March 13, 2025 • 50 mins
What if your life's course was already known before you took your first breath? This question launches our deep dive into the mysterious relationship between divine foreknowledge and human free will.
"He's omnipresent—everywhere at all times—so He knows long before we do what's going to happen," one host reflects. But rather than viewing God as some cosmic fortune teller, we explore the more nuanced reality of a Creator who functions like "the ultimate football coach, constantly calling audibles, two plays ahead of us at all times."
The conversation takes a poignant turn as we discuss how suffering fits into this divine framework. Through heartbreaking stories of families facing terminal illness and unexpected loss, we confront the challenging truth that while we live in a fallen world where tragedy occurs, God continues working all things together for good for those who love Him. As one host's wife beautifully expressed when facing others' skepticism about faith during tragedy: "That's why I choose to believe God exists, because in all things He is good."
We wrestle with challenging perspectives, including the sobering reality that "if God can't use you, He'll use somebody else." His plans will unfold with or without our cooperation. Yet this isn't cause for despair but rather an invitation to align ourselves with divine purposes. As Proverbs 16:9 reminds us, "We can make our own plans, but the Lord determines our steps."
Whether you're questioning God's control in your life or seeking to understand how free will operates within divine sovereignty, this episode offers thoughtful perspectives that will challenge and encourage your faith journey. Listen now and discover how embracing God's perfect vision for your future might be the key to finding peace in the present.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And just if you think about it, with the tape measure
, like I don't necessarily need,the length is important.
Well, yeah, but we can just putblocks in underneath of it too,
to hold it in place.
We should do the whole thing,but I just want to fix it before
Lenten service so that itdoesn't look run down and janky
dumpy.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
When is ours?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Two weeks from now.
I don't remember the exact date.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
You know who's preaching Corey Rowland, we
won't have podcasts.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
We will not have podcasts that night.
Yeah, because by the time we'redone everybody will be pouring
in.
So we're going to try to keepus out of the way.
So we had a two for one.
I missed you guys last week.
Kind of I missed you guys lastweek, I'm not going to lie.
Did you listen to it?
No, I haven't.
(00:45):
Now here's the reason I haven't.
He's afraid to no.
So there was some confusionbetween Sid and I on the upload.
She said I know I heard allabout it.
Oh, yes, yes, you did hear allabout it, because your wife was
the one that brought it to myattention.
Now here I saw it get postedand I was like I thought we
(01:06):
already posted that one.
I was like, well, maybe it wasthe one in the quote unquote
bank.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
And I just didn't realize.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
So I didn't think anything of it until your wife
texted me.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
It just throws her Thursday completely off.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
She told me that she's like I, so look forward to
listening to it, and there wasnothing.
So no, it wasn't she's like.
I'm confused because the oneposted today We've already heard
.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
I was like ooh, okay, I think it was more or less
like she wanted me to ask, andI'm like it'll be all right and
she's like I'll just figure itout.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
She's like you say it will, but I don't think it will
.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Well, and I didn't realize you could post it more
than once.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Well, Facebook will let you post it as many times as
you want.
Yeah the, I think the.
Um, what is going on with thisthing?
The buzzsprout doesn't actuallyrepublish it, it just doesn't
tell you that that episode'salready published.
So if it's not red, so the redones are the unpublished
episodes Got it.
Everything else has beenpublished.
Got it so yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Which buttons for per music.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Well, I did.
We.
Was that a struggle last week?
Yeah, we had a margument.
We had a margument at the endduring prayer.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Yeah, so, maybe don't , listen, don't listen.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Her music was like the news.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
And of course it was yeah, it was Beth's turn to pray
of all people.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Oh yeah, that throws her off.
Now she's in the tailspin.
She did good, though.
That's funny.
Well, what's our two?
For one, I didn't even I gotthe text, but you know how I am,
I looked at it when I got here,roger, who yeah?
So do these have to go in order?
Is there a they?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
kind of like go together.
Is there a they kind of like go?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
together.
They do go together, Okay.
So the first question is howmuch control do you think God
has over things that happen andwhy?
And do you think that God cansee into the future or controls
the future?
Why?
Yeah, really kind of the samequestion.
Okay, great, let's go.
Yep.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Yes, yes.
And why?
Because the Bible says so,Because the Bible says so.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
So the big one for me is he's omnipresent.
That means he's everywhere atall times.
So he knows long before we dowhat's going to happen.
The Bible tells us he knew usbefore we were formed in our
mother's womb.
So there's no doubt that hedefinitely—you say seasoned to
the future.
I don't think about it like afortune teller.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
No right.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
He's like the ultimate football coach.
Yes, he's constantly callingaudibles.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
And he's two plays ahead of us at all times, at all
times.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
He's writing up plays , he's changing plays, he's at
the line of scrimmage.
He knows what we're going to do.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Switches it up.
So you know, yeah, we have freewill.
You know we all have free willto do as we please.
But uh, at the end of the dayit all, it's all under his
control it's all coming to thesame conclusion the way he wants
it to go.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
So we might need to call jarvey um, because he had
an interesting outlook on it,like remember beth was saying
towards the end of the night umI forget what like the
predestination thing well that,like god, like do we like.
Do we know if God knows whetheryou're going to be saved or not
?
Oh, yeah.
Since you do have free willtechnically.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yeah, but I think sometimes he kind of guides you
in that direction.
Yes, absolutely Unbeknownst toyou.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Right Speaking of Simon Peter.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Oh geez, here we go.
Jenny, this is for you, yes,this is for you.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Yes, this is for you.
Luke 22, 31 is where Jesuspredicts Peter's denial and it
says Simon, simon, satan hasasked to sift each of you like
wheat, 32,.
But I have pleaded in prayerfor you, simon, that your faith
should not fail.
So when you repent and turnaway and return to me, you will
(04:46):
strengthen your brothers andsisters.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
There we go.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Amen, praise Jesus.
Remember that kid on Sunday.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Yes, he had free will to deny him.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
He knew that he would so the free will thing, I think
, is where people get reallywrapped up in this whole like I
don't know.
I told this on a Sunday morning, but I'll share it again.
There was a family in ourcommunity I don't know them so I
don't want to speakspecifically to their situation
but they lost a little boy toneuroblastoma.
(05:20):
He was very little I don't knowhis age, he was five or
something like that but it wasjust child, child.
They mourned that loss.
They ended up pregnant with alittle girl.
The little girl also hasneuroblastoma.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Oh, I know what you're talking about, yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
And so the family is going through this exact same
experience all over again.
And my wife had posted if youcan support them, please do yada
, yada, yada.
And like if you can supportthem, please do yada, yada, yada
.
And somebody got on the postand said see, this is why I
can't believe that God exists,because these things are allowed
to happen.
And my wife so graciously saidno see, that's why I choose to
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believe that God does exist,because in all things he is good
.
We live in a fallen world, welive in a world that is full of
sin and because of that, thewage of sin is death and we
experience it in ways that wecouldn't imagine.
But when you see things likethat happen and now I don't want
to share Beth's storyspecifically, but I talked to
her this morning and she wassharing with me that you know,
(06:16):
jarvi had a son that passed awayand Jarvi believes that Eric
passed away so that he would besaved, so that Jarvi would come
to know Jesus.
That is a bizarre thing to haveto understand as a parent, that
my child, they have died sothat I would be saved.
But the thing is, is thequestion always becomes did they
know Jesus right, right,because how do we know?
Yes, Like if we didn't have thatconversation with somebody, if
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we didn't get to have a directQ&A and say you know, do you
know Jesus as your Lord andsavior?
So weeks went past after umEric had passed away and his
boss saw Jarvis somewhere andwas telling him that two days
prior to his death he had toldhis boss that he knew that Jesus
was his Lord and savior andthat Jesus was real, and like
(07:03):
yeah, aha moment.
You know what I mean, like thatwas that like okay, now I can
breathe, because I know that heis good?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
and I know that now I am good.
Yeah, so it's like if he didthat for me.
Yes, yes.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Why?
Why should he suffer hell anddeath if I get to be saved
because of it?
So yeah, yeah, there's, it's.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Romans eight 28.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I brought.
I brought it's Romans 8, 28.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
I brought scriptures Go great, go Romans 8, 28.
And we know that God causeseverything to work together for
the good of those who love Godand are called according to his
purpose.
29.
For God knew his people inadvance and he chose them to
become like his son.
So his son would be thefirstborn among many sisters and
brothers and having chosen them, he called them to come to him.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
We need that little boy.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
We need to just record him.
He needs to be a sound clip.
We're going to work on that forsure.
Was that his first time here?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I don't know, but I think maybe his first time
staying in the sanctuary.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Yeah, that's true, yeah.
Yeah, he was on it.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yeah, he was.
I am working right now.
I apologize, I'm multitaskingagain, as I have become so used
to doing.
There's a couple of churcheswho want to help promote our egg
hunt, oh nice.
And so I'm trying to get theflyer and the Sunday morning
(08:36):
slide to them.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Do you know if they'll be promoting it at the
Lenten service?
I doubt it.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
We will promote it at ours when we do it, because
I'll do some announcements andthings like that beforehand.
So yeah, I'll definitely dothat.
Go to the Google.
Got to go to dr Google.
I'm not looking up any illnesses, though just Learned my lesson
on that.
Hey, you know what I did today.
This is completely off topic,but while I'm working on this
(09:02):
and my brain is functioning veryslowly, uh I did a couple of
things.
Yeah, yeah, you did a couple ofthings.
I tore up a lot of stuff,didn't put it all back together.
Yeah, I fixed the sign outfront, so our lights work again
I saw jesus they're onpermanently right now, but we
have the photo cell.
Eye that I'm gonna go out andput on.
The photo cell was bad, that'sall it was.
Oh, it's a very simple task,but it's a long walk from the
(09:22):
shed where the break is at backout there three times.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Why didn't you take the lawnmower For?
Speaker 1 (09:25):
sure I thought about that, but then I would have had
to move my little lawnmower inorder to do it.
It just wasn't worth all thetrouble.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Oh yeah, Well, take it.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
No, it has flat tire oh.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Yeah, it wasn't worth all the trouble.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Anyhow, I string it.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I also uh played basketball today with my kids at
new point before I came hereand he's like rubbing his eye.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Nope, nope.
But I'll tell you what I feltlike my throat was on fire, like
I was like yeah, the leg painwill come tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Yes, that's what I was gonna say.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
I'll feel that later yeah, I'll feel that later for
sure oh goodness gracious.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Okay, keep going guys well, I think it might be a
harsh reality, might be a riskything to say, but I think you
know god, ultimately, if itcomes down to, if he can't use
you, he'll use somebody elsetruth yeah, truth, you know
he'll.
So, yeah, there's a lot ofpeople that, and people really
don't like hearing that.
No, they don't like hearing it,but but it's the truth.
(10:24):
I mean, I think everybody isworth something in this kingdom,
but a lot of people just refuseto be part of it.
But God's always got a plan B.
His plan will come to fruition,no matter whether you want to
be a part of it or not.
So, yeah, he will find somebodyelse.
If you don't want to take thatblessing and take it upon
(10:44):
yourself, he'll, you know.
So God is in control all thetime, no matter how much free
will we have.
Yep.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
He's in control.
Yeah Well, this has beenriveting, riveting, riveting.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Proverbs 16, 9, we can make our own plans, but the
Lord determines our steps.
Yeah, and that did you saydetermines our own plans.
No, we can make our own plansbut he determines our steps, yes
, so that, yes, yeah, we canmake them.
We don't know if they're goingto.
If we're going to see them,though.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Well, I think that's part of.
Our natural problem is that wealways think that we're gonna,
we know best, yeah, and thatwe're I'm gonna set the plan.
But just like you said, nick,even if I set the plan, if I
don't follow through with whathe expects of me, he's gonna use
somebody else to do it.
His plan b is always betterthan my plan a, regardless of
the situation, and we fail torealize that because we're so
selfish and we want things ourway and on our time.
(11:51):
You know, I was sharing aboutthe vision of the future of the
church and the space and wherewe end up being.
