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Cootie Catchers, Honey Buns, and Submission · Talk About That

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  Speaker 1: Life audio.
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  Speaker 2: Today, I'll talk about that John preaches in a beanie
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  Speaker 2: and finds a luxurious toilet. Meanwhile, I almost shatter my
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  Speaker 2: windshield and argue against the need for trees. Pl us
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  Speaker 2: a conversation about prayer and lamentation and why it's less
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  Speaker 2: about changing God's mind and more about changing our mindset
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was bunckle up.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, but it's winter, so.
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  Speaker 2: You bundle up.
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  Speaker 1: The buttercup was no, you are the buttercup. Oh wait
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  Speaker 1: a mite. I was calling the listeners.
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  Speaker 2: You're calling them your little butter up. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, you know what I watched the other
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  Speaker 1: days that Three Migos by the little Bit and they're
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  Speaker 1: also scared because the guy just to German. I just
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there was a mistaken identity. It's a great, great
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I wonder though, because I have not watched the
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  Speaker 1: Chevy Chase documentary. Oh yeah, do they cover that movie? Well,
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  Speaker 1: I haven't seen it.
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  Speaker 2: Either. But just just know that Steve Martin and Martin
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  Speaker 2: Short have become lifelong friends and still tour together, and
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  Speaker 2: they do not speak to Chevy Chase. So draw on
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  Speaker 2: conclusions about Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's hard though, because you watch it. It's such a
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  Speaker 1: childhood lake.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you want everybody to be pals is. I think
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  Speaker 2: people want us to be pals Off said, they have
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  Speaker 2: no idea, They have no idea.
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  Speaker 1: The acrimony.
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  Speaker 2: I want to say, I already said this to you
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  Speaker 2: before we started. But you're bundled up like you're dying.
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  Speaker 1: It's like twenty five degrees outside in raining. I am dying.
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  Speaker 2: It's not twenty five. It's like in the high thirties,
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  Speaker 2: low forties today, it's just rained.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I'm sorry, there's quite the heat wave.
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  Speaker 2: That's not enough to justify what you're doing. Let me
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  Speaker 2: just say, I just can't. I can't. I came to
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  Speaker 2: church on Sunday. I was home, thank God, John's preaching,
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  Speaker 2: and I saw the teaching pastor of our church get
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  Speaker 2: up to preach in what you're wearing now, a toboggan.
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  Speaker 2: You're wearing a skull cap or whatever what it beanie. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you're preaching in a beanie.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. It was fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: Can you imagine what your father, your grandfather, I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: lifelong you're a third generation minister. Yeah, what would they
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  Speaker 2: have said? Just hats in church in general. But I
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  Speaker 2: had on the preacher.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think my dad would have cared. You don't know,
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  Speaker 1: my grandfather probably would have.
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  Speaker 2: You'd been like what you're older people always are like, well,
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  Speaker 2: half the heat in your body escapes through the head
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  Speaker 2: like that used to be, remember that whole thing, and
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  Speaker 2: you gotta cover the head and all the heat in
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  Speaker 2: your body escapes through your head like it's an open window.
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  Speaker 1: Or something like chimney or something. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, but yeah, you you were full on like you
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  Speaker 2: were flouting convention. It's what you were doing. You know.
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  Speaker 1: I thought before I got up there, I thought, I
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  Speaker 1: wonder if want to wear this hat? And then it
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  Speaker 1: just stayed on. It felt right, you know, I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I couldn't receive anything you were saying.
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  Speaker 1: But when you speak from the belief that probably no
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  Speaker 1: one's going to hear anything you say, it you.
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  Speaker 2: Want whatever, put on one of those pope hats if
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  Speaker 2: you want. That's what point say.
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  Speaker 1: Is this is the beginning of a different kind of liturgy.
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  Speaker 2: There used to be a comedian. He would talk about,
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  Speaker 2: you know, why the pope, where's that point? He hat
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  Speaker 2: and he goes it's because sometimes you get like really
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  Speaker 2: tough theological questions like hey, uh, what happens when we die?
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  Speaker 2: And he's like, pick a number, like what pick a number?
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  Speaker 2: And that he goes four. He takes off that, he
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  Speaker 2: goes one, two, three, four and flips over the Remember
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  Speaker 2: those It felt like only girls knew how to make
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  Speaker 2: those in school. Do you think that Sadie's generation knows
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  Speaker 2: about those?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? I think I think she's made something like that,
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  Speaker 1: like in middle school or late elementary. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Cootie catchers is that what they were called? I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what are these things had a name. They had
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  Speaker 2: a lot of pejorative names that were probably borderline. I
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  Speaker 2: remember her in here them called cootie catchers. I don't
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  Speaker 2: but you'd go, you know, pick a number, pick a color,
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  Speaker 2: p U R P L, pick a number, and then you're.
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  Speaker 1: Stupid flip, yeah you're going to get married.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. We need more things like that that are like
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  Speaker 2: tactile and not digital. We need an analog, you know,
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  Speaker 2: solution to like boredom, you need more analog boredem solution
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  Speaker 2: to my daughter.
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  Speaker 1: And I last night, I convinced her she's going to
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  Speaker 1: watch five documentaries yeah, on the on the digital world
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  Speaker 1: over the next three months, like Social Dilemma and these
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  Speaker 1: others where I was like, hey, you're almost eighteen, and
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of like smoking. If you're going to choose
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  Speaker 1: to smoke, I want you to educate yourself on the
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  Speaker 1: dangers of it. And then she was like, yeah, she's
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  Speaker 1: so reasonable. She was like, yeah, that's great.
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  Speaker 2: What if she watches and just becomes like radicalized and
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  Speaker 2: she's like, not only am I giving up social media,
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  Speaker 2: but everyone that's on it is.
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  Speaker 1: I would love it. I would I would fund.
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  Speaker 2: It to become like a huge activist against it.
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  Speaker 1: I would start a nonprofit and make our dreams come
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  Speaker 1: true the Sadie Fund, Yeah, money for Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So, speaking of people that are in dire straits, we
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  Speaker 2: still have people in Nashville without power in cutting. Our
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  Speaker 2: friend by Brian Bates, who I talked about last week,
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  Speaker 2: and he's on he's on the road and he's his
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  Speaker 2: family's Luckily they have somewhere to go, and that's great.
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  Speaker 2: But like some people, they couldn't even get into a hotel.
