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Said She Said. I am one of your hosts for
this evening, Aggie, and with me as always is the
very awesome Rowdy Rick. How are you doing tonight?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
I'm alive. I just got a typo in our title,
so I went in.
Speaker 8 (07:44):
I know, I thought I was like, maybe that's a
new word. You know, English is my second language, so
sometimes the words escapement. But I was pretty sure that
it's supposed to be ax. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Supposed to be AX. I was typing in a hurry.
And since it's already gone live, I don't think it'll
fix it on the X Speed, but I think it'll
fix it for everything later.
Speaker 8 (08:05):
Oh that's fine, it's not a big deal. I just
thought it was kind of funny, and I was like,
I just, I just I mean, I've been staring at
it for I don't know how long. I just noticed
it like a little while ago. Well, oh, well, no
big deal. Everybody is fluent in Taipanese when it comes
to the Internet, so I'm not bothered by it.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Taipanese is actually my fifth language.
Speaker 8 (08:33):
But so it has been a very long day for
some of us.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Spent a long couple of weeks. Still, I think that's
why I'm so exhausted right now. I'm still just physically
and mentally just done because it's like, no matter what
I do lately, I just cannot seem to And and
it's weird because I got up this morning and I
felt really good and I was like energized for the show.
And then after I did the three hour show, I
went and made lunch, and then the next thing I know,
it was like five o'clock and I'm like, I have
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like sixteen other things I really should be doing right now,
and then I turned on that Kevin James comedy special instead.
Speaker 8 (09:11):
So yeah, I spent the entire day running errands in Tyler,
which is like an hour, hour and fifteen minutes from me.
So I didn't get home to like five, and I
was pretty tired. It was it was a glorious morning,
don't get me wrong. It was like sixty two sixty
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three degrees outside. It was so nice. But you know,
this is Texas. That means it's gonna last about thirty
thirty five minutes before what's the sun over the yard arm?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
It's hot.
Speaker 8 (09:47):
So but you know, I was running errands all day
and it just I got home and I completely forgot
to post this, you know, And I knew there was
something missing, but I didn't know what I was missing.
(10:07):
I don't know what I you know, because I don't know.
I completely spaced out. Sorry about that.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Yeah it happens. Oh but you know, I mean, you
forgot your post. I had a typo.
Speaker 8 (10:23):
We'll live, but you know, the day is is whining down,
and now we can relax and we can talk about
nice and fun things.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Yes, yes, we should and we shall.
Speaker 8 (10:40):
Yes. So the day we decided to talk about random
acts of kindness. And I know that we've done this
on the show. When I was still hosting with Mickey,
we did something similar, and I want to say it
was like maybe twenty twenty one. So it's been a
fly since we covered that, and as of late, there
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has been a lot of that stuff happening around the
world and everything. But every so often, our you know,
faith in humanity is restored, and so we wanted to
like bring that to the front because it has been
a long week for a lot of people, and you know,
it's kind of nice to talk about the good things
that we see out there.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Well, my faith in humanity was it was was restored
once I saw a certain somebody getting indicted. Oh wait, sorry, not.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
That.
Speaker 8 (11:36):
Well, you know there's some faith is being restored in
other circles too, So okay, uh, but you know, I'm
still I'm still guarded. I'm just gonna wait and see
what happens with that situation.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
You know, I still have no illusions anything's gonna have
to them whatsoever. I'm just happy we've at least pulled
the trigger and gun I think I can do anyway.
Speaker 8 (12:02):
The most delicious thing about that whole situation, and yes
we're going to cover politics right now because this is delicious,
is how the media is reacting to it, as if
you know, this is like unprecedented and historic and blah
blah blah, and I'm going, well, and my favorite part
is how they're saying that this administration is exacting vengeance,
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but they don't stop to think why why that term
is very telling vengeance for what what happened to make
this administration benchful? Can you care to explain.
Speaker 6 (12:42):
To me?
Speaker 8 (12:42):
That's been the best part of the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
So well, there's there's two things with that, because one,
that's something that keeps coming up all over the place
is like he's weaponizing and his revenge and I'm like,
revenge for what? Revenge for? What? What is it revenge for?
But then the other thing that I saw today which
I thought was absolutely hilarious, and this was this was
one of the political talking heads on one of the
communist networks was talking about how Donald Trump isn't rigging
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the system, He's re rigging the system for himself. And
I'm like, so wait in order for him to be
re rigging the system, wouldn't for himself. Wouldn't that mean
the system was already rigged against him, wouldn't it.
Speaker 8 (13:26):
I remember when that came out in twenty fifteen, when
during the debate with Hillary Clinton and she's accusing him of,
you know, using the you know, bending the tax laws
or whatever it was, and he's like, well, yeah, and
if you, if you had anything to say about it,
why didn't you fix it? You were in the Senate.
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It's like, oh my god, I'm watching a king being
actually crowned right now.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Right, he was like, and he just looks, he just
looks at her and says, if you're not using the
tax code to your advantage, that makes you an idiot.
Speaker 8 (14:03):
Yeah. But who was I think it was Dave Chappelle
that that that summed it up first. Sound it out
live and it's like, god damn, but I mean it's true.
He was like pointing it out. Everybody does it. And
the reason he doesn't get fixed is because your friends
are using it. So don't get mad at me for
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using it too.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
Well.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
And that's the thing, right, That's that's what annoys me
about all of this, if I'm being honest, because now
that they've lost the working class and everything else, there's
still the left is still trying to act like the
Republicans are the party of all the rich people. That's
all I've heard all week. Oh my god, Donald Trump
is trying to shut down the government because he doesn't
want to fix your healthcare. No, Donald Trump is willing
to let the government shut down if it comes to
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that because you guys are trying to hold it hostage
for one point four trillion dollars worth of crap.
Speaker 8 (14:55):
H Yeah, And I'm you know, I I I will
have every time there's a government shut down. The stuff
that they say, oh, nothing's gonna get paid, It is
always paid, had a care, social Security, none of that
is ever shut down. And I'm like, I literally watched
my parents get their techs during a shutdown. I just
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don't understand why people get so and it's it's amazing
to me. I remember the first time the government shutdown
that eyewitnessed as an adult was in ninety five, and
it was it was around my birthday, November, and I
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was really upset about it because I was in National
Park and because the government was shutting down. That meant
that the park rangers could not help us or do anything.
They were leaving, so if we wanted to see the park,
we had to do it in the next ninety minutes,
and then we couldn't access the park anymore. And I'm like,
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this is the stupidest thing I've ever had to deal with.
And it was, you know, during the height of the
Monarket scandal, they had to like do something blah blah
blah blah, you know, detraction of some sort. But I
was like, this is the dumbest thing I've ever had
to deal with the entire life. But you know, you
see people going all insane over the whole government shutdown.
(16:23):
I'm like, I want the government shutdown. I don't want
the government doing anything. They do. Everything they do destroys
everything else. So just no, just shut it down. I'm
okay with that.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Well, I mean so, because this is something And I
asked Brad the same question today, so said, you didn't
get a chance to listen. I'm gonna say, if you
get a chance, I'm going to give you a chance
to weigh in. Can somebody explain to me why it
is that we have a federal government that handles things
that are that are considered non essential services in the
first place. Shouldn't not government only handle the essential stuff?
Speaker 8 (16:55):
That was the original intent. I mean, that's what Coolidge said, right,
but you know, just leave it alone. Just we just
take care of the little things. The states do their
own thing. I mean, that was the whole experiment of
this country. Nobody not even met.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Huh, Nope, sorry, I was trying to get into the
chat and it wasn't muted.
Speaker 8 (17:17):
Oh you know, I've alluded to this before. Mexico is
technically the name of Mexico is the United States of Mexico.
And the reason that they're called that is that they
fashioned the first constitution after hours and it went well
for ten years until what's his name, Santa Anna. I
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think it was decided on a centralized government and convinced
everybody to vote for it, and the constitution went away.
And this has been a mass for Mexico since then.
But that's the original intent was those states in Mexico
were going to operate the same way that the state's
up here do. It was it was supposed to be
like a mirror image of the United States, and they
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were learning as we were learning so whatever we as
states were doing, the states would follow suit. Over in Mexico,
it was it was for those ten years it really worked.
So that was what was supposed to happen. And now
it's like this behemoth Leviathan has taken over where the
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federal government actually controls all the magutie and they're not
supposed to.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Well, and well that's just it because they were never
supposed to. But now that they do, they have figured
out that they have so many fingers in so many
different pies and so many different leverages and points of
control that now they don't want to give them up.
And all they ever do anytime somebody tries to start
exposing what it is that they have done to this
government we used to call a republic, because trust me,
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after the passage of the seventeenth were not nearly as
much of a republic anymon. Nobody really wants to talk
about that either, but to go what they what they
do though, is they they use fear every single time.
Like what they're doing right now, you're your your medical
premiums are going to go through the roof if you're
on the ACA because some some stuff that we passed.
(19:18):
It was only supposed to be in placed during COVID
is about to expire, and the Republicans don't want to
renew it. And that's what we're pushing for this money for.
What if it was only supposed to be in place
for COVID, why is it going to cause everybody's premiums
to go up by so much? And if the if
the Affordable Care Act without these subsidies is doing the
exact opposite of what it was supposed to do based
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on its name, not what we all know secretly you
guys wanted it to do. Maybe it's time to get
rid of it. And there's a there's a Senate critter
who made that point the other day, and now all
the Democrats are quote tweeting him quote postings they see
he wants security the Affordable Care Act. Well, according to you,
if we don't keep subsidizing it is not going to
be affordable anymore anyway, So what's the point?
Speaker 8 (20:06):
Sometimes I just shake my head, But you know, I
see other places in the world, and I'm like, I'm
still grateful to be where I'm at.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
I've tried shaking my head once. It was in the
middle of a class and there was this loud rattling
noise in the Yeah.
