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Broken Noses, Big Macs, and Trusting God · Talk About That

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  Speaker 1: Life audio.
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  Speaker 2: Today, I'll talk about that. John goes on a fast
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  Speaker 2: to get ready for his time on camera and makes
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  Speaker 2: a staunch defense of Green Peppers. Meanwhile, I tell you
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  Speaker 2: the harrowing tale of a gnarly scooter crash that temporarily
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  Speaker 2: derailed my comedy tour but might have actually improved my nose. Well,
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  Speaker 2: that's a conversation about what good really means and why
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  Speaker 2: God is trustworthy but not predictable. Today's episode is not
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  Speaker 2: sponsored by Acoustic Guitars, ruining bonfire parties since eighteen fifty.
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  Speaker 2: But first a word from our actual sponsor.
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  Speaker 3: What's about their podcast Universe? It's John and Johnny back
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  Speaker 3: for talk about that. It's been a minute, Johnny.
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  Speaker 2: We had a little bit of a hiatus. Yeah, how
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  Speaker 2: are you doing.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think we're not going hate.
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  Speaker 2: No, we're not doing that.
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  Speaker 1: We're not going right into me.
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  Speaker 3: Guys.
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  Speaker 1: Johnny's been through He's seen some bad stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I have seen some bad stuff. Yeah, yeah, we have.
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  Speaker 2: We've had a few episodes over the past couple of
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  Speaker 2: years where we talk about our health disasters.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And then when we know where you listened to him,
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, this sounds like old people talking. But
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  Speaker 2: I had a moment this past weekend for sure. And
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  Speaker 2: I know some of you guys that follow my socials,
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  Speaker 2: you already know that it happened. But but people have
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  Speaker 2: already been telling me, I want the full debrief. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: And I can't wait to hear the podcast where you
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  Speaker 2: talk about what happened. But I was out on tour
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  Speaker 2: on the bus tour, which is the long awaited bus tour,
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  Speaker 2: which I was very excited about. We've had so much
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  Speaker 2: fun the live and Laughing tour, and so I had
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  Speaker 2: opening comics with me. We've got a whole crew and
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  Speaker 2: it's a whole thing. It's a big machine. It's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of pressure, but super fun. And we're in Arkansas,
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  Speaker 2: and uh, when I do these tour days with Nate Pergatsy,
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  Speaker 2: he has scooters on the bus on the that they
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  Speaker 2: bring with them, the little e scooters, the little zip
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  Speaker 2: around electric scooters, like those bird scooters like you'd see
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  Speaker 2: the town Line scooters, Bird whatever. And so I was like,
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  Speaker 2: when we get a bus tour, I'm getting some of
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  Speaker 2: those scooters and I've ridden them a bunch, Like we
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  Speaker 2: go when we go to downtown somewhere, I'll ride them
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  Speaker 2: or whatever, and I've I've been on those things. I
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  Speaker 2: have I have incredible bat ones. Let me just start
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  Speaker 2: by saying that.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: And so I was like, I'm getting some of those.
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  Speaker 2: So I did. I researched it, and I got some
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  Speaker 2: dumb Chinese knockoff ones on Amazon. And I was like, well,
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  Speaker 2: I hope these don't catch fire into the bus because
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  Speaker 2: here we come, and we got four of them, and
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  Speaker 2: we've been using them on the roape. We're in Arkansas
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  Speaker 2: and I'm on it and Adam Bush, who's with us
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  Speaker 2: as one of the openers who also helps produce the podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Hello Adam and Christian McCartin, and who's young, and neither
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  Speaker 2: neither of them. I don't think we're comfortable on scooters,
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  Speaker 2: which surprised me because Adam's a little younger than me.
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  Speaker 2: He's not young, but he's younger than me. And Christian's
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  Speaker 2: twenty four. And he's like, how do you do these?
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  Speaker 2: Or whatever? I think he literally asked me how do
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  Speaker 2: you I go? Come on, dude. So I was kind
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  Speaker 2: of showing them, hey, don't turn lean. I literally said it,
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  Speaker 2: don't turn lean, you know, because if you don't turn
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  Speaker 2: a scooter because the turning rate is not You don't
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  Speaker 2: turn the handlebars on a scooter. It's like a bike.
