August 27, 2025 • 57 mins
Ever found yourself spiraling into a panic after a late-night WebMD session? We've all been there, and in this episode, we share some hilarious stories of self-diagnosis mishaps and unexpected podiatrist visits that prove foot doctors aren't just for the elderly. Join us as we explore the comedic side of bending over for shoes and how minor health hiccups can sneak into our everyday lives. It's a lighthearted reminder of the importance of professional medical advice and regular foot care, with a sprinkle of laughter to ease the tension.
But wait, there's more! From teenage growth spurts to the ongoing battle with the scale, we humorously recount our love-hate relationship with late-night snacks—hello, peanut butter—and the peculiar dreams that follow. If you've ever woken up wondering why your dreams vanish with the morning light, you're in good company. These nocturnal adventures are a rollercoaster ride through stress eating and midnight cravings, offering a fun glimpse into our quest for balance in an unpredictable world.
As we navigate the intricacies of family feuds, church attendance, and the quirks of neighborly relations, you'll find stories that resonate with everyday challenges. Whether it's guiding children through religious practices or facing the frustrations of customer service blunders, the journey through work ethics, community, and the unspoken rules of church life is both entertaining and enlightening. We wrap up with a nostalgic nod to the Jerry Springer show's wild ride and end with a heartfelt prayer, hoping to leave you with a sense of gratitude and the warmth of shared stories.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
My sister does that with WebMD, oh you can't you
physically cannot do that.
Steph was doing that Before.
On your MyChart, whenever ittells you the findings or the
doctor can talk with you, andshe's looking up all these names
and I'm like and StephanieCaldwell just did the same thing
(00:20):
I'm like, don't do this.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
And even if you Google, why do I have a pain in
my big toe?
You have cancer or a heart.
You're going into congestiveheart failure or like there's
some sort of yeah there's somesort of epic illness that you've
got.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
When it turns out really you just have an ingrown
toenail yeah, I drew lab work onthis lady last week and so, but
she hasn't heard from herfamily doctor or the
cardiologist regarding her labwork.
So do you know what my labshowed?
I said, well, I can look ifthey're scanned in here.
I said, but if they haven'tcalled you, everything's
probably okay.
You know, I'm by no means aspecialist when it comes to labs
(00:55):
.
Yeah, I can look at them andlet you know if everything's
okay or if you need to worry.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Have I ever told you guys about the time I went to
the podiatrist?
So I just need to clarify thatI think the podiatrist is just a
foot doctor for old people.
I think it's just the placewhere old people go to get their
toenails clipped because theyrun out of wind when they bend
over to clip their toenailsright.
That's what I've always thoughtabout them, but it must've been
two or three years ago.
I had this wicked pain in thebottom of my foot, like almost
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right in the center, like rightin the arch of my foot, and it
was wicked painful.
It felt like I was stepping onsomething every time I would
walk.
Speaker 6 (01:32):
And I couldn't know.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I couldn't figure out what it was.
But I had this like it lookedlike a bruise in the bottom of
my foot, and so I gimped aroundfor a couple of days and I was
finally.
I told Alyssa I'm like I can'twalk, I can't put pressure on it
, I don't want to walk on mytoes because it hurts, like I've
got to go see the doctor.
So I call the podiatrist, go tothe podiatrist and I get in the
little chair and he has and I'mwearing slip on shoes because I
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can't put another shoe onbecause any kind of pressure
just, oh my gosh, it's a black,it looks like there's a pebble
under my skin and he's like areyou?
sure you didn't like step on arock and it got embedded in your
skin like I'm positive that Ididn't.
Was it a wart?
No, no.
So he's like poking at it.
He's like somebody walked by.
He's like, hey, come in hereand look at this thing.
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And pretty soon I got likeseven people in the room poking
the bottom of my foot and I'mlike ready to pass out.
And he's like, well, I reallydon't know what it is.
He's like does it hurt real bad?
I'm like, yeah, every time youtouch it, I feel like I'm going
to pass out.
So they fashioned me a pad, likea work pad, but there wasn't
any medicine on it, it was justto like cushion it.
(02:36):
And they put it around thatsucker and I was able to walk on
it that same day.
That thing was gone within aweek, no idea what it was, no
idea where it came from.
And so now I have a newfoundappreciation for podiatrists.
It's no longer, but my wifestill makes fun of me because
only old people go to thepodiatrist.
So where's that?
Although I have decided that Iam just going to start getting a
regular pedicure, yeah, and thereason I just want them to cut
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my toenails, like I'm gettingthis like extra around the
middle here, and so when I bendover I'm like for people that
haven't seen you.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
They're thinking you're like 200 700 pounds, yeah
no, seriously, like it's.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I grunt now when I lift my foot up to put my shoe
on it's did you hit a?
What whole 148 no, listen,don't get me started listen.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
I haven't even seen that since high school 165, my
entire, like I.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
So my freshman year of high school I was four, six.
All the way through thefreshman year of high school and
like 98 pounds.
And then between freshman andsophomore year I went to six,
one, like over the summer, wentto six, one and 165 pounds never
varied.
I would step on the scale atthe doctor and I'd go 165.
I'd get on the scale 165.
On the, I'd go 165, I'd get onthe scale 165.
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On the nose, like they werealways blown away.
That's all I ever was.
I started to notice I was likeman, I'm starting to jiggle when
I walk a little bit.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
185 no way.
Yes, yeah, but you're tallexactly so.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
I'm like 185.
I don't like this.
I want to go back to my 165.
Okay, the other morning I goton the scale just for giggles
190.
I almost had a stroke.
I was like no, I can't do this.
I don't at this point.
I don't know what it is like.
It's got to be just getting old.
Like I refuse to go to the gym.
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But I don't drink soda like Iused to.
I usually get one a day andthat's, and granted, it is a
mcdonald's or something likethat, because I get it through
the drive-thru, because if I buyit at home I'll drink all 12 in
an afternoon.
It's nothing for me to drinkthat many sodas.
So I do still.
I like I don't limit the typesof foods that I eat.
Like I ate like six packs ofho-hos in an evening, like so I
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know that and the five dozenBuckeyes in two weeks.
I know that that doesn't help.
But I also don't eat the restof the day.
I don't eat breakfast.
I seldom eat lunch, unless it'sa can of Campbell's Chunky Soup
, and then dinner, whatever wehave.
Last night we had chicken,potatoes and green beans and I
didn't even eat the chicken.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
And then you just pig out at snack time.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Well, see, the problem is, it's like the 3 am
thing.
Seriously, when I tell you thatI look like a raccoon, I look
like a raccoon.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
No wonder you don't have breakfast, because that's
your breakfast.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
The worst part is sometimes I get up and last
night it was no, not last night,maybe it was, I can't remember
it was a pan of lasagna.
You ate the whole pan, not thewhole pan, but I ate two really
big pieces.
And then I just left the pansit on the counter, so I had
lasagna in it.
I just left it sit there andlike the fork is still in it and
(05:41):
I know it was me because I'mlike, oh, that must have been me
.
I don't remember most of it.
I drank almost an entire gallonof milk in the middle of the
night.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
One night You're like stress eating.
It's bizarre While you'resleeping.
So bizarre.
What happened to your peanutbutter?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
I still do peanut butter.
Yeah, I still do peanut butter,although the last time I did it
a really big scoop and I triedto eat it all and I started to
gag and then that was the wholething.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
Thought I was going to die.
I don't buy it anymore becauseit's not safe.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I love peanut butter.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
I will just gallon of milk, peanut butter.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
So Jif made.
What were they?
Oh, the squeezy pouches ofpeanut butter.
Have you seen those?
Alyssa used to buy those for me.
She's like Michael I can'tafford to buy this for you
because you eat three a night.
I can't.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
And they're expensive yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
It's like triple the price of a jar of peanut butter
and you don't get even half ofthat because it's all
individually packed.
They are so good though.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
I would get those like the little cups.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
It's not enough.
No, no, it's not enough.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
I'll eat all three of them.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I want peanut butter and celery no.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Why?
Why do you want to eat stringywater?
Why do you want to eat stringy?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
water?
I doubt it.
No, because peanut butter we'vetalked about this peanut butter
you can't even breathe half thetime when you're swallowing it,
so the celery washes it down.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
No, it's just a jar, a spoon and milk.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yes, and the milk is only really there for the
reassurance that, if it getsstuck, I've got something to get
it down.
Seriously, I can't tell you howmany times I've eaten a
spoonful of peanut butter andthought this is it, this is how
I go, this is the end.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
Well, this is going to get up.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
He's going to be on the kitchen floor.
Yeah, oh Lord.
Seriously, I don't remembereating the lasagna.
I don't, I remember.
What's funny is I remembertearing the aluminum foil when I
was taking the thing off, likethat was the realization that
that was me, because thealuminum foil was laying beside
it and it had been torn.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Do you remember your dreams ever?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
I don't dream very often, but when I do, they're
always when I remember them.
They're always bizarre.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Same.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yeah, really bizarre, and I can't.
I seldom, can ever talk aboutmy dreams, because people were
like you need therapy, Like Ialready have it yeah, judging
you right now, been there.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
It's very rare that I remember my dreams.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I know that I dreamt, but yeah, very strange if I
don't write it like as soon as Iwake up, it's gone listen.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Last night I'm laying in bed, falling asleep and I
have this sermon idea and I'mlike, oh man, this is fire,
cannot wait to preach this.
Like I got to write thismessage, I cannot wait, I cannot
wait.
I'm so excited.
Next thing I know I'm asleep.
Can you believe?
I have no idea what it was.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
It's not time yet Not the faintest idea.
It's just not time yet.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I mean, I know it was good.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Must not have been that good I was also going to
gonna say.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
The other thing is is I was kind of in that like
euphoric falling asleep thing.
It may not have really beenthat good, my brain just thought
it was great.
So there's that.
That happens to me a lot,though, and I'm like you should
write that down.
I'm like now you'll remember, Ican't remember what I had for
lunch.
Actually, that's not true.
(09:01):
20-piece nugget large, and alarge fry.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Don't get all the scales in the morning 192.
Wait about five minutes.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
It has nothing to do with what you ate.
It's the amount of sodium,that's right.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Maybe I need a water pill.
Maybe that's what I need.
Maybe I need a water pill.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
You need four in the morning and a half in the
afternoon.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I'll tell you I was thinking I said to Alyssa the
other day, so I was like man,maybe I should just like get
Ozempic or a semaglutide orsomething like like she's like
you're not fat, you don't needto lose weight.
I'm like right, I understandthat you say that like you don't
feel like I.
I feel it when I walk and I'mnot comfortable and she looks at
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me and she goes really she'slike I've been big my whole life
.
What do you?
How do you think I feel?
Like all right, touche.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Let's get off of weight.
But can I just say God works inmiraculous ways.
My daughter just sent me apicture.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Oh geez, I had a nephew that overdosed at
Thanksgiving he was on event.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Yeah, I had a nephew that overdosed at Thanksgiving.
He was on a vent and thedoctors came in and said to the
parents you know they're nottogether, but both parents he
has no brain activity.
You need to pull the plug.
Dad said yes.
Mom said I can't do it, so hehad been on a vent for several
(10:24):
months, I mean sinceThanksgiving.
He's now trached, he's awake,wow, and he's sitting up in a
chair.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
I just pray to God because, you know, because
they're not saved.
Yeah, most of his brothers areaddicts.
His dad was an addict.
His mom was an addict, you know, but I've been watching her
post.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I'm not friends with her, but I've been watching her
post Facebook stalking yeah, Ihave been, that's fine yeah.
And you know she's been she'sbeen crying out to God.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Don't take my son.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Don't, don't take my son, so if nothing else happens,
yeah.
I hope that there's aturnaround for that.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's awesome family yeah
that's awesome.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Amen, yeah, that's great stuff.
So, what feelings?
What feelings you should?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
you should have said eureka, eureka oh, you know what
I need to get?
I need to get a sound clip ofsteve urkel going did, I do that
and every time we talk about myeating habits or something
strange we just play Steve Urkelor anytime we get off topic.
Or that's the meanwhile back atthe ranch sound that we need to
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get Meanwhile back at the ranch.
What feelings come up when youidentify as a Christian?
So this question is really kindof short and sweet.
So when you say to somebody, orsomebody asks you like hey, are
you a Christian?
And you say yes, basically thepoint of the question is what
feelings do you?
Do you have?
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Peace, okay.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
I guess I have urgency, to like want to talk
about it.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Yeah, I don't know.
That's like the first thingthat you know comes to mind
whenever.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Well, I would say love, joy and anxiety.
Because now what if they've gotquestions for me?
Then I might not have the rightanswer or feel that I don't
have the right answer.
So then I might feel someanxiety due to the fact that,
but I hope and pray that I livemy life that where people think,
ah, she's a Christian.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Well, to expound on your anxiety, I always have
anxiety.
When somebody asks me thatquestion, I'm like what did I do
that?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
they remember.
Sometimes, too, I would saysadness because, talking to my
family members or people whoaren't saved, and trying to get
the point across that you know,jesus is who we need.
This is what we need.
And then they rebuke you.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Yeah, I don't.
You don't need to pray for meright now.
What, what a good God do thisto my son.
What a good God do this to?
Yeah, that's the challenge forsure Okay.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
This.
You just went a completedifferent direction with this,
as I thought you well, sorryabout that, beth.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
You think initially yeah, what was your original
thought?
