for another week and a half.
So if you have not gotten yours, by all means, it's coming.
Please don't freak out.
We're doing our best to get them to you.
If you did not order a copy of the Orange Umbrella, let's see here.
Let me go to my share.
if you do not order a copy you can pre-order your copy right now uh let's see it is this one right
here if you go to tgfb.com slash t-o-u uh for the orange umbrella you can it'll take you right to
this page where you can order either paperback or hardcover um i do not have a copy of the the
paperback i do have a copy of the hardcover here it is right here it's beautiful uh with the dust
jacket, super high quality. We did our, we did our best sewn bindings. We just did, did as best we
could. Really good quality paper, beautiful illustrations. We also have a paperback version,
as I mentioned, that's also, you know, really high quality paper and the like. I don't, like I said,
I don't have a copy of that. We also did though, make a coloring book. And so you can go to tgfb.com
slash TOU coloring and find that. And so basically it's just the book without color.
And so you can color your own version. If you didn't like the colors we chose, you can color
your own. It's got all of the text from the books in there. Um, so go ahead, go grab your copies,
support TGFB by doing that. Uh, we would greatly appreciate it. Another way that you can support
TGFB would be by doing, and if you're going to be, if you're going to be, uh, or interested in
being in Texas in April of this year. We are going to be doing our first TGFB conference in a year
and a half, basically two years. It's going to be TGFB 26 in April in Fort Worth, the day before
BitBlock Boom. We're partnering informally with them. The event is going to be called The Foolish
Things of the World, Wisdom, Wealth, and Generational Ministry. We're going to be talking
about Bitcoin and just the different ways. Bitcoin is going to be one of the primary things we're
talking about, but we're going to be talking about this issue of we're in this moment of a lot of
generational transfer, upheaval, confusion, just about how to think about things like inheritance,
how to think about things, you know, just about the relationship between wealth and, you know,
parents giving down wealth to their kids. How should we think about this type of thing? And so
we want to dedicate some time to thinking and talking about those things and the role that
Bitcoin has to play as part of it. So if you go to that, go to this page, tgfb.com slash conference,
you can go down here. Basically, this is just kind of like an overview of who TGFB is, what we're
doing, give you previous speakers, past speakers, who they've been. You'll notice a bunch of
well-known people from the Bitcoin space. And then if you go ahead and you click buy tickets,
it'll take you to a ZapRite page. We are grateful for our friends over at ZapRite, Parker Lewis,
Will Cole and those guys and you can pay either in bitcoin or in sats for your tickets if you get your early bird ticket right here
You can you can do that now. You can also get your early bird ticket in merch bundle
Some of you got your got your hats at our vegas barbecue
We're gonna get the same brand of hats super high quality hat with tgfb logo on it. It'll be texas related
It'll be good. You're gonna like it. So go ahead and you can go
stab those. You can also see, look, the price, you're like, oh man, $70 for, what is it, $75
for a hat and shirt? Yes, this is the world we live in with fiat. And so we want to usher the
end of that world as soon as possible. We move into Bitcoin and then things will get cheaper over
time instead of more expensive. So again, we would love to see you there. We'd love to just spend some
more time with you. We'd love to provide also a place for you to invite your friends, people
who are in your church, your pastoral leaders and that kind of thing, budget leaders to kind of talk
through the issues surrounding Bitcoin. There's going to be a lot of very practical stuff in the
latter half of the day at this event. So we'd love to see you there as well. Get some more info here.
