Growing Together
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Growing Together
What Feelings Come From the Word Christian?
Ever found yourself spiraling into a panic after a late-night WebMD session? We've all been there, and in this episode, we share some hilarious stories of self-diagnosis mishaps and unexpected podiatrist visits that prove foot doctors aren't just for the elderly. Join us as we explore the comedic side of bending over for shoes and how minor health hiccups can sneak into our everyday lives. It's a lighthearted reminder of the importance of professional medical advice and regular foot care, with a sprinkle of laughter to ease the tension.
But wait, there's more! From teenage growth spurts to the ongoing battle with the scale, we humorously recount our love-hate relationship with late-night snacks—hello, peanut butter—and the peculiar dreams that follow. If you've ever woken up wondering why your dreams vanish with the morning light, you're in good company. These nocturnal adventures are a rollercoaster ride through stress eating and midnight cravings, offering a fun glimpse into our quest for balance in an unpredictable world.
As we navigate the intricacies of family feuds, church attendance, and the quirks of neighborly relations, you'll find stories that resonate with everyday challenges. Whether it's guiding children through religious practices or facing the frustrations of customer service blunders, the journey through work ethics, community, and the unspoken rules of church life is both entertaining and enlightening. We wrap up with a nostalgic nod to the Jerry Springer show's wild ride and end with a heartfelt prayer, hoping to leave you with a sense of gratitude and the warmth of shared stories.
My sister does that with WebMD, oh you can't you physically cannot do that. Steph was doing that Before. On your MyChart, whenever it tells you the findings or the doctor can talk with you, and she's looking up all these names and I'm like and Stephanie Caldwell just did the same thing I'm like, don't do this.
Speaker 2:And even if you Google, why do I have a pain in my big toe? You have cancer or a heart. You're going into congestive heart failure or like there's some sort of yeah there's some sort of epic illness that you've got.
Speaker 3:When it turns out really you just have an ingrown toenail yeah, I drew lab work on this lady last week and so, but she hasn't heard from her family doctor or the cardiologist regarding her lab work. So do you know what my lab showed? I said, well, I can look if they're scanned in here. I said, but if they haven't called you, everything's probably okay. You know, I'm by no means a specialist when it comes to labs. Yeah, I can look at them and let you know if everything's okay or if you need to worry.
Speaker 2:Have I ever told you guys about the time I went to the podiatrist? So I just need to clarify that I think the podiatrist is just a foot doctor for old people. I think it's just the place where old people go to get their toenails clipped because they run out of wind when they bend over to clip their toenails right. That's what I've always thought about them, but it must've been two or three years ago. I had this wicked pain in the bottom of my foot, like almost right in the center, like right in the arch of my foot, and it was wicked painful. It felt like I was stepping on something every time I would walk.
Speaker 6:And I couldn't know.
Speaker 2:I couldn't figure out what it was. But I had this like it looked like a bruise in the bottom of my foot, and so I gimped around for a couple of days and I was finally. I told Alyssa I'm like I can't walk, I can't put pressure on it, I don't want to walk on my toes because it hurts, like I've got to go see the doctor. So I call the podiatrist, go to the podiatrist and I get in the little chair and he has and I'm wearing slip on shoes because I can't put another shoe on because any kind of pressure just, oh my gosh, it's a black, it looks like there's a pebble under my skin and he's like are you?
Speaker 2:sure you didn't like step on a rock and it got embedded in your skin like I'm positive that I didn't. Was it a wart? No, no. So he's like poking at it. He's like somebody walked by. He's like, hey, come in here and look at this thing. And pretty soon I got like seven people in the room poking the bottom of my foot and I'm like ready to pass out. And he's like, well, I really don't know what it is. He's like does it hurt real bad? I'm like, yeah, every time you touch it, I feel like I'm going to pass out.
Speaker 2:So they fashioned me a pad, like a work pad, but there wasn't any medicine on it, it was just to like cushion it. And they put it around that sucker and I was able to walk on it that same day. That thing was gone within a week, no idea what it was, no idea where it came from. And so now I have a newfound appreciation for podiatrists. It's no longer, but my wife still makes fun of me because only old people go to the podiatrist. So where's that? Although I have decided that I am just going to start getting a regular pedicure, yeah, and the reason I just want them to cut my toenails, like I'm getting this like extra around the middle here, and so when I bend over I'm like for people that haven't seen you.
Speaker 5:They're thinking you're like 200 700 pounds, yeah no, seriously, like it's.
Speaker 2:I grunt now when I lift my foot up to put my shoe on it's did you hit a? What whole 148 no, listen, don't get me started listen.
Speaker 1:I haven't even seen that since high school 165, my entire, like I.
Speaker 2:So my freshman year of high school I was four, six. All the way through the freshman year of high school and like 98 pounds. And then between freshman and sophomore year I went to six, one, like over the summer, went to six, one and 165 pounds never varied. I would step on the scale at the doctor and I'd go 165. I'd get on the scale 165. On the, I'd go 165, I'd get on the scale 165. On the nose, like they were always blown away. That's all I ever was. I started to notice I was like man, I'm starting to jiggle when I walk a little bit.
Speaker 6:185 no way. Yes, yeah, but you're tall exactly so.
Speaker 2:I'm like 185. I don't like this. I want to go back to my 165. Okay, the other morning I got on the scale just for giggles 190. I almost had a stroke. I was like no, I can't do this. I don't at this point. I don't know what it is like. It's got to be just getting old. Like I refuse to go to the gym.
Speaker 2:But I don't drink soda like I used to. I usually get one a day and that's, and granted, it is a mcdonald's or something like that, because I get it through the drive-thru, because if I buy it at home I'll drink all 12 in an afternoon. It's nothing for me to drink that many sodas. So I do still. I like I don't limit the types of foods that I eat. Like I ate like six packs of ho-hos in an evening, like so I know that and the five dozen Buckeyes in two weeks. I know that that doesn't help. But I also don't eat the rest of the day. I don't eat breakfast. I seldom eat lunch, unless it's a can of Campbell's Chunky Soup, and then dinner, whatever we have. Last night we had chicken, potatoes and green beans and I didn't even eat the chicken.
Speaker 1:And then you just pig out at snack time.
Speaker 2:Well, see, the problem is, it's like the 3 am thing. Seriously, when I tell you that I look like a raccoon, I look like a raccoon.
Speaker 1:No wonder you don't have breakfast, because that's your breakfast.