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  Speaker 2: You lean to turn. So we're in this parking lot
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  Speaker 2: of this performing arts center at a high school, getting
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  Speaker 2: ready to do a show. I was going to sound
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  Speaker 2: check in an hour. This was Thursday of ten days ago,
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  Speaker 2: about ten or eleven days ago, and we're riding the
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  Speaker 2: it was a windy day. We're right in the parking
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  Speaker 2: lot and we're zipping around. These things go about twenty
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  Speaker 2: miles an hour. Yeah, and I'd been riding for about
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  Speaker 2: five minutes and we're zipping around past each other and
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  Speaker 2: my hat blows off and they go, WHOA. I look
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  Speaker 2: back for my hat just to see kind of where
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  Speaker 2: it lands, because I was a turn around and go
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  Speaker 2: get it. And I don't know if I looking away
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  Speaker 2: caused me to lose my balance or I literally like
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  Speaker 2: instinctively turned the handlebars when I looked back to my
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  Speaker 2: left right. But all I know is when I immediately
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  Speaker 2: felt the scooter out of control and I could not
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  Speaker 2: get control back of it, and I knew I'm coming
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  Speaker 2: off this thing. It was like two seconds, two seconds,
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  Speaker 2: and it was over what a horrifying feeling. It was.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you're out of control, and I know I'm
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  Speaker 2: hitting hard. Whatever I'm gonna hit, I'm gonna hit hard.
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  Speaker 2: And so I think I tried to plant with this foot,
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  Speaker 2: my left foot, coming off the scooter, and that's really
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  Speaker 2: the last thing I remember as far as like where
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  Speaker 2: I because I had no choice where I was going
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  Speaker 2: to impact. I planted with his foot, sprained it pretty badly,
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  Speaker 2: and then face first into the pavement and then I
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  Speaker 2: just kind of sat up, so I was conscious. I
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  Speaker 2: sat up and I immediately feel like blood pouring out
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  Speaker 2: of my face. And Adam runs over. He said he'd
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  Speaker 2: like aft first, which hurts a little, but I get it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, nervous probably.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And uh no, I mean it's just one of
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  Speaker 2: the things that I'm like, you knucklehead. And then you
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  Speaker 2: walk over and see somebody's face and you go, oh,
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  Speaker 2: he's really hurt. And he goes, did you break your nose?
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  Speaker 2: And I go, I don't know, And blood's just pouring
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  Speaker 2: on my face and uh, I didn't have anything. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: I'm in the parking lot. I grab my shirt. I
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  Speaker 2: start like and I mean my shirts just soaked in blood.
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  Speaker 2: Just from like touching it to my face and I
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  Speaker 2: go all right, and I got up. I was just
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  Speaker 2: in shock. I'll walk like half a mile to the
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  Speaker 2: venue and Jordan, the tour manager, comes out, and he
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  Speaker 2: didn't see me. He saw like side view of me,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm kind of still like covering my face a
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  Speaker 2: little bit, and he goes, hey, do you get your
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  Speaker 2: dinner order in? I go, yeah, yeah, yeah, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: like just trying to get to a mirror to see
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  Speaker 2: like how bad is this?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: You know, and it was not good. I actually, we'll
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  Speaker 2: show a photo in the video. We'll oh, yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: don't care because I'm all better now. Well I'm not
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  Speaker 2: all better, but I'm a little crusty still, but we're
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm I'm passable. But yeah, it was so bad.
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  Speaker 2: So I go to the Yar and I immediately knew, like,
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  Speaker 2: we're not doing these shows. We're not doing They were like, well,
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  Speaker 2: we'll cancel tonight, and then they were kind of like
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  Speaker 2: we'll hold on the others. And I was like once
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  Speaker 2: once I went to the Yar and I just knew
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  Speaker 2: it's like, we're not this is not.
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  Speaker 3: Something we want to run. Cat skins and yeah, you
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  Speaker 3: can't just do like we'll put a you know, makeup.
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  Speaker 2: You can't put makeup on these wounds like it is.
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  Speaker 2: They're fresh wounds. And then I got stitches in my
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  Speaker 2: there's a bridge of my nose, which this will be
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  Speaker 2: a nice car. I got a nice gouge there, uh
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  Speaker 2: that they put stitches in. And then I have like
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  Speaker 2: a chunk of my under my nostril. I have like
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  Speaker 2: a chunk of meat that just kind of is gone
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  Speaker 2: and uh so it's healed up now, but there's no
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  Speaker 2: follicles there. So I'll have a nice little notch in
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  Speaker 2: my mustache forever more. Probably That's what I'm Yeah, so
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  Speaker 2: I'm just gonna do a comb over. That's what I've decided.