Speaker 8 (20:26):
So anyway, yes, thank you forty. He put in some
more information about the United States of Mexico. So let
me see, moving back to the original intent of the chat,
the today's tonight's topic, you know, being I am grateful
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to be here as compared to other places in the world,
like what's happening over in Great Britain. But we won't
get into that right now. So, Yeah, there have been
in some instances that we have witnessed of late that
have actually restored faith in humanity, at least for some
of us. And I wanted to actually put that forward,
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talk about some of the nice things that we have
seen lately, some of the nice things that we ourselves
have decided to do as a consequence of the happenings
of this this month. So without further ado, let's move
into that kind of talking the nice stuff.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
All right, So, since it was your idea, you.
Speaker 8 (21:37):
Start, well, I was talking to you about this. One
of the things that I did witness today is I'm
always hardened when I see people doing little things that
they don't know are being witnessed, you know, And you're example,
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in town, there's you know, the little lending libraries, those
little little things where you put books and everything. But
we have we have a couple of those that are
food oriented, food barns, food pantries and everything, and so
we have one now we have two. And every so often,
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you know, I see people, you know, drive up and
you know, they'll they'll just and they were just at
the grocery store where I was at, you know, and
they're they're buying some stuff, and I see that they're
buying like multiples of one thing, you know, multiples of another.
But most of the stuff that they buy is singly,
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you know, so it's probably a person that lives by
themselves or you know, or just with another person or whatever.
And they'll stop and then they'll put all everything that
they bought doubles for in the pantry and then just
get back in the vehicle and drive off and everything.
And it's kind of nice to see that because we
don't have a food bank in the town that I
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live in. The nearest one is about, I want to say,
about thirty miles away, so it's a little inconvenient for
a lot of folks, especially the ones that live in
assists at living and the older generation that live in town,
so it's kind of nice to see those little food
banks and everything. And because of that, I was incentivized
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to actually speak at my church and ask if we
can coordinate with other churches in the area to have
food drives once a month and then that way, instead
of having once a month food drive at just one church,
we could all have sponsored one weekend. So my church
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would be, you know, in charge of the second weekend,
another church would be in charge the first weekend, to
other churches would be in charge of the third, yet
another one be in charge of the last weekend, so
that every weekend there was a continual and that way
we would be supplying dry goods and produce throughout the
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month instead of just once a month at one location
outside of town. So now the you know, I brought
that up at my church and one of the deacons
at my church said, you know that we were thinking
about doing something like that, but we're not sure how
it be received by other churches. And I was like, y'all,
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don't talk to the other churches. I don't understand. Well, no,
they don't. Because my church is a very very small church.
There are not a lot of Catholics in this town.
So so my church is rather tiny, you know, the
other Grace Fellowship is like huge and everything. And so
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they don't talk a lot amongst themselves because they see
each other, you know, in town, but they don't discuss
church stuff because they just figured why you know, I guess,
you know, for that reason. But so now they're incentivized
to actually start organizing something of that manner so that
there's a continual you know, like a moving food bank
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so to speak, in town, you know, that way, you know,
and that way, it's under the purview of the churches.
It realizes solely on charity of those, you know, of
the parishioners of each church, and we don't have to
you know, have a charter you know, with uh, the government,
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I guess, the ones that established the food bank. So
that's one of the things he said. I that we
all got together and said, you know, we need to
fix that problem. And it was really nice to see
that people had been thinking about that. I just thought
it was kind of weird that they don't talk to
each other. And I'm just saying I'm not saying just
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the Catholics and the Protestants I'm talking about all of
the other Protestants too, because the Methodists have no clue
what the Episcopalians are doing either, and the Presbyterians in
town have no idea that there's two other churches. The
Episcopalions are literally three blocks down. They didn't know the
church was there.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
So you know why, you know what.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
I mean.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
I can't really say anything about Catholics, but I know
for Protestants, the only real denominations, whatever denomination you're and
the rest of them are all of the.
Speaker 8 (26:52):
I guess, I guess I was just like, how do
you talk to each other? I mean, in my hometown,
all the churches are always talking, and as a matter
of fact, they coordinate for for Easter Sunday so that
if people want to go to more than one service
at different churches they can. So it's so good. Okay,
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but I think that was kind of nice that, you know,
I brought that up, but other people have been thinking
about it, and now people are really excited about starting
to coordinate that and getting that set so that you know,
people can come and through the food drops and if
they miss one, they can go to another church and
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drop the food there, or you know whatever whichever one
is closer to them. I'm actually closer to the Methodist
Church than I am to the Catholic Church. So depending
on you know, if I decide ay, I probably won't
be able to bring it in on this Saturday for
my Catholic church, I can just drop it off that
Saturday over at the Methodist Church, you know, so it
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doesn't have to be that person about tending. So that's
kind of one of the nice things that I have
seen a lot of people have been talking about doing
more for their faith, and this is a level where
you're helping your fellow man who meets, you know, someone
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who does need help, you know, a hand up of
some sort. And you know, the whole concept is we're
not in a neat desert, but it does make it
difficult for some people to actually be able to even
go to the grocery sort. There are times when they
just they can't do it. So aside that, you know,
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establishing that rotation is kind of nice. And then we're
going to talk about actually taking prepared sets of you know,
you know, boxed sets of food so for the week,
like cans with this vegetable and that vegetable, and maybe
several cans of some kind of protein and you know,
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that kind of thing and take that instead to people
who cannot, like a meos on wheels program, but you
know with can food. So you know, things like that
have been I'm glad to see that in this area
we're starting to pick up. We're starting to Actually, I've
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witnessed more people attending church in the past couple of weeks,
and that just saw. I've seen the uptick in my
Catholic church, which, like I said, it's small, but I've
seen people that were like, you know, I haven't been
to church in a few years, and I want to
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start coming back.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
I saw, you know, so during during the time that
you were telling us all that stuff, did you shift
positions or something, because you've had a little bit of
static tonight. And I wasn't really that worried about it,
but now it's like, I'm getting you on channel forty
three UHF or something.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
I don't think so I didn't do anything. How's it now?
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Are you using your normal microphone? Yeah, just make sure
it's pointed to that microphone. Yeah, because yeah, the last
time it sounded this bad was when your mom came
into the room. And you turned around really really quick,
and we had static for like five minutes while you
were talking to your mom. Now it's like that all
the time, though, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (30:30):
Oh, I don't, I don't know, should I okay, I'm
just kind of shut up now.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Well, I was just thinking maybe if you can may
if it, depending on how it's connected you mentioned you
need to jiggle the cord or something, I might fix it.
I don't know. I don't know, but there we go.
Whatever you did, hold your tongue just like that, don't move.
Speaker 8 (30:50):
It, okay, alrighty, that's fixed.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Yeay, yeay, okay, yeah it was. It wasn't that bad,
and so I was really wasn't gonna worry about it,
because I know how you get stressed out about technical stuff.
But then as you went on earlier, it was just
getting worse and worse. Okay, And eventually even daniel said,
and not for nothing, but I'm old and I'm having
to squint to listen.
Speaker 12 (31:15):
I'm like, okay, okay, I haint gotta remember that one.
Speaker 8 (31:27):
Thank you, Danielle.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Oh but no, so yeah, I mean yeah, I mean
earlier when you were saying, it's where the churches don't
talk in the new town versus how they talked in
your old town. It's just in my experience, like Baptists
don't like Presbyterians, and Presbyterians don't like Baptists, and Episcopalian
don't like Presbyterians, and everybody everybody that isn't one thinks
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the Pentecostals are nuts, and the Pentecostals think everybody else
is the devil. And then denominational 're just like anybody
want to go high after church.
Speaker 8 (32:05):
I you know, I don't. I don't. I don't get it.
I really don't. I always thought that it was normal.
But I think one of the reasons that moist churches
around here don't talk to each other is just like
they just assume that things are going well in whatever
church and we're doing our things, and the fact that
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they're they're kind of you know, they're not all in
the same area, with the exception of the Episcopalian church
and the Presbyterian which are, like I said, just a
few blocks down from each other, but they didn't know
that each of them were there. I guess, I don't know.
But you know, the method is is is literally ten
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miles out of town. There is a Jehovah's Witness place,
but that's actually on the town over so that's full
thirty minutes from where I live, which is ten minutes
from in town, so you know, people have to travel
quite a bit. There's another Methodist church. There's like two
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or three Methodist churches in town, and there's you know,
the Baptist one. Then there's a non denominational Grace, and
then there's Reformed which I'm I'm not sure which reform
they're talking about. It just says the reform to church.
So there's you know, we are in the Bible Belt,
so there's quite a few churches. Even in this tiny towns,
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there's quite a few churches.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
So the town that's just about three miles north of me, yes, sorry,
I had to figure it out, which is where my
youngest son graduated from and where my granddaughter goes to school.
There are a town of approximately at last count less
than six hundred people and they have five churches. Five Why,
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I was like, what, Yeah, that's why I said. They've
got the Baptist church, they've got the Church of Christ,
and then there's a couple of non dominational churches on
the edge of town. And then there's the one that's
like right down the street from where, like a mile
from from me. And then there's another one that's in
the next town up the Goldsby church that almost everybody
that doesn't go in the four or five churches that
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are in the small town goes to. Is either the
one that I go to that's a mile to the
east of me, yeah, east, or the one that's like
another three miles north of that smaller town. So yeah,
in the span of about maybe ten miles, as the
as the crow flies, there are like seven churches and
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they're about to build another one within the same span.
There was a there was a block next to the
Walmart that was just auctioned off and they just put
the sign up the other day new Home of Greece
Coventry Mission or something. And I'm like, okay, another church.
Speaker 8 (34:56):
That's another church.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
We need more churches, run, we need more churches around here.
