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Santa Conventions, Lottery Scams, and Mercy · Talk About That

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  Speaker 1: Life Audio. Today, I'll talk about that, John makes sermon
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  Speaker 1: illustrations about soda and hosts SA Santa convention at the church. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: I tell you the story of Elmo testifying before Congress
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  Speaker 1: and wonder if police dogs know that they're cops. Plus
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  Speaker 1: a conversation about mercy and sin and why our perspective
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  Speaker 1: of how God sees us is so important. Today's episode
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  Speaker 1: is not sponsored by Rainbows. We just escaped from prison.
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  Speaker 1: But first a word from our actual sponsor, What's up
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  Speaker 1: out there podcast?
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  Speaker 2: Listening world as John and Johnny not leaving you hang
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  Speaker 2: him a coming back for another week, and talk about.
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  Speaker 1: That spring we're springing forward because it's we've already sprung forward.
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  Speaker 1: Well I'm saying we're oh, we're a part of it
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  Speaker 1: because we're.
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  Speaker 2: Did you post your annual spring forward thing or have
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  Speaker 2: you stop doing that?
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  Speaker 1: I haven't done it this year. I need to do
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  Speaker 1: it next time. Every Daylight Savings, whether it's spring or fall,
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  Speaker 1: I post the same old joke and it's a news
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  Speaker 1: story that I made up using some old photoshop program,
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  Speaker 1: where it's a man in a full body cast in
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  Speaker 1: the photo in a hospital bed. He's like intraction and
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  Speaker 1: it says Daylight savings, disaster man on trampoline, springs forward,
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  Speaker 1: falls back. That's one of my favorites, and I always
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  Speaker 1: post I'm going to post this every year until it
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  Speaker 1: gets the attention I feel it deserves. And then you
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  Speaker 1: just stopped and it never really fully got the attention
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  Speaker 1: I felt it deserves.
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  Speaker 2: But you got too big for the joke, Johnny, and
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  Speaker 2: I am here.
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  Speaker 1: To call it changed. I'm sorry. So if you hear
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  Speaker 1: any clatter behind us, clatter. The reason I used clatter,
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  Speaker 1: we sprang from our chairs to see what was the matter.
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  Speaker 1: The church. Our church is very unique, and I will
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  Speaker 1: say that about this church. I should give proper credit
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  Speaker 1: to the culture of our church, because when I moved
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  Speaker 1: here in two thousand and six to take the job
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  Speaker 1: cleaning the church and possibly teaching Sunday School and finding
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  Speaker 1: my way in ministry, I was pretty lost. I had
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  Speaker 1: no idea what I was going to do. And like
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  Speaker 1: a year and a half later, I was starting to
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  Speaker 1: do stand up and I was doing all these comedy
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  Speaker 1: bits and our announcements and I was doing all this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Well a lot of that's the culture of this church
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  Speaker 1: is very just open to part of its Nashville in general,
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  Speaker 1: we're an entertainment town. But I do feel like Pastor
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  Speaker 1: Andrew the thing he built here was just there was
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  Speaker 1: a lot of dreamers here and he was just so like, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: if you want to do that, do it here in
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  Speaker 1: this service. And he would just give you like the
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  Speaker 1: wind under your seals or under your sels he.
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  Speaker 2: Got he can really get under your sale.
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  Speaker 1: He really like Marilyn Monroe was holding my dress down. No,
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  Speaker 1: he was wind under my saals, But you are the
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  Speaker 1: wind under my saih. But anyway, I give Pastor Andrew
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  Speaker 1: and this church a lot of credit for doing what
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing. But having said that, we've attracted some interesting
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  Speaker 1: events over the years. We've done Christian Comedy Association conferences here.
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  Speaker 1: We're a bunch of like comedians who are faith based
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  Speaker 1: just descend on our church for three days and it's
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  Speaker 1: you know, two hundred comedians, which is not as fun
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  Speaker 1: as you think it is. It's a lot of works,
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  Speaker 1: those guys. It's a lot of work. But I will
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  Speaker 1: say this one takes the cake now. Because Pastor and
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  Speaker 1: Her call me today and he said, where are you
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  Speaker 1: the next three days? I said, I actually leave him
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  Speaker 1: for my bus tour today. But I'm coming over to
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  Speaker 1: podcast with John here soon and he said, get here
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  Speaker 1: as soon as you can. He goes. The next three days,
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  Speaker 1: we have one hundred plus Santa's who have taken over
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  Speaker 1: the church for the Santa Summit, profession professional Santas. Our
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  Speaker 1: former children's pastor, Pastor Roy Stone, is a Santa half
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  Speaker 1: the year and he he lobbied for our church, even
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  Speaker 1: though he lives in Florida, he lobbied for our church
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  Speaker 1: to host this Santa Summit. And I mean it's everything
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  Speaker 1: you can imagine. It's what whatever you're picturing right now,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's that, it's a it's a lot of First
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  Speaker 1: of all, it's a lot of red cars in the
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  Speaker 1: parking lot. It's fun at a lot of red sleighs,
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  Speaker 1: if you will. And then you get in there's booths
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  Speaker 1: that they're selling like belts and hats and you know,
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  Speaker 1: black boots and all kinds of Santa accoutra mall. I'm
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  Speaker 1: assuming there's gonna be sessions. What are you doing? John?