And I was talking to somebodyand I was told that there are
people praying against thatbecause they don't want to move
from one space to the next.
And I said they're in the wrongplace.
They need to pack their bagsand move Because, frankly, flat
out, don't care who you are,don't care how you feel about it
(12:11):
, whether you like that space ornot for the sanctuary, if you
are actively praying againstyour church and the leadership.
You are in a really bad placeand I don't care what you think
about your spiritual health.
You are in a bad place Becausesomebody who doesn't agree with
the vision for a building or abody they move.
They move on Right.
(12:32):
They don't sit there and prayagainst it.
That's counterintuitive.
It's the exact opposite.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
And we're starting to grow.
We need that space Right.
Look at last Sunday.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
There were so many people here last Sunday, we
almost didn't have enough seatsand people were going.
Well, I don't want to move.
Well, I don't want to move.
What do you expect?
It's not about you.
And are you going to stand inthe back?
Are you going to go and standin the back, no, while somebody.
No, you're going to sit in yourseat and you, I'm moving.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Right.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
It just so.
It's that.
But we in the flesh are verynaturally capable of doing that
that we will find our own way ofsaying this is how we want to
do it, and because I want itthis way, it has to go that way.
And then God's going to grabyou by your ear and drag you to
the woodshed and you're going tolearn really quickly that it's
not about your way.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
It's like we're going to find a way to get in our own
way.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yes, yes, yeah, I'm going to argue my way into
getting what I want, which isnot going to happen.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
In that same chapter of Proverbs, 16.33, says we may
throw the dice, but the Lorddetermines how they fall.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yes, and it's funny because just specifically in the
okay that's not helpfulSpecifically in the gym move,
that has been a very prayerfulconsideration for a very long
time.
I mean it's been through twocouncils at this point that we
have sat through and discussedwhat this transition would look
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like.
But I'll tell you what thewheels are moving now.
If you look, I mean rooms havestarted to shift place and like
it's going to happen, and it'sgoing to happen fast, the
train's going fast.
I was just gonna say get on yeah, yeah, and so I want to just
jump back to my trauma from umyour frog, no god no, oh, that
(14:16):
was trauma yeah, I will sharethat story, though, because I
should uh, no, uh, mark driscolloh mars hill.
he made a statement one timethat it shook me internally
Seriously.
I went to therapy after itbecause I couldn't handle it.
He said basically that look atMars Hill, the church, his
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church at that time.
It's a debunked church now, buthis church at that time as a
bus.
There are seats on the bus foreverybody, as long as
everybody's in the right seat.
If you choose not to sit in theright seat, god willing, there
will be a pile of dead bodiesbehind the bus when it stops.
Now I think that was a graphicway to put it, but his point
that he was trying to make wasvalid.
His problem was he didn't knowhow to say things without being
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controversial.
What he means is I'm not goingto stop the vision that God has
for this house or this buildingor this body, just because there
are one or two people whorefuse to sit in the right seat
on the bus.
Now that means that if you're aspectator, hey, that's okay.
If you only come to be talkedto and to be, you don't intend
to involve yourself or volunteeror be part of the ministry,
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then you need to make sure thatyou're in that right seat so
that you're not taking up a seatthat somebody else should be in
.
It's not about you.
It's about the gift thatsomebody else has that they
should be able to utilize, andso I don't want to see dead
bodies anywhere, but I do wantpeople to understand that you
know it is my responsibility.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
To grow the kingdom.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Right and it's my responsibility to be in
fellowship with God in such away that he continues to cast
that vision for this body.
So but I always look forconfirmation and so some of the
confirmation I've received fromthat is Pastor Holly told me one
time when I first started, likecasting the vision, she's like
I can see it now and she'simmediately repeating, like I
haven't told her some of thethings that I can see and she's
like, yeah, so this happens hereand this is going on there and
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you can see that.
All right, we're on the samepage.
That feels good because there'sconfirmation in that.
Yeah, cause you're probablythinking you're crazy, and
then'm over the top with about90% of the things that I want to
do, but the thing is is it canalways be done.
We've never put ourselves in aposition where something that
we've desired could not be done.
Now, maybe it can't be donetoday, but that's God saying hey
(16:34):
, slow down.
You've got to take care ofthese five things before you can
get to that thing.
Yes, that's hard to hear.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Because again I like things my way, that's hard to
hear.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Because, again, I like things my way.
I mean, it's true.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
My way or the highway .
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Yeah exactly Right, roger, yeah, I think Elvis sang
my way, didn't he?
Yes, he did yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Can I tell you too so this is just a fun little
tidbit for you on my upcomingElvis concert or upcoming Elvis
competition.
Looking forward to this, by theway, I've learned and, nick,
maybe you know this, maybe youdon't, so I have a song list in
my brain that these are thesongs I have to get in order to
win this thing, and one of mineis American Trilogy.
(17:18):
I have to have that one.
Here's the problem.
Did you know that that'sconsidered a medley?
Yes, I did not.
To me, it's one song, man.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Yeah, it's a medley.
It is a medley, it is.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
So you can't use American Trilogy in competition.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
What.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
No, medley Can't do medleys no medleys.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Oh, so now I've got to rethink my whole game plan
Move on.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
It's under one title.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Well, that was my point.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
It's not like See in my mind when they say medley, I
mean it's not a traditionalmedley, it's a song that's made
up out of different songs inAmerican history or culture.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
When they said medley , my brain went to like, okay, I
can't do a whole lot of shakeand long toss out.
Elvis always did those twotogether.
I can't do that.
Okay, fine, teddy bear, don'tbe cruel, can't do that.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
All right fine.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
But I was a little shocked, I agree with you.
I was a little shocked to findout that I can't do American
Trilogy, so now I have no ideawhat I'm going to do.
It's game over at this point.
But again, though, don't youhave to have a hat.
If there are 20 contestantswith 20 numbers in it, you draw
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a number.
If I draw number one, I pickfirst.
I select my song first.
If I get number 20, I selectlast.
I can't duplicate a single song.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
So what I'm saying is you have to be prepared.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Yeah, you have to have a.
That's what I'm saying.
So I have a list.
But American Trilogy was like Iwas thinking, if I get that one
early enough, I will do thatone because it's going to secure
my spot like I'm not yeah likeI know that that's a, but if
nobody picks it in the firstround and I can like use it into
the second round, then thatwould be the winner.
Like that would for suresolidify the win.
Now I can't use it at all, sonow I've got to think it all
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through again, like I don't knowback to the drawing board
decisions I know it's stressful.
Yeah decision to make stressfulmay 9th is that when it is no,
it's at the end of may oh uh,it's the week before railroad
days, believe it or not, I'mgonna listen I have a show, this
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is not a joke.
I have a show in Zanesville onWednesday.
I think I'll have Thursday toflip and then I leave for
Illinois on Friday and I'm goneFriday, saturday, part of Sunday
.
I'll be back Sunday afternoonand then on Monday we start
setting up for a railroad days.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Oh man, well, at least you'll get that show and
they're kind of be warmed up.
Yes.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
So that's.
I told Alyssa that like thereis some, and I took a show this
Friday, this coming Friday, fornext to nothing, because I was
like, all right, I need to getyeah, stay by the way, and I
have an opportunity to buy adragon jumpsuit but my wife
won't let me.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
Dave Ramsey, I know.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Right, what a bum.
She said to me.
She's like I've really thoughtabout it and she's like and I've
considered all the ways that wecould make it happen.
She said but I don't want to gointo debt for it.
And she's like it doesn't.
It doesn't make sense to gointo debt for it, you don't need
it, which is a fair statement.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
But I don't like that it's questionable exactly her
definition of need and mine arevery different, so this might be
personal, but do you not haveyour elvis money now?
Speaker 1 (20:32):
I do, but I don't have enough.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Oh okay, so okay I wasn't sure if you pushed it
into your savings.
No, okay.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
So I have my own money, but I only have in cash
right now about $500.
Now I have sold a lot of stuff,so in digital money I have a
nice little chunk, but it'sstill not enough to buy it and I
have to be able to pay to go tothe competition.
So I'm trying to save because Ihave to pay for the room and
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then I have to pay for my foodand transportation and all of
the other stuff.
So yeah trying to Dude.
It's a steal, though it reallyis.
She's just not.
She's not biting man, Not atall.
It's a guy out of the UK.
I bought my powder blue beltfrom him and it's an AJM, so
it's a higher end than the stuffthat I normally buy.
(21:20):
It is beautiful.
I want it so bad.
I'm not willing to go intodivorce court over it.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
That's a good thing.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Right Mature man.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Yeah, someone has to keep you grounded, I know.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
You go flying around.
It's so funny, sid.
I'm'm gonna share a book withyou once alissa's done with it.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Uh, it's called adhd is awesome adhd is awesome, yes
she was texting me dude yeah,she's, she sends me pictures.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
She's like well, hello, michael brindley.
Because it's like when you tellsomebody with adhd, no, really,
what I hear is find another wayto ask it's no, it's not a no I
have.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
My daughter, caitlin needs to read that book.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
When you are all done , okay, I have one I was telling
her like it wouldn't reallyhelp easton right now but it
would help you.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
But it's called dirty laundry oh yeah, I don't want
to read that.
That sounds terrible.
No, no, no it's good.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
It's a stinky book yeah, no, I hate reading, but it
basically know like you canread it in different, you don't
have to read it chapter tochapter yes, you can back around
and it's from someone who hasADHD and actually I think like
two chapters her husband writes,so it's nice like to see his
point of view on it.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
You know yeah you know.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
So yeah, yeah, so flip that.
What's?
What's the other question?
I know it's pretty similar.
Uh, so that one was how muchcontrol do you think god has
over things that happen and why?
And then the other was do youthink god can see into the
future or controls the future?
Why?
Speaker 4 (22:56):
well, what I was going to say that may tie into
that is don't ever think you'velost your chance to be part of
God's plan.
Yeah, never, don't ever saywell, I've waited too long, it's
too late now.
Yeah, you know.
So if you've missed a boat on,you know whatever God had
planned for you and he's usedsomebody else.
Guess what?
There's always.
There's always tomorrow, yeah,there's always another chance,
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so there's always tomorrow, yeah, there's always another chance.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
So there's plenty of work to be done.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Yeah, that's a good point, as he sees into the
future, he can be like okay, Icouldn't use him on this, but
there's going to be anotheropportunity for him.
God doesn't give up on anybody.
He's always willing to usesomebody, no matter what they've
done, where they've came from,any situation.
He's always willing to.
You know he's.
You know he's if you read theBible enough, you know he's used
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a lot of people that you wouldquestion.
Oh yeah, wow.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Really Mm-hmm.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
You know, but sometimes he uses those people
more than the obvious.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
And if you and if you mess up, he'll let you try it
over Yep Right, yep, right, yep.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
So it's always another chance, so the future is
always bright.
So you got to wear shades, yougot to wear shades.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Holly did that to me last Sunday, was it you and I
last Sunday?
Yeah, we were working, we weremaking coffees and she came in
and she's like I've got mysunglasses.
And she goes.
You know why?
Because my like I've got mysunglasses and she goes.
You know why she's because myfuture's so bright something
else, man something else socooper has some sunglasses.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
And well, we were walking down one day and, like
last summer, and our oneneighbor was saying that she had
bought some sunglasses for hernephew or something I'm like.
Oh, I didn't even know they had, you know, sunglasses for
babies, so now he'll put them on, but he'll go like he has to
like, prepare himself for, likethe dark.
It is so funny.
He's like all right, buddy, hewas doing it earlier, and then
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he'll like, take them off.
And then he'll walk back overto Chase to put it back on, he's
like, and then he'll take itback off to another lab.
Oh too cute, you need to recordthat.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
Yeah, I do.
It's funny.
Well, limitations three sayswho can command things to happen
without the lord's permission?
Does not the most high sendboth calamity and good?
Then why should we, mere humans, complain when we are punished
for our sins?
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Complaining will not do you any good.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
No, definitely not Woe is me.
