S2.E5 - 2nd Game Fever

In this episode we break down Englands 0-0 draw with Ghana and we give a tip of the cap to Mr. Tom Brady. 

Transcript

Nothing but the blood of Jesus

SPEAKER_01 1:08

Yeah, howdy sports fans. Welcome to episode five, season two, Football Eternate, the greatest podcast the world has never seen. That song you've just heard there is called Nothing But the Blood. And it's referring to the blood of Jesus Christ, the spilt blood of Jesus Christ, God Himself in the flesh. His blood was spilt as a payment for the sins of the world, which includes your sins and my sins, past, present, and future. Because you cannot come before the throne of God unless you're pure, white, and holy, and your sin has been atoned for. And the blood of animals didn't get the job done, guys. That's why there had to be many of them to cover to cover our sins, to cover sin. Bible tells us that the wages for sin is death, and so where there is sin, a death is required to atone for it. And the great news is, guys, is that you do not have to die the death that is warranted for your sins, and I don't have to die the death that is warranted for my sins. That death is not just a physical death, it's a well let's call it spiritual death as well, but it's not just the body, it's the soul. And that that sin, our sin, that death is eternal separation from the one who made us from our Father who art in heaven. That is the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit three and one, the triune king of all creation. And he loved us so much that he tells us in his word in John 3.16, he loved us so much that he gave his only son as an atoning sacrifice. So his son, who lived a perfect life, Jesus, never sinned, his sacrifice turns away the wrath of God or satisfies the wrath of God, which means it doesn't have to fall on us, which is wonderful news, of course. And so it's wonderful news because he tells us in John 3 15 that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him, and so that's something which I've I know I've received, I've received it, I've been given that. It's a gift of grace, grace meaning unmerited favour. And unmerited favour means you don't deserve it, and it feels like you don't deserve it because it's so good, and so getting something that you don't deserve, you can it's it's an incredible gift because if we could earn something so wonderful as being a forgiven for our sins, avoiding hell, and getting to be with him for eternity, if we could warrant that ourselves, it would make us something we're not, and he is full of grace, full of mercy, and so for us to know him rightly, we must know his grace and mercy, must we must receive grace and know that it's grace, because that's something that he's full of, it's part of his nature, and so he's forgiving, which means we need to forgive us to know properly, then we need to know his grace and his mercy, and his love and his strength and his power, and so his power is on display, his power is on display constantly through creation itself through the salvation of his children, the ongoing salvation of his children. And if that and if that hasn't happened to you yet, then I pray it's just around the corner for you because when it happens, you'll end up sounding like me, or you'll sound like everybody else that's been saved. Praise Jesus, hallelujah! Alright, guys, so we're gonna dig into primarily. Well, we'll see where we

England Ghana - quick recap

SPEAKER_01 4:56

go with it, but England Garner game, same thing, I've left it a few days for the dust to settle. Wasn't as bad as I thought in terms I mean I caught I call a little bit of Jason Cundy and Jamie O'Hara those guys those guys with a lynch with a lynch out, but on the whole, yeah, on the whole, it's it hasn't been so bad. It's been mostly like, yeah, you know, maybe the players didn't get so excited with the first game and won't get so down with the second one. Anyway, I'll give some of I'll give my thoughts on it. I think well we wanted to win. We wanted to win, we and we tried to win, and we didn't win, and so that isn't great. It's not great to be like, right guys, there's a low block, let's break it down. We've got 90 minutes, we've got 90 minutes, and yes, we nearly did in the end, but it was in the end, and it was a little bit too little, too late. That's what it looked like, that's what it looked like, and sometimes we I don't know, we just seem to do a bit better where there's some real jeopardy. Yes, we gave it yes, the last few, you know, you know, the last passage with the substitutions obviously signalled our intent and went more aggressive, and they sat back. I mean, their counter-attacks, they might you know you're probably gonna get a couple they weren't they didn't they didn't really trouble us, let's be honest. And um and yeah, I think I just think it's like like you take it in the big scheme of things, and yeah, we've just been nicer if we wouldn't. Even if we got one in the last five, I just I mean it would have made a big difference. Of course, Harry Kane sticks those in nine times out of ten. Anyway, we'll get into it. We'll get into it. It's one of those where it's not it isn't that bad, obviously, and it just would have been nicer, wouldn't it, if we'd put if we'd put a few away. Even if we got one earlier, they'd have come out a bit because they wanted a draw. And and then it would have been it could it could have been there, two teams playing, which is always better, which is always better for us. Anyway, we're gonna dig into

