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As the election heats up, there's a new documentary called The Outlier that helps give us a view of
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Donald Trump and also the issues and also talks about what God is saying in this election and how
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the church should respond. The visionary for this is my guest today on The Strang Report. His name is
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Troy Black. He's a popular podcaster who's become a friend. In fact, he interviewed me. I have a small
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part in this documentary and I want to do my part to get people behind it. It's coming out in early
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October, about a month before the election. You don't want to miss my interview with Troy Black.
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Stay tuned to The Strang Report. I'm Stephen Strang.
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Welcome back everyone and welcome to you Troy Black. Thanks for being on my podcast.
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I'm so excited about this documentary that you've made called The Outlier.
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Tell me about it and how do you think this is going to affect the election?
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Well, Steve, thank you so much for having me. Yeah, I'm so excited. We're deep in the mix of
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actually finishing up this film right now. So we got interviews from all over the United States
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from different people in different walks of life, but each person having a sphere of influence
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that's kind of separate from each other. But the thing that connects all these people together is
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that they're all supporting Donald Trump for presidency this year and for different reasons,
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varying reasons. But one of the things that this film does and my heart behind creating this film
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was to answer some of the questions that are happening within our culture right now.
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And when I say within our culture, I'm not just talking about the culture of the United States,
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I'm talking about within the Christian culture. One of the things I've seen over the last four
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years and even eight years is that is all of these little, what I would call great divides happening
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within the Christian culture and within the church. I think some of it is generational in nature.
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Some of it is based on different ideologies in nature. And then some of it just has to do with
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who you're around and the influences that you have. But I think a lot of it is generated from
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the internet. We have this crazy ability to live inside of a household with family and friends
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or whatever, different generations, and yet be influenced by so many different voices online
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that it's almost like we're all growing up into our own separate little families before we even
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get outside of the family unit. And what's happened with issues like Donald Trump is that it can create
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this divide between even individuals that love each other and are close to each other,
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this huge divide and this huge gap between what they actually believe and how they're going to
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vote ultimately. And so we're trying to answer the questions that have split people and divided people
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to help not only bring people back together and show the humanity of Donald Trump, the humanity of
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some of these politicians, but also to give the reasons why. I think a lot of people are
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asking the question, why would you vote for Trump? And then on the other side, people are asking the
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question, why would you not vote for Trump? And it's hard for people to understand where other
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people are coming from. But I believe that this film is going to answer some of those questions
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in a subtle way for people and show, hey, I have good reason for actually supporting him. And I can
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actually justify supporting him and still stand on biblical truth, still show and demonstrate the
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nature of Christ, and yet also reason through and use common sense and reason through the
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re the kind of the things that he supports and the things that I'm supporting, and show that.
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And so we're trying to show that in a film form, that there are God fearing, Christ like Christians
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who are supporting Trump, and they're not having to compromise in order to do that. And so that's
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my hope. That's my hope for the film is that the Christian culture would be impacted in that way.
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And we're praying that this film would get in front of as many people as possible. And the
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secondary hope for it is not just that it would impact the Christian culture, but that it would impact
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the Republican Party and the conservative culture that's maybe grown up in church or maybe been
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around religious things, but has not made that decision for Christ yet. And at the end of the
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film, we're going to be sharing the gospel message. And that's my secondary hope is that it would be a
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message of light to people that need that and need the message of Jesus Christ. Well, I have so many
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questions to ask you, but I think it'd be good if we would show the trailer. It's not very long.
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So let's show the trailer and then we'll talk more about the outlier.
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Here he was a playboy billionaire. He was a Democrat. He was a darling of the press.
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And for reasons that are hard to understand, he saw what was going on in our country and he felt he
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had to do something. Everyone kind of thought it was a little bit of a joke is what it seemed like.
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Obama is like a hood hero to the black community. He was saying that Trump was never going to win.
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Trump is dangerous. They had already anointed Hillary Clinton. I don't think most Americans
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want the kind of divisive and dark change Donald Trump is offering. For a long time,
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one of the most loved men in New York to become the most hated person in America.
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It was shocking. Shout it out because I don't want to. She said he's a f***ing bastard.
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I don't support everything Trump has done. Hillary said it, we don't like his tone.
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And he's not Mr. Rogers and we are not children. I turn on television,
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they're chopping people's heads off in the Middle East. We haven't seen stuff like this since
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medieval times and people are worried about my tone. People were friends with for more than 20
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years when I came out and publicly supported Trump said, wow, I thought you were intelligent.