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
It might get you a dragon jumpsuit.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
No, it won't Not with my wife.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
Well, and James 4 says it is arrogant of us to
think that we are in control.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Well, that's probably a fair statement.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
That is probably.
It's an odd statement to sayyou know, is God in control of
the future?
Well, he is the future.
That's yes.
Well, that was my point.
Yes.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
It feels like when you ask that question you're
like if he can see into thefuture, you're talking about
like genie style, like aurareading, but no, he, that's the
best way to put it he, in fact,is the future, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
And if you don't know him, you have no future with
him.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Like, you have no future at all, quite frankly,
because your future is hell,death and the grave like there
is no.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
No future beyond that , yep and if there is one, it's
a not one I want to talk aboutnot one I want to be a part of,
that's for sure yeah anybodyever used Adobe InDesign?
Me either.
Is it like Canva?
Speaker 4 (26:34):
I don't know what that is either wow, what are
they talking about?
Speaker 1 (26:39):
right it's technology it's like to make it's graphic
design software in design isvery similar.
It's an adobe product but it'sreally for like print layouts so
you would use it to if you'regoing to lay out a magazine or
okay, something like that.
So I'm working on.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
is it ai?
No, because I would assume,like AI is going to totally wipe
out.
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
I don't think so.
There are some really greatcontrols.
So if we want to get into thisbecause I am In the government.
Well, so I don't know whereit's going to come from, but
ChatGPT has really limited whatthey will allow their AI to do
for you.
Now they allow their AI to dofor you now.
They won't let you write asermon with it anymore, which
used to be you guys rememberlike I just fired it up and it
would do it.
It will start it and then itwill say, let's clarify, you
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would not do it.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,no.
We did it as a proof to showthat this thing would do it
Would write a poem, would do allthings you would not do, no no,
no, Because, and honestly, ifyou've ever heard me preach, you
know I ain't preaching fromChad.
GPT, you're lucky to bepreaching from your iPad I know
from my notes most of the time,but it, um, it used to allow you
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to do pretty much any graphicdesign you wanted to do.
You could pop in there and say,hey, create me a 19, 19, uh, a
full high definition photo of apenguin eating a sub sandwich,
and it won't do it anymore.
It will give you a startingpoint or it will tell you like
this is I can't make the exactdimensions and that's just
recent that that's happened, sothey have started to limit all
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of the things that it will do.
So I thought that wasinteresting.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
That is interesting yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
That's a good thing, yes.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Well, because it stops you from using your brain.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Oh yeah, yeah, that's a good thing?
Yes, I think so too well,because it stops you from using
your brain.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Oh, yeah, listen, I ask it questions all the time,
like I went in and I said, hey,how do I update my email address
for this?
And it gives you very specificdirections on how to do it.
So I find it helpful for thatmuch better than google will
ever be as far as that part isconcerned but, there are some
things that it shouldn't be ableto do right, yeah it also will
no longer do things for people'slikenesses, and what I mean by
that is like I can't um, I youused to be able to tell it like
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create a picture of elvis eatinga peanut butter sandwich while
riding horseback on a unicorn,and it would get pretty darn
close to a picture of elvis.
And now it says I can't do that, but I can do something in the
likeness of including longsideburns or a jumpsuit style or
like.
It'll get very, it'll give youreference points to use, but it
won't let you do just anythinganymore, good yeah yeah and I
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think it'll, if, if it has thoselimits, it won't take away as
many jobs like right.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
You know all the creative you know, designers or
writers.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Yes, yeah, yeah, absolutely I have no idea what
I'm doing right now.
None whatsoever.
I thought that I could handlethis.
It turns out I can't, and Ishould just pay somebody to fix
it.
Here let me do it yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
I'll fix it right up.
Just set it on fire at thatpoint, throw it in the gravel
and run over it.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Like today.
I was on the computer lookingsomething up, so I went back
into the shop.
I come back out, my mouse won'twork.
I said, oh man, so I'm pushingbuttons.
Oh gosh, computer burst intoflame.
So that so I.
Oh well, we didn't have anybatteries.
I knew he had some in mytoolbox, so I went.
I got a battery put in.
It still didn't work, so I putthe old battery back in it and
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it started working.
I said what is the deal here?
Speaker 1 (30:15):
technology, give me a piece of paper yeah, I was
gonna say it works great, youalways have to appreciate that
irony, like he fixes that tirewith the shoes.
Yes, exactly, do that but see,that's always been my argument.
There are some people good atthings that I will never be good
at, and that's why I surroundmyself with people who are good
at all of those things.
I am not a graphic design guy,not good at it like I suck at it
.
Let's just be honest.
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I used to think I was good andthen I'd look at it and go that
is trash, like it doesn't gettrashier than that.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
Well, your son's pretty good at it.
Yes, he is, he's like reallyreally good at it yes.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
So I'm thankful for him, even though he won't help
me most of the time.
That's not my problem, Dad.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Not my circus, not my monkeys.
So he screwed up though.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Uh-oh, he joined the Railroad Festival board.
Yeah Listen, he was on theboard for about .4 seconds and I
turned around and handed himtwo stacks of paperwork.
I'm like hey.
I need you to retype these?
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Oh, you told him you had them retyped.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Yeah, he did it too.
He finished them.
He sent them to me today.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
How old do you have to be to join?
Speaker 1 (31:17):
We don't actually have an age limit, but because
he will be 18 this year, we justwent ahead and he's volunteered
three festivals in a row.
He's worked harder than mostadults that have been on the
board in the past.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Yeah, there's plenty to do.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Yes, and honestly.
We need people who are hardworkers that will just like drag
heavy wires and do all of thethings.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
So, yeah, especially when they they got them three
prongs on the end and then fourinches of wiring trying to drag
it from here out to the parking.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Yeah, yeah, never fun never fun, but anyhow it's fun.
After you get it all done, dragit from here out to the parking
lot.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Yeah yeah, never fun, never fun, but anyhow, but it's
fun after you get it all done.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Is it though?
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Because then you have to tear it all down.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Yeah, that's true, just as a fun.
So the frog story.
So, the people who were incouncil meeting last night heard
it.
But I, every time I come backfrom vacation, something has
happened to me Like they havepulled some sort of prank.
All right, last time I went onvacation I came back and they
had decorated my entire officefor Christmas.
And when I say entire office,they wrapped every ink pen,
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every post-it note, everythingin my desk chair was wrapped.
My window was wrapped.
My fish tank was wrapped.
They didn't wrap the fish, butI'm surprised.
It was pretty intense.
I'm talking everything in myoffice was wrapped.
This time I went back and Iopened my office door.
No prank.
I was really surprised by that.
But there was a package on mydesk that came while I was on
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vacation.
I had been waiting on it.
So I sat down at my desk, throwoff my backpack and I go to
open that box.
I tear open the box and there'ssome bubble wrap on the top.
I pulled the bubble wrap offand almost passed out Like was
shaking uncontrollably.
They had put a rubber frog inthe bottom of that box, put the
thing that I had ordered on topof it, but it was a little spice
jar so it was tiny.
So I saw the frog first and itwas moving and I was losing my
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cool, like I didn't scream likea girl, I didn't do any of the
normal things that I would do,but dude, I'm talking like
shaking uncontrollably, couldn'tcatch my breath, like acting
like a fool, and I was sothankful there was nobody else
in the office whenever ithappened so I finally get my
composure together.
I like I had to sit down.
I was like okay, you're fine,it's not real, everything's good
, you're cool, just deep breath,we're going to get through this
(33:43):
right.
So finally get myself together.
I go out to one of the otheroffices and I said to the two
people that were in there I said, hey, I need one of your help.
Like I got a package, somebodyput a fake frog in the one guy
goes, say no more, he takes itout of the box, he comes back
and he goes.
Whoever put it in there, justlet them know it's a total loss
because it's going home with me.
It's never going to make itsway back here.
Appreciate that I stillstruggled to go back to my
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office because I know that hetook it.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
But I kept thinking did he put it somewhere else?
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Right?
Yes, is it.
Am I going to open the drawerand there's going to be that.
Yes, Am I going to open the?
Speaker 1 (34:17):
drawer and there's going to be that.
So listen, I asked him today.
I said so, was that frog likereal rubbery or something?
I said because I swore it movedin the box.
He goes oh yeah, he's like.
That thing was disgusting.
He said it was like silicone,almost.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
And so like when I opened the box, and shook it.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
It like jiggled in the box.
He's like it had this big, long, nasty tongue, which which I
didn't even see, that it wasgray, it just all was awful.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
They probably were like most realistic, yes, yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
So here was the best part, though the best part was
that normally, when I getpranked, I'm like all right, who
did it?
And like there's retaliation.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
I didn't say a word to anybody and nobody else has
mentioned it to me.
They're like so I'm guessingthey went into my office at some
point to see if it was in thebox, because they saw I left the
box that open on my desk andthey probably went in and looked
and realized it was gone andwent oh crap.
So yeah, I don't know exactlywho did it yet, but I also and I
was not mad at all Like I get,it's a prank, it was meant to be
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funny, it was not meant to beharmful in any way.
But I talk, I tell them likethat's not funny to me, right?
yeah frogs toads not funny to me.
I swear to you, if they everput a real one in my office, oh
my gosh, you'd have to move.
I had it happen to me one timeat at my last hotel.
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The housekeeping girls knewthat I was deathly afraid of
them, but they didn't realize tothe extent to which I was
afraid of them, and so I was inmy office.
None of the windows in thishotel open, okay, they're all
just solid panes of glass.
And they come in and they'vegot this bag.
Hershey used to make these mintcandies that were in these
little wrappers.
And they're like hey look, wegot you your favorite candy.
Do you want one?
And I said no.
And whatever's in that bag, getout of here.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
Because there's six of them standing there with this
bag of candy.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Yes, exactly, I ain't no fool.
Mama didn't raise no fool.
So they open the bag andthere's a tree frog in the
bottom.
Now they aren't quite as bad tome, but they're still
horrifying because they jumpright.
Speaker 4 (36:20):
Oh yeah.
And so they're like oh, I intoyour forehead.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Yeah, oh my gosh, you would have to call an ambulance
.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
I would go into cardiac arrest Guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Guaranteed.
So they get this frog.
It's in the bag.
They open the bag, I can seethe frog.
And the next thing I know I'mtrying to get out the window
like legitimately, like I'mpressed against the window,
shoving into it with my shoulder.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
I'm thinking if I bust this window, I'm gonna have
to pay for it, but I don't careI didn't care.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
The frog jumps out of the bag.
No, jumps out of the foil bag.
He's on the floor.
I'm at this point losing mycrap like completely
uncontrollable at this point Idude.
I was like if somebody doesn'tget that thing out of here I
can't look down because it's onthe floor.
I'm like, oh, it was awful.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
I just see the Bugs Bunny commercials where they run
through the wall, that'sexactly what I thought was going
to happen.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
man, I could not handle it.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
And then the girls are all laughing and I'm sitting
over there shakinguncontrollably Like Lucy, what
you're really saying is yourstaff does not have to work any
harder when you're not therebecause they've got time.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
I did learn while I was on vacation.
This time that place runsitself like we are a really well
oiled machine.
My team is great.
They could go buy anotherhundred cabins in Holmes County
tomorrow and we'd be like, yeah,whatever, we gotta hire a
couple of people to clean, butwhatever, because it fits inside
the system.
Our system is so well oiled,that's good so but yeah, yeah,
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buddy, but you're the conductor.
Yes, yeah, so it is my circus,they are my monkeys, so, and you
have control of them?
Yep, yeah, it is we.
It's again.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
It's a really great team, we're really well, oil
oiled, unless they're holding afrog.
Yes, not have control?
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Yes, and I didn't.
I like I really honestlythought that I was like I didn't
know how I was going to processit after the fact, Like it took
me a long time to finally comedown from it.
Hmm, it was rough.
It was rough.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Did you guys hear who bought this land?
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Did somebody buy it?
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
People who own barbells, mm-hmm yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
They were out there looking at it one day.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
I'm pretty sure they did.
My friend had a trainingsession with the one trainer and
the trainer had told her thatyeah, I'm not surprised.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
I'm just curious where they're going to build Me
too.
