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Speaker 1 (00:16):
What's Good Friday all about? And I know we have
why and why is it called good Friday? If something
so uh so grotesque happened in history with the crucifixion
of this person called Jesus, who who claimed and don't
let anybody ever tell you this didn't happen, uh that.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
He he claimed that he was God.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Uh, he was one hundred percent man, one hundred percent God,
born of a virgin Uh tempted and lived a sinless
life in order to be the met the standard. Let's
talk about that first, that a holy God required. So
let's talk about that for just a minute. Because raise
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your hand out there. If you're driving, you can keep
one on the wheel. If you have ever heard anyone
say to you, you don't got to be perfect to
go to heaven, have you ever heard that that's actually
not true. We have to be perfect or we will
be rejected from heaven because perfection is the standard, because
God is holy, holy, holy, and sin cannot walk into
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the presence of a holy God, even the smallest, tiniest
amount of sin. So the standard is full righteousness, not partial.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
The other thing, always say, does God meet us right
where we are?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
He does but he didn't leave you there. He transforms you,
he changes you. And so how did that happen? Well,
the standard is perfection, and none of us are ever
going to be able to live a perfect life. So
that's where we look to God, who is holy, holy, holy,
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who is judgment, who is wrath, But praise God, thank you,
is also mercy, grace and love. Now, it is important
that we don't pick our favorite characteristic of God. I've
done that, that that has that has been corrected, because
what we do if we just say I don't want
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to hear about God's wrath, I don't want to hear
about his judgment, and I don't want to hear about
his holiness.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
We're human beings. I will tell you what we'll do.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
If we reject that, then when we hear about what
happened today and we hear about his mercy and his
grace and his love, will always cheapen it because we think, oh, okay, good,
so he's just mercy, grace and love. He went to
the cross, he died for me. Sounds good and and
but but if I look over here and I see
what I've been, what I've been redeemed from God's wrath,
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God's judgment, in God's holiness.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Once when I get to know God that, well, then
I'm really.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Really grateful for today and Sunday because now that grace
and now that mercy, and now that love is of
the highest value. You've probably heard this say before. You know,
our redemption may be free, but it ain't cheap. And
so another way to do that is when we think
about today, and you're gonna hear a lot about it.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
We've actually in the past shown you images of.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
The you know, portrayal of what it might have been
like for Jesus to take on God's wrath and go
to the cross and the wrath of his father poured
out on him, so that it would not be poured
out on those who would leave faith in their self
and put their faith in Christ and repent of their
sin and say, I want this gift that was given
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to me by the sacrifice of Jesus and the sacrifice
of God the Father on his own son, to give
us the opportunity to be shielded from that wrath and
that judgment. And that's offering to all who are willing
to repent and leave faith and self and put faith
in Jesus. So when you when you hear there's doctors
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that have talked about and you think about the horror
of the cross, and just you can't even fathom the
suffering of Jesus that happened on this day in history
many times. Which is fine, we'll look at that, and
this is perfectly okay. I'm just going to talk to
us all to maybe ask a little bit of a
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to make a little different.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Statement today, maybe than we've ever made.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Yes, we should look at this and say, look how gracious,
Look how merciful, look.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
How loving God?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Is nothing wrong with that. However, never forget to also
look at the brutality of the cross and say, look
how serious.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
A holy God takes sin.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
And I know in my life I went through most
of my life and I still struggle with it now
in my sanctification, looking at sin the way I look
at it. You know, think about Job, and we studied
that not long ago. So Job was called blameless and upright,
God allowed him to be refined by an attack from
Satan himself. And when he goes through all the suffering
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and all the refining and all the grinding, Job who
was who was called blameless and upright compared to other people.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
That's important.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
When he finally stood before God and saw God as
he truly was, Job said, well, before i'd heard of
you with my ears, and that was good enough for
me to be obedient to you. But now through this suffering,
I have seen your resume, and I have been reminded
who you are compared to who I am, and I
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see that you are a holy, holy, holy Job who
was called blameless and up right, said, now, compared to God,
I despise myself, and I repent and ashes in dust,
because compared to other people, I look pretty good. Compared
to God, I'm pretty nasty. So none of us can
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struct into heaven in front of God and say.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I think God's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Well, maybe compared to wicked people, we look pretty good,
but compared to God, we all look really bad. So
that's what you see on the cross. That's how much
God despises and is disgusted by sin, and so he
pours out his wrath on Jesus today, his son, so
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that those of us that are are willing to repent,
leave our own authority, confess Jesus as our lord, leave
faith in ourself, and place our faith in Jesus.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
The wrath of God then has been poured.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Out on our Lord, poured out on our Savior, and
won't be poured out on us. And that's why it's
called Good Friday, because Jesus was our only hope, and
the entire Bible is about this since the fall. And
he so remember he has to be one hundred percent God,
which he absolutely was and is, but he also had
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to be one hundred percent human at the same time,
born of a virgin so not to inherit the original sin.
So he could go to the cross today as the
final lamb.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Of the sacrificial system, fulfilling.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
It once and for all and entering us into the
new Covenant and the age of grace and mercy. And
if you look back at the Arc, when God said
that mankind had become so wicked that he regretted they
were ever made, and had read they were put on earth,
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and he offered one hundred and twenty years of mercy
for anybody to get on the art with Noah his family.
And for one hundred and twenty years everybody turned that down.
And for one hundred and twenty years Noah was saying,
get on the ark, get on the ark, Get on
the art. God's wrath is coming. And the New Covenant
today Jesus to tell us sty and the Gospel of
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John said it is finished.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I have paid the debt that the world owes.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
And now in the New Covenant, Jesus is the arc,
and we the Church are telling a dying world. Get
on the arc, Get on the ark, Get on the art.
God's wrath is coming again, and his wrath will be
poured on all who reject Jesus and his sacrifice and
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his payment for our sins. Those who repent and are
redeemed are now on the arc. Oh, God's wrath will
not be poured out on those that are redeemed. But
if you're not on the ark, and you're continuing to
reject this is truth and continuing to push back on
this gift from God, then God's wrath is going to
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be poured out on you.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
So I hope.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Today that as we were, as we understand Good Friday,
and we're so grateful for the the the sacrifice that
Jesus paid for all of us, and and and now.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Says here is the gift that if.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
You haven't gotten on the arc, and and you've heard
about the Cross, and then you've heard about Sunday. What
is Sunday about. Well, Jesus defeats sin. Today he pays
the price to Talisty, paid in full in Greek, which
is what he said from the cross. And then on
Sunday he says, Oh, by the way, I defeated eternal death.
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So so in me sins can be forgiven and life
can be eternal. And so I'm the only one that
can do that. So if you're not on the art,
get on the art. I mean, just right now, maybe
for the first time or the first time you've ever
meant it, you just want to say, Jesus, I repent
of my sin. I believe that you and you alone
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paid the debt that I owe, and I repent of
my sin. And I leave faith in myself and my
abilities to be good enough that has not that's led
to nowhere. And I leave faith in myself, and I
put my faith in your perfection, your full righteousness, which
is the standard. And I'm no longer going to be
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on it under my own authority. I'm gonna confess you
publicly the first opportunity I get. All right, now, if
there's people around you. I confess you Jesus as my Lord,
and I have believed in my heart, and I confess
with my mouth that you are Lord, and you and
you alone, And I just ask you to forgive me
because I know you and only you can do it,
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and only you have accomplished it. And I am begging
for the mercy and grace and the love of God,
and I want to be protected from his wrath. I
want to be right in front of a holy, holy
God in you. Scripture tells us that those words don't
save you, but they are all from scripture. But the
sincerity of your heart that only you and God know,
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will so that today was your day. Let us know
so we can pray for you, and that you can
completely fully understand and can say it a little bit different.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Today is absolutely good Friday. We'll be back.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Now.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land
of Egypt.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
For I will pass through the land of Egypt on
that night and will strike all the first born in
the land of Egypt, both and beast, and against all
the gods of Egypt. I will execute judgment. I am
the Lord. Now the blood shall be a sign for
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you on the houses where you are. And when I
see the blood, I will pass over you, and the
plague shall not be on you to destroy you when
I strike the land of Egypt. So this day shall
be to you a memorial, and you shall keep it
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as a feast to the Lord throughout your generations.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
The Gospel according to Mark.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
Immediately in the morning, the chief priests held a consultation
with the elders and scribes and the whole council, and
he bound Jesus, led him away and delivered him to Pilot.
Then Pilot ask.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Him, are you the king of the Jews?
Speaker 7 (12:57):
It is as you say. And the chief priests accused
him of many things, but he answered nothing.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Do you answer nothing? See how many things they testify
against you.
Speaker 7 (13:10):
But Jesus still answered nothing, so that Pilot marveled. Now
at the feast, he was accustomed to releasing one prisoner
to them whomever they requested, And there was one named Barabbas,
who was chained with his fellow rebels. They had committed
murder in the rebellion. Then the multitude, crying aloud, began
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to ask him to do just as he had always
done for them. But Pilot answered them, do you.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Want me to release to you the king of the Jews.
Speaker 7 (13:44):
For he knew that the chief priest had handed him
over because of envy. But the chief priest stirred up
the crowd so that he should rather release Barabas to them.
Speaker 8 (13:56):
What then, do you want me to do with him,
whom you call the king of the Jews?
Speaker 7 (14:00):
So they cried out again.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Why what evil has he done?
Speaker 7 (14:05):
But they cried out all the morning. So Pilot, wanting
to gratify the crowd, released Barabbas to them, and he
delivered Jesus. After he had scorched him to be crucified.
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Then the soldiers led him away into the hall called Praetorium,
and they called together the whole garrison, and they clothed
him with purple, and they twisted a crown of thorns,
put it on his head, and began to salute him
king of the jew Then they struck him on the
head with a reed and spat on him, and bowing
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the knee, they worshiped him. And when they had mocked him,
they took the purple off him, put his own clothes
on him, and let him out to crucify him. Then
they compelled a certain man Simon, a Serenian, the father
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of Alexander and Rufus. As he was coming out of
the country and passing by to bear his cross, and
they brought him to the place Golgatha, which is translated
place of a skull. Then they gave him wine mingled
with Mrrh to drink, but he did not take it.
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And when they crucified him, they divided his garments, casting
lots for them to determine what every man should take.
Now it was the third hour, and they crucified him,
and the inscription of his accusation was written above the
King of the Jews. With him, they also crucified two robbers,
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one on his right and the other on his left.