So that's basically most of the shilling that we're going to do for now. So you can not worry
about that. The last thing I'll mention before we get into today's episode is that, as we mentioned,
TGFB is basically, we're going to be operating as a nonprofit. We're going to be coming underneath
the umbrella of Brilliance Labs for the next two years. And in order to do that, we are raising
two years worth of expenses to be able to do that. So we've raised about 20% of what we need for
right now. And so we would greatly appreciate just basically working to raise over the next
about month to raise more of that, to cover the rest of those expenses. So if you are in a position
where you've benefited from TGFB and are either looking to dodge, you know, not dodge, but looking
to spend, pay less taxes to Uncle Sam, or if you just basically said, hey, I really want to help
more people learn about Bitcoin and why these things matter, why they don't matter, you know,
answer some of the objections that people have. And you want to help TGFB do that, help,
you know, me continue to do that would, would greatly appreciate that. So, um, you can go to
brilliance labs.org slash TGFB and find the giving link. If you do it before tomorrow at midnight,
you can get a tax deductible donations. You can donate in Bitcoin there. Um, either if you're,
if you want to do that with your name attached, you can get a tax deductible donation. If you want
to do that anonymously, you can't get a, uh, you're not able to get a tax deductible donation,
but you can still do that over there for our hardcore cypherpunks who just want to do things
because they want to support people in the Bitcoin space. We're happy to facilitate that as well. So
grateful for you guys. Now, with all of the shilling, my word, what was that? 10 minutes
of shilling. What is the world? Eight minutes. Okay, good. Only eight. Now that we get all that
out of the way, Ryan, it has been a few weeks. It's the last time we sat down and recorded a
podcast. I've been traveling. We were getting the book done, the book shipped, had a whole bunch of
other stuff. There's this, we celebrated the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Lots of stuff
going on. Ryan, what in the world have you been doing over the last few weeks? Why have you
abandoned our beloved podcast audience? I have good excuses. Where are yours? Let's say it.
It's been partially intentional just to unplug a little bit. Yeah, I don't know who, I think I saw
a few posts from a couple guys I respect
that were just like, hey, I'll see you guys next
year. You tend to see
it when December comes around.
I was like, okay.
This year, there's
a couple things.
The Bitcoin has just been
going sideways, chopping, and that's
always slightly depressing.
Just like everyone's
questioning if the sky is
falling.
But then also, we were talking
about a minute ago you know life has enough of its challenges and things going on and um
that we that we are we always are dealing with anyways but like as soon as you go online
there is the this temptation to absorb some of the 500 online uh not just the conspiracies but
just all the all the controversies controversies and just uh it's just a lot of stressful stuff a
lot of fights that are going on in every camp and every it's politically and just our country and
um and then intertribal stuff both in bitcoin and um and the christian world um it could just be
like and you can't you're like oh i'm not gonna take it on it's like i'm not taking on any stress
at work i won't bring it home and it's like yeah you bring it home yeah like it's slowly just kind
of like and you and you really don't realize it until you unplug and so like the last month or so
i've been working with my uh my third son abraham just we've been he's been getting into the
appliance trade so i've just been teaching him a lot of things and then also just relearning myself
so we've just been like waking up and working on a lot of appliances every day and it's just been
really good um i just haven been online much and yeah yeah i great I highly recommend it You look good You look healthy
No, but it has been.
It's just, yeah, sometimes it's good to just go out and work hard
and be too busy to pay attention to all the controversies.
Yeah.
You guys spent some good time with family for Christmas?
Yeah.
Yeah, we didn't.
we didn't travel until after christmas we had christmas here yeah we had uh all my siblings
together that was really that was awesome um that doesn't happen very often it's cool because we
anyways i think that might have been like the first time the last five years so we were all
together so uh we've been going through chesterton's winter fire book we had a book i did
yeah the book too dude it's so good um one of his things like the guy loved christmas more than
anybody and he was a huge advocate for uh families getting together and being bored especially like
encouraging your kids to be bored uh because when kids are bored they tend to invent new games
right i don't know if you read that sound trick well we played some of the games that he that he
recommends in the book with our family like our extended family it was so much fun just like hours
and hours of just like
gut-busting laughing and
yeah
so
yeah just not watching
much just
playing
Did you bake it all?
Did you cook it all?
Or did you leave this to the professionals?
I did not personally
bake any of the things
What a masajerness we have on the podcast
today. My goodness. Unbelievable.
unbelievable abraham has been turning it into a tradition he did a big five pound prime rib
oh okay christmas day so that was his big base and then my mom made a big huge ham so that
that knocked christmas day out okay anyways we had a we did uh my mother-in-law made a big ham
and then we had like a boston butt a smoked boston butt it was never it's a it's pork
It's a big, it was delicious.
But then we have one of our traditions is that I make cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning.
And they were primo.
They were great ones.
Nice.
All right.
So let's see here.
So getting into, man, Chesterton, that's Christmas well spent.
We also read some, we did, I guess, when was it?
It must have been, I guess it was like three days before Christmas.
We went to a friend's house for lunch after church and we did, we read some.