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  Speaker 1: Got it? I've got it. You're you're putting your your
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of like, say, who are you a
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  Speaker 1: are you a Santa? Do you want to be a
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  Speaker 1: better Santa. What is being a Santa meme? Right? What
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  Speaker 1: is Santa mean? I don't know what the sessions are
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  Speaker 1: going to be. Yeah, is it like a lot of
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  Speaker 1: Ted talks.
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  Speaker 2: I don't forget Santa is really alive?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, in your heart, that's true. Maybe the maybe the
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  Speaker 1: real friends were the Santa that we met along the way. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: they are.
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  Speaker 2: The calls are coming from inside the sleigh.
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  Speaker 1: They are. They are in our church, a lot of them.
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  Speaker 1: They're getting ready because it starts tonight and they are
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  Speaker 1: being a little bit rowdy. So if you hear a clatter,
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  Speaker 1: that's what's the matter. Yeah, it's a lot of Santa's
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  Speaker 1: out there, and I'm assuming they're giving beard grooming tips
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  Speaker 1: right now. There's a lot going on.
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  Speaker 2: You can see some Santas that go as Santa all
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  Speaker 2: year and.
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  Speaker 1: Then the ones who just put on the beard and
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  Speaker 1: it's a it's a it's a plate. It's a place
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  Speaker 1: like I wore a red shirt today. Okay, I could
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  Speaker 1: walk out there, we're like hey, you know, like I'm
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  Speaker 1: I'm see you guys in November. Look at this nube.
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  Speaker 1: They started mocking you. Look at this guy.
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  Speaker 2: I member Roy, because Roy is when we say Roy's
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  Speaker 2: a professional Santa, like he's been featured on magazine covers.
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  Speaker 1: It's a character. It is wild, like if I we
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  Speaker 1: need to put a photo, I'm gonna have them drop
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  Speaker 1: a photo. If we clip this out, you need to
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  Speaker 1: see what Pastorally, it's almost like a throwback Santa. It's
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  Speaker 1: like a Father Christmas Nick. But it's got a little
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  Speaker 1: steampunk in it too. Yeah, where he's got a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of the tiny spectacles him and it's it's got
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of like a fun HG. Wells vibe
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  Speaker 1: to it.
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  Speaker 2: Does pocket watchy Yeah, Yeah, it's very like there's texture
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  Speaker 2: in the vest and like there's a lot going on.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you would not know. It's very well thought out. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's not just like you know, generic, it's not just
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  Speaker 1: a Coca Cola bottle. All the people out there with
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  Speaker 1: your generic Santas. Listen, come on, man, you don't even
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  Speaker 1: put some put something on it. He has a little
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  Speaker 1: like wax at the end of the mustache sometimes where
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  Speaker 1: it's like it curls up. I've seen that before. That's
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  Speaker 1: a new thing. You know. If you thought about going
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  Speaker 1: out there and doing some comedy.
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  Speaker 2: I bet you can really slay them, Johnny.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that's what Andrew was gonna call me to do.
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  Speaker 1: When he said we got the sands here. I thought
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  Speaker 1: he was gonna be like, and you got to come
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  Speaker 1: over here. He was actually saying, get over here and
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  Speaker 1: just roll tape. Just just bring a pad and pen
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  Speaker 1: and start riding down.
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  Speaker 2: And we walked when we pulled in the parking lot
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  Speaker 2: and the guy was walking out and he had he
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  Speaker 2: had a red i think, long sleeve shirt on red
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  Speaker 2: shorts and a big white beard just walking through the
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  Speaker 2: parking lot to his car slash sleigh. And I was like,
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  Speaker 2: I mean again, it's just I told the staff yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: I was like, this is a little more indicative probably
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  Speaker 2: of what mine and your time together on staff was like,
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  Speaker 2: uh huh, because we were hosting these kinds of things
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  Speaker 2: all the time. But it's not on your ministry bingo card.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like you go, you know what, I want
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  Speaker 2: to go into pastoral ministry so that someday, right I
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  Speaker 2: could be surrounded by one hundred Santas walking outside of
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  Speaker 2: my office while I work, Like, I don't know, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's kind of cool. You think every other
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  Speaker 2: church has that. No, does it help the kingdom?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe not. Does it grow the church at all? Nope?
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  Speaker 1: Does it make us a lot of money? It didn't
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  Speaker 1: do that either. But no.
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  Speaker 2: I mean they're really nice guys and we're helping them
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  Speaker 2: host and it's Roy's guys, And it's.
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  Speaker 1: For the kids, John, it's for the kids who listen.
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  Speaker 1: The Wonder of Christmas very important.
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  Speaker 2: We're fans of it, right, I mean as a church,
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  Speaker 2: we don't necessarily teach the Wonder of Christmas being about
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  Speaker 2: Santa particular, what with the whole Jesus story and everything.
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  Speaker 1: But this has got a lot We're gonna get a
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  Speaker 1: lot of emails, John, how would you send an angry email?
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  Speaker 2: To send your angry email to hell outa Talk about
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  Speaker 2: that podcast dot com.