So the scripture was fulfilled, which says, and he was
numbered with the transgressors, and those who passed by blasphemed him,
wagging their heads and saying.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Aha, you who destroy the temple and build it in
three days, save yourself and come down from the cross.
Speaker 7 (16:22):
Likewise, the chief priests also mocking among themselves. With the scribes.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
He saved others himself. He cannot say.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Let the Christ, the King of Israel, descend now from
the cross, that we may see and believe.
Speaker 7 (16:36):
Even those who were crucified with him reviled him. Now,
when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over
the whole land until the ninth hour. And at the
ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying.
Speaker 9 (16:51):
Hello, Helloma, support the.
Speaker 7 (16:58):
Which is translated my God, My God, how have your
forsaken me. Some of those who stood by, when they
heard that, said.
Speaker 10 (17:13):
Look, he's calling for Elijah.
Speaker 7 (17:16):
Then someone ran and filled a sponge full of sour wine,
put it on a reed, and offered it to him
to drink. Let him alone, let us see if Elijah
will come to take him down. And Jesus cried out
with a loud voice and breathed his last. Then the
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veil of the temple was torn in two from top
to bottom. So when the cents you who stood opposite him,
saw that he cried out like this and leaves his last.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
He said, truly this man was the son of God.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
There were also women looking on from Afar, among whom
was Mary Magdalen, Mary the mother of James, the lesson
of Josees, and Salome, who also followed him and ministered
to him. When he was in Galilee and many other
women who came up with him to Jerusalem. Now, when
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evening had come, because it was the preparation day, that is,
the day before the Sabbath, Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent
council member, who was himself waiting for the Kingdom of
God coming and taking courage, went into Pilot and asked
for the body of Jesus. Pilot marveled that he was
already dead, and summoning the Centurion, he asked him if
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he had been dead for some time. So when he
found out from the Centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.
Then he bought fine linen, took him down and wrapped
him in the linen. And he laid him in a
tomb which had been hewn out of the rock, and
rolled a stone against the door of the tomb. And
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Mary Magdalen and Mary the mother of Josees observed where
he was laid. Now, when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalen,
Mary the mother of James, and Salomi bought spices that
they might come and anoint him. Very early in the
morning on the first day of the week. They came
to the tomb when the sun had risen, and they
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said among themselves, we'll roll away the stone from the
door of the tomb for us. But when they looked up,
they saw that the stone had been rolled away, for
it was very large. And entering the tomb, they saw
a young man clothed in a long white robe, sitting
on the right side, and they were alarmed.
Speaker 8 (20:09):
Do not be alarmed. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who
was crucified. He is risen. He is not here see
the place where they laid him. But go tell his
disciples and Peter that he is going before you into Galilee.
There you will see him as he said to you.
Speaker 7 (20:34):
So they went out quickly and fled from the tomb,
for they trembled and were amazed. And they said nothing
to anyone, for they were afraid.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Now.
Speaker 7 (20:42):
When he rose early on the first day of the week,
he appeared first to Mary Magdalen, out of whom he
had cast seven demons. She went and told those who
had been with him as they mourned and wept, And
when they heard that he was alive and had been
seen by her, they did not believe. After that, he
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appeared in another form to two of them, as they
walked and went into the country, and they went and
told it to the rest, but they did not believe
them either. Later he appeared to the eleven as they
sat at the table, and he rebuked their unbelief and
hardness of heart because they did not believe those who
had seen him.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
After he had risen, go into all the world and
preach the Gospel to every creature. He who believes and
is baptized will be saved, but he who does not
believe will be condemned.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
So then, after the Lord had spoken to them, he
was received up into heaven and sat down at the
right hand of God. And they went out and preached everywhere,
the Lord working with them and confirming the Word through
the accompanying signs.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Amen. Rick.
Speaker 9 (22:01):
One thing we never really touched on, uh, And I
love when you revisit this every year. Yes, but it's
kind of a it's kind of something you don't like
talking about. But when you were young, you said you
really never got any new Easter clothes to wear because
you really didn't have there was nothing in style, you know.
And and I remember Husky, no, not in.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Not in Husky. I had all kinds of yeah.
Speaker 9 (22:24):
Yeah, And Greg was talking about how he got really
cool stuff. I was like, don't let Rick hear that? Well,
you know, and then you just left him and they
put us in the new outfits too soon, and you'd
get him dirty before picture time.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Oh boy. Yeah, well it wasn't good for me. It
was you on the sleeve. I was always whip for
that here it was. Yeah, I was bad about that.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
And I didn't know he was a chewer.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
He was like a goat. How about this? Here's what
this would be my Easter trauma every year? Greg. Of course,
you know it was was a lean, little skinny kid.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
And a long time they go, they'd go into all
the little places where you get your little boys stuff,
and he would just all just selection through the roof.
I mean, you know, just some incredible outfits, and Mama
would just.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Match the animals up.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
And then they would look at me and they and
they and my mother would have to say, well, he
needs a husky, and uh, here's the two you can pick. Yeah,
and they take me over to brown or green?
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Can I tell you they still only have like three
pair in the husky section.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
And they'd wander me over to that one little just
pitiful neglected rack and you and Mama would say, you
want brown corroy pants, you want green, and.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
That was it.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
And he had big feet, so they had to mow
brogans in therefore, and could couldn't find any good shoes
get to wear never got to wear bucks.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Never.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
You know, they go here's some brown ones. I guess
that means to go back to the brown cordy. I
thought I'd rip it up and go green.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Yeah, And then you know.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yet, little fat, little fat kre rick, hear my corduroy,
little my big fat thighs rubbing together. One time I
finally found the most eggs and unfortunately started the fire
and milk.
Speaker 9 (24:06):
Scrambled them on the spot. Right, So I have a
lot of Easter trauma. And you know you gotta get
those Easter pictures out early. I mean I'm talking about
just as soon as they get them own, like picture time.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Well, because if you wait, it's dirty, the sons in
your eyes and the picture and I don't know, I
don't know who it is you.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
But when you're like us and you have a lot
of kids, there's always that one kid that can never
get the group picture. And for us, it is big
love he always he always waits the last minute, give
us some squinting look or you know, and then you
know he tries to do some weird face and you know,
you're like, let's try it again, and but thank for this.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
How do you defeat it? You just take enough pictures
you hope that you luck out. The worst thing for
our kids, the worst thing for our kids, I don't
know what it is.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
I guess they'll never be models. Don't let our kids
know the pictures coming. The best thing for our kids.
Just tell them to say, hey, y'all get together. Snap
and then right when they first get then you get
a picture of them looking natural, look looking sometimes you
look in at each other, but you do if you
you don't share, you just tell them to get it.
You know, you just start screaming. You know, I'll become
damnfo you get to that right, because yeah, I mean,
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if you try to make them pose, I don't know
what it is. My buns just can't pose. It's just
it's just not in their group. They can't do it.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Everybody's looking good in that one guy's looking at Yah.
We're just not big posers.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Just like look, you fire on them when you think
you've got everybody standing somewhat straight. So yeah, and don't
you dare you better get a picture before we ever
leave this this this this horrible mother mystery. And you
feel bad for moms that think they can get a
picture after church, you mind. I mean, that's not gonna
happen because by the time they come out of wherever
you send them, there's gonna be koolaid on it. You know,
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there's gonna be got a problem, you know, And I
had mine one time. I don't know how this happened.
I have to try to do a little vest or something.
No vest, you had a vest, you know, and it's
like what if you done? You know, you go in
there and find it under like a ground cracker table,
you know, stuff like that, somebody's chair on it, and
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incause really we dads don't care.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Our problem is y'all.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Don't do something that's gonna launch you mama like a
like a mama rocket, you.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Please just don't get her stirred up on Easter. You know,
let's all just anybody, Yeah, just anything that can.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
I said, Look, if mom made happy, none of us
are gonna be happy.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Can't we work together on this. Yeah, there's not don't
have to.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Run in there and tell her that something has happened.
Can't we just handle it locally?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
I mean, let's face it, you ever don't have to
tell her everything. Have you ever.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Raise your hand if you've ever had a hat and
you see chocolate get on the outfit and you try
to fix it.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Oh yeah, you try to fix it before they see it.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
And oh lot of spray paint over it just to
get through and.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Snap it.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Yeah, how about this one time a jack got chocolate
on it. I faked it like we knew it was lost.
I'd rather be lost to see that chilco.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
I don't know where the jacket went.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Honey, Let's don't do the jacket thing. It's too hot.
Because your jackets are cute.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Nah, I don't think I.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Wouldn't a musing jackets. I like them, and I like
them in that button it looks better. You didn't we
got to have the jacket? Nah?
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Why don't we just put jack and real quick you
snap out? You got a picture on taking off? That's good?
Do you? You know that kind of thing? So Rick,
while you're standing in front of the kids, you're taller
than find the.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
And then then there's then you ever had that horrible
feeling because you know Dad's always a good and dad
has to go find a suit.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
He wears every year, sure, and in the same same
one every year.
Speaker 9 (27:35):
He ever you you ever had with belt, the belt's
undone a little bit more every years.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
There's no need to have eight suits where it once
a year.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
No, here's the worst. Here's the worst about Tuesday. Hey,
I took your suit to the cleaner shops. Don't forget
to go by it and get it. You like it,
and s Sunday morning, everybody's fixed. Hey, if you go
and get suited on, let's get the family.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
And you go.
Speaker 11 (27:58):
You go, you go in there to the closet. Hey, honey,
I think I'm gonna wear jeans on Easter camera for Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
And then and then you try to do this, Hey,
you go get my suit, you try to throw it
stief maybe because they don't forget anybody. Yeah, I thought
you got No, I told you to go back and
get that suit. I told you Tuesday at four or fifteen,
you know like that.
Speaker 9 (28:18):
Then you're like, but no, on Thursday, remember you were
going through the kitchen and you had something, Yeah, I said,
somebody said, I said, somebody said, somebody going.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
To get it. Some one of them kids at college
sweats who did it.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
And unfortunately, to tell you, Betty has now learned to hate.
Somebody said, oh yeah, so I can. The minute I
say that it's a red flag goes up, but she's
not following it anymore. So what like somebody said, we're
not gonna have service today, right, but let's let's not.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
I'll say, let's all remember what easter really means. And
so if the picture goes bad, hey, it's okay.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
It's okay.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Let's don't talk about forgiving us all weak and then
not forgive your husband.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Jeddy wants to wear jeans, that's okay.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Right, I think, yeah, I mean just shooting for the
waist up and put the kids in front of it.
But put them up with the flowers and make camps
stand behind that boot. Rick and Bubba, do you remember
when when I separated or detached my bicep?