But no, I mean, but yeah, I mean, and trust me,
I mean, the churches do a lot of goods, So
I'm not it's not that I mean our church, which honestly,
we were going to the one that was further north
for a while, but then Gracey kind of got a
little burned out with it, and we weren't going for
a while, so we went back and tried the one
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that's about a mile east of us, and we went
there when we first moved here, but that was over
like ten years ago, when nobody really liked it, so
we kept looking for another church, and that's how we
wound up helping to find helping to found Wake Church,
and then it went away during COVID because it was
based on a Norman and Norman was one of the
last towns to try to get anything back to normal,
so it just eventually kind of blew up, just kind
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of tried up and went away. So but then we
went back to this one about I guess it has
been almost a year ago at this point, and Gracie
absolutely loved it. So that's where we've been going ever since.
But they have a pretty good outreach program and they
do lots of things to help people, and you know,
that's kind.
Speaker 8 (35:56):
Of my I think it's nice at the that I
this it's a revival that we were witnessing really when
it comes to the Christian faith after the Charlie Kirk assassination.
But it is affecting the different denominations in my area
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to the point where they were actually starting to talk
to each other, starting to communicate better with each other
and cooperate better with each other. As you know, yeah,
sure they're a single entity. This church, you know, is
this one denomination. That's fine, but they're also recognizing that
this other church may need help, so let's help them out,
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you know, that kind of thing. So it was kind
of nice to see that that has been going on,
and you know that, you know, it's not a little thing.
It's kind of it's going to be a big undertaking,
and it's going to take a bit of coordination and
you know, quite a bit of you know, committee meetings,
you know, and getting together with the other churches to
coordinate everything to where this happens, you know, continually every month.
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But you know, it's a step in the right direction,
and it is getting people to talk to each other,
is getting people to actually you know, recognize oh so
you know, yeah you go to this church, you know,
how is it? You know, And it's it's nice to
see it used to be that it was I don't know,
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when I lived in Houston. That was another weird thing.
The church that I attended was on Church Street because
there are five churches there that have been founded on
that particularly road, so it's called Church Street, excuse me,
not Houston College Station. And it was really strange, but
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none of the churches ever did anything with each other.
There were really they were right there like next one
after the other, and none of them ever did anything
with each other. And I always thought that that was
kind of strange, especially in a college town where you
have a lot of college kids that are attending church
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and everything. But I just thought, well, maybe they're just
too busy. No, it's just that they don't really talk
to each other. But I think this has, this revival
has actually incentivized a lot of churches to start talking
to each other, you know, and starting to reach out
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and help other churches and you know, be there for
churches that are either failing or have had issues with
the roof or you know, replacing this or that. You know, so, well, well,
that's kind of nice to see just that little random
act of kindness to actually start thinking about, hey, let's
establish a moving a mobile food bank, you know, or
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a roving food bank or something so that we can
help the people in town. And they don't have to
go thirty forty miles out of their way or you know,
and that food bank is only opened twice a week,
the one that's you know, thirty miles away, so this
would actually be a little better for them.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
Well. So, one of the things that's been driving me
a little bit nuts, right is, ever since this has happened,
you've got a lot of folks that have been like, oh,
it's a revival, this is this has been awesome. And
then you've got some folks that I call the modern
day Sadducees and Pharisees that are this isn't a revival.
I don't know why everybody's calling this a revival. And
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I've been I've been talking to these people for for
a week now. I'm like, what do you what do
you call it? When two hundred thousand people are gathered
together and you're hearing the leaders of your government talk
about how Jesus has touched their lives, You've got hundreds
of thousands of people in person, and hundreds of millions
of people all around the world singing along with songs
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that they know, that have that are that have scripture
from stands at a bridge and you're telling you're telling
me that this isn't a revival. What about this isn't
a revival? But let me let me say this. I mean,
this is why I tell it. And I had the
funny The funny thing is the reason when you said
you wanted to do this today. This was your topic.
(40:18):
This was kind of this is some of the stuff
that I was talking about this morning because I have
people that give me a hard time all the time
because of how often I will do random acts of
kindness and sometimes big acts of kindness, even for people
that they don't feel like deserve them, Like it doesn't
matter what their motivation is, matter, what matters what my
motivation is. And this is I got in. I don't
(40:40):
want to say a knockdown, drag out because I was civil,
but it was with another pastor that I know, and
I finally said, look, I don't think you and I
are worshiping the same God in this scenario, because even
if you're saying Charlie Kirk wasn't one of his, you're
telling me your God isn't strong enough to take something
that may have been started for the wrong reason in
your opinion, and turning it to his good, because if so,
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then I don't think you and I are worshiping the
same one. I got blocked.
Speaker 8 (41:08):
Wow, I've had the weirdest I admittedly this has nothing
to do with our subject tonight, but I've seen the
weirdest stuff from trad Catholics, and I'm like, no, I
don't trust anybody that has trad Catholic in their handle
or their bio or whatever. To me, that's just no.
(41:32):
And I will denounce it right now, because has already said, yeah,
you know you're if you're going in, you're going all
in with Catholicism, and but that doesn't mean that you're
going to issue or denounce any other Christian Christian denomination.
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I mean, if that were true, why would Cardinal Dolan
actually just literally say that. Arlie Kirk was like Saint Paul,
I mean like, yeah, well, what we don't do we
don't We don't think that you guys are wrong. We
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were just doing it different, that's all right.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
But there were there were like some people that were
like visibly like shakingly mad over him saying that. And
I'm like, what about this person who who basically just
stood up and tried to get people to talk has
you so angry that you can't see him for who
he was because you're but the thing about it is,
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and and this has been happening on my own feed,
Like there was somebody that I that I'd followed for
a while and we hadn't really she hadn't come across
my feed in a while. So she showed up on
a post the other day about and I guess it
was an article talking about something to do with the
White House, and she had posted, so did they finally
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get rid of the the geriatric? What's it? What's it's what?
I don't remember exactly what she said now that that
was in there, and I'm like, yeah, we did that
in November. Just trying to be funny, dude, she's been.
She was on my feed for days calling me all
kinds of names because I was a Trump voter, telling
me that I would that I was a demon sprouting
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scripture because I was a Trump voter. And I'm just like,
this is the problem because we now have people who
think they are bathing themselves in faith and they don't
even know what it means to have faith. Because I
guarantee you one of these people that are that are
mad all the time, that are throwing fits all the time,
that are screaming and yelling all the time, would know
anything about a random act of kindness unless it was
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done for them, because I guarantee you they don't do them.
Speaker 8 (43:48):
It's It's sad, it really is. But there there have
been sometimes when I've actually done something nice and it
still gets spit on because of because who they perceived
me to be. And you know, sometimes you have to
like let that go. You're not going to change her
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matter whatever. You still perform the act of kindness. But
after that you're like, I need to remove that the
violence from my life, and so you step back.
Speaker 6 (44:24):
You know, I.
Speaker 8 (44:27):
It has this. I will say that for me, the
assassination of Charlie Kirk was a very very solid line
and a hard rubicon, and I just I don't think
people understand to what point that was for what that
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was like for me, because I'm I will say it.
I will forgive anything of anyone, but I'm not forgetting shit.
I never forget shit. I'm not even sorry for that.
And that's the problem that I have. I get it,
but it has made me wise. Just like Charlie said,
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you can forgive, but don't forget. The wise person doesn't forget,
and I haven't. But there comes a time where, like
I cannot put myself in a position where I have
to constantly forgive the person because they already know that
that is something that is bad. So I have to
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remove myself from that situation. In a way, that's an
act of kindness. You're removing yourself from a situation where
you're not putting yourself in a position to get abuse
and have and forgive the person over and over and over.
That kind of abuse is detrimental to your You're the
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state of your soul and the state of your mind.
So removing yourself is an act of kindness. I like
to think so well.
Speaker 1 (46:03):
I mean, you know, for me when and this goes
back to something I was talking about earlier today, and
when I was saying, you know, when I do things
for people, I do my best to try to not
think about it as me doing it because it's me,
but doing it because you know, we're supposed to be
the hands and feet. And that's kind of the mindset
that I try to have. I don't have that all
the time. There are people that annoy the crap out
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of me all the time when I'm trying to help them.
And there are people that and I know you know
this because we've talked, but I still try to I
still every time I start trying to get frustrated, what
I always come back to is Luke six thirty eight.
And that's what I always try to hold in my mind,
because it doesn't matter what their motivation was. It doesn't
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matter that they may not appreciate it, it doesn't the
way that I expect them to appreciate it. It doesn't
matter that they may never say anything. It doesn't matter
that they may even talk bad about it later. It
only matters that I did exactly what I was supposed
to do, which is to be the hands and feet.
And it's weird, and it's been a hard thing because
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you know, I have been living a life more of
faith in the last couple of years because I don't
have a stand. I don't have a steady income anymore.
I have a couple of checks that come in from retirements,
but I don't have like guaranteed money other than that
coming in. So and with everything being in flux there
months when I have a little bit extra at the end,
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there and once when I don't have enough. Oddly enough,
there always seems to be something that makes the ends meet.
And I think it's because I've been trying to live
with that verse as much as possible for the last
few years. That's just my take on it. But that's
why I do the things that I do. It's why
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I help that I help. It's why there are times
when people will call me up last minute and be like,
you know, can you help me do this? And it's
something that I would normally charge for and I'm like, yeah,
I got you, and they're like, well, I can't afford
to pay right now. I'm like, worry about it.
Speaker 8 (48:02):
Yeah, I've I've been on the end of that too
and on the other end, but yeah, and I'm blessed
that I can actually be on the don't worry about it.