Just this is just a thoughtshout it out.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
yeah, because I think it could go, depending on how
they ask you, like I'm sorry,like don just said, well, you're
a christian, you know why wouldyour god do this?
But then if someone, someonegenuinely asks like, hey, are
you a Christian?
I have questions, likeobviously you're going to have
different emotions when they howthey interpret it.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
I guess I guess I don't know how do I want to say
I don't know.
Go to Nick Pass.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
I guess I feel a strong sense of confidence, yet
humility, like I know, all theconfidence that I have in myself
and what I do and who I am,comes from him.
So that's why I have confidence.
And yet, at the same point, Ihave that humility because I've
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been through plenty of things inmy life.
I've seen plenty of things inmy life, so I have a lot of
empathy for people.
So when somebody comes to mewith a question like that, dare
I say I'm ready for anything.
I'm ready for whatever comesnext, whether it's a question or
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it's a statement that they'regoing to make.
I feel pretty confident in who Iam as a Christian and you know
I just saw something the otherday.
You know people shouldn'tpeople should not hang their hat
on saying I'm a Christian.
You need to ask yourself do youreally have a relationship with
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Jesus?
That's where it lies.
It's easy to say yeah, I'm aChristian, I go to church, but
if that's all you have, you'renot going to be able to help
anybody.
If somebody comes up to you andasks you that question,
whatever comes next, you'reprobably not going to be
prepared for it.
So it's more of you know,hanging your hat on.
(15:11):
Yeah, I'm pretty confident, Ihave a relationship with Jesus
and so, like I said, I have thatconfidence and that humility to
have discussions with peopleand kind of, you know, uh, see
it from all sides I can.
I can look at somebody who's anon-Christian and with no
(15:32):
judgment, you know, if somebodywould make that statement, I
mean, I suppose it depends onhow they say it, but I would
think, for the most part, ifit's just because they don't
know or they haven't decided,you know, or if they're
questioning it, I'm not, I don'tjudge them because they're not
a Christian.
No, and that's not my job to dothat.
My job is to have that humilityand the confidence to be like
(15:56):
okay, well, here's some thingsyou can think about, you know,
to pull you to our side, yeah.
Now, that's our job our side.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Yeah, now, that's our job, I think I mean it's it's a
known fact that this is thefirst generation that you say it
all the time that there's um,that the parents basically
aren't forcing the kids Ishouldn't say forcing, but the
the main no, no, no, that's theright word.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Yeah, you have to force your kid.
You force your kids to brushyour brush their teeth, that's
true, your kids to wear shoes?
Speaker 1 (16:21):
yeah, so, like the normal household is not going to
church together.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Anything that's good for your child, you gotta force
them to do it.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
They're deodorant.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
So there's clearly more people unchurched than
churched in this world.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
This is the first post-church generation, meaning
that the kids who are our kidsare not going to church.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
They're not growing up in church, correct?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
And they don't have, and some of that is our fault
for not bringing them to church,but some of that is also our
fault for giving them thefreedom to decide whether or not
they want to come.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
There was no freedom in my house.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
There wasn't in mine either.
The pastor had to come out andpull my daughter out of the car
a few times, like she ain'tgetting out of the car.
He's like but she will.
Oh, but watch me.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
She was a little stronger than I was Gonna lay
hands on this girl.
Roger, what Question it's yourturn to answer?
No, I was waiting on Beth.
She passed, pastor Roger, shepassed.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
She passed, she ain't coming back.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
I'm not passing.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
I'm not passing, I'm just not answering.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
I think it depends on how they're asking.
Are they asking because they'rea Christian or are they asking
because they want to know?
And I think if it's they wantto know, it would give me a
little bit of excitement tosharing, but it would also give
me some stress because hopefullyI have been representing him
well.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Yeah, that's the anxiety part, I think.
I feel a sense of community.
Okay, it's a good answer.
Yeah, good answer.
Good answer.
It's like playing Family FeudGood answer.
Is it up?
It's like playing Family FeudGood answer.
Is it up there?
Show us.
Community Survey says it is notup there.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
I thought for sure it was going to be up there.
Man, I forget where I was at.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Organic church 1943?
.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Back in my day.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
Okay, I'm not answering that, he just made me
mad.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Now he's having a fit .
Here we are.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
I'm going to take my coat and go home.
I'm going to take my ball andleave, but I was in a line
somewhere.
I forget where it was at.
I wish I could remember.
But I'm standing there, youknow, and I'm looking around and
this younger kid he wasn'tsmall, but he wasn't old like
(19:02):
you yeah, he wasn't old like meUnderstandable.
And he says do you go to church?
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Yeah, depends on what I did.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
He says well, where do you go?
And I told him, you know theorganic church.
He says oh, I go to Lifeway,lifeway, and I saw him I said,
yeah, that's a good place to go,and that was the end of the
conversation.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
But I thought he was about to tell you about Jesus.
If you didn't know, you wereabout to get.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Evidently I looked like I needed him.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
He got on his phone, looked up organic church, just
to make sure.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Just to make sure it was real.
Yeah, he checks out.
Yeah, he checks out.
That looks legit.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
How did you know?
All he had to do was snap hisfingers and you're like Lifeway.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
It's a weird connection that Roger and I have
always had.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
The cherry Outside of Philly.
Yes, it's the old assemblies ofof God.
Okay, yes, yeah, looks like awarehouse.
My cousin and his, that's wherethey go.
Yeah, after they left the otherchurch.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Absher church, oh really.
That's where they go now, Ididn't realize that they were
part of that church.
Did they leave because of that,really?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Yes they.
They called him in and saidcause they were going to, they
were teaching a class.
I don't know if Sunday schoolor I don't know what they were
teaching, but then he preachedthat.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
That was a big deal, like it was a parting of the red
sea for sure.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
So she said to my cousin hey, we've got to talk to
them, because if that's what hebelieves, we can't stay here.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
That's crazy.
That's crazy.
I did hear that that was a big,big dividing statement.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
So anyhow inviting statement.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
So anyhow.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
I always want to behave in a way that it's not a
mystery.
I hope I always behave in amanner where people don't have
to ask I don't.
I was going to say well, youknow, maybe I wonder if and I'm
not proud of that, I'm you know,I just well, it was like the
other day I've had this kid whoworks for us and you know we're
(21:08):
three weeks into the month andhe's already used all his PTO
days two of his points callingoff, maxes it out, baby, yeah,
he's already starting to max itout and he's kind of let me in
on his home life a little bit.
You know, with these young kidsyou can't ever really tell if
they're giving you the truth oryou know if he's really staying
up all night playing video games.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Right.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
But he was telling me a little bit about it and I
thought and of course, theperson over me, the manager of
the shop like he, and he'sstarting to get upset about it
and I think most people'sexpectation is that me being his
personal manager that when heshows up for work the next day,
I just give it to him, give itto him.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Yeah, I just read him the riot.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
He's missed another day of work and we're not going
to have this.
And I should just yell you know, be tough.
And you know, and I think, ok,yeah, that's one way to go and
that's probably the way mostpeople go.
They're not looking for anyexplanation, they're not looking
to help this kid out, they justwant to get your point across
and make sure he doesn't missanother day of work.
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And you look like you're inhigh authority, you keep your
authority and I thought, yeah, Icould do that.
But what good is that going tonumber one?
What really is good?
Is that going to do me?
I'm going to get upset for noreason.
So that's not going to make mefeel good.
And him, being as young as heis, I'm thinking that's not
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going to work either.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
It's probably just it's not going to make him feel
good and most likely he'sprobably going to say well, you
you know and I'm not coming back.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
I'm not coming back or you know he's not going to
respect me anymore.
So I had to find that balanceof explaining you know why it is
so important that he comes towork every day Because you know,
yes, he has a small child andyou know, and I just told him.
I said you have to understandthat your youth has passed you
by.
I understand you're 21 yearsold, but you have a child now.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
So you have forfeited your youth.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
And so all your priorities now have to be about
your daughter.
And so I just sat him down andjust tried to explain to him.
You know why it is so importantto have a good work ethic, to
not lose people's trust.
You know you never want to getin a situation where you're
unreliable.
Right, people's trust, younever want to get in a situation
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where you're unreliable.
And I told him.
I said if you need advice aboutsomething, you ever want to
talk about anything, I said I'mhere, I'll listen to you.
I'll help you as much as I can.
I said but you have to.
Whatever it is that's going onin your home life, you've got to
get it under control.
That's going on in your homelife, you've got to get it under
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control.
And I said not for me.
I said yeah it puts a littlestress on me when I have to redo
my schedule in the morning andfind somebody else to drive.
I said, but in the end I'll beokay, yeah, in the end I'll hire
somebody else and everything'sgonna go.
But if you lose your job, youwon't be okay.
This is just gonna be one morething now that you're going to
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be stressed about and have toworry about.
So this is on you you have totake the steps to be responsible
and grow up a little bit andthink about the important things
.
So it's just that balance ofmental toughness plus being I
remind myself like I have tohandle this in a Christian
manner.
I want this kid to besuccessful.
I want him to grow andunderstand what he's supposed to
do as a father, you know andbeing the main breadwinner of
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the family Like this issomething that you're going to
have to do your entire life.
You know.
So if you leave here, you knowyou're going to go to another
job.
And if you do this all overagain and they look at you as
being unreliable, you're goingto create this pattern and it's
going to go to another job, it'sgoing to be the same thing, and
if you do this all over againand they look at you as being
unreliable you're going tocreate this pattern.
It's going to follow you, yourentire life.
So it's just, you know, like Isaid, I would have gained
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nothing and he would have gainednothing from me just yelling at
him because he missed threedays of work, but he had worked
enough to get some PTO timeenough to get some PTO time.
Sure, yeah, that's good.
And that's why I told him I'mlike I know you can do this job.
I've seen you do this job.
You do a good job.
I said there's always room toimprove.
I said I know you're young, youhaven't been in this business
very long.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
I said but there's just a lot of things that you
have to start thinking aboutbeen 16, so 41 years.
I got a group text message theother day from my little fella's
mom.
She sent it to me and his dadand she's like I just got called
into the office at my job.
I've been reprimanded for myattendance.
What can you guys do to help menot lose my job?
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I sat on that for a little bit.
I'm like sorry I didn't getyour text message.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
New number who desks?
Speaker 3 (25:49):
I'm like well, I feel that I'm pretty flexible for
you and your hours.
Yeah, I come at 5.45 in themorning.
Take the child to school.
I pick him up at 2.30 in theafternoon.
Take him child to school, Ipick him up at two 30 in the
afternoon.
Take him home, put him to bed.
I'm there till nine 30, 10o'clock at night.
I can't be any more flexible.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Yeah, and I mean you know there are obviously other
problems if she's still callingoff when you're available, like
that can't really.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
If she wants to nap, she calls off.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Yeah, you know I love a good nap.
Exactly Love a good nap.
Yeah, I schedule a nap.
I don't like it's on thecalendar because I love a good
nap, but I don't get to not goto work because of it Right, and
when she came in that eveningshe was still discussing her.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
And.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
I said I've been working for 41 years and I've
called off three days in 41years.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
And one was just because I wanted to.
Yeah, yeah, you just like totest the boundaries?
That was her first one that washer first call off.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
You know and I told the kid.
The last thing I said is wewill not have this conversation
again.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Yeah, this is it, and you're not enabling him.
You know you're not enablinghim.
You know you're not letting himso.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
So I think, if, if anybody would have been sitting
in on that conversation, I don'tthink they would have been able
to say well, he's not a verynice person, he's not yeah,
right yeah I think they would beable to look at like well, I
think that was a pretty good itwas fair.
Yeah, yeah, it was tough, butfair firm fair and friendly firm
, fair and and I didn't owe thatto him, but I think I just owed
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it to who I am and who I'msupposed to be and how I'm
supposed to go about things.
Because, like I said in the end,if he doesn't listen, if it had
, no effect on him whatsoever,well, that's on him and he may
figure, he may think on thatconversation down the road when
maybe, you know, something elsehappens.
I think, geez, I wish I wouldhave listened to that advice,
but for me it's like I losenothing from that you know, and
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I don't care if somebody thinkslike oh he, you know, he didn't
even yell at him, he didn'thandle that, you know with any
authority it's like well, thatdoesn't bother me, and that's
why I say that confidence andthat humility.
It's like it doesn't bother meat all what somebody else thinks
, how.
I handled that situation,because I know I handled it the
right way.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Oh yeah, and when you were telling the story, like I
truly think maybe that is like aturning point for him, not
necessarily spiritually, like Idon't know what his spiritual
life is like, you know, butmaybe it's a turning point for
him to get his life together andthen work on his faith down the
road.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
you know, like that's what I just kept picturing.
You're that person that hey,absolutely get your life
together, but that's all you cando as a Christian is do your
job Yep.
You know, just handle thosesituations as well as you can
and it's up to that person torespond to.
You know, to pick it up andcarry it.
But some do, some don't.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
Beth.
Back to me again.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
You can only pass twice.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Oh, I don't know.
It's like playing Euchre itgets to the end.
Dealer's got to call it.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
I had a situation here at work not too long ago Is
this the one.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
You flipped the lady off when she walked by your
office.
No, I wasn't, I'm just kidding,I'm just kidding.
Walked by your office.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding, she thought about
it, she did it under her desk.