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Do you remember that? Yes? I do, Rick, not too
long ago.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
And you remember that my wife and I we were
headed for a big week to the beach uh for
father right after Father's Day weekend. So my wife had
to pick up the slack, you know, because in a
family there's all kinds of assignments, and most of the
time a dad is assigned. You're in charge of recreation, right,
you know, you're the recreational director and and all this
and and you remember Sherry after that said when she
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had to be the recreational director because I was, I was,
I was out and I had to you know, go
o there and you know, sit with the women and
you know, and Sunday.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
But I was, she said, I have a whole new respect.
She said.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
I thought, you know, taking care of the meals and
taking care of school and all the things we have
to do. I was led to believe that being recreational
director was just a bunch of fun, she said. And
I am totally exhausted. I did not realize what it
took to be we have to be recreational director. Well,
unfortunately I've healed. So I'm back to recreational director. Director.
For the big Easter celebration down at the farm, you know,
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four wheelers and fishing, I covered some of that, but
and you know, by the way, I don't know, you know,
with with kids, it must is this what it's like
speedy to work with, bubb and I you know, how
many times do you have to say if you're not
if you don't have the parking break on, it won't crank?
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Right?
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Hey, this one if it's not in neutral, you got that.
You're you're you're you gotta answers? Yes, yeah, right, yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Okay, so you know you you know, uh, you know
the one I laughed at from back when we when
we always made fun of me when we did the
Richard Petty driving experience, This actually happened. What the green
lights on? If it's in neutral? What green light that
one right there?
Speaker 4 (30:51):
Is it on?
Speaker 1 (30:52):
No? Sir, okay, well it's not neutral. I mean I
keep right, you know, keep gearing down till you get neutral.
So anyway, so this and then of course, you know,
you got the rookies, you know, and everybody of course
tells you they can ride, you know. Then then you
then you have to figure out that, you know, if
somebody can't make a turn and go right into the woods,
they probably haven't ridden before. So so we we finally
get all that done, you know, and we go through
that constantly pulling that four wheelers and hey, don't don't
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get on the trail. Hey guys, let's all go the
trail the same way, because if some of you go
to the trail this way and some go this way.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
You're gonna collide. But it's all we're gonna go. We're
going clockwise on the trail. Sheep fash, you know what
I mean. We all go the same So.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
There's all this going on, and so we start getting
down to the end of the day and I think I'm done.
I think, all right, I've got I've survived another big
recreational day with multiple children. And we get down and
at our farm there's a lot of well water, lots
of it. I mean, there's water underground and so all
there's there's hoses everywhere where. If you just pull down
on the well, it gives you water. You know, the
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pressure to the ground, so.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Uh oh, you push it down. Then here comes the
water sow up.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
And what used to be and what used to be
a horse corral, we have a basketball go and so
ball was breaking out and and I was relieved at that,
you know, of course, you know, then my oldest son
shows up on his way back to school, and you know,
he's over slamming over all the you know, the kids,
and then they're all crying foul and.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
That's not fair. He's playing the role of you. Yeah,
he's playing the role of me.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
But which was good because now I can disengage because
if you don't think I won't hand over a recreational
director to the older kids, you're out of your mind.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
So you were you were scared to go up against him.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Right, well no, so so so now now it is
better not to know though, But but so now look,
so now we're in the mode now people packing cars,
people packing cars. I mean, we're we're putting food left
over back in cars. Hey, we enjoyed it. Hey happy,
he's risen, you know, I mean, we're wrapping up and
you know, we're having a great Hey, yay, we enjoyed
it many And then you do all this stuff that
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that that never happens.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
I don't know why we say it. Hey, guys, we.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Don't don't need to be so much time between next
time we all do this, man, why why don't we
do this more?
Speaker 2 (32:53):
And then then you don't you know.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Then the same amount of time again, Yeah no, then
the same amount of time passes where you do it again,
that's you've never cut down that time, No matter what
you say, it's always about maybe six eight months to
a year, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
So anyway, so, so all of a sudden, I look.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
In the corral where the basketball was going on, and
I see one of my nephews and my two sons
and they've they've opened up well water and they're spraying
each other with a hoes.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Oh now we're get we're ready to getting cars.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Everybody's ready to go. So now we have three soaking
wet boys, and and and and and It's like I
should have, if I was wise and had learned from
years of parenting, I should have simply cut the water
off hand out any discipline that was due, tried to
find a way to get some tiles or something on
and put them in the car and took them on.
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That's what a veteran would do. But for some reason
I had to know why how they fought that was.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
A good idea.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
On the way home, ever interviewed your children and go
Now I got to know. So at what point did
you think, Hey, I think we'll turn the water own
and spray ourselves soaking wet right before getting in the car.
I mean, I said it was. I said, let me
ask you gay, look and you'd love big love. He
goes that, Hey, it's just water. It's just water.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
I said, I gotta know.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
But see water and cars and now you're soaking wet
and water makes you wet. Yeah, and and everybody's all wet.
And I said, you know, spraying each other with the
hose did not cross your mind? That might be something
we run past parents? Hey, Dad, do you care if
we cut this hose on and spray each other soaking
wet so we can get in your truck and get
it wet, or getting mom's car, you know, or or
you know, and and you know. And I said, did
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you never think, Hey, I think we'll ask somebody. No, sir,
we just you know what. I turned it on and
then we thought, hey, why don't we spray each other?
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Right?
Speaker 1 (34:42):
I get that, But what I'd understand how did you not?
How did you didn't check up on it?
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Where was the circuit break? Why didn't someone was there ever?
A moment?
Speaker 1 (34:50):
I said, So, I just find it odd that you
would go on your own. I'm gonna get water going,
and we're gonna spray each other from head to toe.
I said, that just seems like a check in thing
to me. That seems like a hey, I better ask somebody, right,
I mean, I said, you know, like like say, for
a minute, let's say y'all went around the pine and decide, Hey,
I'm gonna pick.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Up frog and start licking them. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
I mean, when you ask somebody, you know, when you
go to you dad, say hey, what do you think
about that? I said, I'd like y'all to know that
any decision from from this day Ford, I want y'all
to check it with me on everything. I said, I
want to know. I want to know, Hey, Dad, we're
moving from this room to the next one. And I
said because unless, I said, I mean, guys, do y'all
see that being soaking wet right now is a bad deal?
Speaker 2 (35:32):
You know, Dad is just to got to go in
and I mean, it's just water. It's gonna dry.
Speaker 7 (35:37):
Blue ricking bubba, ricking bubba.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
If you're married, you know, if your wife is the
is the host wife for families coming, man, you you
know you're you got to get out of the way.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
I mean, you got it.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
You gotta lay low and they gotta go to the
store and they gotta go get this, and I gotta
get ready, and I gotta get this cleaned up, and
this is going And so the boys and I get
up and we're all sleeping late, and Mama's not not there.
She's already gone out, and we're in there. I'm in
there cooking eggs and bacon, and Mama comes in and uh,
she'd even gone stopped by and picked up something.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Didn't know I was cooking. So we had great breakfast and.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
We're just, I mean, we're just we're fired up, sleeping
lake had nothing to do today, and she says, uh, hey,
why don't you and the boys? They won't y'all just
kind of have a day to day. I said, all right,
that sounds great, guys what we.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
Want to do?
Speaker 1 (36:26):
And hey, let's go, baby, but let's go bowling. All right, bowling,
We're going bowling. We're on bowl, all right done? Uh
what hey, Let's go to the mall. All right, let's
go to the mall about that sounds good. Hey, let's
go Let's go to uh you know, some kind of
arcade play?
Speaker 2 (36:39):
All right? I like that right there. Let's go down
the farm. All right done?
Speaker 1 (36:42):
And she says, oh, and and while you're out, she goes, Now,
they're older now, so it really shouldn't be that big
a deal, and they need something to wear for Easter.
And I said, well, I said, well what you got
to try them on her? At that age you don't
know what they can wear with the can't wear. And
I got things and just go one way. I got
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that a son. She said, I'll trust you to get
them whatever you think. Wow, mistake, And I'm like, So
then we get in the van and we're and you know,
we're we were all excited, you know what I mean,
And we were, we were fired up.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
And then it's like, because that's gonna take all day.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
And then you hear then you hear from the back
seat that is is that serious? And I said, I
guess so guys, wow dad? And I said, yeah, that's
what I'm thinking. Well can we? I said, let's let's
get that.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
And I know you you would be like me. The
first thing I think is does academy have dress pants? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (37:40):
And I'm doing and then and then she comes, you know,
then there's the the one lass, Hey, hey, won't you
just take them over to so and so so and
so they probably have everything there.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Now. She hit me with about five places.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
She meant check here, and then you may check other
places to get everything that needs shoes and and all that.
So you know, I hear, is, well, whatever that one
place this has got, that's where we're going.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Yeah, you're one stop shopper, because really you need to
get this wrapped up in two hours or it runs
the whole day.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Absolutely so, so that's hard to do. Yeah, I'm so,
you know, I'm I'm going in. I'm going in wide open,
and and it's almost like the minute that a dad
walks in, it's so rare, everybody in there almost sends
it alarm. Dad trying to buy Easter stuff. Dad trying
to be easter stuff. And he's extra. He he'll believe anything,
sell him anything. So so I was like, hey, guys,
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and you know, and you know what I ran into
again too. This is this thing that I can't stand. Hey,
do you want to you want one of our cards?
Speaker 4 (38:35):
No?
Speaker 1 (38:35):
I don't know. I don't want one of your card.
You save twenty percent to day, don't want to save
twenty percent? Don't want it. You don't want to save
twenty percent? I don't know, sure, don't don't want your card.
I want to grab something off these mannequins and I
want to be out of here.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
And and so my little boy to look like that mannequin.
And I want this young man to look like that.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Where is it at?
Speaker 1 (38:54):
So that's the that's that's the that's the that's the
first thing I think of. But I walk in and
I really thought it was kind of brilliant. I said,
look for annequins. And I go over there, and I go,
there's a manequem about big love size. And I look
over there and I say, y'all got that outfit? She said, well,
you know you can mix and match. I said, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, yes.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
I want my boy. It's ut.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
I went in to have a real face and not
not be some white face. I want him to look
I want my boy to look just like this mannequin, right,
because that looks awesome.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
You know, Rick, it's kind of an outfits to go
skim right, right. I would like to see there be
a store that had nothing but mannequins, right, yeah, And
you just pick which mannequin you look like.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
There's no racks, there's no clothes, all of it's.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
In the back.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Just bring it out.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
I said, I'd like to have those shorts and one
of those shirts. Does that match? And woman says, yes,
yes it does match. But we have what type of shorts?