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We've got to quit doing this personality politics. It's about policy and principles.
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You mean you don't like it that I was nice to the other candidates?
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I'm not voting for a preacher. I'm voting for politicians. The legislation
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is what's going to affect my family. We will claim the ideals of the Declaration of Independence.
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The people who object to our values are often bullies. I'm not allowed to really speak
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what I feel. We're closer to tyranny than we've ever been.
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And Donald Trump will do something that other politicians won't do. He stands up to the bullies.
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Well, Donald, if you've got something to say, say it to my face.
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The politicians all talk, no action. I don't owe anybody any favors.
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You saw people get behind him across the nation because they were excited that someone was
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listening to their voice. This is the time to reignite the American imagination.
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He loves this country. We must keep freedom alive in our souls.
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We must choose whether we squander our great inheritance or whether we proudly declare
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that we are Americans. There's got to be some kind of
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superpower on him because what he has taken could cripple most people.
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He may not be perfect, but he honors the God who is.
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I believe that there is a miraculous aspect. It explains why he survives these things
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and they throw everything at him.
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Seeing the videos and just turned his head at the right moment and he was protected.
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For him to stand up, that was a brave moment. To keep freedom alive, there's a price tag.
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I think many of us have forgotten what that price tag is.
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Wow, that is so good. That's even though, as you can see, I'm in there. In fact,
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I think had on the same tie, but I was honored to be asked and it was because I've written
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several books about Donald Trump and I feel very passionately about it.
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But tell me, how did you get the idea? Why did you do this documentary?
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There are other documentaries made. I know that Paul Crouch Jr. made one
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a few years ago and so forth. Why did you decide to do it?
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And the second question I have is why did you call it The Outlier?
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Well, the reason was honestly, it was supernatural. It was a spiritual reason.
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And that was one day I was literally just sitting in my office.
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This was last November and I was scrolling on YouTube and I saw an image of Donald Trump
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on a thumbnail. And suddenly I had this image in my mind and I felt the presence of God in that
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moment. It wasn't some crazy experience, but I knew it was the Holy Spirit speaking to me.
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And I got this image of a Trump documentary. And immediately I knew, I was like, Lord,
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you're trying to tell me that somebody's going to make a Trump documentary.
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And I was thinking, there are many Trump documentaries out there that I know that
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people have made. And then I sat there for a second and I just asked the Lord, I said,
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Lord, what are you trying to say? And suddenly I knew, it's like, God dropped this knowledge
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in my heart. You're supposed to make a documentary. And I was like, okay. And that was it. I said,
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I'm going to make a Trump documentary because the Lord told me to. That's it.
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What was your second question? Why did you call it The Outlier?
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Yeah. Okay. So The Outlier, we're trying to answer the question, how did Trump win in 2016?
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And then we're asking the question, because he won in 2016, can we see that same thing happen
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again? Are the same things in place there, in place now? And should we expect that same result?
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Obviously we had a different result in 2020. And so we look at Trump as an outlier based on some
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of the things that he says, some of the stances he's taken. One of the major stances being
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this fight against the establishment. So throughout history and the history of the United States,
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we've seen several different presidents that have been referred to as outliers. And the crazy thing
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is I had this title just pop in my head right at the very start, that was the name of the film,
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almost from day one. It was like, I'm supposed to make this film called The Outlier. I wasn't sure
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why. And as I started doing research, I found that a lot of the presidents throughout history
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who were referred to as outliers shared similar traits to Donald Trump. One of those things was
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that they were anti-establishment. They fought against the big government, people like Ronald
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Reagan, people like Roosevelt, people like Abraham Lincoln. And they fought against some of the
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culturally accepted things of the time, like Abraham fighting against slavery. It was like
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they fought against some of these things of the time that were culturally accepted in a lot of
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ways, but historically looking back are not right. And we can see that from a historical perspective.
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And another thing that they share in common was that these same individuals were either
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assassinated or had an assassination attempt on their life. And so the same individuals
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that were kind of anti-establishment and stand out in these ways also had people trying to take them
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out. And now we see that. And the crazy thing is we had all of this in place and we were even
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planning on filming a scene at the JFK assassination plot in Dallas, Texas. And we're still planning
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on filming there. And he's another outlier, obviously coming from the other side. He's
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more of a liberal figure, but he was also very anti-establishment. So he shared, even though
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he's coming from the other side, he shared similar traits and the same thing happened. He was
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assassinated. And so we were planning on filming a scene of the film there before the Trump
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assassination attempt even occurred. And I wasn't exactly sure how it was going to fit into the film,
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but I knew I was supposed to. And then all of a sudden there's an attempt on his life and the
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puzzle pieces started to come together. And so that really is the reason why, is that same way
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that Reagan was an actor before he was a politician. And obviously Reagan kind of made some
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quips about it saying things like, well, I thought I was changing careers and then I realized I
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really wasn't. Politicians are all actors, kind of making that joke. But we see the same way.