Speaker 6 (29:11):
She's so grumpy in the morning I thought maybe if I
just did she might get over itand be happy the rest of the day
.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
But I never did.
Speaker 6 (29:21):
But Lord forgive me because I did think about it.
Just there was some situationsthere and it was getting rough
and I just thought you know what?
I've never really worked anyplaces.
Somebody just did not like me,and so I kind of muffled him
every day and with my pride hurt, and I thought you know, what.
At the end of the day, itdoesn't matter if she likes me
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or doesn't like you know andlisten, so every morning I make
her talk to me.
Good morning.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
How are you?
Speaker 6 (29:52):
today.
But hey, I got an email fromher today and she said thank you
, oh, yes, I'm trying to figureout.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
What's it?
Sarcasm, or did she mean it?
Maybe that's.
What she needs in the morningis a smiling face and a nice
word.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Sometimes I'll just send the per my last email,
that's what I was about to sayper our last conversation.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Per our last conversation, Comma.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
I got to reference a text message from a certain date
the other day.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
It's per our conversation on August 22nd at
7.38 in the AM.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Basically telling you to shut up yeah, eat dirt.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
Yeah, I had almost an opposite experience last week,
friday night after work I was sotired.
It was a busy day unloadingtrucks all day.
I get home and my wife wants meto go out and put Christmas
stuff away.
And I just was not.
I already had a plan to do itSaturday.
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I just was not about it and Ifought her tooth and nail and I
just annoyed her to deathbecause, yeah, I was, I was
pouting.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Like I was tired.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
I just couldn't help it, Like I was just so tired,
Like I didn't want to do it.
But we got through it, we did alittle bit of stuff.
And then she's like do you wantto get something to eat?
And I said, well, I don't wantto go in any place.
I said we can just go getsomething.
She's like, oh, really, and I'mlike you want to go in Hardy?
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She's like, well, yeah, I wantto go and sit down and eat.
And I'm like, okay.
So we go and we get in thereand there's just two kids, a guy
and a girl.
They're running the whole thing, just them two.
And just looking at them already, I'm like here we go.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
This is going to be an evening Like.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Beth's Dairy Queen experience.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Yeah, today.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
So we order our food and I'm, I'm a uh plain Jane.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
If.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
I get a cheeseburger, I want cheese only, nothing
else on it.
Don't want nothing elsetouching it, Just cheese only.
So they finally bring the food.
I opened up my cheeseburgerit's got everything on it and it
wasn't even a wrap Nice Nothingon it.
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And it wasn't even wrapped nicenothing.
I'm like okay.
So I walk up there I'm like I'msorry.
I said I ordered it plain.
I said can I get a plain one?
They're like oh yeah.
So it's not two minutes.
And he comes out with the nextone same thing, not even wrapped
.
Well, and I'm already like,just you know, I'm fuming on the
inside and I undo it, look atit and I open it and it's like
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the cheese was like.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Off the side.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
No, it was like maybe it had been there at one time,
but it was pretty much gone.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
It was the same burger.
They just scraped it apart.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Oh, did he say no cheese?
Speaker 5 (32:44):
but this thing was so messy, so greasy, just
disgusting, and I just looked atthat and I just shoved it
forward and I just went andevery fiber of my being just
wanted to go up there and justexplain to him just how terrible
of a job that they doing.
You know, this girl and thisguy who care less?
Yeah, the girl's up theretelling the guy about her
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bathing suit and this and thatand he's asking for pictures.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
It's a very uncomfortable situation.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
I'm tired anyway.
So you know, all thosefaculties are gone.
I'm like I'm almost to thatpoint where, like I just want to
tell somebody what I reallythink Poor Margie, yeah.
And almost to that point where,like I just want to tell
somebody what I really think youknow, poor Mark.
So like yeah, and her, she hadlike the ham and Swiss sandwich
and she said it wasn't very goodeither, but I just pushed it
forward and I just sat there andjust and now I'm at.
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you know pouting here I ampouting again, instead of going
up there and saying something.
I thought I thought what goodis it going to?
Do Because in my mind actually,I thought I should just take
this cheeseburger and just throwit from here all the way up.
Okay, all right, that's whatI'm thinking in my mind.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
So now it's my turn, because that's the story that I
need to tell.
So I have a certain feud with acertain trash company.
Let's put it this way.
It is a large trash company inour local area that we're forced
to use in Yerkesville.
Well, you are, I am not.
That's what I'm saying it does.
It ends with an imble, so itstarted at work.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
I sent them a nasty email One Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Well.
Speaker 5 (34:16):
Because they wouldn't pick up our trash.
It was respectful, but it was.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Well, good for you.
I've had my runs in with themtoo.
Well, here's the problem,because they wouldn't pick up
our trash.
Speaker 5 (34:21):
I mean it was respectful, but it was no, okay,
All right.
Well, good for you, Becausemine wasn't Good for you, I have
to say.
I've had my runs in with themtoo.
Well, here's the problem.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
So we have six accounts, something like that
with Kimball right now and foranybody who's listening.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Under your company.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Under work.
Okay, so just I don't have aproblem with Kimball.
The company, the organization,it's the people who represent
the organization that I have aproblem with.
So one particular representativewho just is unresponsive to
emails, like, you have her cellphone number.
You send her a text message.
She doesn't respond to it.
She responds with who is this,even though there's a thread of
text messages.
Maybe she deletes them, I don'tknow.
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But if you give her youraccount number you would think
she could quickly look that upand know who she's talking to.
But she's just difficult, it'swhat she does.
I mean, we've had trash barrelsdelivered to neighbor's house.
We've had they've taken trashcans that they weren't supposed
to take, like physically removethem from the property.
A nightmare, absolute nightmare.
So we've tolerated it for awhile.
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But the real kicker for us wasat one of our hotels.
We have two trash dumpsters andthe pickup dates are Monday and
Friday.
Now you might wonder why wouldyou have it emptied on Friday
and then turn around and have itemptied on Monday?
That's because weekend trash isso high.
The volume of trash is so highthat you need to empty it on
Monday in order to get throughthe week.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Gotcha.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Well unbeknownst to us, they move our date to
Tuesday and Friday.
Oh Okay, Well, here's theproblem they're never on time.
So now they show up on Mondayto pick up my Friday dump,
because it's the day behind,because they don't run on
Saturday.
So the day behind is now aMonday dump and my dumpsters are
absolutely overflown.
And then they come back onTuesday and dump again and try
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to charge me for it.
And so when I push back and I'mlike, no, we're not going to do
this, they're like whoa, that'sconsidered a courtesy pickup.
And I'm like, okay, but I don'tneed to pick up on Tuesday,
Then do one pickup every weekand that's it, If this is how
we're going to do it.
So, long and short of it,you're locked into three-year
contracts that automaticallyrenew at the end of the three,
canceling the auto renewal.
(36:18):
Okay.
So we have that same companyhere and I have had countless
problems here.
Trash doesn't get picked up.
The dumpster slowly inches itsway into the middle of the
parking lot.
You have to call and tell themhey, can you put the dumpster
back where it belonged, so onand so forth.
But the other day it snowedRight.
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We had the lot plowed.
I walk out there to throwsomething away.
Dumpster's full, but it waspickup day so they should have
already picked it up.
I send an email.
It says hey, oh, by the way,they had to give me a new rep
because the other rep on aconference call with her boss
got smart with me and Now that'swhat I deal with every time I
talk to her.
I won't work with her anylonger.
(37:00):
You say that I have to keep mycontract, but I will not deal
with her.
It's long and short.
So I got here, I sent an email.
I just said hey, can you lookinto this?
My dumpster wasn't dumped todayand they replied with it was
marked as blocked.
So I sent them a picture of thedumpster and there was a small
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mound of snow in front of thedumpster.
But I'm talking minuscule moundof snow, but the entire parking
lot in front of it is clear.
You can see the gravel.
So it's not like there's snowor anything like that.
And I sent the picture and shesaid that the snow would need to
be removed before they couldpick it up.
And I said well, I can't quitego out there and shovel it, but
the truck can.
A snippet of the contract thatsays it has to be free and clear
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of all debris and yada, yadayada.
My response to her was comepick up your dumpster.
I'm canceling my contract.
Never hear back from her.
So I email her and her boss andI said here's the deal.
I sent a certified letter todaycanceling my service.
You need to come pick up thedumpster immediately.
He calls me.
I won't use his name, obviously, but let's just say he was well
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known in our community.
For a little while he was acounty commissioner.
That narrows it down and heproceeds to tell me when he
calls I just want to listen.
I just want to understand.
Obviously you don't like us.
I just want to listen andunderstand.
The minute I open my mouth hestarts arguing with me.
And now I'm hot.
I just want to listen.
I just want to understand.
Obviously you don't like us.
I just want to listen andunderstand.
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The minute I open my mouth hestarts arguing with me.
And now I'm hot and I saidevery time you call me we do
this.
Every time you call me I getangry.
I said and it's not worth it tome.
I said I sent the certifiedletter.
Enough's enough, come get thedumpster.
I.
I said our conversation is over.
And as I'm going to hang up thephone, he says our conversation
is not over.
You're under contract.
I said so sue me.
Speaker 6 (38:52):
Click.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
And that's where I left it.
They've got their certifiedletter.
They need to come get theirdumpster.
I told him seven days and thenit's my property, baby, and I
promise you that dumpster willcome up missing.
I promise you.
But here's my point.
I here's my point.
I try so hard to representChrist in a good way, but the
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struggle is when the worldtreats you differently because
they expect you to always giveto them and to be nice.
It is a real challenge, likeit's a genuine challenge.
I'm not proud of that moment,but I'm not apologizing for it,
because a company who wants totake advantage of somebody like
that's not how this works.
Like I want to, I I want to be,I want to reciprocate good
business yeah you are not.
You were trying, you are and youare not fulfilling your end of
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the agreement.
Right and on and on about theirtrucks are rear wheel drive and
you can't pick up a dumpster.
I'm like if I wouldn't haveplowed the lot at all, you
couldn't have gotten in here.
If that's the case, right.
He's like well, yeah, but youhave to remember we have to lift
the dumps.
I'm like you're just makingexcuses.
Your driver said that it wasblocked so that he didn't have
to dump it.
He probably didn't even drivein the lot probably not would be
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my guess.
And so I was just, I was justhot, just really irritated, and
I realized that, like I don'twant to be that way, like I
genuinely don't want to be thatway, like I genuinely don't want
to be that way.
So when somebody asks, or when Ianswer the question, what's it
like to be a Christian, here'smy immediate thought, is my
emotion.
The emotion that I experiencedis disappointment in myself,
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because I know that I fall shortof the glory every single day.
I know that.
But I know that my heartposture is right in the right
ways.
Don't get me wrong.
I'm not going to be walked onin no area of my life.
Listen, my kids think that theycan walk all over me sometimes
and I'm like I will drop you,like I have no problem catching
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a charge right now.
You know, and it's, there arepeople in the church that try
that.
You know, you, you we haverules and the rules are simple,
right, like the basics, like wehave kids class that are
structured a certain way, for acertain reason.
You don't get to decide whereyour kid goes.
This is like the age group thatthey fit in.
This is where they should go.
Last week we had somebodydecide that they didn't need to
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follow those rules.
Well, you know, I said, I toldyou guys, this year I'm going to
have very uncomfortableconversations with people.
We're not going to do that.
Let's be respectful of oneanother and then it's easy to
just be able to have thatrelationship and represent
Christ right?
It shouldn't be irresponsibleof us to have emotions.
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We should be able to get angry,we should be able to get
frustrated, we should be able tocry.
And be irresponsible of us tohave emotions.
We should be able to get angry,we should be able to get
frustrated, we should be able toto cry and be all of those
things that those are perfectlynormal.
To the temple right, flippingtables Like he must.
They must've been playingMonopoly, I don't know, but his
anger was a righteous anger.
My anger is emotional anger andso it's not the same.
But I am flesh and I will havethose emotions.
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But I cannot be, I cannot thinkless of myself because of those
things, because as a Christian,I am supposed to be, I'm
supposed to be able to beconfident and stand upright, and
I'm not going, I'm not going toapologize for that.
Yeah, so I don't.
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That dumpster may become ourproperty, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (42:11):
But Well, and to your point.
I'm sure you're now like thatand you don't get walked all
over because you've learned yourlesson and you're tired of
getting walked all over.
Speaker 2 (42:23):
In ministry?
Yes, for sure and for sure inministry.
In life I've never allowedpeople to do that to me, and
that was.
I learned that whenever I waslittle Like when I say little I
mean freshman in high school,because I was little compared to
everybody around me, and so you, just you couldn't take
anybody's crap Like you had tobe able to stand up for yourself
, and that was like that's whyI'm quick-witted.
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That drives my wife nuts LikeI've always got a joke ready.
It's always on standby becauseyou know, when somebody says
something that I don't like, I'mgoing to fire back.
And again, I try to berespectful in most cases.
But I'm again not just them butany company that I deal with,
and that's you ask, anybody thatdeals with me here at the
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church.
There's just one company wedeal with called Wisdom Over
Wealth Christian company.
Wonderful, wonderful people.
Okay, I have nothing bad to sayabout them, but they don't
answer their emails.
Why do you give me your emailaddress if you're not going to
answer it, right?
So two weeks in you don'tanswer my email, I'm gonna call
you.
