Are the beliefs you inherited bringing you closer to Yahowah ~ or keeping you under someone else’s control? Yada joins Deepo and Kevin to explore “Out of the Night,” Africa’s beauty, and an invitation to the Covenant Family while examining how religion, politics, poverty, and cultural conditioning can suppress Neshamah ~ our capacity for conscience and reasoning. A preview of the Yahowah timeline connects their interpretation of creation, relative time, light energy, prophecy, and Jacob’s Troubles to a deeper question: what must we leave behind to discover the truth?
00:00:00 ~ Intro ~ Topical
00:08:58 ~ Africa and Civilization ~ Religion and Power
00:16:34 ~ Out of the Night ~ Music and Africa
00:23:04 ~ Yahowah’s Timeline ~ Jacob’s Troubles
00:26:04 ~ Creation and Relative Time ~ Six Days and Billions of Years
00:36:26 ~ Nigeria ~ Religion Literacy and Culture
https://yadayah.com/
https://x.com/YadaCraig
Music, lyrics, and video provided by Craig Winn and used with permission from the YAHOWAH MUSIC GROUP through CC 4.0.
Yada Yahowah, Ask Yada LIVE, Nigeria religion and literacy, Yahowah timeline, Out of the Night music video, Covenant Family, Neshamah and conscience, Christianity and Islam in Africa, religion and political control, creation and relative time, biblical prophecy, Jacobs Troubles
#ReturnToTheGarden #AfricanWildlife #MusicWithMeaning #QuestionInheritedBeliefs #ConscienceAndReason #ReligiousControl #DivineTime #LightAndProphecy #NigerianCulture #ValuesWorthKeeping #TimelineMovie #vlog|ask|024
00:00:00 ~ Intro ~ Topical
00:08:58 ~ Africa and Civilization ~ Religion and Power
00:16:34 ~ Out of the Night ~ Music and Africa
00:23:04 ~ Yahowah’s Timeline ~ Jacob’s Troubles
00:26:04 ~ Creation and Relative Time ~ Six Days and Billions of Years
00:36:26 ~ Nigeria ~ Religion Literacy and Culture
https://yadayah.com/
https://x.com/YadaCraig
Music, lyrics, and video provided by Craig Winn and used with permission from the YAHOWAH MUSIC GROUP through CC 4.0.
Yada Yahowah, Ask Yada LIVE, Nigeria religion and literacy, Yahowah timeline, Out of the Night music video, Covenant Family, Neshamah and conscience, Christianity and Islam in Africa, religion and political control, creation and relative time, biblical prophecy, Jacobs Troubles
#ReturnToTheGarden #AfricanWildlife #MusicWithMeaning #QuestionInheritedBeliefs #ConscienceAndReason #ReligiousControl #DivineTime #LightAndProphecy #NigerianCulture #ValuesWorthKeeping #TimelineMovie #vlog|ask|024
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00:12Oh, good morning, Depo.
00:27Hello, Kevin.
00:27It's always a pleasure.
00:29We normally dedicate these programs to questions and answers, and if you have questions, I
00:34will do my best to answer them.
00:37But we also do shows with Depo that are show and tell because of the beauty he's able to
00:43create that tell us a marvelous story, and we just enjoy chatting about them and saying
00:51what they mean to us and why they are important going forward.
00:54And, Depo, as you know, this is a special request because of the Timeline movie that I think
01:02is the most magnificent thing that I think I've ever witnessed.
01:07You know, I truly love it, and we're going to today talk about what it conveys and ways
01:14that we can make it even more magnificent for people.
01:18But good morning, my friend.
01:20Good morning, Yadam.
01:21It's a pleasure to be here.
01:23Yeah, it's great.
01:25We're going to begin, actually, in a little different place.
01:27It is the song Out of the Night.
01:29It is an appeal to Africa to come out of the darkness of Christianity and of Islam, even
01:39of animism, into the light of Yah, a genuine request to be inclusive.
01:48We want the covenant family and that mortal remnant of Yisrael to represent cultures from
01:54around the world, all with a similar agenda, coming to know Yawa and being part of this
02:01family, but with many different vantage points and experiences.
02:06And I know Leia had written songs in English and French, English and Greek, English and Italian,
02:16and I think there's even one other.
02:19It's this one that I found is the most moving.
02:24And I think it's the most moving to me, Deepo, and I know you created the visuals for it,
02:29which is why I wanted to start the program with it, is for two reasons.
02:32One is we're going back to Africa.
02:36God says we're going back into the garden.
02:40Earth's garden is Africa.
02:42For those who have not been there to enjoy its splendor, you're missing one of the great
02:49adventures in the world.
02:50It is, from a geography and presentation of wild animals, it's the most beautiful place
03:00on Earth.
03:02And our return to the garden is going to celebrate Earth in its original beauty and its viability
03:11with animals.
03:12And there will be experiences with animals that will be very much like what you see in
03:16this movie.
03:17And the second reason is to emphasize the importance of having our invitation into the
03:24covenant be all-inclusive.
03:26More different personalities and perspectives and experiences the richer it becomes.
03:35So those are the two reasons.
03:37I know you collaborated a lot on this with Leia.
03:42One of your favorites you mentioned to me before the show was the expressions of Nesalma,
03:47of man with a conscience, that still resonate throughout Africa.
03:55And I guess that's why religion is actually quite thick there because people have this, you know,
04:10that kind of feeling that their roots is somehow connected to, you know, a supreme being.
04:20Mm-hmm.
04:21They don't know it doesn't work there.
04:24So they're just latching on whatever way, you know, they feel is the right thing to do.
