December 9, 2024 • 34 mins
How would you rate your 2024? Nate Williams and the Dangerous Life Team walk thru this reflective exercise by rating their year 0-5 stars, sharing their pros and cons, and finishing up with whether or not they "would recommend" their year to someone else.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
This is the Dangerous Faith Podcast.
My name is Nate Williams.
With me we have Zeke, blake,isaac and Mariah and we're going
to be reviewing 2024.
And we're going to be reviewing2024 and our format will be
zero stars to five stars, prosand cons, and then at the end
(00:35):
we'll ask the question would werecommend this year?
For someone else?
It's like, hey, you're going tohave a year like the way I did,
I would recommend it or I wouldnot recommend it.
So we're going to go ahead andkick us off.
All right, let's just walk downthe line Reviewing 2024, zero
stars to five stars.
Zeke, we'll start with you.
What would you rate your yearthat you're leaving a review?
Right, it's a product.
(00:56):
You're leaving a review.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
What'd you give it?
Five out of five.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Five stars, Great Blake review your year.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I'm not allowed to have a good year.
Isaac 5 is perfect, so you'renever going to be able to beat
it 4.9 4.9 Blake 4 out of5.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I don't think it registered and then Isaac, what
would you rate your year?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
4.325.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Okay, all right, very specific, mariah.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Three.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Three out of five yes , pretty, mid, pretty, mid,
pretty, mid year.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Not bad Nate.
What would you rate your year?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I think for my year I would give it a four out of
five.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I think it was a good year.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Wow, pretty solid.
I see things I could have donebetter, but overall God's been
very good to me.
Lots of blessings, isaac.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
I'm feeling conviction.
I need to raise my number alittle bit 4.7.
4.7.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
You don't have any numbers after that.
That's a good year, just 4.7.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Now looking back pros and cons of the year.
This is where you can go.
Big picture, mariah, before westarted recording, you mentioned
, like the election.
You can mention that as a proor a con, or you can get very
specific to what happened withyou individually.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
So, zeke?
Sorry, Chloe told me that herswas four out of five, but she
didn't specify.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Four out of five stars.
Chloe was not able to be withus today.
Rip.
No, just kidding, she's okay,just busy at the moment.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Awesome, she's in school.
Yeah, she's in school.
Rest in pharmacy.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Rest in pharmacy.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Okay, so pros and cons, Y'all list them out for
your year.
This can be up for anyone,everyone.
Pros and cons.
I had my first son.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Was that a con?
So is that a con Isaac.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
That is a pro.
You didn't really state it.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
That's like a five out of five.
It goes without being stated.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
So Isaac had a son, which is amazing.
Isaac, that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Pretty cool, all right, anyone else Pros and cons
.
What happened in your year?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I graduated college.
That's great.
It only took 10 years, but Idid it.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
There we go, there we go.
So proud of Zeke graduatingcollege.
Was it everything you wanted,and more?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yes, Okay great.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
All right anyone else I became a youth pastor so
Blake became one third of aleadership team, obviously of
three people.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I feel like what he's about to say is whenever Dwight
is like, I'm the assistantmanager, and then he's like no
assistant to the manager, andthen he's like no assistant to
the manager.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Blake has joined a team of three people leading the
youth group, the studentministries at our church, so
we're very proud of him.
Blake, that's awesome hey yougot Platt.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
I did get Platt.
I'm actually Platt too now niceRocket League.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Okay, so Blake is just crushing things over there.
Basically he's moving up inrocket league, the video game.
Have you heard of rocket league?
No so you're a car and you'retrying to hit the ball into the
goal.
It's a video game.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Yeah, it's awesome.
It's way like it's toocomplicated for your level of
thinking.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
The ways you spend your time.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Don't even like worry about it.
It's only something that elitepeople do.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
One thing we've had three people who have been
diagnosed as Call of Duty videogame addicts Only three.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Wait, where's Justin?
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Justin's not here, so I said these three yeah, I said
three we're not addicts, Like Idon't fiend, Like I'm not
thinking about going home andbeating Citadel right now.
I twitch a little bit when I'mnot playing.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Hey Blake, what place are you not thinking of?
What?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Citadel.
You're not thinking of CitadelI?
The worst it gets is I close myeyes and that's all I see.
That's the baddest it gets.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Okay, I'm going to be honest with you Last night
because we played Citadel when Iwas trying to go to sleep, all
I could think about was wakingup the next day to beat the map.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Yes, that's so close, it is so bad oh man, we're
going to beat it today.
So, anyways, they're doing that, mariah, what about you?
Pros and cons?
Speaker 4 (05:21):
anything stick out.
Oh no, I'm trying to think.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
You have a pretty cool job.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Got a pretty hot man.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
I traveled a little bit this year.
That was a pro.
Always fun to travel Where'dyou go.
In August I visited my friendand we went to a wedding in
Michigan.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Michigan is beautiful in the summertime, yes, okay,
and then out there, uh,mckenzie's a little preoccupied
with john isaac, but mckenzie'swith us as well in spirit and so
anyways, so pros and cons tothe year, I think, for me.
I just I enjoy my jobs, uh,alcap, and uh, uh, being a
(06:09):
interim associate pastor as well.
So, uh, very blessed to the forthe jobs that I have, zeke.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Sorry, mariah, if you said it, it was.
I was distracted because Blakewon't stop touching us Um
inappropriately.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
I'm not doing anything.
Good one one.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
What did you say?
Your reason for the three outof five was um my reasonings, I
think why not higher?
Why not lower?
Speaker 4 (06:32):
to say this on it.
Let's see um some personalthings that happened to my life.
This year was kind of crazy,gotcha.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
But it was three out of five, and so not everything
was terrible.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
It could always be worse.
Gotcha Isaac you wanted to saysomething.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I was sitting here thinking about my year.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
He's going to change his answer again.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
I was sitting here thinking about my year and I go.
What else happened this year?
That was like pretty amazing.
And it's crazy how having ababy will skyrocket your year to
like a thousand.
I know, tell me about itBecause, shut up, thinking about
the rest of the year, it's likejust a normal year.
It's just like a normal yearand I'm like, yeah, we had some
(07:17):
good things, we had bad things,blah, blah, blah.
Nothing crazy happened, but wehad him, and so it makes it like
the best year ever.
He's a blessing for realEverybody.
Have kids Right now Sounds alittle painful.
No, not really.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I mean, it didn't hurt me at all If men had kids
the way that women do.
That would be painful.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
That's what I'm saying.
He's telling me to have a kidnow.
I don't have a woman, so I'dhave to do it by myself.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
That would well.
Yourself or you'd have toengage in behavior that we
should avoid.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Well, that's why he said himself or adopt.
That's why myself, or adopt.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
Yeah, oh, I could adopt.
I didn't have a lot of money.
I don't have a lot of money youcan always do crime.
I always do crime.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I could steal somebody's baby, as long as you
don't get caught because theylook at backgrounds, yeah.
So, that's the hard part.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
One of the greatest ethical lessons I often talk
about is it's only wrong if youget caught.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Yep Remember that Spoken like a true associate
pastor.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yep, well, that's why he's getting replaced.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
That is why I will be shortly replaced.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Babies are great.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Babies are pretty great.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Nate, what did you say?
Your answer was To what Four?