And because there were so many people that helped me
when I was, you know, just starting out with a
brand new job and didn't have much. I didn't even
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have a car. I had to walk to work and
it was like an hour, hour and a half to
walk to work, and you know, so I'm very grateful
for those that did help me, and I've I've actually
paid it forward and paid it back to those and
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and and it's funny because one of them was my
very best friend from college. So when her son went
to college, I funded his first semester so that he
would have the time to actually make enough money so
he could have a buffer for his second semester and
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keep going. And she was like, I can't, I can't
believe you did that. It's like, well, first of all,
you know, you did a lot for me, And second
of all, this gives him a little buffer so that
he can work and set money aside and all. So
what does he do. He doesn't like college, so he
gets out of college, goes to trade school and now
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owns his own company. And I'm like, that's my boy. Yeah,
I think he bought a house. He's got you know,
and he actually he loves to work on cars as well,
so he has a collection. Now he's like on his
fourth vintage vehicle he's been fixing up. And I'm like,
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all right, buddy, you've proven me, You've proven right.
Speaker 4 (49:56):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (49:58):
So you know, in the same vein of kind of
what we're talking about today, and something that came up
when Laura said and with Stephen the other day they
were talking about faith, and somehow Matthew seven to one
came up and Steven made an excellent point, because that's
that's that's the voice. That's the verse where everybody likes
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to stop is, you know, don't judge, or you're going
to be judged. Basically they leave off the other part
because in even in the NIV translation, if you add
in verse two, so it's do not judge, or you
too will be judged, And then it says for in
the same way you judge others, you will be judged.
And with the measure you use, it will be measured
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to you. The reason I bring that up is because
when I was rereading uh or Luke six thirty eight
a second ago, I noticed Jesus used the same language.
So given it, she'll be given unto you good measure,
pressed down and shaken together and running over, shall men
give into your bosom. For with the same measure that
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you meet with all, it shall be measured to you again.
So both in giving and judgment, the amount you put
in is basically what you're going to get back. I
find it interesting that those two things are kind of
boo booknded together like that well, you.
Speaker 8 (51:19):
Know, I always, I always and this was me from
my readings and my understanding the whole judge, not lest
you be judged. It's always used against us. The thing is,
I've always felt in my faith as a follower of
Jesus that we are supposed to judge because we are
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supposed to call out evil when we see.
Speaker 1 (51:43):
It, and we have to judge that.
Speaker 8 (51:47):
We're called to do so. And you know, and as
I always tell people, I'm like, you know, a good
follower in Christianity of Jesus Christ, and I think we're
warriors for God. We really we we fight for that.
And I was explaining that to a friend of mine
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on the Book of Faces and she was like, no,
we're not supposed to judge anyone, and I'm like, actually, yeah,
we are. We are supposed to be judging because we're
supposed to call out evil whatever we see it. And
she says, well, how do you know if it's evil?
And I'm like, Ah, that's the rub, isn't it. You know,
we we have to know, we have to educate ourselves
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on what is evil and what's not. And that's what
the scriptures come in. That's you know, all that stuff.
But she was adamant that you know, we are going
to be judged by our creator. And I'm like, yeah, eventually,
we're all going to be judged. This is true. But
while we're down here, we have to denounce the evil
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that we see.
Speaker 1 (52:55):
Even Paul commanded, you know, the other churches to hold
one another to standards. There's like an entire book of
the Bible where he's ripping a church apart because they
weren't holding one another to standards. That is judgment. So
the idea so and this is again one of the
things that drives me crazy about what I call granola Christianity.
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It's what everybody else calls social Christianity because they've made
Jesus some white hippie freak who just wants to cross
his legs, eat granola and sing Kumbaya. That was never
who he was, never who he was, and he that's
not what he teaches. And let me tell you something.
While we're talking about acts of kindness, let me tell
you what one of the best acts of kindness you
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can ever give somebody is when you're watching them do
something that you know is going to eventually kill them.
If you try to tell them about it, no matter
how they're going to react to it, no matter how
mad they're going to be at you in the short term.
And you know how I know because I watched it
play out with my oldest son. Because eventually I had
to look my oldest son in the eye and say, look,
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I have done it everything for you that I can,
and I have been here for you, and I have
tried to help you, and I've even allowed your mom
to help you even more than I wanted, because you're
my son and I love you. But you're killing yourself.
So you're going to have to figure it out. And
I point blank told him that, and he hated me
for over a year, didn't talk to me, didn't want
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to call me, nothing. You know what he told me
during the divorce. I know you're not really my dad,
but you're always going to be my dad, and you
saved my life.
Speaker 8 (54:31):
Wow, that's a kindness. But that's just it.
Speaker 1 (54:37):
Sometimes things that are kindnesses, the world doesn't see them
that way.
Speaker 8 (54:42):
No, No, they don't. I mean, And like I said,
that's why, you know, I'm all I do is I
watch people. Everybody thinks that that is kind of weird.
I'm a people watcher. I will. I have literally gone
to parks, sat on a bench and pretended to like
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feed pigeon and like throw things to feedick.
Speaker 1 (55:06):
Next time they say you're weird, just tell them you're
recovering anthropologies. Don't understand well, but you know, but that's something.
Speaker 8 (55:13):
That's how my teacher trained us to do this. As
they go to a park, sit down and just watch
people as they go by. Just watch what they do,
Watch how they communicate with each other, watch their mannerisms,
watch this, watch that. And I got you. That was
part of our That was part of our class, you know,
and I just I enjoyed it a lot.
Speaker 1 (55:33):
So I do that.
Speaker 8 (55:34):
I sometimes will go into town. I'll visit my friend
at the antique store or whatever, and there's some benches outside.
I'll go outside and I'll just sit and I'll just
watch people because a lot of people just walk up
and down main street. It's a very small town, and
I will be watching and it is I mean it
for me, it's it's it's kind of gratifying to watch
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people and see how they conduct themselves with each other.
And I do. I've witness all sorts of little kindnesses.
There's one of my favorite people in town. His name
is Frank and unfortunately he has terminal cancer, but it
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doesn't he doesn't slow down. He goes to town every
day he comes in and he'll will he'll talk to
anybody and everything. And I was in town about three
weeks ago and I happen to sit outside and here
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he comes, and he sits beside me on the you
know and everything, and he starts telling me all about
his day and what he did. And I was like,
I've only been here for thirty minutes. I'm already tired.
Because he had already told me all of the stuff
that he had done that morning. He walked into town.
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He lives about two miles from the grocery store, so
he walked to the grocery store. He bought his food
for the day. And this is one of the sad things.
He only he buys food per day because he doesn't
know when he's going to pass away, so he doesn't
want to leave a big mess for his daughter to
clean up. And it's just it's heartbreaking. But you know,
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he's very pragmatic about it, and he's and he says,
it keeps me active, you know, And when I was
down there this little lady, you know, little old lady.
He is ancient, but called her little old lady. It's
like she was having trouble getting her car door open,
so I just jiggled the handle and managed to open
that for her, and I helped her sit it. And
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he's telling me all of these little things that he
does for people while he's out and about, and he
does these these little kindnesses all the time, and that
gives me hope, that gives that's like a it's restorative
to the soul to hear somebody just telling me about
their entire day. And it's like, you know, Frank, you
make me tired just listening to everything that you do
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in one morning, he was like, oh, I'm not done
with my day. And he gets up and he starts
walking up, you know, and going somewhere else or whatever.
And you know, and and it's kind of nice to see,
you see people opening doors for others. When I'm at
the grocery store, there's a lady who was having trouble walking.
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Somebody ran up to her and said, don't don't, don't move.
I'm gonna go get the little the little you know cart,
the driving cart, the little thing that she can sit
in so she can do her shoot shopping, and he
went and got it for her so that she wouldn't
have to walk the rest of the way. That's a
little kindness, you know, and one of the most beautiful
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things here. Everybody says hello to me. No matter where
I'm at, people will just say hi and open doors
and you know, reach, you know, and they see if
I'm trying, because yeah, I'm sure I'm reaching for something
on the top shelf. They'll come and they'll help me,
no questions asked or whatever, and they will make small talk.
(59:17):
Things like that are just their kindness. Is that a
lot of people in bigger cities you don't see a
lot of And I think it's maybe it's because people
are in a hurry. Maybe it's because people are you know,
they're just I don't know what it is about a
bigger city that prevents people from actually smiling at someone
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as they're walking by. But it's really strange. So it's
it's kind of nice to see it happening in a
small town.
Speaker 3 (59:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (59:49):
I try to stay out of the big cities now
as much as possible. I mean, not that we really
have big cities here we don't. I mean land size,
we do. And that's that's one of the things that
we're going through here is Oklahoma City is than Los
Angeles and land mass, but so so many less people.
And now they're trying to turn Oklahoma City into Los
Angeles because they're like there there should be more bike
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paths and walking trails and like it was never designed
to be that this is the land of Route sixty six.
Come on, come on, that's true.
Speaker 8 (01:00:20):
That's true. And you know, it was really funny because
I was, like I said, I was in Tyler all
day today and Tyler has over one hundred thousand people.
But yet people still open doors, and people smiled and
said hello and howdy, and you know, and and I'm
not talking about just older people. I'm talking about teenagers,
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you know. And this was so cool to see. This
was so cool to see today. I was, you know,
I was shopping for I was at a thrust store,
of course, but there's this young man who who is
outside and he's got a skateboard and he's got his
earbuds on or whatever, and he's by the door. And
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as I'm walking up there, he looks up and sees
me and immediately opens the door for me. And he
couldn't have been more than sixteen. And at first I
was like, what the hell are you doing out of school?
But oh, yeah, today was actually in service, So yeah, okay,
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I got it. And he opened the door and I
said thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:01:37):
It's like.
Speaker 8 (01:01:39):
And he just said you're welcome and then closed the
door and went back to his phone or whatever he was.
I think he was doing his playlist or I don't know,
but when we came out, he was he was still
there and I opened the door and I looked at him.