So find you some friends with whom when you're hanging out, somebody will just spontaneously
start reading poetry.
It's just, again, you don't need to have a whole bunch of those friends.
If you got a couple of them, they just make the atmosphere so much better.
And so we have these family friends and that's what we do.
One of the things when we go over to their house, I guess more than half the times we've gone over there, we're just like, hey, we're all just sitting around.
There's probably 15, 20 of us sitting around.
And someone's like, hey, I read this poem.
I want to read it.
And so somebody's like, okay, sweet.
And so we were reading poetry by this guy named Malcolm Gite.
He looks like a character from a Lord of the Rings, one of the Lord of the Rings series.
He's a wild looking guy.
but he's written a ton of poetry and he's written poetry about written poetry and books about
about Christmas and so when he's I can't remember what what the name of it is but we were reading
from that and so we read one of the one of the poems that he's written just just a really great
time great time with friends great time with family trying to think yeah beyond that there
hasn't really been a ton of I mean there's been some cool announcements and stuff like that on the
on the Bitcoin front. But I mean, we just have been, to your, to your point,
we just been kind of chopping back and forth between, you know, 80,
85 and 90 K 87.
It seems like we're perma stuck on 87 for the last like five days last week.
To almost a staggering degree.
I think right now is,
is the perfect example of why so many people haven't gotten into Bitcoin still
like this is literally exactly why you're like, why I just want,
how aren't there more people in this space?
And it's like, because this has happened so many times
over the last 15 years, then everyone always forgets.
And it's like, it hasn't always been an easy ride.
Like these times just chew people up and spit them out.
Yeah.
You know, I always, I, of course,
orange-pilled a couple
and they finally were able to get in at 104
promptly
diaphombed right after
and I'm just like, oh
yeah, that's like
the reward of me taking my
time to help
them out, understand how
to lose their money very quickly.
Way to go,
Ryan.
Bring the sheep in for the slaughter.
I'll still do it. I'm not going to
stop. I've had so many
painful things like that where
you finally succeed and yeah i have a buddy 40 40 right afterwards you're just like oh aren't you
thankful you're right it's the price of admission the lord chastens those whom he loves
it really is like i almost i mean i almost do feel like it is just a mark of maturity it's just
like yeah this is this is how it works man like you know nothing in life is that's worth having
is just going to be easy. And, you know, it's just to act like, oh, you know, there's certain
points when you're ready to buy Bitcoin and it's frequently at a point when you think it's going
to run away from you. Like that's just, that's just what, how it has to happen. And so then what
it means is you're going to have to deal with, you know, when things aren't as drastic and dire
as you thought they were, uh, you're going to have to deal with Bitcoin dropping back down and
settling and so it's great it's a greed killer greed killer thank you lord for purging greed
from our hearts and minds uh so we can look forward to that um and shout out you listen
yeah i was also a shout out to not distracting us from the purpose of and the real uh reason we
celebrate christmas absolutely all about jesus like distraction bitcoin is not even in the
100 percent 100 percent uh i just want to give a shout out in in the chat here i get i don't know
which uh this is on youtube we got torah pot torah potl see here he says living torah potl uh ordered
some copies of the orange umbrella i shipped them shipped them to him uh grateful for your brother
who's this guy some some son of some random guy is also here in the in the thing uh elijah
They're watering.
What's up?
What's up, Elijah?
Edit photos, man.
What are we doing here?
Edit video.
So grateful for you guys.
And again, if you're appreciating this, benefiting from this,
then throw a like, a share, a subscribe if you're on YouTube.
Share these things.
Elijah's been doing yeoman's work for us, sharing some of the clips.
We're getting some pretty good traction on some of these little YouTube shorts.
So hopefully we'll get these videos out to more and more people.
Beyond that, let's see, what else have you been thinking about finding interesting the
last few days?
Actually, let me do one thing.
You mentioned, I meant to share this and then I forgot because you were saying something
that was so darn interesting, right?
I'm going to share the screen and go to here.
You mentioned there's a number of things you can take from this graphic, but this is something
I saw earlier today from Alan Watts Bitcoin, whoever this guy is. He basically talked about,
this is the 2025 news cycle and just the peaks. And you can see just how like every day, basically,
or every few days you get like a story that, you know, zooms up on popularity.