Those shorts right there? I want that outfit. So we
go and get it. I said, all right, go try
that on, big love. Do I have to try it
on for if we go home and these don't fit,
Absolutely got to try it, so I So he goes
in there to try it on, and he's sitting there
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forever and I come in. I said, what are you doing?
He said, well, I'm trying to get all my necklaces
all on my my my arm back. I said, we're
trying it on. You don't put any of that stuff on.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
I want to see what it.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
All looks like with my necklaces and stuff. I said,
your mammy will let you wear them tomorrow. Anyway, that's out.
You don't get to wear your hipp and Coton necklaces.
That ain't gonna happen. You don't get to wear an
armband thing you got on either that that that don't count.
I just need to know if it fits. So I said,
what we're doing on shoes. Well, you know, we don't
really have a good selection. Hey, I will not go
anywhere else. You know, you can go so and so
not no, no, what shoes you got? I said, I
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tell you what, let's go standard boat shoes and and
and then they said, well you're you're not supposed to
wear socks with those. I said, yeah. My kids feet
sweat though, like mine. And I said, y'all got some
no sealms and she said I'm sorry. I said, you know,
no sealms, you got bugs? And she said, we don't
know it. I said, you know, some some kind of
socks you can't see but they're still covering the feet. Well,
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we have athletic socks that way. I said, no, you
don't have some dress no sealms. And she's like, sir,
we've never heard of the term dress no seals and
uh and and I said.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
Well I thought it was a bug.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
So you know, I get in. You know, look, you know,
so I get into because that's what I always need,
the bug. If you can't see something, it's caught a
no sealm. So I said, I said, all right, here's
the deal. Then we're gonna wear these shoes one time
you know, because if if they stink after that, I
just got to get through Easter, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
So then I turned around. She says, well, what about
the younger one.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
Uh? I said, you got you got another mannequin? And
she says, well, no, but she said we have and
and she says, we have we have something that's similar
to what this one has on. I said, well, for
the love of all it's good and kind don't match them. Well,
so so I went over and found, uh, found another
mannequin eventually, and I said that looks pretty good. Uh
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and and and so I'm walking around asking I said,
do these do these match? And uh, They're like, yes, yes,
that matches. And I said, why don't you make sure
you're good? Well, I said, you're a mother, aren't you. Yeah,
I said, if your husband comes on with these outfits
with their age, how how you feeling?
Speaker 2 (42:00):
She goes, I am amazingly surprised.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
That that that that you've that you've pulled this off.
And I said, now, cause my my first panic was
to go khaki pants and.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
A golf shirt. But I just that way you'll match that.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
Yeah, I felt like, yeah, I felt like that would
be a little predictable and uh so, so I actually
uh pulled it off. And then there's that moment when
you get home, you man, you got to get home.
And I said, I'm throwing them out here on the bed.
And she looks at him, and she looks at me,
and she looks at him. She goes, who helped you?
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I said, I just picked him off? The mannequins?
Speaker 2 (42:39):
What if they had last?
Speaker 3 (42:41):
What has had nothing but mannequins? Like you know that
Chinese army.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
That discovered you know, just just a hundred mannequins. You pay,
I won't number six.
Speaker 7 (42:48):
I'll take ricking bubba, ricking bubba.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
Adam, would you like to answer the question? How was
your Easter weekend? Guys? Guys?
Speaker 12 (43:00):
All right, so on Friday, we we're talking about good
we're talking about Good Friday.
Speaker 10 (43:07):
This past Good Friday.
Speaker 12 (43:09):
We had a little extra delivery with our breakfast in
the morning. Uh and that was a cake for Ruby Cake. Yeah,
Ruby turned two and we had two D Fruity as
the theme, because you got to have a theme for
a two year old's party, because what'll they do if
they don't have a theme?
Speaker 2 (43:26):
Absolutely you'll remember it, though they never would.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
We were sworn off getting into that cake, and we
took special care to be sure it got into your room.
Speaker 12 (43:34):
And no one tasted yes, and so it was a
pineapple cake and custom pineapple cake. That's what my wife
wanted for the centerpiece of the party, and so that's
what I did.
Speaker 2 (43:43):
Beautiful cake was the aggars. Folks can do amazing things. Cake.
What a beautiful cake.
Speaker 10 (43:49):
It was a beautiful cake, big and beautiful.
Speaker 12 (43:52):
In fact, they couldn't even get the top of the
box closed because of the pineapple leaves sticking up.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
Too beautiful.
Speaker 12 (43:59):
So I have a cake where I could, and it's
just sitting with me here.
Speaker 10 (44:03):
I finished work around maybe noon or so.
Speaker 12 (44:06):
I'm leaving work here on Friday, and I'm really worried
about the cake.
Speaker 10 (44:11):
I carry just the cake to my car, only the cake.
I felt like in the movie.
Speaker 3 (44:14):
You know how the bakers are, no matter how careful
they try to be something.
Speaker 1 (44:20):
You cannot blow the cake. You cannot let something super
Dad get it home. You need it if you mess
that cake up.
Speaker 12 (44:29):
So I get in my car white Lightning, as I
like to call it. It's my pretty old four runner.
But hey, it's been love it. It's It's been my
car for a long time and I love it. I
get to the big busy road right here, right by
the student it's to eighty. The light turns green. I'm
ready to cross to eighty. Yeah, here we go in
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the middle of the intersection. My car just goes.
Speaker 2 (44:54):
Oh no, I'm like.
Speaker 3 (44:56):
One of the busiest intersections Friday afternoon, on good Friday.
Speaker 2 (45:02):
Lost all power. It doesn't fall under good engine.
Speaker 10 (45:07):
Yes, my gas pedal is not doing anything.
Speaker 2 (45:10):
We've lost power. You immediately glanced at the.
Speaker 12 (45:12):
Cake and I'm like coasting in the intersection. Now, luckily
I had a little bit of a inertia to get
all the way across the road to the side of
the road, and so now I have crossed to eighty
and my car is dead. I'm on the side of
the road, not not a lot of room on the
side of the road.
Speaker 10 (45:30):
I'm out of them.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
So you're not blocking a line.
Speaker 10 (45:33):
I'm not blocking a lane.
Speaker 2 (45:34):
But a lot of folks are really coming close to you.
Speaker 3 (45:36):
Yes, shaking the car, yes, yeah, white lights down.
Speaker 10 (45:40):
I hate that feeling. By the way, do you guys
hate that feeling?
Speaker 2 (45:43):
Yes, we figure it's just a matter of time till
you buy.
Speaker 1 (45:46):
They tried to keep the traffic flow going on this
terrible road by coming up with the idea of multiple
U turns. And when you're sitting there waiting on your
U turn and the people going by you and it's
shaking your car every time, you think all they got
to do is look at one text and I'm dead
as a.
Speaker 3 (46:02):
Way that part he's talking about for six months.
Speaker 12 (46:07):
One pregnant man emoji and I'm done if somebody gets one.
Speaker 10 (46:12):
So I'm sitting on the side of the road, and
it was it was hot on Friday.
Speaker 12 (46:15):
It was weirdly on Friday, and so I'm I'm I'm
in a hot car with a cake. I'm sweating custom
pineapple cake. I look at the cake, I look at myself.
I'm sweating. I'm like, this cake is going to start
melting in the sun.
Speaker 10 (46:30):
What am I going to do? What am I going
to do?
Speaker 12 (46:33):
And so I call my wife, who was actually off
of work because it was good Friday, So she's hanging
out at home. She was she's she's ten minutes from
putting Ruby down for a nap. I call her, I got, hey,
I got this cake here. I'm stuck on the side
of the road. My car died, and she's like, well, okay,
then I'll come pick you up. So she's on her
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way and I'm in a car on the side of
the road. I'm like, what do I I can't sit
here this this cake is gonna melt. It's probably gonna
take her with traffic twenty five minutes.
Speaker 2 (47:03):
Or so to get somebody's holding up traffic, take.
Speaker 10 (47:06):
Somebody's causing problems.
Speaker 12 (47:08):
So I, guys, I get the cake out of my car,
on to eighty and I start walking.
Speaker 10 (47:17):
I am walking on the sideway.
Speaker 12 (47:19):
A busy road with a custom cake in my pineapple
cake in my hand.
Speaker 10 (47:23):
What do you think along the side of the road.
Speaker 2 (47:26):
Why do you think this is better?
Speaker 10 (47:27):
I was sitting in a hot car. I'm melting the
cakes melting.
Speaker 2 (47:31):
Well, you're gonna get out in the sun with it.
Speaker 12 (47:34):
I headed to there was a internet cable company, Like
right there, I can't walk practically. If I had not
gotten over to eighty, I could have probably walked back here. Yeah,
but I didn't want to have to walk across to
especially with the cake in my hand. No, So I'm
walking on the side of tow eighty with a cake.
Speaker 2 (47:51):
I could have just been coming. Yeah, I might have
just been drop would say about that pregnant man with
cake warning hazard.
Speaker 10 (48:03):
I'm just sweating. I'm just sweating so much like trying.
Speaker 2 (48:07):
How can it get anywhere?
Speaker 12 (48:08):
And so I walk in the closest building was this
internet cable company right there, and guys, I walked in
all sweaty with cake in my hand.
Speaker 2 (48:20):
This is the day we you know.
Speaker 12 (48:23):
I didn't know what to say. I'm just like and
they're like, hey, you need to I don't need help.
I'm waiting for my wife. I know I have a cake.
I know this is weird. My car is dead. It's
like right up on the hill there.
Speaker 2 (48:32):
Do you have a refrigerator in the break room?
Speaker 10 (48:34):
I just need y'all a c Thank you so much
for this air.
Speaker 1 (48:38):
How quick did you go into the immediate explanation of
why I'm a sweaty man with the cake?
Speaker 2 (48:44):
Cake?
Speaker 12 (48:44):
But I'm sweaty. She's too, She's really cute. I'm not
a weirdo. I know I look like one. I'm not
a lot of that talk.
Speaker 2 (48:50):
Right in cable.
Speaker 12 (48:53):
But they were so y'all. They were so sweet. I'm
not a normal customer. They were really sweet. They took pity.
I think they felt bad for me. Yeah, you need
some water, Like, what can we do for you? So
they were really kind of you.
Speaker 1 (49:10):
Oh they immediately thought you were a homeless man with
the cake.
Speaker 2 (49:14):
Yeah, good for him. Hey, it's speedy.