04:31But they have that connection.
04:35Yeah.
04:35Yeah.
04:35That first, when you first said that you can see the connection between the Nesalma and religion,
04:40the first I wanted to, you know, scream because God wants exactly the opposite from us.
04:46But you're correct.
04:47Because the reason Yahweh regretted having created Nesalma man humans is that we took this ability to reason
04:57and we used it inappropriately such that men created gods in their own image
05:04so that they could lord over and control and fleece other men and women.
05:08And so it was the first thing that people did with their Nesalma is create false gods.
05:13That's why it is the ultimate tool for both good and bad.
05:18Yeah.
05:19And so you see elements of that.
05:22Mm-hmm.
05:22Yeah.
05:23So people have that, you know.
05:25Literally, there are, you know, places where there is the belief that, you know,
05:31this culture, you know, was created by somebody that came directly from everyone,
05:36came down here, did this, that, and then went back.
05:39So it's like that.
05:42And we, Africa, we kind of, you know, conducts with religion, you know, when it came down because of all
05:54of that.
05:54Because what people just did was, okay, maybe the way we are worshipping this god, this supreme being,
06:02maybe we are not doing this right.
06:04So these people have just come to show us the right way.
06:07You know, they came with, they were talking about prosperity and all of that.
06:12So maybe this is the right way.
06:13So they all latched onto, you know, the new religion.
06:18Most of them still do what they do in the background, you know.
06:22Yeah.
06:23Of course, all they were doing is trying to sell you a lie to control you.
06:26Yeah.
06:27So they all, you know, gravitated to the new religion.
06:33But, you know, for instance, I'm from a place called, I'm from Ugu State in Nigeria.
06:41And my town is Ijebu, you know, Ijebu, Ijebuomu.
06:46Now, that name, we actually believe is the Jebusite, you know, that was mentioned.
06:52Wow.
06:53In the Torah.
06:55Okay.
06:56So we have all of those kind of, you know, links.
07:02And it's going to do Africa a whole, you know, a whole world of good.
07:07Because really what is making Africa backward is, first, you know, greed.
07:14Now, greed is everywhere.
07:16I think greed is in every culture.
07:19That's, you know, the religion, the desire for power.
07:25You know, the desire to control other people.
07:29That's in every culture, too.
07:30Yeah.
07:31It's in every culture.
07:32But these are the things.
07:33Africa is good.
07:35Africa is great.
07:35But all these kind of things.
07:37They are not necessarily thinking about, you know, making life prosperous for everyone.
07:44You just have maybe like, maybe 0.5% of the people trying to control everybody.
07:52You know, so, and they use, they saw religion, you know, as a very good tool, because that's actually the
08:01idea behind religion anyway, to control people.
08:04So, they put themselves in the level of, you know, that's next to God.
08:14So, the people that are not doing good, the people that are poor, look up to us that are like
08:20the intermediaries, you know, between God and them.
08:24So, something like that.
08:26Those are the things.
08:27They just need to be showing the light.
08:29So, an interesting song and visuals that shows the beauty of Africa that gets the harmony, the beat, the lyrics,
08:38the visuals, and all of it correct.
08:41And is joyous and inclusive, may serve as a very effective invitation.
08:49Yes.
08:50Particularly one that asks nothing from anyone other than the hope that they will learn more.
08:56Yeah, start listening.
08:58I want to share a thought on Africa versus other places.
09:04And then you can correct me if you think I'm wrong.
09:06So, there's a lot of times where Africa is dismissed because civilizations did not materialize there at the same rate
09:16that they materialized elsewhere.
09:18And for the most part, civilizations developed elsewhere because without them, there was no survival.
09:26Africa happens to be a place where you can live off of the earth because the earth is extraordinarily rich
09:32and giving.
09:33The temperatures are mild.
09:36They're not like Europe where you would freeze to death without shelter in the wintertime.
09:45Crops grow easily.
09:47Animals are grazed easily.
09:49And so, there wasn't the need to develop civilizations.
09:54And when I say that, I want to be really clear.
09:58I'm not a proponent of civilization.
10:00I think that the more civilized humans became, the worse we became.
10:05That the history of every one of those civilizations is apartheid and genocide.
10:11And that they created religions that empowered cleric and king.
10:15And every aspect of them was to conquer and rape and plunder their neighbors.
10:23And that human civilization is the worst of humanity, not the best of humanity.
10:27And so, it is not something to be striven for.
10:32And that Africa was able to endure without a lot of it because it was so, first, so massive that
10:43people didn't have to congregate together.
10:45So, you had more distance between people, which is a very good thing.
10:49And because it was so naturally productive and conducive to life.
10:57And so, I don't think it has been as assaulted.
11:01Now, when you get all the way to the north and it gets exceedingly dry around the Mediterranean, you see
11:07no difference between northern Africa and the areas of Mesopotamia.
11:12And now, Europe, with the advance of really hostile human contrivances.
11:17Now, today, it's Islam.
11:19And you do see that there are tribal customs still in Africa where the enslavement of people and the control
11:31of people and even some brutality is still prevalent that people are still people and we do horrible things to
11:42one another.
11:43It's just not as bad.
11:45You don't see in Africa what we're seeing, for example, right now in Europe, where people are just absolutely out
11:51of control.
11:52Totally indoctrinated, irrational, having no morality at all is what we're witnessing in Europe.
11:59You just don't see that in Africa.
12:01What do you think about those thoughts, that perspective?
12:07No, it's what you have said is essentially, you know, right.
12:11It's what it is.