I'm gonna leave you a voicemail.
You don't answer that voicemail, I'm gonna call you again.
You know what they always doafter the second voicemail, call
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my wife.
After the second voicemail,call my wife.
They want to talk to you.
They know, they know, and theyknow I don't actually want to
talk to them.
I'm trying to elicit a responseso that we can move on to the
next step.
I can't always wait on otherpeople, and in this ministry
this ministry specifically it'snot like we have unlimited funds
to work with, it's not like wehave.
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You know, it's not easy.
There's always something thatwe have to be thinking about or
working on, and so I count oneverybody pulling their weight
so that we can move to that nextphase.
And so when somebody that wepay to help us doesn't help us,
I'm going to get my help.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
Yeah, I mean same.
I was also dealing with thesame company and when I posted
my post about our stinking trashsituation, I'm like, oh Lord,
geez, I mean that was the firstthing I thought.
I'm like, how am I going toportray this in a way that I
want to get my point across?
But I'm tired of getting walkedall over when you're forcing me
to use this company but thenthey don't pick up on time.
And you don't pick up on time,you never know.
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But then you're going to forceme and then charge me after my
first warning.
Like I'm not getting walkedover, you know, but that was my
first thing.
I'm like, how am I going tocome across?
So I was very like I'm yeah,you were tactful.
Speaker 2 (44:38):
You were tactful, yeah, but I, I am not.
I am not and I've lost thattact to some point, because it
doesn't.
There are times that it doesn'twork that.
It doesn't work Like there aretimes that you know I try to be.
I told you guys that one timethat I aggressively left a group
text message full of localpastors.
I'm sorry, I'm not apologeticfor that.
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I still talk to some of themregularly, but there are some of
them and I had coffee with onethe other day and we were
talking and I said, man, I'msorry, but there are just some
pastors in our area I don'ttrust, flat out, don't trust
them.
Don't trust what they teach,don't trust what they say, don't
trust how they act, becausethey're preaching something
completely different than whatthey're living.
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See, what you get with me isvery real and that's why I don't
try to sugarcoat it, I don'ttry to hide it.
If I ever step into the pulpitand I genuinely tell you that
I'm perfect and I have got, youneed to leave.
Please leave, because I'mtelling you that is an absolute
lie.
I can't like my neighbors.
I'm waiting for job and familyservices to show up at my house.
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I am.
They're going to show up at myhouse and they're going to be
looking for my two childrennamed Milo and Lucy, because you
can hear me yelling at my dogsdown the end of the block.
Speaker 6 (45:52):
Oh no, you won't beat my neighbor.
Speaker 2 (45:53):
Listen.
Speaker 3 (45:55):
Our area.
Nothing can compare Nothing.
Our block.
Speaker 2 (45:59):
I come in the house and Milo for whatever reason
decides he's going to bark.
You know it's me.
He knows the sound of my carcoming down the street.
He knows I opened the garage.
He heard my car door shut assoon as I opened the door.
He doesn't bark until I openthe door and then he starts
barking Shut up.
I'm kicking at him.
I'm like get away from me, itdrives me nuts.
Speaker 1 (46:18):
Imagine having that with a sleeping baby.
Speaker 2 (46:20):
Yeah, I can bet oh.
Speaker 1 (46:21):
I want to muzzle her.
Speaker 2 (46:23):
You know it.
After me she's like I can hearyou at the end of the block.
She's like pretty soonsomebody's going to think you're
abusing your children.
But that's real life.
And people who pretend like andnot everybody yells, not
everybody talks mean to a trashcompany Not everybody does all
of those things.
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But people do things thataren't nice.
Every day you think things oract a certain way or you treat
people differently.
Listen some of us.
Speaker 5 (46:53):
That's why I didn't say anything about the burger,
because I thought there's goingto be and I could hear they kept
getting things wrong.
Because I could hear it yeah,this was supposed to, this was
supposed to, yeah and I thoughtthere's plenty of unchristian
people.
Speaker 2 (47:08):
It's going to come through that window.
Speaker 5 (47:10):
Somebody is going to come through that window.
Somebody's going to get them.
Yeah, somebody's going to throwthat soda back through the
window.
It doesn't need to be me.
Speaker 6 (47:12):
I'll be good.
Yeah, I just feel immense guiltwhen I know that I have not.
Speaker 4 (47:17):
Dude.
Speaker 2 (47:19):
So yeah, trust me, trust me.
So now and I'm not backpedaling, but like no-transcript day,
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like my mind was, because ofMartin Luther King day correct.
So I respond with my apologies.
I was thinking it was x, thatwas all they got for me.
Like I'm not going to.
But I'm going to be respectful,but I'm not going to.
Like we still are not on goodterms.
Like we're still going to.
Speaker 1 (48:15):
I'm kind of shocked that they were closed on Martin
Luther King.
Speaker 2 (48:18):
Day.
Ours was actually because ourpickup day isn't on Monday
anymore.
They moved it to Tuesday.
It used to be Monday.
They moved with no notice, andso then we're just like it
always feels like we're behindtoday, but we're not really.
Speaker 5 (48:33):
Gotcha, all I had to do was go get a Dave single you
were good, you were good.
That's where that story ended.
My wife said yeah, I'll takeyou back down to Wendy's and get
a.
Speaker 2 (48:42):
Dave single, that was nice, ever Perfect.
Speaker 3 (48:45):
That was nice ever yeah.
Speaker 2 (48:52):
And you know what I.
Speaker 5 (48:52):
Seldom seldom ever go to Wendy's and they get my
order wrong.
Well, I used to love Hardee's.
I used to love it.
I mean they used to put it in abox with a little envelope, but
they tucked it down in nice andneat.
It was so good.
And now it's just like in thisfoil thing.
It's not even wrapped and I'mlike what is going?
Speaker 2 (49:07):
on.
We and I'm like what is goingon?
Easton wants to go to Sonicdesperately, and so I had an
Elvis show.
No, no, no, we were going toCanton for some reason.
I don't remember what we weredoing, but Alyssa and I had
plans, and so we told Eastondon't go to Papaw's today, you
can go with us.
We're going to stop at Sonic.
We pull into the Sonic, pullinto the little bay.
Speaker 1 (49:28):
Are they closed on Sunday To order?
No, they're open.
Speaker 2 (49:30):
Oh, okay, but because they're short-staffed, their
bays are closed.
Oh, so you have to go throughthe drive-thru, which is not the
experience that he wanted Right, right.
Speaker 4 (49:40):
He wanted the drive-thru.
Speaker 2 (49:41):
Okay.
So now there's no signsanywhere that say that the
little bays are closed.
There's people sitting in theircars in the bay, so I reach out
and I push the little buttonand they come back with sorry,
you have to use the drive-thru,we're understaffed and don't
have enough people to serve carside Beep and that's it.
Like you can't talk to themagain, Like it's not like where
you can have a conversation andnegotiate this.
They're like we're not, aresitting in their car.
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Do they know?
Has anybody told them?
Because there was no reason tobe in your car unless they were
serving those people and they'drealized they'd maxed out.
I mean.
I don't know.
Yeah, so Easton has nevergotten to go to Sonic because of
that, because I'm afraid to goback.
Speaker 4 (50:27):
Yeah, were you afraid to go to the?
Speaker 2 (50:29):
drive-thru no, we don't typically eat in the car.
Oh so like we wanted to be ableto sit and enjoy it versus
drive, because we really wantedtater tots.
He really wants sonic tatertots.
I don't know, I don't knowwhere he even heard it, like I
don't know where he got it from,probably on tv I think there's
he doesn't watch tv I meanoccasionally, but he usually
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watches.
Speaker 1 (50:49):
What about when you're watching football, though
?
Maybe that's where I feel likethat's when I see it, because I
don't watch a lot, yeah, butthis was a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (50:57):
This was before football would have been on for
the season.
I don't know this.
I can't imagine that, that wasit, but regardless he does yes,
he does, yes, he does.
Speaker 3 (51:09):
I've never eaten at a Sonic.
Speaker 2 (51:11):
I used to frequent Sonic when we lived in Newark.
That was one of my favoriteplaces to go.
You also know one of myfavorite things to get.
Speaker 6 (51:20):
I love to go to Dairy .
Speaker 2 (51:21):
Queen and get a footlong Coney dog, but not here
.
Speaker 5 (51:25):
I was going to say not in Newark.
Speaker 2 (51:26):
Go to Licking County and get one Licking County and
get one Licking County.
I know it sounds weird, but I'mtelling you it is a different
breed.
Down there you get a foot-longConey dog and there's a long
story behind that and I'm notgoing to share that whole story.
Let's just say we were lockedout of a vehicle.
We weren't supposed to be there.
We were supposed to be at work.
We weren't at Locked ourselvesout of the box truck.
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It was a situation.
It was a situation.
It was bad.
It was real bad, it was realbad.
Yeah, I was young and dumb, butwe had down there they put
coleslaw on your footlong coneydog, oh my gosh so good.
Speaker 4 (52:02):
You never had a slaw dog before, not like that.
Speaker 2 (52:04):
Oh, man, it was so good, so so good.
Speaker 4 (52:11):
Have you ever had a Chicago dog?
Speaker 2 (52:11):
No, I haven't.
They're pretty good.
I don't actually particularlycare for hot dogs.
Is that the kraut dog.
Speaker 4 (52:15):
No, oh, it's got.
I don't know what it's got onit, but it's good Tomatoes and
peppers Ew.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (52:20):
Yeah, it's good.
You know my favorite thing toput on a hot dog Way off,
favorite thing Peanut butter,peanut butter.
Peanut butter on a hot dog andpeanut butter on a grilled
hamburger.
Not like pan fried, but likeout on the grill.
Peanut butter on a.
How about peanut butter on asloppy joe?
Never tried that, but now Iwill.
That'll at least holdeverything on the bun real well.
Speaker 6 (52:41):
Yeah, that's true.
Well, Judayton has thathillbilly hot dog that comes
occasionally on like when theyhave that down there on the
square, he has that at Chicagoand he has one that has peanut
butter and marshmallow on a hotdog.
Speaker 2 (52:57):
I'll tell you another thing that, if you've never
tried it you should, is a peanutbutter banana sandwich.
Speaker 5 (53:01):
I know it's like an Elvis joke, but I was going to
say have you had that Now?
Speaker 2 (53:05):
I like mine both ways .
I prefer mine not fried becauseI don't like the banana to get
mushy and it has to be friedjust right, because if it gets
too mushy it's just watery, butif it's not fried enough it's
going to be mushy on the endsbut hard in the middle.
So it has to be just right, butI prefer mine not.
But either way, I'll eat them.
Somewhere deep fries them.
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That would be a bit much for me.
But yeah, somewhere deep friesthem.
I can't remember where it is.
Speaker 5 (53:32):
That's some calories, right?
If?
Speaker 2 (53:33):
you go to the Rusty Bucket in Easton.
At Easton Town Center they havean Elvis cheeseburger.
Dude, it's as big as your head.
I only ordered it because ofthe name.
That thing came out to thetable.
I was like I ain't eating that,Just taking it apart.
Taking it apart, it was good,Yummy.
Final thoughts has anybodywatched the Jerry Springer
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documentary on Netflix?
Speaker 1 (53:57):
yet Watch it.
What was it called?
Speaker 2 (54:00):
I don't remember Something about Jerry Springer.
I don't remember what it'sactually called.
It's good, it's really good.
I thought that it was made up.
I thought that it was scripted.
It is very much so.
Not it's real.
Those people really did thosethings, but they get them amped
up to fight on stage and whatnot.
Speaker 4 (54:17):
Like no, don't take that.
Speaker 2 (54:19):
You go out there and you tell her blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 5 (54:22):
They bring so-and-so in unexpected guest.
Correct, that fuels them rightup, yep.
Speaker 2 (54:33):
I was watching.
There's specifically oneepisode about a guy who marries
a horse, a pony, a Shetland pony, I thought you were going to
say something else, they pulledthe episode.
Speaker 1 (54:39):
Really.
Speaker 2 (54:40):
Yes, it doesn't exist , that you can watch it, but you
get little bits of the clips inthat Traumatizing.
But anyhow, do you remember atthe end of your how many of you
guys watched Jerry Springer?
Oh, I have, long time ago,years and years and years ago,
because at the time it was likethat was the number one talk
show on TV, like it actuallybeat Oprah, which is crazy to
think, opry, as my mother-in-lawwould call her.
Speaker 1 (55:02):
Opry.
Speaker 2 (55:02):
Opry, Opry and she.
But he always did a finalthought at the end, which was
some like oh yeah, I remember.
Speaker 5 (55:13):
Yeah, Be kind to yourself Be kind to one another.
Yeah, after all that, after allthat fighting yeah.
Speaker 2 (55:18):
Yeah, that's so, like I always when I say it at the
end of there, is there anyparting wisdom?
I always think, like after allof the random stuff that we said
, how do you seam this up?
How do you bring it back?
That's where we've createdtotal chaos here.
Speaker 5 (55:31):
Make sure you're being kind.
Speaker 2 (55:34):
Girl's got her hair pulled out, Somebody's got a
black eye.
But be kind to yourself, Bekind to one another.
Don't forget to spay and neuteryour pets, folks.
Oh goodness, Well Dawn, I thinkit is your turn it is my turn,
dear precious Heavenly Father.
Speaker 3 (55:51):
We come to you, dear Lord, tonight to thank you again
for this platform.