Speaker 2:The worst part is sometimes I get up and last night it was no, not last night, maybe it was, I can't remember it was a pan of lasagna. You ate the whole pan, not the whole pan, but I ate two really big pieces. And then I just left the pan sit on the counter, so I had lasagna in it. I just left it sit there and like the fork is still in it and I know it was me because I'm like, oh, that must have been me. I don't remember most of it. I drank almost an entire gallon of milk in the middle of the night.
Speaker 1:One night You're like stress eating. It's bizarre While you're sleeping. So bizarre. What happened to your peanut butter?
Speaker 2:I still do peanut butter. Yeah, I still do peanut butter, although the last time I did it a really big scoop and I tried to eat it all and I started to gag and then that was the whole thing.
Speaker 6:Thought I was going to die. I don't buy it anymore because it's not safe.
Speaker 2:I love peanut butter.
Speaker 6:I will just gallon of milk, peanut butter.
Speaker 2:So Jif made. What were they? Oh, the squeezy pouches of peanut butter. Have you seen those? Alyssa used to buy those for me. She's like Michael I can't afford to buy this for you because you eat three a night. I can't.
Speaker 1:And they're expensive yeah.
Speaker 2:It's like triple the price of a jar of peanut butter and you don't get even half of that because it's all individually packed. They are so good though.
Speaker 6:I would get those like the little cups.
Speaker 2:It's not enough. No, no, it's not enough.
Speaker 6:I'll eat all three of them.
Speaker 1:I want peanut butter and celery no.
Speaker 2:Why? Why do you want to eat stringy water? Why do you want to eat stringy?
Speaker 1:water? I doubt it. No, because peanut butter we've talked about this peanut butter you can't even breathe half the time when you're swallowing it, so the celery washes it down.
Speaker 6:No, it's just a jar, a spoon and milk.
Speaker 2:Yes, and the milk is only really there for the reassurance that, if it gets stuck, I've got something to get it down. Seriously, I can't tell you how many times I've eaten a spoonful of peanut butter and thought this is it, this is how I go, this is the end.
Speaker 6:Well, this is going to get up.
Speaker 2:He's going to be on the kitchen floor. Yeah, oh Lord. Seriously, I don't remember eating the lasagna. I don't, I remember. What's funny is I remember tearing the aluminum foil when I was taking the thing off, like that was the realization that that was me, because the aluminum foil was laying beside it and it had been torn.
Speaker 1:Do you remember your dreams ever?
Speaker 2:I don't dream very often, but when I do, they're always when I remember them. They're always bizarre.
Speaker 1:Same.
Speaker 2:Yeah, really bizarre, and I can't. I seldom, can ever talk about my dreams, because people were like you need therapy, Like I already have it yeah, judging you right now, been there.
Speaker 3:It's very rare that I remember my dreams.
Speaker 1:I know that I dreamt, but yeah, very strange if I don't write it like as soon as I wake up, it's gone listen.
Speaker 2:Last night I'm laying in bed, falling asleep and I have this sermon idea and I'm like, oh man, this is fire, cannot wait to preach this. Like I got to write this message, I cannot wait, I cannot wait. I'm so excited. Next thing I know I'm asleep. Can you believe? I have no idea what it was.
Speaker 3:It's not time yet Not the faintest idea. It's just not time yet.
Speaker 2:I mean, I know it was good.
Speaker 1:Must not have been that good I was also going to gonna say.
Speaker 2:The other thing is is I was kind of in that like euphoric falling asleep thing. It may not have really been that good, my brain just thought it was great. So there's that. That happens to me a lot, though, and I'm like you should write that down. I'm like now you'll remember, I can't remember what I had for lunch. Actually, that's not true. 20-piece nugget large, and a large fry.
Speaker 4:Don't get all the scales in the morning 192. Wait about five minutes.
Speaker 6:It has nothing to do with what you ate. It's the amount of sodium, that's right.
Speaker 2:Maybe I need a water pill. Maybe that's what I need. Maybe I need a water pill.
Speaker 6:You need four in the morning and a half in the afternoon.
Speaker 2:I'll tell you I was thinking I said to Alyssa the other day, so I was like man, maybe I should just like get Ozempic or a semaglutide or something like like she's like you're not fat, you don't need to lose weight. I'm like right, I understand that you say that like you don't feel like I. I feel it when I walk and I'm not comfortable and she looks at me and she goes really she's like I've been big my whole life. What do you? How do you think I feel? Like all right, touche.
Speaker 3:Let's get off of weight. But can I just say God works in miraculous ways. My daughter just sent me a picture.
Speaker 4:Oh geez, I had a nephew that overdosed at Thanksgiving he was on event.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I had a nephew that overdosed at Thanksgiving. He was on a vent and the doctors came in and said to the parents you know they're not together, but both parents he has no brain activity. You need to pull the plug. Dad said yes. Mom said I can't do it, so he had been on a vent for several months, I mean since Thanksgiving. He's now trached, he's awake, wow, and he's sitting up in a chair.
Speaker 4:Wow.
Speaker 3:I just pray to God because, you know, because they're not saved. Yeah, most of his brothers are addicts. His dad was an addict. His mom was an addict, you know, but I've been watching her post.
Speaker 2:I'm not friends with her, but I've been watching her post Facebook stalking yeah, I have been, that's fine yeah. And you know she's been she's been crying out to God.
Speaker 5:Yes.
Speaker 3:Don't take my son.
Speaker 4:Yep.
Speaker 3:Don't, don't take my son, so if nothing else happens, yeah. I hope that there's a turnaround for that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's awesome family yeah that's awesome.
Speaker 5:Amen, yeah, that's great stuff. So, what feelings? What feelings you should?
Speaker 2:you should have said eureka, eureka oh, you know what I need to get? I need to get a sound clip of steve urkel going did, I do that and every time we talk about my eating habits or something strange we just play Steve Urkel or anytime we get off topic. Or that's the meanwhile back at the ranch sound that we need to get Meanwhile back at the ranch.
Speaker 2:What feelings come up when you identify as a Christian? So this question is really kind of short and sweet. So when you say to somebody, or somebody asks you like hey, are you a Christian? And you say yes, basically the point of the question is what feelings do you? Do you have?
Speaker 4:Peace, okay.
Speaker 1:I guess I have urgency, to like want to talk about it.