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  Speaker 1: We will read it on the air and then you'll
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  Speaker 1: hear me crumpling it up and throw it in the
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  Speaker 1: waste basket. You know, why don't you send it straight
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  Speaker 1: to our trash folder. Yeah, that's at trash at talk
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  Speaker 1: about That podcast dot com. I need to make that
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  Speaker 1: an email for my website. I've always wanted to do that.
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  Speaker 1: If somebody says, like, how would I get in touch
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  Speaker 1: with it. I'd be like trash at johnnyw dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Just have it be a real place. I like that.
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  Speaker 1: That would be fun. I need to do that. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I did something kind of cool. We've not debriefed this,
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  Speaker 1: and I didn't know if I was going to actually
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  Speaker 1: share the story unless anything came of it. But it's
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  Speaker 1: one of those things like I want to share my
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  Speaker 1: journey along the way. I was part of an audition
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  Speaker 1: Saturday at Zany's, my home club in Nashville for the
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  Speaker 1: tonight show for the producer of Books. I got invited
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  Speaker 1: to be a part of it, which is cool to
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  Speaker 1: do my five minutes with some other great comic who
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  Speaker 1: came in from all over the country. Some of them
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  Speaker 1: were Nashville natives, but some of them came from all
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  Speaker 1: over the country. And we got to the guy who's
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  Speaker 1: the guy who books the comedians on Jimmy Fallon was
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  Speaker 1: in the audience and it was a packed house and
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  Speaker 1: I had a good set. I mean, you never know
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  Speaker 1: what's going to happen, so that's why I think I'll
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  Speaker 1: just tell everybody, Hey, we did a thing and it
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  Speaker 1: was fun, and now we see what happens. But it's
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  Speaker 1: cool sometimes you just do it and it's a thing
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  Speaker 1: you did.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't want to have this conversation on
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  Speaker 2: the air if you don't want to Oh, I don't care.
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  Speaker 1: But like, when do you hear Oh, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you do hear anything. It's I
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  Speaker 1: think I had a good set. That's all I can
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  Speaker 1: tell you. I mean, I don't you know, I don't
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  Speaker 1: really know what happens from here, because that's how showbiz
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  Speaker 1: works is you just kind of slide a hurry up
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  Speaker 1: and wait. But it was just fun. Honestly. The really
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  Speaker 1: cool thing about it was that I was asked to
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  Speaker 1: do it. Hey, would you want to do a set
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  Speaker 1: on this? It's during the Nashville Comedy Festival. There's fifty
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  Speaker 1: or sixty shows that happened this week, a million amazing shows,
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  Speaker 1: and this was one of the events. Was a showcase
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  Speaker 1: for the booker of the night show. And I'm never home.
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  Speaker 1: I'm always gone on shows. And then I'm happening to
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  Speaker 1: be home a few days this past week and they
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  Speaker 1: were like, do you want to do this? And I
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  Speaker 1: was like one hundred percent. So we flew in early
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  Speaker 1: from my show in Detroit.
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  Speaker 2: Oh And it's your home turf and all, and that's
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  Speaker 2: kind of cool.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was really neat. And was it at the
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  Speaker 1: lab or is at the lab? Yeah, so it's really
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  Speaker 1: nice and intimate and which honestly, that's about how many
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  Speaker 1: people come to tonight show. What's funny about it is
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  Speaker 1: it's a very small studio. It looks big on TV, but.
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  Speaker 2: It's about when they go out of an audience, if
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  Speaker 2: you Yeah, I noticed, like my wife and I laugh,
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  Speaker 2: she can't guesstimate the number of people. Yeah, when you're
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  Speaker 2: a pastor, you kind of used to like, Okay, there's
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  Speaker 2: like fifty people here, but it could be fifty or
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  Speaker 2: five hundred, you know what her And which if you're
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  Speaker 2: in church, you always say it's five hundred.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely that's what you do.
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  Speaker 2: But I mean you I noticed that when Jimmy Fallon
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  Speaker 2: and them go up into the into the crowd, it's
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  Speaker 2: a lot fewer people than most people would think.
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  Speaker 1: But they lay them out nice, you know what I'm saying. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And it's all about miking them correctly and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, we'll see what happens. But I just wanted
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  Speaker 1: to share that that I got. I just think it's
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  Speaker 1: a cool little thing. It's just it's like the next
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  Speaker 1: thing you do, like, oh, I got a cool opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: I want to share it with the people who care
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  Speaker 1: about my career. But that's not to say like I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to be on this night show. It's just that
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  Speaker 1: I got the audition. But I mean that's the next step.
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  Speaker 1: That's a step towards. You can't be on there without auditioning.
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  Speaker 1: That's true. I mean that's true. They're not. Probably you
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  Speaker 1: can't win the lottery unless you play. So I encourge
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  Speaker 1: you guys to get out there and buy as many
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  Speaker 1: lottery tickets. That's right. So so far we've encouraged Santa Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: lottery tickets, yeah, and just in general chasing a dream yeah, John.
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  Speaker 1: You know what else? We like to chase money and
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  Speaker 2: Well, I, for one, want you to know that if
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  Speaker 2: you don't make it on the tonight show.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're not going to ever feel no differently about you.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's nice. I feel the tonight show, I'll feel like, well,
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  Speaker 1: look they made the choice. Knows what he's doing over there. Listen.