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  Speaker 2: All the hotels are all the hotels are taken, you know,
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  Speaker 2: so it's like what do you do? And luckily some
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  Speaker 2: people had somewhere to go anyway, and he was one
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  Speaker 2: of the lucky ones. But we were having a conversation
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  Speaker 2: about all the trees falling in the neighborhood. He goes,
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  Speaker 2: we wake up and I've seen videos talk about this
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  Speaker 2: that it was like a war zone. They go they
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  Speaker 2: were hearing like far away, like gunshot sounds, and then
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  Speaker 2: close up. He goes, I was like, we got to
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  Speaker 2: get out of here. And then they got trapped in
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  Speaker 2: their neighborhood. They couldn't even get They got a hotel,
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  Speaker 2: but they could not get to the hotel because it
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  Speaker 2: was closed off on one end with a fire truck
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  Speaker 2: that was blocking on one end with down trees. They
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  Speaker 2: had to go back to the house and wait it
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  Speaker 2: out until they cleared the down tree for a few
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  Speaker 2: hours and then they leave. But he goes, he goes,
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  Speaker 2: I've had more problems with trees. He has another like
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  Speaker 2: rental property, and he was like, I had to go
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  Speaker 2: cut up this tree that fell against the house or
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  Speaker 2: on the property line of another person. And it was
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  Speaker 2: like three thousand dollars whatever it was to cut up
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  Speaker 2: this tree. And I go, yeah, you know, I don't
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  Speaker 2: have trees. We bought a house in a subdivision in
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  Speaker 2: twenty seventeen and we made the decision not to plant trees.
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  Speaker 2: I go, I just don't I'm not a tree guy.
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  Speaker 2: We planted a couple of weeping willows that would suck
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  Speaker 2: up like a natural spring was in our backyard, but
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  Speaker 2: other than that, we're not like, oh, we gotta have
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  Speaker 2: some mature trees here and put a tire swing. We're
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  Speaker 2: just not. I don't want to rake leaves all year
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  Speaker 2: and then have to clean up my gutters. And then
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  Speaker 2: Brian goes he was so funny he had them. He goes, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: what is that? He goes, why do we even have trees?
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  Speaker 2: He goes, what good do they do? I go, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, oxygen. He goes, yeah, but other trees are
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  Speaker 2: out there for that, Like, what are what are my
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  Speaker 2: trees doing except costing us money? Yeah, it's a you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's a salient point right now. Trees are taking a
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  Speaker 2: hit right now as far as pr for if you're
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  Speaker 2: the pr for if you're a big tree, you're taking
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  Speaker 2: a hit right now, big tree.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I will say the Nashville Electric Service is taking
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  Speaker 1: a big hit right now.
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  Speaker 2: Well. Part of what they cut, I think was cutting
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  Speaker 2: away from power lines. You know that you have those
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  Speaker 2: big upright machines that go buy and cut the trees
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  Speaker 2: away from power lines. The big spinning blade.
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  Speaker 1: It's basically like a big back not a back hoe.
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  Speaker 2: It's basically it looks like a deck of a mower. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: but it's on its side and it cuts away. And
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  Speaker 2: evidently they cut back on that. They're learning a.
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  Speaker 1: Lot of it's a vertical bushog yet yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And which is my nickname in high school on the
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  Speaker 2: basketball team. Give it to him and gone bushop and
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  Speaker 2: so I'm just rooted my way in. But uh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so they cut back on that evidently. So yeah, they're
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  Speaker 2: taking a hit for sure. I hate that everything gets political.
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  Speaker 2: It's so dumb because I mean it's like we have
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  Speaker 2: a common problem and then everybody wants to point of that,
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  Speaker 2: well you cut funding, Well no, you did this, Well, no,
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  Speaker 2: you privatize the infrastructure, like what happened in Texas years
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  Speaker 2: ago with the ice storm, the one where like Ted
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  Speaker 2: Kruz just fled to Cancun in the middle of it
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  Speaker 2: or whatever, and that was a big mass, like I heard,
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  Speaker 2: I read a lot of stories about that, about how
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  Speaker 2: like Texas has like a privatized.
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  Speaker 1: Grid.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and so that was part of it. Is like
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  Speaker 2: it was just like it wasn't prepared. So this whole
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  Speaker 2: idea of like government just needs to stay out all
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  Speaker 2: all of it, it's like, well, that doesn't always go
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  Speaker 2: good either.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's hard because I think a lot about the
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  Speaker 1: things downstream, both biblically and in America constitutionally, from where
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  Speaker 1: things started and where they were found in the early
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  Speaker 1: church or our early country, and very separately do I
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  Speaker 1: think of these things. But in both cases, in modern times,
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  Speaker 1: it's really difficult to scale always what the intent was
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  Speaker 1: of either original scripture or original constitutional writings or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: because you just can't you can't always see what it
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  Speaker 1: was going to be. So I mean the vision of
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  Speaker 1: you know, someone this week they're like, you know that
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  Speaker 1: private companies can do things better than the government can
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  Speaker 1: do in a lot of a lot of ways. But
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  Speaker 1: when you're talking now, you know, a population that's one
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  Speaker 1: thousand percent greater than when you started with that viewpoint
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  Speaker 1: kind of thing. You know, It's like there's no right
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  Speaker 1: or wrong way necessarily to do it, and there's going
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: to be upsides and downsides to both.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, unintended consequences, corruption, breed. I mean, yeah, I think
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  Speaker 2: a lot of it's like, and we need to do
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  Speaker 2: better at this as a culture. But like I we
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  Speaker 2: should always assume when something happens that it was out
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  Speaker 2: of stupidity rather than malice, because I think when we
• 9:36
  Speaker 2: think we think everything is out of malice or wanting
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  Speaker 2: to burn something down, we're just it's dehumanizing thought, really
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  Speaker 2: it is.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that thought the other day, like if we
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  Speaker 1: could just all come back to the place, like I
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  Speaker 1: always have these fantastical conversations or scenarios in my head,
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  Speaker 1: fantastical orre I'm sitting down with someone, Yeah, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: able to establish some set of guidelines you both agree
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  Speaker 1: to of, Like, Okay, we're gonna play a different kind
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  Speaker 1: of twenty questions, and the rule is going to be
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  Speaker 1: I get to ask you where you start. If you want,
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  Speaker 1: you get to ask me twenty straight questions that I
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  Speaker 1: just have to answer as they are, and there's no
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  Speaker 1: arguing there's no like like it has to be a
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  Speaker 1: sentence or to and that's it. There can't be. But
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: but it can't be just answer the question right and
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  Speaker 1: and you can do the same for me, and let's
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  Speaker 1: see where we get after doing that. And like for me,
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  Speaker 1: it's always like, Okay, we're gonna watch this video clip
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  Speaker 1: of this person that said this that you defend, and
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  Speaker 1: I just want to know do you agree with what
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  Speaker 1: they said? Just yes or no? Do you agree like
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  Speaker 1: you don't? We can get you can still love them
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  Speaker 1: just for right now? Was that sentiments something that you
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  Speaker 1: think was agreeable to say to your faith or agreeable
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  Speaker 1: to okay? And in my mind there's still opportunity for
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: some sort of civil discourse. But I have to create
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  Speaker 1: again a fantasy. I have to create like because it's
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  Speaker 1: not on it's not And you have to get someone
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  Speaker 1: to the place where they would trust you enough.