Speaker 1 (08:37):
You said four.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Four out of five.
What was your reason for fourout of five?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
So I feel like a little bit like Isaac.
If I'm going to do five out offive, it might have to be just
one of the greatest years Icould imagine, but it's been a
very good year.
But I could see, let's say, oneday if I have a kid that would
be a big boost, or somethingelse at that level.
(09:04):
That would probably bump it to afive out of five, but it's
still a four out of five becauseI'm still very blessed.
Think about all the stuff thatI have.
I love y'all.
Y'all are great and just myjobs, my family, immediate
extended.
I just think about how good Godhas been to me and so it's four
out of five.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Sorry, I'm taking over this podcast.
Isaac, what was your reason fornot having 0.3 more?
You had a kid, so what's left?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Yeah, I didn't have more kids.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
So your other kids are going to be better than the
first kid.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
No, no, that's essentially what you're saying,
no, so?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
how do you get from 4.7 to five?
Speaker 3 (09:37):
When you have the 10th one, jesus comes.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
How do you get to?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
4.9?
.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
Nine we beat the zombie man.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Auburn has to win the Iron Bowl.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
That's a good one, jesus is only 0.1% better.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
0.01% better.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
No, 0.1% better is a lot when you get to the end.
It's like when you'redownloading a game and it goes
all the way.
It's fast, fast, fast.
It takes three hours.
When you get to the end, youknow what I mean.
It's like when you'redownloading a game and it goes
all the way, it's fast fast,fast, and then it gets to the
end.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
It's like it takes like three hours.
That 1% is very dense, verydense.
Not if you have.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Sprout, not.
If you have Sprout, blake comesin with a commercial Shameless
plug and so all right.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Jesse said thank you.
By the way, Y'all got thesprout put in.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
The week he said you would, you're welcome.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Okay, so going back over the last 12 months or so,
is there anything you would havedone differently?
So think about life decisions,think about different plans
you've made.
What is something that youwould have done differently
Before we?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
talk about that.
Isn't it crazy how you can gothrough life and your whole year
seems bad, or like you havesituations here or there where
you're stuck and you're in thepresent and you're like this is
terrible, but then when you getdown the road and you look back
at the year, you're like eh,wasn't that bad.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Perspective.
Yeah, that's powerful.
We always think, when we'regoing through a trial in the
moment, that it's the end of theworld, but then, like you said,
you look back and you're like,oh, it wasn't too bad.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Very true.
We should all take that toheart for the next year and for
the end of this year.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
I agree, way ahead of you and for the end of this
year.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
I agree Way ahead of you.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
God will see us through.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
What was your question?
Speaker 1 (11:26):
The question was looking back at the 12 months,
would you make any differentdecisions?
Would you do anythingdifferently?
I hate this question.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
so much, yeah, because you don't make mistakes.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
No, Like you have not done a single thing wrong this
year?
Speaker 5 (11:41):
No, I've done so many things wrong.
But I hate that questionbecause if I could go back and
change things, the way I look atit now is like if I could go
back and change things, yeah, Imight be able to make a better
decision in the moment, but thenI look at what Christ has done
through my mistakes.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
And that's why I hate that question why not just make
more mistakes?
Great, great.
That's why someone asked Paul,great point, that's actually a
good point, that's why someoneasked Paul Great point, that's
actually a good point.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I think it's more of a thinking exercise
no-transcript.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Yeah, a lot.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Anything you feel like sharing.
No Okay, so anyone else?
Speaker 3 (12:29):
I don't really make mistakes.
I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Isaac does not make mistakes Really, doesn't?
It's like that Chuck Norrisjoke.
The only time Chuck Norris waswrong was when he thought he had
made a mistake.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
To be serious.
If I could go back, I would andI say this every year, no
matter where I'm at but I wouldtake my faith more serious as in
, like you know, you don't youhave to be at the beginning of
the year.
You always say, oh, I'm goingto read the whole Bible, book to
book, I'm going to read everyday all this stuff.
And you don't, you have to beat the beginning of the year.
You always say, oh, I'm going toread the whole Bible book to
book, I'm going to read everyday all this stuff and you don't
do it.
And the more years that youdon't do it, the more, the less
time you have to actually growand be closer to Christ.
And sometimes I sit and I thinkI'm like, if a year ago I would
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have really, really, reallybeen like I'm going to make this
a habit, where would I be atcompared to now?
And so now I'm like, okay,let's not think about the last
year, let's think about rightnow.
If I make this a habit wherewill I be in a year?
And there's things in my lifethat I think about that right
now and I'm like, okay, I wantto change those things and go
forward.
I agree and go forward.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
I agree, and I think for me, one thing I'm trying to
do is I've lost about 10 pounds,but off of Isaac's thought I'm
like, so I've lost that weight,but like where could I have been
(14:06):
had I started much earlier?
And so it's kind of that thingof well, what I have to tell
myself is that would have beennice, but I didn't.
And so what matters is today,as we try to make decisions
forward, so that's a good point,isaac.
What could have been?
If we're building up healthyhabits, and so we try to start
when we can, anyone elseDifferent decisions?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
I don't know.
I don't know where thissentence is going, but we'll
find out.
I gave a 4.9.
As y'all start giving youranswers, I'm like I don't know
if it's really a 4.9, but I'mhaving a hard time and this is
going to be.
I hope it doesn't come off asbragging or arrogant, but I'm
having a hard time of thinkingof bad things, like truly bad
(14:40):
things that happened to me thisyear.
You know, praise God for that,but I'm sure there were things.
It's just harder for me tothink of them and I don't know
why.
That is because I could lookback at other years and I could
easily pull up bad things thathappened, but I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
So maybe you had a five out of five year.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Yeah, that's good, that's a good thing.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
No, impossible Jesus did not come back.
No one's using your standardbesides you.
Jesus is using it.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
So, zeke, does that mean, because you can't think of
anything, you would wantdifferently?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
that a I mean, I guess there was some bad things,
I guess at the start of theyear.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
That was last year, See I can't keep up my years.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Wait, when was that Last Christmas?
For some reason I can't keep upmy years.
When was that Last Christmas?
I gave you my heart.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
I think, or September , did you get married to Chloe
this year?
Speaker 5 (15:30):
No, that was last year.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
We already had her one year.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
I can't even keep up with you guys.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
What's stopping you from having a 5 out of 5 year?
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Ozzy told me I couldn't.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Don't let Isaac control your decisions.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Isaac has the perfect standard, though.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Look, I'm telling you if Jesus comes back.
You're going to be like okay,this was a five out of five year
.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
I don't know, have you read Revelations?
Are you a Christian?
Yeah, okay, I'm just sayinglike it's pretty scary.
Are you a Christian?
I'm a Christian, okay.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Mariah, what about you?
If you don't want to share,that's fine.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
I was going to say, like back to the, when y'all
were saying things you wish youwould have done earlier, like
man, like mine's, like school,like I wish I would have taken a
little bit more classes, orlike done that.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
But you know it's all going as it goes going as it
goes and and you're right, weall could look at habits that we
have.
It's like, man, we could bedifferent spot by now if we had
done it.
Just think, in 2008, instead ofwhatever we were doing playing
video games and running aroundoutside we should have been
buying up houses.
