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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Welcome to the
dangerous faith podcast.
My name is Nate Williams.
We have Blake with us.
Are you good, Blake?
Are you all right?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
No, I'm not doing
fine at all.
No, we have.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Zeke, chloe and
Mariah Glad to have them with me
and we're talking about 2025.
It's a blank slate.
Nothing's happened yet, thankgoodness, but also good bad ugly
.
Who knows what is in store for2025.
Obviously giving it to God andwanting him to guide us, but
welcoming everyone onto the showand we're going to ask all
(00:44):
right, what does a successful, agood, successful 2025 look like
for you, if things go your way,so to speak?
We know God can do what he'lldo, but if things go your way,
what will this next year looklike Anyone want to jump in.
I just want to pass all myclasses.
Look like Anyone want to jumpin.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I just want to pass
all my classes.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Chloe wants to pass
all her classes with B's right.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Yes, b's make PT's.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
B's make PT's.
That's clever.
No, if we get a C we
Speaker 4 (01:15):
get kicked out.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Oh what.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
That's kind of lame.
She's never made a B, so itdoesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
There we go, zeke
with some needed context there.
Never makes a B.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I think Chloe would
become an atheist before she got
a B.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
That's the
impossibility of it.
That's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Chloe, what GPA did
you have during?
Speaker 5 (01:35):
your bachelor's.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
I could not speak
English.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
What was your?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
GPA during your
bachelor's.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I need to know Zeke
what was it 4.0.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
4.0 there we go.
Remember, she got a magnum cumlaude, yes, so chloe successful
2025 will be passing her classesand just getting through,
getting through honestly, yeahall right anyone
Speaker 1 (02:01):
else uh gettingake
back to platinum forget it, just
throw that away, just throw itaway for our audience zeke.
What does that mean?
Speaker 5 (02:11):
blake's just really
bad at video games, so helping
him improve would make it morefun for me and specifically what
kind of video game in this case?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
car soccer, car
soccer car soccer, also known as
rocket league all the games tobe bad at.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Car soccer For me I
mean you said it before we
started Once you've reachedperfection, there's just nowhere
to go from there, zeke has noarea to improve.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
I would say.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
I do want to.
I've got some health goals I'dlike to hit, so get stronger,
get healthier, get faster.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Stronger, better,
faster, stronger.
I was about to say that, do it.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Alright, so Zeke
wants to get healthier and
faster, and all that jazz,you're learning jazz, I said.
And all that jazz?
I was like, yeah, all the jazzI'm learning.
Good job, zeke.
Oh, oh, you're learning jazz.
Oh, what I said.
And all that jazz, oh, I waslike yeah, all the jazz I'm
learning.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Good job, zeke.
Yeah, thank you.
Go off, king.
Oh, I remember.
Yes, hold on, let me cook.
All right, let him cook, go off.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
King, let me cook.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Since I choked y'all
wouldn't get it, our outpost it
doing well.
That would be pretty cool Ihope that we get at least two
people.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Zeke, do you want to
explain what our outpost is?
Speaker 5 (03:35):
So stand to reason.
A slightly bigger platform thanwhat we have here has a chill
All right.
So they have a thing where theyallow lay people to help start
apologetic outposts in localcommunities.
We've talked about before, Ithink, on podcasts, but
essentially we're starting onefor Coleman where people can
(03:56):
come and learn how to answerdifficult questions or questions
that they've had for a longtime about the faith and stuff
like that, and not just aboutthe faith but also about culture
and society, how to stand upfor your faith, et cetera, et
cetera.
So we're hoping to be aresource for the county of
Coleman, alabama.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Pretty cool.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
We would love at
least two people besides us show
up.
Well, not including Chloe.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yes, so local
training and apologetics so that
we can go out and tell peopleabout Jesus.
All right, Mariah 2025 goeswell.
What does it look like for you?