12:15What I'm just going to add is, you know, Africa in some places, you know, they have, you know, empires
12:25that have actually, you know, long-lived empires, like spanning over a thousand years.
12:33Yes, and even before civilization, you know, came to Africa, they actually had a lot of structures, a lot of
12:46elements of civilization, you know.
12:48They had, like, somewhere in, you know, in the Yoruba land, like the Oyo Empire, they had, like, a very
13:01mighty, like, it's a community, but they built walls around it, you know, like, very big, very massive, that they
13:12wouldn't be able to build all those without, you know,
13:16without the, without the civilized machinery and all of that, but they were able to achieve it, just like the
13:23pyramids of Egypt and that, that you'll be wondering, how did they achieve all of these things?
13:27So they had those kind of elements, you know, but it's because it's just the, the, this thing about people
13:39of wanting to control others.
13:41And if you, if you, if you are, if you're already in that space of, okay, you see yourself as
13:48royalty, you're going to want to do everything to keep that, you know, to maintain that status.
13:56So whichever way you're going to achieve that, if you can make the other people poorer, that would be great,
14:03so that they can always look up to you.
14:05You know, those kind of, those are the issues.
14:08And, and again, I'm not speaking of civilization as a good, I think it's destructive, not positive, what humans do
14:14with civilization.
14:15And clearly there were advanced civilizations all the way across Northern Africa, the, the Carthage empire was, was far greater
14:24than Greece or Rome during its, its age.
14:27The Egyptian empire, of course, was huge.
14:30And then South of, of Egypt, you had a number of competing kingdoms that were also quite powerful for a
14:40long while.
14:42I think that, and I'm sure that there were places further South.
14:46Well, we don't have much of a, of a legacy of them, of course, because the environment is, is so
14:53moist.
14:53It, it's not going to, things will not be preserved and they're grown over.
14:58And you had so much distance between people.
15:02I mean, the, the continent of Africa is so much larger than, than any other.
15:06We just don't get the perspective of it on the Mercator projections that we look at.
15:11It is, it's so big, it's so big, and it's, yes, and, and it is a place where people independently
15:21can live and thrive.
15:23They don't have to be part of a community where that was not true.
15:27When people are, even, even like in Mesopotamia, think that's a big area.
15:31It really isn't because if you get any distance from those two rivers, it's too dry to, to survive.
15:37Uh, so it's, it's just a very different kind of an environment.
15:43Yeah.
15:44And I think it has a different history, I think, largely because of that environment.
15:49Uh, and it's certainly more beautiful because of that environment.
15:52So let's go ahead and play the, the song, um, out of the night.
15:56Uh, I like to call it out of Africa, but, uh, it's actually, uh, not out of Africa.
16:01It's into Africa, out of maybe the, the darkness of religion because Christianity and, and Islam have, uh, are currently
16:09at war across, uh, Africa.
16:12Uh, there's so many, uh, people, particularly Christians being killed by Muslims in Africa.
16:18Uh, that is one of the great tragedies of the, uh, of the world.
16:22Uh, and it goes so hugely unreported, um, uh, that, uh, I'd like to celebrate Africa as, uh, as it
16:31should be and as it will be.
16:40Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
17:02uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
17:02uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
17:02uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
17:02uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
17:02uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh
17:02Oh, oh, oh, oh
17:04Oh, oh, oh, oh
17:31Hear me, children
17:34I am calling you home
17:52Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
18:08Yeah, yeah, whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh
18:18Yeah, nah, whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh
18:22Yeah, way, oh, oh, oh
18:38Let's go.
19:08Let's go.
19:39Let's go.
20:08That is a celebration of life, my friend.
20:11It's just gorgeous, isn't it?
20:13Yes.
20:14You know, it's also extraordinarily similar to reality.
20:19I've had the great pleasure of traveling extensively through the game reserves, particularly of eastern Africa.
20:28I mean, I've been all the way from the tip all the way up, but that reminds me of Tanzania,
20:34of the Masai Mar, of the Serengeti as it stretches across the eastern plains.
20:43The great concentration of animals in Nagoro Crater.
20:49It's the way that the brown grasslands are punctuated with those trees.
20:59I don't know if they're mesquite or acacia trees, but those canopy trees on the vast plains with that grassland.
21:10And then zebra for as far as the eye can see and wildebeest and the elegance of the giraffe and
21:18the beauty of the lions.
21:19I didn't see any white lions, no, mind you.
21:21I know that's part of our story is the white lions that take out Rahab.
21:26And so they're beautiful in that scene.
21:29But, you know, to see a cheetah run for game and then haul the game up at trees so that
21:34the hyenas don't steal it and then taking care of its cubs.
21:39Oh, my.
21:40It's to see a rhinoceros in the wild, to feel the presence of just the size of an elephant and
21:47the grace of a giraffe, the beauty of a zebra.
21:53It's unlike anything else in the world.
21:57Yeah.
21:59And then the culture, the dancing around campfires.
22:04I just see that's going to be such a huge part of what we do going forward.
22:09And I love the costumes, the colors and the textures, but then the children's faces and the expressions on the
22:16adults and the rhythm.
22:17But dancing and singing around a campfire is going to be a big part of tomorrow as we return to
22:23the garden.
22:23It's a beautiful celebration of life.
22:26Yeah.
22:29It's got to be one of your favorites at this point, I would think.
22:32Yes, yes.
22:33It's, you know, the rhythm of the song, it's pretty cool.
22:40I like it.
22:41Yeah.
22:42Lea says it's the one that makes her the most emotional, both laughing and crying at the same time.
22:47Yeah, yeah.
