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Faith Is Fun · Have A Little Faith with Delilah

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  Speaker 1: Hello, my friend, Welcome to our second edition, second publication,
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  Speaker 1: second show of Have a Little Faith twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: Started the show, this podcast last year when I realized
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  Speaker 1: I would get frustrated when I would talk to my
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  Speaker 1: listeners on my radio show, The Delia Show, for ten, fifteen,
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  Speaker 1: twenty minutes, half an hour whatever, and they would pour
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  Speaker 1: out their heart and they would pour out their soul,
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  Speaker 1: and they would ask for prayer, and they would share
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  Speaker 1: the truth, the reality, the unvarnished truth of their life,
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  Speaker 1: and then that would get edited down to a little
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  Speaker 1: three minute snippet to play on the radio. And I thought,
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  Speaker 1: all this goodness, all these stories, all this beauty, gone
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  Speaker 1: to waste because nobody gets to share it and experience it.
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  Speaker 1: And so I talked to the folks at i Heeartrate
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  Speaker 1: and they agreed to let me start a podcast, this podcast,
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  Speaker 1: Have a Little Faith with Delilah, where I talk to
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  Speaker 1: people about real life situations and how the Almighty is moving, directing,
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  Speaker 1: working in their life. And that's why I started this
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  Speaker 1: podcast last year. We've been doing this for half a
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  Speaker 1: year now, about six months, and a lot of times
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  Speaker 1: when people hear the word faith or hear the word
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  Speaker 1: God or anything to do with that. They automatically get
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  Speaker 1: a stiff neck, a stiff back and think it's all
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  Speaker 1: pious and righteous and holy, which God is. But God's
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  Speaker 1: got a great sense of humor, and he created our
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  Speaker 1: sense of humor, and I love to laugh. Humor is
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  Speaker 1: a huge part of my faith and my walk with
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  Speaker 1: the Almighty. It's the ultimate expression of the joy that
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  Speaker 1: we are asked to acknowledge each and every day. How
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  Speaker 1: can you have a grateful heart without laughter? Laughter connects us.
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  Speaker 1: For me, Laughter is medicine. Laughter is food. Laughter nourishes
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  Speaker 1: my soul. I have always understood that humor even breaks
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  Speaker 1: down the highest walls that people often build around themselves.
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  Speaker 1: Humor gives us away into the hardest of hearts. Laughter
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  Speaker 1: allows us to take a big step back and see
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  Speaker 1: a bigger picture. Laughter helps us not to take ourselves
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  Speaker 1: so seriously, and not to take life so seriously. It
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  Speaker 1: is sometimes so absurd, and even in the midst of
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  Speaker 1: heartbreaking grief, laughter lifts our spirits. It shifts our perspective
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  Speaker 1: from focusing solely on the crazy world we live in
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  Speaker 1: to recognize that God created a world that very much
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  Speaker 1: includes joy, happiness. Zelena's goofiness and laughter. This past year,
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  Speaker 1: I have found myself somewhat addicted to TikTok. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: plan on it, but I became the focus of a
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  Speaker 1: couple of very funny videos. A couple of different men
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  Speaker 1: did videos where they were playing the role of their
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  Speaker 1: mother and their father and themself writing in a car
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  Speaker 1: listening to my show back in the nineties or the
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  Speaker 1: two thousands, and the videos went viral and I had
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  Speaker 1: to see them for myself. So I joined TikTok, not
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  Speaker 1: expecting to find so much laughter, so much happiness, so
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  Speaker 1: much joy. There are a lot of things on social
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  Speaker 1: media that can upset people, but there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: good stuff too. There's creativity, there's information. For me, there's
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  Speaker 1: a whole lot of laughter. And when I found TikTok,
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  Speaker 1: I found some content creators that make me smile on
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  Speaker 1: a daily basis, some people that are genius. And I
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  Speaker 1: assume they had a whole team behind them, that they
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  Speaker 1: had makeup artists and scriptwriters and costume designers. Nay, nay.
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  Speaker 2: Not.