Speaker 2:I like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know. That's like the first thing that you know comes to mind whenever.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 3:Well, I would say love, joy and anxiety. Because now what if they've got questions for me? Then I might not have the right answer or feel that I don't have the right answer. So then I might feel some anxiety due to the fact that, but I hope and pray that I live my life that where people think, ah, she's a Christian. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, to expound on your anxiety, I always have anxiety. When somebody asks me that question, I'm like what did I do that?
Speaker 3:they remember. Sometimes, too, I would say sadness because, talking to my family members or people who aren't saved, and trying to get the point across that you know, jesus is who we need. This is what we need. And then they rebuke you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't. You don't need to pray for me right now. What, what a good God do this to my son. What a good God do this to? Yeah, that's the challenge for sure Okay.
Speaker 6:This. You just went a complete different direction with this, as I thought you well, sorry about that, beth.
Speaker 2:You think initially yeah, what was your original thought? Just this is just a thought shout it out.
Speaker 1:yeah, because I think it could go, depending on how they ask you, like I'm sorry, like don just said, well, you're a christian, you know why would your god do this? But then if someone, someone genuinely asks like, hey, are you a Christian? I have questions, like obviously you're going to have different emotions when they how they interpret it.
Speaker 6:I guess I guess I don't know how do I want to say I don't know. Go to Nick Pass.
Speaker 5:I guess I feel a strong sense of confidence, yet humility, like I know, all the confidence that I have in myself and what I do and who I am, comes from him. So that's why I have confidence. And yet, at the same point, I have that humility because I've been through plenty of things in my life. I've seen plenty of things in my life, so I have a lot of empathy for people. So when somebody comes to me with a question like that, dare I say I'm ready for anything. I'm ready for whatever comes next, whether it's a question or it's a statement that they're going to make.
Speaker 5:I feel pretty confident in who I am as a Christian and you know I just saw something the other day. You know people shouldn't people should not hang their hat on saying I'm a Christian. You need to ask yourself do you really have a relationship with Jesus? That's where it lies. It's easy to say yeah, I'm a Christian, I go to church, but if that's all you have, you're not going to be able to help anybody. If somebody comes up to you and asks you that question, whatever comes next, you're probably not going to be prepared for it.
Speaker 5:So it's more of you know, hanging your hat on. Yeah, I'm pretty confident, I have a relationship with Jesus and so, like I said, I have that confidence and that humility to have discussions with people and kind of, you know, uh, see it from all sides I can. I can look at somebody who's a non-Christian and with no judgment, you know, if somebody would make that statement, I mean, I suppose it depends on how they say it, but I would think, for the most part, if it's just because they don't know or they haven't decided, you know, or if they're questioning it, I'm not, I don't judge them because they're not a Christian. No, and that's not my job to do that. My job is to have that humility and the confidence to be like okay, well, here's some things you can think about, you know, to pull you to our side, yeah.
Speaker 5:Now, that's our job our side.
Speaker 1:Yeah, now, that's our job, I think I mean it's it's a known fact that this is the first generation that you say it all the time that there's um, that the parents basically aren't forcing the kids I shouldn't say forcing, but the the main no, no, no, that's the right word.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you have to force your kid. You force your kids to brush your brush their teeth, that's true, your kids to wear shoes?
Speaker 1:yeah, so, like the normal household is not going to church together.
Speaker 5:Anything that's good for your child, you gotta force them to do it.
Speaker 2:They're deodorant.
Speaker 1:So there's clearly more people unchurched than churched in this world.
Speaker 2:This is the first post-church generation, meaning that the kids who are our kids are not going to church.
Speaker 5:They're not growing up in church, correct?
Speaker 2:And they don't have, and some of that is our fault for not bringing them to church, but some of that is also our fault for giving them the freedom to decide whether or not they want to come.
Speaker 4:There was no freedom in my house.
Speaker 3:There wasn't in mine either. The pastor had to come out and pull my daughter out of the car a few times, like she ain't getting out of the car. He's like but she will. Oh, but watch me.
Speaker 2:She was a little stronger than I was Gonna lay hands on this girl. Roger, what Question it's your turn to answer? No, I was waiting on Beth. She passed, pastor Roger, she passed.
Speaker 3:She passed, she ain't coming back.
Speaker 6:I'm not passing.
Speaker 2:I'm not passing, I'm just not answering.
Speaker 6:I think it depends on how they're asking. Are they asking because they're a Christian or are they asking because they want to know? And I think if it's they want to know, it would give me a little bit of excitement to sharing, but it would also give me some stress because hopefully I have been representing him well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's the anxiety part, I think. I feel a sense of community. Okay, it's a good answer. Yeah, good answer. Good answer. It's like playing Family Feud Good answer. Is it up? It's like playing Family Feud Good answer. Is it up there? Show us. Community Survey says it is not up there.
Speaker 4:I thought for sure it was going to be up there. Man, I forget where I was at.
Speaker 6:Organic church 1943?.
Speaker 1:Back in my day.
Speaker 4:Okay, I'm not answering that, he just made me mad.
Speaker 2:Now he's having a fit. Here we are.
Speaker 4:I'm going to take my coat and go home. I'm going to take my ball and leave, but I was in a line somewhere. I forget where it was at. I wish I could remember. But I'm standing there, you know, and I'm looking around and this younger kid he wasn't small, but he wasn't old like you yeah, he wasn't old like me Understandable. And he says do you go to church?
Speaker 2:Yeah, depends on what I did.
Speaker 4:He says well, where do you go? And I told him, you know the organic church. He says oh, I go to Lifeway, lifeway, and I saw him I said, yeah, that's a good place to go, and that was the end of the conversation.
Speaker 2:But I thought he was about to tell you about Jesus. If you didn't know, you were about to get.
Speaker 4:Evidently I looked like I needed him.
Speaker 5:He got on his phone, looked up organic church, just to make sure.
Speaker 2:Just to make sure it was real. Yeah, he checks out. Yeah, he checks out. That looks legit.
Speaker 1:How did you know? All he had to do was snap his fingers and you're like Lifeway.
Speaker 2:It's a weird connection that Roger and I have always had.
Speaker 3:The cherry Outside of Philly. Yes, it's the old assemblies of of God. Okay, yes, yeah, looks like a warehouse. My cousin and his, that's where they go. Yeah, after they left the other church.
Speaker 2:Absher church, oh really. That's where they go now, I didn't realize that they were part of that church. Did they leave because of that, really?
Speaker 3:Yes they. They called him in and said cause they were going to, they were teaching a class. I don't know if Sunday school or I don't know what they were teaching, but then he preached that.
Speaker 2:That was a big deal, like it was a parting of the red sea for sure.