22:48Yeah, yeah.
22:49It can actually give you that effect.
22:51It's pretty nice.
22:53Yeah.
22:53Yeah.
22:54Yeah.
22:54I long for that kind of simple life.
22:57I just think it's absolutely gorgeous.
23:01So, thank you for creating that.
23:04We're going to transition now to the timeline.
23:08We've had a timeline on our site for some time.
23:10It has, over the last few months, been finished in terms of receiving almost all proprietary artwork so that all
23:21of the characters and the events throughout represented what we thought was symbolic of that time.
23:29I wrote the copy for it almost two years ago, so, you know, we've learned some things and we can
23:35update a few things as we go along.
23:37But the copy is really pretty darn good.
23:41It explains what we're seeing and how it fits into the whole story that Yawa is telling.
23:47And I was told about two months ago that you were collaborating with Leia on creating a movie of the
23:57timeline.
23:58And my reaction was this could be really extraordinary because the timeline is far more than just putting us in
24:09the right place on Yawa's schedule.
24:11And that, by the way, is a big deal.
24:12The Jews who are our target audience, they're 206 years off.
24:18Being 206 years off when there's only seven years to go, that's a lot.
24:23And it's going to miss it.
24:25You're going to miss it.
24:27You're going to miss it.
24:28Yeah, going to miss it.
24:29And they don't know how God's time revolves around the Moedim or how it's told through the redeployment of the
24:38same characters throughout.
24:39And what God's trying to achieve throughout time with us, which is ultimately to create the ideal relationship between him
24:48and his firstborn.
24:49And then to make certain that his firstborn has a community of family that he can also celebrate with.
24:55And that's the story we're telling.
24:57And I think that when you do the timeline correctly, you're not only established where we are in that time,
25:02which is central because we're now in the time of Jacob's troubles and there's only seven years left.
25:07But you also set the theme for what God's trying to achieve with people.
25:12And you can introduce every player in his story.
25:15And I think that by seeing the whole story from beginning to end, from Yahweh's perspective, what he's trying to
25:24achieve, it also goes a long way to destroy the credibility of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, because they pay absolutely
25:35no part in God's story.
25:37They are actually corrupting of God's story.
25:40So to present it from his eyes, quite a thrill.
25:46So what we're going to do here is we're just going to play one segment from the website to show
25:52how it's been integrated with a voiceover so that we can hear it.
25:56And then we'll go from there right to the beginning.
26:04Creation, 14 billion years before the Common Era.
26:09In the opening volume of Yada Yawa, Beginning, irrefutable proof is provided to demonstrate that 14 billion years and six
26:1924-hour days are equivalent relative to the locations of the one at creation in contrast to us.
26:26On Earth, billions of years later, reading this assessment, based upon the CMB from the Big Bang, citing Yawa's term,
26:35time was stretched to 10 to the 12th power.
26:38When 14 billion years are divided by this factor denoting the difference in the rate time flowed at creation, it
26:45equals six 24-hour days as we now measure them on Earth.
26:52Marvelous.
26:53And, of course, it'll go on immediately to the next one.
26:57And we will return to that.
26:59But on our other – we can play a little bit of that.
27:02No, I'm just going to stop it.
27:03Okay.
27:04All right.
27:05And we'll go to the other timeline.
27:08I am so tremendously – well, we can go ahead and play this, then I'll comment.
27:14Okay, you've got to stop.
27:15All right, Deepo.
27:16So we're going to start with just that first one before we even go to this, the introductory.
27:22I think that there's very few things that we can say that will get a thinking person to just stop
27:32and say, whoa, that is amazing.
27:36Then the correlation between the 14 to 15 billion years of time between now and what was the Big Bang
27:49is actually equivalent to six 24-hour days when you use the cosmic background radiation
27:58and recognize that it reveals that time was stretched by 10 to the 12th power by someone conducting or near
28:09creation because time does not flow evenly for all viewers.
28:14It is relational to great velocity, great energy, or great mass.
28:23And therefore, we know that time was stretched to 10 to the 24th power at our 12th power at creation
28:29and simply math.
28:30You divide 14 billion years by 10 to the 12th power and you have six 24-hour days.
28:38I mean, that's a jaw-dropper.
28:41And so what a wonderful way to begin the timeline.
28:45Yes.
28:46And, you know, that's something that, you know, people would need to come to terms with because they tend to,
28:58you know, see everything literally.
29:00They don't know that there is something, you know, that is different in the way God views time and the
29:10way we view time here.
29:11So that's something that would actually be good to present.
29:15Yes, and it's even more than the cosmic microwave background radiation stretching time to 10 to the 12th power and
29:24therefore making 14 billion years equivalent to six 24-hour days.
29:29It is the very thing you just talked about, that God does not experience time the same way we do
29:34because he exists as energy and light.
29:38And on energy and light, time exists.
29:41So he can experience the past, present, or future at any moment that he wishes to.
29:46He can see our future and report back to us in our past what he has witnessed.
29:51It means that he's not predicting anything.
29:52He's actually seen the future and telling us about it.
29:56And that, you know, on a photon of light, what we have learned is that all time exists simultaneously.
30:02It does not flow the way it does for us here on Earth in three dimensions.
30:08So that then opens up this whole opportunity for understanding how prophecy exists, why God uses that tool to prove
30:17his authenticity and his authorization of those things that he has inspired,
30:24and why it develops the means that we can use to trust him, but also what he's offering us.
30:29Because if he can transform our physical bodies into light energy and they then carry our soul,
30:36then our soul can go visit every place else in the universe.