I was like, oh, hi, and he's like, oh, oh,
let me get that. He held a door for me,
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and I was like, thank you. And it was surprising
to me because you been told that the younger generation
just doesn't have any manners, you know, they're very self
involved blah blah blah blah. But here was this young
man and he was very cognizant and very sweet to
open the door for obviously somebody that was much older
(01:02:23):
than he was. So so that was that was that
was so nice and it made me feel good the
rest of the day, and.
Speaker 1 (01:02:34):
It should and but and again that's one of the
That's one of the things I think that we've gotten
away from because for me, sometimes when I decide to
do something nice, like I will still do this sometimes
if I'm in town, like if I'm getting something from
a drive through or something, I'll pay for my stuff
and then be like, Okay, how much is the ticket
behind me? And they'll tell me, okay, go ahead and
(01:02:56):
put that on mind you and it's it's especially if
I'm having a just a not very good day. It
changes my mindset. So even something as simple as opening
a door for somebody can change my mindset. And the
reaction that I get when I do it in a
smaller town versus what I do in a city is
astounding to me because it really is even here in Oklahoma,
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Like if I'm in Oklahoma City, which has become a
blue bastion. Unfortunately, if I opened the door for a
what are you doing that for? I don't need you
to open the door for me. I didn't do it
because I thought you needed me to do it. I
did it because I was trying to be and I
don't even say it anymore, but I did it. First.
I was like, I did it because I was trying
to be nice, but don't let it hit you where
the Good Lord split you.
Speaker 8 (01:03:43):
Do you remember the Salon cons The Salon had a
list of conservatives that you should follow, and it was
it was a lot of the Buckley Club people.
Speaker 1 (01:03:55):
Oh god, I remember that.
Speaker 8 (01:03:57):
Do you remember? We call them the Salon cons and
I Tim. I'm pretty sure you might remember Tim.
Speaker 3 (01:04:08):
Tim was.
Speaker 8 (01:04:11):
He was holier than now. I always thought his heart
was in the right place, but you know whatever, But
he was a Bucket Club member and thus we were
not pure enough. Right so, But one time, while he
was still talking to the rest of us before he
(01:04:32):
left social media, he asked the questions like, what is
one of the nicest things you've done today? And I
just DipEd in and I said, well, I paid the
groceries for the lady that was in front of me.
(01:04:52):
And he's like, are you serious? I was like, absolutely,
I'm very serious. I did that.
Speaker 3 (01:04:58):
Why?
Speaker 1 (01:05:00):
Why?
Speaker 8 (01:05:01):
Why? What's wrong? At first I thought that he was
offended or he found it offensive or something. I was like,
why are you upset? And he says, I can't believe
that somebody would do that. And I'm like, this is
not the first time I do it, And I wasn't
paying a two hundred and fifty dollars grocery bill. I mean,
(01:05:21):
the lady was only getting like it. I think it
was like right under forty dollars or something like that,
and she was having trouble. She was going to be
paying in cash, and she was older, and she was
like counting. I said, ma'am, please allow me. And I
paid for it right then and there. And she was like,
I can't let you do that. And I was like, yes,
you can't, because all I'm asking for you is to
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pay it forward to somebody else when you have the chance, and.
Speaker 1 (01:05:48):
That works for me.
Speaker 8 (01:05:50):
And he was very he freaked out that I had
actually done something like that, and I was like, and
in you know, indeed, he actually asked me, is like
you said that you've done that before. I was like, yeah,
several times. I'd live in a at the time, I
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was living in, you know, near San Antonio, and you know,
sometimes there's a lot of people who are older in
the area that I'm living in, and sometimes they it's
difficult for them to you know, juggle their their finances
and they live, you know, paycheck to paycheck, or you know,
they're they're on Social Security or whatever for whatever reason,
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and sometimes I happened to be there at the right time.
It wasn't a big bill, but it made her feel
like she was special, and that made me feel special
because she really appreciated it, and I am sure that
she paid it forward. She was She was a really
(01:06:56):
nice older lady. And what made me upset was the
fact that Tim thought it was unusual, and I was like,
I don't want to be in a world where this
is unusual. I want to be in a world where
this is a daily thing for most people. This is
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why a random act of kindness, no matter how small,
is always appreciated. If it's not appreciated, it's usually due
to the fact that some people are so self sort
that they question everything. And that's also sad. Like you said,
you know, like, why are you opening the door for me?
I'm like, because you know, it's a nice thing to do.
(01:07:39):
They're not used to having nice things done for them.
I really don't understand, you know, why that would be
such an issue. But you know, I remember that interaction
and it really unsettled me because he really did not understand.
But he was supposed to be the pure conservative. He
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was the one that was supposed to uphold the Christian
value of conservatism, and yet he could not understand how
I could do something like that. And that bothered me.
And that's when I started realizing how these people just
they're all talk that then uh yeah, that's what ended
up happening. They were all talk and some of them
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went over to the Lincoln Project and some of them
left social media completely.
Speaker 1 (01:08:30):
Side.
Speaker 8 (01:08:31):
Yeah, yeah, so I was yeah, see he already remembers
the salon.
Speaker 1 (01:08:36):
Cons Yeah, I just don't. I don't think I need
to find I.
Speaker 8 (01:08:41):
Need to find that Salon piece because it was we
laughed about that. And this was around the time that
the Misfits were forming, and uh, you know, they were
complaining that they were stealing the Misfits from another person
and the other person was like, I don't care, I
don't use it anymore.
Speaker 1 (01:09:02):
I don't.
Speaker 8 (01:09:04):
They just l over that. Hey, we have a G
sighting in the chat word, we have a G in
the chat really, Yes, he's asking about what are axes
of kindness?
Speaker 1 (01:09:23):
Hey, I fixed it everywhere that I could. But you
know that if a type will get you in our
chat room, I'll do it more often.
Speaker 8 (01:09:35):
I like now, But but yeah, I was.
Speaker 1 (01:09:41):
I was really all the g all the women are
asking to see your abs while you're here.
Speaker 8 (01:09:47):
Ah that I don't need to see his apps there.
That that's living red free in my head.
Speaker 1 (01:09:58):
Hey he's coming to give me craps some on a
bus right back.
Speaker 8 (01:10:04):
Yeah, the Salon Cons.
Speaker 10 (01:10:05):
That was.
Speaker 8 (01:10:06):
That was That was man, that was trippy. That was
quite a while back, but that was trippy.
Speaker 1 (01:10:11):
I knew who they were, and you said at the
Buckley Club. I just don't think. I think that may
have been right before I started being invited into some
of the groups where that was going on, because I
had heard them called other names, but never the Salon Cons.
Speaker 8 (01:10:28):
No, I was never in any of the groups that
they were in. So that's great. I only I damply
a couple of them. But but that was it. And
usually it had to do with believe it or not.
They wanted to know what Sam was saying, because Sam
had a couple of them blocked nice and I was like,
(01:10:51):
I'm not a snitch, but I I you know, I
would tell them, well, this is she talking about this
particular political thing that's going on, you know, So that's
all I would say. But yeah. They would hit me
up asking what Sam was talking about, and I'm like, okay, no,
(01:11:18):
you can hit up one of your friends, right, I'm
not a snitch, but she's just talking about regular politics,
if you must know.
Speaker 1 (01:11:28):
Well, that is one thing about I guess the new
way that they block stuff is at least you can
see the stuff, you just can't interact with it anymore.
I don't know if I like that better or worse, though.
Speaker 8 (01:11:39):
I I have found so many people that have to
be blocked in my original on my main account that
I didn't know had me blocked because I've never seen
them before. There were a couple that I used to
interact a lot with back in twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen,
(01:12:00):
and now they have me blocked, and I have no
idea why, because all our interactions were just fun stuff.
Most of the people that have me blocked, I'm either
on a list somewhere or they just don't like getting
a good morning tweet. I don't know. I have no
idea because we have a lot of mutuals, and so
(01:12:23):
I don't understand why I would be blocked when almost
everybody in our groups follows this person and they follow
back but I'm blocked, so I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:12:34):
I don't know what I did, but yeah, I'm not sure.
Speaker 8 (01:12:40):
Hey, I'm always like, like I said, Hey, I'm proud
of you for using that block button. You have decided
that I do not fit in your life, and you
have taken steps to make sure that I am not
in that circle. And I'm very proud of you because
you have made that decision. You've removed what you don't
like out of your life so that you can be happier.
(01:13:01):
That's fine, I'm okay with that. And then you know,
I tweeted something along those lines in the other account,
and somebody asked me, who blocked you? I said, oh,
I cannot keep track, honestly, but I'm very proud of
each and every single person that goes ahead and does it.
And they couldn't understand what I was meaning. And I
(01:13:22):
had to explain to some of them, was like, because
they took the initiative, they don't like what they're seeing
with me, they don't like the interactions with me, or
they don't like the good morning tweets or whatever it is,
or my snarkiness or whatever I post politically on somebody.
Some politicians feed. They don't want it, they don't want
to see it. They want to remove me from that
(01:13:42):
so that there can be happier in their life. Fine,
that's great. We're always talking about removing toxic stuff from
our lives. I'm not going to pretend I'm not toxics
to somebody. I have to be toxic to somebody. My
virtue is just being human. So you know, I'm I'm
(01:14:04):
very you know, when somebody blocks me, I'm like, well,
good for you. You took initiative, you decided to do
something about it, and that's good. I'm glad that you're
observing your mental health. Good for you. I'm happy about that.
I do not take offense when people block me. I
do wonder why they do it, and I've asked people, hey,
(01:14:24):
if you feel the need to block me, yeah, let
me know real quick and then and then do it,
because the curiosity is gonna kill me. I just need
that tell that little bit of tele novela. I need
that in my life before you leave. That's all I ask.