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Donald Trump was not necessarily an actor, but he was an entertainer. He was a TV show host. All of
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these similarities to Reagan, he came from the outside. People didn't call him a politician.
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You ask, why do you like Trump? And a lot of people said, well, he's not a politician.
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He's able to look at things from a different angle. He was a businessman. He was an entertainer.
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He had these different perspectives. So when he came in and he looked at the way that government
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was running and doing things, he said, we've got to change this. And I believe that was one of the
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reasons why he stepped into that role in the first place, was that he looked at those things.
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And that's something I know you talk about in the film, was some of the reasons why Trump
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decided to make this change in his life. And obviously it's been probably a much bigger change
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than he could have ever perceived to start with. He didn't know that it was going to go the way
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that it's gone, or that it was going to take so many years of his life, this huge project of being
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president and then running three times and some of the difficulties that have come with that.
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But that's the reason why, is because he came from the outside. And one of the things about
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an outlier that we talk about in the film is that, if you look at a set of data and you look at all
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of the data that's coming in when you do a poll or you do something like that, you're expecting
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data to be in a certain range. So the example I give in the film is that if you look at a website
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and you're trying to poll the visitors to your website and see what age ranges are visiting your
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website, you might have them answer some questions about their age. And if somebody is like seven
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years old or like 99 years old, those are going to be outliers because it's going to be less
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frequent. The normal range is going to be between like 15 and 75, probably, somewhere in there.
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So those might be outliers, but they're what you would call true outliers. So they're out of the
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ordinary. They're less common, but they can be true. But then you have the false outliers.
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And those are the numbers. That's the data that's outside of the possible range. And so if somebody
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said, I'm one years old and I'm browsing your website, or they said, I'm 137 and I'm browsing
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your website, immediately you say, OK, that's user error or a joke. It's not true. They typed
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in something by accident or to be funny. And what happens with that data is it gets discarded.
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And that's what we saw the media do to Trump as soon as they realized he was serious. See,
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at first they thought he was a joke. And then they realized this was serious. And this was a
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serious threat to their agenda and to the powers in place. And so as soon as they realized it was
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serious, then they began to try to paint this picture of this is a false outlier. This is
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somebody who doesn't have any integrity. There's nothing good that's going to come out of this.
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And they started to try to delegitimize this person in every way possible. And so one of the
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things we do in the film is we try to rehumanize this man, Donald Trump. And I think some of the
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things we've seen lately, we've seen other people trying to do the same thing. Some of the
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interviews that he's done, I don't know if the interview with Elon Musk is the best example,
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but maybe the interview with some of the other interviews he's done recently, where he sits
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down and he talks to people. And I've even had people in my life say, man, that was the first
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time I looked at Donald Trump as a normal human being when I watched that interview. And it's
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because he is a normal human being and he has likes and dislikes. He has feelings, he has emotions,
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he has desires and he has compassion. Just like any human being, he has some sort of empathy for
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a fellow man. But a lot of times he gets painted in this light, he gets painted as a dictator,
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he gets painted as a narcissist, he gets painted as all these different things, like the devil
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himself, or the antichrist or whatever, depending on the culture. And we're trying to show, hey,
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Donald Trump is not a perfect person. He's got flaws, he's got a past, he's got history,
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he said some things, sure. But he's a human being and there's a lot of good there that can be done.
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And especially from a Christian perspective, I believe that God can do a lot of good through
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him and that he already has. And so we look at some of those facts as well. What are the things
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that he accomplished the first time around, the first four years in office? And some people have
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used that argument lately saying, because people have said, well, if he gets in office again,
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he's going to be a dictator. And people have said, well, look at the first four years. We can already
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see what he's done and we can have an idea of what he's going to do again. And so we're trying to
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give people some valid reasons why they could vote for him, but also we're trying to equip
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the people that already are supporting Trump, but have friends and family members that are
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completely anti-Trump. We're trying to equip them with number one, some extra knowledge that they
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can use if they don't already have that to be able to defend their stance, but also just a resource
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that they can share and say, hey, I understand that you have some hard feelings against Trump
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and some hard stances against this man and his campaign, but would you be willing to watch this
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film? I think it's going to answer some of the questions you may have. And I think it's going
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to help bridge that gap. Well, I'm so proud of you're doing this film and I agree with what you say.