30:41So that happens to be a slide where if we could augment it with a button off to the side,
30:50say,
30:52that would talk more about it and to talk more about time and the relativity of time,
30:59but also how the Hebrew language is based upon the nature of light where every verb is liberated in time
31:07and what this means for us and being able to be empowered and enriched beyond the three dimensions we experience
31:15here in Earth.
31:17You know, I think we can make it even a more profound teaching moment, but yet not burden the whole
31:23timeline down.
31:24Because if that was naturally part of the whole timeline, it'd be a, you know, a 20-hour experience to
31:30get from the beginning to the end of it.
31:31So I think we can have links off of it that augment what is said.
31:38What are your thoughts on that?
31:40Yes, yes.
31:41You know, this actually is like you have the entire picture that you're trying to paint right here,
31:52and then you are just able to branch off and say, okay, this is what happened, this is the details,
31:58and then you go right back, you know, so that's, you know, one document that shows you the entire picture.
32:05Yeah.
32:06That, by the way, is like the fifth voice that I've heard narrating the timeline, and it's actually quite good.
32:13The difficulty for it is that ends sentence phrasing.
32:19It is very difficult to know the tone and the pacing, the cadence to start a sentence and end the
32:25sentence,
32:25even when the sentence is relatively short.
32:29And so for an AI text-to-speech, that voice did a marvelous job of knowing how to begin and
32:39close a sentence.
32:40And you sound stupid if you don't know where that sentence is going before you start it,
32:45because you need that particular cadence and pausing and reflection throughout then to get to an appropriate close,
32:54something most people probably never even bother to think about,
32:57but it's an essential part of effective communication.
33:01I made it exceedingly difficult because I did not anticipate when I wrote this text that it would be narrated,
33:10because long sentences are extremely difficult to begin and end with the proper inflection, the proper cadence.
33:20And there was a sentence in there that was probably 25 or 30 words long,
33:25and it did a decent job, but it would have been easier for the voice and easier for people to
33:32listen
33:32if I had written shorter sentences now knowing that we're going to narrate it.
33:39Yes, the narration was fluid, but when you listen in between, you could pick out a couple of parts where
33:50you feel
33:53the renderer didn't actually get the intonation of where this sentence stopped,
34:01where the next one starts, but it's essentially okay.
34:09Can you still hear me?
34:10I think it's frozen.
34:13Yeah, I hear you, Depot.
34:15I hear you.
34:16Yeah, it must be frozen on their end.
34:18Oh.
34:22Well, let's give him a second.
34:27Let's just go ahead and run some of the timeline here and see if Rich can get that worked out.
34:33Okay.
34:39Oh, we're not getting anything from them.
34:41They just, they rebooted.
34:43Well, let's see.
34:46I happen to have the Out of Africa scene.
34:50We could maybe watch that so everybody knows Yada's favorite scene with the flamingos and everything.
34:58Let me pull him off here.
34:59Yeah.
35:00Hold on a second.
35:12So at least they'll, they'll be able to see and know what we're talking about.
35:16This is from 1985, Sidney Pollack's Out of Africa with Robert Redford.
35:31So I think this was filmed in Rwanda or maybe it was Tanzania.
35:37No, Kenya.
35:37It's Kenya.
35:39So this is a little, you don't have, do you have flamingos like this in Nigeria?
35:46I think so, because I think they, they stay, the environment where you find them as, as to be, you
35:56know, a certain kind of way.
35:58So in Nigeria, I don't think, I've not seen a flamingo in Nigeria before, but then.
36:04Because they're very tropic.
36:06They're very tropical, aren't they?
36:08Yeah, exactly.
36:09They are tropical.
36:12So that's, that's probably why we don't see them.
36:25Well, while we're here, tell me more about Nigeria.
36:27I don't know.
36:28I had a neighbor that was a Nigerian.
36:31He, he came, came over.
36:33Their village was actually, they were in a lawsuit against Shell Oil because Shell Oil had blown up most of
36:40the time.
36:40So their village and then paid the neighboring village to come massacre them.
36:44So they, the, the attorneys that were having the, the lawsuit against Shell Oil managed to, to bring all of
36:53them to the United States for safety.
36:55So that's, that's what I know about Nigeria.
36:57Oh, and Krishna Koye, of course, played for the Chiefs.
37:00But other than that, well, Nigeria is, it's, it's, it's, it's a lot like, like America, maybe because, you know,
37:17there is this people, people like, you know, foreign stuff and all that.
37:23So I, I, I, I see, you know, a lot like, like what we have here, Nigeria was, um, colonized
37:33and, uh, given independence by the British, by Britain.
37:38Okay, so it was, mm-hmm.
37:38Yeah, so, but we tilt more to the U.S. than, than, uh, Britain.
37:44So, um, and it's, it's a very big place.
37:47Mm-hmm.
37:48The population is much like, uh, U.S. population.
37:51We're like two, the, at the last count, like 250, uh, 250 million.
37:57Wow, yeah.
37:58Uh, yeah, it's like the same with, um, with U.S.
38:01And, um, you know, I have, uh, many, uh, big cities, like Lagos, just like New York, you know, like
38:13the same, the same high rise, you see a lot of, uh, almost the same thing.
38:19So, yeah, it's, uh, Nigeria is okay.
38:22The, the only thing I just see, you know, in all these places is the, is, is religion and politics
38:29pretty much.
38:30That's what is actually, uh, messing up mostly everywhere, Nigeria, other states in, uh, in Africa.
38:39And I believe, uh, in, in, um, in the advanced world, uh, you may, you may say, okay, Africa is,
38:47uh, not as advanced as you are.