Be that kind, Be that kind. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:14:45):
I just the one thing is it's not really that
it bothers me or anything, but I wish, you know,
because you know how you X will tell you when
people follow you. I wish X would tell you when
people unfollow you, so you go and follow them if you.
Speaker 8 (01:14:59):
Yeah, it's kind of weird that they don't. You would
have thought that they. I mean, with all of these
little tweaks that Musk was saying he was doing, especially
the block feature, that taking away the like feature, you know,
all that stuff, And I'm like, can you just you
know when somebody unfollows me, so I can.
Speaker 1 (01:15:15):
Do the same kindness that way, if I don't want
to follow them anymore, I don't have to, you know,
it would be nice. But yeah, I know, I just
thought of that today because I don't know I did.
I guess I did something to piss people off about
halfway through the week, because I lost like forty or
fifty and I'm like, what the hell.
Speaker 3 (01:15:30):
What was that about?
Speaker 8 (01:15:31):
I think I think a lot of I don't think
that you upset people. I think what happened was that
people you had your own redline, your your own grubicon,
and and you know, there were a lot of people
who lost a lot of followers because standing for faith,
standing for what was right, and holding up the mirror
(01:15:56):
to the true evil that had that that was perpetrated
and that, you know, some people decided to cut ties,
you know, And so I can understand that because for
the first time in my life, I cut ties with
people that I'm related to because of what happened with
(01:16:19):
Charlie Kirk. That took a lot. So you can imagine
how bad it was for me to take that step,
because I don't unfollow, I don't unfriend very easily. It
has to be something really grave to get me to
that point. And it was not kind. There was no kindness,
(01:16:41):
There was no charity, there was no there was no
reach for peace that was coming from that quarter. And
I said, do I need to have that in my
life for the rest of my.
Speaker 1 (01:16:57):
Time on earth? No, I don't.
Speaker 8 (01:17:00):
I can love them, but I don't have to tolerate
that coming from them. So I took that step, and
thankfully nobody's noticed, because you know me, I don't do
a lot of stuff over there on the Book of
Faces every so often. I mean, I think the last
(01:17:22):
thing I did was share your your your status. That
was the last thing that I did. But I don't
do a lot of stuff. I check on everybody else
and everything I check to see what telenoveailas are going on,
you know that kind of thing. But so, yeah, they
haven't noticed, and that's fine. Sadly, two of them have
birthdays today. I'm sure, I am sure that they will
(01:17:48):
be asking, Hey, she didn't have me happy birthday? What's
going on? What do you mean she doesn't follow me?
And I'm like, what do you mean she did? Fred
of me? What I'm that's gonna happen this weekend. I
will give you a full report on Tuesday during the
cocktail lounge if something happened.
Speaker 1 (01:18:04):
Gee, I promise. I'm being sneaky about it, and I've
just been for thirty days, so they don't realize that
I'm not talking to them anymore while I decide what
I'm doing next.
Speaker 8 (01:18:14):
Oh, Danielle, honey, I am so tired of people correcting
the memes that I post. It not even be my memes, Okay,
my memes are. I actually put Aggie Weekan on my
memes so that people recognize that I actually came up
with that meme. They correct me. I was like, oh
my god, it was supposed to be a joke, not
a dick. They'll take it so hard. I refuse to
(01:18:37):
say that. I cannot type that, but I can say
it's night. So anyway, back to kindness.
Speaker 1 (01:18:43):
That's all right. What I will do for you at
some point over this weekend, I will find this part
of the show and I will cut it into an
audio block that I will send to you, So then
you can just post it to everyone any time you want.
Speaker 8 (01:18:57):
That'd be hilarious.
Speaker 4 (01:19:04):
Yeah, but you know.
Speaker 8 (01:19:07):
I'll find you, Daniel. So anyway, but I mean there,
like I said, performing a random act of kindness this
stranger is not only something that I view as being beautiful,
but it's like I said, it's restorative. It makes you
(01:19:28):
feel good too, It makes you happier. It gives you
a certain feeling of satisfaction of having achieved something, you know,
and it actually incentivizes you to do more. And for
me it has been rather eye opening. I one of
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the things that my church has been because it is small,
sometimes they don't meet their monthly tithing, for you know,
the fixing of the roof, replacing the window, the cleaning
of there's a lot of wood planeling inside that church,
so you know that needs constant attention, those kind of
(01:20:14):
little things. And so I have been trying to figure
out a way to not just keep up with my tithing,
which is separate, but I wanted to do some form
of charity to where the church would actually receive that
monetary donation. And I figured out what to do. I
(01:20:36):
had this epiphany a couple of weeks ago. I have
a lot of furniture that I like to redo, restore
or fix or whatever.
Speaker 5 (01:20:47):
And.
Speaker 8 (01:20:49):
I was going to sell it at a store, you know,
with my friend, but I just I don't have the time,
and I just I've lost the But with my dad,
my dad's passing and everything it's been going on with
my mom and having to deal with the estate and
the house and now the house in Puerto Rico, my
(01:21:11):
mom wants me to go to Puerto Rico, and I'm like,
I don't want to go. I don't want to see
my crazy family. But you know, so I was trying
to figure out, you know, I just don't have I
have the time to do this, but I don't have
the time to actually run a little booth or anything
like that.
Speaker 3 (01:21:29):
So I was.
Speaker 8 (01:21:31):
Playing in bed and I was like, I'm going to
talk to my friend, see if I can just start
putting pieces there with tags that say this is you know,
for charity. You know, all proceeds go to charity or whatever,
and make them not cost prohibitive, but you know enough
that I can get a little money to the church.
(01:21:54):
And I talked to my friend about that. She's like,
that sounds like a fabulous idea. I know exactly where
we can put them. And she show me that there's
an area that she used to have a table for
certain things, and she's like, I have this empty spot.
I'll just you know, start bringing in your stuff and
we'll put it here and we'll put a little sign
(01:22:14):
and everything, and we'll see how it goes. And so
that that's another thing that I'm putting forward, you know.
And that was as a result of getting together and
starting this whole thing with the food bank, you know,
the mobile food bank or whatever you want to call it,
and seeing that, you know, the church every month is
(01:22:36):
pretty much a little bit in the red. Yeah, and
you know, and admittedly the the other churches do, you know,
shift money so that they can compensate, but you know,
you kind of want your church to be in the
black on their own. So you know, I'm hoping that
this helps I haven't talked to anybody of the church,
(01:22:59):
but I figured once it gets started, I can then
go ahead and just start taking the money in and whatever,
and they can they can deal with that. I don't
want to deal with it. I want them to deal
with it. And you know, and I had thought, hey,
why don't we do a several churches around here? Every
(01:23:21):
so often they'll have a trunk sale where people just
bring the stuff in their cars and they just put it,
you know, they go to the parking lot and you
sell your stuff out of your car. Well, my church
doesn't even have a parking lot, y'all.
Speaker 1 (01:23:39):
I can't see the church we've been going to until
like a month. It had a gravel lot that was
a parking lot. They finally they actually finally put in
a parking lot like about a month ago.
Speaker 8 (01:23:49):
And Catholics do tythe we do tythe It's just that
there's our church is so small, but the you know,
and and the building is so old it does need
a lot of fixing and so the tithes are not enough.
That's that's all that's going on right now. I'm actually
(01:24:09):
going to be volunteering to clean the wood paneling because
I have all of the material here at home, and
I can just go, you know, two or three times
a week to start, you know, restoring the paneling and
all that stuff. And you know, and it's not like
the wood paneling from the seventies. This is actual nice
wood paneling. It's really pretty. But you know, I was
(01:24:33):
I was looking at it going it's a little dry.
I was talking to one of the deacons about the
food thing. It's like, how are you all cleaning? How
do you clean this? And he's like, well, you know,
somebody comes in with a duster and I said, you
need you know, you need to like condition the wood, right,
(01:24:55):
and he says, yeah, but nobody, nobody, nobody does that.
I'm like, you know what, I'll just volunteer. It'll give
me something to do.
Speaker 1 (01:25:04):
Somebody's gonna do it now. But all right, So I
have to share this because it's just how my brain works.
So you said epiphany a second ago. This scene goes
through my head every time anybody says the word epiphany
has every since I've seen the movie, and I wish
I could make it stop. But now I have to
share the pain I've just had. Apostrophe. I think you
(01:25:37):
mean it a tiphany. Every pod goes through my head.
Anytime anybody says the word of a it doesn't matter
if they say it out loud. That line goes through
my head every single time.
Speaker 8 (01:25:57):
Bob Hoskins was a treasure. He died way too young,
in my opinion, but I found an apostrophe.
Speaker 1 (01:26:07):
I've actually tried to make that joke before and people
don't get it, and then I have to go find
the scene and I'm like, come on, man.
Speaker 8 (01:26:14):
I was just discussing that Hook was a fabulous film,
and Brad was talking about how, yeah, no it wasn't,
and I'm like, I will.
Speaker 1 (01:26:23):
Die on that hill, dude. It was a very underappreciated film.
In my opinion, I thought it was great. But I
think for me, part of it is I had just
become a dad when that movie came out, so my
kids were still really small. So I was relating so
much with what was going on with Robin Williams character
because that was when I was trying to build everything
(01:26:43):
up and trying to find my way in the world
and make sure my kids had money and we had money,
and so yeah, it was I related to that movie
in so many ways, and to me it was just
always an underappreciated movie. But then again, almost everything Robin
Williams put out in its own way was a masterpiece.
I think I've only seen one of his movies that
I was kind of like, eh, and that's the one
(01:27:04):
where he played the bad guy. I can't even remember
the name of it. And it's not that it wasn't
a good movie. I just him being him being a
bad guy. My brain just could not wrap itself. Is
that one.
Speaker 8 (01:27:15):
Photo?
Speaker 1 (01:27:16):
Yeah? One hour photo. Yeah. And it's not that it
was a bad movie. It was a decent it was
a good movie. I just could not you know, he's
not anybody that I ever wanted to see as a
bad guy. My brain short circuited. I couldn't do it.