Speaker 4 (04:31):
I want to try
something new as in like, um,
like something hard that I'venever done before, like either a
5k or an aerial silks class orlike I don't know something,
physically but also mentally, uh, strenuous.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
So something
challenging and in a spirit that
wasn't that building first offthat wasn't a laugh of mocking.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I just thought that
that's kind of cool because
that's what we're doing.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
It was a laugh of you
made this really big build-up
and the conclusion was a 5K,which is fine.
It's just not what we expected.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
That is challenging.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
It is challenging.
I was just surprised I thinkthat's a great goal.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
To be fair, Blake
laughed, but he's never ran one
without throwing up.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Literally.
That's why I laughed was I waslike, oh my gosh, I'm doing a 5K
right now.
That was cool.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
What a coincidence.
Blake was mocking you.
I was not mocking you Speakingof 5Ks.
There's one in June or July.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I'm going to help bag
Mariah up because I have a goal
next year also to take my 5Ktime down from a 34 minute to 30
minute and I'm going to run itnext year in.
July Already beat you, yeah,July Well of course you're a guy
, you can beat me.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
She also doesn't make
me sprint and I don't have to
stop any I don't make her doanything.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
That's good,
congratulations.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
I think these are
great goals and we need to
encourage them.
I encourage them.
I think that's just really cool.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
You should come run
with us.
Laugh at them, Blake.
Yeah, Justin needs someone torun with him.
I'll run every week.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
You want to run with
us?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Okay, I'll invite her
.
I I didn't know it was up to meto invite you, so Mariah wants
to challenge herself, set a goal, and I think that is great.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Chloe wants to get
her 5K time down to 30 minutes.
You said Awesome.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Nate, what are you
doing for the new year?
What's your goal?
Speaker 1 (06:18):
We're not to me yet.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I already said mine,
what was yours?
Again?
Speaker 5 (06:24):
I had to stop crying.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Oh, the platinum
thing, Anyways, we'll get back
to maybe more of a serious goal,but I think, for me, similar to
what y'all are saying, I wantto get physically healthier and
I need to, I think, get backinto reading, which sounds odd,
yeah nerd.
Which sounds odd because I knowI do enjoy reading in general.
(06:47):
But what I'll do is I'm kind oflike a book thief and that I'll
read something and I'll getlike the snippet I want.
It's like, oh, this would begood in a sermon or a class or
whatever.
Then I'll just like throw outthe rest of the book.
I got what I wanted, I got theinfo, but actually like read a
book and read it through, uh,chloe, I have a similar goal.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
I didn't realize we
were talking about goals at
first.
I thought we were just talkingabout how to be successful next
year, it can kind of be.
Well, I have a similar goal,because I don't really have time
to like sit down and read withschool and I sit down and read
so much in my studying so Idon't really want to, but I
found that a good way for me todo that is through audiobooks,
and so I have a goal to listento one audiobook a month.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I thought one, that's
great.
Two, I thought you were goingto break into a commercial.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Yeah and the sponsor
of our podcast is Audible.
Yeah, I wish.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Where you can have
this many books in your library.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Do you suck at
reading, like me?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Are you dyslexic?
I'm the worst reader.
Does reading make you?
Speaker 5 (07:41):
want to bite your
tongue off.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
I'm the worst reader,
so it's almost advertising she
actually doesn't use Audible,she uses Spotify.
Apparently they have free bookson there.
They have a ton of freeaudiobooks.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
I haven't heard of
Spotify with books, even the
newest ones.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Even the newest
audiobooks they have.
I've used Spotify books.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
So, if you have a
Spotify subscription, you can
get books on there Books comingout next year already
Speaker 2 (08:01):
save the book.
It's like pre-ordering.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
And it's free if you
have premium.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Pre-ordered a book.