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  Speaker 2: I want to actually, I want to say this, No
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  Speaker 2: boy and none over one thinks just because I'm Johnny's
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  Speaker 2: best friend or whatever. But I've been saying this since
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  Speaker 2: the beginning. I'm sorry, they'd be fools not to have
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  Speaker 2: you on.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, john.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of like, I'm sorry. I'm a little still wounded.
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  Speaker 2: When we got to fly to California. Yeah, and I
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  Speaker 2: watched you get four yes is on a g T
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  Speaker 2: and standing oh from two of them?
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  Speaker 1: Right, uh three three three The judges stood up and
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  Speaker 1: I got two standing ovation from the audience. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I mean, guys, Johnny Slade on the biggest
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  Speaker 2: stage in America.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and the producers like, you know what it's gonna go.
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't like. I don't like what they did.
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  Speaker 2: And I have a little bit. I mean, someone's going
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  Speaker 2: to stand up for Johnny.
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  Speaker 1: It could still happen. I mean that was years ago,
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  Speaker 1: almost three years ago. But it's done. We're going back. No.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what's funny is a producer did reach out
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  Speaker 1: the next year, a different producer casting producer reached out,
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  Speaker 1: not knowing that I'd already auditioned the year before. They're like,
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  Speaker 1: we'd love to have you on season seventeen. They were
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  Speaker 1: gonna fly me in the whole thing again. Yeah, And
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  Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, just so you know, I've been
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  Speaker 1: through this and this is what happened. And I told
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  Speaker 1: him the whole story, and they were like, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you probably want to wait another year before you audition again.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, okay, but you weren't even on
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  Speaker 1: TV now. They showed me in the background of someone
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  Speaker 1: else's but no one saw your act, right, no one
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  Speaker 1: saw the act. Yeah. But I think it's just a
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  Speaker 1: thing of like if you go back again, it's like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: we saw this guy last year. You knowed they need
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  Speaker 1: to forget you. I guess maybe I don't know. I
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  Speaker 1: kind of think you don't need that. I mean, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: I need to have a better story. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: have a man you wait to the story that I
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  Speaker 1: tell him. When I get I go on this time,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be like, yeah, I lost my dog.
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  Speaker 1: I lost my house. We could make I mean I could.
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  Speaker 1: I have lost a couple house. I've lost a couple
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  Speaker 1: of dogs since then. Yeah, we didn't even have to dogs. Now.
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  Speaker 1: It's so sad in my house. It's very quiet at
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  Speaker 1: my house. Yeah, we are. We're pondering because I'm curries
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  Speaker 1: home from the road because I'm doing some shows with
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  Speaker 1: Nate and some shows with John Christ in May. So
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: she's basically off the road for like a month and
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  Speaker 1: a half. Oh, and she's like she's going to get
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  Speaker 1: a dog. She's thinking about fostering. Fostering is like hard
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  Speaker 1: to let go. Fostering is like you get a dog
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  Speaker 1: and then you have to decide do I take this
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  Speaker 1: dog back to the place that is the rescue and
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  Speaker 1: say like we're done fostering now, knowing that it's just
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  Speaker 1: back in harm's way again.
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  Speaker 2: Why isn't not just adopting? Does anyone ever bring the
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  Speaker 2: dog back?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? They do. I mean sometimes you foster a dog
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  Speaker 1: and then you find them there forever home and then
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  Speaker 1: you get the next dog. Some people just foster all
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  Speaker 1: the time, just like people do foster kids like But
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  Speaker 1: a lot of times what happens is you foster the
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: dog and you fall in love. You get a soul
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: bond with this dog. Yeah, well that's what dogs do.
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: I know, man, I'm afraid of that happening. But you
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: ever said you ever had a dog?
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: They didn't wag his tail when you walked up me
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: except the ones attacking you.
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Even then, they really they seem to really like
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: it into it.
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: Wagon.
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: That's like the guy said, like, do you think a
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: cop dog knows that he's a cop? Like a canine dog,
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: he just thinks like, well, this is fun. I got
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: to take a guy down and chew on his arm.
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: Does he know that he's a cop? Right? You know?
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: I don't think so. He just thinks like, I got
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: some cheese after this. That was pretty cool.
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: He's not thinking I got to do my duty in
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: the line of danger.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not right, or danger danger in the line
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: of sorry, duty in the line of danger? Danger? Are
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: you sure you want to be an author? If you
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: want to find out more about John's books, go to
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: Duty in the Line of Danger dot org dot com.
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: Hey, Jonny's about that?
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: Okay, that's my quarter of the week.
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: The segment we call they talked about that. Richard Sibbs,
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: which I've quoted multiple times before, Puritan English Puritan theologian
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: born fifteen seventy seven. So this is gonna be interesting
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: old school, yes, and people have like.
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: First of all, what are these women doing not wearing hats?