Speaker 9 (49:22):
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What's Good Friday all about? And I know we have
why and why is it called good Friday? If something
so uh so grotesque happened in history with the crucifixion
of this person called Jesus, who who claimed and don't
let anybody ever tell you this didn't happen, uh that.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
He he claimed that he was God.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Uh, he was one hundred percent man, one hundred percent God,
born of a virgin Uh tempted and lived a sinless
life in order to be the met the standard. Let's
talk about that first, that a holy God required. So
let's talk about that for just a minute. Because raise
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your hand out there. If you're driving, you can keep
one on the wheel. If you have ever heard anyone
say to you, you don't got to be perfect to
go to heaven, have you ever heard that that's actually
not true. We have to be perfect or we will
be rejected from heaven because perfection is the standard, because
God is holy, holy, holy, and sin cannot walk into
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the presence of a holy God, even the smallest, tiniest
amount of sin. So the standard is full righteousness, not partial.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
The other thing, always say, does God meet us right
where we are?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
He does but he didn't leave you there. He transforms you,
he changes you. And so how did that happen? Well,
the standard is perfection, and none of us are ever
going to be able to live a perfect life. So
that's where we look to God, who is holy, holy, holy,
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who is judgment, who is wrath, But praise God, thank you,
is also mercy, grace and love. Now, it is important
that we don't pick our favorite characteristic of God. I've
done that, that that has that has been corrected, because
what we do if we just say I don't want
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to hear about God's wrath, I don't want to hear
about his judgment, and I don't want to hear about
his holiness.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
We're human beings. I will tell you what we'll do.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
If we reject that, then when we hear about what
happened today and we hear about his mercy and his
grace and his love, will always cheapen it because we think, oh, okay, good,
so he's just mercy, grace and love. He went to
the cross, he died for me. Sounds good and and
but but if I look over here and I see
what I've been, what I've been redeemed from God's wrath,
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God's judgment, in God's holiness.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Once when I get to know God that, well, then
I'm really.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Really grateful for today and Sunday because now that grace
and now that mercy, and now that love is of
the highest value. You've probably heard this say before. You know,
our redemption may be free, but it ain't cheap. And
so another way to do that is when we think
about today, and you're gonna hear a lot about it.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
We've actually in the past shown you images of.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
The you know, portrayal of what it might have been
like for Jesus to take on God's wrath and go
to the cross and the wrath of his father poured
out on him, so that it would not be poured
out on those who would leave faith in their self
and put their faith in Christ and repent of their
sin and say, I want this gift that was given
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to me by the sacrifice of Jesus and the sacrifice
of God the Father on his own son, to give
us the opportunity to be shielded from that wrath and
that judgment. And that's offering to all who are willing
to repent and leave faith and self and put faith
in Jesus. So when you when you hear there's doctors
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that have talked about and you think about the horror
of the cross, and just you can't even fathom the
suffering of Jesus that happened on this day in history
many times. Which is fine, we'll look at that, and
this is perfectly okay. I'm just going to talk to
us all to maybe ask a little bit of a
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to make a little different.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Statement today, maybe than we've ever made.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Yes, we should look at this and say, look how gracious,
Look how merciful, look.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
How loving God?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Is nothing wrong with that. However, never forget to also
look at the brutality of the cross and say, look
how serious.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
A holy God takes sin.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
And I know in my life I went through most
of my life and I still struggle with it now
in my sanctification, looking at sin the way I look
at it. You know, think about Job, and we studied
that not long ago. So Job was called blameless and upright,
God allowed him to be refined by an attack from
Satan himself. And when he goes through all the suffering
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and all the refining and all the grinding, Job who
was who was called blameless and upright compared to other people.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
That's important.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
When he finally stood before God and saw God as
he truly was, Job said, well, before i'd heard of
you with my ears, and that was good enough for
me to be obedient to you. But now through this suffering,
I have seen your resume, and I have been reminded
who you are compared to who I am, and I
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see that you are a holy, holy, holy Job who
was called blameless and up right, said, now, compared to God,
I despise myself, and I repent and ashes in dust,
because compared to other people, I look pretty good. Compared
to God, I'm pretty nasty. So none of us can
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struct into heaven in front of God and say.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I think God's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Well, maybe compared to wicked people, we look pretty good,
but compared to God, we all look really bad. So
that's what you see on the cross. That's how much
God despises and is disgusted by sin, and so he
pours out his wrath on Jesus today, his son, so
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that those of us that are are willing to repent,
leave our own authority, confess Jesus as our lord, leave
faith in ourself, and place our faith in Jesus.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
The wrath of God then has been poured.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Out on our Lord, poured out on our Savior, and
won't be poured out on us. And that's why it's
called Good Friday, because Jesus was our only hope, and
the entire Bible is about this since the fall. And
he so remember he has to be one hundred percent God,
which he absolutely was and is, but he also had
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to be one hundred percent human at the same time,
born of a virgin so not to inherit the original sin.
So he could go to the cross today as the
final lamb.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Of the sacrificial system, fulfilling.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
It once and for all and entering us into the
new Covenant and the age of grace and mercy. And
if you look back at the Arc, when God said
that mankind had become so wicked that he regretted they
were ever made, and had read they were put on earth,
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and he offered one hundred and twenty years of mercy
for anybody to get on the art with Noah his family.
And for one hundred and twenty years everybody turned that down.
And for one hundred and twenty years Noah was saying,
get on the ark, get on the ark, Get on
the art. God's wrath is coming. And the New Covenant
today Jesus to tell us sty and the Gospel of
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John said it is finished.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I have paid the debt that the world owes.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
And now in the New Covenant, Jesus is the arc,
and we the Church are telling a dying world. Get
on the arc, Get on the ark, Get on the art.
God's wrath is coming again, and his wrath will be
poured on all who reject Jesus and his sacrifice and
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his payment for our sins. Those who repent and are
redeemed are now on the arc. Oh, God's wrath will
not be poured out on those that are redeemed. But
if you're not on the ark, and you're continuing to
reject this is truth and continuing to push back on
this gift from God, then God's wrath is going to
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be poured out on you.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
So I hope.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Today that as we were, as we understand Good Friday,
and we're so grateful for the the the sacrifice that
Jesus paid for all of us, and and and now.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Says here is the gift that if.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
You haven't gotten on the arc, and and you've heard
about the Cross, and then you've heard about Sunday. What
is Sunday about. Well, Jesus defeats sin. Today he pays
the price to Talisty, paid in full in Greek, which
is what he said from the cross. And then on
Sunday he says, Oh, by the way, I defeated eternal death.
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So so in me sins can be forgiven and life
can be eternal. And so I'm the only one that
can do that. So if you're not on the art,
get on the art. I mean, just right now, maybe
for the first time or the first time you've ever
meant it, you just want to say, Jesus, I repent
of my sin. I believe that you and you alone
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paid the debt that I owe, and I repent of
my sin. And I leave faith in myself and my
abilities to be good enough that has not that's led
to nowhere. And I leave faith in myself, and I
put my faith in your perfection, your full righteousness, which
is the standard. And I'm no longer going to be
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on it under my own authority. I'm gonna confess you
publicly the first opportunity I get. All right, now, if
there's people around you. I confess you Jesus as my Lord,
and I have believed in my heart, and I confess
with my mouth that you are Lord, and you and
you alone, And I just ask you to forgive me
because I know you and only you can do it,
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and only you have accomplished it. And I am begging
for the mercy and grace and the love of God,
and I want to be protected from his wrath. I
want to be right in front of a holy, holy
God in you. Scripture tells us that those words don't
save you, but they are all from scripture. But the
sincerity of your heart that only you and God know,
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will so that today was your day. Let us know
so we can pray for you, and that you can
completely fully understand and can say it a little bit different.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Today is absolutely good Friday. We'll be back.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Now.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land
of Egypt.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
For I will pass through the land of Egypt on
that night and will strike all the first born in
the land of Egypt, both and beast, and against all
the gods of Egypt. I will execute judgment. I am
the Lord. Now the blood shall be a sign for
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you on the houses where you are. And when I
see the blood, I will pass over you, and the
plague shall not be on you to destroy you when
I strike the land of Egypt. So this day shall
be to you a memorial, and you shall keep it
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as a feast to the Lord throughout your generations.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
The Gospel according to Mark.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
Immediately in the morning, the chief priests held a consultation
with the elders and scribes and the whole council, and
he bound Jesus, led him away and delivered him to Pilot.
Then Pilot ask.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Him, are you the king of the Jews?
Speaker 7 (12:57):
It is as you say. And the chief priests accused
him of many things, but he answered nothing.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Do you answer nothing? See how many things they testify
against you.
Speaker 7 (13:10):
But Jesus still answered nothing, so that Pilot marveled. Now
at the feast, he was accustomed to releasing one prisoner
to them whomever they requested, And there was one named Barabbas,
who was chained with his fellow rebels. They had committed
murder in the rebellion. Then the multitude, crying aloud, began
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to ask him to do just as he had always
done for them. But Pilot answered them, do you.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Want me to release to you the king of the Jews.
Speaker 7 (13:44):
For he knew that the chief priest had handed him
over because of envy. But the chief priest stirred up
the crowd so that he should rather release Barabas to them.
Speaker 8 (13:56):
What then, do you want me to do with him,
whom you call the king of the Jews?
Speaker 7 (14:00):
So they cried out again.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Why what evil has he done?
Speaker 7 (14:05):
But they cried out all the morning. So Pilot, wanting
to gratify the crowd, released Barabbas to them, and he
delivered Jesus. After he had scorched him to be crucified.
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Then the soldiers led him away into the hall called Praetorium,
and they called together the whole garrison, and they clothed
him with purple, and they twisted a crown of thorns,
put it on his head, and began to salute him
king of the jew Then they struck him on the
head with a reed and spat on him, and bowing
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the knee, they worshiped him. And when they had mocked him,
they took the purple off him, put his own clothes
on him, and let him out to crucify him. Then
they compelled a certain man Simon, a Serenian, the father
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of Alexander and Rufus. As he was coming out of
the country and passing by to bear his cross, and
they brought him to the place Golgatha, which is translated
place of a skull. Then they gave him wine mingled
with Mrrh to drink, but he did not take it.
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And when they crucified him, they divided his garments, casting
lots for them to determine what every man should take.
Now it was the third hour, and they crucified him,
and the inscription of his accusation was written above the
King of the Jews. With him, they also crucified two robbers,
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one on his right and the other on his left.
So the scripture was fulfilled, which says, and he was
numbered with the transgressors, and those who passed by blasphemed him,
wagging their heads and saying.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Aha, you who destroy the temple and build it in
three days, save yourself and come down from the cross.