There's a few of them where you get repeated. Okay. You've got Gaza, you know, comes through
here a few times. You've got Lebanon or Israel and Iran. That was like a, you know, good chunk
of the year, kind of steady increase and peaked off. The one that's super interesting, I initially
thought it was Sidney Sweeney. It was not, even though actually Sidney Sweeney actually is pretty
much throughout the year, but inflation was really big the whole year. But if you, the thing that I
took away from this is you watch this every day that goes by, there's something else. And so
there's something else that is being driven either through reality or through, you know, pushing
through algorithms, whatever it is, there's something that's being
pushed to fix your
mind, fix your attention on those things
as though they were the most important
things in the world. Can you zoom in a little bit? It'd be kind of interesting
to like... Yeah, which ones do you want me to zoom in on?
Or I mean, just maybe even... Just any
of them? Okay.
Yeah, so we got
Palisades fired to begin the year.
Greenland, when Trump
was talking about trying to buy Greenland.
We got
Elon, of course.
DEI, DC plane crash.
Zelensky.
Yeah, you just got all these things.
Biden Dome,
big, beautiful bill.
A lot of, I mean, just, yeah.
The Coldplay concert,
I mean, you had that whole thing.
Epstein. I can't believe he's
not on there more.
So I'd say, so inflation would be
easily the most legitimate
of... Yeah, it's the thing
that's the most constant, like throughout the year.
and hilariously, I think Sidney Sweeney actually is number two.
Heaven help us. Have mercy on us, Lord. What in the world?
Yeah, no kings.
Inflated bread and circuses.
Yep, exactly.
But yeah, I mean, it is just one of these things where there's so much money
and just attention spent on trying to buy your attention trying to get you to focus on things either for commercial reasons or for outrage reasons you know so that people so that you can be controlled
And I definitely think it is a good thing to unplug.
I'm in a point where I just, I desperately need to unplug for like a week or so.
Yeah, we haven't been doing the podcast as much and that's been part of that.
um, it's been trying to get other things. I mentioned the book and just trying to button
up things here at the end of the year. Um, yeah, just, it's been something that's been,
it's been super busy, been very busy. Um, the Lord's been kind. The Lord keeps opening up
opportunities, some of which we're going to talk more about, uh, in the beginning of the year.
Uh, the Lord's been doing a lot of really cool things and opening up some cool, uh, some cool,
opportunities for TGFP. And so we'll, we'll talk more about that, but yeah, it is just one of these
things where, yeah, there's, you can just be occupied if you're, you can be driven if you're,
if you're not consciously just cutting things out yourself. And I, I just, it's convicting.
And so I'm glad to, glad to have, you know, you bringing it to mind and have your example and
and pulling the plug.
So hopefully that's encouraging to some of you as well as we go in here.
I don't know if you, are you a big new year's resolutions guy, Ryan?
Not, not really.
Yeah.
Not, not really.
I mean, I think it is good to going into the new year just to, I mean,
we should, I think, you know, I think we should be taking,
just looking at how we're doing
like more than once a year.
Yeah.
You know, it's like going in
for an annual checkup.
I was like, I don't know.
Like that's, yeah,
that's a pretty big interval
because the reality is,
you know, it's anything
that you just like get,
you work up the willpower
to try to change your life,
you know, once a year.
I mean, that's not,
that's not going to do it.
Like, yeah.
But.