Yeah, you know just, I shouldhave started back then, you know
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isaac, but not to harp on that.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
I think that's good, like so, now you know just
should have started back thenyou know Isaac, but not to harp
on that.
I think that's good, Like so,now that we know we should have
done not the buying the housething, but now that we know that
we should have been doing thosehabits or doing those things,
we can do them.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
At least we're in the know now and we're not blind.
Good point.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Yeah, start now because you really don't have
any other option.
You can't change the past.
And so, looking at this pastyear overall, let's go a little
bit bigger.
Culturally, politically, um,how would y'all write things?
Not just your own life, but thedirection our country's heading
(17:19):
in, the direction you could goa little bit smaller, to Alabama
or whatever.
Do you think this was a goodyear for the country or what are
any thoughts there?
Speaker 4 (17:30):
at a bigger level, I think it definitely marked a big
shift, even leading up to it,and then the results was just a
big shift, but either way itwould have gone.
Then the results was just a bigshift, but either way it would
have gone.
It would have been a big shift,in my opinion, of like the
culture so it would have been abig deal regardless.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Yeah, yeah, okay, I think, yeah, sorry, I think
you're right.
I think it's.
It's kind of interesting to seehow it turned out of.
Like I could see us winning,like the electoral college, but
I wasn't.
I was surprised when we won thepopular vote of.
Like the majority of americansvoted republican.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
I was at this point it has dipped below 50.
Oh, but my bad.
That's one way of doing thepopular vote.
However, in terms of just whohad the most votes, trump still
won wait.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
What do you mean by if he had the most votes?
That's the popular vote.
What do you mean by if he hadthe most votes?
That's the popular vote.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
So let's say you have three candidates, yeah, okay,
there are two different ways oflooking at like majority vote.
If you have three candidates,split perfectly three ways.
Nobody would be over 50%because there are three
candidates.
This is what happened withTrump.
He's below 50% overall of thetotal amount of votes casted,
(18:44):
but he so that's one version ofthe popular vote Between him and
Harris he got more, right, hegot more than her.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Ok, that's what I meant, yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
It's third-party votes don't really matter.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Third-party votes don't matter.
That is a whole.
Its own topic right there, butOK, yeah, its own topic right
there, but okay, yeah, blakeIsaac, thoughts on a bigger
level Direction, culture,direction of the country this
year.
Would recommend, would notrecommend.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
We got to say we lived through a president
getting shot.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
That was pretty dope Pretty sweet, not for him.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Not for him, I mean, he didn't die.
A lot of people would.
That was pretty dope, prettysweet.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Not for him, not for him.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
I mean, he didn't die A lot of people would say it
was faked.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
Some have.
If that was fake.
That was pretty cool, Prettystellar acting and shooting yeah
.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
A lot of different things there.
Yeah, that was historic andit's very telling.
It was a historic event for us,but because we become so
desensitized, it was just thelatest thing, just on to the
next.
But if you stop, that's awfulfor something like that to
happen, if it indeed was real.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
But for us, with our social media brains, it was just
on to the next whatever, Ithink another like pretty, like
cool moment in history and Ihope they put it in the history
textbooks but the fact thatKamala Harris got Meg the
Stallion to twerk at a DNC rally.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Yeah, that was something.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
What does that say, Blake?
Speaker 5 (20:21):
I don't know what that says I can do that.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
I mean, that's straight up, like out of a south
park episode yeah, I'll getanother one.
Another big thing that happenedall the coming out of all the
hollywood like diddy, likesexual, like stuff that came out
which obviously we knowhollywood's already like that,
like we know.
But I didn't know, all thestuff that came out heavily was
just crazy.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Yeah, diddy getting busted.
And then, oh, our favorite, theHawk Tuba girl becoming popular
.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
And now she's got the rug pulled out from under her
and she might be going to jail.
Yep what she did a crypto scam.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Did you hear Okay?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Mr Beast, you're caught up.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Well, yeah, she started her own, I guess,
Bitcoin type thing.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Cryptocurrency Was the Hawk coin.
What is it called?
Something?
Speaker 1 (21:10):
like that, but anyways, it debuted, a lot of
people bought it and she somedetail what she did.
She went and maybe sold it orshe took their money.
Something happened they, shetook their money, something
happened.
They all lost their money andshe's going to jail.
I'd have to get the detailsback in my brain, but that's
(21:30):
illegal.
Whatever she did to startsomething like that and then
take their money, yeah it was ascam, isaac.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
I think culturally this year has been pretty bad.
Why would you say that Just somany things happening and there
was so much hostility before theelection and during.
Like, you see, how, what do youcall it?
Brain rot, yeah, our society iswhen people like the hot, yeah,
(22:01):
get super famous off of stufflike that.
And then you got all these warslike israel and gaza, and some
people say that both sides arebad.
You know, like and um, like theukraine stuff.
It's just like I feel likeculturally like if I, if I don't
look at my life and I look at abroader scale, I feel like it's
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not where we want to be.
I agree, maybe it's shifted,maybe it's changing.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Isaac, and that's why God made you.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
For the ups and downs .
Speaker 1 (22:32):
For the ups and downs , for the days of doubt.
Yeah and no, I agree, they'redifferent.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
It's a song.
It's a song.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Anyways, like Shelton , I think God gave you now my
mind's blanking on who sang itbut, anyways, a lot of unrest at
the broader level, and soalright, last question you're
reviewing the year and if you'relistening, you can do this
exercise as well.
Just walk through your year.
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It's good for us to practice,good for us to reflect that's
the good word.
Reflect on what's happened.
What are y'all?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
God gave me a year.
That's the name of the song.
There we go.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
By who, though, blake ?
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Shelton.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Okay, okay, that's who.
But who, though, blake?
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Schaun.
So last question and, like Isaid, if you're listening you
can do this exercise yourselfwould you recommend if someone
was gonna have a Mariah year, anIsaac year, a Blake year, a
Zeke year, just for themselves,their own version of it would
you recommend your year tosomeone else, zeke?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I mean, I guess I have to after what you just said
.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Would you recommend your year to someone else?
Zeke, I mean, I guess I have to.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Yeah, after what you just said, you have to.
I mean to be fair, though Idon't even if I had a crappy
year I'm not saying I wouldalways have a good reaction but
I try to look at the biggerpicture and that's why we've
talked about as Christiansbefore, like we always can point
to the bigger picture of evenin our bad years or our bad
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times, we still have theultimate hope.
So it's really hard for me tohave a truly awful year, like
the worst things could everhappen, and as long as I still
have Christ, it's still a goodyear.
So I may not always act thatway.
I'm not pretending like I'mperfect, but that's how I try to
live my life, even if I'mhaving a bad day or year.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
You always have, jesus.
So yeah, so Zeke, you didn'tanswer the question.
Would you recommend I?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
said at the start, if you were listening, nathaniel.
Yes, I guess I have to if it'sa 4.9.
So, yes, I would recommend it.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
There we go, own it.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Yes, isaac, I'm with Zeke.
I don't think people couldhandle my ear.
I mean no matter how good itwas, you know the ups and downs.
I don't think they could takethat kind of rollercoaster.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
You know what I mean?
That's exactly what Zeke said.
You're just built different,bro.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Isaac is built, so the question doesn't apply to
Isaac because it's only his year.