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  Speaker 1: So. They are authentically funny people who spend their time
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  Speaker 1: and energy creating funny little skits just for people like
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  Speaker 1: you and I to enjoy for free. The first conversation
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  Speaker 1: I want to share with you on our podcast today
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  Speaker 1: is from a woman named Megan Lynn. Her humor and
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  Speaker 1: her personality, her genuine love, and her faith in the
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  Speaker 1: Lord has lifted me through some very, very very tough days.
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  Speaker 1: I can watch one of her videos, especially where she's
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  Speaker 1: playing the part of say an Angel of the Lord
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  Speaker 1: and Lucifer simultaneously switching back and forth, and I laugh
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  Speaker 1: for hours. And so we are going to have a
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  Speaker 1: conversation right now, Meghan Lynn, welcome to have a little
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  Speaker 1: faith with Delilah. Is this Meghan Lynn?
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  Speaker 2: This is Meghan Lynn. Is this this Radio Delilah?
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  Speaker 1: Or is this Mother Nature?
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  Speaker 2: It depends who do you want to hear from first?
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  Speaker 1: Or is this Lucy?
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  Speaker 2: Oh now it can be Lucy. It just depends. I
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  Speaker 2: might have the attitude. I might not. It all depends.
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  Speaker 1: I got to introduce you, Megan, to my listeners who
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  Speaker 1: who have not yet become rabid TikTok followers like I have.
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  Speaker 1: I I joined TikTok on accident. I never planned to
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  Speaker 1: become a TikToker either.
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  Speaker 2: It was not on my radar. It was never anything
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  Speaker 2: I thought I would ever do. But here we are.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you and me were living the dream.
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  Speaker 1: But when I joined, you were part of the reason
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  Speaker 1: that I became addicted. I'm serious. Your little skits, your
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  Speaker 1: little mother nature throwing. You're telling Lucifer Lucy, you know
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  Speaker 1: that they don't get to harass you or insult you.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, who is this brilliant woman? How are
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  Speaker 1: you always so beautiful? And how do you like, do
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  Speaker 1: you have a whole team of people that help you
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  Speaker 1: shoot and edit and produce or are you doing all
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  Speaker 1: this on your own? Honey?
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  Speaker 2: It is just me. I write the scripts, I film,
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  Speaker 2: I do my own hair and makeup, I do con
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  Speaker 2: costume selection. Everything is me. It's just me in a
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  Speaker 2: phone and that's it. That's all you need.
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  Speaker 1: You're brilliant, And now see I need more than that.
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  Speaker 1: I need someone like you because I am an idiot
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to like technology, I need more teenagers.
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  Speaker 2: You know, here's the thing. I think everybody overthinks it,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm so guilty of doing that too. Like I'm
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  Speaker 2: on this quest for perfection, but really what want is authenticity,
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  Speaker 2: Like as long as you show up in your your
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  Speaker 2: true self, like people are always searching for truth and authenticity,
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  Speaker 2: and you've got a light that nobody else has, like
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  Speaker 2: you were created as you are on purpose for a purpose,
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  Speaker 2: and other people will see that in you as long
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  Speaker 2: as you're authentic in your content. And I think that
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  Speaker 2: what you do is beautiful and wonderful and honestly, Dellallah.
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  Speaker 2: To hear you say these words, I cannot believe that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like it's your voice that I'm hearing all of
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  Speaker 2: these words come from, because you were such a bright
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  Speaker 2: light and you've helped so many people. You are truly wonderful.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for what you do.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. I was born this way. I came out
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  Speaker 1: of the womb talking, and I love the life that
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  Speaker 1: God has knit together and woven together for me. I
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  Speaker 1: so stink and love it, ay man. And I'm so
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  Speaker 1: blessed that I've never had since I was fourteen years old,
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  Speaker 1: Megan Lynn, I've never had to have a real job.
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  Speaker 2: That is a blessing, that is incredible.
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  Speaker 1: I have had a few real jobs, and I worked
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  Speaker 1: in a fish plant and high school to save up
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  Speaker 1: money to buy a car. And I you know, I've
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  Speaker 1: had a few real jobs, and I never ever ever
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  Speaker 1: want to have to stand on a cement floor and
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  Speaker 1: ice water cutting fish again. As long as I'm alive.