it is, it is good to reflect back, um, you know,
on different things that, um, probably do it with my wife,
just reflecting back on our lives this last year and what went well,
what's, what's been encouraging, uh, where we need to, you know,
just with raising our kids,
where we need to double down on certain areas and work on, um, yeah,
just improving yeah things spiritually and in our home and um and other areas as well so but
yeah yeah what about you yeah i mean it's it's not something that i've i mean again i think about it
you know just kind of like just by virtue of other people talking about new year's resolutions or just
even the concept being raised like i i do think about it um the our i was having a conversation
with our pastor and he again mentioned that he basically every three months does his him and his
wife sit down and kind of plot out the next whether it's the travel schedule whether it's
just other you know whether it's birthdays whether you know whatever it is like they kind of plot
you know three three months at a time um and yeah it's one of the things where i don't feel like i
i do that super well i don't feel like i you know i we we plan and like at a yearly you know basis
and you know for like TGFB I'm kind of always I do like a you know yearly thing kind of look at
the year and plan things out um but yeah but like and obviously I'm like reconsidering things
throughout the year we make changes and whatever but in terms of just on a family level I feel like
it's it's something where I definitely have like room to grow um you know yeah it's there's just I
mean are there who are who are the people in your life who you you go to and you know for like to
have those kinds of conversations or people who are like a few steps ahead of you, you know,
whether it's family things, whether it's business things. I remember you talking about like having
business mentors in the beginning, uh, but like, are there, are there families or other men or
books or something you've read in terms of like leading your family that you've found helpful
people who are a few steps ahead of you? Yeah. We have like, we had some, it, it, it goes in
seasons depending on where you're at um this most recent season it's been more um more books uh
that have been you know super encouraging just with the season of life we're in um especially
me as i've been like considering how the my boy is preparing them to launch um
yeah if you do have people you know near you with uh similar like standards and hopes for um
other children are going to be raised i think it's incredible if you can if you can meet you know um
but yeah all that to say long answer is short is yeah it's been more books recently but and so what
are what do you mind me asking who are some of the people you've benefited from uh but yeah
Michael Foster's been one.
Okay.
Like he's been,
yeah,
super encouraging.
C.R. Wiley.
Mm-hmm.
Rich Lusk
out there.
Yeah.
Out in Birmingham.
Yeah,
out in Birmingham.
Man.
Yeah,
some of the,
some of the Cannon Plus stuff.
Doug Wilson,
you know,
some of the Doug Wilson stuff.
John Moody's been
he's one of these guys
it's like
super encouraging
he's been
yeah
he's been spitting fire
yeah
yeah John's a regenerative
agriculturist
like he's
just kind of lives on
lives on land
and just thinks about
family and
you know agriculture
and just overall health
and
he does
what do you call it
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
and
I think
I think it's Jiu Jitsu
yeah
something like that no it's really i i use a basketball now they literally catch fire and
they're just like they're hitting a nerve they're yeah they're speaking to where a lot of people are
at and it's and they just keep hitting and i don't know if they're getting probably getting feedback
from you know people closer to them but they just keep i'm like oh man they keep nailing it so yeah
it's exactly yeah people like that um i didn't prepare this but yeah i'm trying i didn't write
down i'm trying to think of all the other resources but yeah just oh a collection of those guys yeah
yeah is there i mean does your in terms of like your boys and like with you know preparing them
to launch is has the end of the year is there are there things i mean you guys talking through taxes
are you guys like what does the end of the year look like for you guys outside of you know obviously
christmas and those kind of things yeah i mean we actually yeah we have been talking about some of
stuff um it's just there's just been yeah there's a lot of different um
i'm trying to think yeah just a lot of big life decisions we've been talking about recently and
um and then we talk about all the time i mean i like honestly it's been a blessing we've
we've got to we have a pretty close relationship and uh um we still try even though they're out
they have their own place.
We try to have a lot of family devotions still
because they're so close by.
The Upstand kind of leads itself
into having, you know,
deeper conversations about all sorts of things.
Nothing super,
nothing super in particular.
But, yeah.
It's been fun, yeah.
I know you guys hang out,
like obviously your sons live right down the street
and you guys,
are you guys still doing dinner together every night?
Yeah.
I remember, so Ryan, I can't remember if it was on the pod or off.
I think it was off.
You're like, yeah, my boys just, you know, just moved down the street.
They still have been home every night for dinner for a week.
And so I just think it's.
Yeah.
No, it's been, it's been awesome.
You know, like I say, yeah, they still have young siblings,
especially the younger sisters at home.
And it's just good.
It's good for them to still be in their eyes.
and we all enjoy hanging out and it's good to fellowship.
And they haven't found spouses yet,
so they still are very, very appreciative of their mother's cooking.
And so, yeah, it won't always be like this.
So we're grateful that we're still in a season where we can do this.
And they do.
They've been pushing themselves.
they've been showing hospitality and hosting friends
and they'll have barbecue nights where they grill burgers
and cook their own dinner, you know, cooking their own dinner for friends.
Cool.
So, yeah, that's been neat.
That's great.
But, yeah.
So, oh, here, we have a question.
I'm sure you came prepared to talk about this today.