I haven't.
Speaker 8 (01:27:32):
I tried watching it. I couldn't do it. I was like, no,
especially after having read Red Dragon, I couldn't do that one.
So I've never seen it. But I heard he did
a really good job as a bad guy.
Speaker 1 (01:27:50):
Oh well, I think that's part of why I didn't
like it so much. He played a really good bad guy,
and I'm like, this shouldn't be possible for.
Speaker 8 (01:27:58):
One Oh man, Oh goodness, we're almost at the top
of the hour.
Speaker 1 (01:28:07):
Yep, we are. Now we've already done ninety minutes. Pretty close.
So I do I do have one thing that I
want to say today. I never thought I would get
so much crap after being kind of snarky on a
post asking what's preventing you from visiting London? Yeah, apparently
some people didn't like my responses.
Speaker 6 (01:28:27):
M what.
Speaker 1 (01:28:30):
Yeah, A well, a couple of foreigners. One of them
that I thought was funny was your yank mate, you've
never even seen bacon. I'm like, dude, we have actual bacon.
Speaker 8 (01:28:45):
Uh yeah, I answered that one. You know what's stopping
you from visiting London? London? I said, a yearning to
be free? That was my Nobody touched that one. They couldn't.
You couldn't. They literally just had a guy that he
was talking about how, yeah, I know this has nothing
(01:29:05):
to do with random acxic kindness, but he was talking
about how the cops broke into his house at two
o'clock in the morning, taking him into custody because of
a post that he made on social media basically, f Islam,
f Muslims, you know whatever, f hamas f Islam. I
think it was on his post and they took him
(01:29:29):
in and he was cuffed and he was processed and
all that stuff. And even one of the one of
the cops, was saying, yeah, you're not going to be
here very long. So it was just an intimidation tactic.
Speaker 1 (01:29:40):
Yeah, it's just to get him to stop posting.
Speaker 8 (01:29:42):
Yeah, And I'm like you, nothing would incentivize me to
go to that country at this point in time. Nothing.
I'm I'm I'm looking at Germany and there there's a
rex posted this a German bookstore actually said no Jews
aloud in a German bookstore. And I'm like, this is
(01:30:03):
what happens when you don't teach your history, because then
you're doomed to repeat it. And this is true. They
don't teach about what happened between the years of nineteen
thirty and nineteen forty five unless you go to gymnasium,
which is their version of the last three years of
high school. So most people graduate in ninth grade with
(01:30:24):
a deep plumb and they'd not taught that. They know
what happened, but they don't know what happened. They don't
know how it came about. So you know, and now
your history is starting to just repeat itself.
Speaker 1 (01:30:40):
Well, as far as the guy who got his house
broken into, I bet he's wishing he had this set
of Bobby's trying to get in there. Watch this though
this for two minutes. Sean posted this earlier today and
(01:31:16):
I was done.
Speaker 8 (01:31:18):
You have got to be choking. It's literally a window
next door.
Speaker 1 (01:31:22):
It's like, if this is if this is what policing
in England has come to, it's no wonder you guys
have been conquered. What I love is further down on
the post. Somebody took a further out shot and apparently
there's a guy standing on a balcony watching them do this,
and everybody's like, is this his door that they're trying
to kick in?
Speaker 8 (01:31:49):
Hey, we have a Calvi in sighting.
Speaker 1 (01:31:53):
Yeah, apparently he took a nap so he joined us
a little late. Oh I need a MOS update that
that actually would be. That's a good idea. I'm going
to find that. I'm gonna I'm going to mix that
probably Sunday. Sometimes do Benny Hill music, remix the video
and music behind and then put it out all real place.
Speaker 8 (01:32:12):
Oh he was a treasure. Oh goodness, Well, I don't know,
did you want to keep going or do we have.
Speaker 1 (01:32:22):
Stuff after this? We really don't have anything going on
after if you want to keep going for a little bit,
I don't really care.
Speaker 8 (01:32:30):
Well no, I mean, like I said, I told you
before the show, there was, uh, this lady came in
and she was bringing books to the VA hospital. And
there's a they have like a little shelf area like
you know, uh for people to read magazines and everything
(01:32:52):
in the waiting area. But across on the other end
there's little seating area, so that and another shelf with books.
And so she came in and she dropped off some
magazines and then she goes all the way over there
and she puts some books. And I was curious, and
I went over there to see what books she had
(01:33:13):
and and and it was funny because all of the
books there there were Westerns, there was military, military, sci fi,
historical books and through you know, autobiographies. I was like,
there's no romance, there's no comedy. It's like very guy oriented.
(01:33:34):
But it was the VA and most of the most
of the people at the VA just happened to be
of the male persuasion, right, So that was pretty funny.
But that was but it was sweet that she was
actually stalking you know, you know books, and these were
books that people who come to the VA can take
(01:33:55):
with them, you know, you can take one, leave one,
you know that kind of it's kind of like a
lending library. But this was for the v A. And
I did not know this, but later on I was,
you know, one of the uh, the receptionists that was there,
(01:34:16):
you know, was helping another gentleman or something. And I
way later and I said, it, can anybody bring books,
you know, to drop off? Because well knows, I have
a plusor of books that I can drop off and
anytime that I'm at the VA. And she's like, oh, yes,
it's you know, people can take whatever they want and leave.
And people come and leave whatever they want. And you know,
(01:34:38):
it seems to be working really nice. You know, We've
had it up for about three months now. And now
I was like, okay, you know, so I'm going to
clear out my books and take them over there. And no,
I'm not going to put any romances. I'm not going
to put any but comedy, yes, but no, but no, no, no, no, you.
Speaker 1 (01:34:58):
Got you gotta you gotta at least one body stripper
in there now come on, you just made it.
Speaker 8 (01:35:03):
Okay. I have a couple of fabio books.
Speaker 1 (01:35:07):
Novels, and I'm like, no, I'm not known. No, you
got to put at least one Bodice ripper in there.
Speaker 8 (01:35:13):
Okay, I have a couple of I have a couple
of fabio books. I could definitely take. But you know,
that's that is a little kindness that a lot of
people don't tend to see those lending The concept of
the lending library was phenomenal. I love that almost every park.
I've been to, several areas that you know, you don't
(01:35:36):
expect to see it. Would you believe there's a lending
library in the cemetery? I saw it. I was like,
I blew my mind. I'm like, okay, in a way,
this would make sense if I were in Puerto Rico
or in Europe. In Puerto Rico, we do have It's
(01:35:59):
not a habit, but we kind of do it anyway.
My aunt died when she was four years old, my
mother's youngest sister, and so my mother and her sisters
usually go up to the grave side and they you know,
they clean it up, they repainted and everything, and then
they sit around and they talk about what they've done
(01:36:21):
for that year or you know, since the last time
that they were there, and you know, they talked to
her and everything, and sometimes they'll actually take food and
we'll have picnic and everything.
Speaker 1 (01:36:30):
And I.
Speaker 8 (01:36:33):
Don't think that that's done here. But I remember going
with my German friend to her dad's and we would
take a picnic and we would sit right there where
his grave was and we would eat and she would
talk to him and then I would, you know, I
(01:36:54):
would talk to her and then she would translate for him,
and it was it was actually very endearing in it.
So for me, a lending library and a cemetery actually
makes sense because you take the book, you go to
your whoever you're visiting, and then you can read to them,
and it makes sense in my head. But the first
time that I saw it, I had to like adjust
(01:37:15):
because I did not expect the lending library to be
at a cemetery. But it makes sense to me, you know.
But that concept of the lending library, I think it's
awesome and I think it's really cool, especially if you
if you go to playgrounds and see that they are
lending libraries there with kids books, and if you go
(01:37:36):
to larger parks, and you'll see lending libraries for everybody.
And if you go to the lending library that there's
four here in town that I've seen, and one is
next to the food pantry, and there's another one that's
next to the veterans of fourgn wars, and there is
(01:38:00):
one that's next to the hospital, and another one is
next to the library, which sh okay, but you know,
so depending on where it's located, you'll have different types
of books. And that to me is a kindness that
has actually expanded and has taken over. And I see
(01:38:21):
it in other countries too. It's not just here, so
a lot of people don't see it as a kindness.
But considering that reading is so important and you want
(01:38:42):
to actually incentivize people to actually keep doing it, I
think it is a kindness. I think it's a it's
a beautiful kindness that people have been passing on.
Speaker 3 (01:38:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:38:54):
So, and I know this is not necessarily tied to
the topic, but since we have started talking about lending
libraries and stuff, how did the guy who who actually
created the entire show concept of reading Rainbow turn into
such a douche?
Speaker 8 (01:39:09):
What?
Speaker 1 (01:39:10):
What the hell happened? All our burden. I don't get it.
Speaker 8 (01:39:13):
I he he was so great and he and he
actually an entire generation grew up with Reading Rainbow and
how important it was to read. And I think the
fact that it was no longer on the air actually
(01:39:35):
did a lot of damage, honestly, because kids just thought, oh, well,
you know, so it's no longer cool. And I'm like, no, no,
it's always been cool to read, you know. But I
don't know. I don't know what happened. I I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:39:54):
Well, the reason I asked is because if a show
like Reading Rainbow was still around, this might not have
been happened. I have to talk about this. I just
saw this. So hang on, ice Cuba has gotten firebombed
in Portland, organ So you're telling me the left is
so stupid? The ice ice Cube, I like immigration? Oh no,
(01:40:24):
oh yes, are you serious? Yes, I just checked the source.
It did actually happen. Yes, they they torched ice Cube
the bus.
Speaker 8 (01:40:36):
Because they thought the ice was ice, like immigration customs enforcement.
Speaker 1 (01:40:41):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 8 (01:40:44):
Yes, that's not a kindness.