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: Is that part of the well, you.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: Know, growing up, Like I mean, when you read like
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: Scarlet Letter and things like that, you think of Puritans
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: or even like Pilgrims, or you think of those early
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: as like I think very anti grace and truly I
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: think some of the best there's a book called Gentle
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: and Luwly by Dane Ortland that's one of the it's
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: basically taking a lot of Puritan theology on grace and
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: how God really feels about you, And I mean it's
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: I think we're very backwards on what a lot of
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: these guys actually were teaching and writing at that time,
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: because some of I think the richest, deepest viewpoint of
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: God's love is there. But this is interesting because so
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: this has actually came from I do one of these
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: things a Christian quote email among my other many quote things,
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: and usually those are pretty reliable, but now I always
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: check everything because you've.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: Outcry on the podcast we're platforming. Sorry about that, seriously.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: Ouries were very weird, but incoming.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: So I always check it, you know, And this one
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: it says it's a modern rendition.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: You can't find the original.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: I checked all my normal sources because I'm gonna read
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: the modern rendition, then I'll read the one that I
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: think it came from.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: I think they're both valid.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: But so this is not probably how Richard SIPs actually
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: said this in Middle slash Old English in somewhere in
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: the sixteen hundreds. But he said, or it's purported to
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: have said, if we could send more than he could pardon,
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: then we might have some reason to despair if we
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: could send more than he could pardon.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: And I thought, well, that's great.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: The original quote that is actually verified is that there
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: is more mercy in Christ than sin in us, more
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: mercy in Christ than sin in us. I think I
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: still I told the Church the other day. I mean,
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: I don't know if it's humanity or if it's my
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: enneagram sixisms, if it's my it's just general wiring and disposition,
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: my sense of needing to self improve, or what of
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: those things are. But again the hardest thing for me
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: to believe is that I'm beloved by God. And and
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: it's not, you know, because I think again, it's not
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: just like sins of commission, right, it's sins of omission.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: All the things I should be doing that don't do well,
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: and then the things I shouldn't be doing that I do.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: It's Roman seven, and.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: I mean just it.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: I know this because I've been set free from this.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: But one does not remain free unless one remains near
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: the thing that sets you free the first time. So
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Jesus said, you're free indeed, meaning like it's real, like
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: it's actually free from these things. But the only way again,
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: I think you stay free indeed, is to stay near Jesus.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: So you have to return.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: I don't mean you return because you lost salvation or
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: all those things. I mean the confidence that comes in
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: humility before Christ, of his ultimate love for you. I
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: don't think I've never met a person, and certainly I
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: myself am not a person that I just default to
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: that that there is a Again, what's the old analogy.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: We're walking up an escalator going down, right, So when
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: i'm I have to be in motion towards the up
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: or I will naturally be brought down and by brought down.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: We would say into sin, into the yes. But I
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: think I think the greatest sin that I live in
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: is to not fully trust in the love of the Father.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: For me, I think that's where the sin really is,
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: because sin, by basic definition and scripture and the original languages,
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: is to simply miss a mark or miss a target.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: I'm not downplaying and I'm uplaying it. The major mark
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: that I miss, the mark that Adam and Eve missed,
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: was that the enemy could convince them that God really
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: didn't have their good in mind. Did he really say
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: you shouldn't do this? He just knows that if you
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: eat that fruit, you're gonna know everything Like he does.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: He's keeping something from you that that will be better.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: If you don't go, you can't trust him, you should
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: go your own way, right.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: That's that's the.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Original lie that led to the original sin that I
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: think stills a lie that leads us to live in
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: this distance from God today. But if I really believe
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: what sib says that there's more mercy in Christ than
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: sin and me, it's a it's a challenging thing because
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: I don't live naturally. I have to come to the
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: supernatural place, which is hard to do. I have to reflect,
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: I have to sit, I have to be in contemplation,
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: I have to be in confession. I have to be
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: in silence or solitude or something. You know, if it's
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: temporarily for five minutes. The thing that brings me back
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: that's the hardest for my soul to believe is also.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: The most important. And that's that.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Like if I really believe the scriptures that before I
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: ever woke up this morning, he was already singing over
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: me right.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: That he's not like me.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: He doesn't get tired, he doesn't have to sleep, he
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: doesn't run out of patience. He's not like me. But
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: I'm judging his love for me as if he's like me, Yeah,
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: then he's not. That's why I need him. I need
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: to understand him more. And even I don't need to
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: understand him more, I need to trust him more because
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: I won't understand. But and always I tell the church
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: all the time, of all the mysteries we could be
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: a part of chasing that Christian Christianity chases mysteries now
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: like it's a like it's a hobby. And I guess
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: we always have, Well, do we go to church on
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: this day or this day, we're gonna live in that mystery?
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Do we do we?
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Is there gonna be a literal rapture or is that figurative?
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Is it gonna be a catching away? Is it going
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: to be in the in the beginning of a seven
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: year tribulation, in the middle of a seven year tribulation,
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: or at the end of one. Is there gonna be
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: a millennium? As a millennium already happened?
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Are we in the millennium? Now?