Speaker 3:So she said to my cousin hey, we've got to talk to them, because if that's what he believes, we can't stay here.
Speaker 2:That's crazy. That's crazy. I did hear that that was a big, big dividing statement.
Speaker 4:So anyhow inviting statement.
Speaker 2:So anyhow.
Speaker 5:I always want to behave in a way that it's not a mystery. I hope I always behave in a manner where people don't have to ask I don't. I was going to say well, you know, maybe I wonder if and I'm not proud of that, I'm you know, I just well, it was like the other day I've had this kid who works for us and you know we're three weeks into the month and he's already used all his PTO days two of his points calling off, maxes it out, baby, yeah, he's already starting to max it out and he's kind of let me in on his home life a little bit.
Speaker 5:You know, with these young kids you can't ever really tell if they're giving you the truth or you know if he's really staying up all night playing video games.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 5:But he was telling me a little bit about it and I thought and of course, the person over me, the manager of the shop like he, and he's starting to get upset about it and I think most people's expectation is that me being his personal manager that when he shows up for work the next day, I just give it to him, give it to him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I just read him the riot.
Speaker 5:He's missed another day of work and we're not going to have this. And I should just yell you know, be tough.
Speaker 5:And you know, and I think, ok, yeah, that's one way to go and that's probably the way most people go. They're not looking for any explanation, they're not looking to help this kid out, they just want to get your point across and make sure he doesn't miss another day of work. And you look like you're in high authority, you keep your authority and I thought, yeah, I could do that. But what good is that going to number one? What really is good? Is that going to do me? I'm going to get upset for no reason. So that's not going to make me feel good. And him, being as young as he is, I'm thinking that's not going to work either.
Speaker 6:It's probably just it's not going to make him feel good and most likely he's probably going to say well, you you know and I'm not coming back.
Speaker 5:I'm not coming back or you know he's not going to respect me anymore. So I had to find that balance of explaining you know why it is so important that he comes to work every day Because you know, yes, he has a small child and you know, and I just told him. I said you have to understand that your youth has passed you by. I understand you're 21 years old, but you have a child now.
Speaker 1:So you have forfeited your youth.
Speaker 5:And so all your priorities now have to be about your daughter.
Speaker 5:And so I just sat him down and just tried to explain to him. You know why it is so important to have a good work ethic, to not lose people's trust. You know you never want to get in a situation where you're unreliable. Right, people's trust, you never want to get in a situation where you're unreliable. And I told him. I said if you need advice about something, you ever want to talk about anything, I said I'm here, I'll listen to you. I'll help you as much as I can. I said but you have to. Whatever it is that's going on in your home life, you've got to get it under control. That's going on in your home life, you've got to get it under control. And I said not for me.
Speaker 5:I said yeah it puts a little stress on me when I have to redo my schedule in the morning and find somebody else to drive. I said, but in the end I'll be okay, yeah, in the end I'll hire somebody else and everything's gonna go.
Speaker 5:But if you lose your job, you won't be okay. This is just gonna be one more thing now that you're going to be stressed about and have to worry about. So this is on you you have to take the steps to be responsible and grow up a little bit and think about the important things. So it's just that balance of mental toughness plus being I remind myself like I have to handle this in a Christian manner. I want this kid to be successful.
Speaker 5:I want him to grow and understand what he's supposed to do as a father, you know and being the main breadwinner of the family Like this is something that you're going to have to do your entire life. You know. So if you leave here, you know you're going to go to another job. And if you do this all over again and they look at you as being unreliable, you're going to create this pattern and it's going to go to another job, it's going to be the same thing, and if you do this all over again and they look at you as being unreliable you're going to create this pattern.
Speaker 5:It's going to follow you, your entire life. So it's just, you know, like I said, I would have gained nothing and he would have gained nothing from me just yelling at him because he missed three days of work, but he had worked enough to get some PTO time enough to get some PTO time. Sure, yeah, that's good. And that's why I told him I'm like I know you can do this job. I've seen you do this job. You do a good job. I said there's always room to improve.
Speaker 5:I said I know you're young, you haven't been in this business very long.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I said but there's just a lot of things that you have to start thinking about been 16, so 41 years. I got a group text message the other day from my little fella's mom. She sent it to me and his dad and she's like I just got called into the office at my job. I've been reprimanded for my attendance. What can you guys do to help me not lose my job? I sat on that for a little bit. I'm like sorry I didn't get your text message.
Speaker 2:New number who desks?
Speaker 3:I'm like well, I feel that I'm pretty flexible for you and your hours. Yeah, I come at 5.45 in the morning. Take the child to school. I pick him up at 2.30 in the afternoon. Take him child to school, I pick him up at two 30 in the afternoon. Take him home, put him to bed. I'm there till nine 30, 10 o'clock at night. I can't be any more flexible.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I mean you know there are obviously other problems if she's still calling off when you're available, like that can't really.
Speaker 3:If she wants to nap, she calls off.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know I love a good nap. Exactly Love a good nap. Yeah, I schedule a nap. I don't like it's on the calendar because I love a good nap, but I don't get to not go to work because of it Right, and when she came in that evening she was still discussing her.
Speaker 4:And.
Speaker 3:I said I've been working for 41 years and I've called off three days in 41 years.
Speaker 2:And one was just because I wanted to. Yeah, yeah, you just like to test the boundaries? That was her first one that was her first call off.
Speaker 5:You know and I told the kid. The last thing I said is we will not have this conversation again.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is it, and you're not enabling him. You know you're not enabling him. You know you're not letting him so.
Speaker 5:So I think, if, if anybody would have been sitting in on that conversation, I don't think they would have been able to say well, he's not a very nice person, he's not yeah, right yeah I think they would be able to look at like well, I think that was a pretty good it was fair.
Speaker 5:Yeah, yeah, it was tough, but fair firm fair and friendly firm, fair and and I didn't owe that to him, but I think I just owed it to who I am and who I'm supposed to be and how I'm supposed to go about things.
Speaker 5:Because, like I said in the end, if he doesn't listen, if it had, no effect on him whatsoever, well, that's on him and he may figure, he may think on that conversation down the road when maybe, you know, something else happens. I think, geez, I wish I would have listened to that advice, but for me it's like I lose nothing from that you know, and I don't care if somebody thinks like oh he, you know, he didn't even yell at him, he didn't handle that, you know with any authority it's like well, that doesn't bother me, and that's why I say that confidence and that humility.