Speaker 7 (16:22):
Likewise, the chief priests also mocking among themselves. With the scribes.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
He saved others himself. He cannot say.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Let the Christ, the King of Israel, descend now from
the cross, that we may see and believe.
Speaker 7 (16:36):
Even those who were crucified with him reviled him. Now,
when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over
the whole land until the ninth hour. And at the
ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying.
Speaker 9 (16:51):
Hello, Helloma, support the.
Speaker 7 (16:58):
Which is translated my God, My God, how have your
forsaken me. Some of those who stood by, when they
heard that, said.
Speaker 10 (17:13):
Look, he's calling for Elijah.
Speaker 7 (17:16):
Then someone ran and filled a sponge full of sour wine,
put it on a reed, and offered it to him
to drink. Let him alone, let us see if Elijah
will come to take him down. And Jesus cried out
with a loud voice and breathed his last. Then the
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veil of the temple was torn in two from top
to bottom. So when the cents you who stood opposite him,
saw that he cried out like this and leaves his last.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
He said, truly this man was the son of God.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
There were also women looking on from Afar, among whom
was Mary Magdalen, Mary the mother of James, the lesson
of Josees, and Salome, who also followed him and ministered
to him. When he was in Galilee and many other
women who came up with him to Jerusalem. Now, when
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evening had come, because it was the preparation day, that is,
the day before the Sabbath, Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent
council member, who was himself waiting for the Kingdom of
God coming and taking courage, went into Pilot and asked
for the body of Jesus. Pilot marveled that he was
already dead, and summoning the Centurion, he asked him if
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he had been dead for some time. So when he
found out from the Centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.
Then he bought fine linen, took him down and wrapped
him in the linen. And he laid him in a
tomb which had been hewn out of the rock, and
rolled a stone against the door of the tomb. And
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Mary Magdalen and Mary the mother of Josees observed where
he was laid. Now, when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalen,
Mary the mother of James, and Salomi bought spices that
they might come and anoint him. Very early in the
morning on the first day of the week. They came
to the tomb when the sun had risen, and they
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said among themselves, we'll roll away the stone from the
door of the tomb for us. But when they looked up,
they saw that the stone had been rolled away, for
it was very large. And entering the tomb, they saw
a young man clothed in a long white robe, sitting
on the right side, and they were alarmed.
Speaker 8 (20:09):
Do not be alarmed. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who
was crucified. He is risen. He is not here see
the place where they laid him. But go tell his
disciples and Peter that he is going before you into Galilee.
There you will see him as he said to you.
Speaker 7 (20:34):
So they went out quickly and fled from the tomb,
for they trembled and were amazed. And they said nothing
to anyone, for they were afraid.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Now.
Speaker 7 (20:42):
When he rose early on the first day of the week,
he appeared first to Mary Magdalen, out of whom he
had cast seven demons. She went and told those who
had been with him as they mourned and wept, And
when they heard that he was alive and had been
seen by her, they did not believe. After that, he
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appeared in another form to two of them, as they
walked and went into the country, and they went and
told it to the rest, but they did not believe
them either. Later he appeared to the eleven as they
sat at the table, and he rebuked their unbelief and
hardness of heart because they did not believe those who
had seen him.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
After he had risen, go into all the world and
preach the Gospel to every creature. He who believes and
is baptized will be saved, but he who does not
believe will be condemned.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
So then, after the Lord had spoken to them, he
was received up into heaven and sat down at the
right hand of God. And they went out and preached everywhere,
the Lord working with them and confirming the Word through
the accompanying signs.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Amen. Rick.
Speaker 9 (22:01):
One thing we never really touched on, uh, And I
love when you revisit this every year. Yes, but it's
kind of a it's kind of something you don't like
talking about. But when you were young, you said you
really never got any new Easter clothes to wear because
you really didn't have there was nothing in style, you know.
And and I remember Husky, no, not in.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Not in Husky. I had all kinds of yeah.
Speaker 9 (22:24):
Yeah, And Greg was talking about how he got really
cool stuff. I was like, don't let Rick hear that? Well,
you know, and then you just left him and they
put us in the new outfits too soon, and you'd
get him dirty before picture time.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Oh boy. Yeah, well it wasn't good for me. It
was you on the sleeve. I was always whip for
that here it was. Yeah, I was bad about that.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
And I didn't know he was a chewer.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
He was like a goat. How about this? Here's what
this would be my Easter trauma every year? Greg. Of course,
you know it was was a lean, little skinny kid.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
And a long time they go, they'd go into all
the little places where you get your little boys stuff,
and he would just all just selection through the roof.
I mean, you know, just some incredible outfits, and Mama
would just.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Match the animals up.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
And then they would look at me and they and
they and my mother would have to say, well, he
needs a husky, and uh, here's the two you can pick. Yeah,
and they take me over to brown or green?
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Can I tell you they still only have like three
pair in the husky section.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
And they'd wander me over to that one little just
pitiful neglected rack and you and Mama would say, you
want brown corroy pants, you want green, and.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
That was it.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
And he had big feet, so they had to mow
brogans in therefore, and could couldn't find any good shoes
get to wear never got to wear bucks.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Never.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
You know, they go here's some brown ones. I guess
that means to go back to the brown cordy. I
thought I'd rip it up and go green.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Yeah, And then you know.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yet, little fat, little fat kre rick, hear my corduroy,
little my big fat thighs rubbing together. One time I
finally found the most eggs and unfortunately started the fire
and milk.
Speaker 9 (24:06):
Scrambled them on the spot. Right, So I have a
lot of Easter trauma. And you know you gotta get
those Easter pictures out early. I mean I'm talking about
just as soon as they get them own, like picture time.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Well, because if you wait, it's dirty, the sons in
your eyes and the picture and I don't know, I
don't know who it is you.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
But when you're like us and you have a lot
of kids, there's always that one kid that can never
get the group picture. And for us, it is big
love he always he always waits the last minute, give
us some squinting look or you know, and then you
know he tries to do some weird face and you know,
you're like, let's try it again, and but thank for this.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
How do you defeat it? You just take enough pictures
you hope that you luck out. The worst thing for
our kids, the worst thing for our kids, I don't
know what it is.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
I guess they'll never be models. Don't let our kids
know the pictures coming. The best thing for our kids.
Just tell them to say, hey, y'all get together. Snap
and then right when they first get then you get
a picture of them looking natural, look looking sometimes you
look in at each other, but you do if you
you don't share, you just tell them to get it.
You know, you just start screaming. You know, I'll become
damnfo you get to that right, because yeah, I mean,
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if you try to make them pose, I don't know
what it is. My buns just can't pose. It's just
it's just not in their group. They can't do it.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Everybody's looking good in that one guy's looking at Yah.
We're just not big posers.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Just like look, you fire on them when you think
you've got everybody standing somewhat straight. So yeah, and don't
you dare you better get a picture before we ever
leave this this this this horrible mother mystery. And you
feel bad for moms that think they can get a
picture after church, you mind. I mean, that's not gonna
happen because by the time they come out of wherever
you send them, there's gonna be koolaid on it. You know,
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there's gonna be got a problem, you know, And I
had mine one time. I don't know how this happened.
I have to try to do a little vest or something.
No vest, you had a vest, you know, and it's
like what if you done? You know, you go in
there and find it under like a ground cracker table,
you know, stuff like that, somebody's chair on it, and
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incause really we dads don't care.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Our problem is y'all.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Don't do something that's gonna launch you mama like a
like a mama rocket, you.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Please just don't get her stirred up on Easter. You know,
let's all just anybody, Yeah, just anything that can.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
I said, Look, if mom made happy, none of us
are gonna be happy.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Can't we work together on this. Yeah, there's not don't
have to.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Run in there and tell her that something has happened.
Can't we just handle it locally?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
I mean, let's face it, you ever don't have to
tell her everything. Have you ever.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Raise your hand if you've ever had a hat and
you see chocolate get on the outfit and you try
to fix it.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Oh yeah, you try to fix it before they see it.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
And oh lot of spray paint over it just to
get through and.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Snap it.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Yeah, how about this one time a jack got chocolate
on it. I faked it like we knew it was lost.
I'd rather be lost to see that chilco.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
I don't know where the jacket went.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Honey, Let's don't do the jacket thing. It's too hot.
Because your jackets are cute.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Nah, I don't think I.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Wouldn't a musing jackets. I like them, and I like
them in that button it looks better. You didn't we
got to have the jacket? Nah?
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Why don't we just put jack and real quick you
snap out? You got a picture on taking off? That's good?
Do you? You know that kind of thing? So Rick,
while you're standing in front of the kids, you're taller
than find the.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
And then then there's then you ever had that horrible
feeling because you know Dad's always a good and dad
has to go find a suit.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
He wears every year, sure, and in the same same
one every year.
Speaker 9 (27:35):
He ever you you ever had with belt, the belt's
undone a little bit more every years.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
There's no need to have eight suits where it once
a year.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
No, here's the worst. Here's the worst about Tuesday. Hey,
I took your suit to the cleaner shops. Don't forget
to go by it and get it. You like it,
and s Sunday morning, everybody's fixed. Hey, if you go
and get suited on, let's get the family.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
And you go.
Speaker 11 (27:58):
You go, you go in there to the closet. Hey, honey,
I think I'm gonna wear jeans on Easter camera for Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
And then and then you try to do this, Hey,
you go get my suit, you try to throw it
stief maybe because they don't forget anybody. Yeah, I thought
you got No, I told you to go back and
get that suit. I told you Tuesday at four or fifteen,
you know like that.
Speaker 9 (28:18):
Then you're like, but no, on Thursday, remember you were
going through the kitchen and you had something, Yeah, I said,
somebody said, I said, somebody said, somebody going.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
To get it. Some one of them kids at college
sweats who did it.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
And unfortunately, to tell you, Betty has now learned to hate.
Somebody said, oh yeah, so I can. The minute I
say that it's a red flag goes up, but she's
not following it anymore. So what like somebody said, we're
not gonna have service today, right, but let's let's not.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
I'll say, let's all remember what easter really means. And
so if the picture goes bad, hey, it's okay.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
It's okay.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Let's don't talk about forgiving us all weak and then
not forgive your husband.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Jeddy wants to wear jeans, that's okay.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Right, I think, yeah, I mean just shooting for the
waist up and put the kids in front of it.
But put them up with the flowers and make camps
stand behind that boot. Rick and Bubba, do you remember
when when I separated or detached my bicep?