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Like we're in all these mysteries That scripture doesn't come
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: right out and say exactly what they're gonna be, But
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: there's so much about God's love for us that is
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: not at all mysterious anymore. That Paul even says that,
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: like Jesus came to reveal the mystery, and so that
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: mystery revealed is that if you wanted to know the
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: nature of God, now that you've met Jesus, that's the
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: nature of God towards you, and now you don't have
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: to be mysterious about it. But we still find a
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: way to make to chase the mysteries and ignore the
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: stuff that's been answered.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what's that great quote by staring Curekery guard about
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: like big God of Christian scholarship is basically to weasel
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: your way out of doing what the Bible just says. Yeah,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: it's to try to find a way to squeeze it
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: into your own ideology. Yeah, instead of just because there's
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: a part of that quote where he says, if you
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: just take a vow to just do the first five
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: verses of Corinthians, you'll be like, my God, my life
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: will be ruined. Yeah, you know what I'm saying, Like,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: and so we're desperate not to ruin our lives, so
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: we try to fit God in this box. But yeah,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: I think that there's something to be said for that
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: of like, yeah, just like what is our goal? What
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: is our what is our use for the Bible? We
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: are using it because I feel like it's become a
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: real cudgel now of like almost like it's worshiped, Oh yeah,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: instead of this thing of like like Jesus is the message,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: He is the fulfillment of it. And so I just think, yeah,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: there's there's a lot there that's good stuff.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Though, Well, Sadie asked me the day like she was
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: she finally had this understanding. We're like when you know
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: in fifty eight, twenty years after Jesus's ascension, roughly, they
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: don't have a Bible. She's like, what you know, they
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: don't have a Bible, they have letters circulating. Because he's
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: asking me, she goes, did you know there were there
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: were books of the Bible that didn't get put into
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: the Bible.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: You know, It's like, I do know that. Yeah, let
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: me talk to you about them.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: You know, like apparently there's one there was there was
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: a Book of Mary and there was I was like, yeah,
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: you know, so let me talk about apocryphal books, and
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: let's talk about spurious you know, authorship, and let's talk
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: about I mean we you know, but the strongest believers
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: that ever walked the earth, who were willing to be
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: thrown to the lions, did not have a bound Bible
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: of all sixty six books and what we do today.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they had the word, right, they had Yeah.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: So I'm not anti Bible, Johnny, I'm.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Just saying he had crave. Why would you say that
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: on record? Sorry, guys. Oh uh, let's close the show
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: with my segment, Joan. Let's start with old jokes. We
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: call it joke about that John the Man stood before
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: the judge accused of killing and eating an endangered whooping crane.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: The man argued he thought it was a common sandhill crane,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: not endangered, and convinced the judge. The judge dismissed the case.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: As the man was leaving the court room, the judge,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: being an avid bird hunter himself, asked what the whooping
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: crane tasted like. He said, it tastes like bald eagle. John. Yesterday,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: one of my best friends told me I often violate
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: his personal space. It was a very hurtful thing to say,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: and it completely ruined our bath. That's one of my
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: favorite kind of jokes. Yeah, it's totally normal until the
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: very last word, completely absurd at the end. The very
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: last word makes it a joke. I think that's a
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: perfect joke. Yeah, it completely ruined our bath. I ha's
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: so perfect. What a great joke. I never heard that
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: one before. So good, John, Let's do this week in history.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: We call it talk about then this week. John. Nineteen
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: ninety four, Michael Moore defeated Evander Holyfield for the title,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: making him the first left handed heavyweight boxing champ. Really
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: did not know that. It took until ninety four. I
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: would think I left, he would have an advantage, and
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: we came out. We came up in an era where
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: if you were the heavyweight boxing champion of the world,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: it meant you were the baddest man on the planet.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Now it's kind of splintered in its mma and it's
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: all these other things, and it just doesn't mean what
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: it meant when Mike Tyson was just roaming in the
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: countryside knocking out people, Evander Holyfield, Lennox Lewis, those guys.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Even Muhammad Ali's era, you were the baddest man on
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: the planet. Yeah, and this guy was the first left
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: hander in ninety four in that wild Evidently you are
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: at a big disadvantage or it's just very rare for
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: left handers, or they teach you to throw right handed,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: maybe and you have a left but you're right is
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: your strong hand man almost if you throw with both.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: But I'm saying like that's your strong Yeah, so where
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: you throw the hook or whatever.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, I guess that they are they are protecting
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: themselves with their most dominant hand. Yeah, maybe that's what
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: it is because they're right hands dominant and you're coming
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: in left, so they have more protection.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but it seems like, like you said
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: that that would give you an advantage if you're used
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: to defending a certain kind of boxer that a left
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: handed would have stuck in there way before ninety four. Anyway,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: I thought it was fascinating. Yeah. I think Michael Moore
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: was defeated later that year by very elderly for boxing
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: George Foreman, because he became the oldest champion. I think
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: he defeated Michael Moore in the mid nineties to become
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: because he was like coming to the press conferences with
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: big plates full of cheeseburgers and stuff, and he would
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: say like, I'm winning this, and everybody was rooting for
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: him that was in their forties and they're like, go
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: get them big George. Yeah, man, that's right before the
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: grill apparently, Yeah, well it was it was mid I
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: was thinking that was mid grill era. That is, he
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: was probably in the grill era. I we need to
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: confirm that with our producers that are not here. John.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: The Beatles member John Lennon changed his middle name this
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: week in nineteen sixty nine, from Winston to I don't
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: know this one. I would never have guessed it if
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: you give me a million guesses. Oh no, He took
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: on Yoko's last name as his middle name. Wow, yeah,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: would you do that? You could be John Canada Driver. Yeah.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: Sure, that'd be like I think of being an upgrade
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: from my middle name.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: What's wrong? What's wrong with Carl? There's nothing wrong. I'm
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: just saying it's not a common John Canada Driver. Yeah, yeah, honey,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: do you just say the word John. This week two
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: thousand and two, Elmo, the muppet character from television Sesame Street,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: testified before the House Appropriation Subcommittee on Labor, Health and
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Human Services, and Education to request two million dollars in
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: federal funding for music education programs. We need more of this, Yeah,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: we need more characters.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Last week we had we need the Pooh go on
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: trial because we know Mo testified.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Listen. Liz Winstead, the great comedy writer who wrote for
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: The Daily Show back in the day. She said politics
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: is just Hollywood for the ugly, and she's got a point.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: It is Hollywood for ugly people. And I'm sick of
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: c span. I'm sick of all the games. Let's have
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Almo on. Yeah, let's listen. If you're trying to raise
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: money for education for children. Calv Elmo. Don't see somebody
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: yell at Elmo. Yeah, you know, Deny tried denying Elmo
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: funds and see what happens. May make Almo cry. I'm
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: your the rest of my time to the distinct risk
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: senator from Loreenciana. Oh, Elmo, you get a little misty
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: when you think about it, that's okay, John. This week
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty five, Coca Cola announced it's changing it's ninety
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: nine year old formula, introducing what's to become known as
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: new Coke. Less than three months later, due to public
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: outcry and poor sales, they brought back the old formula
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: under the name co Classic Coca Cola Classic. Uh were you?