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  Speaker 2: And I do the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: Sure, put the thing up there you think that I
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  Speaker 1: agree with, and I'll go no, I don't or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: or sure this was you know, but that somehow, some
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  Speaker 1: sort of mutual validation might lead to change. But I
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  Speaker 1: don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Is it still about the trees? I'm going to put
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  Speaker 2: a video up here about what the Trees did. I
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  Speaker 2: want you to say whether you you agree. I want
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  Speaker 2: you to say whether or not you are pro tree
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  Speaker 2: anti tree.
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  Speaker 1: I think everyone knows my position here with it, but
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  Speaker 1: I don't like to get tree political. You know it's
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  Speaker 1: politrical Tree.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, John, I think it's about time.
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  Speaker 1: I think we need to get out of this we did.
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• 12:07
  Speaker 1: They we're back.
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  Speaker 2: So I had a moment I wanted to tell this story.
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  Speaker 2: This is kind of like one of those like stories
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  Speaker 2: that you you kind of want to take to your grave.
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  Speaker 2: But then I think, you know what, here we are,
• 12:17
  Speaker 2: we got a podcast. I'll tell the story. So I
• 12:20
  Speaker 2: get back from I was away with Nate doing shows
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: and we did shows in Saint Louis, we did shows
• 12:26
  Speaker 2: in Toledo, and then Knoxville was canceled for the ice storm.
• 12:29
  Speaker 2: So we were in limbo and we can't get back,
• 12:34
  Speaker 2: and so Nate had to be in California. So I
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: was offered the opportunity to go home Miss Toledo show
• 12:40
  Speaker 2: try to get ahead of the storm, and or I
• 12:44
  Speaker 2: would kind of be stuck with them and they were
• 12:46
  Speaker 2: going to go to like Vegas and hang out a
• 12:48
  Speaker 2: couple of days. Wow, I didn't go.
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  Speaker 1: To calvoid the weather on this side of the country.
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  Speaker 2: And to get to get to the west, yeah, get
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  Speaker 2: out west. And I was like, let me call my wife,
• 12:56
  Speaker 2: Well Curry stuck in Knoxville with her family, and so
• 12:58
  Speaker 2: she goes, go whatever, just get somewhere warm. I go
• 13:01
  Speaker 2: and it's not month. It was warm in Vegas. It
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  Speaker 2: was like fifty degrees. But I go, Okay, So that's
• 13:06
  Speaker 2: where I was. So while this was happening, I was there.
• 13:08
  Speaker 2: So then I had to come back. Well, my I
• 13:10
  Speaker 2: left my car at like the lot at the airport,
• 13:13
  Speaker 2: out in the open. It was completely encased. It would
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  Speaker 2: look it looked like it had been hermetically sealed in ice.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't like the windshield was. It was like the
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  Speaker 2: whole car because of the freezing rod like an inch
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  Speaker 2: of ice, and I've got notes in John, I'm sorry,
• 13:32
  Speaker 2: was supposed to come meet me and bring a scraper.
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  Speaker 2: I said, let me see if I can get my
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  Speaker 2: car going otherwise all this have you take me home? Well,
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  Speaker 2: you had stuff going on. You said I can't make it.
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  Speaker 2: Now I go, hey, I'll find I'll figure it out.
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  Speaker 2: So I get to the car and I realized, like,
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  Speaker 2: this is the this is worst than I've ever seen
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  Speaker 2: a car look. But then I kind of like hammered
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  Speaker 2: my hand down on the ice and it broke like
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  Speaker 2: like you know, peanut brittle, and I start peeling off
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  Speaker 2: sheets of it that are like four by four sheets
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  Speaker 2: of this stuff. It coming off in pieces. I go, oh, well,
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  Speaker 2: maybe we're good. But then I get to the windshield
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  Speaker 2: and it's like some of it came off and some
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  Speaker 2: of it didn't. And so I'm looking around in my
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  Speaker 2: car for anything. I'm looking at my you know, old
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  Speaker 2: credit cards. I'm trying to like get underneath there, because
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  Speaker 2: you can peel it off if you can get underneath it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it was just coming off clean. And then I got
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  Speaker 2: to a point where I could not get it, and
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  Speaker 2: there was a big chunk, and I was like, I
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  Speaker 2: can't leave like this. There's too much of my windshield
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  Speaker 2: blocked by this ice for it to be safe. And
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  Speaker 2: so I remember that we bought this handle thing for
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  Speaker 2: Curry's dad off the internet that like hooks onto where
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  Speaker 2: your doorcatch is in the inside and it helps old
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  Speaker 2: people like get up because it's like a handle and
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  Speaker 2: it's like rubber on one end and then on the
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  Speaker 2: other end it's like a hook. And I was like,
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  Speaker 2: I just I took that thing and I started like
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  Speaker 2: beating on the ice on my windshield to.
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  Speaker 1: Like whatever go away to break your windshield.
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  Speaker 2: And so I'm like clan, clink, clink to try not
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  Speaker 2: to go so deep, but it was cracking and then
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  Speaker 2: float like and I peel a little bit off it
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: and I didn't get very far with it, but I
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: must have hit that ice like forty times with that
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: thing that whatever that device was. And then I'm looking
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: at it later on I finally got home, and then
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: I'm looking at it later on in my house and
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: I take the little bottom part of it has a
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: little like slip cover thing on the bottom of it,
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: a little piece of it missing. I'll show it to
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: you in a minute. And I realized it's like a
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: razor blade there, and I go, oh, this is like
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: one of those things that's on those devices that you
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: keep in your car for like an emergency to cut
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: your seat belt off of That's what that's for. And
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: then I realized, oh, the end of the thing that
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: I was hitting the windshield with was to break a windshield.
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: I was just thinking, this is what it is. So
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: this is built to hook on your thing, and that's
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: why we bought it. But it's a freaking windshield.
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: I was just thinking, it's a good thing you didn't
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: have that thing that breaks the windshield. And that's me
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: and I'm from the outside windshield. It's pitch black and
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: it's midnight, and I'm panicking because it's four degrees and you.