The tale of the tape (data analysis)

SPEAKER_01 7:15

the tale of the tape. Oh, this episode is called Second Game Fever. This episode is called Second Game Fever in the Year of Our Lord 2026, 25th of June. The year of our Lord 2026, and second game fever as Jude Bellingham called it, referring to the number of the many draws we'd had in the second group game of past tournaments. Anyway, we'll look into that. Have we had that many? And is it really a thing? And we don't want to speak word curses over yourself, that's for sure. That's for sure. So, but anyway, we did draw it. And so this episode's called Second Game Fever, and we're gonna look at the tail of the tape. So I had a little did a bit of research into when we've drawn our second second round group matches. So 2010. So the last five times we've done it, so we did it in 2010 against Algeria. Nil-0. Then in Euro 2020 against Scotland, Scotland, World Cup 2022 against USA, would you believe, 0-0, Euro 2024, Denmark, and of course this match World Cup 2026 against Ghana. So if you took out 2020, which is a there's a bit of a gap there, 10 years for the next one, you've got 20 2020, 2022, 2024, 2026. So yeah, that essentially is four tournaments in on the spin. But let's have a look, let's have a look at it. So that has happened in the in the certainly the last four tournaments on the spin now, including the Ghana game. Overall patterns across the five, across those drawers, we usually control possession. Let's have a look at that. Algeria, we had 51% possession, Scotland 60%, USA 56, Denmark 51. So, yeah, right. We had Ghana, according to one website, we had 79%, which I think is a record. So we had we had an enormous amount of possession, which you could say, oh look, we we controlled the ball, and it's like, yeah, and we had it, we we had the most, we had the ball the most, and so maybe we could have done more with it. But anyway, that is that is what it is. We normally have a very low attacking efficiency in is a constant, another constant is low attacking efficiency. Basically, we don't score a lot of goals. 1-0-0-0-0, so only one goal scored in those five games, none in the last five of the second round, second game group stages. So if you wanted to go, why are we doing that? And if you don't you don't want to go that it's a curse, which I'm not gonna do, praise God. It's different teams. I mean, there's so many it's just one of those correlation doesn't necessarily mean causation. So each one is its own event. However, there is a pattern. There is a pattern. I'd have to I'd have to really dig into what's going on there, to be honest. It's an interesting one. If it went on for another hundred years, you'd be like, this is a bit weird. But anyway, not quite there, are we? So, yeah, we don't seem to score many goals. Which is true. And what else is consistent? The shot quality is often poor. So I mean I'd have to look at the previous games before each one. Like, well, did did we well how will we go into those? How will we go into those? Because let's say we either need a win in those games, and we're always trying to win, but if you need one, you can or time's ticking and you want to and it's nil-nil like Ghana, and you really want to score, you can get a little bit desperate, you know, you can get a bit try hard with it. So let's have a look at the shots, right? So the shots in the