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More televangelist talk · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: If you're on my Facebook page, you saw a picture
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  Speaker 1: that I posted from earlier today. The Queen just kind
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  Speaker 1: of caught me and we were outside downtown Columbus this morning,
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  Speaker 1: and I just I looked at the picture and I
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  Speaker 1: liked to, I say, you know, I'm going to post this,
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  Speaker 1: and lots and lots of compliments. One one kind of
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  Speaker 1: snarky comment, but then lots and lots of compliments. But
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  Speaker 1: Mark and I were talking about AI being involved in everything.
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  Speaker 1: Facebook now has AI summaries of your post. Have you
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  Speaker 1: seen this?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I've seen them.
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  Speaker 1: Commenters praise the author's transformation and confidence boost, admiring his
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  Speaker 1: sharp appearance and jacket. Many note his youthful look, with
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  Speaker 1: one suggesting a GQ cover feature. Congratulations and pride abound,
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  Speaker 1: highlighting his journey's positive impact. That's how Facebook sees that.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't need that. I think it's great what you
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  Speaker 1: like the AI.
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  Speaker 3: No, just just that your your comment that AI gave you, oh,
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  Speaker 3: you know whatever, And the.
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  Speaker 2: Picture was sharp than I.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm real transparent with people. I try to be
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  Speaker 1: just you know, flat out honest. It's been years since
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  Speaker 1: I've seen myself a picture of myself and went I
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  Speaker 1: look nice, I look good. I like what I And
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  Speaker 1: it just hit me today when she showed me that picture,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, wow, I've changed. I like what I see.
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  Speaker 1: So I shared the picture and it uh yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: hard to believe that that is me. That's wow. So
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  Speaker 1: uh anyway, thanks for all the compliments. I appreciate that,
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  Speaker 1: I really do. It made me. Uh, it made me
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  Speaker 1: feel good to see the picture and to see so
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  Speaker 1: many people saying such very nice things. Then, as I
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  Speaker 1: said in the Facebook post between Awake and one and
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  Speaker 1: eighty and Van's way here Systems, Yeah, I'm I can't
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  Speaker 1: believe a year ago. Wow, it's hard A two I
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  Speaker 1: did eight six, a two y WTV and now a
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  Speaker 1: couple of things on the table poking fun. I guess
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  Speaker 1: at the Televangels the other night, the Auctioneer Televangels. I
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  Speaker 1: woke up, the TV was on and the guys just going,
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  Speaker 1: can I get can I now let me heal those
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  Speaker 1: phones ring right now? Six hundred dollars. We're gonna plant
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  Speaker 1: plant that church right now? Six hundred? Can I get
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  Speaker 1: six hundred? Give me six hundred? And I'm like, you've
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  Speaker 1: got to be kidding me. It sounded like an auction.
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  Speaker 1: It really did. And of course they have all the
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  Speaker 1: fake phones ringing in the background. Listen to those phones.
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  Speaker 1: Listen those phones. There's another six hundred, there's another six
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  Speaker 1: And I'm thinking, what gullible people are up in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the night sending this person miney.
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  Speaker 3: I do feel sorry for the people who send money
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  Speaker 3: when they're clearly ridiculous. But I just personally what I'm
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  Speaker 3: setting there, what I see those, it just.
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  Speaker 2: Makes me laugh.
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  Speaker 1: I believe in helping your church. I belie leave you know,
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  Speaker 1: tith into your church and and in your community and
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  Speaker 1: doing it. But these people, look, when you're spending five
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  Speaker 1: million dollars a year to do a TV show and
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  Speaker 1: come out and I'm sorry, but the person that you
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  Speaker 1: were supposed to be worshiping had a robe and some
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  Speaker 1: sandals and if he was lucky of every now and then,
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  Speaker 1: had a meal. And uh, these these these money guys
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  Speaker 1: just they bugged me. They really do a two one WUTV.
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  Speaker 1: And is the number John's been hanging on through the
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  Speaker 1: break here, Let's get him on. John, You're on six
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  Speaker 1: ten double UTV at height.
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  Speaker 4: Hi, I was calling about televangelists. Uh, we actually had
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  Speaker 4: one here in Columbus on Gender Road at the World Harvest.
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  Speaker 4: His name was Rob Parsley.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah he's still right.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well he shouldn't be, because what he used to
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  Speaker 4: do is once he started asking for money, he would
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  Speaker 4: lock the doors.
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  Speaker 1: Were you a miser there.
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  Speaker 4: No, my mother in law was, and she invited me
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  Speaker 4: one time and I I'm sitting there and I go,
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  Speaker 4: what's going on? And she goes, well, he shuts the
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  Speaker 4: doors to make sure that everyone gives some money.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I've never heard that before. But hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I after they got on TV and
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't question. If I don't see it,
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe it.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody's like I'm leaving. They're like, no, here's the basket.
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  Speaker 1: I've never heard that story before. But like I said,
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  Speaker 1: if I don't see it, I don't that seems pretty extreme.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's not out of the rabble possible. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: he did it. It's like we're going to close the
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  Speaker 2: doors here for a few minutes to make sure.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know, but there's no way they
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  Speaker 3: could force people to donate money.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's back with I went back in the seventies,
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  Speaker 1: there was a guy he was if you've ever seen
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  Speaker 1: was it Eddie Murphy or Martin Lawrence who did the
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  Speaker 1: might be in Arsenio Hall did a preacher in a
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  Speaker 1: movie was and it reminded me of this guy from
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  Speaker 1: back in the seventies that my mother always just went
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  Speaker 1: whatever he was on television. They called him Reverend Ike.