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: Just and I am hammering. I am just like, oh
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: with all my might, and so literally like the ice
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: is gone. But there are little marks. There are like
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: little marks in my windshield on the like the plastic
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: whatever holds the glass part together. Wow, there's little perforations
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: like twenty of them that are just there now. And
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: I mean I came so close to it. I mean
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: it was freezing cold. There's no reason it didn't shatter. Yeah,
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: but that would have made a different night. I probably
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: would have been mad at you. Like I'm not mad
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: at you. Should look, you had stuff going on, but
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: like if I broke my own windshield because you weren't there, John,
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: I don't think the podcast goes on.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: Now I canna sell you something. You are swinging a
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: device made for breaking windshield. I didn't really think I
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: can be.
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: I don't think I looked at how pointy it was,
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: but I mean it's look and it's even got an
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: arrow that says, like this way, and in case you
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: didn't know like I was doing this, you know, like
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: the arrows to tell you, like I this was. So
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: if you have one of these, it has multiple uses, right,
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: and one of them is to break your windshield, So
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: don't use it to chip ice on.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: I might say that's probably the primary use.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: Well, in an emergency you're trying to break out of
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: your windshield. Not really, I was trying to break into
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: my own car evidently from the outside.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: Are you gonna call safe light repair, safe light replace?
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: No, I don't think it's that bad because I noticed
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: it after I took it through the wash and everything.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: I can still see them if I really look, but
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: it's not really bad. Yeah, but I just thought to myself,
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: I wonder how close I was?
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: Super close?
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: I think I was pretty close to breaking my windshield. Yeah,
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: I don't wonder it. Does it break windshields the same
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: way it breaks side windows?
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: No, I think it's probably like it's spider web and
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: then you still got to push it all out. But
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: it would have been Yeah, of course it was freezing Colton.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: Who knows how it would have broken if it really broke,
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: It might have just you know, But that was it.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: That was one of those like Johnny's an idiot moments.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: But luckily I got away with it. I was able
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: to get home.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: And you need to take a car cover with you
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: when you park in those places, you know.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: Whether well who knew was gonna be. That's a once
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: in a generation ice storm that we just had. Man,
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: I mean, come on, dude, I.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: Got one of those from TIMU though, that covers the windshield.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: Do you wraps around? Yeah? Yeah?
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: Do you ten bucks or something?
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: But when would I have known to put it on?
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: You knew whether was coming from ye?
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: I didn't know. I didn't know, I knew. I thought
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: i'd have like a slushy icy windshield.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would use a scrape covered for that too.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Who cares the severity.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: It's like those people that have the shades that are
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: interior doesn't get too hot. Yeah, you have to remember
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: you have to be that kind of person though, the
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: pop up shade guy. Yeah, you're gonna do it every time.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: It's always in there. Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: It's always in your way. But you're car a passenger.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: You're hitting him in the head with it while you try.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: To lasts so much longer. I have a thirty year
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: old truck and the dash is still not cracked.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Wow, look at you do you armor all that thing?
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Oh you just heard together with dust and yeah.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: It's like yeah, my old t one.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Just keeps going, telling you what.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Man, it's just dust minds holding hands in that truck
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: holding it all together.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Anyway, Hey, Johnny, I think it's about that time. Oh okay,
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: this on my Quarter of the Week segment we call.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: They talked about that I've quoted a W pink before
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: you did do it again because same quote, No, the
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: same quote. No, So he was a British evangelist, pastor theologian.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: This is the guy that, if you remember, wrote a
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: bunch of stuff, but during his lifetime nobody really read it.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: So gives hope to you, right, like maybe I'll be
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: appreciated finally.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Maybe someday, He says. Prayer is not appointed for the
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: but it is designed as a confession to Him of
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: our sense of the need. In this, as in everything,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: God's thoughts are not ours as ours. God requires that
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: his gifts should be sought for. He designs to be
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: honored by our asking, just as he is to be
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: thanked by us after he has bestowed his blessing. But
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: the idea in Laura, I've been talking about this a
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: lot lately. And there's a guy named Pete Gregg who
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: is the head of twenty four to seven prayer movement
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: that does the Lectio three six I app and he
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: has a family member with a medical issue, and he
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: was on a podcast talking about I lead a global
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: the largest global prayer movement, and yet my greatest prayer
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: need is constantly unanswered in the way that I need.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: And he was talking about the tension of that, and
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: I think, Lauren, I've been talking about that, and lots
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: of people come of praying with somebody on Sunday. I mean,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: it's a real difficult thing. And I remember when Sadie
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: was little and you're teaching her, Hey, when you have
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: a problem, you pray, and like she would pray and
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: then turn around and go nothing happened, like because there's
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: an expectation, and that's a hard place to be, I
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: think for all of us theologically. So I liked that
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Pink brings it into Hey, if God already knows what
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: we need, what's the point of doing this, especially if
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: it may not end up in the answer that I'm
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: asking for. And uh, Pete talked about that, like, well,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: number the first thing that all this brings is lamenting.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, crying that thing out to God because it's unanswered,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: and that that that time of complaining to him. You know,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: you there's a complaining about him, and there's a complaining
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: to him. And I think I've spent a lot more
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: time in the last several years complaining as a matter
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: of prayer, because again, I'm not really furnishing him with
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: the knowledge of what I need. Right that that's that's
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: the idea is why are you not getting this?
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Do not know?
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: But the act of confession, right, and that that sense
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: of need. And what's crazy is, you know, there's studies
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: out about how the human brain that negative things take
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: up more space in the human brain than positive things.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: And I think that applies to prayer because I am
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: closer to God. I feel in the aftermath and I
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: look back, there was a feeling even when I'm frustrated
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: and lamenting and complaining and then even angry and trying
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: to bring these things to him. There's something intimate about that, right,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: because you have to cling to faith one you, cause
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: you know what this is all, this is all just
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: a farce. You're not really there. But there's always something
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: God has done. And then that that submission of well,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: if you don't do what I want, if you if
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: you allow to happen what I think is bad, what then, like,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: what am I going to do with that?