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  Speaker 2: I'll bet you get some stories to tell.
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  Speaker 1: Though I do. One of the ladies that worked for
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  Speaker 1: us lost her finger while we were canning fish and
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  Speaker 1: they never found it.
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  Speaker 3: Stop.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody did.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody did.
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  Speaker 3: It's somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody did in a can of tuna. You know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying. That is wild true story. The only times
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  Speaker 1: I've had real jobs is when I needed real money
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  Speaker 1: and radio wasn't paying me enough. Thank goodness, that's not
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  Speaker 1: a problem anymore.
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  Speaker 2: But uh, incredible.
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  Speaker 1: So I watch your tiktoks, and a lot of it
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  Speaker 1: is like fun recipes that are super simple. I love
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  Speaker 1: that the pimento cheese spread. I love that, But it's
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  Speaker 1: not nearly as good as when you're being sassy.
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  Speaker 2: So we listen. I have a good time. Sometimes I'm
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  Speaker 2: sassy in my recipes. You know. I always like to
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  Speaker 2: open like, well, little joke, because if you make somebody laugh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they forget about their worries for just a second.
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  Speaker 2: And that's how I like to start off all my videos.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, there's something about Lucy that just draws people in.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's just the naivety. Maybe maybe she's just
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. She says what other people want to say.
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  Speaker 1: It's one hundred percent that you say what other people
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  Speaker 1: think or want to say. You are so sassy, honey.
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  Speaker 2: It's that Southern sasas you know. We can't get away
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  Speaker 2: from it. I think we're kind of born that way.
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  Speaker 2: We can't escape that. Everybody's just sassy down here. I
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  Speaker 2: mean we're cutthroat in the nicest way.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: We can deliver that sort of cutthroat cut down, but
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  Speaker 2: with a smile, with such grace you don't really know
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  Speaker 2: that you're getting cussed out, you know. And that's something
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  Speaker 2: that I think we've just perfected down here, and I
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  Speaker 2: think the world kind of needs to see it.
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  Speaker 1: You have definitely perfected it. You say it so sweetly.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, that's right. But I promise you when I
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  Speaker 2: do give a compliment, I do mean it genuinely. I
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  Speaker 2: really do love people. I have a heart for people
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  Speaker 2: and for a community. So even though I'm sassy and
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  Speaker 2: I'm delivering these you know, cutthroat cut downs from the South,
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  Speaker 2: I really do have a heart for people.
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  Speaker 1: That comes shining through. Also, I got to ask you
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  Speaker 1: this like every other TikTok that I watched in the
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  Speaker 1: month of December. You said, I'm going to take this
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  Speaker 1: to this party, I'm going to tonight, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: take this to the next party. Did you really go
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  Speaker 1: to that many holiday parties?
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  Speaker 2: Like?
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  Speaker 1: And how did you stay skinny?
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  Speaker 2: Honey? It was a party every week. Not only did
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  Speaker 2: we have a party about twice a week, but we
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  Speaker 2: also had a week long Disney tripping there as well,
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  Speaker 2: which is if you've never been to Disney during the holidays,
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  Speaker 2: you should go. It's a good time. It's beautiful. There's
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  Speaker 2: nothing like they do Florida snow and really it's just bubbles,
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  Speaker 2: but it's really the coolest thing you'll ever see. But yes,
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  Speaker 2: we had so many different holiday party and then transitioned
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  Speaker 2: into a birthday party and then a New Year party
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  Speaker 2: and just all.
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  Speaker 1: Of the above.
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  Speaker 2: So how am I listen? I'm really not that skinny.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a very average girl.
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  Speaker 1: I could probably Oh, honey, there's nothing average about you.
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  Speaker 1: You are beautiful, You are so kind.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much. I appreciate you. We do we
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  Speaker 2: well around here, we do, but you' a portion control
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  Speaker 2: a lot of water. We do what we can you
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  Speaker 2: know the South of the really know, one's like the
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  Speaker 2: healthiest food.