Speaker 5:It's like it doesn't bother me at all what somebody else thinks, how. I handled that situation, because I know I handled it the right way.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, and when you were telling the story, like I truly think maybe that is like a turning point for him, not necessarily spiritually, like I don't know what his spiritual life is like, you know, but maybe it's a turning point for him to get his life together and then work on his faith down the road.
Speaker 5:you know, like that's what I just kept picturing. You're that person that hey, absolutely get your life together, but that's all you can do as a Christian is do your job Yep. You know, just handle those situations as well as you can and it's up to that person to respond to. You know, to pick it up and carry it. But some do, some don't.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 5:Beth. Back to me again.
Speaker 4:You can only pass twice.
Speaker 2:Oh, I don't know. It's like playing Euchre it gets to the end. Dealer's got to call it.
Speaker 6:I had a situation here at work not too long ago Is this the one.
Speaker 2:You flipped the lady off when she walked by your office. No, I wasn't, I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding. Walked by your office.
Speaker 4:I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding, she thought about it, she did it under her desk.
Speaker 6:She's so grumpy in the morning I thought maybe if I just did she might get over it and be happy the rest of the day.
Speaker 4:But I never did.
Speaker 6:But Lord forgive me because I did think about it. Just there was some situations there and it was getting rough and I just thought you know what? I've never really worked any places. Somebody just did not like me, and so I kind of muffled him every day and with my pride hurt, and I thought you know, what. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter if she likes me or doesn't like you know and listen, so every morning I make her talk to me. Good morning.
Speaker 4:How are you?
Speaker 6:today. But hey, I got an email from her today and she said thank you, oh, yes, I'm trying to figure out.
Speaker 4:What's it? Sarcasm, or did she mean it? Maybe that's. What she needs in the morning is a smiling face and a nice word.
Speaker 2:Sometimes I'll just send the per my last email, that's what I was about to say per our last conversation.
Speaker 1:Per our last conversation, Comma.
Speaker 3:I got to reference a text message from a certain date the other day.
Speaker 2:It's per our conversation on August 22nd at 7.38 in the AM.
Speaker 1:Basically telling you to shut up yeah, eat dirt.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I had almost an opposite experience last week, friday night after work I was so tired. It was a busy day unloading trucks all day. I get home and my wife wants me to go out and put Christmas stuff away. And I just was not. I already had a plan to do it Saturday. I just was not about it and I fought her tooth and nail and I just annoyed her to death because, yeah, I was, I was pouting.
Speaker 2:Like I was tired.
Speaker 5:I just couldn't help it, Like I was just so tired, Like I didn't want to do it. But we got through it, we did a little bit of stuff. And then she's like do you want to get something to eat? And I said, well, I don't want to go in any place. I said we can just go get something. She's like, oh, really, and I'm like you want to go in Hardy? She's like, well, yeah, I want to go and sit down and eat. And I'm like, okay. So we go and we get in there and there's just two kids, a guy and a girl. They're running the whole thing, just them two.
Speaker 5:And just looking at them already, I'm like here we go.
Speaker 2:This is going to be an evening Like.
Speaker 1:Beth's Dairy Queen experience.
Speaker 2:Yeah, today.
Speaker 5:So we order our food and I'm, I'm a uh plain Jane.
Speaker 2:If.
Speaker 5:I get a cheeseburger, I want cheese only, nothing else on it. Don't want nothing else touching it, Just cheese only. So they finally bring the food. I opened up my cheeseburger it's got everything on it and it wasn't even a wrap Nice Nothing on it. And it wasn't even wrapped nice nothing. I'm like okay. So I walk up there I'm like I'm sorry. I said I ordered it plain. I said can I get a plain one? They're like oh yeah. So it's not two minutes. And he comes out with the next one same thing, not even wrapped. Well, and I'm already like, just you know, I'm fuming on the inside and I undo it, look at it and I open it and it's like the cheese was like.
Speaker 2:Off the side.
Speaker 5:No, it was like maybe it had been there at one time, but it was pretty much gone.
Speaker 2:It was the same burger. They just scraped it apart. I don't know.
Speaker 3:Oh, did he say no cheese?
Speaker 5:but this thing was so messy, so greasy, just disgusting, and I just looked at that and I just shoved it forward and I just went and every fiber of my being just wanted to go up there and just explain to him just how terrible of a job that they doing. You know, this girl and this guy who care less? Yeah, the girl's up there telling the guy about her bathing suit and this and that and he's asking for pictures.
Speaker 2:It's a very uncomfortable situation.
Speaker 5:I'm tired anyway. So you know, all those faculties are gone. I'm like I'm almost to that point where, like I just want to tell somebody what I really think Poor Margie, yeah. And almost to that point where, like I just want to tell somebody what I really think you know, poor Mark. So like yeah, and her, she had like the ham and Swiss sandwich and she said it wasn't very good either, but I just pushed it forward and I just sat there and just and now I'm at.
Speaker 5:you know pouting here I am pouting again, instead of going up there and saying something. I thought I thought what good is it going to? Do Because in my mind actually, I thought I should just take this cheeseburger and just throw it from here all the way up. Okay, all right, that's what I'm thinking in my mind.
Speaker 2:So now it's my turn, because that's the story that I need to tell. So I have a certain feud with a certain trash company. Let's put it this way. It is a large trash company in our local area that we're forced to use in Yerkesville. Well, you are, I am not. That's what I'm saying it does. It ends with an imble, so it started at work.
Speaker 5:I sent them a nasty email One Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2:Well.
Speaker 5:Because they wouldn't pick up our trash. It was respectful, but it was.
Speaker 2:Well, good for you. I've had my runs in with them too. Well, here's the problem, because they wouldn't pick up our trash.
Speaker 5:I mean it was respectful, but it was no, okay, All right. Well, good for you, Because mine wasn't Good for you, I have to say. I've had my runs in with them too. Well, here's the problem.
Speaker 2:So we have six accounts, something like that with Kimball right now and for anybody who's listening.
Speaker 1:Under your company.
Speaker 2:Under work. Okay, so just I don't have a problem with Kimball. The company, the organization, it's the people who represent the organization that I have a problem with.