game, Ghana, we had 19 shots, three on target, which is extremely low. So I think the most number of shots we've had in any of those games, second ground, second stage group games, and the lowest efficiency. So the most shots, the lowest efficiency in terms of shots on target. So we're having a crack, we're having loads of shots. We'll have a look in a minute about how many shots do we have inside the area. Yeah, we had 14 of those shots inside the box, and so we've got 14 shots inside the box. You know. Yeah, one of those, maybe just one of those, you know. Maybe one of those. Just one of those games, as they say. Algeria, we had 15 shots, six on target, it's about a third. I mean not great, really. Scotland, we had nine shots, one on target, you know, not very good. USA, eight shots, three on target, again about a third. Denmark, 11 shots, four on target, about a third. So we seem to have on the best games, we've got a third shots on target, and we're getting you know eight, nine, eleven, fifteen shots, nineteen shots. So I don't mind that. I mean, if we I'm always like if we've got low shots, you've got to have very high shot efficiency ratio, conversion ratios. Obviously, now you could obviously could do that, no problem. But you'd say, right, England had 19 shots, you get how many goals do I can you score? On most days you'd go, well, against any team, if we're having 19 shots, you'd think we'd bag a few, think we'd bag a couple, wouldn't you? So let's have a look at that. Let's have a look at this, right? 19. If you don't count the Denmark game, or if you don't count the Denmark game, we've had 43 shots and no goals across those games, 43 shots and no goals. If you count the Denmark games, 54 shots and one goal. So if you took that ratio into other matches or across a tournament, you'd be like, Blamey, what is going on with our shooting? Where are we shooting from? But like I say, in the Garner game, if we go into the Garner game specifically, yeah, we had 14 shots inside the box, 14. There we go. So stats here, 19 shots, three on target, 33 touches in the opposition's box. We had two big chances. Big chances missed. So two big chances, two big chances missed. Nine corners, yeah, ten shots off target, three on target, six block shots, so fair enough, right? So okay, six block shots. Hit the woodwork once. So yeah, fair play, six block shots, fourteen inside the bo 14 shots inside the box, five from outside the box. So we'll look compare that to the first and the second half. So first half we had six shots, second half we had thirteen, so we'd obviously ramped it up. We had no shots on target in the first half. We had three shots on target in the second half. So obviously we did ramp it up, which is expected, right? Nil-nil gonna go for a bit more. Total passes, 633 compared to Garner's 172, but again, if you watch the game, no surprise, no surprise there, is it? Passing accuracy 93%, 198 passes in our own half, 388 in the opposition's half. 23% accurate crosses, they didn't have any crosses with you know 33 touch in the opposition's box opposite their ten. I'm surprised they've had us 33 to 10. That's I mean their stats against us in otherwise we're we're we'll you know, obviously we dominated the game. We dominated possession. That's obvious from watching it in the stats back that up, so that's a bit of a tail of the tape there. If