He's the only one that could gothrough it, nobody can handle
what I've been through, I wouldrecommend.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
It's crazy because I wouldn't want people to go
through some things, but I wouldwant people to go through some
things.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
It would come as a package deal.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
You get this and that .
Speaker 2 (25:23):
You can't say for something and then say no,
you're at 4.7.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Why would they love my child the way I love my child
?
They're not getting your child.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
It would be their equivalent in their own life.
They're not living your life.
I would recommend.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
I would recommend same type of wife and everything
.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
It was your year.
Yeah, they get McKenzie.
They just take your child toMcKenzie.
Nope, don't recommend, I wantthem All right, blake, blake,
all right.
What would you say?
If you can handle a lot ofcrying and a lot of
self-reflecting, then yeah, I'drecommend my year.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Same.
He's like a.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
Jeremiah.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Yeah, this is your Jeremiah year.
I'm.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
Jeremiah minus all the cool things about Jeremiah.
What cool things Exactly?
Speaker 3 (26:06):
I think he had long hair, did he?
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
He was a prophet.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
I'm not a prophet.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
He lived a.
Yeah, he Anyways.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Mariah.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
I don't want to depress you more.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Um, I mean, I Probably not, but maybe because
there's some people that they'reI mean.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
So no, so no.
Just say no, no, there we go.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
I would say Isaac, I want to clarify.
I would recommend.
These are all jokes.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
I would recommend my youth.
I want to clarify.
I would say no, just becausethey're not built like me.
I'm the only one who can handlethis burden.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Yes, blake is built different, isaac is built
different, all right.
I think for me it's been a verygood year and so I would say I
would recommend.
Not everything went perfectly,but that's also part of life and
also I get to have a prettygood friend group that I love.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
You have us, so you have a 5.5 year.
I was going to say yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
I have y'all.
Y'all are awesome.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
We provide you with so much material.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
A lot of material.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
And food, and food.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Yes, very kind, and so, if you could speak, isaac,
you're going to speak forMackenzie.
Zeke, speak for Chloe.
Both of them are not here inthis room right now.
Zeke, do you feel like Chloewould recommend her year?
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Chloe would want other people to have her year so
that they would have more graceon her.
But she told me before I camehere.
She said you could not pay meto relive this year.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
But call it a school.
So I'm going to say that's a no.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Yes, that's a no Isaac.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Speaking on behalf of .
Mackenzie who is right there,but with John Isaac at the
moment.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
On the opposite spectrum, mackenzie, would 10
out of 10 recommend her year.
Okay she had a son which sheloves dearly and she wants to be
a mom and she gets to be withyou.
Her flower business is startingto do better.
Great, yes, and obviously shehas me.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
You know, like what more could she ask?
Great year for her?
Obviously Great year.
Great year for her Becauseyou're just built different.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
And she's a wonderful person and every year is good
for her, All right wonderfulperson and every year is good
for her, All right.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
So again, this is less serious in the point of
everything.
Take everything as gospel andmore.
It's a good reflective exercise.
We're supposed to think aboutthe past, think about the future
a little bit, not in terms of acontrol aspect, but how has God
been moving?
What have I learned?
And so this would be a goodexercise for you too.
If you're listening out there,Go through your 2024.
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And actually I said lastquestion, this is actually it.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
Oh man, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Last one.
Here it is what has God showedyou this past year, or what have
you learned?
So I'll let you sit on thatjust a moment.
I had that one in my brain andthen it slipped my mind until
just now.
How has God been moving?
What have you learned?
What has he showed you thispast year?
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Anyone anything come to mind?
Speaker 4 (29:20):
I feel like this may be like kind of harsh harsh, but
disobedience definitely hasconsequences.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Mariah.
That is a very biblicallyaccurate conclusion.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Mariah, with the theology, isaac, every action
has consequences.
I would say how little controlwe have, not Calvinistic-wise,
but like over, sorry, like youstress over so many different
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things and they usually workthemselves out.
Like God usually works it out,or you this or that, I don't
know, just you stress over, likewhen Mackenzie was pregnant,
there were times where we wouldstress, had like little scares
and stuff, but God works it allout and whether it's we like it
or we don't, but he works it out.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Good, good thoughts, Blake or Zeke.
Anything pop out.
How has God been moving?
What has he showed you?
Speaker 2 (30:19):
I think it's summarized in a really good
quote from the St Mike Winger.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Yeah, st Mike Winger, yeah, St Mike Winger.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
He was on a podcast and he is.
It's actually advice that asingle guy gave to him, but it's
been some of the best marriageadvice he's ever gotten.
Oddly enough, he said theadvice was any time where your
spouse is doing something thatis needs, that's on your nerves,
or do even if they do somethingthat's objectively wrong, that
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is the best opportunity for youto reflect christ in in your
marriage.
And I've had to learn that timeand time and time again, and
chloe's had to learn that evenmore than I've had to learn that
because I mess up a lot.
But, um, that's the hardestthing that before marriage I
didn't really think about.
It's like you're constantlyhaving to give grace and reflect
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Christ in your marriage and youcould apply that to friendships
too, but in marriage it justhappens a lot more often, even
over small things.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Blake.
That's a great quote, by theway.
But, Blake, what has God showedyou this past year?
Speaker 5 (31:26):
I guess just what he's showing me now is just at
the end of the day, my hope andmy comfort only comes from
Christ Jesus and Christ Jesusalone.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Yeah, amen, amen, amen, nate, as someone who knows
the Bible from memory what hasGod shown you?
Speaker 1 (31:43):
I wish, I wish I had a photographic memory.
That would be so helpful.
God showed me this year that ifyou don't find your identity in
him, you will go crazy.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Stop just copying.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Blake, and so I will expound upon Blake.
God can show two people thesame thing, yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Yeah, you are the same person, yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
I same thing, yeah, yeah we kiss after the plug, I
mean Pause.
Alright, where all the otherthings you could find comfort in
your relationship status, yourbank account, your job, whether
or not your political party's inpower, whatever it's like.
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If you don't have that rockthat is Jesus, it is tough
because there's so much outthere storms that'll throw you
around.
But you have that rock, youhave Jesus, you're going to be
okay, you'll make it through,and so I've had to lean on that
at different points this year.
All right, y'all, I hope you'veenjoyed the episode Again.
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Just maybe different things foryou to think through as well.
Blake, do you want to take ushome?
I don't know.
No, all right, mariah, do youwant to take us home?
Speaker 4 (33:00):
I think Isaac or Zeke sure they never do.
I think Isaac or Zeke sure theynever do.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
I'm not musically inclined.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
I can't play the guitar.
Isaac's a good singer.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
The boys.
Since we've been playing somuch, what is one of the
catchphrases that we say?
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
You say balls every 30 seconds.
No, no, no.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
Give us the SpongeBob .
I need it, Zeke.
Oh no, Go ahead.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
No, you do it so much better.
You just said the other day youcame up with it, go ahead.
You came up with it.
I don't remember.
Speaker 5 (33:23):
Yes, you did, I remember it clearly.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Any day.
Now one of y'all.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
You do it, I do it.
I don't even know what you'retalking about.
Go ahead, I'm good.
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
Go Blake.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
Isaac Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
I need it.
He did it.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
Keep that in there.
I got it, I got it.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Let's go, I need it.
Speaker 5 (33:49):
Yeah, still play the guitar.