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And I know this to be true because I interviewed Donald Trump. In fact, we found some footage. It
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was actually filmed on an iPhone and I had forgotten about it because my podcast was audio
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packed then. And I ran it on my podcast a couple of days ago. People can go on YouTube and find it.
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It was a short interview, but I asked him who would give him spiritual advice. I asked him
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about some things that the Bible said, but you can see, you know, we were sitting in a green room
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at the back of a convention hall somewhere, but he was respectful. He was calm. He wasn't crazy
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like the media plays him. And, you know, one of the things that I believe is that there's a spiritual
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aspect to this. Now it's not part of the debate and even we Christians are sometimes hesitant
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to talk about it because we're ridiculed, but Kim Clement and some others prophesied that he'd be
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elected two terms. And then of course, when it didn't happen, they were ridiculed. It's why I
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wrote God and Donald Trump. And then you have to ask, why did he turn a split second and that
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bullet missed him? You know, why does God up to? But let's get back to talking about this election
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because we have in Kamala Harris, a person that just 60 days ago was a national joke.
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Even Democrats made fun of her because of her laughter and what they call words, salads and so
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forth. And now they're saying that the polls are neck and neck and she's a person who has really
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very little experience. And you talk about policies. I mean, it's one thing to have a policy
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about fracking. It's another, what is our national defense going to be and how would our president
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lead us in a very dangerous world? There's some very, very dangerous players out there. And
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Donald Trump has proven that he'd be strong. So explain to me why you think it's so close
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and how could the body of Christ make the difference? Because I think it's true
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that a lot of Christians stay home. Don't vote. Well, from my perspective, I think there's several
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reasons why. Number one is there's a huge no Trump side to this coin. There are a lot of even
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Christians in the Christian culture. There's subcultures that would just never vote for Trump
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for various reasons. And so we're trying to affect that culture. We're trying to speak into that,
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obviously. But yeah, another thing is, I think it's up to 30% of Christians are not going to vote
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now or are choosing not to vote. And I think it's because they feel like they don't have a good
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choice. So that's another thing we're trying to address is, hey, you actually have an option here
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and it's not just that you have an option, that's a good option, but it's that the severity of
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not voting and is almost throwing a vote for the other side in some cases. And it's like
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if once you start to see, I didn't even fully know what Kamala Harris supported until I started
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making this film, and in just the last couple of months of her being in the spotlight and stuff,
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and I started doing the research and I started to see some of these things. And I'm not kidding you,
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Steve, I got scared. And it's like, that's me being transparent here, but I'm like,
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this is scary. I did not understand some of the views that she had on some of these topics,
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things like not just moral issues like abortion and sexuality, but economic issues and things
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that are going to affect the state of this nation and the people that live here. It's scary to
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think about from a common sense perspective that someone could have some of these views
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and potentially be in leadership. But here's the other side of the coin that I think some
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people are missing is that Kamala Harris is a woman and we have not had a woman president,
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and I said this on my podcast the other day on YouTube, I said, I'm praying that we get our first
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woman president. I said, I'm hoping that we do get our first woman president, not this time around,
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obviously, because I don't want her to be president, but I'm saying, but sometime soon in the next
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couple of election cycles, I'm hoping we get one. And I'm just hoping that, and I'm praying that
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she'll be a godly one. But here's the reason why I say that. And I even had some women in the
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comments on the live stream saying, no, you don't want a woman president. And here are the reasons
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why. And here's my response to that is that it's inevitable. It's inevitable because of the culture
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we live in today and it's a culture of firsts. Barack Obama, a lot of people voted for Barack,
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and I've heard the stories of people voting for him and saying, I voted for him because I was so
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on board with the first black president idea that we needed a black president, which we did and we
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do. But the problem was that it was Barack Obama. And then later they recanted that and they said,
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I got so hyped about it because he was going to be the first black president. I didn't realize
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what I was doing. And later I've switched sides and I've regretted that decision. And so that's
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the other issue is that people are so gung ho for a female president, which I believe is inevitable.