Psychology so far

SPEAKER_01 16:20

I look at the psychology so far, this is my next point, psychology so far. Garner had lost six of the last seven matches before being Panama with a 95th minute winner, so they're coming off a bit of a bad run, Garner coming into the tournament. They dropped from 14th to 73rd in the FIFA ranking over the past 18, uh past that over 18 years. So, anyway, teams can fall away and they can have a resurgence, and so good on Ghana. I mean, like I say, credit where credit's due, not analysing Ghana. And also, for whatever reason, I have the belief that if you can win the game, then just focus on what you're doing, otherwise you start getting into excuses and this and that, and it's just not a winning mentality. And so, yes, of course, recognise your opponent, analyse your opponent, everybody does that. Cha la la la la. And if you're not in control, if you don't feel like you're in control of the ability to win the game, then you're focusing on you've got low accountability, you're focusing on things outside of your control, and you're in a sea of you're just in the sea of the mercy of the winds of whatever anything else you're focusing on, right? Unless, of course, you just put everything in the in the in the in the hands of the the grace of our sovereign Lord Jesus who sits over all of creation. The Bible tells us that there was nothing that was not there was everything that was made was made through him, and there was nothing that was made that was not made through him. So he wasn't created, he was essentially how God creates the Father, the Son, and the Spirit are all involved in creation, and everything everything was created through Jesus, through the Word of God. Jesus is the word of God made flesh, the living word, praise Jesus. And so everything rests in his hands, he is sovereign over all of creation. He's never surprised, caught off guard, or caught off side. And Jesus could, of course, if he really, really, really wanted to, he could appear on the back post and nod one in for us for any team, and also he could certainly do it for England if he wanted to, because when you've made everything, um, you can do what you want when you've made time, space, and matter, it's not going to be too hard to pop up at the back post and nod one in for England. And so, of course, there's a lot of believers in the England team that will say, you know, the Lord's will is done. Obviously, there's many across all the teams, there's a lot of Christians in the tournament, praise God. But we're looking at the psychology so far. So, what am I gonna say there? What am I gonna what are my thoughts there? So, I would say we we got a a stiff jab in the face. I've been doing some boxing recently, and I think it's really interesting because you have to you it's very unlikely in the course of a boxing match that you're not gonna get tapped, at least you're gonna get hit a little bit. Now, you ideally want to look smooth and clean and bob and weave and hit or get hit and win like that, and you want to try and get a knockout blow. Like you watch boxes where they go, oh, they won that on points, but didn't didn't knock someone down, didn't knock them out, doesn't look good. And so that's what I think happened for us. I think we threw a lot of punches, couldn't didn't knock them down, and couldn't knock, didn't knock them down, and couldn't knock them out, and they got us with a they they got us with a couple of hooks actually, especially in the 10th, 11th, 12th rounds with those breakaways, and we looked a little bit shaky on our feet when we got when we were caught back, looked a bit nervous. Like j just at the back there with um Pickford, how it comes out, he does make me nervous. He's got like a it's just got a gaff in him, it's just got a oh no, like, oh look away, he's got it in him. I hope it's I hope it's out of him. I hope it doesn't have it in him anymore. Praise God, cast that out of him in Jesus' name. But looking at some of the previous games, he's got a bit of a headless chicken, loose as a goose, Dafters a brush type playing him at some at some point. He's quite a high-energy chap. Yeah, I don't know what his personality like, maybe he's quite funny, quite joke. He's one of those where he could get away with it, it could be like Dafters a brush, but somehow always lands on his feet and gets away with it. I mean, he's the England keeper, so he's done alright in his career. Just doesn't necessarily have like you know, he's not got manual Neuer type stability, has he? Like he can be a bit punches and stuff, just seems a bit can be a bit flappable, anyway. Doesn't mean we're gonna lose the World Cup. I like Concer. Dove in a bit there. There was a bit of a desperation to just try and stop this goal. I don't know, and it is what it is what it is, it is what it is. It is what it is, but yeah. I mean it was only a cut, like I say, but that but still also at the end at the end of the match, at the end of the end, the end of the fight, we just sort of probably wanted to just get off the pitch, you know. We wanna we want we want another boxing match, we want the next, we want the next one to do something, whereas we had we had we just had one then. We just had a boxing match against Ghana. And I just don't think something wasn't something one thing or a few things just weren't quite right. And so it tells me that obviously everything's not as hunky dory as the first game. Not as hunky do as the first game, but still, you know, we we weren't knocked out, you know, we weren't actually struggling on our feet, if you know what I mean. We just couldn't could not land a knockout blow when we had basically some free shots as well. And so yeah, it's obviously the the Panama game for me. If we smashed them for 10-nil, it's a bit like mm, it's not ri no, but not really going to be considered a test. And so the Ghana game was a test because they were