That's the most nerd thing I'veever heard in my life, I agree.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Blake, I think things
like reading more would help us
with, maybe, the location ofGeorgia and Does or does it not
have a coastline?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I never graduated
high school, so that's my excuse
.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
That would explain a
lot.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Too bad.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
the listeners can't
see your books and so Chloe is
showing us her books on Spotify.
Thank you, blake.
And then so reading more books,getting healthier, but other
than that, just I don't do anamazing job of resting, but I
think I've made improvements in2024.
And I said no to a couplebigger things in my life to aid
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me in that journey of justlearning how to rest, because
for me and this is where Justinwould come in with something
very helpful but I have a littlebit of an Asian background and
if you are aware of how Asianhouseholds work, let's just say
rest and relaxation is notalways a point of emphasis,
(09:15):
blake, in honor of our fallenbrother.
He's not fallen, he's just nothere.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Do you have?
Speaker 1 (09:21):
anything in response
to my.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Asian comment.
I don't want to be racist, I'mnot going to stoop.
The level of Justin is, so I'mproud of you.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Blake, what was yours
?
I forgot.
You really didn't say one.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
I said one for you.
He mentioned the platinum thing, but something serious, I guess
.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
For me it's just that
I want to finish school, so go
ahead and get my bachelor's, andthen go ahead and start working
towards getting my master's indivinity.
And then also just reallyreally challenging myself just
mentally and spiritually andphysically on a bunch of things.
(09:57):
Me and Zeke, we've got 5Ks thatwe're going to run by the end
of 2025, I want to at least havelike a marathon or two under my
belt.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
What Dude when?
Did this start 5K to marathonis what's a marathon 5K to
marathon.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
What about?
Speaker 5 (10:13):
5K to 10K.
I'll run a marathon this year,but it ain't going to be pretty.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Oh no, it ain't going
to be pretty.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
I want about a half
marathon.
Let's start with a halfmarathon.
Yeah, there's one in Auburn inApril.
Go figure, go home.
Go figure, go home.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Let's start with an
Ironman, actually, that's
actually so.
Ooh, I would love to do anIronman, so the goal is is to If
I could swim, I'd totally do it.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I would love to do it
, theman.
Then, after the Ironman for my30th birthday, me and Justin are
doing the backwater run.
It's 135 miles.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
I think that's what
it's called.
Hold on you, and.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Justin are doing this
.
I told Justin he has until my30th birthday to train.
Justin was already dreading a5K.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
He agreed to it.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
You can agree to a
lot of things when he agreed to
it.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Did you have a knife
to his throat?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
No, I said, you have
until my 30th birthday.
I said this wasn't a choice.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
When will?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
you be 30?
That makes more sense.
When will you be 30 again?
Speaker 2 (11:13):
2030.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Whatever the year is,
that's how old I am.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
That's so cool.
I forgot you're that age.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
So what year is it so
?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
no matter how hard I
try to forget how old I am.
I'll never forget.
It's convenient, though it ispretty convenient I have to
always add four.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Now I'm not like it's
not like perfect, like there's
a time in November likeobviously I'm 25, now it's 2024,
but we're almost at 2025.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
All right.
So let's see.
That's 2025, just personalgoals, or maybe what we would
like for a successful year.
Now, when it comes topredictions things culturally,
politically, maybe even sports,whatever what do you think 2025
will look like for just theworld in general?
(12:00):
Does anyone want to go out on alimb, make some predictions?
Speaker 5 (12:03):
Auburn's going to
make it to the playoffs next
year.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Auburn's going to be
in the playoffs next year.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
I have no evidence or
data to back that up.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
They'll be in the
college basketball playoffs.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Auburn's going to win
the college basketball playoffs
?
I don't think so.
They look good.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Auburn looks good,
they look good, but they ain't
going to win.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
We've looked.
Good they are.
There's just a matter of timeIn their division.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
We've been waiting
for them all night.
No, I think nationally, who's?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
number one.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
Hey, what's better?
Who's?
Speaker 4 (12:31):
number one Kentucky.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Duke Might be.