38:49You have, um, you know, like U.S., Europe, you have, uh, China and all of that.
38:55But, uh, what religion actually does, and that's why you have people pray more, you know, they pray more, they,
39:04they tilt more to wanting to know God, but they are just not doing it the right way.
39:12And it's because of the poverty, uh, the people that are, that have been able to, you know, uh, uh,
39:23control resources, they try to hold on to it so that they can use that, you know, to control every
39:28other person.
39:29Religion is a very good tool to deploy, you know, for things like that.
39:33So they made sure, you know, you have churches everywhere, they made sure you have, uh, that means of control,
39:42you know, so that people don't really grow.
39:45Uh, they don't, people don't really think, you know, about like, uh, a social kind of, um, uh, arrangement that
39:56makes like...
39:58Everybody will not be of the same, uh, you know, uh, wealth level, but at least, you know, if, if
40:06most of the people are like average, I'm sure that drops the need to pray, to pray to God for
40:13everything.
40:14Like, for instance, if a mosquito bites you, some people will pray, you know, for God to take a mosquito
40:19away.
40:20You see your, your house is dirty, you have cockroaches, you say, oh God, these are witches that are, that
40:27are tons of cockroaches that are disturbing me, you know, all those kind of things.
40:30So, uh, those are the things that actually makes it a little bit dark over there, you know.
40:36Well, you know, it's, it's interesting because I didn't realize you, you mentioned 250 million people in a population.
40:43Um, so, so you could really draw some, some good correlations on those numbers is, do you think that, uh,
40:50what do you presume the, the literacy rate of Nigeria is?
40:53I mean, of course you have schools and stuff, but I mean, does everybody read books?
40:58I mean, or do you, would you say it's, it's, it's less than the United States or, because even in
41:03the United States, you have places like New York with a literacy rate of around, let's just ballpark 90%.
41:09And then you can go to Mississippi or you can go to Arkansas and places in that have a lower
41:16literature, literacy rate.
41:18Do you know, you know what I mean?
41:19And so do you, do you think that, that people not being able to part of the education read and
41:25learn for themselves, able to get out of the cultural, religious and political systems?
41:30Do you think that's a little part of it?
41:31What would you say the literacy rate in?
41:34Well, um, I don't, I don't have the odd numbers, but I know that, you know.
41:39People actually have that desire and we actually have a lot of, a lot of literate people, you know, a
41:47lot, a lot.
41:48We have so many people that are, you know, literate.
41:52But what, what happens is when you break Nigeria down and you begin to go in, inwards, where religion is
42:01thicker, you will see that the literacy rate drops.
42:06Because part of the problem, like, like in the north, the north of Nigeria, they, they are mostly Muslims and
42:15the literacy rates there is very low.
42:18Maybe, I don't know.
42:19I don't have the odd number, but it's really very low.
42:21And because they do that because they want to keep them where they are, so they don't understand what is
42:28happening.
42:29Like, for instance, Quran is not translated to English.
42:34You have to learn Arabic and then you will be able to read the Quran.
42:40So in the north, a lot of them just tilts to going to Arabic school and just learning, you know,
42:48even learning Arabic.
42:49I know that back in the Iraq war, one of the big, big things that soldiers discovered is that they
42:54were, a lot of the jihadis were always passing around these, these audio tapes.
42:59And they heard the surahs and they heard their sermons or whatever you want to call it from their different
43:03imams on these audiotapes in Arabic because they couldn't read, you know, and so that they would just, they would
43:11just listen to the audiotapes of what someone else said, you know, literacy rate is 70, 70% in 20,
43:192024 in, in Nigeria.
43:23Yeah, it's relatively high, but when you begin to go deep and you say in Northern Nigeria, in Southern Nigeria,
43:30then you begin to see the difference.
43:32Sure, sure.
43:33Yeah.
43:34So that's the thing.
43:36And even the people that, that are, that are very literate, that's religious culture, you know, which was what I
43:46was trying to point out at the beginning.
43:49That's a link to the roots, you know, what they feel, this is the way it should be, is actually
43:56blocking them to see reasons, to see that, okay, this thing that was introduced to us may not actually be
44:06what they say it is.
44:07Let me try and dissect it, but they don't.
44:10Some of them, when you talk to some religious people like Christians, they will tell you they see Jesus, they
44:16are already talking to Jesus, they see him.
44:18Right.
44:19How do you, how do you talk to somebody?
44:21There was orange juice in my fridge this morning, praise Jesus, right?
44:24It's like...
44:26So if somebody is already seeing Jesus, what are you going to say to him?
44:30He's not going to listen to you.
44:31So, you know, those are the kind of issues.
44:34They have sealed their minds.
44:38They are not, they are not open-minded enough to begin to look at things and, you know, reason.
44:47At times, some of these things are just basic reasoning.
44:49You know, when you, when you read and you can say, wait a minute, what's this person saying?
44:56You know.
44:58But, and because religion is a very good tool to control, the leaders, even if they know, it's possible some
45:06of them know some of these things are wrong, but they like it the way it is.
45:11So they will continue to create conditions that will make people not, you know, get to that level that they
45:19begin to appreciate the real thing.
45:22So that's what is happening.
45:23Yeah.
45:24And in a sense, it, it, it is the same problem worldwide.
45:29It has absolutely nothing to do about the culture that you come out of.
45:33It is all cultures bad.
45:35It's, it's, it's come out of that culture.
45:37It's not come out of, you know, someone else's house.
45:41And it is, every culture is bad.
45:43Come out of your father's house.