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: And when you go back and look at the biblical figures,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: they live with that constantly. I mean, just look at Moses,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: or look at Joseph, or look at whomever, look at Jesus.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: There was a sense of submission to I think you
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: use the word at lunch today, and it's so such
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: a hard word. It wasn't in our traditions growing up,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: but the submission to sovereignty. And then but if you
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: submit to sovereignty to the place that you go, what's
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: the point then of even asking? And there is a point,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: and I think that there is often an answer. I'm
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: just less aware of the answer when it's positive. I
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: just am my brain has less room. Like I can't
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: tell you how many times that I've had some major crisis.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: It persisted maybe for months on end that I am
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: just I'm going to use it an old school word,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: but I'm travailing in prayer like I am. I am
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: suffering in this prayer time, like really going, I'm hurt,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: I'm worried, and I'm doing all I can do. And
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: then God does something and there's a resolution, and it's
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: this moment of relief.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: But the.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Celebration or the relief is not always in at least time,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: I think commiserate to sort of commensurate to the level
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: of crisis I was in. I don't think God now
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: that it's answered. As much as I complain to God
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: to get there I don't feel as good in the
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: opposite way as I felt back and in a lot
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: of cases, and the other big crazy thing is is
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: by that night, but just within the same twenty four hours,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: I can begin to feel the same negative or difficult
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: things about something else.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, move on to the next crisis.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So I me just I like that idea that
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: there's a purpose of prayer that is not just getting
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: my request across, and that there is also a value
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: to the seeking, Like maybe the biggest values to the
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: seeking not to dismiss the need or that we need
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: the answer, because we do a lot of the time,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: but it's not wasted time when the answer doesn't feel
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: So I'm working on that, I'm willing.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: It's like prayer reminds us of our helplessness too, Like
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: when we have to go like especially if you get
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: to a point in life middle aged or whatever, you're
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: making money or whatever it is you're used to being
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: able to, like I can write a check and get
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: out of this, or I can I have a I'm
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: insulated from this pain by my whatever level of affluence
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: to Yeah, and then when you get to a problem
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: that you cannot solve with whatever your smarts are, whatever
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: your income is, whatever your station in life is, you
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: have to lower yourself and go to somebody higher than you.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: And just doing that, like he says, it's not just
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: like I'm here as my shopping list. It's like I
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: have to remind myself that there's somebody that has more
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: power than me, right, And just that acting of itself
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: is worth praying. Yeah, because it's that reminder every time
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: I can't fix this, Oh yeah, because we're so used
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: to wanting to just fix it, especially.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: In the mine. Again, I think the pandemic that was
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: the greatest like example in modern age of our perhaps
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: unconscious sense that we're in control, because there was rage
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: when the medical community that's already mostly maligned by people
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: because of our healthcare system issues and other things. Everybody
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: feels like, right, you're paying too much and waiting too
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: long and all the things, your claims are always denied
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: or whatever. But when that same medical community could not
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: immediately produce answers, there was outrage and conspiracy. Because I
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: think the hidden assumption is as much as I malign this,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: you have the answer. We have the answer to all
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: questions when it comes to science and medical world, you know,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: we've split out of instead of going, oh, this is
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: a novel virus. This is a moment that will take
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: some time, distress to be researched and trials and other things.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: And that that the patients and that there was none
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: It was a sense it tore the nation apart. Now
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: I don't think it tore the world apart in quite
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: the way it tore our nation apart. There are other
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: places that that they went through the same thing, but
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: they perhaps didn't have such a blind exceptionalism to our abilities.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and there's an individualism and kind of a growing
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: anti collectivism in our culture that probably impaired us in
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: some ways. Yeah, it's tough. Yeah, it's a good quote.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: Good quote. John. Let's do my segment. John. Let's start
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: with my old jokes that I found on the internet.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: Johnny's old jokes. We call it joke about that John.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: A woman brought her sick duck into a veterinary clinic.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: That's a true story. As she laid it on the table,
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: the vet pulled out his tethoscope and listened to the
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: bird's chest. After a moment or two, the vet shook
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: his head and said and sadly said, I'm sorry your
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: duck has passed away. The distressed woman said, are you sure? Yes,
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: I'm sure your duck is dead, replied the vet. How
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: could you be so sure, she protested, I mean you
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: haven't done anything, any testing or anything. He might just
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: be in a comba or something. The vet rolled his eyes,
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: turned around and left the room. He returned a few
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: minutes later with the black Labrador retriever. As the duck
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: duck's owner looked on in amazement. The dogs stood on
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: his hind legs, put his front on the examination table,
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: sniffed the duck from top to bottom. He then looked
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: up at the vet with sad eyes and shook his head.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: The vet patted the dog on the head and took
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: it out of the room. A few minutes later, returned
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: with the cat. The cat jumped on the table also
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: delicately sniffed the bird from head to foot. The cat
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: sat back on its haunches, shook its head, moved softly,
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: and strolled out of the room. The vet looked the
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: woman and said, I'm sorry, but, as I said, this
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: is most definitely, one hundred percent certifiedly a dead duck.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: The vet turned to his computer terminal, hit a few keys,
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: produced a bill, which he handed to the woman the duck.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: The duck's owner, still in shock, took the bill five
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: hundred dollars. She cried, five hundred dollars just to tell
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: me my duck is dead. The vet shrugged. I'm sorry.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: If you'd just taken my reward for it, the bill
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: would have been twenty dollars. But with the lab report
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: in the cat's gain, it's now over five hundred dollars.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: That's as a long way.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: That's a long way for that one John. A group
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: of senior citizens were sitting around talking about their ailments.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: My arms are so weak, I can hardly hold this
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: cup of coffee, said one. Yes, I know. Oh my
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: cataracts are so bad. I can't even see my coffee,
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: replied another. I can't turn my head because of this
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: arthritis in my next ad a third, to which several
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: nodded weekly in agreement. My blood pressure pills make me dizzy,
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: claim to another, I guess that's the price we pay
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: for getting old Winston old man, as he shook his head.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Well it's not that bad, said one woman, cheerfully. Thank god,
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: we can all still drive That one's like one of
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: those like it's funny and scary and also yeah, John, finally,
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: while walk, I got one more.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Okay, sorry, this is a three joke week.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: John w While walking down the street one day, a
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: politician is tragically hit by a truck and dies. Our
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: soul arrives in Heaven is met by Saint Peter at
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: the entrance. Welcome to Heaven, says Saint Peter. Before you
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: settle in, it seems it's a problem. We seldom see
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: a high official around these parts. You see, we're not
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: so sure what to do with you. Uh, no problem,
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: just let me in, says the lady. Well i'd like to,
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: but I have orders from higher up. Again, these are
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: theologically a little bit to questionable. But what we have
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: to do is let you been one day in hell
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: and one in heaven. Then you can choose where to
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: spend eternity. Really, I've made up my mind. I want
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: to be in heaven, says the head of state. I'm sorry,
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: but we have our rules. And with that, Saint Peter
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: a scores her, escorts her to the elevator, and she
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: goes down, down, down to Hell. I love that sentence.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: The door is open, and she finds herself in the
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: middle of a green golf course. In the distance, a