Was it Duke or Kansas?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
It's either Duke or
Kansas Anyways.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
So Auburn, but you
mean college football playoffs
Both.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
We're going to win
both of them in the same year.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I'm going to predict
that that doesn't happen.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Well, technically we
can't win them both in the same
year.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
I'm just going to go
ahead and predict and say that's
not happening.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
One will win it this
season in basketball and the
next season we'll do it infootball.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Any predictions
related to Trump's first year in
office?
I think he gets assassinated.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Okay, I'm just going
to go ahead and throw that out
there.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Blake thinks he gets
assassinated.
Chloe.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Don't know if this is
directly related to Trump or
not.
My mom is a realtor and shethinks that house prices will go
down next year, and so I'mreally hoping that house prices
and grocery prices go down andgas go down.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Amen.
Why does house prices matter?
Now We've already bought one.
I need a house, so please godown.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I'm saying for other
people house, so please go down.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
I mean I'm saying for
other people just kidding, I
hope they go down.
Which I'm buying my parentshouse, but I would love it for
it to go down still, that's coolyeah, he's mentioned this
before
Speaker 5 (13:32):
I've mentioned this
before.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
It's one of those
things that he says mariah, just
like I roasted blake when helaughed at you over your 5k,
which wasn't even actually.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
It was a laugh,
mariah, we want to build blake
up that is true, it's okayeverybody, all the listeners
know that I am a loser heart toheart.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
So hey, me too, don't
worry all right.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
So blake thinks trump
gets assassinated.
I'm just calling it.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
So if it happens, we
can come back to this and say I
called it, chloe hopes prices godown.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
What a goody two
shoes, life's better for
everyone, goodness.
Uh, so I hope that happens.
I hope prices go down.
I don't hope that.
What a goody two shoes, life'sbetter for everyone, goodness.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
So I hope that
happens.
I hope prices go up.
I hope we have another GreatDepression.
That's my prediction, you hope.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
I hope that that
happens.
Why would we hope for that?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Because we need
stronger people.
He's not wrong.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Suffering brings
resilience, yeah, good.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Suffering brings
resilience.
Yeah, good times make weak men.
What was that verse we justread the other day?
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Tough times make
tough men Romans 5, I think I
don't know the exact verse-Something along the lines of
suffering.
Suffering produces endurance,endurance produces character and
character produces hope.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
That sounds like
James, no it's Romans.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
No, it's Romans.
I know it's Romans, but I meanJames says something like that.
It's almost like they're in thesame book, wow.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Zeke, they're two
separate books.
It's not the same book, Alright, so anything else.
Mariah Any 2025 greatercultural predictions.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
I don't know.
I think this could have beenhappening.
I think movies are coming backthere's been so many just in the
past year, but I think nextyear too.
People are going back to thetheaters versus I don't know the
past, when I was in high school.
I don't remember ever going tothe theaters.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Why do you think that
is Because there was nothing
good?
There was nothing good.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Except the Marvel
movies that came out.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I don't remember any
significant Endgame was like
Endgame.
Yeah, there wasn't reallyanything that was like out Well.
No, the Conjuring movies cameout.
Those were pretty fun to watch.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Blake, I think you're
the main one here that watches
those.
I would be my fan I would neverI.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I would never I would
watch the Nun in theaters.
That was terrifying.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
I'll never do that
again.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Well, you can't.
It's not in theaters, I know, Imean, I'll never watch
something that scary again.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Well.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
I take that back.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
No, I went and
watched.
Did I watch the Nun 2?
Are you going to see Nosferatu?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Oh, I heard that's
actually supposed to be the
scariest movie.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
They say that every
time.
Yeah, I know, but they're likelegit, their marketing is
working on y'all.
Nosferatu.
I think you're on something.
I think that, Nate, you're moreinto culture news than I am,
but I feel like the right isstarting to win back Hollywood.
We've had a lot of good moviesthat aren't.