45:45Right.
45:45And so I think that's, that's where I like to, to correlate all of us as, as covenant members is
45:56that it doesn't matter where you come from.
45:57It doesn't matter if you were born in China.
45:59It doesn't matter if you were born in, in Nigeria.
46:01It doesn't matter if you were born in, in the United States, in Australia, wherever it was, your culture is
46:06wrong.
46:07You know, I mean, that is, what's been keeping you away from, away from knowing you to, to, to begin
46:13with, you know, it's a, it's, it's funny because I, I used to joke all the time about, you know,
46:20I work with a lot of, a lot of people from around the world, but there was primarily a lot
46:25of Mexicans.
46:26And, and, and, you know, they say, Oh, you should go to Mexico.
46:29You should go.
46:29It's so beautiful.
46:30I said, I know it's beautiful.
46:31Why don't you go to Mexico?
46:32And it's like, because it's full of Mexicans, you know, that's why I don't go to Mexico.
46:37Okay.
46:38Everywhere in the world is beautiful.
46:40The problem is, is there's just too many damn people there.
46:42You know, it's like Colorado is beautiful.
46:44All right.
46:44You know, Missouri is beautiful.
46:46Florida is beautiful.
46:47You know why I'm not in those places because it's full of Floridians, right?
46:52It's so when that's all cleared away, all these places are going to be.
46:56They're going to be great.
46:58You know?
46:59Yeah.
46:59When you, when you have, you know, when everything is cleaned up and you have people with the right
47:05mindsets, it's going to be totally different.
47:10It's going to be totally different.
47:11It's, it's just in the, in the mindsets, you know, people cling into what is wrong, you
47:17know, for, for whatever reasons they don't want to live and actually, you know, question
47:24their beliefs.
47:28Right.
47:31Well, he took the timeline video with, I'm trying to get ahold of Rich here.
47:34You, you keep talking.
47:36Okay.
47:36Okay.
47:37So, so, um, yeah, so that's why I see, uh, when I want to say anything around it, I would
47:44just say every culture is beautiful, but that religion and politics, if, you know, we're
47:54able to take, if everyone is able to detach from these things, they would actually begin
48:05to appreciate the truth.
48:08They, they will begin to appreciate the truth and people need to, you know, not be unnecessarily
48:16dogmatic about, you know, what they think they know.
48:19You know, because when they are not open-minded, you know, they just begin to, uh, see the
48:33entire world from their own narrow perspective.
48:38So that's, that's, that's, that's it for me.
48:42Yeah.
48:42And I, I'll have to disagree with you that not every culture is beautiful.
48:46I'm going to say that every culture is bad.
48:48Okay.
48:49Because every culture is full of those people.
48:51I mean, what we have to, you have to kind of define what is, what is culture from that?
48:56You know what I mean?
48:57What you mean by the culture, because the culture isn't the people.
49:01Okay.
49:02Because at the end of the day, folks is folks, no matter where you come from.
49:05Okay.
49:05I mean, you either, you either got an Neshamah and you're using it the right way or you don't.
49:10That's kind of my defining, defining factor, right?
49:14I don't care how your mother cooks bread and how my mother cooks bread.
49:18You know, I don't care because culture is wrapped up in holidays, religion, politics,
49:23things like that.
49:24You know, I mean, you mentioned that, oh, the mosquito bit me and, and, and you pray.
49:29You know what I'm saying is there's people in Southern Missouri that do the same thing.
49:34Okay.
49:35I mean, so it's, it's, it's not just a Christian thing or whatever.
49:38So I'm really at a loss about what is the metric of what culture, what, what you keep out
49:46of, out of, you know, who you are and how you grew up.
49:50Because I think that, that in, in, um, Suka, we are resetting all that.
49:56Everyone will be the same culture.
49:58We're all there because we're yada yawa.
50:00You know what I mean?
50:02Yes.
50:03You know, the basic definition of culture is like way of life, right?
50:09So, um, what is going to determine your way of life?
50:14Your beliefs is going to come into, you know, that determination.
50:19Your, the way you play, the way you interact with people, you know, politics, economics,
50:25all of that is going to, um, form what you see as a culture.
50:31So you are right.
50:32I agree with you because if you, if you have to stack them, you are going to place, uh,
50:39religion, politics, and all of that below culture, because the culture is actually coming
50:46from all of that.
50:47You know, the religion part is the desire of people trying to connect to that, uh, supreme
50:55being.
50:56A lot of, a lot of religions believe there is one supreme being.
50:59They just don't know how to reach that one supreme being.
51:03So that's religion actually influences the culture.
51:08And then the way people deal with themselves, which is the politics, you know, how you play
51:12games and people play politics, even in your home, you may like, you have, uh, different
51:17kids.
51:17You may like one more than the other.
51:19You have to find a way to play the game.
51:21So they don't see, you know, the fact that you like one more than the other.
51:24So it's all there.
51:26So, but that's why there needs to be that foundational change, because if you lay, if you stack them
51:34up, actually, yes, you're going to pick religion and you know, the way people interact with
51:39themselves.
51:40But then you also have the values, for instance, because values is also part of, uh, uh, the
51:47culture, you may find somebody that is not religious, you know, is just there, but has some values,
51:56values like honesty.
51:59At times you don't know, because you can be subjective, what somebody is saying, let's not be honest to somebody
52:07else.
52:08So, but at least saying, you know, keeping your word, if you say, I'm going to be here tomorrow, I'm
52:15there at this time, you know, that's a value.
52:19Um, and it doesn't have anything to do with religion.