I'm hoping they go back towardsthe road.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
That's what I'm picturing, because they had
walked all the way out to thepost at the far corner, so I
hope they go out far enough to.
The bad part, though, is thatnow that won't be a cornfield.
Oh, we can't put grassclippings over.
Yeah, exactly, I'm blowing itinto their parking lot boy that
stink yeah yeah, I hope theykeep it far enough away that
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it's not a problem, we readjustmowing yeah yep.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
So what are you going to build?
A gym, I, I would assume.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Well, they lease now.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
Yeah, and the thing is, is everything over there
like Reyes Tanning?
They left because themaintenance on the building is
so bad.
The plaza is just in suchdisrepair.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Well, and how many sections do they have now?
Like four, I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Yeah, I think.
Yeah, it's a lot, it's a lot,it's a lot yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Yeah Well, that'll be close for some people to go to
the gym on Sunday morning andthen just come here, right, yeah
, hey, maybe I'll go work out.
You had a treadmill in yourhouse.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
You used it for a coat rack.
I'll tell you what, though youdid it once.
I'm going to say this, but takeit with a grain of salt.
I think if I would have hadthat in the new house, I would
have used it more.
I realized that in the basementof the old house there was so
little space to run on it that Iwould almost hit the ceiling
and in the new house it's notlike that.
The ceiling is so high in thebasement that I think I probably
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would have used it.
I'm not going to buy anotherone to find out.
I don't see any reason to dothat.
It seems like a giant waste oftime.
Speaker 5 (40:16):
Now just walk down to the track.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Well and honestly, if I want to work out, I'll just
go to the gym, and, let's behonest, I'm not going to do it.
So I got to lose the belly.
Though, guys, if God can seeinto the future, I wonder if he
could just let me know whetheror not I'm going to lose any of
this weight, make a lap on thetrack and then do the steps on
the stadium.
Oh no.
Speaker 5 (40:37):
Leashers do a lap on the steps or track.
Oh, no.
Speaker 4 (40:41):
Mm-hmm.
Oh, that's like work.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
You got to Rocky that stuff.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Speaking of Rocky, what's in the McKinley Museum?
Yeah, yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (40:51):
No, thank you.
Yeah, no, yeah, up to themausoleum, yeah, up to the tomb,
like yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
I went with Kinsey and Tripp and Tanya one day.
Oh yeah, why do my legs hurt sobad?
And I felt like an idiot.
Because there Kinsey is.
Yeah, you know, she's with herfoot on foot and she's just
do-do-do-do-do-do.
I'm like, oh my gosh, I'm soout of shape.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
What simulator swinging the golf club.
I was like I got up the nextone.
Why do I hurt so bad, like mysides hurt, my arms hurt, my
legs are what's going on?
And I went oh crap, you swungthe golf club four times.
Four times.
It might've been a few morethan that, but it wasn't like
yeah, man, we do a golf outingevery year and it's 18 holes and
it's the end of that day.
Speaker 4 (41:33):
I feel terrible.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
I'll drive the golf cart for you, but that's about
all I have, that's about it, getyour cold water.
Speaker 4 (41:38):
Yeah, yeah, well, I have a Margie Minute, yay.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
We'll get the sound right this time.
Speaker 4 (41:48):
There we go, All right.
So we've got yet another oneAnother cat.
Speaker 3 (41:55):
Is this the cat?
Do you have another?
Speaker 1 (41:57):
cat this is the cat that you were going to get rid
of, though Like she oh no, it'sa new one.
So when new On top of the newone?
Oh my God, is that 12?
Speaker 5 (42:04):
As of this weekend On top of the new one.
Speaker 4 (42:06):
So we went over to Charlie's to help him put his
new washer in there's.
So, of course, while we'refixing up the washer, she's
outside.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
Did she bring home the pregnant cat?
Speaker 4 (42:21):
Yes, she's sitting there In the grass holding her,
give her some comfort.
And she looks at me and she'slike All you gotta do is say no.
And I'm like how can I tell youno?
Speaker 2 (42:36):
And you have to go home with her.
This is when you're the mostbeautiful, not?
Speaker 4 (42:38):
when you're holding a baby and I'm like, how can I
tell you?
No, and you have to go homewith her.
This is when you're the mostbeautiful, not when you're
holding a baby.
This is why.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
I love you.
Speaker 4 (42:45):
It's like how can I tell you, no, you know, I'm not
going to tell you no, oh, he's aschmoozer.
Speaker 5 (42:51):
I think she's given Beth tips on how to get those
babies from her pregnant mamacat oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
So now she's got a pregnant cat.
Speaker 4 (42:58):
So now the pregnant cat is downstairs in our
bathroom.
She made her up a little bedand everything.
Speaker 3 (43:04):
And so now we're just waiting for her to deliver.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
Waiting for the arrival and when she has her
kittens, which can be betweentwo and eight.
Speaker 4 (43:13):
Another 24.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
So are you keeping all of those?
Speaker 4 (43:17):
She'll do her best to get rid of them, but I
guarantee you.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
At least one, at least one, at least one.
So it's a two-for-one special.
Speaker 4 (43:24):
Yeah, you'll end up keeping the mom and at least a
baby, because we love to jokethat you know she'll post,
kittens are available andsomebody will message and say,
hey, you know, yeah, I'll takeone, and if she's like, I don't
know that.
Speaker 5 (43:37):
I don't trust that, and so ghost them.
Speaker 3 (43:39):
I don't know that they're going to be a good cat
we're like are you kidding.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
Yeah, that's how we always end up with a cat, but
the thing is too, and I get itbecause, oh yeah, we'll take one
and then it ends up as anoutside cat and ends up making
more fixed in order to give themaway.
Speaker 4 (43:55):
Oh yeah, it's a whole screening process.
Yeah, there's a 48 pageapplication.
Speaker 3 (44:00):
It's like Ashley asking about if people are
background check, backgroundcheck to keep the kids.
Speaker 4 (44:08):
Which is good, and this cat is just adorable.
Speaker 3 (44:13):
Sucker.
What kind of cat Is it?
Like a tabby cat.
Speaker 4 (44:18):
It's like this really , uh, silverish gray but has
white in its face.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
Yeah it's beautiful she's long hair, it could be no
no, she's short hair short hairum so, yeah, next cook nick.
Speaker 2 (44:31):
Yeah, that's the reason margie's got it, because
nick fell in love with it too.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
Yeah, for sure no he fell in love with her with.
Margie.
Speaker 4 (44:39):
Like I said, that's when she did it best.
The cat looked good with it.
How can I tell you no?
Speaker 1 (44:45):
And if you told her no, she would have cried the
whole way home.
Speaker 4 (44:49):
It's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (44:51):
And not talk to you.
Speaker 1 (44:54):
At 3 o'clock in the morning, Nick would have been
driving back over there to findthat cat.
At 3 o'clock in the morning,Nick would have been driving
back over there to find that cat.
She would have cried all nightuntil Nick went back and got
that cat.
You got to go find her.
What's going to happen?
What if she has her babies andsomething tries to eat them.
You know what, though and it'sfunny because we joke about it
we laugh about it, but you don'tmeet many people like that,
that would be so compassionatetowards animals, so we have to
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have them.
Those people have to exist inthe world.
Speaker 5 (45:19):
My mom and my daughter both have baby birds
that they have fed syringe fed.
Speaker 1 (45:25):
Oh, no yeah.
God bless you guys.
No yeah.
Speaker 5 (45:29):
Caitlin left me in charge of two baby birds for a
day and a half.
Speaker 2 (45:33):
They didn't make, it Didn't make it, they died.
Speaker 1 (45:35):
Yeah, didn't make it.
Speaker 5 (45:36):
That's unfortunate, I'm like I think I choked them
to death trying to surrenderthem.
Speaker 2 (45:42):
She had one of them turkey basins Drink you little
bird.
Speaker 3 (45:49):
I don't know what happened, Caleb.
Speaker 4 (45:52):
I did tell her I don't want to do litter anymore.
Well, what are you going to do?
I was like I can't do itanymore.
I was like I I can't do itanymore.
Speaker 3 (45:58):
I was like I'll do laundry.
Oh, you mean for?
Speaker 4 (45:59):
your chore.
Speaker 5 (46:00):
Yeah, I'm like I just somebody else you're gonna take
her.
Speaker 4 (46:02):
It's like, okay, you're gonna have to take this
over.
Speaker 1 (46:05):
Yeah, I'll do laundry , I'll do dishes, whatever, but
I'm done doing like well, you'regonna do it once in a while.
Speaker 4 (46:09):
I said fine, I'll do it once in a while.
But yeah, I did not knowrecently learned this I guess
this is your Gettysburg.
Yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 1 (46:21):
I learned that pregnant women should not be
around cats.
There's something about thesmell or whatever from the
litter box.
Speaker 5 (46:29):
The dust and stuff from the litter.
People who are on dialysisshould not be around cat litter.
Speaker 1 (46:35):
I didn't know that Interesting.
Now I guess they have newdust-free litter too.
There's some new.
Speaker 5 (46:40):
Yeah, when they have those new fancy yeah $1,200.
Speaker 3 (46:45):
What's the?
Is it pretty litter?
Have you heard of pretty litter?
Speaker 2 (46:49):
There's no pretty litter.
Speaker 3 (46:51):
No, if there's Listen , if it has something going on
with it.
Oh, like it crystallizes orsomething like a different color
, like, so like if it has a utior whatever you would know, yes,
uh.
Speaker 1 (47:03):
The other thing I would say, nick, and this is
something that is probablyworthwhile for you and your wife
have you seen the new littersubscription?
no so there's a cat littersubscription.
It's called like litter box andboxes capital letters.
It's a cardboard box.
You open it up.
It's pre-litter.
It's got the litter alreadyinside of it.
You take the lid off of it, youput it on the floor.
The cats use it.
You put the lid on it, you puta shipping label on it and you
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send it back to them.
Yep, you don't, you never scoop, you just lid what, send it
back that litter?
Oh, who knows, who knows?
I don't know, I don't reallycare.
To me weird, but it does existand people do use it.
What are they doing with?
Speaker 5 (47:39):
it.
They probably reuse the litterI'm just thinking of these boxes
.
Speaker 1 (47:45):
Can you imagine being a mail carrier?
Speaker 3 (47:48):
In 90-degree weather.
Speaker 5 (47:50):
I have a case of cats and the ammonia smell Before
you ever got to the house.
As soon as you got to the porchyou could smell that it you
could before you ever got to thehouse.
Speaker 1 (47:59):
soon as you got to the porch, you could smell that
it's called Kitty Poo Club.
Disposable litter box deliveryKitty Poo Club.
This message is brought to youby.
Speaker 3 (48:06):
Kitty Poo Club.
Speaker 1 (48:07):
Kitty Poo, it is true , and there it is, my friends.
It exists, don't scoop it.
Speaker 3 (48:12):
Throw it away my dad would last us a day.
Speaker 4 (48:15):
Oh yeah, that wouldn't be.
That's like the size of a paperbox.
Speaker 5 (48:18):
Yeah that would not do.
Well, maybe they come in extralarge, huge, super large.
Speaker 4 (48:22):
Super large, Crazy cat lady oh yeah, and so now
we're discussing, she wants toput a fence up in the backyard
to keep all the cats.
Speaker 5 (48:34):
Well, she'd have to put a dome over that, right,
yeah, to keep them in the yard.
Speaker 1 (48:37):
So she's worried about they do make them in
different sizes.
Speaker 4 (48:45):
So, yeah, it'll be an interesting spring.
Speaker 1 (48:47):
Yes, it will yes it will.
Speaker 2 (48:50):
Better than even me.
Speaker 1 (48:51):
That is for sure.
Alright, we gotta button upbecause we've got community
Lenten service tonight.
So Whose turn is it?
It's Nick's turn.
Speaker 5 (48:59):
Is that right?
Yeah, because Beth has.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (49:01):
All right, nick, it's all.
You, my friend, hit the rightbutton I got this.