Lord, lord, god, just let usremember that you are our
cornerstone, lord, that you areour firm foundation, and no
matter what we're going through,lord Jesus, if we just bring it
to you, lord, whether thosethings are addictions, diseases,
disasters, whatever they mightbe, lord Jesus, if we would just
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bring them to you, whether it'sour furnaces here at the church
, lord, bring them to you, youwill meet us where we are.
Lord Jesus, lord, I just praythat you give us traveling
graces home and bring us back toour next appointed time.
All these things we ask andpray in your son's most precious
and holy name.
Amen.
My sister does that with WebMD, oh you can't you
physically cannot do that.
Steph was doing that Before.
On your MyChart, whenever ittells you the findings or the
doctor can talk with you, andshe's looking up all these names
and I'm like and StephanieCaldwell just did the same thing
(00:20):
I'm like, don't do this.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
And even if you Google, why do I have a pain in
my big toe?
You have cancer or a heart.
You're going into congestiveheart failure or like there's
some sort of yeah there's somesort of epic illness that you've
got.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
When it turns out really you just have an ingrown
toenail yeah, I drew lab work onthis lady last week and so, but
she hasn't heard from herfamily doctor or the
cardiologist regarding her labwork.
So do you know what my labshowed?
I said, well, I can look ifthey're scanned in here.
I said, but if they haven'tcalled you, everything's
probably okay.
You know, I'm by no means aspecialist when it comes to labs
(00:55):
.
Yeah, I can look at them andlet you know if everything's
okay or if you need to worry.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Have I ever told you guys about the time I went to
the podiatrist?
So I just need to clarify thatI think the podiatrist is just a
foot doctor for old people.
I think it's just the placewhere old people go to get their
toenails clipped because theyrun out of wind when they bend
over to clip their toenailsright.
That's what I've always thoughtabout them, but it must've been
two or three years ago.
I had this wicked pain in thebottom of my foot, like almost
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right in the center, like rightin the arch of my foot, and it
was wicked painful.
It felt like I was stepping onsomething every time I would
walk.
Speaker 6 (01:32):
And I couldn't know.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I couldn't figure out what it was.
But I had this like it lookedlike a bruise in the bottom of
my foot, and so I gimped aroundfor a couple of days and I was
finally.
I told Alyssa I'm like I can'twalk, I can't put pressure on it
, I don't want to walk on mytoes because it hurts, like I've
got to go see the doctor.
So I call the podiatrist, go tothe podiatrist and I get in the
little chair and he has and I'mwearing slip on shoes because I
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can't put another shoe onbecause any kind of pressure
just, oh my gosh, it's a black,it looks like there's a pebble
under my skin and he's like areyou?
sure you didn't like step on arock and it got embedded in your
skin like I'm positive that Ididn't.
Was it a wart?
No, no.
So he's like poking at it.
He's like somebody walked by.
He's like, hey, come in hereand look at this thing.
(02:15):
And pretty soon I got likeseven people in the room poking
the bottom of my foot and I'mlike ready to pass out.
And he's like, well, I reallydon't know what it is.
He's like does it hurt real bad?
I'm like, yeah, every time youtouch it, I feel like I'm going
to pass out.
So they fashioned me a pad, likea work pad, but there wasn't
any medicine on it, it was justto like cushion it.
(02:36):
And they put it around thatsucker and I was able to walk on
it that same day.
That thing was gone within aweek, no idea what it was, no
idea where it came from.
And so now I have a newfoundappreciation for podiatrists.
It's no longer, but my wifestill makes fun of me because
only old people go to thepodiatrist.
So where's that?
Although I have decided that Iam just going to start getting a
regular pedicure, yeah, and thereason I just want them to cut
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my toenails, like I'm gettingthis like extra around the
middle here, and so when I bendover I'm like for people that
haven't seen you.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
They're thinking you're like 200 700 pounds, yeah
no, seriously, like it's.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I grunt now when I lift my foot up to put my shoe
on it's did you hit a?
What whole 148 no, listen,don't get me started listen.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
I haven't even seen that since high school 165, my
entire, like I.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
So my freshman year of high school I was four, six.
All the way through thefreshman year of high school and
like 98 pounds.
And then between freshman andsophomore year I went to six,
one, like over the summer, wentto six, one and 165 pounds never
varied.
I would step on the scale atthe doctor and I'd go 165.
I'd get on the scale 165.
On the, I'd go 165, I'd get onthe scale 165.
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On the nose, like they werealways blown away.
That's all I ever was.
I started to notice I was likeman, I'm starting to jiggle when
I walk a little bit.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
185 no way.
Yes, yeah, but you're tallexactly so.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
I'm like 185.
I don't like this.
I want to go back to my 165.
Okay, the other morning I goton the scale just for giggles
190.
I almost had a stroke.
I was like no, I can't do this.
I don't at this point.
I don't know what it is like.
It's got to be just getting old.
Like I refuse to go to the gym.
(04:20):
But I don't drink soda like Iused to.
I usually get one a day andthat's, and granted, it is a
mcdonald's or something likethat, because I get it through
the drive-thru, because if I buyit at home I'll drink all 12 in
an afternoon.
It's nothing for me to drinkthat many sodas.
So I do still.
I like I don't limit the typesof foods that I eat.
Like I ate like six packs ofho-hos in an evening, like so I
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know that and the five dozenBuckeyes in two weeks.
I know that that doesn't help.
But I also don't eat the restof the day.
I don't eat breakfast.
I seldom eat lunch, unless it'sa can of Campbell's Chunky Soup
, and then dinner, whatever wehave.
Last night we had chicken,potatoes and green beans and I
didn't even eat the chicken.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
And then you just pig out at snack time.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Well, see, the problem is, it's like the 3 am
thing.
Seriously, when I tell you thatI look like a raccoon, I look
like a raccoon.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
No wonder you don't have breakfast, because that's
your breakfast.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
The worst part is sometimes I get up and last
night it was no, not last night,maybe it was, I can't remember
it was a pan of lasagna.
You ate the whole pan, not thewhole pan, but I ate two really
big pieces.
And then I just left the pansit on the counter, so I had
lasagna in it.
I just left it sit there andlike the fork is still in it and
(05:41):
I know it was me because I'mlike, oh, that must have been me
.
I don't remember most of it.
I drank almost an entire gallonof milk in the middle of the
night.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
One night You're like stress eating.
It's bizarre While you'resleeping.
So bizarre.
What happened to your peanutbutter?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
I still do peanut butter.
Yeah, I still do peanut butter,although the last time I did it
a really big scoop and I triedto eat it all and I started to
gag and then that was the wholething.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
Thought I was going to die.
I don't buy it anymore becauseit's not safe.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I love peanut butter.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
I will just gallon of milk, peanut butter.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
So Jif made.
What were they?
Oh, the squeezy pouches ofpeanut butter.
Have you seen those?
Alyssa used to buy those for me.
She's like Michael I can'tafford to buy this for you
because you eat three a night.
I can't.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
And they're expensive yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
It's like triple the price of a jar of peanut butter
and you don't get even half ofthat because it's all
individually packed.
They are so good though.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
I would get those like the little cups.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
It's not enough.
No, no, it's not enough.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
I'll eat all three of them.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I want peanut butter and celery no.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Why?
Why do you want to eat stringywater?
Why do you want to eat stringy?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
water?
I doubt it.
No, because peanut butter we'vetalked about this peanut butter
you can't even breathe half thetime when you're swallowing it,
so the celery washes it down.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
No, it's just a jar, a spoon and milk.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yes, and the milk is only really there for the
reassurance that, if it getsstuck, I've got something to get
it down.
Seriously, I can't tell you howmany times I've eaten a
spoonful of peanut butter andthought this is it, this is how
I go, this is the end.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
Well, this is going to get up.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
He's going to be on the kitchen floor.
Yeah, oh Lord.
Seriously, I don't remembereating the lasagna.
I don't, I remember.
What's funny is I remembertearing the aluminum foil when I
was taking the thing off, likethat was the realization that
that was me, because thealuminum foil was laying beside
it and it had been torn.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Do you remember your dreams ever?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
I don't dream very often, but when I do, they're
always when I remember them.
They're always bizarre.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Same.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yeah, really bizarre, and I can't.
I seldom, can ever talk aboutmy dreams, because people were
like you need therapy, Like Ialready have it yeah, judging
you right now, been there.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
It's very rare that I remember my dreams.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I know that I dreamt, but yeah, very strange if I
don't write it like as soon as Iwake up, it's gone listen.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Last night I'm laying in bed, falling asleep and I
have this sermon idea and I'mlike, oh man, this is fire,
cannot wait to preach this.
Like I got to write thismessage, I cannot wait, I cannot
wait.
I'm so excited.
Next thing I know I'm asleep.
Can you believe?
I have no idea what it was.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
It's not time yet Not the faintest idea.
It's just not time yet.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I mean, I know it was good.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Must not have been that good I was also going to
gonna say.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
The other thing is is I was kind of in that like
euphoric falling asleep thing.
It may not have really beenthat good, my brain just thought
it was great.
So there's that.
That happens to me a lot,though, and I'm like you should
write that down.
I'm like now you'll remember, Ican't remember what I had for
lunch.
Actually, that's not true.
(09:01):
20-piece nugget large, and alarge fry.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Don't get all the scales in the morning 192.
Wait about five minutes.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
It has nothing to do with what you ate.
It's the amount of sodium,that's right.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Maybe I need a water pill.
Maybe that's what I need.
Maybe I need a water pill.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
You need four in the morning and a half in the
afternoon.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I'll tell you I was thinking I said to Alyssa the
other day, so I was like man,maybe I should just like get
Ozempic or a semaglutide orsomething like like she's like
you're not fat, you don't needto lose weight.
I'm like right, I understandthat you say that like you don't
feel like I.
I feel it when I walk and I'mnot comfortable and she looks at
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me and she goes really she'slike I've been big my whole life
.
What do you?
How do you think I feel?
Like all right, touche.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Let's get off of weight.
But can I just say God works inmiraculous ways.
My daughter just sent me apicture.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Oh geez, I had a nephew that overdosed at
Thanksgiving he was on event.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Yeah, I had a nephew that overdosed at Thanksgiving.
He was on a vent and thedoctors came in and said to the
parents you know they're nottogether, but both parents he
has no brain activity.
You need to pull the plug.
Dad said yes.
Mom said I can't do it, so hehad been on a vent for several
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months, I mean sinceThanksgiving.
He's now trached, he's awake,wow, and he's sitting up in a
chair.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
I just pray to God because, you know, because
they're not saved.
Yeah, most of his brothers areaddicts.
His dad was an addict.
His mom was an addict, you know, but I've been watching her
post.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I'm not friends with her, but I've been watching her
post Facebook stalking yeah, Ihave been, that's fine yeah.
And you know she's been she'sbeen crying out to God.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Don't take my son.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Don't, don't take my son, so if nothing else happens,
yeah.
I hope that there's aturnaround for that.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's awesome family yeah
that's awesome.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Amen, yeah, that's great stuff.
So, what feelings?
What feelings you should?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
you should have said eureka, eureka oh, you know what
I need to get?
I need to get a sound clip ofsteve urkel going did, I do that
and every time we talk about myeating habits or something
strange we just play Steve Urkelor anytime we get off topic.
Or that's the meanwhile back atthe ranch sound that we need to
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get Meanwhile back at the ranch.
What feelings come up when youidentify as a Christian?
So this question is really kindof short and sweet.
So when you say to somebody, orsomebody asks you like hey, are
you a Christian?
And you say yes, basically thepoint of the question is what
feelings do you?
Do you have?
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Peace, okay.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
I guess I have urgency, to like want to talk
about it.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Yeah, I don't know.
That's like the first thingthat you know comes to mind
whenever.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Well, I would say love, joy and anxiety.
Because now what if they've gotquestions for me?
Then I might not have the rightanswer or feel that I don't
have the right answer.
So then I might feel someanxiety due to the fact that,
but I hope and pray that I livemy life that where people think,
ah, she's a Christian.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Well, to expound on your anxiety, I always have
anxiety.
When somebody asks me thatquestion, I'm like what did I do
that?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
they remember.
Sometimes, too, I would saysadness because, talking to my
family members or people whoaren't saved, and trying to get
the point across that you know,jesus is who we need.
This is what we need.
And then they rebuke you.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Yeah, I don't.
You don't need to pray for meright now.
What, what a good God do thisto my son.
What a good God do this to?
Yeah, that's the challenge forsure Okay.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
This.
You just went a completedifferent direction with this,
as I thought you well, sorryabout that, beth.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
You think initially yeah, what was your original
thought?
Just this is just a thoughtshout it out.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
yeah, because I think it could go, depending on how
they ask you, like I'm sorry,like don just said, well, you're
a christian, you know why wouldyour god do this?
But then if someone, someonegenuinely asks like, hey, are
you a Christian?
I have questions, likeobviously you're going to have
different emotions when they howthey interpret it.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
I guess I guess I don't know how do I want to say
I don't know.
Go to Nick Pass.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
I guess I feel a strong sense of confidence, yet
humility, like I know, all theconfidence that I have in myself
and what I do and who I am,comes from him.
So that's why I have confidence.
And yet, at the same point, Ihave that humility because I've
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been through plenty of things inmy life.