Speaker 2:So one particular representative who just is unresponsive to emails, like, you have her cell phone number. You send her a text message. She doesn't respond to it. She responds with who is this, even though there's a thread of text messages. Maybe she deletes them, I don't know. But if you give her your account number you would think she could quickly look that up and know who she's talking to. But she's just difficult, it's what she does. I mean, we've had trash barrels delivered to neighbor's house. We've had they've taken trash cans that they weren't supposed to take, like physically remove them from the property. A nightmare, absolute nightmare. So we've tolerated it for a while. But the real kicker for us was at one of our hotels. We have two trash dumpsters and the pickup dates are Monday and Friday. Now you might wonder why would you have it emptied on Friday and then turn around and have it emptied on Monday? That's because weekend trash is so high. The volume of trash is so high that you need to empty it on Monday in order to get through the week.
Speaker 1:Gotcha.
Speaker 2:Well unbeknownst to us, they move our date to Tuesday and Friday. Oh Okay, Well, here's the problem they're never on time. So now they show up on Monday to pick up my Friday dump, because it's the day behind, because they don't run on Saturday. So the day behind is now a Monday dump and my dumpsters are absolutely overflown. And then they come back on Tuesday and dump again and try to charge me for it. And so when I push back and I'm like, no, we're not going to do this, they're like whoa, that's considered a courtesy pickup. And I'm like, okay, but I don't need to pick up on Tuesday, Then do one pickup every week and that's it, If this is how we're going to do it. So, long and short of it, you're locked into three-year contracts that automatically renew at the end of the three, canceling the auto renewal. Okay. So we have that same company here and I have had countless problems here.
Speaker 2:Trash doesn't get picked up. The dumpster slowly inches its way into the middle of the parking lot. You have to call and tell them hey, can you put the dumpster back where it belonged, so on and so forth. But the other day it snowed Right. We had the lot plowed. I walk out there to throw something away. Dumpster's full, but it was pickup day so they should have already picked it up.
Speaker 2:I send an email. It says hey, oh, by the way, they had to give me a new rep because the other rep on a conference call with her boss got smart with me and Now that's what I deal with every time I talk to her. I won't work with her any longer. You say that I have to keep my contract, but I will not deal with her. It's long and short. So I got here, I sent an email. I just said hey, can you look into this? My dumpster wasn't dumped today and they replied with it was marked as blocked. So I sent them a picture of the dumpster and there was a small mound of snow in front of the dumpster. But I'm talking minuscule mound of snow, but the entire parking lot in front of it is clear. You can see the gravel. So it's not like there's snow or anything like that.
Speaker 2:And I sent the picture and she said that the snow would need to be removed before they could pick it up. And I said well, I can't quite go out there and shovel it, but the truck can. A snippet of the contract that says it has to be free and clear of all debris and yada, yada yada. My response to her was come pick up your dumpster. I'm canceling my contract. Never hear back from her. So I email her and her boss and I said here's the deal. I sent a certified letter today canceling my service. You need to come pick up the dumpster immediately. He calls me. I won't use his name, obviously, but let's just say he was well known in our community. For a little while he was a county commissioner.
Speaker 2:That narrows it down and he proceeds to tell me when he calls I just want to listen. I just want to understand. Obviously you don't like us. I just want to listen and understand. The minute I open my mouth he starts arguing with me. And now I'm hot. I just want to listen. I just want to understand. Obviously you don't like us. I just want to listen and understand. The minute I open my mouth he starts arguing with me. And now I'm hot and I said every time you call me we do this. Every time you call me I get angry. I said and it's not worth it to me. I said I sent the certified letter. Enough's enough, come get the dumpster. I. I said our conversation is over. And as I'm going to hang up the phone, he says our conversation is not over. You're under contract. I said so sue me.
Speaker 6:Click.
Speaker 2:And that's where I left it. They've got their certified letter. They need to come get their dumpster. I told him seven days and then it's my property, baby, and I promise you that dumpster will come up missing. I promise you. But here's my point. I here's my point. I try so hard to represent Christ in a good way, but the struggle is when the world treats you differently because they expect you to always give to them and to be nice. It is a real challenge, like it's a genuine challenge. I'm not proud of that moment, but I'm not apologizing for it, because a company who wants to take advantage of somebody like that's not how this works. Like I want to, I I want to be, I want to reciprocate good business yeah you are not.
Speaker 2:You were trying, you are and you are not fulfilling your end of the agreement. Right and on and on about their trucks are rear wheel drive and you can't pick up a dumpster. I'm like if I wouldn't have plowed the lot at all, you couldn't have gotten in here. If that's the case, right. He's like well, yeah, but you have to remember we have to lift the dumps. I'm like you're just making excuses. Your driver said that it was blocked so that he didn't have to dump it. He probably didn't even drive in the lot probably not would be my guess.
Speaker 2:And so I was just, I was just hot, just really irritated, and I realized that, like I don't want to be that way, like I genuinely don't want to be that way, like I genuinely don't want to be that way.
Speaker 2:So when somebody asks, or when I answer the question, what's it like to be a Christian, here's my immediate thought, is my emotion. The emotion that I experienced is disappointment in myself, because I know that I fall short of the glory every single day. I know that. But I know that my heart posture is right in the right ways. Don't get me wrong. I'm not going to be walked on in no area of my life. Listen, my kids think that they can walk all over me sometimes and I'm like I will drop you, like I have no problem catching a charge right now.
Speaker 2:You know, and it's, there are people in the church that try that. You know, you, you we have rules and the rules are simple, right, like the basics, like we have kids class that are structured a certain way, for a certain reason. You don't get to decide where your kid goes. This is like the age group that they fit in. This is where they should go. Last week we had somebody decide that they didn't need to follow those rules.
Speaker 2:Well, you know, I said, I told you guys, this year I'm going to have very uncomfortable conversations with people. We're not going to do that. Let's be respectful of one another and then it's easy to just be able to have that relationship and represent Christ right? It shouldn't be irresponsible of us to have emotions. We should be able to get angry, we should be able to get frustrated, we should be able to cry. And be irresponsible of us to have emotions. We should be able to get angry, we should be able to get frustrated, we should be able to to cry and be all of those things that those are perfectly normal.
Speaker 2:To the temple right, flipping tables Like he must. They must've been playing Monopoly, I don't know, but his anger was a righteous anger. My anger is emotional anger and so it's not the same. But I am flesh and I will have those emotions. But I cannot be, I cannot think less of myself because of those things, because as a Christian, I am supposed to be, I'm supposed to be able to be confident and stand upright, and I'm not going, I'm not going to apologize for that. Yeah, so I don't. That dumpster may become our property, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1:But Well, and to your point. I'm sure you're now like that and you don't get walked all over because you've learned your lesson and you're tired of getting walked all over.