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea what his name was or anything,
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  Speaker 1: but I remember, you know, he was, you know, flashing
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  Speaker 1: glam and cadillacs and gold everything and that kind of thing,
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  Speaker 1: and that every time I see that, I think it
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  Speaker 1: was our city Hall. The more I'm thinking about this
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  Speaker 1: image in my head that does this pastor character, and
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  Speaker 1: I do not remember Reverend Ike as a visual. I
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  Speaker 1: just remember my mother's reaction to him. Now. By the
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  Speaker 1: same token, if Billy Graham was on, he usually did
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  Speaker 1: like three nights of the Billy Graham Crusade, and she'd
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  Speaker 1: be glued to it. She loved Billy Graham and his
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  Speaker 1: son has kind of killed carried on, and I got
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  Speaker 1: to be honest with you, I've never I've never heard
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  Speaker 1: anything nasty about him. There was some people who said
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  Speaker 1: Billy Graham, I guess had some points of view when
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  Speaker 1: it came to race relations. I think during the Nixon administration,
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  Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken, that he expressed to the president
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  Speaker 1: that a lot of folks find arguable or disagreeable. But
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  Speaker 1: aside from that, I never heard anything about him that
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  Speaker 1: was I thought, you know, super bad. And his son
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  Speaker 1: Franklin has carried on. They do something called Samaritans Perse
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  Speaker 1: that I've participated in quite a few times at Christmas time,
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  Speaker 1: Operation Christmas Child and that kind of thing, And I
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  Speaker 1: just I don't know. They seem pretty genuine to me.
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  Speaker 1: I just don't feel like they're living large. But some
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  Speaker 1: of them sick, give me sick, kind of make the
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  Speaker 1: phone ring right now, give me sick that. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: can do without that guy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, some of them are. What's the one dude, Kenneth Copeland.
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  Speaker 3: Kenneth Copeland, He's He's like, I have to fly in
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  Speaker 3: this in this private plane because there's damons on there.
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  Speaker 2: There's damons on the regular plane I got flying.
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  Speaker 1: Did he really say that?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I remember, uh Oral Roberts who used
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  Speaker 1: to be he was big. He's I mean Oral Roberts University.
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  Speaker 1: He he fell out of grace with a lot of people,
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  Speaker 1: including myself. When he he said that he had had
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  Speaker 1: a vision and the Lord had told him if he
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  Speaker 1: didn't get eight million dollars, I think it was, he'd
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  Speaker 1: be called home.
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  Speaker 2: What so he needed that exact he just knew the
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  Speaker 2: exact amount. Yeah, well he was in debt.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the Lord don't give coupons. Yeah, you needed the
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  Speaker 1: whole email. But yeah that I was like, really, that's
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  Speaker 1: just that's wrong.
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  Speaker 3: I mean when you put a number on it, I
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  Speaker 3: find it a little odd, a little specific too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And was it swaggered? Was it swaggered with the prostitute?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely? And yeah you did. Man, you're done, You're done.
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  Speaker 1: And was he Jerry Lee Lewis's cousin, Yes, he was,
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  Speaker 1: so to quote Hank Junior, it's an old family tradition.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying, Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 3: Jim Baker had a food bucket for a while, did
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  Speaker 3: he really?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I remember the bucket.
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  Speaker 3: He'd sell a food bucket like you could get it
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  Speaker 3: and it would be good for did you never know
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  Speaker 3: when end is an air?
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  Speaker 1: Just the amount of money they spent on Tammy's makeup, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: to be in the eight digits.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe that's yeah. Wow, maybe Oral was trying to help
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  Speaker 2: with the makeup.
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  Speaker 1: You remember, see again, you're too young to remember this.
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  Speaker 1: When Jim and Tammy Faye were real big, I mean
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  Speaker 1: real big, there were there were t shirts and they
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  Speaker 1: just had a bunch of colors on the front of them,
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  Speaker 1: like just like, uh, I don't know Picasso painting man,
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  Speaker 1: just a bunch of colors and it said I ran
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  Speaker 1: did Tammy Faye at the mall?
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  Speaker 2: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, if you still got one of those search you
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  Speaker 1: can probably make somebody on there.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's great.
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  Speaker 1: Are you serious? You're playing music already?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we got plenty of time. I just
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  Speaker 2: want this to be over with.
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  Speaker 1: Oh well, I really can't blame you. You're gonna go
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  Speaker 1: home and play with your hair.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all sorts of h herity of stuff I want
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  Speaker 2: to do, And I get.
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  Speaker 1: That's something else. If you're on Facebook, if you haven't
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  Speaker 1: been on there for a few hours, go on there
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  Speaker 1: and it'll show up on my page because he tagged me.
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  Speaker 1: But Zach, speaking of televangelist all seriously, all he needs
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  Speaker 1: is a white robe and some sandals for his Halloween
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  Speaker 1: costume because he's he's got it going on with his
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  Speaker 1: hair man, you're not. I thought mine was impressive. Zach
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  Speaker 1: is impressive.