I've seen plenty of things inmy life, so I have a lot of
empathy for people.
So when somebody comes to mewith a question like that, dare
I say I'm ready for anything.
I'm ready for whatever comesnext, whether it's a question or
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it's a statement that they'regoing to make.
I feel pretty confident in who Iam as a Christian and you know
I just saw something the otherday.
You know people shouldn'tpeople should not hang their hat
on saying I'm a Christian.
You need to ask yourself do youreally have a relationship with
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Jesus?
That's where it lies.
It's easy to say yeah, I'm aChristian, I go to church, but
if that's all you have, you'renot going to be able to help
anybody.
If somebody comes up to you andasks you that question,
whatever comes next, you'reprobably not going to be
prepared for it.
So it's more of you know,hanging your hat on.
(15:11):
Yeah, I'm pretty confident, Ihave a relationship with Jesus
and so, like I said, I have thatconfidence and that humility to
have discussions with peopleand kind of, you know, uh, see
it from all sides I can.
I can look at somebody who's anon-Christian and with no
(15:32):
judgment, you know, if somebodywould make that statement, I
mean, I suppose it depends onhow they say it, but I would
think, for the most part, ifit's just because they don't
know or they haven't decided,you know, or if they're
questioning it, I'm not, I don'tjudge them because they're not
a Christian.
No, and that's not my job to dothat.
My job is to have that humilityand the confidence to be like
(15:56):
okay, well, here's some thingsyou can think about, you know,
to pull you to our side, yeah.
Now, that's our job our side.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Yeah, now, that's our job, I think I mean it's it's a
known fact that this is thefirst generation that you say it
all the time that there's um,that the parents basically
aren't forcing the kids Ishouldn't say forcing, but the
the main no, no, no, that's theright word.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Yeah, you have to force your kid.
You force your kids to brushyour brush their teeth, that's
true, your kids to wear shoes?
Speaker 1 (16:21):
yeah, so, like the normal household is not going to
church together.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Anything that's good for your child, you gotta force
them to do it.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
They're deodorant.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
So there's clearly more people unchurched than
churched in this world.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
This is the first post-church generation, meaning
that the kids who are our kidsare not going to church.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
They're not growing up in church, correct?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
And they don't have, and some of that is our fault
for not bringing them to church,but some of that is also our
fault for giving them thefreedom to decide whether or not
they want to come.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
There was no freedom in my house.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
There wasn't in mine either.
The pastor had to come out andpull my daughter out of the car
a few times, like she ain'tgetting out of the car.
He's like but she will.
Oh, but watch me.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
She was a little stronger than I was Gonna lay
hands on this girl.
Roger, what Question it's yourturn to answer?
No, I was waiting on Beth.
She passed, pastor Roger, shepassed.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
She passed, she ain't coming back.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
I'm not passing.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
I'm not passing, I'm just not answering.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
I think it depends on how they're asking.
Are they asking because they'rea Christian or are they asking
because they want to know?
And I think if it's they wantto know, it would give me a
little bit of excitement tosharing, but it would also give
me some stress because hopefullyI have been representing him
well.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Yeah, that's the anxiety part, I think.
I feel a sense of community.
Okay, it's a good answer.
Yeah, good answer.
Good answer.
It's like playing Family FeudGood answer.
Is it up?
It's like playing Family FeudGood answer.
Is it up there?
Show us.
Community Survey says it is notup there.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
I thought for sure it was going to be up there.
Man, I forget where I was at.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Organic church 1943?
.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Back in my day.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
Okay, I'm not answering that, he just made me
mad.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Now he's having a fit .
Here we are.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
I'm going to take my coat and go home.
I'm going to take my ball andleave, but I was in a line
somewhere.
I forget where it was at.
I wish I could remember.
But I'm standing there, youknow, and I'm looking around and
this younger kid he wasn'tsmall, but he wasn't old like
(19:02):
you yeah, he wasn't old like meUnderstandable.
And he says do you go to church?
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Yeah, depends on what I did.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
He says well, where do you go?
And I told him, you know theorganic church.
He says oh, I go to Lifeway,lifeway, and I saw him I said,
yeah, that's a good place to go,and that was the end of the
conversation.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
But I thought he was about to tell you about Jesus.
If you didn't know, you wereabout to get.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Evidently I looked like I needed him.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
He got on his phone, looked up organic church, just
to make sure.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Just to make sure it was real.
Yeah, he checks out.
Yeah, he checks out.
That looks legit.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
How did you know?
All he had to do was snap hisfingers and you're like Lifeway.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
It's a weird connection that Roger and I have
always had.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
The cherry Outside of Philly.
Yes, it's the old assemblies ofof God.
Okay, yes, yeah, looks like awarehouse.
My cousin and his, that's wherethey go.
Yeah, after they left the otherchurch.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Absher church, oh really.
That's where they go now, Ididn't realize that they were
part of that church.
Did they leave because of that,really?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Yes they.
They called him in and saidcause they were going to, they
were teaching a class.
I don't know if Sunday schoolor I don't know what they were
teaching, but then he preachedthat.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
That was a big deal, like it was a parting of the red
sea for sure.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
So she said to my cousin hey, we've got to talk to
them, because if that's what hebelieves, we can't stay here.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
That's crazy.
That's crazy.
I did hear that that was a big,big dividing statement.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
So anyhow inviting statement.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
So anyhow.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
I always want to behave in a way that it's not a
mystery.
I hope I always behave in amanner where people don't have
to ask I don't.
I was going to say well, youknow, maybe I wonder if and I'm
not proud of that, I'm you know,I just well, it was like the
other day I've had this kid whoworks for us and you know we're
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three weeks into the month andhe's already used all his PTO
days two of his points callingoff, maxes it out, baby, yeah,
he's already starting to max itout and he's kind of let me in
on his home life a little bit.
You know, with these young kidsyou can't ever really tell if
they're giving you the truth oryou know if he's really staying
up all night playing video games.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Right.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
But he was telling me a little bit about it and I
thought and of course, theperson over me, the manager of
the shop like he, and he'sstarting to get upset about it
and I think most people'sexpectation is that me being his
personal manager that when heshows up for work the next day,
I just give it to him, give itto him.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Yeah, I just read him the riot.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
He's missed another day of work and we're not going
to have this.
And I should just yell you know, be tough.
And you know, and I think, ok,yeah, that's one way to go and
that's probably the way mostpeople go.
They're not looking for anyexplanation, they're not looking
to help this kid out, they justwant to get your point across
and make sure he doesn't missanother day of work.
(22:11):
And you look like you're inhigh authority, you keep your
authority and I thought, yeah, Icould do that.
But what good is that going tonumber one?
What really is good?
Is that going to do me?
I'm going to get upset for noreason.
So that's not going to make mefeel good.
And him, being as young as heis, I'm thinking that's not
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going to work either.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
It's probably just it's not going to make him feel
good and most likely he'sprobably going to say well, you
you know and I'm not coming back.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
I'm not coming back or you know he's not going to
respect me anymore.
So I had to find that balanceof explaining you know why it is
so important that he comes towork every day Because you know,
yes, he has a small child andyou know, and I just told him.
I said you have to understandthat your youth has passed you
by.
I understand you're 21 yearsold, but you have a child now.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
So you have forfeited your youth.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
And so all your priorities now have to be about
your daughter.
And so I just sat him down andjust tried to explain to him.
You know why it is so importantto have a good work ethic, to
not lose people's trust.
You know you never want to getin a situation where you're
unreliable.
Right, people's trust, younever want to get in a situation
(23:24):
where you're unreliable.
And I told him.
I said if you need advice aboutsomething, you ever want to
talk about anything, I said I'mhere, I'll listen to you.
I'll help you as much as I can.
I said but you have to.
Whatever it is that's going onin your home life, you've got to
get it under control.
That's going on in your homelife, you've got to get it under
(23:44):
control.
And I said not for me.
I said yeah it puts a littlestress on me when I have to redo
my schedule in the morning andfind somebody else to drive.
I said, but in the end I'll beokay, yeah, in the end I'll hire
somebody else and everything'sgonna go.
But if you lose your job, youwon't be okay.
This is just gonna be one morething now that you're going to
(24:07):
be stressed about and have toworry about.
So this is on you you have totake the steps to be responsible
and grow up a little bit andthink about the important things
.
So it's just that balance ofmental toughness plus being I
remind myself like I have tohandle this in a Christian
manner.
I want this kid to besuccessful.
I want him to grow andunderstand what he's supposed to
do as a father, you know andbeing the main breadwinner of
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the family Like this issomething that you're going to
have to do your entire life.
You know.
So if you leave here, you knowyou're going to go to another
job.
And if you do this all overagain and they look at you as
being unreliable, you're goingto create this pattern and it's
going to go to another job, it'sgoing to be the same thing, and
if you do this all over againand they look at you as being
unreliable you're going tocreate this pattern.
It's going to follow you, yourentire life.
So it's just, you know, like Isaid, I would have gained
(24:51):
nothing and he would have gainednothing from me just yelling at
him because he missed threedays of work, but he had worked
enough to get some PTO timeenough to get some PTO time.
Sure, yeah, that's good.
And that's why I told him I'mlike I know you can do this job.
I've seen you do this job.
You do a good job.
I said there's always room toimprove.
I said I know you're young, youhaven't been in this business
very long.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
I said but there's just a lot of things that you
have to start thinking aboutbeen 16, so 41 years.
I got a group text message theother day from my little fella's
mom.
She sent it to me and his dadand she's like I just got called
into the office at my job.
I've been reprimanded for myattendance.
What can you guys do to help menot lose my job?
(25:39):
I sat on that for a little bit.
I'm like sorry I didn't getyour text message.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
New number who desks?
Speaker 3 (25:49):
I'm like well, I feel that I'm pretty flexible for
you and your hours.
Yeah, I come at 5.45 in themorning.
Take the child to school.
I pick him up at 2.30 in theafternoon.
Take him child to school, Ipick him up at two 30 in the
afternoon.
Take him home, put him to bed.
I'm there till nine 30, 10o'clock at night.
I can't be any more flexible.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Yeah, and I mean you know there are obviously other
problems if she's still callingoff when you're available, like
that can't really.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
If she wants to nap, she calls off.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Yeah, you know I love a good nap.
Exactly Love a good nap.
Yeah, I schedule a nap.
I don't like it's on thecalendar because I love a good
nap, but I don't get to not goto work because of it Right, and
when she came in that eveningshe was still discussing her.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
And.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
I said I've been working for 41 years and I've
called off three days in 41years.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
And one was just because I wanted to.
Yeah, yeah, you just like totest the boundaries?
That was her first one that washer first call off.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
You know and I told the kid.
The last thing I said is wewill not have this conversation
again.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Yeah, this is it, and you're not enabling him.
You know you're not enablinghim.
You know you're not letting himso.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
So I think, if, if anybody would have been sitting
in on that conversation, I don'tthink they would have been able
to say well, he's not a verynice person, he's not yeah,
right yeah I think they would beable to look at like well, I
think that was a pretty good itwas fair.
Yeah, yeah, it was tough, butfair firm fair and friendly firm
, fair and and I didn't owe thatto him, but I think I just owed
(27:24):
it to who I am and who I'msupposed to be and how I'm
supposed to go about things.
Because, like I said in the end,if he doesn't listen, if it had
, no effect on him whatsoever,well, that's on him and he may
figure, he may think on thatconversation down the road when
maybe, you know, something elsehappens.
I think, geez, I wish I wouldhave listened to that advice,
but for me it's like I losenothing from that you know, and
(27:46):
I don't care if somebody thinkslike oh he, you know, he didn't
even yell at him, he didn'thandle that, you know with any
authority it's like well, thatdoesn't bother me, and that's
why I say that confidence andthat humility.
It's like it doesn't bother meat all what somebody else thinks
, how.
I handled that situation,because I know I handled it the
right way.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Oh yeah, and when you were telling the story, like I
truly think maybe that is like aturning point for him, not
necessarily spiritually, like Idon't know what his spiritual
life is like, you know, butmaybe it's a turning point for
him to get his life together andthen work on his faith down the
road.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
you know, like that's what I just kept picturing.
You're that person that hey,absolutely get your life
together, but that's all you cando as a Christian is do your
job Yep.
You know, just handle thosesituations as well as you can
and it's up to that person torespond to.
You know, to pick it up andcarry it.
But some do, some don't.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
Beth.
Back to me again.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
You can only pass twice.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Oh, I don't know.
It's like playing Euchre itgets to the end.
Dealer's got to call it.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
I had a situation here at work not too long ago Is
this the one.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
You flipped the lady off when she walked by your
office.
No, I wasn't, I'm just kidding,I'm just kidding.
Walked by your office.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding, she thought about
it, she did it under her desk.
Speaker 6 (29:11):
She's so grumpy in the morning I thought maybe if I
just did she might get over itand be happy the rest of the day
.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
But I never did.
Speaker 6 (29:21):
But Lord forgive me because I did think about it.
Just there was some situationsthere and it was getting rough
and I just thought you know what?
I've never really worked anyplaces.
Somebody just did not like me,and so I kind of muffled him
every day and with my pride hurt, and I thought you know, what.
At the end of the day, itdoesn't matter if she likes me
(29:43):
or doesn't like you know andlisten, so every morning I make
her talk to me.
Good morning.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
How are you?
Speaker 6 (29:52):
today.