Speaker 2:In ministry? Yes, for sure and for sure in ministry. In life I've never allowed people to do that to me, and that was. I learned that whenever I was little Like when I say little I mean freshman in high school, because I was little compared to everybody around me, and so you, just you couldn't take anybody's crap Like you had to be able to stand up for yourself, and that was like that's why I'm quick-witted. That drives my wife nuts Like I've always got a joke ready. It's always on standby because you know, when somebody says something that I don't like, I'm going to fire back. And again, I try to be respectful in most cases.
Speaker 2:But I'm again not just them but any company that I deal with, and that's you ask, anybody that deals with me here at the church. There's just one company we deal with called Wisdom Over Wealth Christian company. Wonderful, wonderful people. Okay, I have nothing bad to say about them, but they don't answer their emails. Why do you give me your email address if you're not going to answer it, right? So two weeks in you don't answer my email, I'm gonna call you. I'm gonna leave you a voicemail. You don't answer that voicemail, I'm gonna call you again.
Speaker 2:You know what they always do after the second voicemail, call my wife. After the second voicemail, call my wife. They want to talk to you. They know, they know, and they know I don't actually want to talk to them. I'm trying to elicit a response so that we can move on to the next step. I can't always wait on other people, and in this ministry this ministry specifically it's not like we have unlimited funds to work with, it's not like we have. You know, it's not easy. There's always something that we have to be thinking about or working on, and so I count on everybody pulling their weight so that we can move to that next phase. And so when somebody that we pay to help us doesn't help us, I'm going to get my help.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean same. I was also dealing with the same company and when I posted my post about our stinking trash situation, I'm like, oh Lord, geez, I mean that was the first thing I thought. I'm like, how am I going to portray this in a way that I want to get my point across? But I'm tired of getting walked all over when you're forcing me to use this company but then they don't pick up on time. And you don't pick up on time, you never know. But then you're going to force me and then charge me after my first warning. Like I'm not getting walked over, you know, but that was my first thing. I'm like, how am I going to come across? So I was very like I'm yeah, you were tactful.
Speaker 2:You were tactful, yeah, but I, I am not. I am not and I've lost that tact to some point, because it doesn't. There are times that it doesn't work that. It doesn't work Like there are times that you know I try to be. I told you guys that one time that I aggressively left a group text message full of local pastors. I'm sorry, I'm not apologetic for that.
Speaker 2:I still talk to some of them regularly, but there are some of them and I had coffee with one the other day and we were talking and I said, man, I'm sorry, but there are just some pastors in our area I don't trust, flat out, don't trust them. Don't trust what they teach, don't trust what they say, don't trust how they act, because they're preaching something completely different than what they're living. See, what you get with me is very real and that's why I don't try to sugarcoat it, I don't try to hide it. If I ever step into the pulpit and I genuinely tell you that I'm perfect and I have got, you need to leave. Please leave, because I'm telling you that is an absolute lie. I can't like my neighbors. I'm waiting for job and family services to show up at my house. I am. They're going to show up at my house and they're going to be looking for my two children named Milo and Lucy, because you can hear me yelling at my dogs down the end of the block.
Speaker 6:Oh no, you won't beat my neighbor.
Speaker 2:Listen.
Speaker 3:Our area. Nothing can compare Nothing. Our block.
Speaker 2:I come in the house and Milo for whatever reason decides he's going to bark. You know it's me. He knows the sound of my car coming down the street. He knows I opened the garage. He heard my car door shut as soon as I opened the door. He doesn't bark until I open the door and then he starts barking Shut up. I'm kicking at him. I'm like get away from me, it drives me nuts.
Speaker 1:Imagine having that with a sleeping baby.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I can bet oh.
Speaker 1:I want to muzzle her.
Speaker 2:You know it. After me she's like I can hear you at the end of the block. She's like pretty soon somebody's going to think you're abusing your children. But that's real life. And people who pretend like and not everybody yells, not everybody talks mean to a trash company Not everybody does all of those things. But people do things that aren't nice. Every day you think things or act a certain way or you treat people differently. Listen some of us.
Speaker 5:That's why I didn't say anything about the burger, because I thought there's going to be and I could hear they kept getting things wrong. Because I could hear it yeah, this was supposed to, this was supposed to, yeah and I thought there's plenty of unchristian people.
Speaker 2:It's going to come through that window.
Speaker 5:Somebody is going to come through that window. Somebody's going to get them. Yeah, somebody's going to throw that soda back through the window. It doesn't need to be me.
Speaker 6:I'll be good. Yeah, I just feel immense guilt when I know that I have not.
Speaker 4:Dude.
Speaker 2:So yeah, trust me, trust me. So now and I'm not backpedaling, but like no-transcript day, like my mind was, because of Martin Luther King day correct. So I respond with my apologies. I was thinking it was x, that was all they got for me. Like I'm not going to. But I'm going to be respectful, but I'm not going to. Like we still are not on good terms. Like we're still going to.
Speaker 1:I'm kind of shocked that they were closed on Martin Luther King.
Speaker 2:Day. Ours was actually because our pickup day isn't on Monday anymore. They moved it to Tuesday. It used to be Monday. They moved with no notice, and so then we're just like it always feels like we're behind today, but we're not really.
Speaker 5:Gotcha, all I had to do was go get a Dave single you were good, you were good. That's where that story ended. My wife said yeah, I'll take you back down to Wendy's and get a.
Speaker 2:Dave single, that was nice, ever Perfect.
Speaker 3:That was nice ever yeah.
Speaker 2:And you know what I.
Speaker 5:Seldom seldom ever go to Wendy's and they get my order wrong. Well, I used to love Hardee's. I used to love it. I mean they used to put it in a box with a little envelope, but they tucked it down in nice and neat. It was so good. And now it's just like in this foil thing. It's not even wrapped and I'm like what is going?
Speaker 2:on. We and I'm like what is going on? Easton wants to go to Sonic desperately, and so I had an Elvis show. No, no, no, we were going to Canton for some reason. I don't remember what we were doing, but Alyssa and I had plans, and so we told Easton don't go to Papaw's today, you can go with us. We're going to stop at Sonic. We pull into the Sonic, pull into the little bay.
Speaker 1:Are they closed on Sunday To order? No, they're open.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, but because they're short-staffed, their bays are closed. Oh, so you have to go through the drive-thru, which is not the experience that he wanted Right, right.
Speaker 4:He wanted the drive-thru.