(16:23):
They don't even have to beexplicitly right, they just
don't need to be left.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
They don't need to be
left, they don't need to be
woke, yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
I think we're
starting to see that the
market's starting to show thatwe want more of that, hopefully.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Especially in
Christian audiences.
We've gotten a lot of goodChristian movies that aren't
cheesy and I hate how preachyhas become a bad word, but, like
that's, if you do it in thewrong way, it ends up being just
, you know, hard to watch,whereas we've had so many good
ones over the past couple years.
I've done it well, where theyget the main message across
without coming off asoverbearing cheesy faith films
(16:57):
have consistently been found tobe winners, at least recently,
and studios are noticing that.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
And so faith, ideas,
faith plots, faith, just movies
are being greenlit at a rate Idon't think ever seen before,
just because they're doing wellfrom a bottom line standpoint.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
I'm glad you
mentioned that.
I think here's a negative sideto that.
I think we're going to see andwe're already starting to see
some bad ones now.
So we went from production wise.
I think we're already startingto see some bad ones now.
So we went from production-wise.
I think we're there.
I think they've realized how todo production of the movie
itself.
Like they're all going to lookgood, they're not going to look
like the old ones and the actingitself will be good.
But now it comes to secularsociety, whenever they try to
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pick it up without beingChristian, it's not going to be
any good.
So we're going to get some badmovies from them, for example,
the new Mary movie that JoelHolstein was an executive
producer on.
I haven't even seen it.
I've just literally listened toa guy who reviewed it, mike
Winger, and like it's, he wouldadmit, like the acting's good,
like the it looks good and allthat, but like you're not
(18:06):
getting the Christian message.
So it's like trying to beChristian without being
Christian.
I agree, those are going to bebad movies.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
You're going to get
movies like Exodus.
And then there's an old not anold movie, but it's been out for
a while now.
It was on Noah's Ark and youhad rock people and that where
all of a sudden, hollywood takesthese ideas like you're saying,
zeke but butchers them,hollywood-izes it.
Yeah, blake, did you want tosay something?
Speaker 2 (18:34):
I have a lot of
things to say, but what do you
want me to say?
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Whatever's on your
heart.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
I don't know.
No, not whatever's on yourheart.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Okay, okay, yeah,
yeah, no, I just think we're
going to start seeing a lot ofgrifting.
I just think we're going tostart seeing a lot of grifting.
That's the only thing that Idon't like.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
In movies.
Oh the what Grifters.
What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (18:50):
So people who like
will become Christian for the
money value of it Like.
That's my biggest fear.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I hope we get like a.
Do you mean salvation or do youmean like movies, movies,
movies Should.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
I have specified that
I thought I understood, but now
that Nate said something Idon't understand, I'm not
following you.
So we were talking about movies.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
There's been a lot of
faith films that have been
greenlit.
My biggest fear is they'regoing to just start mass
producing them for the sake ofgetting the money.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
It's called being a
grifter.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
They say they're
Christian, but they're only
doing it so they can get intoour wallets.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
That's kind of what I
was getting at.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Yeah, that's my
biggest.
I worry about stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
This is where we, as
Christian consumers, we need to
support Angel Studios IrwinBrothers, kendrick Brothers
there are some Kendrick LamarClose enough, kendrick Lamar
Brothers.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Anyways.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Kendrick Lamar
Brothers.
That was good anyways.
So there are just variousstudios that consistently
produce good movies that we needto try to support as best we
can, and then it depends on yourmileage with the Chosen.
I know people have differentthoughts on that.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
I just did that to
cause suspense.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Drama.
Yeah, did y'all ever watchseason four?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
No, I didn't watch it
.
Did you, I read the Bible what?
Speaker 1 (20:13):
would you think of
that season?
I took it a while back, episodeone had a really good scene.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Okay, I mean season
four.