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  Speaker 1: If it's not fried and then dipped in butter, it's
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  Speaker 1: not Southern cooking.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying, Like, you got to put all
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  Speaker 2: the seasonings in there. You got to make sure it's right.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I was giggling with my friend before I
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  Speaker 2: called you. We had our luck and Money meal yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know luck and money meal? Have you ever
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  Speaker 2: had one of those? Well?
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  Speaker 1: I told you my mama was from Arkansas. Not only that,
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  Speaker 1: but my first husband, my first husband, God rest his soul,
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  Speaker 1: his family was all from Louisiana. So we had to
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  Speaker 1: have the luck and Money meal every New Year's.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, that's right. Well, wait, I ate the black
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  Speaker 2: eyed peas yesterday, and ate my weight and black eyed
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  Speaker 2: teas and corn bread, and we do mustard greens. I
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  Speaker 2: like the bite of the mustard green. And here I am,
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  Speaker 2: not even twenty four hours later, talking to an icon.
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  Speaker 2: You who I grew up listening to, still listened to
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  Speaker 2: adore so much. So really, those black eyed teas paid off.
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  Speaker 1: They did the trick.
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  Speaker 2: They did the trick.
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  Speaker 1: And how did you meet Wicks? Did you meet him?
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  Speaker 1: Through the app.
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  Speaker 2: We have. Yes, we met on TikTok, we've never actually
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  Speaker 2: met in person. We're going to at some point. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to be in the same circle at some point.
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  Speaker 2: But he reached out and said, hey, I'm looking for it.
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  Speaker 2: I think he posted something like, hey, I'm looking for
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  Speaker 2: a Mother Nature to film another TikTok, and so everybody
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  Speaker 2: was tagging me, and I was like, you know what, Wicks,
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  Speaker 2: I'll be your Mother Nature. I've been Lucy. I've never
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  Speaker 2: been Mother Nature before, but I'm willing to give anything
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  Speaker 2: it's shot. And so he filmed his bit. We wrote
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  Speaker 2: the script together. He filmed his bit and sent it
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  Speaker 2: to me. I filmed my bit and like reacted to
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  Speaker 2: his bit, and I spliced it all together, added the
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  Speaker 2: sub Toddle'll send it back to him, and said, here
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  Speaker 2: you go.
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  Speaker 1: I want to do something with you guys. I so
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  Speaker 1: want to do something with you guys.
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  Speaker 2: I will do anything anytime you let me know.
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  Speaker 1: When you guys crack me up so much, I was
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  Speaker 1: laying in bed and all the house was quiet. The
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  Speaker 1: kids that I am raising this time around are most
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  Speaker 1: of them are four of them are or ten and under.
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  Speaker 1: So the house was quiet. The kids were all in bed,
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  Speaker 1: and I was all alone in the house watching your videos,
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  Speaker 1: and I started laughing and I couldn't stop. And I'm howling,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm sending your videos to some other friends that
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  Speaker 1: I have, thinking, oh, I hope I don't wake them up,
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  Speaker 1: And then I thought, oh, I hope I do wake
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  Speaker 1: them up, because I am I'm cracking myself up here,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't like being alone when I'm in a
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  Speaker 1: good mood. I want to have a party that's right.
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  Speaker 2: Like me and my best friend, we send them to
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  Speaker 2: each other all the time. I don't care what time
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  Speaker 2: did it. Can me three of the morning, send me
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  Speaker 2: something funny. I'm sending it to you because everybody needs
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  Speaker 2: to laugh a little bit more. You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, we need to laugh a lot more. We need
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  Speaker 1: to laugh a lot more.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, there's like four content creators that I have. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I get an alert as soon as you post something,
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  Speaker 1: and I can't wait to go check it out because
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  Speaker 1: you just you make me smile.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to cry. You have no idea how impactful
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  Speaker 2: it is for me to hear you say something like that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm serious, So my whole year is made like nothing's
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  Speaker 2: gonna top this.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Lord, bless you, bless you, bless you. I love
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  Speaker 1: that you spread His love, his grace, his mercy, his
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  Speaker 1: truth is always.