Why you want me to go get itright now and play?
You have it with you.
Yeah, I got a guitar.
You want me to go get it realquick?
Yeah, go get it, okay, thankyou.
This is the Dangerous Faith Podcast.
My name is Nate Williams.
With me we have Zeke, blake,isaac and Mariah and we're going
to be reviewing 2024.
And we're going to be reviewing2024 and our format will be
zero stars to five stars, prosand cons, and then at the end
(00:35):
we'll ask the question would werecommend this year?
For someone else?
It's like, hey, you're going tohave a year like the way I did,
I would recommend it or I wouldnot recommend it.
So we're going to go ahead andkick us off.
All right, let's just walk downthe line Reviewing 2024, zero
stars to five stars.
Zeke, we'll start with you.
What would you rate your yearthat you're leaving a review?
Right, it's a product.
(00:56):
You're leaving a review.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
What'd you give it?
Five out of five.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Five stars, Great Blake review your year.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I'm not allowed to have a good year.
Isaac 5 is perfect, so you'renever going to be able to beat
it 4.9 4.9 Blake 4 out of5.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I don't think it registered and then Isaac, what
would you rate your year?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
4.325.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Okay, all right, very specific, mariah.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Three.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Three out of five yes , pretty, mid, pretty, mid,
pretty, mid year.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Not bad Nate.
What would you rate your year?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I think for my year I would give it a four out of
five.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I think it was a good year.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Wow, pretty solid.
I see things I could have donebetter, but overall God's been
very good to me.
Lots of blessings, isaac.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
I'm feeling conviction.
I need to raise my number alittle bit 4.7.
4.7.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
You don't have any numbers after that.
That's a good year, just 4.7.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Now looking back pros and cons of the year.
This is where you can go.
Big picture, mariah, before westarted recording, you mentioned
, like the election.
You can mention that as a proor a con, or you can get very
specific to what happened withyou individually.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
So, zeke?
Sorry, Chloe told me that herswas four out of five, but she
didn't specify.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Four out of five stars.
Chloe was not able to be withus today.
Rip.
No, just kidding, she's okay,just busy at the moment.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Awesome, she's in school.
Yeah, she's in school.
Rest in pharmacy.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Rest in pharmacy.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Okay, so pros and cons, Y'all list them out for
your year.
This can be up for anyone,everyone.
Pros and cons.
I had my first son.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Was that a con?
So is that a con Isaac.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
That is a pro.
You didn't really state it.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
That's like a five out of five.
It goes without being stated.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
So Isaac had a son, which is amazing.
Isaac, that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Pretty cool, all right, anyone else Pros and cons
.
What happened in your year?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I graduated college.
That's great.
It only took 10 years, but Idid it.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
There we go, there we go.
So proud of Zeke graduatingcollege.
Was it everything you wanted,and more?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yes, Okay great.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
All right anyone else I became a youth pastor so
Blake became one third of aleadership team, obviously of
three people.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I feel like what he's about to say is whenever Dwight
is like, I'm the assistantmanager, and then he's like no
assistant to the manager, andthen he's like no assistant to
the manager.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Blake has joined a team of three people leading the
youth group, the studentministries at our church, so
we're very proud of him.
Blake, that's awesome hey yougot Platt.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
I did get Platt.
I'm actually Platt too now niceRocket League.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Okay, so Blake is just crushing things over there.
Basically he's moving up inrocket league, the video game.
Have you heard of rocket league?
No so you're a car and you'retrying to hit the ball into the
goal.
It's a video game.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Yeah, it's awesome.
It's way like it's toocomplicated for your level of
thinking.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
The ways you spend your time.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Don't even like worry about it.
It's only something that elitepeople do.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
One thing we've had three people who have been
diagnosed as Call of Duty videogame addicts Only three.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Wait, where's Justin?
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Justin's not here, so I said these three yeah, I said
three we're not addicts, Like Idon't fiend, Like I'm not
thinking about going home andbeating Citadel right now.
I twitch a little bit when I'mnot playing.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Hey Blake, what place are you not thinking of?
What?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Citadel.
You're not thinking of CitadelI?
The worst it gets is I close myeyes and that's all I see.
That's the baddest it gets.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Okay, I'm going to be honest with you Last night
because we played Citadel when Iwas trying to go to sleep, all
I could think about was wakingup the next day to beat the map.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Yes, that's so close, it is so bad oh man, we're
going to beat it today.
So, anyways, they're doing that, mariah, what about you?
Pros and cons?
Speaker 4 (05:21):
anything stick out.
Oh no, I'm trying to think.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
You have a pretty cool job.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Got a pretty hot man.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
I traveled a little bit this year.
That was a pro.
Always fun to travel Where'dyou go.
In August I visited my friendand we went to a wedding in
Michigan.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Michigan is beautiful in the summertime, yes, okay,
and then out there, uh,mckenzie's a little preoccupied
with john isaac, but mckenzie'swith us as well in spirit and so
anyways, so pros and cons tothe year, I think, for me.
I just I enjoy my jobs, uh,alcap, and uh, uh, being a
(06:09):
interim associate pastor as well.
So, uh, very blessed to the forthe jobs that I have, zeke.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Sorry, mariah, if you said it, it was.
I was distracted because Blakewon't stop touching us Um
inappropriately.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
I'm not doing anything.
Good one one.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
What did you say?
Your reason for the three outof five was um my reasonings, I
think why not higher?
Why not lower?
Speaker 4 (06:32):
to say this on it.
Let's see um some personalthings that happened to my life.
This year was kind of crazy,gotcha.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
But it was three out of five, and so not everything
was terrible.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
It could always be worse.
Gotcha Isaac you wanted to saysomething.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I was sitting here thinking about my year.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
He's going to change his answer again.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
I was sitting here thinking about my year and I go.
What else happened this year?
That was like pretty amazing.
And it's crazy how having ababy will skyrocket your year to
like a thousand.
I know, tell me about itBecause, shut up, thinking about
the rest of the year, it's likejust a normal year.
It's just like a normal yearand I'm like, yeah, we had some
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good things, we had bad things,blah, blah, blah.
Nothing crazy happened, but wehad him, and so it makes it like
the best year ever.
He's a blessing for realEverybody.
Have kids Right now Sounds alittle painful.
No, not really.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I mean, it didn't hurt me at all If men had kids
the way that women do.
That would be painful.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
That's what I'm saying.
He's telling me to have a kidnow.
I don't have a woman, so I'dhave to do it by myself.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
That would well.
Yourself or you'd have toengage in behavior that we
should avoid.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Well, that's why he said himself or adopt.
That's why myself, or adopt.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
Yeah, oh, I could adopt.
I didn't have a lot of money.
I don't have a lot of money youcan always do crime.
I always do crime.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I could steal somebody's baby, as long as you
don't get caught because theylook at backgrounds, yeah.
So, that's the hard part.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
One of the greatest ethical lessons I often talk
about is it's only wrong if youget caught.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Yep Remember that Spoken like a true associate
pastor.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yep, well, that's why he's getting replaced.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
That is why I will be shortly replaced.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Babies are great.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Babies are pretty great.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Nate, what did you say?
Your answer was To what Four?
Speaker 1 (08:37):
You said four.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Four out of five.
What was your reason for fourout of five?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
So I feel like a little bit like Isaac.