That was good overall.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
I think that this is
Spoilers he doesn't die in
season four.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Hey, hey, dude,
careful, Sorry, I said spoilers.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Is Jesus going to die
in the Chosen?
Speaker 5 (20:31):
I cannot confirm or
deny, but I do have insider
information on what is going tohappen.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Now I'm not going to
watch it.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
We will be on the
edge of our seats wondering what
will happen to Jesus, not me.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
I'm going to bed.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
And so we just want
to make sure, as Christian
consumers, if there is goodChristian content that we go in
Forrest.
Frank Forrest, frank Get out oftown, and other goes for music
as well, because we can'tcomplain about the garbage
Hollywood produces if we don'tsupport the good, wholesome
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stuff that we make.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
I support it I don't
know why y'all look at me, you
just dog it every time, like you, shot at the name of it like
what do we think about?
Uh, lecrae church clap kb okay,if you're the creator of church
clap and you're listening tothis, why, like that was awful,
you know you made a bunch ofmiddle school kids do a stupid
dance.
(21:29):
Like you've created a new.
You create, you createdchristian gungnam style is what
you did, and it's awful.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
It's not even as
catchy as gungnam style.
Would you rather them do aninappropriate dance?
Speaker 2 (21:38):
I'd rather them just
not do anything.
How about that?
How about just not make themove, just don't make the song?
How?
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Just don't make the
song.
How about don't?
Speaker 1 (21:46):
dance ever Church
clap.
Let me hear the church clap.
What is?
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Christian about that
song.
God almighty, what did?
Speaker 1 (21:54):
David, do before the
Lord.
Well he danced naked, didn't he?
Yeah, he danced naked.
I guess we all gotta do that.
No, and then Forrest Frank.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Go on with Forrest,
frank, go off King.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Chloe's obsessed with
you, so if you want to send
some merch this way, yeah, sureyou can do that so.
Forrest Frank.
I don't hate Forrest Frank, Ijust don't like his voice or his
face he's got a good lookingface.
He's a good looking dude, buthe's just like Jesus I should.
I just don't like that.
Or his face he's got a goodlooking face.
He's a good looking dude, buthe's just like Jesus, like I
(22:29):
should.
I just don't like that.
I just know he made that songand now he's Forrest Frank
Because he was a part of thatone band right, he's still a
part of Surfaces.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
Did you like Surfaces
?
No, I hated that song.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
See.
I love Surfaces too.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
It was just like so
you gotta understand the reason
why we call you a hater isbecause you're a hater.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I'm not hating you
guys.
Don't like anything that I likeOur running joke on just a
friend group.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Blake will take
anything, that's popular and he
just won't like it because it'spopular.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
That's not true.
You're naturally an emo kid atheart and you know it.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
You just don't look
like one.
True, I don't look like an emokid, but I mean I like popular
things.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Name one thing Taylor
Swift.
You like Taylor Swift?
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Oh, I forgot, you're
a.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
Swifty you don't like
Forrest Frank.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Are you a Christian
Guys?
First off, if me liking,forrest Frank defines my
Christianity then we have abigger problem in the world.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
Well, apparently you
like Taylor Swift.
I don't like Taylor Swift inthe sense of like.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
I like her music,
Like some of her songs are
pretty catchy, Like I can't helpit, Like it's good catchy stuff
.
If Forrest Frank wrotesomething that was catchy, I
would like it.
How would you know?
You don't listen to any of them.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
I've listened to a
couple of his things.
I can't get behind it.
It's just, you know he'sproduced more than a couple
songs, right?
I know he's produced more thana couple songs.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
So if you've only
listened to a couple.
Tell you what get Forrest Frankon this podcast and we'll hash
it out.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
All right, we'll hash
it out.
So before we got to support thestuff that we do, because if we
don't support it it dies andthe quality goes to crap.