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  Speaker 2: But so yeah, so I literally we went home from
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  Speaker 2: the tour and we uh, we just drove the bus
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  Speaker 2: back like we got back from the the hospital. They
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  Speaker 2: ran all these scans. They said, well, your nose is
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  Speaker 2: fractured and both nasal cavities. Your nose is fractured. You'll
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  Speaker 2: need to go see an e n T to see
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  Speaker 2: whether I need surgery to repair. But it wasn't displaced
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  Speaker 2: like I could tell, Like my nose has always been
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  Speaker 2: I've always had like a dva sefton, a little bit
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  Speaker 2: wonky nose.
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  Speaker 3: Fixed it.
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  Speaker 2: I think, you know what's funny, It does look better.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, is it weird? Like it does not
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  Speaker 2: like I used to have one nostril that when you
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  Speaker 2: look underneath, which is a lot of how people see
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  Speaker 2: me from stage, they see underneath my nose, and it's
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  Speaker 2: kind of like one nostril's always a little bit slanty.
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  Speaker 2: And I swear to you it's not that. It's not
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  Speaker 2: that way anymore. They're kind of even now.
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  Speaker 1: God, They'm not just like want that preach.
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  Speaker 2: I mean sometimes some of y'all need to anyway. There's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of sermon illustrations from this, but the main
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  Speaker 2: one I would say is, uh, you can always get
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  Speaker 2: another hat. Whatever that thing, whatever that hat is to you,
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  Speaker 2: let it go, man, let that thing go. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 2: can always double back for that hat. Keep your eyes ahead,
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  Speaker 2: don't look back. You were like Lot's wife. Was I
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  Speaker 2: turned into a pillar of blood, pillar of epsom salts.
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  Speaker 2: It was bad, dude. So yeah, so I've so we
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  Speaker 2: got back home, and I mean I felt such a
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  Speaker 2: wave of sadness for not just the lost income, because
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  Speaker 2: we had to cancel two weekends of shows, not just
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  Speaker 2: this one, because I just was not healed up enough
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  Speaker 2: to go out even the second weekend. And but just
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  Speaker 2: the wave of like there's a crew of people that
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  Speaker 2: are now like in my care in a way because
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  Speaker 2: this is a machine that's got my name on it,
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  Speaker 2: and so this is people losing paydays because of my
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  Speaker 2: dumb two seconds two seconds of dumb. So yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 2: It was kind of a grief feeling, but also like
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  Speaker 2: just how stupid. And I've learned this, John. The thing
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  Speaker 2: I've learned the most is not all near death experiences,
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  Speaker 2: because that's what it was. If we're honest, Like I
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  Speaker 2: could have easily died. Oh people die on these things
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  Speaker 2: all the time. Oh yeah, my head hit. It's just
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  Speaker 2: a matter of like how bad was the because I
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  Speaker 2: had a concushion for sure. Yeah, just a matter of like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I could have had a brain bleed. I could have
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  Speaker 2: a skull fracture. I didn't break any teeth, although it
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  Speaker 2: drove my teeth into my mouth so hard. I mean
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  Speaker 2: I had so many mouth sores. I couldn't talk the
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  Speaker 2: first three days. I why I didn't call you. I
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  Speaker 2: was just texting you.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you were like it hurts too.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, I can't talk. Yeah, so but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm kind of healed up now a lot better, and
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  Speaker 2: we're going back out on the road, thank god. And
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  Speaker 2: I feel so bad for the people who had tickets,
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  Speaker 2: and so we're trying to get all that sorted out.
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  Speaker 2: So if that's you and you're out there and you're
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  Speaker 2: wondering all the rescheduled dates, we are working on it,
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  Speaker 2: I promise, And I feel so terrible, and I appreciate
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  Speaker 2: anybody that ever bought a ticket to my show. But
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  Speaker 2: I've learned not all near death experiences are created equal,
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  Speaker 2: because this is kind of a dumb one, Like you
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  Speaker 2: don't want to you know what I'm saying. You Like,
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  Speaker 2: it's almost like I gave myself third degree burns with
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  Speaker 2: a sparkler, you know what I mean. It's like, it's
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  Speaker 2: the dumbest I did that one time? The dumb did
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  Speaker 2: you really?
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  Speaker 1: I as a kid, it hurt, wow, But you're ashamed
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  Speaker 1: because it's just.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, yeah, you're like, this could have been an
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  Speaker 2: M eight if I was a cool kid, Like I
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  Speaker 2: wish it had been a Harley at least you know.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Man, didn't another comedian have the erect day.