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Did you drink new Coke? What were you have been?
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Eighty five? You would have been so do you think
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: you ever tried a new cocine? We're like, ugh, yeah,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: do you remember there being outcry? I remember the outcry?
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: I don't remember Minnesota family. For first of all, a
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: lot of families aren't soda families. We would get coked.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: We were soda family. Bro I mean my mom, I
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: mean I drink a lot of soda. Yeah. Well, I
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: mean I'm working on some kidney stones over here. But
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: my mom would drink a coke every day and so coke.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: That was a big treat in our house too. We
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: weren't like rich people, but we had soda. We didn't
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: have soda in the bottles, but I remember going like,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: walk down to the gas station, get a soada out
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: of the out of the soda machine, and it was
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: a big deal. Like, Mom gave me a dollar, Let's
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: go get a coke. You know why they did this, right,
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: You think this is one of the conspiracies you believed
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: to drum up sales to spike sales.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: I've watched the documentary. Oh okay, well I've watched Food
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: the Belts America, which is a documentary. Okay, So it
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: was the first time in history that pepsi overtook coke, right,
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: and so Coke panicked yea and tried to make a sweeter.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: Version like pepsi.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because in taste tests, that's where they got the
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: Remember theyre doing blaying on the commercials and.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Some of all I hear, what makes you different? You're
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: trying to come become like them?
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, just because someone sold moret weight.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: That's a work about to about to make yourself a some.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: Of y'all been blind in your taste tests, and you
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: need to take off the blindness. And so anyway, they
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: would do the blind taste test and they'd pick pepsi
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  Speaker 2: every time. Yeah, and so well where they would every time.
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  Speaker 2: That's what the ad is, the Pepsi Challenge, and it
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  Speaker 2: got people going. They went and bought pepsi more.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know what you probably saw the documentary, but
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: I've seen like further like articles about the Pepsi Challenge
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  Speaker 1: is that pepsi tastes better by the drink. So if
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  Speaker 1: you sip a pepsi and sip a coke, yes, you're
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  Speaker 1: more likely to choose it.
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  Speaker 2: You won't finish the pepsi.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: If you won't finish the pepsi, it's too sweet, guys.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that If you want somebody to drink the whole can,
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  Speaker 1: it's to be savored. That's a coke. Coke every time?
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Coke is the best?
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  Speaker 2: Guys?
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that just I mean some of y'all, some of
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: y'all out here just trying to be sipped and you
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: need to be savored. Well, that's not exactly where are
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: you going? Well, I was thinking like sin tastes good
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  Speaker 1: for one. So I see you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: But you won't finish.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: You don't want to finish the whole can of sin. No,
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: I mean I used to drink a six pack of
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  Speaker 2: cin every night.