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Do you remember that? Yes? I do, Rick, not too
long ago.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
And you remember that my wife and I we were
headed for a big week to the beach uh for
father right after Father's Day weekend. So my wife had
to pick up the slack, you know, because in a
family there's all kinds of assignments, and most of the
time a dad is assigned. You're in charge of recreation, right,
you know, you're the recreational director and and all this
and and you remember Sherry after that said when she
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had to be the recreational director because I was, I was,
I was out and I had to you know, go
o there and you know, sit with the women and
you know, and Sunday.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
But I was, she said, I have a whole new respect.
She said.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
I thought, you know, taking care of the meals and
taking care of school and all the things we have
to do. I was led to believe that being recreational
director was just a bunch of fun, she said. And
I am totally exhausted. I did not realize what it
took to be we have to be recreational director. Well,
unfortunately I've healed. So I'm back to recreational director. Director.
For the big Easter celebration down at the farm, you know,
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four wheelers and fishing, I covered some of that, but
and you know, by the way, I don't know, you know,
with with kids, it must is this what it's like
speedy to work with, bubb and I you know, how
many times do you have to say if you're not
if you don't have the parking break on, it won't crank?
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Right?
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Hey, this one if it's not in neutral, you got that.
You're you're you're you gotta answers? Yes, yeah, right, yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Okay, so you know you you know, uh, you know
the one I laughed at from back when we when
we always made fun of me when we did the
Richard Petty driving experience, This actually happened. What the green
lights on? If it's in neutral? What green light that
one right there?
Speaker 4 (30:51):
Is it on?
Speaker 1 (30:52):
No? Sir, okay, well it's not neutral. I mean I
keep right, you know, keep gearing down till you get neutral.
So anyway, so this and then of course, you know,
you got the rookies, you know, and everybody of course
tells you they can ride, you know. Then then you
then you have to figure out that, you know, if
somebody can't make a turn and go right into the woods,
they probably haven't ridden before. So so we we finally
get all that done, you know, and we go through
that constantly pulling that four wheelers and hey, don't don't
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get on the trail. Hey guys, let's all go the
trail the same way, because if some of you go
to the trail this way and some go this way.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
You're gonna collide. But it's all we're gonna go. We're
going clockwise on the trail. Sheep fash, you know what
I mean. We all go the same So.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
There's all this going on, and so we start getting
down to the end of the day and I think I'm done.
I think, all right, I've got I've survived another big
recreational day with multiple children. And we get down and
at our farm there's a lot of well water, lots
of it. I mean, there's water underground and so all
there's there's hoses everywhere where. If you just pull down
on the well, it gives you water. You know, the
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pressure to the ground, so.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Uh oh, you push it down. Then here comes the
water sow up.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
And what used to be and what used to be
a horse corral, we have a basketball go and so
ball was breaking out and and I was relieved at that,
you know, of course, you know, then my oldest son
shows up on his way back to school, and you know,
he's over slamming over all the you know, the kids,
and then they're all crying foul and.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
That's not fair. He's playing the role of you. Yeah,
he's playing the role of me.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
But which was good because now I can disengage because
if you don't think I won't hand over a recreational
director to the older kids, you're out of your mind.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
So you were you were scared to go up against him.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Right, well no, so so so now now it is
better not to know though, But but so now look,
so now we're in the mode now people packing cars,
people packing cars. I mean, we're we're putting food left
over back in cars. Hey, we enjoyed it. Hey happy,
he's risen, you know, I mean, we're wrapping up and
you know, we're having a great Hey, yay, we enjoyed
it many And then you do all this stuff that
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that that never happens.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
I don't know why we say it. Hey, guys, we.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Don't don't need to be so much time between next
time we all do this, man, why why don't we
do this more?
Speaker 2 (32:53):
And then then you don't you know.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Then the same amount of time again, Yeah no, then
the same amount of time passes where you do it again,
that's you've never cut down that time, No matter what
you say, it's always about maybe six eight months to
a year, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
So anyway, so, so all of a sudden, I look.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
In the corral where the basketball was going on, and
I see one of my nephews and my two sons
and they've they've opened up well water and they're spraying
each other with a hoes.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Oh now we're get we're ready to getting cars.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Everybody's ready to go. So now we have three soaking
wet boys, and and and and and It's like I
should have, if I was wise and had learned from
years of parenting, I should have simply cut the water
off hand out any discipline that was due, tried to
find a way to get some tiles or something on
and put them in the car and took them on.
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That's what a veteran would do. But for some reason
I had to know why how they fought that was.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
A good idea.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
On the way home, ever interviewed your children and go
Now I got to know. So at what point did
you think, Hey, I think we'll turn the water own
and spray ourselves soaking wet right before getting in the car.
I mean, I said it was. I said, let me
ask you gay, look and you'd love big love. He
goes that, Hey, it's just water. It's just water.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
I said, I gotta know.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
But see water and cars and now you're soaking wet
and water makes you wet. Yeah, and and everybody's all wet.
And I said, you know, spraying each other with the
hose did not cross your mind? That might be something
we run past parents? Hey, Dad, do you care if
we cut this hose on and spray each other soaking
wet so we can get in your truck and get
it wet, or getting mom's car, you know, or or
you know, and and you know. And I said, did
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you never think, Hey, I think we'll ask somebody. No, sir,
we just you know what. I turned it on and
then we thought, hey, why don't we spray each other?
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Right?
Speaker 1 (34:42):
I get that, But what I'd understand how did you not?
How did you didn't check up on it?
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Where was the circuit break? Why didn't someone was there ever?
A moment?
Speaker 1 (34:50):
I said, So, I just find it odd that you
would go on your own. I'm gonna get water going,
and we're gonna spray each other from head to toe.
I said, that just seems like a check in thing
to me. That seems like a hey, I better ask somebody, right,
I mean, I said, you know, like like say, for
a minute, let's say y'all went around the pine and decide, Hey,
I'm gonna pick.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Up frog and start licking them. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
I mean, when you ask somebody, you know, when you
go to you dad, say hey, what do you think
about that? I said, I'd like y'all to know that
any decision from from this day Ford, I want y'all
to check it with me on everything. I said, I
want to know. I want to know, Hey, Dad, we're
moving from this room to the next one. And I
said because unless, I said, I mean, guys, do y'all
see that being soaking wet right now is a bad deal?
Speaker 2 (35:32):
You know, Dad is just to got to go in
and I mean, it's just water. It's gonna dry.
Speaker 7 (35:37):
Blue ricking bubba, ricking bubba.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
If you're married, you know, if your wife is the
is the host wife for families coming, man, you you
know you're you got to get out of the way.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
I mean, you got it.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
You gotta lay low and they gotta go to the
store and they gotta go get this, and I gotta
get ready, and I gotta get this cleaned up, and
this is going And so the boys and I get
up and we're all sleeping late, and Mama's not not there.
She's already gone out, and we're in there. I'm in
there cooking eggs and bacon, and Mama comes in and uh,
she'd even gone stopped by and picked up something.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Didn't know I was cooking. So we had great breakfast and.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
We're just, I mean, we're just we're fired up, sleeping
lake had nothing to do today, and she says, uh, hey,
why don't you and the boys? They won't y'all just
kind of have a day to day. I said, all right,
that sounds great, guys what we.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
Want to do?
Speaker 1 (36:26):
And hey, let's go, baby, but let's go bowling. All right, bowling,
We're going bowling. We're on bowl, all right done? Uh
what hey, Let's go to the mall. All right, let's
go to the mall about that sounds good. Hey, let's
go Let's go to uh you know, some kind of
arcade play?
Speaker 2 (36:39):
All right? I like that right there. Let's go down
the farm. All right done?
Speaker 1 (36:42):
And she says, oh, and and while you're out, she goes, Now,
they're older now, so it really shouldn't be that big
a deal, and they need something to wear for Easter.
And I said, well, I said, well what you got
to try them on her? At that age you don't
know what they can wear with the can't wear. And
I got things and just go one way. I got
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that a son. She said, I'll trust you to get
them whatever you think. Wow, mistake, And I'm like, So
then we get in the van and we're and you know,
we're we were all excited, you know what I mean,
And we were, we were fired up.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
And then it's like, because that's gonna take all day.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
And then you hear then you hear from the back
seat that is is that serious? And I said, I
guess so guys, wow dad? And I said, yeah, that's
what I'm thinking. Well can we? I said, let's let's
get that.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
And I know you you would be like me. The
first thing I think is does academy have dress pants? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (37:40):
And I'm doing and then and then she comes, you know,
then there's the the one lass, Hey, hey, won't you
just take them over to so and so so and
so they probably have everything there.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Now. She hit me with about five places.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
She meant check here, and then you may check other
places to get everything that needs shoes and and all that.
So you know, I hear, is, well, whatever that one
place this has got, that's where we're going.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Yeah, you're one stop shopper, because really you need to
get this wrapped up in two hours or it runs
the whole day.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Absolutely so, so that's hard to do. Yeah, I'm so,
you know, I'm I'm going in. I'm going in wide open,
and and it's almost like the minute that a dad
walks in, it's so rare, everybody in there almost sends
it alarm. Dad trying to buy Easter stuff. Dad trying
to be easter stuff. And he's extra. He he'll believe anything,
sell him anything. So so I was like, hey, guys,
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and you know, and you know what I ran into
again too. This is this thing that I can't stand. Hey,
do you want to you want one of our cards?
Speaker 4 (38:35):
No?
Speaker 1 (38:35):
I don't know. I don't want one of your card.
You save twenty percent to day, don't want to save
twenty percent? Don't want it. You don't want to save
twenty percent? I don't know, sure, don't don't want your card.
I want to grab something off these mannequins and I
want to be out of here.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
And and so my little boy to look like that mannequin.
And I want this young man to look like that.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Where is it at?
Speaker 1 (38:54):
So that's the that's that's the that's the that's the
first thing I think of. But I walk in and
I really thought it was kind of brilliant. I said,
look for annequins. And I go over there, and I go,
there's a manequem about big love size. And I look
over there and I say, y'all got that outfit? She said, well,
you know you can mix and match. I said, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, yes.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
I want my boy. It's ut.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
I went in to have a real face and not
not be some white face. I want him to look
I want my boy to look just like this mannequin, right,
because that looks awesome.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
You know, Rick, it's kind of an outfits to go
skim right, right. I would like to see there be
a store that had nothing but mannequins, right, yeah, And
you just pick which mannequin you look like.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
There's no racks, there's no clothes, all of it's.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
In the back.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Just bring it out.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
I said, I'd like to have those shorts and one
of those shirts. Does that match? And woman says, yes,
yes it does match. But we have what type of shorts?