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  Speaker 2: That's what it all is. That's what it's all about.
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  Speaker 1: Amen. Amen. And every time Lucy shows up and tries
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  Speaker 1: stealing your joy and you come back with those one
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  Speaker 1: line singers. I carry that in my heart and I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: not today, say not today.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that makes my heart so happy. That's the whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: The enemy tries to do everything that it can and
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  Speaker 2: to perseketch you and keep you down. But you've got
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  Speaker 2: to remind yourself you're a child of the King. You
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  Speaker 2: were designed with purpose, for purpose and on purpose, and
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  Speaker 2: there is a light in you that you have to
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  Speaker 2: share with the world because there's nobody else in the
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  Speaker 2: world like you. I'm so grateful that you failed me.
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  Speaker 1: Well, here's to a great new year and to some
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  Speaker 1: great collaborations that we're going to do.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. I am ready for it. I'm ready when you are.
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  Speaker 1: All right, honey, God bless.
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  Speaker 3: You, all right.
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  Speaker 2: All the love for you, big hugs, Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Meghan Lynn was such a delight. If you want to
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  Speaker 1: find her here, is the information. Here's how you can
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: find her. She's on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube as at
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  Speaker 1: the at sign the Amber stamp at Meghan Lynn Content,
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  Speaker 1: and she's on Facebook at Meghan Lynn Content Official. So
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  Speaker 1: Meghan m E G h A N L y n
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  Speaker 1: N content and then on Facebook at Meghan Lynn Content Official.
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  Speaker 1: Up next. It's a hysterical guy. I mean, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Watching his videos makes me think of Florida in a
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  Speaker 1: whole new way, a whole new perspective. He called it.
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  Speaker 1: In one of his last videos. It's an open zoo.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, where else do you get to walk around
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  Speaker 1: with alligators and crocodiles? He goes by, O MG, it's Wis.
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  Speaker 1: O MG, it's Wis on TikTok. WIX. Welcome to have
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  Speaker 1: a little faith with Delilah.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, what's going on?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it's WIX.
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  Speaker 3: How you doing?
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  Speaker 1: I stinking adore you when I need to laugh, WIX
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  Speaker 1: when I'm having a crappy day, when I need to
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  Speaker 1: just laugh. I'm not a Floridian, so you know, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of your content is a little over my head
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  Speaker 1: because I'm underwater here where I'm at. But dang, you're funny.
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  Speaker 3: Well, thank you so much. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: So I saw your collaboration for those folks who are
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  Speaker 1: listening to our podcast. I accidentally got on TikTok about
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  Speaker 1: a year and a half ago because somebody did a
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  Speaker 1: really funny video where they played, you know, a mom
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  Speaker 1: driving a car and a dad in the car and
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  Speaker 1: a kid in the back of the car are all
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  Speaker 1: the same person, Alex Beggs listening to the Delilah Show.
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  Speaker 1: And it went viral and everybody was calling me my son,
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  Speaker 1: my son, who's a cops like, mom, did you know you?
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  Speaker 1: Like they're making fun of you, and it's gone viral.
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  Speaker 1: So I had to join TikTok so I could see
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  Speaker 1: this thing because I couldn't figure out how to see
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: it otherwise. And now I'm addicted.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: Oh yes, that's how it happens.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: It starts out, I'm just gonna like put my toe
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: in the water and the next thing you know, an
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: alligator's biting you.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: Exactly. You just full on you, just full in there now.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: And one of the first things I found was, OMG,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: it's wex.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, I appreciate you so much.
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: It's been a journey for sure, and I really do
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: appreciate you, and like I said, I've always of course,
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: everyone knows who you are, so even when you comment,
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: and it made my whole day.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: So how long have you been? How long have you
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: been on TikTok X?
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: About five years now? Yeah, I started during the pandemic,
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: so about five years.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: And what are you on other platforms?
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: Yes, I've eventually, I think I after being on TikTok
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: for like a year or so, I started spreading too
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: other platforms. So I'm on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, believe that's
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: it right now?
