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Phone Tap: You Donate Too Much · Brooke and Jeffrey: Phone Taps

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  Speaker 1: It's Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning, and today we
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  Speaker 1: call a woman who's been attending church every Sunday and
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  Speaker 1: her sister sometimes joins her, and has noticed something very
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  Speaker 1: interesting going on. In fact, she'd like us to pose
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  Speaker 1: as the church and embellish a little on the situation,
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  Speaker 1: which is right up our alley. We could totally do
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  Speaker 1: that and make her feel just a little bit uncomfortable
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  Speaker 1: about it. In your phone tap right now. Hello, good morning,
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  Speaker 1: I'm calling from the web north Side Church. I'm looking
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  Speaker 1: to speak with Danicaway. Yes, she Hi Danica. My name
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  Speaker 1: is Reefer. I'm the associate pastor here. How are you
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  Speaker 1: doing on this blessed day? Oh Wally for how are you?
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  Speaker 1: I'm well to thank you so much for asking. I'm
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  Speaker 1: surprised that we've never met face to face.
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  Speaker 2: I know, I'm actually when you mentioned your name, I
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  Speaker 2: wasn't familiar with you. I thought I knew all the O.
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  Speaker 1: That's okay. I'm sure we'll cross paths eventually, but I
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  Speaker 1: need to say, well, we do appreciate your participation and
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  Speaker 1: your support. We are going to have to ask you
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  Speaker 1: politely to not come back.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it's a final decision. We do wish you well
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  Speaker 1: blessings and salutations.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry you do. You're asking me not to come
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  Speaker 2: back to church. I mean, I've been a very avid
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  Speaker 2: member for three four years, and h I just I
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  Speaker 2: guess I'm a little caught off guard.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I can sense that.
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  Speaker 2: May I ask why?
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  Speaker 1: Is there?
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  Speaker 2: Is there a big reason? I guess I'm just a
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  Speaker 2: little confused.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you probably know why.
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  Speaker 2: I actually I don't. That's why I'm asking.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, the church does appreciate full transparency, so in that spirit,
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  Speaker 1: I will oblige your request. Okay, So how do I
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  Speaker 1: say this during the service when the plate is being passed? Uh? Huh?
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  Speaker 1: Apparently giving too much?
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  Speaker 2: I'm giving too much? What like? I don't you mean money?
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  Speaker 1: I do mean money. It's far too much money.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm being asked to not come back to church
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  Speaker 2: because twenty or forty dollars that I give at services
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  Speaker 2: too much?
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  Speaker 1: Exactly, It's making other people in your aisle feel bad
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  Speaker 1: about themselves.
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  Speaker 2: I'm very confused.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm sorry, are you laughing at other people suffering? Well?
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm just genuinely caught off guard by this situation.
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  Speaker 2: So I get nervous, and I giggle because I just
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  Speaker 2: I thought that I was doing something good. I love
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  Speaker 2: this church and I want to share my generosity with
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  Speaker 2: this church.
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  Speaker 1: And you thought it was good about not being discreet
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  Speaker 1: to show off how rich you are.
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  Speaker 2: What are you talking about.
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  Speaker 1: To make a big deal about taking out cash and
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  Speaker 1: wave it around in front of the entire congregation.
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  Speaker 2: I never do any of that. What do you mean?
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  Speaker 2: I'm so sorry to raise my voice.
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  Speaker 3: I've just never heard of anybody getting out a church
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  Speaker 3: for donating too much or giving too much.
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  Speaker 1: Well, when they act like you do and they flaunted
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  Speaker 1: in front of everyone, that's more of the issue.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm not flaunting anything. I don't do that. I
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  Speaker 3: pulled the folding money out of my pocket and I
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  Speaker 3: throw it in there. I don't make a spectacle of it.
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  Speaker 1: Even the way you just described it right there sounded
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  Speaker 1: like flaunting.
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  Speaker 3: How How else did I do it? Please explain to
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  Speaker 3: me how to do it. W I won't offend people.
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  Speaker 1: We are past that point by now.
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  Speaker 3: Please, I had no idea that I was offending anybody.
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  Speaker 1: The begging is doing no one any favors here. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: if you really are sincere, I am The only way
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  Speaker 1: that you can return to our church is if you've
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  Speaker 1: completed a mandatory program. It's called learning to give like
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  Speaker 1: a poor person.
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  Speaker 3: You can't be serious, and really is there's a class
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  Speaker 3: like this.
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  Speaker 2: You guys have called other people out for something like this.
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  Speaker 2: This is this is crazy.
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  Speaker 1: This is not crazy. This is very serious in fact,
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  Speaker 1: and failure to complete the course may result in spiritual probation.
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  Speaker 1: Are you telling me the deducted spiritual points in the afterlife?
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  Speaker 3: You cannot be serious, you can't be no, no, no, yes.
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  Speaker 1: And your enrollment in this program was requested actually by
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  Speaker 1: your sister Judy.
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  Speaker 2: Judy did what Judy what?
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  Speaker 1: Yes? She thought that you needed a gentle nudge in
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  Speaker 1: the ways of normal generosity. In fact, she's been plotting
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  Speaker 1: this since last Easter.
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  Speaker 3: My Sisterdy, she's the one to complain about me, like,
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  Speaker 3: what are you talking about?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, well, she actually wanted to do a prank phone
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  Speaker 1: call on you. So that's more of what we're doing
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  Speaker 1: right now. Because I'm not really from the church, I'm
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  Speaker 1: from a radio show called Brook and Jeffrey in the Morning.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my good.
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  Speaker 3: Set me into a jail spin.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. It was Judy's idea. She said that you
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  Speaker 1: two attend church together, and she thought we could mess
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  Speaker 1: with you.
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  Speaker 3: So mean, I'm gonna kill her.
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  Speaker 1: Like, seriously, what did you think. Don't you feel like
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  Speaker 1: you're giving maybe a little bit too much? No, that's
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  Speaker 1: what Judy says.
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  Speaker 3: No, I mean honestly, like sometimes I'll just like have
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  Speaker 3: extra cash and then it's always usually twenty. But when
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  Speaker 3: I'm feeling a little like you know, when i feel
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  Speaker 3: like I've had a good week or I have to
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  Speaker 3: thank the Lord for something, I'll throw an extra twenty
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  Speaker 3: in there.
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  Speaker 1: There you go, bragging again about how much disposable income
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  Speaker 1: you have to just toss it around in front of
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  Speaker 1: the poor. Is why don't you not.
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  Speaker 2: That from Pastor Reefer?
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  Speaker 3: That's terrible?
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