If I'm going to do five out offive, it might have to be just
one of the greatest years Icould imagine, but it's been a
very good year.
But I could see, let's say, oneday if I have a kid that would
be a big boost, or somethingelse at that level.
(09:04):
That would probably bump it to afive out of five, but it's
still a four out of five becauseI'm still very blessed.
Think about all the stuff thatI have.
I love y'all.
Y'all are great and just myjobs, my family, immediate
extended.
I just think about how good Godhas been to me and so it's four
out of five.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Sorry, I'm taking over this podcast.
Isaac, what was your reason fornot having 0.3 more?
You had a kid, so what's left?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Yeah, I didn't have more kids.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
So your other kids are going to be better than the
first kid.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
No, no, that's essentially what you're saying,
no, so?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
how do you get from 4.7 to five?
Speaker 3 (09:37):
When you have the 10th one, jesus comes.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
How do you get to?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
4.9?
.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
Nine we beat the zombie man.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Auburn has to win the Iron Bowl.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
That's a good one, jesus is only 0.1% better.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
0.01% better.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
No, 0.1% better is a lot when you get to the end.
It's like when you'redownloading a game and it goes
all the way.
It's fast, fast, fast.
It takes three hours.
When you get to the end, youknow what I mean.
It's like when you'redownloading a game and it goes
all the way, it's fast fast,fast, and then it gets to the
end.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
It's like it takes like three hours.
That 1% is very dense, verydense.
Not if you have.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Sprout, not.
If you have Sprout, blake comesin with a commercial Shameless
plug and so all right.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Jesse said thank you.
By the way, Y'all got thesprout put in.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
The week he said you would, you're welcome.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Okay, so going back over the last 12 months or so,
is there anything you would havedone differently?
So think about life decisions,think about different plans
you've made.
What is something that youwould have done differently
Before we?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
talk about that.
Isn't it crazy how you can gothrough life and your whole year
seems bad, or like you havesituations here or there where
you're stuck and you're in thepresent and you're like this is
terrible, but then when you getdown the road and you look back
at the year, you're like eh,wasn't that bad.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Perspective.
Yeah, that's powerful.
We always think, when we'regoing through a trial in the
moment, that it's the end of theworld, but then, like you said,
you look back and you're like,oh, it wasn't too bad.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Very true.
We should all take that toheart for the next year and for
the end of this year.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
I agree, way ahead of you and for the end of this
year.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
I agree Way ahead of you.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
God will see us through.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
What was your question?
Speaker 1 (11:26):
The question was looking back at the 12 months,
would you make any differentdecisions?
Would you do anythingdifferently?
I hate this question.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
so much, yeah, because you don't make mistakes.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
No, Like you have not done a single thing wrong this
year?
Speaker 5 (11:41):
No, I've done so many things wrong.
But I hate that questionbecause if I could go back and
change things, the way I look atit now is like if I could go
back and change things, yeah, Imight be able to make a better
decision in the moment, but thenI look at what Christ has done
through my mistakes.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
And that's why I hate that question why not just make
more mistakes?
Great, great.
That's why someone asked Paul,great point, that's actually a
good point, that's why someoneasked Paul Great point, that's
actually a good point.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I think it's more of a thinking exercise
no-transcript.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Yeah, a lot.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Anything you feel like sharing.
No Okay, so anyone else?
Speaker 3 (12:29):
I don't really make mistakes.
I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Isaac does not make mistakes Really, doesn't?
It's like that Chuck Norrisjoke.
The only time Chuck Norris waswrong was when he thought he had
made a mistake.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
To be serious.
If I could go back, I would andI say this every year, no
matter where I'm at but I wouldtake my faith more serious as in
, like you know, you don't youhave to be at the beginning of
the year.
You always say, oh, I'm goingto read the whole Bible, book to
book, I'm going to read everyday all this stuff.
And you don't, you have to beat the beginning of the year.
You always say, oh, I'm going toread the whole Bible book to
book, I'm going to read everyday all this stuff and you don't
do it.
And the more years that youdon't do it, the more, the less
time you have to actually growand be closer to Christ.
And sometimes I sit and I thinkI'm like, if a year ago I would
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have really, really, reallybeen like I'm going to make this
a habit, where would I be atcompared to now?
And so now I'm like, okay,let's not think about the last
year, let's think about rightnow.
If I make this a habit wherewill I be in a year?
And there's things in my lifethat I think about that right
now and I'm like, okay, I wantto change those things and go
forward.
I agree and go forward.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
I agree, and I think for me, one thing I'm trying to
do is I've lost about 10 pounds,but off of Isaac's thought I'm
like, so I've lost that weight,but like where could I have been
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had I started much earlier?
And so it's kind of that thingof well, what I have to tell
myself is that would have beennice, but I didn't.
And so what matters is today,as we try to make decisions
forward, so that's a good point,isaac.
What could have been?
If we're building up healthyhabits, and so we try to start
when we can, anyone elseDifferent decisions?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
I don't know.
I don't know where thissentence is going, but we'll
find out.
I gave a 4.9.
As y'all start giving youranswers, I'm like I don't know
if it's really a 4.9, but I'mhaving a hard time and this is
going to be.
I hope it doesn't come off asbragging or arrogant, but I'm
having a hard time of thinkingof bad things, like truly bad
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things that happened to me thisyear.
You know, praise God for that,but I'm sure there were things.
It's just harder for me tothink of them and I don't know
why.
That is because I could lookback at other years and I could
easily pull up bad things thathappened, but I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
So maybe you had a five out of five year.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Yeah, that's good, that's a good thing.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
No, impossible Jesus did not come back.
No one's using your standardbesides you.
Jesus is using it.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
So, zeke, does that mean, because you can't think of
anything, you would wantdifferently?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
that a I mean, I guess there was some bad things,
I guess at the start of theyear.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
That was last year, See I can't keep up my years.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Wait, when was that Last Christmas?
For some reason I can't keep upmy years.
When was that Last Christmas?
I gave you my heart.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
I think, or September , did you get married to Chloe
this year?
Speaker 5 (15:30):
No, that was last year.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
We already had her one year.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
I can't even keep up with you guys.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
What's stopping you from having a 5 out of 5 year?
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Ozzy told me I couldn't.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Don't let Isaac control your decisions.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Isaac has the perfect standard, though.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Look, I'm telling you if Jesus comes back.
You're going to be like okay,this was a five out of five year
.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
I don't know, have you read Revelations?
Are you a Christian?
Yeah, okay, I'm just sayinglike it's pretty scary.
Are you a Christian?
I'm a Christian, okay.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Mariah, what about you?
If you don't want to share,that's fine.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
I was going to say, like back to the, when y'all
were saying things you wish youwould have done earlier, like
man, like mine's, like school,like I wish I would have taken a
little bit more classes, orlike done that.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
But you know it's all going as it goes going as it
goes and and you're right, weall could look at habits that we
have.
It's like, man, we could bedifferent spot by now if we had
done it.
Just think, in 2008, instead ofwhatever we were doing playing
video games and running aroundoutside we should have been
buying up houses.
Yeah, you know just, I shouldhave started back then, you know
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isaac, but not to harp on that.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
I think that's good, like so, now you know just
should have started back thenyou know Isaac, but not to harp
on that.