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  Speaker 2: There's a Stavros Hawkish. He's a big podcaster in comic
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  Speaker 2: and he was I think he was headed to film
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  Speaker 2: his Netflix special that weekend on a bird scooter in
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  Speaker 2: some metro area. Yeah, And he was riding one and
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  Speaker 2: his hat started to fly off. He reached up to
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  Speaker 2: keep it from flying off, and that caused him to
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  Speaker 2: lose his balance. He fell over. It broke his arm.
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  Speaker 2: He had one of those like robotic weird contraptions on
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  Speaker 2: his arm that like keeps it all in place, the
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  Speaker 2: big mechanical cast and uh so he had to move
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  Speaker 2: his taping to July. It was the same day. Wow,
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  Speaker 2: I don't even it might have been this. What if
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  Speaker 2: it was the same minute.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: If we switch souls like one of those weird freaky
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  Speaker 2: Friday movies.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: I mean yeah, but it means it happens to other people.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it does.
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  Speaker 3: That's the thing why city's banned those things.
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  Speaker 2: But it is weird. It's like people have asked me,
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  Speaker 2: here's here's the part of it bumps me out. They go,
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  Speaker 2: how old are you? First of all, you're too old
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  Speaker 2: to be on these things. That's just not true. Okay, listen,
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  Speaker 2: I'm very coordinated. Yeah, Mago, it is the first time
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  Speaker 2: you'd ever That's that's the one that really bought me
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  Speaker 2: the most. Had you been on those before? I go, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: this was mine.
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  Speaker 3: I own it.
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  Speaker 2: I own it. I've been on them a million.
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  Speaker 1: Times, and I own you or something like, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know it.
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  Speaker 2: But all that said, it was a learning experience, an
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  Speaker 2: expensive one. Still waiting on the er bill, but it's
• 11:21
  Speaker 2: going to be I have a high deductible plan. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: like a lot of Americans that have health insurance, even
• 11:28
  Speaker 2: if you have it, you have a high deductible plan probably,
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  Speaker 2: And so yeah, it's going to be a minute before
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  Speaker 2: I pay down that. But we're alive and we're going
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  Speaker 2: back out to tell jokes, and I'm excited about that.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm very grateful that I was not more badly injured,
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  Speaker 2: because it could have gone way worse.
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  Speaker 3: It could have. You scared.
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  Speaker 1: You scared me pretty badly.
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  Speaker 3: So I got it to Adam texted me yeah, and
• 11:49
  Speaker 3: he was like, I don't know if you've heard, but
• 11:51
  Speaker 3: Johnny fell and had a pretty bad accident. And I
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  Speaker 3: was like, first thing, I said, is is this a joke?
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  Speaker 3: Because I can just see you guys on the bus, like,
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  Speaker 3: and he was.
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  Speaker 2: Like, wow, that's what we don't do that I never
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  Speaker 2: would do.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I know you don't.
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  Speaker 3: I know, maybe this was you know, you guys are
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  Speaker 3: out there having your high jinks out on your bus
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  Speaker 3: tour or whatever. But then.
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  Speaker 2: See what he does.
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  Speaker 1: But then he called yeah, oh no.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, hey man, yeah, not a joke, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and he kind of told me what happened. I was like,
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  Speaker 3: you're kiddings. I reached out to Curry immediately, yeah, and
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  Speaker 3: she was like, yeah's pretty bad.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, like she had my phone, so people were
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  Speaker 2: calling and texting, and I was just so out of it.
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  Speaker 2: I was just laying in the back bunk of the
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  Speaker 2: bed of the bus and I was just like trying
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  Speaker 2: not to bleed on the sheets that I don't own. Yeah,
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: and she was tending to my wounds. Curry was so great.
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  Speaker 2: I was so glad she was there because like there
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  Speaker 2: was so much that had to be handled, uh, that
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  Speaker 2: I just was not in the position to handle. Once
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  Speaker 2: you just I mean I was down, You're done, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I was down, And so she was wrapping me up
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  Speaker 2: with these bandages and caring for me. She's been amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Uh and so yeah, but well I've been convalescing at
• 13:04
  Speaker 2: home for the last like ten or eleven days, and
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  Speaker 2: so now we're kind of like, this is my first
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  Speaker 2: this is the first time my face has been in public,
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  Speaker 2: and there's been a lot of you'll see if I show,
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  Speaker 2: I'll show the photo. But it's there was a lot
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  Speaker 2: of facial there was some scabs and some crust and
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  Speaker 2: some junk.
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  Speaker 1: Like I had no I would have no idea today
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  Speaker 1: that could happen to you.
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  Speaker 2: That's the goal, John. So yeah, I'm still really stiff.