right up for it. You can you can tell by the in the celebration, they they they won based on looking at the team celebrate, they won that game as far as I'm concerned, and so yeah, nil-nil, but they won that game, and we didn't, and so because we came off not very happy at all, and they were very happy, and so that's a bit of a you can call it a moral loss, but I th I just think it took a bit of it, just uh you know, that's my thoughts about it. Is like I don't say missed opportunity, but yeah, I don't know. I just felt like watching the game, it looked like how we've been before when teams do that, which is we seem quite slow, centre banks centre backs have it a lot. That's alright. I understand how this set up, and that's the case. Wayne Rooney talked about the pace of the pass. I I agree with him on that. I just was like, you know, we did did go central defence maybe out to fullback or or a or a midfielder that's dropped out, then to a winger, back in a bit, you know. So it is hard, I appreciate that. And you know, i i they asked a question of us and we didn't have the answer for it in that game in 90 minutes, and we had 79% possession, we didn't have 51 or 52, 79, and so yeah, I mean it it it if we'd have kept on playing, I think we you know, if that was a knockout game and they were playing that game, I think we'd have got there. So it is what it is. It is what it is. Maybe it just wasn't enough on the line. Maybe it just wasn't enough on the line. The first game for me felt like there was loads on the line, felt like there were loads on the line. This game felt slow, different, it was different temperature time of day, obviously different place time of day. These things can make a difference getting into your rhythm. We just didn't really open them up, didn't look particularly slick. We did lack someone to like just do something like beat a player. I mean, I think the Fernie lollipop I saw was Saka when he came on, and I was like, you know, someone can do like you can throw in a crowd, like these are the games where you just and they can all do that, those players a hundred percent. Can't be so drilled out of them by the modern game that not one of them can do a can do a something on the ball, a bit of skill, you know. So if we if they're just sitting so deep, we could just like okay, try something, you lose the ball, we'll get it back, probably, and then we'll go again because we lost the ball anyway from like from what we were trying. Ultimately, from what we were trying, we lost the ball, and so we might as well try dribble. Like, if you try a pass on the edge of the area, why not why not try taking the player on there on the edge of the area? Because we're dominating possessions. I thought we could have taken a bit more risk or just tried to be a bit more innovative, like be the one that gives the ball away on the edge on the edge of their box, like whatever it's that if if it comes off you threw and it's a goal. So I would have liked to have seen a bit more of that. Just I just think other teams wouldn't have been so dunno, would have been a bit so maturities, but just would have had more confidence, more confidence in that situation, been less phased, just just know how to navigate that, trusting trusting in what they're doing. So for me it was the trust and the faith and the confidence didn't really seem to be that it seemed like a a game of old. It seemed like a game of old for me, and so I would have liked to have seen some kind of pattern break in that game. That's my put in the in the game before. If you listen to my other previous podcast, the Croatia game, the half time, there's a pattern break, and I just felt we didn't we didn't get that this game, and so even if we tried, like I say, try something else. I did I felt like we were we it was it was quite low risk to do something a bit more high risk in that game, if you like, because where we could have tried something, so they were pretty much camped around their area, just try some other stuff, doesn't matter. You know, if it doesn't no big deal. Like we're 20 minutes in, alright. Well we're gonna try something else now. 60 minutes in, we're gonna try something else. The subs came on, they made a bit of a difference, but a lot of it was just the same they just went into the same patterns, we just had other players in the same sort of patterns, really. I like Manweki on the left. I thought, oh you know, hey, here's a crazy idea left footer on the left, right foot on the right of the good old days. Could have gone Gary Never was saying we could have put Tony up front for a different profile of strike, uh, you know, even Roy was like, Yeah, you know, remember 4-4-2. The thing about the thing about footballers, guys, is that you can win doing any anything that's ever been done in football is how you can win, and you can win like that today. You could do you could play 4-4-2. Some team can play 4-4-2 in the Premier League next year and win the league. 100%. If they've got some good players, good coach, good togetherness, they've got all the they've got all the major boxes ticked, right? They know how they're playing, they know each other, they played to the strengths, tralal, right? Like 100%, because sometimes we can get this. I don't I heard this phrase chronological snobbery. It's like, oh, we don't do that anymore because it's old, and it's like we we can lose the value of how things were done before. You know, even the comments around set pieces and throw-ins. You listen to Tom, which is I'd recommend there's Tom Brady on The Overlap with Garan Evil, Ian Wright, and Roy Keane. Really great interview, loved it. He's he's big on sports performance and togetherness and culture and organisations and psychology, physical, mental, and emotional side. Doesn't talk much about the spiritual side, Tom, but that's alright. Still a great interview Pardon me. Still a great interview.