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And because it's inevitable, and I would support any either way, personally, I know some people
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would, some people wouldn't, but because it's inevitable, I'm praying that that's going to be
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a godly woman that gets into office once that happens. And I think when that happens and when
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she's on the right ticket that we should all throw our weight behind her, but it's definitely not
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Kamala Harris. And that scares me. And I think that's why the polls, it's because people are
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throwing their emotions into the game and they're saying, well, I'm going to be behind the first
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woman president. Historically, it's not going to be said that I wasn't behind the first woman
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president. And that's what's scary about it is they're looking at the emotions and they're
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making that decision based on emotion instead of based on the values that she holds and the
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policies that she's promoting. And once you start doing the research, you're going to be
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once you start doing the research and looking at the policies themselves, like I said, it gets
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very scary and it's not a good picture. Well, our country is so divided. There are some states
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that will vote red kind of no matter what, and some states that will vote blue kind of no matter
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who. So it's going to come down to a few swing states. And I personally believe that Donald
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Trump is stronger than the polls are saying, but it's scary how close it is. So how can
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a documentary, a film like The Outlier make a difference? When is it playing? How can people
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get involved? How can we get as many people to see this as possible and how will the film affect
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the election? Well, number one, I would say if people want to get involved to go watch the
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trailer, well, obviously, again, we showed it during this podcast, but go find the trailer on
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YouTube and share it with somebody, maybe not everybody if you're not led to post it, but like
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share it with somebody. And we've already had people sending the trailer to people that are
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not planning on voting for Trump, but could potentially be persuaded. And they're sending
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that and saying, hey, maybe you need to check this out because they know what's going to be inside
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the film. Number two, make sure you watch the film when it comes out. It's going to be coming out
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the beginning of October. So there's going to be about a month between when the film releases
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and the election. So we're leaving a little time there. I mean, we're hoping for a viral result,
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but you never know. Even if it's only a small impact, at least I was obedient to what I felt
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like the Lord is telling me to do. But it's going to be available online. I'm not sure all of the
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different spaces is going to be available. We're still looking into that right now, but it's mostly
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going to be available as a streaming film where people can watch it online in various places.
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And then the way it could potentially affect the election is, the thing I talked about the very
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beginning of this podcast was the culture war that we're experiencing and the cultural divides
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that are happening within the Christian culture. One of the things that I've seen in my short time
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here on earth is, and being a part of various families and various church cultures and I've
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attended a lot of different churches over my life. And the one that me and my wife are in now is the
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one I've been in the longest, except for when I was a little child. But what I've seen in all
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these different cultures is that a lot of times whatever culture is the biggest inside of that,
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in that church or family or whatever, whatever culture is the loudest, oftentimes steamrolls
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the other cultures inside of that culture and the other opinions. And the term nowadays is
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gaslighting, right? Like that's the new term that everyone's using. It's like, but it's been
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happening for a long time, you know, and I've always used that term steamroll. But especially
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the younger generation that is now voting age, what I've seen personally is that when their culture
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gets ignored or it doesn't get, somebody doesn't pry into it or ask them the question, what do
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you think? They just go silent. They go silent. And then they go online and they listen to people
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that are reinforcing what they believe or they've gotten their beliefs from people they're listening
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to online. And so they're creating their own culture inside of this. And I'm trying to break
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those barriers down and get people to start talking again and get people to actually ask those
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questions. What do you really believe? And I think what happens is some people are afraid of even
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saying it in the culture that's loudest. Like if you go to a church that's very pro-Trump,
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you might be afraid of even saying, I don't think I'm going to vote for Trump because you're afraid
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of the cultural reaction. You know, you're afraid of the backlash. But what if we had inside of the
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Christian culture, what if we had a culture where, you know, the love of Christ is so prevalent and
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so obvious and so readily available between believers that if somebody said that they wouldn't
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be afraid of the backlash. Instead, they would be expected to get invited out to coffee. And then two
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people can sit down and they can say, let me know, like, can you share your concerns with me? I'd
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love to have a discussion with you about it. And then, you know, and then it's this beautiful thing
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that can maybe even like affect that person and change their mind ultimately, instead of just
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excluding them further and pushing them more to the outside. So that's my hope, Steve, is that this
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would be a, have a cultural impact on the American church and the Christian community in that way.
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I am so excited about The Outlier and I hope that you are too and that you will do your part
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to share this. You can start by sharing this podcast with others, put it on social media,
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email it to a friend and watch for it when it comes out in early October. Also, if you're
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interested in Trump, you need to check out my books. You can go to Amazon, just put in Stephen
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Strang and Trump and all four of my Trump books will pop up. I believe they're good reading. And
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of course, if you followed the Strang Report, I've talked about it before. I just wanted to
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mention it now. Thank you for watching. Until next time, God bless you.