I think that's good, Like so,now that we know we should have
done not the buying the housething, but now that we know that
we should have been doing thosehabits or doing those things,
we can do them.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
At least we're in the know now and we're not blind.
Good point.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Yeah, start now because you really don't have
any other option.
You can't change the past.
And so, looking at this pastyear overall, let's go a little
bit bigger.
Culturally, politically, um,how would y'all write things?
Not just your own life, but thedirection our country's heading
(17:19):
in, the direction you could goa little bit smaller, to Alabama
or whatever.
Do you think this was a goodyear for the country or what are
any thoughts there?
Speaker 4 (17:30):
at a bigger level, I think it definitely marked a big
shift, even leading up to it,and then the results was just a
big shift, but either way itwould have gone.
Then the results was just a bigshift, but either way it would
have gone.
It would have been a big shift,in my opinion, of like the
culture so it would have been abig deal regardless.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Yeah, yeah, okay, I think, yeah, sorry, I think
you're right.
I think it's.
It's kind of interesting to seehow it turned out of.
Like I could see us winning,like the electoral college, but
I wasn't.
I was surprised when we won thepopular vote of.
Like the majority of americansvoted republican.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
I was at this point it has dipped below 50.
Oh, but my bad.
That's one way of doing thepopular vote.
However, in terms of just whohad the most votes, trump still
won wait.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
What do you mean by if he had the most votes?
That's the popular vote.
What do you mean by if he hadthe most votes?
That's the popular vote.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
So let's say you have three candidates, yeah, okay,
there are two different ways oflooking at like majority vote.
If you have three candidates,split perfectly three ways.
Nobody would be over 50%because there are three
candidates.
This is what happened withTrump.
He's below 50% overall of thetotal amount of votes casted,
(18:44):
but he so that's one version ofthe popular vote Between him and
Harris he got more, right, hegot more than her.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Ok, that's what I meant, yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
It's third-party votes don't really matter.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Third-party votes don't matter.
That is a whole.
Its own topic right there, butOK, yeah, its own topic right
there, but okay, yeah, blakeIsaac, thoughts on a bigger
level Direction, culture,direction of the country this
year.
Would recommend, would notrecommend.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
We got to say we lived through a president
getting shot.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
That was pretty dope Pretty sweet, not for him.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Not for him, I mean, he didn't die.
A lot of people would.
That was pretty dope, prettysweet.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Not for him, not for him.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
I mean, he didn't die A lot of people would say it
was faked.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
Some have.
If that was fake.
That was pretty cool, Prettystellar acting and shooting yeah
.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
A lot of different things there.
Yeah, that was historic andit's very telling.
It was a historic event for us,but because we become so
desensitized, it was just thelatest thing, just on to the
next.
But if you stop, that's awfulfor something like that to
happen, if it indeed was real.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
But for us, with our social media brains, it was just
on to the next whatever, Ithink another like pretty, like
cool moment in history and Ihope they put it in the history
textbooks but the fact thatKamala Harris got Meg the
Stallion to twerk at a DNC rally.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Yeah, that was something.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
What does that say, Blake?
Speaker 5 (20:21):
I don't know what that says I can do that.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
I mean, that's straight up, like out of a south
park episode yeah, I'll getanother one.
Another big thing that happenedall the coming out of all the
hollywood like diddy, likesexual, like stuff that came out
which obviously we knowhollywood's already like that,
like we know.
But I didn't know, all thestuff that came out heavily was
just crazy.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Yeah, diddy getting busted.
And then, oh, our favorite, theHawk Tuba girl becoming popular
.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
And now she's got the rug pulled out from under her
and she might be going to jail.
Yep what she did a crypto scam.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Did you hear Okay?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Mr Beast, you're caught up.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Well, yeah, she started her own, I guess,
Bitcoin type thing.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Cryptocurrency Was the Hawk coin.
What is it called?
Something?
Speaker 1 (21:10):
like that, but anyways, it debuted, a lot of
people bought it and she somedetail what she did.
She went and maybe sold it orshe took their money.
Something happened they, shetook their money, something
happened.
They all lost their money andshe's going to jail.
I'd have to get the detailsback in my brain, but that's
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illegal.
Whatever she did to startsomething like that and then
take their money, yeah it was ascam, isaac.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
I think culturally this year has been pretty bad.
Why would you say that Just somany things happening and there
was so much hostility before theelection and during.
Like, you see, how, what do youcall it?
Brain rot, yeah, our society iswhen people like the hot, yeah,
(22:01):
get super famous off of stufflike that.
And then you got all these warslike israel and gaza, and some
people say that both sides arebad.
You know, like and um, like theukraine stuff.
It's just like I feel likeculturally like if I, if I don't
look at my life and I look at abroader scale, I feel like it's
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not where we want to be.
I agree, maybe it's shifted,maybe it's changing.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Isaac, and that's why God made you.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
For the ups and downs .
Speaker 1 (22:32):
For the ups and downs , for the days of doubt.
Yeah and no, I agree, they'redifferent.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
It's a song.
It's a song.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Anyways, like Shelton , I think God gave you now my
mind's blanking on who sang itbut, anyways, a lot of unrest at
the broader level, and soalright, last question you're
reviewing the year and if you'relistening, you can do this
exercise as well.
Just walk through your year.
(23:05):
It's good for us to practice,good for us to reflect that's
the good word.
Reflect on what's happened.
What are y'all?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
God gave me a year.
That's the name of the song.
There we go.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
By who, though, blake ?
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Shelton.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Okay, okay, that's who.
But who, though, blake?
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Schaun.
So last question and, like Isaid, if you're listening you
can do this exercise yourselfwould you recommend if someone
was gonna have a Mariah year, anIsaac year, a Blake year, a
Zeke year, just for themselves,their own version of it would
you recommend your year tosomeone else, zeke?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I mean, I guess I have to after what you just said
.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Would you recommend your year to someone else?
Zeke, I mean, I guess I have to.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Yeah, after what you just said, you have to.
I mean to be fair, though Idon't even if I had a crappy
year I'm not saying I wouldalways have a good reaction but
I try to look at the biggerpicture and that's why we've
talked about as Christiansbefore, like we always can point
to the bigger picture of evenin our bad years or our bad
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times, we still have theultimate hope.
So it's really hard for me tohave a truly awful year, like
the worst things could everhappen, and as long as I still
have Christ, it's still a goodyear.
So I may not always act thatway.
I'm not pretending like I'mperfect, but that's how I try to
live my life, even if I'mhaving a bad day or year.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
You always have, jesus.
So yeah, so Zeke, you didn'tanswer the question.
Would you recommend I?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
said at the start, if you were listening, nathaniel.
Yes, I guess I have to if it'sa 4.9.
So, yes, I would recommend it.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
There we go, own it.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Yes, isaac, I'm with Zeke.
I don't think people couldhandle my ear.
I mean no matter how good itwas, you know the ups and downs.
I don't think they could takethat kind of rollercoaster.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
You know what I mean?
That's exactly what Zeke said.
You're just built different,bro.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Isaac is built, so the question doesn't apply to
Isaac because it's only his year.
He's the only one that could gothrough it, nobody can handle
what I've been through, I wouldrecommend.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
It's crazy because I wouldn't want people to go
through some things, but I wouldwant people to go through some
things.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
It would come as a package deal.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
You get this and that .