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: club is a club, and standing in front of her
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: are all her friends and other politicians who'd worked with her.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Everyone is very happy and in evening dress. They they
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: run to greet her, hug her, and reminisce about the
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: good times they had while getting rich at the expense
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: of the people. They play a friendly game of golf
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: and then dying on lobster and cavi A also present
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: as the Devil, who really is a very friendly guy
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: who has such a good time dancing and telling jokes.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: They have such a good time that after she before
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: she realizes that it's time to go, everyone gives her
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: a big hug waves while the elevator rises. The elevator
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: goes up, up, up, and the door reopens on heaven
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: where Peter st. Peter's waiting for her. Now it's time
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: to visit heaven. So twenty four hours past with the
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: head of state joining a group of contented souls moving
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: from a cloud to cloud, playing the harp and singing.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: They have a good time and before she realizes that
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: twenty four hours have gone and Saint Peter returns, well,
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: then you've spent a day in hell and another in heaven.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: Now choose your eternity. She reflects from in it, and
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: the Head of State answers, well, I never would have
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: said it. I mean, Heaven's been delightful, but I think
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: I'd be better off in Hell. So Saint Peter escorts
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: her to the elevator and she goes down, down, down
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: to Hell. Now the doors of the elevator open and
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: she is in the middle of a barren land covered
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: with waste and garbage. She sees all her friends dressed
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: in rags, picking up trash and putting it in black bags.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: The devil comes over her and lays his arm on
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: her neck. I don't understand Stammer's ahead of state. Yesterday
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: I was here. There was a golf course and a club,
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: and we hait lobster and caviar and danced and had
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: a great time. Now this is all a wasteland full
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: of garbage, and my friends look miserable. The devil looks
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: at her and smiles and says, yesterday we were campaigning.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: Today you voted for us.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Wow, that's pointed.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, anyway, politicians, no offense. David no offensive. You're
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: out there. I'm sure you're serving the people, and yeah,
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: I appreciate everything you do, but maybe cut the trees
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: back next time, if you could.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: We have strong views on trees here, we really do.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: I'm a big surprises not offending one these trees.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: There's got to be other ways to get oxygen. John,
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: let's do this week in history. We call it talk
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: about then, John This Week. Two thousand and four, the
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: social media website Facebook is launched by Mark Zuckerberg along
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Savergn, Andrew McCollum,
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: Dustin Muskovitz, and Chris Hughes. They initially limited membership to
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: only Harvard students and if only they'd stopped there. Huh,
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: this is probably a clip that'll be on Facebook if
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: we clip it up. That's what's odd about this. Yeah,
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: we put our clips on Facebook while also maligning Facebook
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: and feeling like we're somehow above it, right, that's the
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: mess it carries.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: It's the message of its own demise.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: What are you gonna do? I got this? John This Week.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: In nineteen eighty five, a federal audit revealed that the
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: Navy was paying six hundred and forty dollars for twenty
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: five dollars toilet seats. There's nothing. It feels like we
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: have a theme this week about our tax dollars. Yeah,
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: because there's all that stuff, you know that your money,
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: these pork at all these bills and all this stuff,
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: like the tax dollars and they pay, you know, they oh,
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: we're gonna house the homeless, and then they spend like
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: seven hundred thousand dollars on like one unit of something.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: You go, that's crazy, right, But this was one where
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: I remember it was on the news when I was
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: a kid. The Navy paid and people still use the
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: example they're buying twenty five dollars toilet seats for six
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: hundred and forty dollars. Now, listen, if you'd seen the
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: toilet seat this thing, what do you think the most
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: expensive item in your house is? That's like an everyday
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: item that you've paid a premium price for it just
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: because now you want one that lasts a long time,
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: Like do you have a really nice fridge like some
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: people would hate, Like Brian Reagan has a thing about
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: that he goes when you're trying to you're at the
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: place behing a fridge. He goes you're looking at They go, hey,
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: so this one is, uh, this one keep your food cold,
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: and it's thousand dollars. You go, okay. This one here
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: is fifteen hundred dollars, keeps your food cold. If you
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: go over here, twenty five hundred dollars, it's real cold.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: Keeps your food cold. Like it is funny, it's like,
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: but but there are like I know there are differences
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: in fridges size wise, but it's like it is remarkable
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: the wide range in some of this stuff.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I hate my fridge.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: What do you hate about it?
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: This never worked properly? I don't say ice maker doesn't
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: work right. I've had whirlpool out at the very beginning.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: They try to deny the warranty that we had bought
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: it and never could fix it.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: It's just like, so does it make eyes.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: Sometimes sometimes it doesn't. Man, Man, this is hard. It's
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: hard life. You've been through a lot. I've been through stuff.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: You know, how much is your toilet seat, John, I
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: think it's just a normal toilet seat.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: Doesn't have one of those bidet things at the bottom
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: of it. No, you didn't go bidet during the pandemic.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: I don't have a lot of people went bidet hereing
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: that toilet paper shortage? Did you know?
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: Okay, I couldn't.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: I don't think I could get. I'm a little like
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: I think if your maybe twenties thirties, you're like, let's
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: change what's going on down there? Yeah, when you get
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: for a long time, it's paper till I fall out.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: You know again, it's back to the toilet paper commercials
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: because apparently there's a much greater problem with toilet paper
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: than I understood, because every toilet paper commercial is trying
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: to solve a is trying to meet a felt need
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: that I'm like.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: You're using felt now, grief.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: That's got to be Teddy bears running around with like
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: trap noel or they'll say, they'll say, the bears.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: Will say, and the Sharman Bears enjoy the go. You
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: go okay, look, yeah, I don't think you're there.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: I do not have to be told to do that.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, we all enjoy a good go.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Have you seen a new one like it? It will
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: make you so clean that you want to come clean
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: about everything else And it comes out and start confessed.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: I don't really understand football.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: Oh that's fun. That's a good angle.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: But also, were you really struggling with cleanliness that much beforehand?
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Again, the need feels less than the
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: provision to meet it. Yeah, saying isn't that just like?
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: But I mean, obviously if we could all go to bidets,
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: wouldn't it save in wast But maybe you're wasting water?
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Then I'd have to go back and look at Mike.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: You have to go back and look your toilet, pa previous.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: Years of researching waste management and other things.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I have notes John. This week. In eighteen
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: sixty nine, the world's largest gold nugget was found. They
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: called it the Welcome Stranger all caps. This is a
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: capitalized Welcome Stranger. It weighed more than two hundred and
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: ten pounds.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: It's found in Victoria, Australia. It was only one point
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: two inches below the surface. And that's why it makes
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: the list because won't that preach some of y'all got
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: a two hundred and ten pound nugget? Yeah, and you
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: won't even dig. You're walking on top of it.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: It's literally right below your feet.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: I would like to think that I'm a two hundred
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: and ten pound nugget of gold. Yeah, I mean I'm
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: closer to twenty, but.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: Ah, he was counting. Really that just makes you more valuable.
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: But my ideal would be that gold nugget. I would
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: be a welcome stranger.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: And I would bury you just below just.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: One point three inches below the surface. Yeah, that is
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: that's a shallow grave for me. That is a welcome stranger.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: By the way, John, I've been I'm on tour this year.