But hey, I got an email fromher today and she said thank you
, oh, yes, I'm trying to figureout.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
What's it?
Sarcasm, or did she mean it?
Maybe that's.
What she needs in the morningis a smiling face and a nice
word.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Sometimes I'll just send the per my last email,
that's what I was about to sayper our last conversation.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Per our last conversation, Comma.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
I got to reference a text message from a certain date
the other day.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
It's per our conversation on August 22nd at
7.38 in the AM.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Basically telling you to shut up yeah, eat dirt.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
Yeah, I had almost an opposite experience last week,
friday night after work I was sotired.
It was a busy day unloadingtrucks all day.
I get home and my wife wants meto go out and put Christmas
stuff away.
And I just was not.
I already had a plan to do itSaturday.
(30:49):
I just was not about it and Ifought her tooth and nail and I
just annoyed her to deathbecause, yeah, I was, I was
pouting.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Like I was tired.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
I just couldn't help it, Like I was just so tired,
Like I didn't want to do it.
But we got through it, we did alittle bit of stuff.
And then she's like do you wantto get something to eat?
And I said, well, I don't wantto go in any place.
I said we can just go getsomething.
She's like, oh, really, and I'mlike you want to go in Hardy?
(31:22):
She's like, well, yeah, I wantto go and sit down and eat.
And I'm like, okay.
So we go and we get in thereand there's just two kids, a guy
and a girl.
They're running the whole thing, just them two.
And just looking at them already, I'm like here we go.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
This is going to be an evening Like.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Beth's Dairy Queen experience.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Yeah, today.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
So we order our food and I'm, I'm a uh plain Jane.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
If.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
I get a cheeseburger, I want cheese only, nothing
else on it.
Don't want nothing elsetouching it, Just cheese only.
So they finally bring the food.
I opened up my cheeseburgerit's got everything on it and it
wasn't even a wrap Nice Nothingon it.
(32:04):
And it wasn't even wrapped nicenothing.
I'm like okay.
So I walk up there I'm like I'msorry.
I said I ordered it plain.
I said can I get a plain one?
They're like oh yeah.
So it's not two minutes.
And he comes out with the nextone same thing, not even wrapped
.
Well, and I'm already like,just you know, I'm fuming on the
inside and I undo it, look atit and I open it and it's like
(32:28):
the cheese was like.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Off the side.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
No, it was like maybe it had been there at one time,
but it was pretty much gone.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
It was the same burger.
They just scraped it apart.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Oh, did he say no cheese?
Speaker 5 (32:44):
but this thing was so messy, so greasy, just
disgusting, and I just looked atthat and I just shoved it
forward and I just went andevery fiber of my being just
wanted to go up there and justexplain to him just how terrible
of a job that they doing.
You know, this girl and thisguy who care less?
Yeah, the girl's up theretelling the guy about her
(33:06):
bathing suit and this and thatand he's asking for pictures.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
It's a very uncomfortable situation.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
I'm tired anyway.
So you know, all thosefaculties are gone.
I'm like I'm almost to thatpoint where, like I just want to
tell somebody what I reallythink Poor Margie, yeah.
And almost to that point where,like I just want to tell
somebody what I really think youknow, poor Mark.
So like yeah, and her, she hadlike the ham and Swiss sandwich
and she said it wasn't very goodeither, but I just pushed it
forward and I just sat there andjust and now I'm at.
(33:33):
you know pouting here I ampouting again, instead of going
up there and saying something.
I thought I thought what goodis it going to?
Do Because in my mind actually,I thought I should just take
this cheeseburger and just throwit from here all the way up.
Okay, all right, that's whatI'm thinking in my mind.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
So now it's my turn, because that's the story that I
need to tell.
So I have a certain feud with acertain trash company.
Let's put it this way.
It is a large trash company inour local area that we're forced
to use in Yerkesville.
Well, you are, I am not.
That's what I'm saying it does.
It ends with an imble, so itstarted at work.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
I sent them a nasty email One Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Well.
Speaker 5 (34:16):
Because they wouldn't pick up our trash.
It was respectful, but it was.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Well, good for you.
I've had my runs in with themtoo.
Well, here's the problem,because they wouldn't pick up
our trash.
Speaker 5 (34:21):
I mean it was respectful, but it was no, okay,
All right.
Well, good for you, Becausemine wasn't Good for you, I have
to say.
I've had my runs in with themtoo.
Well, here's the problem.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
So we have six accounts, something like that
with Kimball right now and foranybody who's listening.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Under your company.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Under work.
Okay, so just I don't have aproblem with Kimball.
The company, the organization,it's the people who represent
the organization that I have aproblem with.
So one particular representativewho just is unresponsive to
emails, like, you have her cellphone number.
You send her a text message.
She doesn't respond to it.
She responds with who is this,even though there's a thread of
text messages.
Maybe she deletes them, I don'tknow.
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But if you give her youraccount number you would think
she could quickly look that upand know who she's talking to.
But she's just difficult, it'swhat she does.
I mean, we've had trash barrelsdelivered to neighbor's house.
We've had they've taken trashcans that they weren't supposed
to take, like physically removethem from the property.
A nightmare, absolute nightmare.
So we've tolerated it for awhile.
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But the real kicker for us wasat one of our hotels.
We have two trash dumpsters andthe pickup dates are Monday and
Friday.
Now you might wonder why wouldyou have it emptied on Friday
and then turn around and have itemptied on Monday?
That's because weekend trash isso high.
The volume of trash is so highthat you need to empty it on
Monday in order to get throughthe week.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Gotcha.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Well unbeknownst to us, they move our date to
Tuesday and Friday.
Oh Okay, Well, here's theproblem they're never on time.
So now they show up on Mondayto pick up my Friday dump,
because it's the day behind,because they don't run on
Saturday.
So the day behind is now aMonday dump and my dumpsters are
absolutely overflown.
And then they come back onTuesday and dump again and try
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to charge me for it.
And so when I push back and I'mlike, no, we're not going to do
this, they're like whoa, that'sconsidered a courtesy pickup.
And I'm like, okay, but I don'tneed to pick up on Tuesday,
Then do one pickup every weekand that's it, If this is how
we're going to do it.
So, long and short of it,you're locked into three-year
contracts that automaticallyrenew at the end of the three,
canceling the auto renewal.
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Okay.
So we have that same companyhere and I have had countless
problems here.
Trash doesn't get picked up.
The dumpster slowly inches itsway into the middle of the
parking lot.
You have to call and tell themhey, can you put the dumpster
back where it belonged, so onand so forth.
But the other day it snowedRight.
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We had the lot plowed.
I walk out there to throwsomething away.
Dumpster's full, but it waspickup day so they should have
already picked it up.
I send an email.
It says hey, oh, by the way,they had to give me a new rep
because the other rep on aconference call with her boss
got smart with me and Now that'swhat I deal with every time I
talk to her.
I won't work with her anylonger.
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You say that I have to keep mycontract, but I will not deal
with her.
It's long and short.
So I got here, I sent an email.
I just said hey, can you lookinto this?
My dumpster wasn't dumped todayand they replied with it was
marked as blocked.
So I sent them a picture of thedumpster and there was a small
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mound of snow in front of thedumpster.
But I'm talking minuscule moundof snow, but the entire parking
lot in front of it is clear.
You can see the gravel.
So it's not like there's snowor anything like that.
And I sent the picture and shesaid that the snow would need to
be removed before they couldpick it up.
And I said well, I can't quitego out there and shovel it, but
the truck can.
A snippet of the contract thatsays it has to be free and clear
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of all debris and yada, yadayada.
My response to her was comepick up your dumpster.
I'm canceling my contract.
Never hear back from her.
So I email her and her boss andI said here's the deal.
I sent a certified letter todaycanceling my service.
You need to come pick up thedumpster immediately.
He calls me.
I won't use his name, obviously, but let's just say he was well
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known in our community.
For a little while he was acounty commissioner.
That narrows it down and heproceeds to tell me when he
calls I just want to listen.
I just want to understand.
Obviously you don't like us.
I just want to listen andunderstand.
The minute I open my mouth hestarts arguing with me.
And now I'm hot.
I just want to listen.
I just want to understand.
Obviously you don't like us.
I just want to listen andunderstand.
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The minute I open my mouth hestarts arguing with me.
And now I'm hot and I saidevery time you call me we do
this.
Every time you call me I getangry.
I said and it's not worth it tome.
I said I sent the certifiedletter.
Enough's enough, come get thedumpster.
I.
I said our conversation is over.
And as I'm going to hang up thephone, he says our conversation
is not over.
You're under contract.
I said so sue me.
Speaker 6 (38:52):
Click.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
And that's where I left it.
They've got their certifiedletter.
They need to come get theirdumpster.
I told him seven days and thenit's my property, baby, and I
promise you that dumpster willcome up missing.
I promise you.
But here's my point.
I here's my point.
I try so hard to representChrist in a good way, but the
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struggle is when the worldtreats you differently because
they expect you to always giveto them and to be nice.
It is a real challenge, likeit's a genuine challenge.
I'm not proud of that moment,but I'm not apologizing for it,
because a company who wants totake advantage of somebody like
that's not how this works.
Like I want to, I I want to be,I want to reciprocate good
business yeah you are not.
You were trying, you are and youare not fulfilling your end of
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the agreement.
Right and on and on about theirtrucks are rear wheel drive and
you can't pick up a dumpster.
I'm like if I wouldn't haveplowed the lot at all, you
couldn't have gotten in here.
If that's the case, right.
He's like well, yeah, but youhave to remember we have to lift
the dumps.
I'm like you're just makingexcuses.
Your driver said that it wasblocked so that he didn't have
to dump it.
He probably didn't even drivein the lot probably not would be
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my guess.
And so I was just, I was justhot, just really irritated, and
I realized that, like I don'twant to be that way, like I
genuinely don't want to be thatway, like I genuinely don't want
to be that way.
So when somebody asks, or when Ianswer the question, what's it
like to be a Christian, here'smy immediate thought, is my
emotion.
The emotion that I experiencedis disappointment in myself,
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because I know that I fall shortof the glory every single day.
I know that.
But I know that my heartposture is right in the right
ways.
Don't get me wrong.
I'm not going to be walked onin no area of my life.
Listen, my kids think that theycan walk all over me sometimes
and I'm like I will drop you,like I have no problem catching
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a charge right now.
You know, and it's, there arepeople in the church that try
that.
You know, you, you we haverules and the rules are simple,
right, like the basics, like wehave kids class that are
structured a certain way, for acertain reason.
You don't get to decide whereyour kid goes.
This is like the age group thatthey fit in.
This is where they should go.
Last week we had somebodydecide that they didn't need to
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follow those rules.
Well, you know, I said, I toldyou guys, this year I'm going to
have very uncomfortableconversations with people.
We're not going to do that.
Let's be respectful of oneanother and then it's easy to
just be able to have thatrelationship and represent
Christ right?
It shouldn't be irresponsibleof us to have emotions.
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We should be able to get angry,we should be able to get
frustrated, we should be able tocry.
And be irresponsible of us tohave emotions.
We should be able to get angry,we should be able to get
frustrated, we should be able toto cry and be all of those
things that those are perfectlynormal.
To the temple right, flippingtables Like he must.
They must've been playingMonopoly, I don't know, but his
anger was a righteous anger.
My anger is emotional anger andso it's not the same.
But I am flesh and I will havethose emotions.
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But I cannot be, I cannot thinkless of myself because of those
things, because as a Christian,I am supposed to be, I'm
supposed to be able to beconfident and stand upright, and
I'm not going, I'm not going toapologize for that.
Yeah, so I don't.
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That dumpster may become ourproperty, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (42:11):
But Well, and to your point.
I'm sure you're now like thatand you don't get walked all
over because you've learned yourlesson and you're tired of
getting walked all over.
Speaker 2 (42:23):
In ministry?
Yes, for sure and for sure inministry.
In life I've never allowedpeople to do that to me, and
that was.
I learned that whenever I waslittle Like when I say little I
mean freshman in high school,because I was little compared to
everybody around me, and so you, just you couldn't take
anybody's crap Like you had tobe able to stand up for yourself
, and that was like that's whyI'm quick-witted.
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That drives my wife nuts LikeI've always got a joke ready.
It's always on standby becauseyou know, when somebody says
something that I don't like, I'mgoing to fire back.
And again, I try to berespectful in most cases.
But I'm again not just them butany company that I deal with,
and that's you ask, anybody thatdeals with me here at the
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church.
There's just one company wedeal with called Wisdom Over
Wealth Christian company.
Wonderful, wonderful people.
Okay, I have nothing bad to sayabout them, but they don't
answer their emails.
Why do you give me your emailaddress if you're not going to
answer it, right?
So two weeks in you don'tanswer my email, I'm gonna call
you.
I'm gonna leave you a voicemail.
You don't answer that voicemail, I'm gonna call you again.
You know what they always doafter the second voicemail, call
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my wife.
After the second voicemail,call my wife.
They want to talk to you.
They know, they know, and theyknow I don't actually want to
talk to them.
I'm trying to elicit a responseso that we can move on to the
next step.
I can't always wait on otherpeople, and in this ministry
this ministry specifically it'snot like we have unlimited funds
to work with, it's not like wehave.
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You know, it's not easy.
There's always something thatwe have to be thinking about or
working on, and so I count oneverybody pulling their weight
so that we can move to that nextphase.