So, thoughts on Knott's versus Core?
Oh, man, this is one of these things, man.
Will, appreciate the question.
You can take that one.
Yeah, well, I'm not going to take it full bore.
But this is one of these things where, one of the conversations where it has been a hornet's nest in the Bitcoin community.
Tim, again, we are not programmers nor sons of programmers.
uh but but like i the more that i when i hear the when i hear the conversation around the debate
i i just think the thing that i see and we've talked about this on the podcast before is i i
see a lot of people who uh are aware of their own strengths but they're not necessarily aware of their
own weaknesses of of how they see the world and and so i just i i think that a lot of I tend to be more uh I on the not side in terms of thinking that they are are have their uh they correctly are diagnosing some
of the problem. Uh, and I don't think the, the core side really is. Yeah. I think they significantly
underestimated the extent to which the non-technical side of Bitcoin both exists and
plays a humongous role in what happens, which has been borne out by the fact that this thing is
still going months later. And so I think that it's something that for a lot of people,
I just think there's a lot that can be learned. Hopefully they've learned a lot. I don't know
that they actually have.
There seems just to be a lot of disagreement,
a lot of conversation about people not understanding things.
And so that kind of lack of or failure of dialogue
is not the most encouraging or helpful thing.
But yeah, I just feel like we're not going to be
like the experts on this topic.
But again, we'll appreciate you asking.
Caleb, let's see, we got Caleb in the chat.
We never address people in the chat, but here we are.
Caleb is a buddy of mine
We go to church together
He basically said
Starting from the video
Beginning of the vid right now
Merry Christmas
And Happy New Year
Happy New Year
Caleb
Beautiful wife and kids
Here we go
He also said
My kids love the orange umbrella
Let's go
He got one of the first copies
And then he said
Breaking out the coloring book soon
So go get your copies
Caleb
Thanks for the support brother
We are going to be
Again we're going to be
Coming back
What we got here
We got your coloring book
Let's go
So flip through that.
Show the fine people at home.
What do we got going on there?
Yeah, these are, this is Karis.
We met her from a friend of her brother's.
And yeah, we met, we actually have a,
ooh, actually, if you go to the very back,
we get a sneak preview,
sneak preview of the new cover of Thank God for Bitcoin,
which should be published, I believe, next week.
You'll see, there's the, that's the regular book.
If you go to the next page, I think.
There you go, yeah.
So there's our other books.
On the left is the new copy, the new cover of Thank God for Bitcoin.
So we are pumped for that.
Five-year anniversary, over 25,000 copies sold.
So we're going to just want to do an updated version.
It's got a new forward.
We got a forward written by Robert Bortons,
who's the head of Costco Conversations,
one of the largest homeschool curriculum manufacturers,
producers in the world.
So we are grateful to have his participation.
But yeah, again, if you guys have other questions, we're happy to take them.
Feel free to throw them in the chat, throw them in, comment on the different posts in various places.
Do you have anything else?
I feel like somebody, or is this from you?
Let's see.
Nope.
Somebody else.
I guess those are the ones we already looked at.
Let's see.
How long have we been going here?
34 minutes.
Ryan, this doesn't have to be a full-blown episode.
Anything else you want to add here?
End of the year.
Speak now, forever hold your peace for 2025.
I guess let's do this. Here's what I love to do. You're like not this or year in review, but like when you look back on this year, what are the things that you've learned? What are the things that you you're taking away and that you're going to take with you into 2026?
you know i think was something you said like
if there's one thing that i would encourage families to do or individuals to do especially
if your dad would be to do like year-end like family reviews i wish i would have done those
i wish i would have done those more often so like their whole resolution to eat better and all that
kind of stuff it's all down like i you know it's not in the big scheme of things it's not very
important compared to like how well your family's doing and so uh if you did one thing which was
just literally sit down and like and talk with your wife and like make a list of the things that
you think are going well and then the things that need to be shored up on with your relationship with
your wife but then also your kids um if that can cause the things that need work to get attention
sooner and not like four years later or five years later or you know when it becomes bigger
like man that they're like that pays off massively.
Keep going short accounts.
Yeah 100%.
Yeah because there's things I wish you know I have regrets of not addressing things earlier
and just not we're not dealing with just weaknesses of mine earlier.