Speaker 6 (01:40:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:40:49):
Maybe, well, the kindness is maybe LaVar Burton, you should
bring Reading Greenbow back. So the next generation doesn't make
that mistake.
Speaker 6 (01:40:56):
I wow, I.
Speaker 8 (01:41:00):
I'm really surprised that Reading Rabo didn't keep going past
LeVar Burton like with another host, like they did Blues Clues.
You know, Blue Clues kept going. Yeah, I mean Blue
Clothes graduated, went to college.
Speaker 1 (01:41:14):
I I mean, I haven't looked in a while, but
I know it was going up until just a couple
of years ago. Still it's more on like YouTube and
stuff now, but it has like newer episodes. But it's
just I don't know. I just I thought of that
and then I saw that clip and I was like, hey,
I can tie this back into a kindness. Somebody needs
to revive reading Rainbow so kids know the difference between
that would.
Speaker 8 (01:41:34):
Be that would be really cool. If they could bring
back reading rapo, that would be nice. That would be great.
Speaker 1 (01:41:41):
I mean, come on, in some ways, even mister Rogers
Neighborhood kept going. Because now there's the Daniel Tiger thing
that's more of a cartoon or any thing, but it's
still you know, for the same age group. Sesme Street's
been around for forever. They could have found a way
to keep reading ring. I think that's I think by then,
I think Burton's pride had already got him because I
think even though we hadn't seen it yet, he was
(01:42:05):
always really haughty, like when he went in to read
for his part in Roots, it was supposed to be
more of a stereotypical role, and he basically just put
the script down and just refused to say a word
until somebody came to talk to him about it and
he's like, this is not how I'm going to do
this part now. For that, it worked because it turned
into because I was little, but I remember my parents
(01:42:27):
watching that movie and I was running in and out
with my friends and I stopped because my parents were
just bawling, and I'm like, what the heck is going
on in here?
Speaker 8 (01:42:35):
Because I don't remember it. I had to watch it
when I was older and available on video. But then
it came out that Alex Haley actually fabricated a lot
of it, and that was that was hard because this
was supposed to be I mean, you know this, This
(01:42:59):
was supposed to be like a pillar for the people
who didn't have a history, and to find that he
had fabricated it was really difficult. He still got a
pass from those same people because Alex Haley was of
(01:43:20):
course just like them, but the fact remained that he
did a disservice. He really did. The other thing that
I found interesting was the first time that I watched it,
I was in I think I was in high school.
The second time I watched it, I had had I
was my senior it was my senior year in college,
(01:43:42):
and I'm watching it from an anthropological point of view,
and I'm going, these these people don't even belong together
because there's certain facial characteristics that go for each tribe
in Africa, and I'm like, yeah, this person would not
be in that tribe, this person would not be in
(01:44:03):
this way, this person wouldn't even be married to this guy.
It was so distracting for me that I had to
give up halfway through and say, no, I just want
to remember the way it was. But yeah, it was.
Speaker 11 (01:44:16):
It was.
Speaker 8 (01:44:17):
It was really hard to take when I found out,
you know, when it came out that Alex Haley had
papricated most of it, and and that was that was
pretty sad.
Speaker 1 (01:44:28):
Okay, So I found I found another funny while I
was scrolling around real quick. I don't know if they're
going to be able to read it but basically it's
a screen grab from the Georgia game and it's Jake
from on there and right next to that is State Farm,
so it's Jacob from.
Speaker 8 (01:44:39):
The State Farm. Oh my goodness. So anyway, I guess
we should wrap up, so we Oh. I did want
to point out there was a kind of is that
(01:45:00):
I really like that I have seen and it came
from you, my friend, your new show. That is a
kindness that is deeply needed today. And thank you because
I look forward to listening, you know, whenever you figure
out what timeslot you want to put it in.
Speaker 1 (01:45:19):
But it'll be on Sunday night, Yay, that'll be fun.
It'll be the it'll be the closing act from now on.
I'll come on after aur.
Speaker 8 (01:45:29):
Awesome. I look forward to that. And if I can't
catch it live, i'll catch it the following day.
Speaker 1 (01:45:34):
But yeah, that is I'm even considering maybe doing instead
of because that, I'm thinking about moving rails just to
strictly on Mondays because I've been not doing so good
with rails because I usually do it on Wednesdays, and
I'm thinking about doing the new one on for sure
every Sunday, and then maybe doing it every other Sunday,
since inquiries kind of the same genre kind of the show,
(01:45:54):
it might fit that way, and then we can do
church on Wednesdays and Sundays.
Speaker 8 (01:46:00):
Oh yeah, there you go. That works all right. Well,
I guess we should wrap it up. So tell us
where we can find you.
Speaker 1 (01:46:11):
Oh well, you can find you. Won't find me tomorrow.
I'll be off performing a wedding, but you can find
me Sunday night at ten pm Eastern doing the show
that just went up on the screen Kingdom and Country.
It's our newest offering here, and it's kind of something
that I've been feeling like I should have been doing
all along. But much like the folks that were telling
(01:46:32):
Charlie Kirk in the beginning of his career that you
really can't mix the two, I listened to the same
people and kind of shout away from it. Never really
realized that he started, because you know, I was off
building my own stuff, so he wasn't really anybody that
I paid attention to that much. We ran in some
of the same circles, but you know, didn't We connected
a couple times here and there, message back and forth
(01:46:52):
on you know X a few times back when it
was Twitter, and I was honestly surprised to find when
I went to go look him up the other day
right after his passing, that he was still following me.
I was like, that dude got really big to still
be following along with me. That's kind of cool. But yeah,
so that was kind of where this one was born from.
(01:47:13):
So it'll be again for sure for now every Sunday night,
ten pm Eastern, it'll be the closing act for a
Sunday night programming. Well except for well, because I think
I'm gonna if I'm home in time, I'm gonna run
busy Tomorrow night. He's actually about to start a show
in about forty five minutes, so I think if I
because I think i'll be home from the wedding about
the time that Ken and Barbie are done, so I
(01:47:36):
think i'll fire a BZ if I can get back
in time. Because he's doing a show tonight. I was like,
I don't want to stay up till midnight. I got
to get up early, so we'll do that tomorrow. I
have a wedding that you're ready for, and those things
make me nervous. It's weird because all the stuff that
I do where I talk in front of people and
the radio shows and everything else that I do, and
(01:47:58):
I go do a wedding and I get nervous.
Speaker 3 (01:48:00):
What the heck?
Speaker 1 (01:48:01):
But anyway, but so that's where I'll be tomorrow and
then make sure you guys come back on Sunday. You
can find me at Rowdy Rick seventy three. You can
follow along with us here at KLARM Radio on x
on YouTube, on Rumble, and on Facebook. And I also
occasionally been working on trying to get that done more often,
but lately I just have had nothing in the tank again.
(01:48:22):
Contribute to Twitchy dot com, Misfits politics dot com, and
I also produce the Loftus Party podcast, which drops on Tuesdays.
As if I didn't already have enough to do, but
you know what are you going to do?
Speaker 3 (01:48:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:48:39):
All right, folks, that's gonna do it for us? Thank
you so much for what did I forget to do?
You I did forget to do? Yeah? My book? Do
you go first?
Speaker 8 (01:48:50):
That's okay, y'all, don't worry go find me for now.
Speaker 1 (01:48:56):
Yeah. How excited a second ago because you were talking
about your original account again. I thought maybe you figured
out how to get back into it yet.
Speaker 8 (01:49:02):
I've been emailing but have yet to hear from next Support.
Speaker 1 (01:49:06):
So I don't think anymore. I think they've turned it
over to AI.
Speaker 8 (01:49:12):
Yeah, that's why I'm trying to get my thing red flag,
so that a live person will actually help me get
my account back. So it's the only thing I can
do at this moment. But you can find me at
Agia Barkeep and you can find me a thirty pm
Eastern Tuesday nights to in the Cocktail Lounge, A thirty
(01:49:34):
pm Eastern Friday nights do and he said, she said,
with you. And the second Tuesday of every month, excuse me,
second Wednesday of every month, the guys get together for
Toxic Masculine at eight pm, and Jeff and I now
do the first month every month, we do Spirited Books
a thirty pm Eastern There's a pan in.
Speaker 1 (01:49:52):
There, all right, one last plug, don't forget. Starting in October,
we will have cryptids everywhere. Juxtaposition will be every Saturday
night in October and then the first Saturday night in
November as well, so we'll have five weeks of it.
And since we are gonna be talking cryptids in juxtaposition,
usually what happens is in October. Everybody gets together and
(01:50:13):
figures out ways that they can cross promote stuff. So
I know Aggie and Jeff are working on that for
Spirited Books. There's a couple other folks.
Speaker 8 (01:50:20):
I know.
Speaker 1 (01:50:21):
They're starting to talk about whether we're going to do
any type of a Halloween play in the playgroup that
we do, and I thought I found a shorter one
that might work that AI could stretch out, but it
doesn't involve as many people, so it may be easier
to pull off on a Halloween schedule. So I'm gonna
once I get back into having credits on GPT again,
I'm gonna have GPT finish it, then shoot it over
to Jeff and be like, if you want to do it, great,
(01:50:43):
If not, that's cool too, because I don't know the play.
The play was really fun the last time we did
want to be in a minute and he actually did
a really good job with it, So I want to
try to get back into that again. But that's gonna
do it for us for tonight. You guys, enjoy the
rest of your Friday night. Thank you so much for
hanging out with us for part of it, and please
make sure you're back here tomorrow night, supporting uh, Daniel
(01:51:05):
and Laura as they produce their own show without a
net for the first time, because I won't be here
to help make sure it doesn't. So it could be
fun either way, So come hang out one way or
the other.
Speaker 8 (01:51:25):
By thanks for joining us, Bye bye