More televangelist talk

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
If you're on my Facebook page, you saw a picture
that I posted from earlier today. The Queen just kind
of caught me and we were outside downtown Columbus this morning,
and I just I looked at the picture and I
liked to, I say, you know, I'm going to post this,
and lots and lots of compliments. One one kind of
snarky comment, but then lots and lots of compliments. But

(00:21):
Mark and I were talking about AI being involved in everything.
Facebook now has AI summaries of your post. Have you
seen this?

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Yes, I've seen them.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Commenters praise the author's transformation and confidence boost, admiring his
sharp appearance and jacket. Many note his youthful look, with
one suggesting a GQ cover feature. Congratulations and pride abound,
highlighting his journey's positive impact. That's how Facebook sees that.

(00:58):
I didn't need that. I think it's great what you
like the AI.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
No, just just that your your comment that AI gave you, oh,
you know whatever, And the.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Picture was sharp than I.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
And I'm real transparent with people. I try to be
just you know, flat out honest. It's been years since
I've seen myself a picture of myself and went I
look nice, I look good. I like what I And
it just hit me today when she showed me that picture,
I'm like, wow, I've changed. I like what I see.

(01:35):
So I shared the picture and it uh yeah, it's
hard to believe that that is me. That's wow. So
uh anyway, thanks for all the compliments. I appreciate that,
I really do. It made me. Uh, it made me
feel good to see the picture and to see so
many people saying such very nice things. Then, as I

(01:57):
said in the Facebook post between Awake and one and
eighty and Van's way here Systems, Yeah, I'm I can't
believe a year ago. Wow, it's hard A two I
did eight six, a two y WTV and now a
couple of things on the table poking fun. I guess
at the Televangels the other night, the Auctioneer Televangels. I

(02:18):
woke up, the TV was on and the guys just going,
can I get can I now let me heal those
phones ring right now? Six hundred dollars. We're gonna plant
plant that church right now? Six hundred? Can I get
six hundred? Give me six hundred? And I'm like, you've
got to be kidding me. It sounded like an auction.
It really did. And of course they have all the
fake phones ringing in the background. Listen to those phones.

(02:39):
Listen those phones. There's another six hundred, there's another six
And I'm thinking, what gullible people are up in the
middle of the night sending this person miney.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
I do feel sorry for the people who send money
when they're clearly ridiculous. But I just personally what I'm
setting there, what I see those, it just.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Makes me laugh.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
I believe in helping your church. I belie leave you know,
tith into your church and and in your community and
doing it. But these people, look, when you're spending five
million dollars a year to do a TV show and
come out and I'm sorry, but the person that you
were supposed to be worshiping had a robe and some

(03:20):
sandals and if he was lucky of every now and then,
had a meal. And uh, these these these money guys
just they bugged me. They really do a two one WUTV.
And is the number John's been hanging on through the
break here, Let's get him on. John, You're on six
ten double UTV at height.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
Hi, I was calling about televangelists. Uh, we actually had
one here in Columbus on Gender Road at the World Harvest.
His name was Rob Parsley.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yeah he's still right.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
Yeah, well he shouldn't be, because what he used to
do is once he started asking for money, he would
lock the doors.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
Were you a miser there.

Speaker 4 (04:01):
No, my mother in law was, and she invited me
one time and I I'm sitting there and I go,
what's going on? And she goes, well, he shuts the
doors to make sure that everyone gives some money.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
Oh my gosh, I've never heard that before. But hey,
you know what I after they got on TV and
I don't know. I don't question. If I don't see it,
I don't believe it.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
Somebody's like I'm leaving. They're like, no, here's the basket.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
I've never heard that story before. But like I said,
if I don't see it, I don't that seems pretty extreme.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
I mean, it's not out of the rabble possible. Maybe
he did it. It's like we're going to close the
doors here for a few minutes to make sure.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
I mean, I don't know, but there's no way they
could force people to donate money.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yeah, there's back with I went back in the seventies,
there was a guy he was if you've ever seen
was it Eddie Murphy or Martin Lawrence who did the
might be in Arsenio Hall did a preacher in a
movie was and it reminded me of this guy from