Those shorts right there? I want that outfit. So we
go and get it. I said, all right, go try
that on, big love. Do I have to try it
on for if we go home and these don't fit,
Absolutely got to try it, so I So he goes
in there to try it on, and he's sitting there
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forever and I come in. I said, what are you doing?
He said, well, I'm trying to get all my necklaces
all on my my my arm back. I said, we're
trying it on. You don't put any of that stuff on.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
I want to see what it.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
All looks like with my necklaces and stuff. I said,
your mammy will let you wear them tomorrow. Anyway, that's out.
You don't get to wear your hipp and Coton necklaces.
That ain't gonna happen. You don't get to wear an
armband thing you got on either that that that don't count.
I just need to know if it fits. So I said,
what we're doing on shoes. Well, you know, we don't
really have a good selection. Hey, I will not go
anywhere else. You know, you can go so and so
not no, no, what shoes you got? I said, I
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tell you what, let's go standard boat shoes and and
and then they said, well you're you're not supposed to
wear socks with those. I said, yeah. My kids feet
sweat though, like mine. And I said, y'all got some
no sealms and she said I'm sorry. I said, you know,
no sealms, you got bugs? And she said, we don't
know it. I said, you know, some some kind of
socks you can't see but they're still covering the feet. Well,
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we have athletic socks that way. I said, no, you
don't have some dress no sealms. And she's like, sir,
we've never heard of the term dress no seals and
uh and and I said.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
Well I thought it was a bug.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
So you know, I get in. You know, look, you know,
so I get into because that's what I always need,
the bug. If you can't see something, it's caught a
no sealm. So I said, I said, all right, here's
the deal. Then we're gonna wear these shoes one time
you know, because if if they stink after that, I
just got to get through Easter, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
So then I turned around. She says, well, what about
the younger one.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
Uh? I said, you got you got another mannequin? And
she says, well, no, but she said we have and
and she says, we have we have something that's similar
to what this one has on. I said, well, for
the love of all it's good and kind don't match them. Well,
so so I went over and found, uh, found another
mannequin eventually, and I said that looks pretty good. Uh
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and and and so I'm walking around asking I said,
do these do these match? And uh, They're like, yes, yes,
that matches. And I said, why don't you make sure
you're good? Well, I said, you're a mother, aren't you. Yeah,
I said, if your husband comes on with these outfits
with their age, how how you feeling?
Speaker 2 (42:00):
She goes, I am amazingly surprised.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
That that that that you've that you've pulled this off.
And I said, now, cause my my first panic was
to go khaki pants and.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
A golf shirt. But I just that way you'll match that.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
Yeah, I felt like, yeah, I felt like that would
be a little predictable and uh so, so I actually
uh pulled it off. And then there's that moment when
you get home, you man, you got to get home.
And I said, I'm throwing them out here on the bed.
And she looks at him, and she looks at me,
and she looks at him. She goes, who helped you?
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I said, I just picked him off? The mannequins?
Speaker 2 (42:39):
What if they had last?
Speaker 3 (42:41):
What has had nothing but mannequins? Like you know that
Chinese army.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
That discovered you know, just just a hundred mannequins. You pay,
I won't number six.
Speaker 7 (42:48):
I'll take ricking bubba, ricking bubba.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
Adam, would you like to answer the question? How was
your Easter weekend? Guys? Guys?
Speaker 12 (43:00):
All right, so on Friday, we we're talking about good
we're talking about Good Friday.
Speaker 10 (43:07):
This past Good Friday.
Speaker 12 (43:09):
We had a little extra delivery with our breakfast in
the morning. Uh and that was a cake for Ruby Cake. Yeah,
Ruby turned two and we had two D Fruity as
the theme, because you got to have a theme for
a two year old's party, because what'll they do if
they don't have a theme?
Speaker 2 (43:26):
Absolutely you'll remember it, though they never would.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
We were sworn off getting into that cake, and we
took special care to be sure it got into your room.
Speaker 12 (43:34):
And no one tasted yes, and so it was a
pineapple cake and custom pineapple cake. That's what my wife
wanted for the centerpiece of the party, and so that's
what I did.
Speaker 2 (43:43):
Beautiful cake was the aggars. Folks can do amazing things. Cake.
What a beautiful cake.
Speaker 10 (43:49):
It was a beautiful cake, big and beautiful.
Speaker 12 (43:52):
In fact, they couldn't even get the top of the
box closed because of the pineapple leaves sticking up.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
Too beautiful.
Speaker 12 (43:59):
So I have a cake where I could, and it's
just sitting with me here.
Speaker 10 (44:03):
I finished work around maybe noon or so.
Speaker 12 (44:06):
I'm leaving work here on Friday, and I'm really worried
about the cake.
Speaker 10 (44:11):
I carry just the cake to my car, only the cake.
I felt like in the movie.
Speaker 3 (44:14):
You know how the bakers are, no matter how careful
they try to be something.
Speaker 1 (44:20):
You cannot blow the cake. You cannot let something super
Dad get it home. You need it if you mess
that cake up.
Speaker 12 (44:29):
So I get in my car white Lightning, as I
like to call it. It's my pretty old four runner.
But hey, it's been love it. It's It's been my
car for a long time and I love it. I
get to the big busy road right here, right by
the student it's to eighty. The light turns green. I'm
ready to cross to eighty. Yeah, here we go in
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the middle of the intersection. My car just goes.
Speaker 2 (44:54):
Oh no, I'm like.
Speaker 3 (44:56):
One of the busiest intersections Friday afternoon, on good Friday.
Speaker 2 (45:02):
Lost all power. It doesn't fall under good engine.
Speaker 10 (45:07):
Yes, my gas pedal is not doing anything.
Speaker 2 (45:10):
We've lost power. You immediately glanced at the.
Speaker 12 (45:12):
Cake and I'm like coasting in the intersection. Now, luckily
I had a little bit of a inertia to get
all the way across the road to the side of
the road, and so now I have crossed to eighty
and my car is dead. I'm on the side of
the road, not not a lot of room on the
side of the road.
Speaker 10 (45:30):
I'm out of them.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
So you're not blocking a line.
Speaker 10 (45:33):
I'm not blocking a lane.
Speaker 2 (45:34):
But a lot of folks are really coming close to you.
Speaker 3 (45:36):
Yes, shaking the car, yes, yeah, white lights down.
Speaker 10 (45:40):
I hate that feeling. By the way, do you guys
hate that feeling?
Speaker 2 (45:43):
Yes, we figure it's just a matter of time till
you buy.
Speaker 1 (45:46):
They tried to keep the traffic flow going on this
terrible road by coming up with the idea of multiple
U turns. And when you're sitting there waiting on your
U turn and the people going by you and it's
shaking your car every time, you think all they got
to do is look at one text and I'm dead
as a.
Speaker 3 (46:02):
Way that part he's talking about for six months.
Speaker 12 (46:07):
One pregnant man emoji and I'm done if somebody gets one.
Speaker 10 (46:12):
So I'm sitting on the side of the road, and
it was it was hot on Friday.
Speaker 12 (46:15):
It was weirdly on Friday, and so I'm I'm I'm
in a hot car with a cake. I'm sweating custom
pineapple cake. I look at the cake, I look at myself.
I'm sweating. I'm like, this cake is going to start
melting in the sun.
Speaker 10 (46:30):
What am I going to do? What am I going
to do?
Speaker 12 (46:33):
And so I call my wife, who was actually off
of work because it was good Friday, So she's hanging
out at home. She was she's she's ten minutes from
putting Ruby down for a nap. I call her, I got, hey,
I got this cake here. I'm stuck on the side
of the road. My car died, and she's like, well, okay,
then I'll come pick you up. So she's on her
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way and I'm in a car on the side of
the road. I'm like, what do I I can't sit
here this this cake is gonna melt. It's probably gonna
take her with traffic twenty five minutes.
Speaker 2 (47:03):
Or so to get somebody's holding up traffic, take.
Speaker 10 (47:06):
Somebody's causing problems.
Speaker 12 (47:08):
So I, guys, I get the cake out of my car,
on to eighty and I start walking.
Speaker 10 (47:17):
I am walking on the sideway.
Speaker 12 (47:19):
A busy road with a custom cake in my pineapple
cake in my hand.
Speaker 10 (47:23):
What do you think along the side of the road.
Speaker 2 (47:26):
Why do you think this is better?
Speaker 10 (47:27):
I was sitting in a hot car. I'm melting the
cakes melting.
Speaker 2 (47:31):
Well, you're gonna get out in the sun with it.
Speaker 12 (47:34):
I headed to there was a internet cable company, Like
right there, I can't walk practically. If I had not
gotten over to eighty, I could have probably walked back here. Yeah,
but I didn't want to have to walk across to
especially with the cake in my hand. No, So I'm
walking on the side of tow eighty with a cake.
Speaker 2 (47:51):
I could have just been coming. Yeah, I might have
just been drop would say about that pregnant man with
cake warning hazard.
Speaker 10 (48:03):
I'm just sweating. I'm just sweating so much like trying.
Speaker 2 (48:07):
How can it get anywhere?
Speaker 12 (48:08):
And so I walk in the closest building was this
internet cable company right there, and guys, I walked in
all sweaty with cake in my hand.
Speaker 2 (48:20):
This is the day we you know.
Speaker 12 (48:23):
I didn't know what to say. I'm just like and
they're like, hey, you need to I don't need help.
I'm waiting for my wife. I know I have a cake.
I know this is weird. My car is dead. It's
like right up on the hill there.
Speaker 2 (48:32):
Do you have a refrigerator in the break room?
Speaker 10 (48:34):
I just need y'all a c Thank you so much
for this air.
Speaker 1 (48:38):
How quick did you go into the immediate explanation of
why I'm a sweaty man with the cake?
Speaker 2 (48:44):
Cake?
Speaker 12 (48:44):
But I'm sweaty. She's too, She's really cute. I'm not
a weirdo. I know I look like one. I'm not
a lot of that talk.
Speaker 2 (48:50):
Right in cable.
Speaker 12 (48:53):
But they were so y'all. They were so sweet. I'm
not a normal customer. They were really sweet. They took pity.
I think they felt bad for me. Yeah, you need
some water, Like, what can we do for you? So
they were really kind of you.
Speaker 1 (49:10):
Oh they immediately thought you were a homeless man with
the cake.
Speaker 2 (49:14):
Yeah, good for him. Hey, it's speedy.
Speaker 9 (49:22):
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