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  Speaker 2: Uh my hand is this hand is still a little
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  Speaker 2: bit wonky. I had so many scars and scabs on
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  Speaker 2: this hand, but I'm still it's not my playing hand.
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  Speaker 2: Thing Goads. Well, I guess you some people call this
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  Speaker 2: they're playing hand. I've considered this the playing hand because
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  Speaker 2: you're making frits, you're making chords with this hand. So
• 13:42
  Speaker 2: if this was if this was on this hand, I
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  Speaker 2: probably wouldn't be able to play the guitar right now. But
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: you have practiced. I've practiced a little bit. I think
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna be okay. But yeah, but yeah, it's been interesting.
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  Speaker 2: I think we should have a word now a few
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  Speaker 2: of our fine sponsors and hope it's some health insurance
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  Speaker 2: playing or something.
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  Speaker 1: Remember Johnny has a bunch of bills.
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  Speaker 2: Now a word from Edna. Let's hear from a few
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  Speaker 2: of our fine sponsors.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad you're okay.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I just want to say thanks to to
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  Speaker 2: everybody that like commented on social media. I never want
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  Speaker 2: to make those kind of posts because it's like it's
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  Speaker 2: so weird to because I'm always my posts are always
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  Speaker 2: so light and whatever. And then you're like, hey, we
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  Speaker 2: have to cancel shows and I'm really sorry, and people
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  Speaker 2: are just like, oh wow, this is serious, and people
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: were really concerned and people were praying, and so I
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: just want to say thanks to everybody who reached out.
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: And I'm glad to be back doing what I love
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: and very grateful that I'm okay and we're on the end.
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: We're not one hundred percent yet. So Spokane Wednesday, May
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: sixth Thursday is Tacoma, and then I'm doing a fundraiser
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: in Portland, and then I'm doing a fundraiser in Lebanon, Tennessee.
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: And you guys, these jokes may have some duct tape
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: on them. So I'm coming in at seventy percent. Y'all
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: know it's gonna be great. These are gonna be great shows,
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: and so tickets a Johnny W dot com. Now I
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: can ask how you're doing.
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: I'm doing. I'm doing well. I haven't I have a
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: it's not an injury, but I'm an old man.
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: Land Ah boy A little bit.
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: That's right. You're in you're in prep day.
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm in prep day for my first colonoscopeede tomorrow,
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: first ever.
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: So I didn't eat anything at all yesterday and I
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: haven't eat anything today, which I feel pretty good.
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: You're getting ready for your close up.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: It's look, I'm like two coln oscaris away from my
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: goal weight.
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: That's that's a great way to think about it.
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: No, I mean it's uh but yeah.
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: Do you have any you angry yet? Are you getting
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: a litld?
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: I was yesterday? I feel great today.
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: You didn't eat yesterday either? No, So we want to
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: get a head start.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: You get a head start.
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: I think so. My wife is brilliant, you know, and
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: she's done this recently. She was like, so she did
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: clear liquids for two days because then by the time
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: you get today, we're recording.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: Right now, yeah, fifty minutes from now.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: So you think starving yourself for an extra day makes.
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: Your wife brilliant?
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: Yes, I think I have to go home.
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: She was like, John, why don't you take a third
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: day and lose a little bit tire? You know what
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: I've heard a lot of people are taking a full
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: week and doing some sit ups. If you could do
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: some crunches.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: Maybe, I don't know, take a walk.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what she is. She's an evil genius,
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: is what.
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: She is, and go to a tanning bed.
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: Anything. But no, So at two o'clock today I had
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: to start drinking the stuff. Right, So my afternoon's about
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: to get real. I mean Coloska peas more like, yeah,
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: you know.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: It's gonna be Yeah, this will be fun. It sucks,
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: but no, come on, man, Well you got to get
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: in there. You gotta get in there and see what's up.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: You gotta take care of you gotta take care of
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: your health.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm having an upper gi scope as well.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: Gosh, this is this is the this is the old episode.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: It is I'm gonna see ya. They're gonna see what's
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: going on.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: Old and creaky.