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  Speaker 1: John's testimony is a wild out here, John, it was
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  Speaker 1: sin classic. John born this week nineteen thirty two. Sadly
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: died in nineteen eighty four, which is why he makes
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: the list. Jim Fixed James Fuller Fixed. You know who
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Jim Fix was. He was an American author. He authored
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: the book The Complete Book of Running in nineteen seventy seven,
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  Speaker 1: which launched a running craze. He basically engineered the jogging
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: craze of the seventies, and he died of a heart
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  Speaker 1: attack while jogging. Oh. His book The Complete Book of
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  Speaker 1: Running launched a nationwide running craze, and he started running
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  Speaker 1: and quit smoking at age thirty five, when he weighed
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and fourteen pounds. Now, listen back then, that
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  Speaker 1: was I don't like it when somebody's I gotta get
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: my life together. Weight is my current weight, and it's
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: kind of my goal weight. I'm like, I can't believe
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: I'm not I was over. I was three hundred and
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: twenty pounds almost, and here I am down to like
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: two fifteen. I'm like, I'm doing good man, And then
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: they go, this guy got it. I gotta this guy
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: got two more. He's like, I gotta stop smoking. I
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: gotta start running. I gotta do something. Yeah, well, but
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: you're six foot two. That's true. We don't know this guy.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Who knows what he was. He smoked two packs of cigarettes
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  Speaker 1: a day. Ten years later, when his book, The Complete
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Book of Running was published, he was sixty pounds lighter,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: and the book sold over a million copies. It is
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: believed he may have suffered a congenital heart defect, as
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: his father died of a heart attack at age forty three.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: So this is probably not uncompletely. But you know, the
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: people that wanted you to stay couch potales were like,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: this is what happens. I get out there and start running.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: I'm better. Often they keep smoking, they're chugging away at whatever.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: They're drinking their six pack of sin, Diet Sin by
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: the seventies, Diet Sin John. Finally, this week in nineteen eighty,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: the Pennsylvania lottery scandal happened. It was known as the
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: triple six fix. Oh, and I've got several little factoid
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: about it because I looked it up. I looked up
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: further information about it. It was a rigged drawing on
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: April twenty fourth, nineteen eighty, where conspirators weighted ping pong
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: balls to guarantee the number six sixty six. Basically, they
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: weighed down the sixes and the fours and some of
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: the zeros, and then they gave tips out to people
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: that were These were anchors. These were some people who
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: loked at the new station that ran the lottery, so
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: they were involved like longtime employees of the station. The
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: conspiras included WTAE staff host Nick Perry, stage hand Fred Luhman,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: and our director Joseph Block. They replaced the officiery lottery
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: balls with weighted ones, ensuring only six could appear in
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: each of the three positions. Actually I read that it
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: was sixes and fours because they, you know, to make
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: it a little bit more so. The suspicious betting activity
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: was the reason they got exposed because the sixty sixty
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: six was what was drawn, which is crazy. Sixty six
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: to six is what came up, so that I'd have
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: spooked everybody out should right away.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: Somebody won too picked that number.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: It resulted in three and a half million, or roughly
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: thirteen point six eight million in twenty twenty five jackpot.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: The suspicious betting activity, specifically massive bets on combinations of four,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: six and zero in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, triggered investigations. So
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: it's probably like mobbed up people, to be honest, I mean, okay,
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: So then covered that one point one eight million of
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: the winnings were linked to the plotters. Nick Perry and
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: other conspiracs were convicted and served jail time for the rigging. Sure, yeah,
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: that's a major fraud. But uh, there's a movie about it.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Lucky Numbers in two thousand John Travolta and Lisa Kudro
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: is loosely based on the scandal. I've not seen that movie,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: and I want to watch it. Interesting, but do you
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: know how they rigged the balls syringes full of paint
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: latex paint, so the balls are white. They put white
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: latex paint so you couldn't see it see it in
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: the ball wow, And you couldn't see the pinhole where
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: the syringe had gone in, and so the balls would
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: blow around a little bit but they were more, they
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: would drop quicker into the little slots. Wow, and six
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: sixty six is what came up, which is exactly that's
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: ominous in itself that they should have known we're getting
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: buried to get in a lot of trouble. We should
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: have made four to four four. Yeah, that would have anyway,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Don't play the lot What I guess I'm saying is
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: forget what I said earlier about playing the lottery. Now
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: again you're asking for trouble.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean people are going to rig it.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Don't rig the lottery. Yeah. If there's one.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: Takeaway yeah from the last four hundred episodes, Yeah, it's this,
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: don't try to rig the lottery.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: Stop trying to rig the lottery. Yeah.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: We've said a lot of things, but this may be
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: the most important sort of PSA that we can give.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So I mean we're all about serving the public. Yeah,
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: it's fron Jones speaking of serving the public. Where would
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: you find all of our archived episodes? You got to
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: talk about that podcast dot com. So many archives, over
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: four hundred episodes, and we'd love, you know, just binge
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: watch those while you're on your merry way this week.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: And I'm on my merry way on the Live and
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: Laughing Tour. Yeah, we're going to We're going to Magnolia, Arkansas.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: We're going to Jonesboro, Arkansas. I'm going to a suburb
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: of Dallas called Dallas Holkansas, Cleeburn, Texas for Worth Area,
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: and I'm going to Crosby, Texas Saturday. So this weekend
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: you have a few chances to see me and my friends.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Adam Bush is coming with me and my friend Christian McCartney.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: These are great shows, and this is one of the
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: last weekends of the Spring tour. We have one more
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: weekend of the Spring tour left before the bus tour
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: wraps up and then we hopefully retool for the fall.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: We got a bunch of fall dates coming out. But yeah,
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: come see me. Johnny W dot com where you get
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: those tickets.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a fun show, guys. He's he's the best,
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: and I don't know about all that. That's what I
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: told the guy I'm starting out live. Sorry, That's what
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: I told the guy from Jimmy Fallon when he called,
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, you're like, whoa you hate I've
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: auditioned to you for SURN Live.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: So good luck. If this all falls through. I'm just
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: gonna become a Santa. Hey, there's apparently if you want
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: to learn more about being the Santa, this is where
• 37:28
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• 37:31
  Speaker 1: we don't know if that's I bet that's is. I
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: bet it is. Anyway.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: Anyway, guys, thanks for the time you gave us today.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: It meant a lot. Let's do it again next week.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: You're on talk about that
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  Speaker 2: The land bowed at in