Yep.
But part of that's just like, it's like doing this self-examination.
I'm skipping the physical again.
I'm just not doing it.
I'm going to ignore it.
And it's like, eh, you're not going to ignore it.
Like, it's going to come back.
Yeah, exactly.
So in that sense, like, that's, you know, in this season of reflection,
I think that's definitely one thing I would encourage people to do,
especially dads.
Yeah.
Yeah, we kind of did this involuntarily, did this a couple months ago and just had to both examine with some of our kids, just go through and address some things that we saw.
And then also just, again, apologize for just letting certain things just, you know, go unaddressed, you know, for longer periods of time, either through just ignorance or just wrong priorities, just being focused on other things and just be like, just have an attitude of, ah, it's okay.
You know, it's, it's obviously not the greatest, but it's not, it's not the worst either. And you can just get in that type of mindset and, and then it's just like mission creep or, you know, just you're drifting in certain areas. And so I think that that's, uh, I would, I would echo that sentiment, you know, just if there's things that you see, don't, don't just make excuses for them. Don't justify them. Don't, don't just say, Hey, you know, I'll deal with that later. Um, you know, just deal with things as they come.
And, um, yeah, I mean, yeah, I would just encourage as well, just like praying together
with your kids, um, you know, and just like asking your, just again, asking your kids,
how are they doing just regularly?
Something as simple as that.
Um, I, again, it's just, it's so easy just to get so busy where you're just running around
and you're only addressing, you're only correcting.
Like if you're, if you're only, if your conversation is always corrective and there's not any,
you know substance with outside of that it's just going to be easy to get to you know for you to be
tuned out yeah it's the whole yeah just defensive and not not not offensive yeah like not pushing
pushing things towards being more healthy where are you going yeah it's one thing to like again
push away from the sides of the river with using your oar to keep yourself off the off the you know
off the shore that's obviously important but if you're not paying attention to where you're going
you could be going, you know, over a waterfall or something like that.
Trying to maintain this metaphor in it.
I feel like it was fine.
I don't know if it was the greatest one, but it worked.
Yeah, yeah, anyways.
So, again, we teased letting you guys know where the other island boys are.
To be fair, we don't know where Matt is.
He's probably running around Hawaii somewhere.
Matt's, he's doing a whole bunch of stuff.
I think he had a worker that they had to line out with a whole bunch of things today.
so got it okay well matt we miss you uh on top of that uh ashwa you may be wondering where in the
world would ashwa be well ashwa ashwa texts us and tells us that hey guys i'm sorry i'm laying
down some spoken word poetry uh with some friends of mine we have studio time and so that's where i
am i'm not gonna be able to make it today it's like well well then ashwa spitting game uh incredible
so hopefully we'll get some recordings of this
later when Ashwa gets done
and we will
either with his permission or against
his wishes we will share it with you fine folks
at home so you can have that to look
forward to in the new year if nothing else
we're going to leave it there for today
thank you again for a full year
of a lot of different things
we are grateful for you guys
as we're coming up on the end of the year we mentioned
last things
if you are looking for ways
to minimize the amount of money that you're giving over to a, well, we'll leave out some
of the adjectives. If you want to just mitigate some of the tax liabilities that you owe to the
government, if we can help you do that, we'd love to do that. You can donate at brilliancelabs.org
slash TGFB. If you have other people who are in your life, who again, are looking to do the same,
We would greatly appreciate you sharing that link, sharing that information so that we can continue, again, doing a lot of the things, whether it's the in-person events, the podcast, the book writing.
We've got a number of really neat projects that are coming up.
We'll probably announce, go through kind of like our calendar of what we're going to be doing in one of the first episodes of 2026.
So we will do that.
We also have more information about speakers in the weeks to come for the TGFB 26 conference.
We've got some good folks in the pipeline.
Some you'll know and some you might not.
So we'll see.
But we are grateful for you.
This will, I think this probably will be the last episode of this year.
I don't think I'll sneak one in tomorrow night.
We're going to be pretty busy.
But who knows?
We might do a little sneak in there.
We'll see.
But we hope you guys have had a great day.
Hope you're getting back into the work grind out there, loving and serving your neighbors,
loving and serving the Lord.
I will be grateful for you.
We'll see you on the next episode of the TGFB podcast.