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's fine. Hey, it's fine, it's fine. Everything's
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: gonna be fine.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: You talk about him stretching your esophagus in some nonsense.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: Is it your gird or something.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: I don't know, Like you got a little I guess, Yeah,
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: I got some stuff going on.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: What if they stretch your sophagus and it changes your voice.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be amazing, like all of a sudden, I said, But.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: If it cool, No, it wouldn't. If they stretch, it's
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: gonna be higher.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: It's like your nose, except now my esophagus is gonna
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: be perfectly straight.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: It's it's gonna be.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: Your voice gonna be gon be like the bad news
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: is man these harmony notes. John's hitting and worship is unreal.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: He's a full anyway. Yeah, I'm not gonna come back
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: a soprano.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: I don't think.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: I think that's the wrong thing, Johnny. That's your vocal cords.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: But well, but look it's all in there. It's all
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: I'm not a doctor, Johnny.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys know this.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: All I know is when you have a COLONOSCA. You
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: need to take at least five days and not eat.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: That's what I've been told.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: You know what I was craving yesterday? It's, uh, the
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: Texas Cheese steak burrito from BUCkies.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Well, we don't even have the BUCkies near us, so that's.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: Like a bad Yeah.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I travel a lot.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh that's true. You're doing the volleyball trips.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, have you ever had that?
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: You had me eat one, but it has peppers and
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: like peppers.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: Had you and Andrew eat this amazing thing?
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: You're both like.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: Peppers make everything taste like a pepper. It's a very
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: invasive species of food.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: I don't think you realize that the whole world eats
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: peppers on their food and you're a can like that,
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: you're better. Well, I'm in the world and I don't,
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: so yeah, by proxy it's but still, I mean, when
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: do you I understand.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: That they put peppers in a lot of things, but
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: I wish they would make a Texas cheese steak burrito
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: without peppers from me, and I would try it, and
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: I'm sure I would like it. They had some kind
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: of sauce too, didn't it. Yeah, I don't like sauces.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: Give me cheese, meat, and maybe some onions, some grilled
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: onions I can eat, not peppers.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: You don't think an onion?
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: Doesn't that as invasive to me? Peppers just taints everything.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: I think that the millions of BUCkies customers who buy
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: this burrito have proven you wrong.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: You ever get a half and half pizza, be good
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: half peppers on my half. That's all I care about,
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: Just good peppers on my If you go, your peppers
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: are going to encroach. The flavors will meld.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: I think you're I don't know, man, your palette. I
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: wouldn't call it sophisticated. No, I call it wimpy, Like
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: you have a wimpy palette.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: You're right, and you're right. Yeah, you eat green peppers.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: That makes you really really sophisticated at BUCkies. That truck stop.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: Actually, big trucks are not allowed at BUCkies. So I'm
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: gonna need you to step back, sir. Car stop, car
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: stop is what it is.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: I do love BUCkies. I stuff almost every time. But hey, anyway, Johnny,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: I think about that time?
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: Is it?
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: It's my segment, A little one we called. They talked
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: about that.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: See if my nose is better to sing. I'm still
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: hitting it, but you still got it, man, thank you.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: It's like riding the scooter.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Wait that Michael Jackson said his first uh nose job
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: was to fix his deviated septum and to help him
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: sing better. That's what he said. Yeah, and then he
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: just I guess he couldn't stop. He kept a going,
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: uh yeah, that's me. Next next stop? Who knows soprano land?
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Are you going to ride a scooter again? That's a
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: great question, because I have four of them in my
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: garage and I'm either gonna have to sell them and
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: be like, hey, by the way, these are cursed, or
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: get back on the horse I got. I'm gonna wait
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: till my nose fully heels, because that's the other thing
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: they tell you is like, don't don't take a shot
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: to your nose while it's fractured, because you will totally.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: You will displace it because it's like still tenuous. Don't
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: get in a bar fight.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Four weeks they said, So, no bar fights for you.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Don't don't get mouth vy, and the Buckies'll be like
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: like mocking them. They don't like that I took a
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: steak burrito to the face.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: That's what killed my uncle.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: But anyway, so that's the status of it.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well get.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Back hey one suggestion, yeah helmet, Oh no, I'm with
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: you to get back on the horse because I feel
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: like I didn't you say that you're a counterphobic. Yes,
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: so like you can't just live your life in fear
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: of like a one time you had an accident on
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: a thing. You gotta get right back on the horse.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: And the horse is an electric scooter. By the way.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Rob Harris, my buddy singer songwriter Rob Harris, for my
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: dear friends, he gave me a little plastic scooter. He
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: gave me a whole gift basket full of stuff, which
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: was so nice because nobody else gave me a hair
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: care package or a hair package. But within it it
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: said every superhero has an enemy, and now we know yours. Wow,