SPEAKER_00 28:33

And what was I talking about?

SPEAKER_01 28:39

I lost my place there. Darn it. Hold on. Yeah, that was it. He was talking about obviously everything in American football is essentially a set piece. They've got a very thick playbook where you you memorise all the plays. And so Yeah, and I think that's just people jibbing Arsenal, wasn't it, for winning the league? Whereas obviously if you if set plays are important, because if you're gonna do them, how well can we do them? Is there is there room for improvement and root room to optimise? Can we track data? Can we track how we're improving? Can we make efficiencies? Can we you know can we improve efficiencies? Can we make some changes in this area? It's only natural that you're gonna look at those things because if you're not and you're in some sort of leadership role or you're interested in high performance, and you're not looking at optimising an area, a massive area of the game, then you're an idiot, essentially. You know what I mean? Like that's obviously what's gonna happen. So as time goes, everything starts to look to get optimised. More money comes in, more resources, more staff. You can look at defensive coaches, set piece coaches, right? So if you look at American football, they've got loads of that going on, right? And so all these things are gonna be you know, the amount of data the data we can track and analyse and all that kind of stuff, it's just obviously makes changes at the same time. You could have 100% win the league playing 442 because it's valid, very valid formation, nothing, nothing wrong with it, and so it I think England could have mixed it up. I would I would have loved to have seen. I mean, a lot of comments is that we didn't need Declan Rice and Anderson at the back in midfield. The holding midfielders against Garnet, we didn't need both of them, we could have sacrificed one and put someone else a bit more forward. Same with the back, you know, the back foot. Obviously, there's ways to move the full backs up and one of the center officers can step in and stuff like that. But yeah, obviously lots of talk about all that. If we if a hurry cane shot goes in, maybe we're not we're not saying all that, but that stuff would still be valid because if it took an 80 85th, 88th, and it's 1-0, then the other stuff is still valid, right? It's still valid. And when you win, you win, and if you don't, you don't, you know what I mean? So it is what it is. It is what it is. But I think for us for us, I think really we wanna just be we wanna there's this thing that keeps going through me, which is if you want to, if you want to win the World Cup final because if you want to win the World Cup, you've got to win it against like that, you've got to make that day, that game, that training session, the World Cup final. It's got to be done there and then. It can't always be oh we've got another another tournament like I just hope it isn't symptomatic of oh, and then we'll fall short. We've got to at some point to make the breakthrough, you've got to make a breakthrough. And so I've I we definitely had a breakthrough against Croatia. We didn't have one against Ghana, and so but it's the only first it's the first game we've played after that Croatia game, and so we need more data, and so we have to see what happens against Panama. We'll have to see what happens there against Panama. Hopefully, we can get some good data. We're gonna get data, whether it's how useful it is, we don't know based on the context. Ideally, if we had a I don't know, it will be what it will be. I'll hold my breath on that one and then we'll see. But I just felt like not ideal, not ideal, took a little bit of momentum away from us. Yeah, just not I not ideal. It would make the players maybe second guess maybe what happened in the first game. But I I just think you've got to go back to that, you've got to those moments like that. I I would still keep playing the second for the 15 minutes of the second half. Just go, hey guys, what we're doing today. We're watching we're watching the second half. Watching the second the first 15 minutes of the second half Croatia, and just like just bathe in that for a bit, and also put on some worship music and bathe in that as well. But that's me. Alright,

Djed Spence

SPEAKER_01 32:50

next point, Jed Spence. I can't remember what my thoughts were of when I put Jed Spence as the next point. Oh, he didn't shake his hand, yeah. That was it. Didn't shake Thomas Party's hand. I mean, I just think like firstly, he he's he's people were innocent until we're proven guilty, right? So there's that. There's also like you're representing England. Did you just decide to do that on your own? If you decided to do that on your own, Thomas, you know, Thomas got a question about it, and the press officer said we can't we're not answering that for legal reasons. So you've created something there where it's like, all right, and if you're gonna go into like what's you know, what's Jed Spence's it if that happened, right? We just heard reports on it, so I've just seen a picture, I haven't actually seen it, but let's say so it yeah, it's one of those, isn't it? Perhaps no point opening up too much about that one at this stage, other than other to say, other than to say I don't think you can just decide that on the day or decide that by yourself and then just think that that's okay in an England game in the World Cup. And so I think it would have been yeah, I just and I'd be surprised because imagine if he'd had a sat and said, I'm not gonna shake his hand. And so if he's that keen to stand by that, let's say Thomas says I can't start you then, mate, is he gonna go alright, I'm not starting because I don't want to shake his hands? Because he's saying that for me, he's saying no, I'm I'm that's how it is, I'm not I don't play me then. Like you've got to stand and also he's in illegally he's innocent to proven guilty, so I just thought oh I hope I I hope I don't know. I mean, yeah, it's one of those, isn't it? You can just I can hear I can hear all sorts of possible comments about that but that's the point, isn't it, with that? It's like yeah, it's just very very unfortunate, very, very unfortunate. Yeah.