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: I've heard and I would love to be a welcome
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: stranger in your life. Please buy a ticket come to
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: my shows, johnnyw dot com. We're releasing new cities every
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: week week and we'd love to see you out there,
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: John this week. Nineteen forty three, Nolan Bushnell was born.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: He's an American businessman. I did not know this. He
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: founded both the Atari video Game Company in nineteen seventy
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: two and Chuck E. Cheese Is Pizza Time Theaters, which
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: is the original name of the Chuck E. Cheese they
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: call him and Chucky Cheese Pizza Time Theaters. He is
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: credited with Bushnell's law, which is quote, all the best
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: games are easy to learn and difficult to master. Huh.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: That'll also it's true, and I think that is true.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: Like if you pick up a game, it's two easy
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: to beat, you get tired of it, but it should
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: be easy to pick up.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it should be easy to figure out Galla. You
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: should play a few levels and you're fine, but it's
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: hard to master, and then you get that second spaceship.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: Really yeah, when the bees start coming in Q.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: I remember being in space one time and a bee,
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: a massive bee came at my spaceship and I was like,
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: I'm ready for this. I have been training for this.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: Thank you Gallega, and thank you Nolan Bushneill John. Finally,
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: this week in eighteen ninety seven, James de War was
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: born or Doer may probably dor James Doer was born
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: this week in eighteen ninety seven, passed in nineteen eighty five.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: He was a Canadian baker. Do you want to take
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: a guess at what he invented and why he makes
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: the list?
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Canadian bacon.
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: And baker. He baked the bacon.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: No.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: He invented the twinkie John in nineteen thirty. I didn't
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: realize how old the twinkie was while working for Continental
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: Baking Company, which became Hostess in Schiller Park, Illinois. He
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: needed a substitute for the filling in their strawberry shortcake
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: as strawberries were seasonal, so he substituted cream for the
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: strawberry filling, and the Twinkie was born. He himself, this
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: is where it gets into it. You know. You always
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: see like that eight thrown product or they scared the
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: death of it because it's just pure sugar. He himself
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: ate three a day and lived to the age of
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: eighty eight.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: I love stories like that.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you they're outliers. We know they're outliers. But you
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: also you'd see the old woman on the Special Interest
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: store and you're like, you're one hundred and one. She's like,
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: I ate bacon and drinking doctor pepper every day, and you.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Go, that's gonna kill me. Like I should just be unworried,
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: but then I go to too many hospital visits where
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: they ate bacon. It didn't work out. Well, Yeah, I
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: think it has to do with your with your wirings.
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: A lot of genetics. You think, yeah, she had a
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: good nana had to. But anyway, James Doer, we celebrate you.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it to.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: What's your is you like a twinkie. What's your favorite cake?
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: Would you say of the junk food world? If your
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: little Debbie is your hostesses?
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: Oh? Of that before I say that? Yeah, oh say.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: We bought my mom an ice cream cake from Very
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: Queen the other day, okay, and it was unbelievable.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: Can't hide money.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: I love those are big, Like, it's just the three
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: of y'all, right, who's eating this cake? Well, there's four
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: of us in the house.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: That's a lot, though.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: That's for like one night or something.
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: Okay, you put it up, but I put it out.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: I took it down over the course over four days. Yeah,
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: and it was it was so spectacling.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: I got something you could use to chop up that
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: cake device I like to call the windshield smasher.
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: I like, I'm trying to think of what to your
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: original question.
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, if you go to a gas station, what's your
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: go to? Like, I need something sweet and it's completely
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: full of preservatives, but I need it.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: Are we doing cake or candy bars too?
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: Well, we've done candy bars in the past. I'm thinking cakes.
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: Past You don't get a pastry?
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: What do you get?
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: Oh? Man, I'm a sucker for the donut case. At
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: these little qt's and stuff a quick trip and you're.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: Like, like the Krispy Kreme donut case.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's not Christy Krean, but it's like third
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: knockoff QT quispy queens.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: I would I'm trying to think I would do.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: Oatmeal cream pie because you're just bland as they come
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: about a double deck or oatmeal. On the ones that
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: are gigantic, I like a it's like a big mac.
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: I got that extra clean, the extra thing in the middle.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: That's too. I do like something like I like like
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: a Boston cream donnut, something with a lot of cream.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: So that's why, like a Twinkie.
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: Round, they're so good. What do you think, listener, Send
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: us a note, tell us your favorite and defend it. Now,
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: defend it why it's the best, and why our choices
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: are wrong. Send a note to Hello talk about that
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: podcast dot com. Make a case for it, and then
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: maybe we'll reveal the results. Dude.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: I do like a good honey bun too.
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the iced ones. You ever look at the back,
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: don't look at the rapper, don't look at that wrapper,
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: because I've done it before. I got like, oh, I
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: could do an ice honey bun. You flip it over
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: and you go it's like seven hundred.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you go in a a pastry. Yeah, it's just
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: it's not good. It's a met oh oh, I know,
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: I know. Okay, took me in a second to get there.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: Swiss cake roll, Oh yeah, that's a good one. My
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: parents would buy Swiss cake rolls when we were working
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: mowing grass.
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: So you have a sandwich and they have boxes of
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: Swiss cake rolls everywhere, and so that's a good afternoon
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: under a tree kind of thing.
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: They get a melty though. I like them in the fridge.
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: I put them in the fridge that way they don't
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: melt as you as you're eating them.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: How do you feel like you're actually more qualified on
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: this front?
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: Lot, I grew up, listen. I grew up, Listen. I
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: grew up a chubby kid and it was a chubby adult.
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: And so I know all about what my favorites are.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: Now I just have less. I still eat junk, but
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: I eat less of the jumpy's. That's gonna have a
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: Swiss cakeroll, not a box of That's how you live
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: to be one hundred and a fig nowt not a sleeve. Yeah, yeah,
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: I'm not a Big Newtons were just okay to me. Yeah,
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: that's true. Big Newtons were interesting during that whole fat
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: free time that we all went to the fat free
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: craze because they were fat free. So we were just
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: like I can have as meis as I want, like
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: watch yourself. Yeah, before we really have diabetes.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I had a balance of yeah understanding how the
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: macros and the other thing.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: Now people want all fat. You have these people on
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: these all like, well, what's wrong is you're not eating
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: enough bacon? Yeah, I don't know that feels right. That's interesting.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: I'm a lower carb guy when I'm trying to lose weight.
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: You know, I don't do keto stuff straight anymore. I
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: did that for like three years.
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: Oh, listen to the pod knows about all of our journeys.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: But now I just want variety, like I want balance,
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: you know, moderation. So yeah today I got I got salmon.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: Last time you and I ate out, I had the burger.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, moderation, It's just you know,
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: you're trying to.