Speaker 4 (49:08):
Lord, we thank you for allowing us all to come here
tonight and have another greatdiscussion about your will.
We know with all our heartsthat you have complete control
over our lives, over our future,everything that is good in this
world.
We know that you have a plan,despite sometimes it may not
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seem that way.
Everybody, we all, experienceour fair share of you know
disappointments, but we knowthat there's always something
better up ahead and we justthank you for that.
We just thank you for justalways just guiding us through
every step of our lives andmaking sure that we end up
exactly where we're supposed tobe within your will.
Yes, I pray everybody gets homesafely this evening and
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hopefully we'll meet again nextweek.
Amen.
Speaker 5 (49:55):
Amen.
And just if you think about it, with the tape measure
, like I don't necessarily need,the length is important.
Well, yeah, but we can just putblocks in underneath of it too,
to hold it in place.
We should do the whole thing,but I just want to fix it before
Lenten service so that itdoesn't look run down and janky
dumpy.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
When is ours?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Two weeks from now.
I don't remember the exact date.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
You know who's preaching Corey Rowland, we
won't have podcasts.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
We will not have podcasts that night.
Yeah, because by the time we'redone everybody will be pouring
in.
So we're going to try to keepus out of the way.
So we had a two for one.
I missed you guys last week.
Kind of I missed you guys lastweek, I'm not going to lie.
Did you listen to it?
No, I haven't.
(00:45):
Now here's the reason I haven't.
He's afraid to no.
So there was some confusionbetween Sid and I on the upload.
She said I know I heard allabout it.
Oh, yes, yes, you did hear allabout it, because your wife was
the one that brought it to myattention.
Now here I saw it get postedand I was like I thought we
(01:06):
already posted that one.
I was like, well, maybe it wasthe one in the quote unquote
bank.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
And I just didn't realize.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
So I didn't think anything of it until your wife
texted me.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
It just throws her Thursday completely off.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
She told me that she's like I, so look forward to
listening to it, and there wasnothing.
So no, it wasn't she's like.
I'm confused because the oneposted today We've already heard
.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
I was like ooh, okay, I think it was more or less
like she wanted me to ask, andI'm like it'll be all right and
she's like I'll just figure itout.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
She's like you say it will, but I don't think it will
.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Well, and I didn't realize you could post it more
than once.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Well, Facebook will let you post it as many times as
you want.
Yeah the, I think the.
Um, what is going on with thisthing?
The buzzsprout doesn't actuallyrepublish it, it just doesn't
tell you that that episode'salready published.
So if it's not red, so the redones are the unpublished
episodes Got it.
Everything else has beenpublished.
Got it so yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Which buttons for per music.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Well, I did.
We.
Was that a struggle last week?
Yeah, we had a margument.
We had a margument at the endduring prayer.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Yeah, so, maybe don't , listen, don't listen.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Her music was like the news.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
And of course it was yeah, it was Beth's turn to pray
of all people.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Oh yeah, that throws her off.
Now she's in the tailspin.
She did good, though.
That's funny.
Well, what's our two?
For one, I didn't even I gotthe text, but you know how I am,
I looked at it when I got here,roger, who yeah?
So do these have to go in order?
Is there a they?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
kind of like go together.
Is there a they kind of like go?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
together.
They do go together, Okay.
So the first question is howmuch control do you think God
has over things that happen andwhy?
And do you think that God cansee into the future or controls
the future?
Why?
Yeah, really kind of the samequestion.
Okay, great, let's go.
Yep.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Yes, yes.
And why?
Because the Bible says so,Because the Bible says so.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
So the big one for me is he's omnipresent.
That means he's everywhere atall times.
So he knows long before we dowhat's going to happen.
The Bible tells us he knew usbefore we were formed in our
mother's womb.
So there's no doubt that hedefinitely—you say seasoned to
the future.
I don't think about it like afortune teller.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
No right.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
He's like the ultimate football coach.
Yes, he's constantly callingaudibles.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
And he's two plays ahead of us at all times, at all
times.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
He's writing up plays , he's changing plays, he's at
the line of scrimmage.
He knows what we're going to do.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Switches it up.
So you know, yeah, we have freewill.
You know we all have free willto do as we please.
But uh, at the end of the dayit all, it's all under his
control it's all coming to thesame conclusion the way he wants
it to go.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
So we might need to call jarvey um, because he had
an interesting outlook on it,like remember beth was saying
towards the end of the night umI forget what like the
predestination thing well that,like god, like do we like.
Do we know if God knows whetheryou're going to be saved or not
?
Oh, yeah.
Since you do have free willtechnically.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yeah, but I think sometimes he kind of guides you
in that direction.
Yes, absolutely Unbeknownst toyou.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Right Speaking of Simon Peter.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Oh geez, here we go.
Jenny, this is for you, yes,this is for you.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Yes, this is for you.
Luke 22, 31 is where Jesuspredicts Peter's denial and it
says Simon, simon, satan hasasked to sift each of you like
wheat, 32,.
But I have pleaded in prayerfor you, simon, that your faith
should not fail.
So when you repent and turnaway and return to me, you will
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strengthen your brothers andsisters.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
There we go.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Amen, praise Jesus.
Remember that kid on Sunday.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Yes, he had free will to deny him.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
He knew that he would so the free will thing, I think
, is where people get reallywrapped up in this whole like I
don't know.
I told this on a Sunday morning, but I'll share it again.
There was a family in ourcommunity I don't know them so I
don't want to speakspecifically to their situation
but they lost a little boy toneuroblastoma.
(05:20):
He was very little I don't knowhis age, he was five or
something like that but it wasjust child, child.
They mourned that loss.
They ended up pregnant with alittle girl.
The little girl also hasneuroblastoma.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Oh, I know what you're talking about, yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
And so the family is going through this exact same
experience all over again.
And my wife had posted if youcan support them, please do yada
, yada, yada.
And like if you can supportthem, please do yada, yada, yada
.
And somebody got on the postand said see, this is why I
can't believe that God exists,because these things are allowed
to happen.
And my wife so graciously saidno see, that's why I choose to
(05:54):
believe that God does exist,because in all things he is good
.
We live in a fallen world, welive in a world that is full of
sin and because of that, thewage of sin is death and we
experience it in ways that wecouldn't imagine.
But when you see things likethat happen and now I don't want
to share Beth's storyspecifically, but I talked to
her this morning and she wassharing with me that you know,
(06:16):
jarvi had a son that passed awayand Jarvi believes that Eric
passed away so that he would besaved, so that Jarvi would come
to know Jesus.
That is a bizarre thing to haveto understand as a parent, that
my child, they have died sothat I would be saved.
But the thing is, is thequestion always becomes did they
know Jesus right, right,because how do we know?
Yes, Like if we didn't have thatconversation with somebody, if
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we didn't get to have a directQ&A and say you know, do you
know Jesus as your Lord andsavior?
So weeks went past after umEric had passed away and his
boss saw Jarvis somewhere andwas telling him that two days
prior to his death he had toldhis boss that he knew that Jesus
was his Lord and savior andthat Jesus was real, and like
(07:03):
yeah, aha moment.
You know what I mean, like thatwas that like okay, now I can
breathe, because I know that heis good?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
and I know that now I am good.
Yeah, so it's like if he didthat for me.
Yes, yes.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Why?
Why should he suffer hell anddeath if I get to be saved
because of it?
So yeah, yeah, there's, it's.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Romans eight 28.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I brought.
I brought it's Romans 8, 28.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
I brought scriptures Go great, go Romans 8, 28.
And we know that God causeseverything to work together for
the good of those who love Godand are called according to his
purpose.
29.
For God knew his people inadvance and he chose them to
become like his son.
So his son would be thefirstborn among many sisters and
brothers and having chosen them, he called them to come to him.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
We need that little boy.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
We need to just record him.
He needs to be a sound clip.
We're going to work on that forsure.
Was that his first time here?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I don't know, but I think maybe his first time
staying in the sanctuary.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Yeah, that's true, yeah.
Yeah, he was on it.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yeah, he was.
I am working right now.
I apologize, I'm multitaskingagain, as I have become so used
to doing.
There's a couple of churcheswho want to help promote our egg
hunt, oh nice.
And so I'm trying to get theflyer and the Sunday morning
(08:36):
slide to them.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Do you know if they'll be promoting it at the
Lenten service?
I doubt it.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
We will promote it at ours when we do it, because
I'll do some announcements andthings like that beforehand.
So yeah, I'll definitely dothat.
Go to the Google.
Got to go to dr Google.
I'm not looking up any illnesses, though just Learned my lesson
on that.
Hey, you know what I did today.
This is completely off topic,but while I'm working on this
(09:02):
and my brain is functioning veryslowly, uh I did a couple of
things.
Yeah, yeah, you did a couple ofthings.
I tore up a lot of stuff,didn't put it all back together.
Yeah, I fixed the sign outfront, so our lights work again
I saw jesus they're onpermanently right now, but we
have the photo cell.
Eye that I'm gonna go out andput on.
The photo cell was bad, that'sall it was.
Oh, it's a very simple task,but it's a long walk from the
(09:22):
shed where the break is at backout there three times.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Why didn't you take the lawnmower For?
Speaker 1 (09:25):
sure I thought about that, but then I would have had
to move my little lawnmower inorder to do it.
It just wasn't worth all thetrouble.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Oh yeah, Well, take it.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
No, it has flat tire oh.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Yeah, it wasn't worth all the trouble.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Anyhow, I string it.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I also uh played basketball today with my kids at
new point before I came hereand he's like rubbing his eye.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Nope, nope.
But I'll tell you what I feltlike my throat was on fire, like
I was like yeah, the leg painwill come tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Yes, that's what I was gonna say.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
I'll feel that later yeah, I'll feel that later for
sure oh goodness gracious.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Okay, keep going guys well, I think it might be a
harsh reality, might be a riskything to say, but I think you
know god, ultimately, if itcomes down to, if he can't use
you, he'll use somebody elsetruth yeah, truth, you know
he'll.
So, yeah, there's a lot ofpeople that, and people really
don't like hearing that.
No, they don't like hearing it,but but it's the truth.
(10:24):
I mean, I think everybody isworth something in this kingdom,
but a lot of people just refuseto be part of it.
But God's always got a plan B.
His plan will come to fruition,no matter whether you want to
be a part of it or not.
So, yeah, he will find somebodyelse.
If you don't want to take thatblessing and take it upon
(10:44):
yourself, he'll, you know.
So God is in control all thetime, no matter how much free
will we have.
Yep.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
He's in control.
Yeah Well, this has beenriveting, riveting, riveting.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Proverbs 16, 9, we can make our own plans, but the
Lord determines our steps.
Yeah, and that did you saydetermines our own plans.
No, we can make our own plansbut he determines our steps, yes
, so that, yes, yeah, we canmake them.
We don't know if they're goingto.
If we're going to see them,though.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Well, I think that's part of.
Our natural problem is that wealways think that we're gonna,
we know best, yeah, and thatwe're I'm gonna set the plan.
But just like you said, nick,even if I set the plan, if I
don't follow through with whathe expects of me, he's gonna use
somebody else to do it.
His plan b is always betterthan my plan a, regardless of
the situation, and we fail torealize that because we're so
selfish and we want things ourway and on our time.
(11:51):
You know, I was sharing aboutthe vision of the future of the
church and the space and wherewe end up being.
And I was talking to somebodyand I was told that there are
people praying against thatbecause they don't want to move
from one space to the next.
And I said they're in the wrongplace.
They need to pack their bagsand move Because, frankly, flat
out, don't care who you are,don't care how you feel about it
(12:11):
, whether you like that space ornot for the sanctuary, if you
are actively praying againstyour church and the leadership.
You are in a really bad placeand I don't care what you think
about your spiritual health.
You are in a bad place Becausesomebody who doesn't agree with
the vision for a building or abody they move.
They move on Right.
(12:32):
They don't sit there and prayagainst it.
That's counterintuitive.
It's the exact opposite.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
And we're starting to grow.
We need that space Right.
Look at last Sunday.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
There were so many people here last Sunday, we
almost didn't have enough seatsand people were going.