Speaker 2:Okay. So now there's no signs anywhere that say that the little bays are closed. There's people sitting in their cars in the bay, so I reach out and I push the little button and they come back with sorry, you have to use the drive-thru, we're understaffed and don't have enough people to serve car side Beep and that's it. Like you can't talk to them again, Like it's not like where you can have a conversation and negotiate this. They're like we're not, are sitting in their car. Do they know? Has anybody told them? Because there was no reason to be in your car unless they were serving those people and they'd realized they'd maxed out. I mean.
Speaker 2:I don't know. Yeah, so Easton has never gotten to go to Sonic because of that, because I'm afraid to go back.
Speaker 4:Yeah, were you afraid to go to the?
Speaker 2:drive-thru no, we don't typically eat in the car. Oh so like we wanted to be able to sit and enjoy it versus drive, because we really wanted tater tots. He really wants sonic tater tots. I don't know, I don't know where he even heard it, like I don't know where he got it from, probably on tv I think there's he doesn't watch tv I mean occasionally, but he usually watches.
Speaker 1:What about when you're watching football, though? Maybe that's where I feel like that's when I see it, because I don't watch a lot, yeah, but this was a long time ago.
Speaker 2:This was before football would have been on for the season. I don't know this. I can't imagine that, that was it, but regardless he does yes, he does, yes, he does.
Speaker 3:I've never eaten at a Sonic.
Speaker 2:I used to frequent Sonic when we lived in Newark. That was one of my favorite places to go. You also know one of my favorite things to get.
Speaker 6:I love to go to Dairy.
Speaker 2:Queen and get a footlong Coney dog, but not here.
Speaker 5:I was going to say not in Newark.
Speaker 2:Go to Licking County and get one Licking County and get one Licking County. I know it sounds weird, but I'm telling you it is a different breed. Down there you get a foot-long Coney dog and there's a long story behind that and I'm not going to share that whole story. Let's just say we were locked out of a vehicle. We weren't supposed to be there. We were supposed to be at work. We weren't at Locked ourselves out of the box truck. It was a situation. It was a situation. It was bad. It was real bad, it was real bad.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was young and dumb, but we had down there they put coleslaw on your footlong coney dog, oh my gosh so good.
Speaker 4:You never had a slaw dog before, not like that.
Speaker 2:Oh, man, it was so good, so so good.
Speaker 4:Have you ever had a Chicago dog?
Speaker 2:No, I haven't. They're pretty good. I don't actually particularly care for hot dogs. Is that the kraut dog.
Speaker 4:No, oh, it's got. I don't know what it's got on it, but it's good Tomatoes and peppers Ew. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's good. You know my favorite thing to put on a hot dog Way off, favorite thing Peanut butter, peanut butter. Peanut butter on a hot dog and peanut butter on a grilled hamburger. Not like pan fried, but like out on the grill. Peanut butter on a. How about peanut butter on a sloppy joe? Never tried that, but now I will. That'll at least hold everything on the bun real well.
Speaker 6:Yeah, that's true. Well, Judayton has that hillbilly hot dog that comes occasionally on like when they have that down there on the square, he has that at Chicago and he has one that has peanut butter and marshmallow on a hot dog.
Speaker 2:I'll tell you another thing that, if you've never tried it you should, is a peanut butter banana sandwich.
Speaker 5:I know it's like an Elvis joke, but I was going to say have you had that Now?
Speaker 2:I like mine both ways. I prefer mine not fried because I don't like the banana to get mushy and it has to be fried just right, because if it gets too mushy it's just watery, but if it's not fried enough it's going to be mushy on the ends but hard in the middle. So it has to be just right, but I prefer mine not. But either way, I'll eat them. Somewhere deep fries them. That would be a bit much for me. But yeah, somewhere deep fries them. I can't remember where it is.
Speaker 5:That's some calories, right? If?
Speaker 2:you go to the Rusty Bucket in Easton. At Easton Town Center they have an Elvis cheeseburger. Dude, it's as big as your head. I only ordered it because of the name. That thing came out to the table. I was like I ain't eating that, Just taking it apart. Taking it apart, it was good, Yummy. Final thoughts has anybody watched the Jerry Springer documentary on Netflix?
Speaker 1:yet Watch it. What was it called?
Speaker 2:I don't remember Something about Jerry Springer. I don't remember what it's actually called. It's good, it's really good. I thought that it was made up. I thought that it was scripted. It is very much so. Not it's real. Those people really did those things, but they get them amped up to fight on stage and whatnot.
Speaker 4:Like no, don't take that.
Speaker 2:You go out there and you tell her blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 5:They bring so-and-so in unexpected guest. Correct, that fuels them right up, yep.
Speaker 2:I was watching. There's specifically one episode about a guy who marries a horse, a pony, a Shetland pony, I thought you were going to say something else, they pulled the episode.
Speaker 1:Really.
Speaker 2:Yes, it doesn't exist, that you can watch it, but you get little bits of the clips in that Traumatizing. But anyhow, do you remember at the end of your how many of you guys watched Jerry Springer? Oh, I have, long time ago, years and years and years ago, because at the time it was like that was the number one talk show on TV, like it actually beat Oprah, which is crazy to think, opry, as my mother-in-law would call her.
Speaker 1:Opry.
Speaker 2:Opry, Opry and she. But he always did a final thought at the end, which was some like oh yeah, I remember.
Speaker 5:Yeah, Be kind to yourself Be kind to one another. Yeah, after all that, after all that fighting yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's so, like I always when I say it at the end of there, is there any parting wisdom? I always think, like after all of the random stuff that we said, how do you seam this up? How do you bring it back? That's where we've created total chaos here.
Speaker 5:Make sure you're being kind.
Speaker 2:Girl's got her hair pulled out, Somebody's got a black eye. But be kind to yourself, Be kind to one another. Don't forget to spay and neuter your pets, folks. Oh goodness, Well Dawn, I think it is your turn it is my turn, dear precious Heavenly Father.
Speaker 3:We come to you, dear Lord, tonight to thank you again for this platform. Lord, lord, god, just let us remember that you are our cornerstone, lord, that you are our firm foundation, and no matter what we're going through, lord Jesus, if we just bring it to you, lord, whether those things are addictions, diseases, disasters, whatever they might be, lord Jesus, if we would just bring them to you, whether it's our furnaces here at the church, lord, bring them to you, you will meet us where we are. Lord Jesus, lord, I just pray that you give us traveling graces home and bring us back to our next appointed time. All these things we ask and pray in your son's most precious and holy name. Amen.