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: so this is this is his version of my supervillain.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: So I thought we'd make him a little mess.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: This was like Andrew's ladder.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: It's a little scooter, old plastic scooter for those of
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: you listening. Wow, that's awesome anyway.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: Quote of the week, John, it's a quive stables today,
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: of course, and I'm gonna tell you something.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: This.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: I just search it out because it's one of those
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: I found. I was like, this hat, please tell.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Me this is real. I'm not made up? And I did.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: I found I see this Lewis quote that might be correct.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: There's all all kinds of yes everywhere there.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: I actually saw this one in a meme. I was like, oh, no, please,
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: I think this to be true. But I found it
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: and it was the reason it was hard to find
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: is it's a personal letter from C. S. Lewis to
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: Father Peter Bide, dated April twenty ninth, nineteen fifty nine,
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: so it was publishing his collection of letters.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: So it is in this legit.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: He says, we are not necessarily doubting that God will
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: do the best for us. We are wondering how painful
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: the best will turn out to be. And I think
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: he nailed. In fact, when I came through twelve Steps,
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: the big question I came out at the end was
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: I realize now what I'm most afraid of. I am
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: most afraid that God will not stop me from screwing
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: out my life. I'm not worried about God screwing up
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: my life. I'm worried about him him giving me too
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: much leeway. He's not intervening, he's not going to stop
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: me from doing it. And this is similar to that
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: that we're not necessarily doubting that God will do the best.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: We're wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: And that's been I mean, it's for where I am
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: in my life. It's one of those like I don't
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: know if I want your best all the time, because yeah,
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: the best is not I think we we equate the
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: best from God as comfortable or how we define good right.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Our mutual friend Rick used to always say, you know,
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: it's our definition of God's best right that's the problem,
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: or our definition of what good is?
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: God work things together for our good? What is our
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: definition of good versus God's definition?
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: For God's as a definition of good often leads to
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: things that we would never in a million years choose.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: And I'm finding I don't know even this last weekend.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: The volleyball world, I don't talk about a lot, but
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: in college recruiting and youth sports culture. I mean, I
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: think I could do a whole podcast or a series
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: of books on this because I've lived a world.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: That's it I'm in a different I'm on a different planet. Often.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: I sent Andrew a picture of coming down the escalator
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: in Atlanta this last weekend and I think there were about,
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: I don't know eight thousand people gathered down trying to
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: get into the convention center and this was one of
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: three halls, just I mean crowds of people.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: And he was like, what is going on?
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: You know?
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: And he was like, she should take up chess, is
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: what he said.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: And in that world, though, the emotional stakes when it's
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: your kid involved are seemingly so much higher than they
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: should be. And my kid, you know, as ADHD and
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: other things, you know, and there's a whole other world
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: of what that really means is not usually just attention
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: or hyperactivity or things like that.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: There's a lot going on.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: Your kid's getting older and she's about to turn eighteen
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: and all the things. You know, there's just there's just
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: a lot of things that we've carried and walked through
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: with our amazing girl, and we're doing it in this
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: high pressure environment with your You're trying to just hope
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: she can make it to a goal that she has,
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: you know, and man, the question of whether or not
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: we trust God. It's it's it feels like a trick
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: question to me, said my whole life helping people learn
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: how to trust God. Right, And I find myself going
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: he just said it because it's not that I don't
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: trust you. Is that how how painful or what if
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: you go a different direction? Is that God is trustworthy,
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: but he's not predictable. And I think that that's the
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: heart of it. Can I trust God when I when
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: I don't know what He's going to do?
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah? We want, like even now more than ever, we
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: want a formula. Yeah, we want to plug it in
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: and and we want God to be our Like I
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: was reading our buddy Caleb Edwards blog about how God's
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: not a genie. You know, there's going to be sadness
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: and lost, there's going to be all these things, and
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: that's just part of it.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: The disc That's the same thing I told said yesterday
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: we're talking about. I said, look, if God always gave
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: you everything you wanted, he's just a genie and or
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: he's Santa Claus, right, But we're supposed to be obedient
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: to him.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: He's supposed to be king and Lord, and I'm good
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: with that. I want that.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: But also, he doesn't tell you like I was telling.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: We were actually listened to the Bible audio, an audio
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: Bible app and it was talking about Lazarus. And I said, now,
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: and she and I are having such great discussions right
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: now on this stuff, and we push pause. I said, look,
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: here's the crazy part, because she said, I understand he
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: said that he said Lazarus is not going to die.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: I said, let's let's listen. What do you Where did
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: you hear that?