Well, I don't want to move.
Well, I don't want to move.
What do you expect?
It's not about you.
And are you going to stand inthe back?
Are you going to go and standin the back, no, while somebody.
No, you're going to sit in yourseat and you, I'm moving.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Right.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
It just so.
It's that.
But we in the flesh are verynaturally capable of doing that
that we will find our own way ofsaying this is how we want to
do it, and because I want itthis way, it has to go that way.
And then God's going to grabyou by your ear and drag you to
the woodshed and you're going tolearn really quickly that it's
not about your way.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
It's like we're going to find a way to get in our own
way.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yes, yes, yeah, I'm going to argue my way into
getting what I want, which isnot going to happen.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
In that same chapter of Proverbs, 16.33, says we may
throw the dice, but the Lorddetermines how they fall.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yes, and it's funny because just specifically in the
okay that's not helpfulSpecifically in the gym move,
that has been a very prayerfulconsideration for a very long
time.
I mean it's been through twocouncils at this point that we
have sat through and discussedwhat this transition would look
(13:55):
like.
But I'll tell you what thewheels are moving now.
If you look, I mean rooms havestarted to shift place and like
it's going to happen, and it'sgoing to happen fast, the
train's going fast.
I was just gonna say get on yeah, yeah, and so I want to just
jump back to my trauma from umyour frog, no god no, oh, that
(14:16):
was trauma yeah, I will sharethat story, though, because I
should uh, no, uh, mark driscolloh mars hill.
he made a statement one timethat it shook me internally
Seriously.
I went to therapy after itbecause I couldn't handle it.
He said basically that look atMars Hill, the church, his
(14:38):
church at that time.
It's a debunked church now, buthis church at that time as a
bus.
There are seats on the bus foreverybody, as long as
everybody's in the right seat.
If you choose not to sit in theright seat, god willing, there
will be a pile of dead bodiesbehind the bus when it stops.
Now I think that was a graphicway to put it, but his point
that he was trying to make wasvalid.
His problem was he didn't knowhow to say things without being
(15:00):
controversial.
What he means is I'm not goingto stop the vision that God has
for this house or this buildingor this body, just because there
are one or two people whorefuse to sit in the right seat
on the bus.
Now that means that if you're aspectator, hey, that's okay.
If you only come to be talkedto and to be, you don't intend
to involve yourself or volunteeror be part of the ministry,
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then you need to make sure thatyou're in that right seat so
that you're not taking up a seatthat somebody else should be in
.
It's not about you.
It's about the gift thatsomebody else has that they
should be able to utilize, andso I don't want to see dead
bodies anywhere, but I do wantpeople to understand that you
know it is my responsibility.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
To grow the kingdom.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Right and it's my responsibility to be in
fellowship with God in such away that he continues to cast
that vision for this body.
So but I always look forconfirmation and so some of the
confirmation I've received fromthat is Pastor Holly told me one
time when I first started, likecasting the vision, she's like
I can see it now and she'simmediately repeating, like I
haven't told her some of thethings that I can see and she's
like, yeah, so this happens hereand this is going on there and
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you can see that.
All right, we're on the samepage.
That feels good because there'sconfirmation in that.
Yeah, cause you're probablythinking you're crazy, and
then'm over the top with about90% of the things that I want to
do, but the thing is is it canalways be done.
We've never put ourselves in aposition where something that
we've desired could not be done.
Now, maybe it can't be donetoday, but that's God saying hey
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, slow down.
You've got to take care ofthese five things before you can
get to that thing.
Yes, that's hard to hear.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Because again I like things my way, that's hard to
hear.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Because, again, I like things my way.
I mean, it's true.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
My way or the highway .
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Yeah exactly Right, roger, yeah, I think Elvis sang
my way, didn't he?
Yes, he did yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Can I tell you too so this is just a fun little
tidbit for you on my upcomingElvis concert or upcoming Elvis
competition.
Looking forward to this, by theway, I've learned and, nick,
maybe you know this, maybe youdon't, so I have a song list in
my brain that these are thesongs I have to get in order to
win this thing, and one of mineis American Trilogy.
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I have to have that one.
Here's the problem.
Did you know that that'sconsidered a medley?
Yes, I did not.
To me, it's one song, man.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Yeah, it's a medley.
It is a medley, it is.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
So you can't use American Trilogy in competition.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
What.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
No, medley Can't do medleys no medleys.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Oh, so now I've got to rethink my whole game plan
Move on.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
It's under one title.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Well, that was my point.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
It's not like See in my mind when they say medley, I
mean it's not a traditionalmedley, it's a song that's made
up out of different songs inAmerican history or culture.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
When they said medley , my brain went to like, okay, I
can't do a whole lot of shakeand long toss out.
Elvis always did those twotogether.
I can't do that.
Okay, fine, teddy bear, don'tbe cruel, can't do that.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
All right fine.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
But I was a little shocked, I agree with you.
I was a little shocked to findout that I can't do American
Trilogy, so now I have no ideawhat I'm going to do.
It's game over at this point.
But again, though, don't youhave to have a hat.
If there are 20 contestantswith 20 numbers in it, you draw
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a number.
If I draw number one, I pickfirst.
I select my song first.
If I get number 20, I selectlast.
I can't duplicate a single song.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
So what I'm saying is you have to be prepared.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Yeah, you have to have a.
That's what I'm saying.
So I have a list.
But American Trilogy was like Iwas thinking, if I get that one
early enough, I will do thatone because it's going to secure
my spot like I'm not yeah likeI know that that's a, but if
nobody picks it in the firstround and I can like use it into
the second round, then thatwould be the winner.
Like that would for suresolidify the win.
Now I can't use it at all, sonow I've got to think it all
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through again, like I don't knowback to the drawing board
decisions I know it's stressful.
Yeah decision to make stressfulmay 9th is that when it is no,
it's at the end of may oh uh,it's the week before railroad
days, believe it or not, I'mgonna listen I have a show, this
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is not a joke.
I have a show in Zanesville onWednesday.
I think I'll have Thursday toflip and then I leave for
Illinois on Friday and I'm goneFriday, saturday, part of Sunday
.
I'll be back Sunday afternoonand then on Monday we start
setting up for a railroad days.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Oh man, well, at least you'll get that show and
they're kind of be warmed up.
Yes.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
So that's.
I told Alyssa that like thereis some, and I took a show this
Friday, this coming Friday, fornext to nothing, because I was
like, all right, I need to getyeah, stay by the way, and I
have an opportunity to buy adragon jumpsuit but my wife
won't let me.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
Dave Ramsey, I know.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Right, what a bum.
She said to me.
She's like I've really thoughtabout it and she's like and I've
considered all the ways that wecould make it happen.
She said but I don't want to gointo debt for it.
And she's like it doesn't.
It doesn't make sense to gointo debt for it, you don't need
it, which is a fair statement.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
But I don't like that it's questionable exactly her
definition of need and mine arevery different, so this might be
personal, but do you not haveyour elvis money now?
Speaker 1 (20:32):
I do, but I don't have enough.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Oh okay, so okay I wasn't sure if you pushed it
into your savings.
No, okay.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
So I have my own money, but I only have in cash
right now about $500.
Now I have sold a lot of stuff,so in digital money I have a
nice little chunk, but it'sstill not enough to buy it and I
have to be able to pay to go tothe competition.
So I'm trying to save because Ihave to pay for the room and
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then I have to pay for my foodand transportation and all of
the other stuff.
So yeah trying to Dude.
It's a steal, though it reallyis.
She's just not.
She's not biting man, Not atall.
It's a guy out of the UK.
I bought my powder blue beltfrom him and it's an AJM, so
it's a higher end than the stuffthat I normally buy.
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It is beautiful.
I want it so bad.
I'm not willing to go intodivorce court over it.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
That's a good thing.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Right Mature man.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Yeah, someone has to keep you grounded, I know.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
You go flying around.
It's so funny, sid.
I'm'm gonna share a book withyou once alissa's done with it.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Uh, it's called adhd is awesome adhd is awesome, yes
she was texting me dude yeah,she's, she sends me pictures.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
She's like well, hello, michael brindley.
Because it's like when you tellsomebody with adhd, no, really,
what I hear is find another wayto ask it's no, it's not a no I
have.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
My daughter, caitlin needs to read that book.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
When you are all done , okay, I have one I was telling
her like it wouldn't reallyhelp easton right now but it
would help you.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
But it's called dirty laundry oh yeah, I don't want
to read that.
That sounds terrible.
No, no, no it's good.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
It's a stinky book yeah, no, I hate reading, but it
basically know like you canread it in different, you don't
have to read it chapter tochapter yes, you can back around
and it's from someone who hasADHD and actually I think like
two chapters her husband writes,so it's nice like to see his
point of view on it.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
You know yeah you know.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
So yeah, yeah, so flip that.
What's?
What's the other question?
I know it's pretty similar.
Uh, so that one was how muchcontrol do you think god has
over things that happen and why?
And then the other was do youthink god can see into the
future or controls the future?
Why?
Speaker 4 (22:56):
well, what I was going to say that may tie into
that is don't ever think you'velost your chance to be part of
God's plan.
Yeah, never, don't ever saywell, I've waited too long, it's
too late now.
Yeah, you know.
So if you've missed a boat on,you know whatever God had
planned for you and he's usedsomebody else.
Guess what?
There's always.
There's always tomorrow, yeah,there's always another chance,
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so there's always tomorrow, yeah, there's always another chance.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
So there's plenty of work to be done.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Yeah, that's a good point, as he sees into the
future, he can be like okay, Icouldn't use him on this, but
there's going to be anotheropportunity for him.
God doesn't give up on anybody.
He's always willing to usesomebody, no matter what they've
done, where they've came from,any situation.
He's always willing to.
You know he's.
You know he's if you read theBible enough, you know he's used
(23:44):
a lot of people that you wouldquestion.
Oh yeah, wow.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Really Mm-hmm.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
You know, but sometimes he uses those people
more than the obvious.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
And if you and if you mess up, he'll let you try it
over Yep Right, yep, right, yep.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
So it's always another chance, so the future is
always bright.
So you got to wear shades, yougot to wear shades.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Holly did that to me last Sunday, was it you and I
last Sunday?
Yeah, we were working, we weremaking coffees and she came in
and she's like I've got mysunglasses.
And she goes.
You know why?
Because my like I've got mysunglasses and she goes.
You know why she's because myfuture's so bright something
else, man something else socooper has some sunglasses.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
And well, we were walking down one day and, like
last summer, and our oneneighbor was saying that she had
bought some sunglasses for hernephew or something I'm like.
Oh, I didn't even know they had, you know, sunglasses for
babies, so now he'll put them on, but he'll go like he has to
like, prepare himself for, likethe dark.
It is so funny.
He's like all right, buddy, hewas doing it earlier, and then
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he'll like, take them off.
And then he'll walk back overto Chase to put it back on, he's
like, and then he'll take itback off to another lab.
Oh too cute, you need to recordthat.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
Yeah, I do.
It's funny.
Well, limitations three sayswho can command things to happen
without the lord's permission?
Does not the most high sendboth calamity and good?
Then why should we, mere humans, complain when we are punished
for our sins?
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Complaining will not do you any good.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
No, definitely not Woe is me.
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
It might get you a dragon jumpsuit.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
No, it won't Not with my wife.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
Well, and James 4 says it is arrogant of us to
think that we are in control.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Well, that's probably a fair statement.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
That is probably.
It's an odd statement to sayyou know, is God in control of
the future?
Well, he is the future.
That's yes.
Well, that was my point.
Yes.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
It feels like when you ask that question you're
like if he can see into thefuture, you're talking about
like genie style, like aurareading, but no, he, that's the
best way to put it he, in fact,is the future, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
And if you don't know him, you have no future with
him.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Like, you have no future at all, quite frankly,
because your future is hell,death and the grave like there
is no.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
No future beyond that , yep and if there is one, it's
a not one I want to talk aboutnot one I want to be a part of,
that's for sure yeah anybodyever used Adobe InDesign?
Me either.
Is it like Canva?