Speaker 2 (25:23):
You can't say for something and then say no,
you're at 4.7.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Why would they love my child the way I love my child
?
They're not getting your child.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
It would be their equivalent in their own life.
They're not living your life.
I would recommend.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
I would recommend same type of wife and everything
.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
It was your year.
Yeah, they get McKenzie.
They just take your child toMcKenzie.
Nope, don't recommend, I wantthem All right, blake, blake,
all right.
What would you say?
If you can handle a lot ofcrying and a lot of
self-reflecting, then yeah, I'drecommend my year.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Same.
He's like a.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
Jeremiah.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Yeah, this is your Jeremiah year.
I'm.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
Jeremiah minus all the cool things about Jeremiah.
What cool things Exactly?
Speaker 3 (26:06):
I think he had long hair, did he?
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
He was a prophet.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
I'm not a prophet.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
He lived a.
Yeah, he Anyways.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Mariah.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
I don't want to depress you more.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Um, I mean, I Probably not, but maybe because
there's some people that they'reI mean.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
So no, so no.
Just say no, no, there we go.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
I would say Isaac, I want to clarify.
I would recommend.
These are all jokes.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
I would recommend my youth.
I want to clarify.
I would say no, just becausethey're not built like me.
I'm the only one who can handlethis burden.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Yes, blake is built different, isaac is built
different, all right.
I think for me it's been a verygood year and so I would say I
would recommend.
Not everything went perfectly,but that's also part of life and
also I get to have a prettygood friend group that I love.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
You have us, so you have a 5.5 year.
I was going to say yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
I have y'all.
Y'all are awesome.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
We provide you with so much material.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
A lot of material.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
And food, and food.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Yes, very kind, and so, if you could speak, isaac,
you're going to speak forMackenzie.
Zeke, speak for Chloe.
Both of them are not here inthis room right now.
Zeke, do you feel like Chloewould recommend her year?
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Chloe would want other people to have her year so
that they would have more graceon her.
But she told me before I camehere.
She said you could not pay meto relive this year.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
But call it a school.
So I'm going to say that's a no.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Yes, that's a no Isaac.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Speaking on behalf of .
Mackenzie who is right there,but with John Isaac at the
moment.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
On the opposite spectrum, mackenzie, would 10
out of 10 recommend her year.
Okay she had a son which sheloves dearly and she wants to be
a mom and she gets to be withyou.
Her flower business is startingto do better.
Great, yes, and obviously shehas me.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
You know, like what more could she ask?
Great year for her?
Obviously Great year.
Great year for her Becauseyou're just built different.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
And she's a wonderful person and every year is good
for her, All right wonderfulperson and every year is good
for her, All right.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
So again, this is less serious in the point of
everything.
Take everything as gospel andmore.
It's a good reflective exercise.
We're supposed to think aboutthe past, think about the future
a little bit, not in terms of acontrol aspect, but how has God
been moving?
What have I learned?
And so this would be a goodexercise for you too.
If you're listening out there,Go through your 2024.
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And actually I said lastquestion, this is actually it.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
Oh man, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Last one.
Here it is what has God showedyou this past year, or what have
you learned?
So I'll let you sit on thatjust a moment.
I had that one in my brain andthen it slipped my mind until
just now.
How has God been moving?
What have you learned?
What has he showed you thispast year?
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Anyone anything come to mind?
Speaker 4 (29:20):
I feel like this may be like kind of harsh harsh, but
disobedience definitely hasconsequences.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Mariah.
That is a very biblicallyaccurate conclusion.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Mariah, with the theology, isaac, every action
has consequences.
I would say how little controlwe have, not Calvinistic-wise,
but like over, sorry, like youstress over so many different
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things and they usually workthemselves out.
Like God usually works it out,or you this or that, I don't
know, just you stress over, likewhen Mackenzie was pregnant,
there were times where we wouldstress, had like little scares
and stuff, but God works it allout and whether it's we like it
or we don't, but he works it out.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Good, good thoughts, Blake or Zeke.
Anything pop out.
How has God been moving?
What has he showed you?
Speaker 2 (30:19):
I think it's summarized in a really good
quote from the St Mike Winger.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Yeah, st Mike Winger, yeah, St Mike Winger.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
He was on a podcast and he is.
It's actually advice that asingle guy gave to him, but it's
been some of the best marriageadvice he's ever gotten.
Oddly enough, he said theadvice was any time where your
spouse is doing something thatis needs, that's on your nerves,
or do even if they do somethingthat's objectively wrong, that
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is the best opportunity for youto reflect christ in in your
marriage.
And I've had to learn that timeand time and time again, and
chloe's had to learn that evenmore than I've had to learn that
because I mess up a lot.
But, um, that's the hardestthing that before marriage I
didn't really think about.
It's like you're constantlyhaving to give grace and reflect
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Christ in your marriage and youcould apply that to friendships
too, but in marriage it justhappens a lot more often, even
over small things.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Blake.
That's a great quote, by theway.
But, Blake, what has God showedyou this past year?
Speaker 5 (31:26):
I guess just what he's showing me now is just at
the end of the day, my hope andmy comfort only comes from
Christ Jesus and Christ Jesusalone.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Yeah, amen, amen, amen, nate, as someone who knows
the Bible from memory what hasGod shown you?
Speaker 1 (31:43):
I wish, I wish I had a photographic memory.
That would be so helpful.
God showed me this year that ifyou don't find your identity in
him, you will go crazy.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Stop just copying.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Blake, and so I will expound upon Blake.
God can show two people thesame thing, yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Yeah, you are the same person, yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
I same thing, yeah, yeah we kiss after the plug, I
mean Pause.
Alright, where all the otherthings you could find comfort in
your relationship status, yourbank account, your job, whether
or not your political party's inpower, whatever it's like.
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If you don't have that rockthat is Jesus, it is tough
because there's so much outthere storms that'll throw you
around.
But you have that rock, youhave Jesus, you're going to be
okay, you'll make it through,and so I've had to lean on that
at different points this year.
All right, y'all, I hope you'veenjoyed the episode Again.
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Just maybe different things foryou to think through as well.
Blake, do you want to take ushome?
I don't know.
No, all right, mariah, do youwant to take us home?
Speaker 4 (33:00):
I think Isaac or Zeke sure they never do.
I think Isaac or Zeke sure theynever do.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
I'm not musically inclined.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
I can't play the guitar.
Isaac's a good singer.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
The boys.
Since we've been playing somuch, what is one of the
catchphrases that we say?
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
You say balls every 30 seconds.
No, no, no.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
Give us the SpongeBob .
I need it, Zeke.
Oh no, Go ahead.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
No, you do it so much better.
You just said the other day youcame up with it, go ahead.
You came up with it.
I don't remember.
Speaker 5 (33:23):
Yes, you did, I remember it clearly.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Any day.
Now one of y'all.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
You do it, I do it.
I don't even know what you'retalking about.
Go ahead, I'm good.
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
Go Blake.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
Isaac Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
I need it.
He did it.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
Keep that in there.
I got it, I got it.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Let's go, I need it.
Speaker 5 (33:49):
Yeah, still play the guitar.
Why you want me to go get itright now and play?
You have it with you.
Yeah, I got a guitar.
You want me to go get it realquick?
Yeah, go get it, okay, thankyou.
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