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: And do you like if somebody were to look you up,
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: would they look up the same thing? Omg, it's wex.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: Oh yes, and then I'll pop up everywhere. So I
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: keep it the same so that no matter. I'm sorry,
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: my son is kind of in one of his moldes,
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: but yeah, I keep it the same to that.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Wh wait wait, wait wait, you're apologizing to me about
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: a child.
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: Well he's he just left a doctor's appointment, so he
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: had a lot of energy.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: I don't know where it can.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: You're apologizing to me about a misbehaved child.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: Wicks, No, I understand.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: You think I sound so mellow and so sweet on
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: the radio every night because I'm a nice person. Yes,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: I'm exhausted. I've been screaming, stop hitting your brother all
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: day long? Is that indo our behavior? Is that indoor?
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: Walking feet, walking feet all day long? Oh yeah, for
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: forty one years?
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: I understand. See, I'm still at the beginning with my son.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: But how old is your baby?
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: My baby's ten months. And then I have a seventeen
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: year old and a fifteen year old and he's the
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: first boy too, so.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but seventeen and fifteen year old girls. Oooh, daddy,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: they'll give you a run for your money.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah. He has the most energy.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: At ten months.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Oh so we're going to see are we going to
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: see all sorts of fun content about you know, him
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: chasing the alligators down and stuff.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: He's going to be out there with me. I try
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: to get my daughters out there with me, but they're not.
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: Really They don't really like to be on a camera.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: They'll get on sometimes, and then they don't really like
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: animals too much. One of them does, but the other
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: one is not an animal person. But he seems to
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: like being outdoors and doing the things that I do.
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: So once we are able to get him a little
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: bit older. He's going to be out there with me.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: He'll be the star of the show.
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: Of course, I'm just passing the torch at that point.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Your content is hysterical. Did you ever get publics to
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: sponsor you since you're always eating their snacks?
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: Not yet? Now yet, I've talking to I've Jude.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: I need my people to talk to your people, because
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: that's a that's a natural fit.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: I know, I know, and they love me like their
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: marketing department loves me.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: The president. Everyone loves me.
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: But they're kind of older school when it comes to
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: like the social media marketing and stuff. So I understand.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: I just want to have been a commercial. That's not
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: sad though, because I'm not good at that.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Okay, So did they at least give you free snacks
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: when you stop by?
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: Yes, free snacks and free merch.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: I'm sitting here trying to eat healthy. My my doctor
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: told me last August I was going to have to
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: give something up, either the the snacks and the carbohydrates
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: and the sugar or my toes since I was developing diabetes.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: So I sit here watching your little your little snacks
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: you carry on this set I'm like, ohh and I'm
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: eating a carrot.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: I understand, I have to.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: I'm slowing down now, like I'll do a video and
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: I'll have my snack and then it'll be like a
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: while before I I've been slowing down a little bit.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: I had to slow down a lot more than a
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: little bit. Yeah, but you're a baby. You got years
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: to go before you hit that wall. But when that
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: wall jumps up, it hits you.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been told. I mean, I'm getting there.
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: I just turned forty two last month, so I'm on
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: my way.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: WIX. I got boots in my closet older than you. Yeah,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: I got kids older than you. So I don't want
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: to hear I'm getting there.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Oh well, thank you for letting me call, Thank you
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: for let me talk to you. I want to do
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: something with you and Megan Lynn. I called her first
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: because I saw the collaboration you two did when when
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: you were complaining about the cold front, so you called
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: mother Nature and I commented on it, and she commented
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: back first, the world's crazy. Yes, And I don't know
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: if you know what a service you do for people
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: when you create. Both of you and Megan Lynn and
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: other people who create content that I can let my
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: kids watch. Like a lot of times the content I'm
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: listening to or that pops up is not appropriate for
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: my babies, so I have to yes, switch with switch switch,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: I know what word is coming. No no, no, no, no,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: exactly your content. I show it to my kids all
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: the time.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Thank you that I try to create a
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: space and where we can just go because, like I said,
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: I know, the world's the crazy place. Even when I started,
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: it was during the pandemic.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: So it's more so.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: Creating a space that people can go, laugh and have fun.