Speaker 4 (26:34):
I don't know what that is either wow, what are
they talking about?
Speaker 1 (26:39):
right it's technology it's like to make it's graphic
design software in design isvery similar.
It's an adobe product but it'sreally for like print layouts so
you would use it to if you'regoing to lay out a magazine or
okay, something like that.
So I'm working on.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
is it ai?
No, because I would assume,like AI is going to totally wipe
out.
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
I don't think so.
There are some really greatcontrols.
So if we want to get into thisbecause I am In the government.
Well, so I don't know whereit's going to come from, but
ChatGPT has really limited whatthey will allow their AI to do
for you.
Now they allow their AI to dofor you now.
They won't let you write asermon with it anymore, which
used to be you guys rememberlike I just fired it up and it
would do it.
It will start it and then itwill say, let's clarify, you
(27:25):
would not do it.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,no.
We did it as a proof to showthat this thing would do it
Would write a poem, would do allthings you would not do, no no,
no, Because, and honestly, ifyou've ever heard me preach, you
know I ain't preaching fromChad.
GPT, you're lucky to bepreaching from your iPad I know
from my notes most of the time,but it, um, it used to allow you
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to do pretty much any graphicdesign you wanted to do.
You could pop in there and say,hey, create me a 19, 19, uh, a
full high definition photo of apenguin eating a sub sandwich,
and it won't do it anymore.
It will give you a startingpoint or it will tell you like
this is I can't make the exactdimensions and that's just
recent that that's happened, sothey have started to limit all
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of the things that it will do.
So I thought that wasinteresting.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
That is interesting yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
That's a good thing, yes.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Well, because it stops you from using your brain.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Oh yeah, yeah, that's a good thing?
Yes, I think so too well,because it stops you from using
your brain.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Oh, yeah, listen, I ask it questions all the time,
like I went in and I said, hey,how do I update my email address
for this?
And it gives you very specificdirections on how to do it.
So I find it helpful for thatmuch better than google will
ever be as far as that part isconcerned but, there are some
things that it shouldn't be ableto do right, yeah it also will
no longer do things for people'slikenesses, and what I mean by
that is like I can't um, I youused to be able to tell it like
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create a picture of elvis eatinga peanut butter sandwich while
riding horseback on a unicorn,and it would get pretty darn
close to a picture of elvis.
And now it says I can't do that, but I can do something in the
likeness of including longsideburns or a jumpsuit style or
like.
It'll get very, it'll give youreference points to use, but it
won't let you do just anythinganymore, good yeah yeah and I
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think it'll, if, if it has thoselimits, it won't take away as
many jobs like right.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
You know all the creative you know, designers or
writers.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Yes, yeah, yeah, absolutely I have no idea what
I'm doing right now.
None whatsoever.
I thought that I could handlethis.
It turns out I can't, and Ishould just pay somebody to fix
it.
Here let me do it yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
I'll fix it right up.
Just set it on fire at thatpoint, throw it in the gravel
and run over it.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Like today.
I was on the computer lookingsomething up, so I went back
into the shop.
I come back out, my mouse won'twork.
I said, oh man, so I'm pushingbuttons.
Oh gosh, computer burst intoflame.
So that so I.
Oh well, we didn't have anybatteries.
I knew he had some in mytoolbox, so I went.
I got a battery put in.
It still didn't work, so I putthe old battery back in it and
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it started working.
I said what is the deal here?
Speaker 1 (30:15):
technology, give me a piece of paper yeah, I was
gonna say it works great, youalways have to appreciate that
irony, like he fixes that tirewith the shoes.
Yes, exactly, do that but see,that's always been my argument.
There are some people good atthings that I will never be good
at, and that's why I surroundmyself with people who are good
at all of those things.
I am not a graphic design guy,not good at it like I suck at it
.
Let's just be honest.
(30:35):
I used to think I was good andthen I'd look at it and go that
is trash, like it doesn't gettrashier than that.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
Well, your son's pretty good at it.
Yes, he is, he's like reallyreally good at it yes.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
So I'm thankful for him, even though he won't help
me most of the time.
That's not my problem, Dad.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Not my circus, not my monkeys.
So he screwed up though.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Uh-oh, he joined the Railroad Festival board.
Yeah Listen, he was on theboard for about .4 seconds and I
turned around and handed himtwo stacks of paperwork.
I'm like hey.
I need you to retype these?
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Oh, you told him you had them retyped.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Yeah, he did it too.
He finished them.
He sent them to me today.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
How old do you have to be to join?
Speaker 1 (31:17):
We don't actually have an age limit, but because
he will be 18 this year, we justwent ahead and he's volunteered
three festivals in a row.
He's worked harder than mostadults that have been on the
board in the past.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Yeah, there's plenty to do.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Yes, and honestly.
We need people who are hardworkers that will just like drag
heavy wires and do all of thethings.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
So, yeah, especially when they they got them three
prongs on the end and then fourinches of wiring trying to drag
it from here out to the parking.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Yeah, yeah, never fun never fun, but anyhow it's fun.
After you get it all done, dragit from here out to the parking
lot.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Yeah yeah, never fun, never fun, but anyhow, but it's
fun after you get it all done.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Is it though?
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Because then you have to tear it all down.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Yeah, that's true, just as a fun.
So the frog story.
So, the people who were incouncil meeting last night heard
it.
But I, every time I come backfrom vacation, something has
happened to me Like they havepulled some sort of prank.
All right, last time I went onvacation I came back and they
had decorated my entire officefor Christmas.
And when I say entire office,they wrapped every ink pen,
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every post-it note, everythingin my desk chair was wrapped.
My window was wrapped.
My fish tank was wrapped.
They didn't wrap the fish, butI'm surprised.
It was pretty intense.
I'm talking everything in myoffice was wrapped.
This time I went back and Iopened my office door.
No prank.
I was really surprised by that.
But there was a package on mydesk that came while I was on
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vacation.
I had been waiting on it.
So I sat down at my desk, throwoff my backpack and I go to
open that box.
I tear open the box and there'ssome bubble wrap on the top.
I pulled the bubble wrap offand almost passed out Like was
shaking uncontrollably.
They had put a rubber frog inthe bottom of that box, put the
thing that I had ordered on topof it, but it was a little spice
jar so it was tiny.
So I saw the frog first and itwas moving and I was losing my
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cool, like I didn't scream likea girl, I didn't do any of the
normal things that I would do,but dude, I'm talking like
shaking uncontrollably, couldn'tcatch my breath, like acting
like a fool, and I was sothankful there was nobody else
in the office whenever ithappened so I finally get my
composure together.
I like I had to sit down.
I was like okay, you're fine,it's not real, everything's good
, you're cool, just deep breath,we're going to get through this
(33:43):
right.
So finally get myself together.
I go out to one of the otheroffices and I said to the two
people that were in there I said, hey, I need one of your help.
Like I got a package, somebodyput a fake frog in the one guy
goes, say no more, he takes itout of the box, he comes back
and he goes.
Whoever put it in there, justlet them know it's a total loss
because it's going home with me.
It's never going to make itsway back here.
Appreciate that I stillstruggled to go back to my
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office because I know that hetook it.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
But I kept thinking did he put it somewhere else?
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Right?
Yes, is it.
Am I going to open the drawerand there's going to be that.
Yes, Am I going to open the?
Speaker 1 (34:17):
drawer and there's going to be that.
So listen, I asked him today.
I said so, was that frog likereal rubbery or something?
I said because I swore it movedin the box.
He goes oh yeah, he's like.
That thing was disgusting.
He said it was like silicone,almost.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
And so like when I opened the box, and shook it.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
It like jiggled in the box.
He's like it had this big, long, nasty tongue, which which I
didn't even see, that it wasgray, it just all was awful.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
They probably were like most realistic, yes, yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
So here was the best part, though the best part was
that normally, when I getpranked, I'm like all right, who
did it?
And like there's retaliation.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
I didn't say a word to anybody and nobody else has
mentioned it to me.
They're like so I'm guessingthey went into my office at some
point to see if it was in thebox, because they saw I left the
box that open on my desk andthey probably went in and looked
and realized it was gone andwent oh crap.
So yeah, I don't know exactlywho did it yet, but I also and I
was not mad at all Like I get,it's a prank, it was meant to be
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funny, it was not meant to beharmful in any way.
But I talk, I tell them likethat's not funny to me, right?
yeah frogs toads not funny to me.
I swear to you, if they everput a real one in my office, oh
my gosh, you'd have to move.
I had it happen to me one timeat at my last hotel.
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The housekeeping girls knewthat I was deathly afraid of
them, but they didn't realize tothe extent to which I was
afraid of them, and so I was inmy office.
None of the windows in thishotel open, okay, they're all
just solid panes of glass.
And they come in and they'vegot this bag.
Hershey used to make these mintcandies that were in these
little wrappers.
And they're like hey look, wegot you your favorite candy.
Do you want one?
And I said no.
And whatever's in that bag, getout of here.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
Because there's six of them standing there with this
bag of candy.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Yes, exactly, I ain't no fool.
Mama didn't raise no fool.
So they open the bag andthere's a tree frog in the
bottom.
Now they aren't quite as bad tome, but they're still
horrifying because they jumpright.
Speaker 4 (36:20):
Oh yeah.
And so they're like oh, I intoyour forehead.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Yeah, oh my gosh, you would have to call an ambulance
.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
I would go into cardiac arrest Guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Guaranteed.
So they get this frog.
It's in the bag.
They open the bag, I can seethe frog.
And the next thing I know I'mtrying to get out the window
like legitimately, like I'mpressed against the window,
shoving into it with my shoulder.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
I'm thinking if I bust this window, I'm gonna have
to pay for it, but I don't careI didn't care.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
The frog jumps out of the bag.
No, jumps out of the foil bag.
He's on the floor.
I'm at this point losing mycrap like completely
uncontrollable at this point Idude.
I was like if somebody doesn'tget that thing out of here I
can't look down because it's onthe floor.
I'm like, oh, it was awful.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
I just see the Bugs Bunny commercials where they run
through the wall, that'sexactly what I thought was going
to happen.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
man, I could not handle it.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
And then the girls are all laughing and I'm sitting
over there shakinguncontrollably Like Lucy, what
you're really saying is yourstaff does not have to work any
harder when you're not therebecause they've got time.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
I did learn while I was on vacation.
This time that place runsitself like we are a really well
oiled machine.
My team is great.
They could go buy anotherhundred cabins in Holmes County
tomorrow and we'd be like, yeah,whatever, we gotta hire a
couple of people to clean, butwhatever, because it fits inside
the system.
Our system is so well oiled,that's good so but yeah, yeah,
(37:47):
buddy, but you're the conductor.
Yes, yeah, so it is my circus,they are my monkeys, so, and you
have control of them?
Yep, yeah, it is we.
It's again.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
It's a really great team, we're really well, oil
oiled, unless they're holding afrog.
Yes, not have control?
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Yes, and I didn't.
I like I really honestlythought that I was like I didn't
know how I was going to processit after the fact, Like it took
me a long time to finally comedown from it.
Hmm, it was rough.
It was rough.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Did you guys hear who bought this land?
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Did somebody buy it?
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
People who own barbells, mm-hmm yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
They were out there looking at it one day.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
I'm pretty sure they did.
My friend had a trainingsession with the one trainer and
the trainer had told her thatyeah, I'm not surprised.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
I'm just curious where they're going to build Me
too.
I'm hoping they go back towardsthe road.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
That's what I'm picturing, because they had
walked all the way out to thepost at the far corner, so I
hope they go out far enough to.
The bad part, though, is thatnow that won't be a cornfield.
Oh, we can't put grassclippings over.
Yeah, exactly, I'm blowing itinto their parking lot boy that
stink yeah yeah, I hope theykeep it far enough away that
(39:07):
it's not a problem, we readjustmowing yeah yep.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
So what are you going to build?
A gym, I, I would assume.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Well, they lease now.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
Yeah, and the thing is, is everything over there
like Reyes Tanning?
They left because themaintenance on the building is
so bad.