52:22So, and that's also part of what forms your culture.
52:25You have people from a specific, you know, geography, like people that have lived together in that geography for a
52:33while.
52:33You see that they have those values, you know, they wear their clothes in a certain way, they cut their
52:40hair in a certain way, you know, all those things put together.
52:45So if you actually peel off the religion, which was designed to control people, if you pull that off and
52:57that's greed, you know, that, that's, that is in politics,
53:02that makes you want to get everything for yourself.
53:06If you can pull out all of those, then there are some things underneath that you will say, okay, this
53:12is not bad.
53:14You know, this kind of people are friendly when you go to them, you know, everybody's friendly.
53:20Everybody's friendly.
53:22You know, there are some cultures, people do crazy stuff.
53:24There are some cultures where, um, if you go visit your friend at home, guess what your gift will be.
53:37Yes.
53:38You don't know.
53:39There are some cultures that I know about.
53:41It's going to be the wife of that person.
53:43He's going to give you a wife to spend the night.
53:47That's the culture.
53:50That's the culture.
53:51Mikasa, soukasa.
53:52Yeah.
53:52Okay.
53:53Right.
53:54So those kinds of things.
53:56Now, how did they come to that?
53:58How did they all accept to behave like that?
54:02So that's what you need to question.
54:04People do different things.
54:06Cultures.
54:06They do a lot of things that when you look at it, even if you don't have any other, you
54:13know,
54:14supreme or superior idea, just basically looking at it.
54:18Do you think this is good?
54:20If you say this is my wife and somebody comes to visit me and I'll say, take my wife and
54:26go sleep with her.
54:29How did people come to accept?
54:31So there is a whole lot.
54:34There is a whole lot.
54:36Well, that's interesting.
54:38Is it following a genealogical connection?
54:41You know, is it following the story of Abraham?
54:46You know, I mean, when he goes into Egypt with, you know, where did they get this idea that this
54:51is a good thing, that this is a productive, you know, thing to continue?
54:57It's, yeah.
54:58And I think it has a lot to do with people seeing other people as their idols.
55:06If you respect somebody and the person does something, maybe the person is big, is prosperous and all that, you
55:14tend to want to do things the way that person does it.
55:17So I think it's possible that it has, you know, some roots, you know, coming from those people.
55:26And, you know, like I said, I have a feeling that, you know, during that period of creation, a lot
55:32of the shaman men actually went to Africa.
55:35They started some settlements, you know, some cultures that we have, and whatever they did actually influenced the people around
55:46there.
55:47And because people don't tend to utilize, you know, they don't tend to think, look at things deeply, they just
55:57keep accepting.
55:59In some cultures, they don't see any big deal in just waking up every day like in the north.
56:07You just, there are a lot of people they call alimandery.
56:10They don't go to school.
56:11They don't do anything.
56:11They just go and stay in front of a rich man's house and hit.
56:18It's normal to them.
56:19They just see the rich man, the hailing.
56:21They can live all of their lives like that.
56:23So, but how do you accept something like that?
56:26Even if you're not literate, you should still be able to look at it like, can't I just do something?
56:36Maybe go clean the gutter or something.
56:39You don't understand.
56:41So, what makes you accept things like that?
56:45Though, in religion, they have a lot of mechanisms inside that actually forces people to behave like that.
56:51Because they will tell you, if you don't do this, this is going to happen to you.
56:55If you do that, that is going to happen to you.
56:57So, they have all those control mechanisms in there.
56:59But it's also all about people idolizing other people.
57:03You know?
57:04And because the mentality of everybody is tied to success.
57:10And by success, they mean riches.
57:14If somebody is going to say you're successful in what you're doing, they'll be looking at what's the value, what's
57:18your net worth.
57:19To them, that is the success.
57:20So, and if you are successful, mostly, whatever you do, people will listen to you.
57:28Right.
57:29Well, and then you have the nature of online stuff today where it's all faked.
57:35You know?
57:36I mean, people go and, hey, you want to listen to me?
57:38And he shows a picture of him sitting on a Lamborghini.
57:40And he's like, you know, this is how I made all this money is I wrote a book.
57:45Here's for 50 bucks.
57:46You can get my book.
57:47Right?
57:48And it's all fake.
57:53Well, I just got, I got back from Rich that they have no internet at all.
57:58So, we're going to wrap it up here.
58:00So, I just, it just completely dropped out.
58:03So, unless you want to do Ask Depot Day, I can ask people to ask questions in the chat and
58:09we can do Ask Depot Day.
58:11No, it's okay.
58:12We'll reschedule.
58:13We'll do it some of the time.
58:14Okay.
58:15Right on, man.
58:16All right.
58:17Well, it's good talking to you.
58:18And I'm sure that, heck, we might just have you back on tomorrow.
58:22What's your schedule like tomorrow?
58:26Tomorrow, maybe a little bit tight.
58:28Okay.
58:29All right.
58:29Well.
58:30Oh, I'm still, if we can still do it, I don't know.
58:33If they come back maybe in like another one hour, we can still come back.
58:37Oh, I think, I think he's going to, yeah, they don't even, their internet's, the whole internet is, so he
58:44can't even watch what we're doing now.
58:46So, yeah.
58:46Well, just reschedule.
58:48Maybe sometime else we'll do it.
58:50Okay.
58:51Sounds good, man.
58:51Good talking to you.
58:52Take care.
58:53All right.
58:53Same with you.
58:54Bye.
58:56Hey there.
58:57Thanks for tuning in.
58:58That was Fetch.
58:59Gotta run now.
59:00Catch y'all on our next podcast.
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