(05:13):
back in the seventies that my mother always just went
whatever he was on television. They called him Reverend Ike.
I have no idea what his name was or anything,
but I remember, you know, he was, you know, flashing
glam and cadillacs and gold everything and that kind of thing,
and that every time I see that, I think it
was our city Hall. The more I'm thinking about this

(05:34):
image in my head that does this pastor character, and
I do not remember Reverend Ike as a visual. I
just remember my mother's reaction to him. Now. By the
same token, if Billy Graham was on, he usually did
like three nights of the Billy Graham Crusade, and she'd

(05:55):
be glued to it. She loved Billy Graham and his
son has kind of killed carried on, and I got
to be honest with you, I've never I've never heard
anything nasty about him. There was some people who said
Billy Graham, I guess had some points of view when
it came to race relations. I think during the Nixon administration,

(06:15):
if I'm not mistaken, that he expressed to the president
that a lot of folks find arguable or disagreeable. But
aside from that, I never heard anything about him that
was I thought, you know, super bad. And his son
Franklin has carried on. They do something called Samaritans Perse
that I've participated in quite a few times at Christmas time,

(06:40):
Operation Christmas Child and that kind of thing, And I
just I don't know. They seem pretty genuine to me.
I just don't feel like they're living large. But some
of them sick, give me sick, kind of make the
phone ring right now, give me sick that. Yeah, I
can do without that guy.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
Yeah, some of them are. What's the one dude, Kenneth Copeland.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
Kenneth Copeland, He's He's like, I have to fly in
this in this private plane because there's damons on there.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
There's damons on the regular plane I got flying.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
Did he really say that?

Speaker 4 (07:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (07:12):
Oh my gosh, I remember, uh Oral Roberts who used
to be he was big. He's I mean Oral Roberts University.
He he fell out of grace with a lot of people,
including myself. When he he said that he had had
a vision and the Lord had told him if he
didn't get eight million dollars, I think it was, he'd
be called home.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
What so he needed that exact he just knew the
exact amount. Yeah, well he was in debt.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah, the Lord don't give coupons. Yeah, you needed the
whole email. But yeah that I was like, really, that's
just that's wrong.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
I mean when you put a number on it, I
find it a little odd, a little specific too.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
Yeah. And was it swaggered? Was it swaggered with the prostitute?

Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (08:03):
Absolutely? And yeah you did. Man, you're done, You're done.
And was he Jerry Lee Lewis's cousin, Yes, he was,
so to quote Hank Junior, it's an old family tradition.
I'm just saying, Yeah, I know.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
Jim Baker had a food bucket for a while, did
he really?

Speaker 4 (08:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (08:25):
I remember the bucket.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
He'd sell a food bucket like you could get it
and it would be good for did you never know
when end is an air?

Speaker 1 (08:32):
Just the amount of money they spent on Tammy's makeup, Oh,
to be in the eight digits.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
Maybe that's yeah. Wow, maybe Oral was trying to help
with the makeup.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
You remember, see again, you're too young to remember this.
When Jim and Tammy Faye were real big, I mean
real big, there were there were t shirts and they
just had a bunch of colors on the front of them,
like just like, uh, I don't know Picasso painting man,
just a bunch of colors and it said I ran
did Tammy Faye at the mall?

Speaker 2 (09:05):
That's awesome.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah, if you still got one of those search you
can probably make somebody on there.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
Oh that's great.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
Are you serious? You're playing music already?

Speaker 2 (09:13):
Yeah, I mean we got plenty of time. I just
want this to be over with.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
Oh well, I really can't blame you. You're gonna go
home and play with your hair.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah, all sorts of h herity of stuff I want
to do, And I get.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
That's something else. If you're on Facebook, if you haven't
been on there for a few hours, go on there
and it'll show up on my page because he tagged me.
But Zach, speaking of televangelist all seriously, all he needs
is a white robe and some sandals for his Halloween
costume because he's he's got it going on with his
hair man, you're not. I thought mine was impressive. Zach

(09:47):
is impressive.