The plaza is just in suchdisrepair.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Well, and how many sections do they have now?
Like four, I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Yeah, I think.
Yeah, it's a lot, it's a lot,it's a lot yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Yeah Well, that'll be close for some people to go to
the gym on Sunday morning andthen just come here, right, yeah
, hey, maybe I'll go work out.
You had a treadmill in yourhouse.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
You used it for a coat rack.
I'll tell you what, though youdid it once.
I'm going to say this, but takeit with a grain of salt.
I think if I would have hadthat in the new house, I would
have used it more.
I realized that in the basementof the old house there was so
little space to run on it that Iwould almost hit the ceiling
and in the new house it's notlike that.
The ceiling is so high in thebasement that I think I probably
(40:10):
would have used it.
I'm not going to buy anotherone to find out.
I don't see any reason to dothat.
It seems like a giant waste oftime.
Speaker 5 (40:16):
Now just walk down to the track.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Well and honestly, if I want to work out, I'll just
go to the gym, and, let's behonest, I'm not going to do it.
So I got to lose the belly.
Though, guys, if God can seeinto the future, I wonder if he
could just let me know whetheror not I'm going to lose any of
this weight, make a lap on thetrack and then do the steps on
the stadium.
Oh no.
Speaker 5 (40:37):
Leashers do a lap on the steps or track.
Oh, no.
Speaker 4 (40:41):
Mm-hmm.
Oh, that's like work.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
You got to Rocky that stuff.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Speaking of Rocky, what's in the McKinley Museum?
Yeah, yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (40:51):
No, thank you.
Yeah, no, yeah, up to themausoleum, yeah, up to the tomb,
like yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
I went with Kinsey and Tripp and Tanya one day.
Oh yeah, why do my legs hurt sobad?
And I felt like an idiot.
Because there Kinsey is.
Yeah, you know, she's with herfoot on foot and she's just
do-do-do-do-do-do.
I'm like, oh my gosh, I'm soout of shape.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
What simulator swinging the golf club.
I was like I got up the nextone.
Why do I hurt so bad, like mysides hurt, my arms hurt, my
legs are what's going on?
And I went oh crap, you swungthe golf club four times.
Four times.
It might've been a few morethan that, but it wasn't like
yeah, man, we do a golf outingevery year and it's 18 holes and
it's the end of that day.
Speaker 4 (41:33):
I feel terrible.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
I'll drive the golf cart for you, but that's about
all I have, that's about it, getyour cold water.
Speaker 4 (41:38):
Yeah, yeah, well, I have a Margie Minute, yay.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
We'll get the sound right this time.
Speaker 4 (41:48):
There we go, All right.
So we've got yet another oneAnother cat.
Speaker 3 (41:55):
Is this the cat?
Do you have another?
Speaker 1 (41:57):
cat this is the cat that you were going to get rid
of, though Like she oh no, it'sa new one.
So when new On top of the newone?
Oh my God, is that 12?
Speaker 5 (42:04):
As of this weekend On top of the new one.
Speaker 4 (42:06):
So we went over to Charlie's to help him put his
new washer in there's.
So, of course, while we'refixing up the washer, she's
outside.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
Did she bring home the pregnant cat?
Speaker 4 (42:21):
Yes, she's sitting there In the grass holding her,
give her some comfort.
And she looks at me and she'slike All you gotta do is say no.
And I'm like how can I tell youno?
Speaker 2 (42:36):
And you have to go home with her.
This is when you're the mostbeautiful, not?
Speaker 4 (42:38):
when you're holding a baby and I'm like, how can I
tell you?
No, and you have to go homewith her.
This is when you're the mostbeautiful, not when you're
holding a baby.
This is why.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
I love you.
Speaker 4 (42:45):
It's like how can I tell you, no, you know, I'm not
going to tell you no, oh, he's aschmoozer.
Speaker 5 (42:51):
I think she's given Beth tips on how to get those
babies from her pregnant mamacat oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
So now she's got a pregnant cat.
Speaker 4 (42:58):
So now the pregnant cat is downstairs in our
bathroom.
She made her up a little bedand everything.
Speaker 3 (43:04):
And so now we're just waiting for her to deliver.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
Waiting for the arrival and when she has her
kittens, which can be betweentwo and eight.
Speaker 4 (43:13):
Another 24.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
So are you keeping all of those?
Speaker 4 (43:17):
She'll do her best to get rid of them, but I
guarantee you.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
At least one, at least one, at least one.
So it's a two-for-one special.
Speaker 4 (43:24):
Yeah, you'll end up keeping the mom and at least a
baby, because we love to jokethat you know she'll post,
kittens are available andsomebody will message and say,
hey, you know, yeah, I'll takeone, and if she's like, I don't
know that.
Speaker 5 (43:37):
I don't trust that, and so ghost them.
Speaker 3 (43:39):
I don't know that they're going to be a good cat
we're like are you kidding.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
Yeah, that's how we always end up with a cat, but
the thing is too, and I get itbecause, oh yeah, we'll take one
and then it ends up as anoutside cat and ends up making
more fixed in order to give themaway.
Speaker 4 (43:55):
Oh yeah, it's a whole screening process.
Yeah, there's a 48 pageapplication.
Speaker 3 (44:00):
It's like Ashley asking about if people are
background check, backgroundcheck to keep the kids.
Speaker 4 (44:08):
Which is good, and this cat is just adorable.
Speaker 3 (44:13):
Sucker.
What kind of cat Is it?
Like a tabby cat.
Speaker 4 (44:18):
It's like this really , uh, silverish gray but has
white in its face.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
Yeah it's beautiful she's long hair, it could be no
no, she's short hair short hairum so, yeah, next cook nick.
Speaker 2 (44:31):
Yeah, that's the reason margie's got it, because
nick fell in love with it too.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
Yeah, for sure no he fell in love with her with.
Margie.
Speaker 4 (44:39):
Like I said, that's when she did it best.
The cat looked good with it.
How can I tell you no?
Speaker 1 (44:45):
And if you told her no, she would have cried the
whole way home.
Speaker 4 (44:49):
It's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (44:51):
And not talk to you.
Speaker 1 (44:54):
At 3 o'clock in the morning, Nick would have been
driving back over there to findthat cat.
At 3 o'clock in the morning,Nick would have been driving
back over there to find that cat.
She would have cried all nightuntil Nick went back and got
that cat.
You got to go find her.
What's going to happen?
What if she has her babies andsomething tries to eat them.
You know what, though and it'sfunny because we joke about it
we laugh about it, but you don'tmeet many people like that,
that would be so compassionatetowards animals, so we have to
(45:17):
have them.
Those people have to exist inthe world.
Speaker 5 (45:19):
My mom and my daughter both have baby birds
that they have fed syringe fed.
Speaker 1 (45:25):
Oh, no yeah.
God bless you guys.
No yeah.
Speaker 5 (45:29):
Caitlin left me in charge of two baby birds for a
day and a half.
Speaker 2 (45:33):
They didn't make, it Didn't make it, they died.
Speaker 1 (45:35):
Yeah, didn't make it.
Speaker 5 (45:36):
That's unfortunate, I'm like I think I choked them
to death trying to surrenderthem.
Speaker 2 (45:42):
She had one of them turkey basins Drink you little
bird.
Speaker 3 (45:49):
I don't know what happened, Caleb.
Speaker 4 (45:52):
I did tell her I don't want to do litter anymore.
Well, what are you going to do?
I was like I can't do itanymore.
I was like I I can't do itanymore.
Speaker 3 (45:58):
I was like I'll do laundry.
Oh, you mean for?
Speaker 4 (45:59):
your chore.
Speaker 5 (46:00):
Yeah, I'm like I just somebody else you're gonna take
her.
Speaker 4 (46:02):
It's like, okay, you're gonna have to take this
over.
Speaker 1 (46:05):
Yeah, I'll do laundry , I'll do dishes, whatever, but
I'm done doing like well, you'regonna do it once in a while.
Speaker 4 (46:09):
I said fine, I'll do it once in a while.
But yeah, I did not knowrecently learned this I guess
this is your Gettysburg.
Yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 1 (46:21):
I learned that pregnant women should not be
around cats.
There's something about thesmell or whatever from the
litter box.
Speaker 5 (46:29):
The dust and stuff from the litter.
People who are on dialysisshould not be around cat litter.
Speaker 1 (46:35):
I didn't know that Interesting.
Now I guess they have newdust-free litter too.
There's some new.
Speaker 5 (46:40):
Yeah, when they have those new fancy yeah $1,200.
Speaker 3 (46:45):
What's the?
Is it pretty litter?
Have you heard of pretty litter?
Speaker 2 (46:49):
There's no pretty litter.
Speaker 3 (46:51):
No, if there's Listen , if it has something going on
with it.
Oh, like it crystallizes orsomething like a different color
, like, so like if it has a utior whatever you would know, yes,
uh.
Speaker 1 (47:03):
The other thing I would say, nick, and this is
something that is probablyworthwhile for you and your wife
have you seen the new littersubscription?
no so there's a cat littersubscription.
It's called like litter box andboxes capital letters.
It's a cardboard box.
You open it up.
It's pre-litter.
It's got the litter alreadyinside of it.
You take the lid off of it, youput it on the floor.
The cats use it.
You put the lid on it, you puta shipping label on it and you
(47:23):
send it back to them.
Yep, you don't, you never scoop, you just lid what, send it
back that litter?
Oh, who knows, who knows?
I don't know, I don't reallycare.
To me weird, but it does existand people do use it.
What are they doing with?
Speaker 5 (47:39):
it.
They probably reuse the litterI'm just thinking of these boxes
.
Speaker 1 (47:45):
Can you imagine being a mail carrier?
Speaker 3 (47:48):
In 90-degree weather.
Speaker 5 (47:50):
I have a case of cats and the ammonia smell Before
you ever got to the house.
As soon as you got to the porchyou could smell that it you
could before you ever got to thehouse.
Speaker 1 (47:59):
soon as you got to the porch, you could smell that
it's called Kitty Poo Club.
Disposable litter box deliveryKitty Poo Club.
This message is brought to youby.
Speaker 3 (48:06):
Kitty Poo Club.
Speaker 1 (48:07):
Kitty Poo, it is true , and there it is, my friends.
It exists, don't scoop it.
Speaker 3 (48:12):
Throw it away my dad would last us a day.
Speaker 4 (48:15):
Oh yeah, that wouldn't be.
That's like the size of a paperbox.
Speaker 5 (48:18):
Yeah that would not do.
Well, maybe they come in extralarge, huge, super large.
Speaker 4 (48:22):
Super large, Crazy cat lady oh yeah, and so now
we're discussing, she wants toput a fence up in the backyard
to keep all the cats.
Speaker 5 (48:34):
Well, she'd have to put a dome over that, right,
yeah, to keep them in the yard.
Speaker 1 (48:37):
So she's worried about they do make them in
different sizes.
Speaker 4 (48:45):
So, yeah, it'll be an interesting spring.
Speaker 1 (48:47):
Yes, it will yes it will.
Speaker 2 (48:50):
Better than even me.
Speaker 1 (48:51):
That is for sure.
Alright, we gotta button upbecause we've got community
Lenten service tonight.
So Whose turn is it?
It's Nick's turn.
Speaker 5 (48:59):
Is that right?
Yeah, because Beth has.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (49:01):
All right, nick, it's all.
You, my friend, hit the rightbutton I got this.
Speaker 4 (49:08):
Lord, we thank you for allowing us all to come here
tonight and have another greatdiscussion about your will.
We know with all our heartsthat you have complete control
over our lives, over our future,everything that is good in this
world.
We know that you have a plan,despite sometimes it may not
(49:31):
seem that way.
Everybody, we all, experienceour fair share of you know
disappointments, but we knowthat there's always something
better up ahead and we justthank you for that.
We just thank you for justalways just guiding us through
every step of our lives andmaking sure that we end up
exactly where we're supposed tobe within your will.
Yes, I pray everybody gets homesafely this evening and
(49:52):
hopefully we'll meet again nextweek.
Amen.
Speaker 5 (49:55):
Amen.
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