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: So I even monitor like my comment section, to try
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: to make it the best most positive experience, so that
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: we can all just get a space to where we
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: can all just for a second.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: We were for fifteen thirty seconds, just it.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Laugh and you make me laugh. You make me laugh,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: you make me smile, You make me so happy. I
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: don't have to deal with nseums and mosquitoes and humidity.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, and mosquitoes are back. By the way, we
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: had a few days, but they're.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Back a few days. You mean with the cold snap.
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we had some forty degree weather, fifty degree weather,
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: so they were kind of gone for a little bit,
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: but now we're back in like the eighties.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: So did they put on little winter coats during that time?
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: Like?
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Where did they go for those few days?
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: I don't even know.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: I was just happy to be out fire, but then
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: it was too cold for me to be outside. So
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: it's kind of either deal with the cold or deal
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: with the mosquitos.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: So you were going to go outside and you complained,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: so you had to calm mother nature exactly? And your
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: costumes do you make those? Does your wife make those?
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Where do the costumes come from?
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: I make them.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: I'd usually sit down and brainstorm a character and what
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: I think the character looks like, and then I'll just
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: make a costume for it.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Dude, your imagination is awesome.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: It's working out well. So are you Are you going
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: to start doing like shows? Can people come and meet you?
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Is that going to happen?
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: Yes, I've actually been doing comedy shows since August. I
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: just did one this past Saturday and Stuart, Florida, So
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: we did two Soda shows and I have my next
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: one January seventeenth and Fort Pierce.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate you, Thank you ver spending some time
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: with us, and thank you for creating just goodness for
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: families and people to enjoy. And please please keep it up.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: Thank you so much. And you are amazing.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: I just want you to know you are amazing. Anything
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: you need before, just let me know and I'm there,
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: all right.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Maybe some public snacks, I don't know, you know, you know,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: we can talk about the fact that we have daughters
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: the same age. I call mine Moody Judy because I
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: never know who I'm going.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: To get, you know, that's my seventeen year old.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, my seventeen year old. Her middle name is Joyful.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: She's gonna in and for the first I don't know,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: ten twelve, fourteen years of her life, she was such
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: a joy. She woke up happy, she went to sleep happy,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: she was always dancing, she was always happy. And then bam,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Moody Judy moved in, took over her body. Oh yeah,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Now I never know who I'm going to get. Some
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: day she's Delilah Joyful Junior. Some day she's Delilah. I'm
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: going to rip your head off, Mama, Junior. Like you
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: just never know, never know, never know. Well, go enjoy
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: your baby, enjoy your family, and check out our podcast,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: have a little face. That's where you're going to be
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: very soon.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Thank you Wis. God bless you, God bless you as well. Wix.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Thank you for sharing your love, your laughter, your locks,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: your sense of humor, your creativity, your costumes. It has
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: meant so much to me, and hopefully our conversation will
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: introduce you to others if you want to follow Wis
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: or find out more about where he is performing, because
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: now he's doing shows. He's so funny. Look up. O MG,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: it's Wicks. O MG, it's Wics on all platforms. I
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: started this podcast by explaining how important having a sense
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: of humor is, especially when you are a person of faith.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: There's a lot to unwind, a lot to unpack every day,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: and it's hard, so hard not to get discouraged. Let
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: me tell you something about that. Don't do that, don't
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: get discouraged, don't get frustrated, don't give up hope, don't
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: give up faith, and don't give up laughter. When you
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: are finding ways to share the love of God by
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: being authentic, by being real, by being silly and meaning it,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: that my friend is something to be embraced. I am
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: so grateful I got to connect with Megan Lynn and WICS.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: I'm so grateful for their content. It's content I can
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: share with my kids. They are funny, they are sassy,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: but they're never rude. They never say things that embarrass me.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: They're just wholesome, wickedly funny, and beautiful people. I am
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: so grateful for each and every conversation I get to
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: have with each one of you. I will be back
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: next week to celebrate this new year, twenty twenty six
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: with you. Until then, remember all you need is to
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: have a little faith. Lord, bless you, Love,