Marc Guehi & Jason Cundy

SPEAKER_01 35:10

And so next point, Mark, what have I got here? Mark Gahey versus Jason Cundy. Well Mark Gahey was super chilled, basically, and he was saying, yeah, you know, he he part of his philosophy on life, you could tell he said life's often about not you know keeping it even. So he that's part of Mark's how Mark sees life or how to navigate through life is don't get too high, don't get too low. That's that's probably Mark's nature a bit. Whereas Jason Cundy not quite so. I mean a lot of their footage was live during the game and after it, but not I just don't think there's too it's not too considered. I think it's very much like very easy to just write something off and put people and teams in the bin as opposed to you know let's have a look at things over time and see where the patterns you know there's there's data and patterns over time as well.

Reality.revolt

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Okay. Yes, I've recommended Tom Brady that episode. Also, some videos I've seen. There's a guy on Instagram called Reality Revolt. So reality.revolt, R-E-V-O-L-T, I believe. French guy, I think he's French, speaks French. Ponytail. He makes what would be called like conspiracy theory videos, basically. Talks a lot about Illuminati Freemason symbolism. He's done a few videos about the World Cup, certainly the opening ceremony where you see the Eye of Horace, some of the Luminati hand signals there. Look, I mean, obviously, we're kind of post-Gefre Jeffrey Epstein and all that stuff, aren't we? So the other day, guys, these Satan exists, evil exists, spirit realm exists, demons exist, evil agendas exist, secret societies and organisations exist, like the Freemasons, the Illuminati, this kind of stuff. Yeah, it's been going on nothing there under the sun in that regard. If you read the look at Moses in the Bible, Moses, which is hundreds of years before before Jesus was on the scene, he's talking, he's talking about not going to see soothsayers and pardon me, that's some pepper in my throat. He's not about not going to see mediums, clairvoyant, soothsayers, you know, witchcraft, sorcery, getting don't get involved in that kind of stuff. It was all going on back in the day. People worshipping Baal, sacrificing children to Baal Moloch. And and you see that that goes on today, just in you know, in different forms. Yeah, we've got suits and skyscrapers, but you know, like I say, nothing new under the sun. And uh anyway, interesting videos from that guy. He does a lot interestingly about how a lot of these celebrity deaths in his eyes or how he sees it. These rituals. You often have these rituals, kind of public rituals where someone famous is essentially murdered, covered up, but those that know what's going on. Anyway, make your own mind up about it. One great thing, and I that that's for me is not super, super new on my scene. I I I was interested in things like that a fair few years ago. One thing about coming to Christ and reading the Bible is the Bible, the only book of any book I've come across which explains everything. Like it puts it explains everything. God, creation, angels, demons, humans, life, ups and downs, like just the whole lot. It's insane. It's insane, let alone the fact that when you read it, God will speak to you through it. He will you will be reading a passage and boom, some a line or something jumps out, and you just know. I refer to it as like it echoes in your soul. Something it just echoes in your soul. You just know that God's spoken to you. It's incredible. It's incredible and obviously life-changing. But the message here, the message to the team is just to dust yourself off and try again, basically. And so we're gonna close out with Aaliyah's song, Dust Yourself Off and Try Again. And um that's what England's gonna do. That's essentially my favourite hashtag in life since I've been saved, is hashtag keep going. We just dust ourself off and try again. If it doesn't work, we try try again. Because if you don't quit and you don't stop, then you never lose. Praise Jesus.

Episode close and wrap up

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Thanks for tuning in, guys. Praise God. Praise God that you were created, that you're alive, that you've got ears to hear and eyes to see. And that if today today is always the day for salvation, that today is always a day for us to to know the Lord more, to give thanks to him for all that he's done for us, all that he's doing for us, and all that he will do for us. And um I pray that whoever you are, we get to hang out in heaven and shoot the breeze in there. Alright, guys, catch you soon.