And so when somebody that wepay to help us doesn't help us,
I'm going to get my help.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
Yeah, I mean same.
I was also dealing with thesame company and when I posted
my post about our stinking trashsituation, I'm like, oh Lord,
geez, I mean that was the firstthing I thought.
I'm like, how am I going toportray this in a way that I
want to get my point across?
But I'm tired of getting walkedall over when you're forcing me
to use this company but thenthey don't pick up on time.
And you don't pick up on time,you never know.
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But then you're going to forceme and then charge me after my
first warning.
Like I'm not getting walkedover, you know, but that was my
first thing.
I'm like, how am I going tocome across?
So I was very like I'm yeah,you were tactful.
Speaker 2 (44:38):
You were tactful, yeah, but I, I am not.
I am not and I've lost thattact to some point, because it
doesn't.
There are times that it doesn'twork that.
It doesn't work Like there aretimes that you know I try to be.
I told you guys that one timethat I aggressively left a group
text message full of localpastors.
I'm sorry, I'm not apologeticfor that.
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I still talk to some of themregularly, but there are some of
them and I had coffee with onethe other day and we were
talking and I said, man, I'msorry, but there are just some
pastors in our area I don'ttrust, flat out, don't trust
them.
Don't trust what they teach,don't trust what they say, don't
trust how they act, becausethey're preaching something
completely different than whatthey're living.
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See, what you get with me isvery real and that's why I don't
try to sugarcoat it, I don'ttry to hide it.
If I ever step into the pulpitand I genuinely tell you that
I'm perfect and I have got, youneed to leave.
Please leave, because I'mtelling you that is an absolute
lie.
I can't like my neighbors.
I'm waiting for job and familyservices to show up at my house.
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I am.
They're going to show up at myhouse and they're going to be
looking for my two childrennamed Milo and Lucy, because you
can hear me yelling at my dogsdown the end of the block.
Speaker 6 (45:52):
Oh no, you won't beat my neighbor.
Speaker 2 (45:53):
Listen.
Speaker 3 (45:55):
Our area.
Nothing can compare Nothing.
Our block.
Speaker 2 (45:59):
I come in the house and Milo for whatever reason
decides he's going to bark.
You know it's me.
He knows the sound of my carcoming down the street.
He knows I opened the garage.
He heard my car door shut assoon as I opened the door.
He doesn't bark until I openthe door and then he starts
barking Shut up.
I'm kicking at him.
I'm like get away from me, itdrives me nuts.
Speaker 1 (46:18):
Imagine having that with a sleeping baby.
Speaker 2 (46:20):
Yeah, I can bet oh.
Speaker 1 (46:21):
I want to muzzle her.
Speaker 2 (46:23):
You know it.
After me she's like I can hearyou at the end of the block.
She's like pretty soonsomebody's going to think you're
abusing your children.
But that's real life.
And people who pretend like andnot everybody yells, not
everybody talks mean to a trashcompany Not everybody does all
of those things.
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But people do things thataren't nice.
Every day you think things oract a certain way or you treat
people differently.
Listen some of us.
Speaker 5 (46:53):
That's why I didn't say anything about the burger,
because I thought there's goingto be and I could hear they kept
getting things wrong.
Because I could hear it yeah,this was supposed to, this was
supposed to, yeah and I thoughtthere's plenty of unchristian
people.
Speaker 2 (47:08):
It's going to come through that window.
Speaker 5 (47:10):
Somebody is going to come through that window.
Somebody's going to get them.
Yeah, somebody's going to throwthat soda back through the
window.
It doesn't need to be me.
Speaker 6 (47:12):
I'll be good.
Yeah, I just feel immense guiltwhen I know that I have not.
Speaker 4 (47:17):
Dude.
Speaker 2 (47:19):
So yeah, trust me, trust me.
So now and I'm not backpedaling, but like no-transcript day,
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like my mind was, because ofMartin Luther King day correct.
So I respond with my apologies.
I was thinking it was x, thatwas all they got for me.
Like I'm not going to.
But I'm going to be respectful,but I'm not going to.
Like we still are not on goodterms.
Like we're still going to.
Speaker 1 (48:15):
I'm kind of shocked that they were closed on Martin
Luther King.
Speaker 2 (48:18):
Day.
Ours was actually because ourpickup day isn't on Monday
anymore.
They moved it to Tuesday.
It used to be Monday.
They moved with no notice, andso then we're just like it
always feels like we're behindtoday, but we're not really.
Speaker 5 (48:33):
Gotcha, all I had to do was go get a Dave single you
were good, you were good.
That's where that story ended.
My wife said yeah, I'll takeyou back down to Wendy's and get
a.
Speaker 2 (48:42):
Dave single, that was nice, ever Perfect.
Speaker 3 (48:45):
That was nice ever yeah.
Speaker 2 (48:52):
And you know what I.
Speaker 5 (48:52):
Seldom seldom ever go to Wendy's and they get my
order wrong.
Well, I used to love Hardee's.
I used to love it.
I mean they used to put it in abox with a little envelope, but
they tucked it down in nice andneat.
It was so good.
And now it's just like in thisfoil thing.
It's not even wrapped and I'mlike what is going?
Speaker 2 (49:07):
on.
We and I'm like what is goingon?
Easton wants to go to Sonicdesperately, and so I had an
Elvis show.
No, no, no, we were going toCanton for some reason.
I don't remember what we weredoing, but Alyssa and I had
plans, and so we told Eastondon't go to Papaw's today, you
can go with us.
We're going to stop at Sonic.
We pull into the Sonic, pullinto the little bay.
Speaker 1 (49:28):
Are they closed on Sunday To order?
No, they're open.
Speaker 2 (49:30):
Oh, okay, but because they're short-staffed, their
bays are closed.
Oh, so you have to go throughthe drive-thru, which is not the
experience that he wanted Right, right.
Speaker 4 (49:40):
He wanted the drive-thru.
Speaker 2 (49:41):
Okay.
So now there's no signsanywhere that say that the
little bays are closed.
There's people sitting in theircars in the bay, so I reach out
and I push the little buttonand they come back with sorry,
you have to use the drive-thru,we're understaffed and don't
have enough people to serve carside Beep and that's it.
Like you can't talk to themagain, Like it's not like where
you can have a conversation andnegotiate this.
They're like we're not, aresitting in their car.
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Do they know?
Has anybody told them?
Because there was no reason tobe in your car unless they were
serving those people and they'drealized they'd maxed out.
I mean.
I don't know.
Yeah, so Easton has nevergotten to go to Sonic because of
that, because I'm afraid to goback.
Speaker 4 (50:27):
Yeah, were you afraid to go to the?
Speaker 2 (50:29):
drive-thru no, we don't typically eat in the car.
Oh so like we wanted to be ableto sit and enjoy it versus
drive, because we really wantedtater tots.
He really wants sonic tatertots.
I don't know, I don't knowwhere he even heard it, like I
don't know where he got it from,probably on tv I think there's
he doesn't watch tv I meanoccasionally, but he usually
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watches.
Speaker 1 (50:49):
What about when you're watching football, though
?
Maybe that's where I feel likethat's when I see it, because I
don't watch a lot, yeah, butthis was a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (50:57):
This was before football would have been on for
the season.
I don't know this.
I can't imagine that, that wasit, but regardless he does yes,
he does, yes, he does.
Speaker 3 (51:09):
I've never eaten at a Sonic.
Speaker 2 (51:11):
I used to frequent Sonic when we lived in Newark.
That was one of my favoriteplaces to go.
You also know one of myfavorite things to get.
Speaker 6 (51:20):
I love to go to Dairy .
Speaker 2 (51:21):
Queen and get a footlong Coney dog, but not here
.
Speaker 5 (51:25):
I was going to say not in Newark.
Speaker 2 (51:26):
Go to Licking County and get one Licking County and
get one Licking County.
I know it sounds weird, but I'mtelling you it is a different
breed.
Down there you get a foot-longConey dog and there's a long
story behind that and I'm notgoing to share that whole story.
Let's just say we were lockedout of a vehicle.
We weren't supposed to be there.
We were supposed to be at work.
We weren't at Locked ourselvesout of the box truck.
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It was a situation.
It was a situation.
It was bad.
It was real bad, it was realbad.
Yeah, I was young and dumb, butwe had down there they put
coleslaw on your footlong coneydog, oh my gosh so good.
Speaker 4 (52:02):
You never had a slaw dog before, not like that.
Speaker 2 (52:04):
Oh, man, it was so good, so so good.
Speaker 4 (52:11):
Have you ever had a Chicago dog?
Speaker 2 (52:11):
No, I haven't.
They're pretty good.
I don't actually particularlycare for hot dogs.
Is that the kraut dog.
Speaker 4 (52:15):
No, oh, it's got.
I don't know what it's got onit, but it's good Tomatoes and
peppers Ew.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (52:20):
Yeah, it's good.
You know my favorite thing toput on a hot dog Way off,
favorite thing Peanut butter,peanut butter.
Peanut butter on a hot dog andpeanut butter on a grilled
hamburger.
Not like pan fried, but likeout on the grill.
Peanut butter on a.
How about peanut butter on asloppy joe?
Never tried that, but now Iwill.
That'll at least holdeverything on the bun real well.
Speaker 6 (52:41):
Yeah, that's true.
Well, Judayton has thathillbilly hot dog that comes
occasionally on like when theyhave that down there on the
square, he has that at Chicagoand he has one that has peanut
butter and marshmallow on a hotdog.
Speaker 2 (52:57):
I'll tell you another thing that, if you've never
tried it you should, is a peanutbutter banana sandwich.
Speaker 5 (53:01):
I know it's like an Elvis joke, but I was going to
say have you had that Now?
Speaker 2 (53:05):
I like mine both ways .
I prefer mine not fried becauseI don't like the banana to get
mushy and it has to be friedjust right, because if it gets
too mushy it's just watery, butif it's not fried enough it's
going to be mushy on the endsbut hard in the middle.
So it has to be just right, butI prefer mine not.
But either way, I'll eat them.
Somewhere deep fries them.
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That would be a bit much for me.
But yeah, somewhere deep friesthem.
I can't remember where it is.
Speaker 5 (53:32):
That's some calories, right?
If?
Speaker 2 (53:33):
you go to the Rusty Bucket in Easton.
At Easton Town Center they havean Elvis cheeseburger.
Dude, it's as big as your head.
I only ordered it because ofthe name.
That thing came out to thetable.
I was like I ain't eating that,Just taking it apart.
Taking it apart, it was good,Yummy.
Final thoughts has anybodywatched the Jerry Springer
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documentary on Netflix?
Speaker 1 (53:57):
yet Watch it.
What was it called?
Speaker 2 (54:00):
I don't remember Something about Jerry Springer.
I don't remember what it'sactually called.
It's good, it's really good.
I thought that it was made up.
I thought that it was scripted.
It is very much so.
Not it's real.
Those people really did thosethings, but they get them amped
up to fight on stage and whatnot.
Speaker 4 (54:17):
Like no, don't take that.
Speaker 2 (54:19):
You go out there and you tell her blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 5 (54:22):
They bring so-and-so in unexpected guest.
Correct, that fuels them rightup, yep.
Speaker 2 (54:33):
I was watching.
There's specifically oneepisode about a guy who marries
a horse, a pony, a Shetland pony, I thought you were going to
say something else, they pulledthe episode.
Speaker 1 (54:39):
Really.
Speaker 2 (54:40):
Yes, it doesn't exist , that you can watch it, but you
get little bits of the clips inthat Traumatizing.
But anyhow, do you remember atthe end of your how many of you
guys watched Jerry Springer?
Oh, I have, long time ago,years and years and years ago,
because at the time it was likethat was the number one talk
show on TV, like it actuallybeat Oprah, which is crazy to
think, opry, as my mother-in-lawwould call her.
Speaker 1 (55:02):
Opry.
Speaker 2 (55:02):
Opry, Opry and she.
But he always did a finalthought at the end, which was
some like oh yeah, I remember.
Speaker 5 (55:13):
Yeah, Be kind to yourself Be kind to one another.
Yeah, after all that, after allthat fighting yeah.
Speaker 2 (55:18):
Yeah, that's so, like I always when I say it at the
end of there, is there anyparting wisdom?
I always think, like after allof the random stuff that we said
, how do you seam this up?
How do you bring it back?
That's where we've createdtotal chaos here.
Speaker 5 (55:31):
Make sure you're being kind.
Speaker 2 (55:34):
Girl's got her hair pulled out, Somebody's got a
black eye.
But be kind to yourself, Bekind to one another.
Don't forget to spay and neuteryour pets, folks.
Oh goodness, Well Dawn, I thinkit is your turn it is my turn,
dear precious Heavenly Father.
Speaker 3 (55:51):
We come to you, dear Lord, tonight to thank you again
for this platform.
Lord, lord, god, just let usremember that you are our
cornerstone, lord, that you areour firm foundation, and no
matter what we're going through,lord Jesus, if we just bring it
to you, lord, whether thosethings are addictions, diseases,
disasters, whatever they mightbe, lord Jesus, if we would just
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bring them to you, whether it'sour furnaces here at the church
, lord, bring them to you, youwill meet us where we are.
Lord Jesus, lord, I just praythat you give us traveling
graces home and bring us back toour next appointed time.
All these things we ask andpray in your son's most precious
and holy name.
Amen.
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