So I remember one of the uhearly christian movies do y'all
ever watch facing the giantsyeah, I do.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
That was a good movie
.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
I love that movie and
so, facing the giants and they,
the budget they did it on, andthe actors and actresses
involved, they did the best theycould, but also it you could
see it's like, okay, this is avery early on christian movie,
whereas now a lot of stuff isgood um yeah, what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
it was a good movie
good, good message yes, let's
talk about a hater.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Good message, that's
a great message don't ever,
don't, ever talk to me aboutbeing a liar, did y'all?
Watch Fireproof.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
No, what did you
think of?
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Fireproof.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Well it's been a
while, I don't really remember
it but I think I rememberwatching it.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
That sounds familiar.
Was it about firefighters?
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Indirectly, yes, but
about a couple's marriage.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Yeah, yeah, yeah,
wait, maybe I didn't see that it
.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
I watched it for the
first time.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
I've never seen it.
As soon as Christmas hits,that's all that's on the TV.
I don't know.
I've never seen it before.
It's a good movie.
It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
I love a wonderful
life, y'all watched the best
Christmas pageant ever.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Yes, what did y'all
think?
Amazing movie Everybody needsto see it Top five Christmas
movies.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Yeah, everybody needs
to see.
I think we said that last week.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
We talked about that,
but it's a very good modern
Christian movie.
I'll wait for it to come out on.
Netflix it probably will comeout.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
We watched it on
Amazon, I'll watch it on Amazon.
I just don't like the theaterwe did watch it in theaters.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
I was thinking it's a
wonderful off.
Blake says that theaters needto go out of business in 2025.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
I love going to the
theater.
I used to not like the theatersand I still don't love them,
unless it's just a movie I'mlike, obsessed over.
Like, if I'm not obsessed overthat movie, I'm probably not.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
I'm only saying it
out of sarcasm, because theaters
are a place that you would takea date.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
I would go to movies
just for the popcorn oh yeah,
literally I will not.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
I'll high five, I'll
high five that I literally go
for the popcorn.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
I don't care what
we're watching.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Honestly, yeah, we
could literally be watching like
poo in a bucket.
Yeah, as long as I got movietheater, my price is going down
earlier.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Please bring the
movie ticket prices down.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
It's ridiculous
ridiculous Blake's beating me
Honestly how about dang it?
Speaker 5 (26:30):
you're not going to
like this because it's not
supporting theaters, but let'sjust go buy a movie, theater,
popcorn and just go back home,and then we'll watch the movie
on.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
I've done that.
I've actually done that, me andmy sisters, we went and got
movie theater popcorn, just forthe heck of it.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
I know I can make it
at home I'm just saying it's not
the same.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
It's the experience
you got to use the butter that's
not really butter, yeah, yeah,but give me that fake stuff.
Yeah, whatever that is, I'm noteven kidding.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
If y'all want to stay
late and watch it, we will
maybe that's my 2025 predictionto consume a lot of movie
theater popcorn great healthgoal yeah, I'm just, I'm just
coming up with stuff.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Lots of sodium.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Some new goals, lots
of butter, all right before we
wrap this up, anything elseabout 2025?
Predictions, goals,guesstimations Chloe.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
I've said this for a
long time.
I feel like I say it every yearbut I really, really, really
want to get better sharing thegospel.
Like, yeah, I was talking toZeke the other day about how,
like sometimes I'll just makestereotypes in my head of
certain people that like, I haveto talk to, like at the cash
register or whatever, and Idon't, I just don't want to.
I feel like sometimes that's ahindrance of sharing my faith or
just talking to someone abouttheir day, because, like, this
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guy was the nicest, like he wasmy age, and he was just just
asking me what I'm doing thatday and he wasn't being flirty
at all and I don't know why thatwas just weird.
I don't know why I was in myhead during that time.
So I just want to get morecomfortable at talking to people
, whether it just be nice andfriendly or sharing the gospel.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Okay, I love that.
Good goal, blake.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Yeah, so for me I
know I said a lot about health
goals and stuff like that andwhether or not I actually
achieve them.