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: You're trying to. That's the thing. You're like looking at
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: you like, I wonder what you're gonna do for Omega threes.
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: You're like looking at me like, I'm just because I
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: got the burger.
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: I judged you a lot.
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: That's fun.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: Actually, I think I live vicariously through you, Like, oh,
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: that must be that would be great.
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: That it must be nice.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to reach over and eat extra stuff off
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: of people's plate. I'd be really close for me to like, really,
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: oh no.
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: You could have had a few of my frids that
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: wouldn't have cared.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: I take a look at the fries, especially if they're
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: crinkle cut. Oh yeah, Like, dude, you're not gonna eat all.
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: The fries are great because they're great for like just
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: pulling as much ketchup onto the it's those grooves.
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: You couldn't You could not over salt a crinkle cut
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: fry for me. You could just cover it in salt
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: and I would just eat the whole thing. And you know,
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: it's just we're going to be so fat. It feels
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: like it's fine. Everything's fine.
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: It's like we're a support group.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: Everything's great. Just keep taking your vitamins. Are they working?
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: We'll find then die. Maybe I'm peeing them all out.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: I don't know all I know is I have a
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: doctor pepper and a slab of bak. I think we
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: should start a supplement and a vitamin or something, because,
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: for real, there's no accountability to it.
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's kind of like because all of them have
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: to say on the back not you know, not FDAP
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: proved or whatever. The FDA has not investigated these claims.
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: It's like, wow, did all that vitamin C really help you?
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I can read about some other guy
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: that lived to be a hundred or and if you
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: and if it doesn't, no one will ever blame the vitamin.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: They would never go, well, he died at sixty seven
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: because he didn't have No, they won't do that. You
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: won't be blamed. It's kind of like how I feel
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: about out investment guys. And I have some great investment
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: guys right now, but I've had guys before that if
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: the market does well, yeah they take credit then they
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: go see. But if the market does badly, it's the
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: market fit. What it is like when do I I
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: want to I want to not be responsible, except when
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: the weathermen can be kind of the same way, like
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: you know or women we didn't know. Sorry, excuse me,
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't know that this extra snowstorm is going to
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: suddenly happen. I mean, you can't predict the weather. Who could,
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: that's my living could have covered their car.
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: Just bring a hammer with you, Just bring one of
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: those glass break just smack all over your Listen. The
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: ice is a lot like glass. You're just trying to
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: break that outer layer of glass without getting to the
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  Speaker 2: lower layer.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: Sometimes, guys, what you got to do is find a
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: way to break the ice so you can get through.
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: Speaking of breaking the ice, John, how would somebody find
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  Speaker 2: out more about the podcast?
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: They going to talk about that podcast dot com?
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: Break through the earlier layers of the show, and we're
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: still figuring out what we were going to do. Maybe
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: start from go backwards.
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: I would start in the President and go backwards. Yeah,
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: I think it's a more enjoyable journey, is it?
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: Okay? But do whatever you want to do prequels then
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: listen it's you're or you could go back and listen
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: to one five years be like they had.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: No cluy these I want to hear from listeners, because
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: we have quite a few who've listened all full almost
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: four hundred episodes. What do they prefer and what what's better.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: Like I've been told I've been told they liked that
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: some people by SI people they liked it before the
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: segments really really extemporaneous, and we're.
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: Pretty extemporaneous anyway. This is this is like it's a
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: good balance of like keeping us in between the lines,
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: but also letting us just like debrief are week and
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: debrief our thoughts and come out against Big Tree.
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: If there's one thing we've done today. But we sometimes
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: you've got to stand for what matters, you know.
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know it's like they people just defend the
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: rainforest so much and now I'm just like, maybe there's
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: stuff we don't know what.
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: Rainforests they were cutting them down?
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: How many? Yeah, maybe it's getting ready to fall. Bunch
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: of power lines?
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, do you know any power line there are.
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: In the Jon?
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: Probably none, there's probably zero eyes storm. They're just bringing
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: down the zip lines. That's all they are.
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: That's what it is. Yeah. These amazons, Wait, the Amazon amazons,
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know there were amazons.
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  Speaker 1: I apologize to anyone who anybody that's like Amazon.
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: I apologize to any Amazon listeners. Yeah, unless you maybe
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: work for Amazon, Yeah, dot Com.
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: I wonder that'll be on the ads now, it could.
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: Be something something else.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: Well, hey, that's a lot of fun though Johnny. Hey, guys,
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: please buy tickets and Johnny's tour.
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: I mean it's not there's a lot of pressure, but
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: it's just you know, this does reflect on me. If
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: we can't sell the tickets. I mean, I'm not. It
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: just would mean a lot to me. And you know
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: I don't ask for a lot.
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: He doesn't. I mean he does try to get you
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: to become a patron every week, and but this feels
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: this would be Listen, here's the thing. If you'll want,
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: I want to I'm want to make a sacrifice right now.
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: Okay for the podcast. Okay, if you had to choose
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: to becoming a patron and buying a ticket to Johnny's
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: show on this new upcoming tour, Yes, I want you
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: to choose the tour. How about that?
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: I want people to do whatever they want.
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: No, you'll go sure, that's fun, because honestly, we profit
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: either way. I don't profit from your tour. I meanwhile,
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: you got a seven hundred dollars toilet seat at your house.
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: I will say this, those are your words I wrote
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  Speaker 1: for a pastor in Dallas, Texas and a big church
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  Speaker 1: called Watermark, which is unbelievable place. It's like the anti
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: mega church, mega church, Like they're just doing community really
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  Speaker 1: really well. But first time I visited, had to go
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: to the bathroom, okay, And I walked into their bathroom
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  Speaker 1: and they had the most luxurious toilet seats i'd ever.
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: Like, only no, just what was luxurious?
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: A substantial like comfortable?
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: Do you need a substantial seat?
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: No?
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: No, I don't.
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: But it was like they really invested.
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: Are just chair you were?
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: I couldn't believe how it's set like a chair Like
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: it was like, oh, okay, one of those. It really
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: was like this is a place that you could spend
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: some time, and you did. I don't know.
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: They're like, where did you go? He's here to be writing.
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  Speaker 1: Today, But yeah, shout out to the toilet seats at
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: Watermore Church. That's well done, guys.
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: As the weirdest endorsement I've ever heard. They didn't even
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: not a sponsor, but evidently it doesn't matter. I'm promoting
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: uh windshield hammers, you're promoting weird toilet seats at churches.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: We do what we do here guys, it's a well
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: oiled machine. What guy thinks. For the time you gave
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: us today, Let's do it again next week. Hereon I
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: talk about that