That's why they're goals.
But one actual, true goal thatI want as far as pertaining to
my faith and stuff like that isthere's a place here in our town
that we live in calledUnsheltered International and
they help out with the homelesssituation and that's something
(28:24):
that I really like.
For me, spiritually, like Ireally want to pour myself into
different ministries.
So like for 2025, like that'sthe one ministry I'm going to
decide to like pour a lot ofmyself into is figuring out how
we can help the homelesssituation here in our town and
then, as the years go on, maybejust figuring out new different
ministries way that we cansupport and all that.
(28:47):
So that's definitely a hugegoal of mine that I want to
achieve this year.
I like that.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
I like it All right,
y'all Anything else.
Final thoughts 2025.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Make America great
again Wow.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
I mean, we're already
.
We can make it better, we'realready, it's already great
again.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Big Donald Daddy
Trump is going to be taking the
keys back home January 6th, canyou end us with your best Trump
impression?
No, Justin has the best.
Justin does not show up anymore.
You have to replace him.
Justin can't help that.
He passed away.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
I know that's why you
have to replace him.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
We'll have to mourn
his death when we see passed
away.
I know that's why you have toreplace him.
It's not his choice.
We'll have to mourn his deathwhen we see him tonight.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
I know We'll just
record him doing it tonight and
then we'll just clip it in.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
Who's your best
impression besides Spongebob?
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Why don't you do?
Speaker 3 (29:40):
a Donald Trump
impression.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
But it'll be
hilarious because you can't do
impressions.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Yeah, come on.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Zeke, yeah, do a
Donald Trump impression.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Go for it, zeke.
Speaker 5 (29:47):
Zeke, zeke, zeke,
zeke, zeke.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Zeke oh no.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Mariah, how about you
do it?
Okay, you got anybody that youcan impress.
Definitely not me.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
You're disappointing
me, let me think.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
I can do Bob Dylan,
do it.
Okay, yeah, do it.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Once upon a time
there was a.
I'm just kidding, but that'sreally how it sounds.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Oh, dude, bye, Love
y'all.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
Atrocious.
Thank you, I'm going it now.
I wasn't going to say anything,you're welcome, real friends
tell.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Do you want me to go?
Hey, Mariah, I know theaudience can't see it, but I can
see it.
You've got a piece of pepperstuck in your teeth?
Yes, I would actually.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Well, the good news
is none of our listeners are
going to see it.
I'm glad our listeners couldn'tsee that.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
Yeah, if they could,
I would have told you sooner.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
I would have told you
before we started the podcast.
I would have stopped and beenlike get that pepper out of your
teeth.
You're making us look bad.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
Oh my y'all, you just
get me so tickled, you just get
me so wound up.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
My name's Bob Dylan.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
In the middle of all
that, Go off King.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Go off King.
Oh dude, that's hilarious, thatwhole story.
Did I ever tell y'all aboutthat?
Speaker 5 (31:54):
No, zeke was Were you
telling a joke?
Yeah, okay, so Hold on, let mecut, let him cut.
Oh, oh, nate's face is covered.
It was, uh, me and blake wereplaying rock.
We're just talking and he sayssomething and I was like oh, I
heard this.
Uh, I've watched this instagramreel the other day.
That was just like this.
(32:15):
And then I go it's like hold on, let me tell it.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
And he's so z kept
stuttering like he kept stopping
starting, stopping starting,like he was trying to tell a
story and I just couldn'tremember the details yeah, as
much as I need.
Every time I'm trying to tellthe story, I and I just couldn't
remember the details.
Speaker 5 (32:26):
Yeah, as much as I
tried Me every time For like two
minutes.
I'm trying to tell the story.
I'm like, no, no wait, it waslike this I was like hold on.
He's like go ahead Cook.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
You got this.
I know it's like go off, Go off, Go off.
I was like