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: And what he said was he told his disciples Lazarus
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: is sick, but the sickness will not end in death.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: And then she's like, I don't understand.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: What if he died? And I said, okay, but let's
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: listen to what he really said. This is a great example,
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: at least in our English translation of the miss of God. Right,
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: what did Jesus really say? He said it won't end
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: in death. Did the story end in death? She was like, no,
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: it's right, but it had death still of course. So
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: what they heard was he's not gonna die. That's what
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: you heard. And that's I said, that's how God. This
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: is the one I'm learning, kid, that the mystery of
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: God is he knew the whole time, and he said
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: these things, but he did not explain to them this
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: is where it kills us. We want to understand, and
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: he did he is not concerned always with our understanding.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: And I don't know what to do with that. Like
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: I could, I get it. I'm saying it.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: It makes sense, but just like I could say I'm overweight,
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: doesn't make me lose any weight or change the problem
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: at all. Or I could say I have cancer, doesn't
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: take the cancer away if I had it, Like there's
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: another process. So I know he doesn't give us understanding
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: of everything, but man, does it hurt.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: To not have it?
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: And you know, across the whole thing, there's all these mysteries.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: It says Jesus was angry when he got to the
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: tomb multiple times. It says in that passage he was angry.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: Doesn't tell us what he's angry about. He asks Mary,
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: do you believe he's gonna rise? And she's like, I
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: do it the last day and he and then she
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: was doing NLT and he.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Says in LT it says, do you believe?
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: Do you believe he will live again?
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: She goes yes. At the last day.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: Well, the other versions say she goes, yes, at the
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: last Day, at the resurrection, and then to me, I said, honey,
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: I think that the other versions are a little more
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: pointed to what he really said is a mic drop moment. Yeah,
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: I'll believe he'll rise again at the resurrection. He goes,
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: I am the resurrection like it's a real Like those
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: two words need to be repeated, you know. But he's
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: all he's dropping MIC's and saying all this stuff, but
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: it's not for the purpose of everybody understanding. Yeah, and
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: I think that once we get that, like, hey, I
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: don't get it. I don't think he's getting that. But
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: that is the pathway of following Christ and trusting. Is
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: I need to as it says in saw On one,
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: I need to sorry Proverbs three, I need to lean
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: not in my understanding. And that's the whole hard artist things.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: Only know how to I'm a six right, I don't
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: know how to not. And so that's the training of Okay, God,
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: this may be painful. Can I still trust you and.
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  Speaker 1: That you give me so many good things? Can I
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: see them?
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: Can I see that your ways are better even if
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: they hurt and if I didn't understand them? So yeah,
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: I mean I don't know if God knocked you off
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: your scooter, Johnny, you know what I'm saying.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: But he knew that was gonna happen, and he allowed
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: that to happen.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: And then he also preserved your life because you really
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: could have died and all the things, and if you
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: would have died, God would still be good. Right that
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: you get into all these things and someone else fell
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: off of something and died. You know, we just had
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: a funeral here for it. It's awful, you know, And
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: you go, I'm not gonna get understanding right and all
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: this can I still see the good trust in God
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: and know that the story he's writing will be redeemed
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: fully in a way that nothing, none of this will
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: be wasted in the end. So anyway, Yeah, Clive Stables.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: Good stuff. C. S. Lewis, He's gonna make it.
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: That guy keep writing, bro, Yeah, he's going to be good.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: I have a good feeling about that guy. John. Let's
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: do my segments. Let's start with old jokes. Call it
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: joke about that. Oh great, John. Now I've lost the
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: packaging for my anti stress medication. I don't know how
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: much more of this I can take. Figured I like
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: that the guy crashes his car. When the police show up,
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: he claims the woman he hit was at fault. She
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: was on her phone, he yells, and to make matters worse,
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: she was drinking glass of wine at the time. Can
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: you believe it? And the cop says, sir, she can
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: do whatever she wants in her own living room. John,
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: a sad lady fervently praying before the saint's statue in
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: the church. A priest sees it. Master, what happened? Oh,
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: please pray for my husband, Holy Father. She says, he
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: got stung by a bee in the forehead. He's in
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: the hospital now. His face is all swollen and bruised.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: He almost died. Luckily I was close enough to hit
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: the bee with a shovel. John, let's do let's do
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: this week in history. We call it talk about then
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: with a shoveled hunt. See that's where the bruises go.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: That's where it really came from. Yeah, John, this week
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: is Cinco de Mayo. Do you know what Cinco de
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: Mayo is all about? Could you give me some like
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: a region.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: Just took a Mexican history class, and I'm not sure
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: that I.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: Remember it commemorates May fifth, eighteen sixty two, when a
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: fledgling Mexican army defeated a much larger and better equipped
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: French forces. The French, looking to set up a French
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: empire in Mexico, did not know this had invaded with
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: eight thousand troops. On May fifth, eighteen sixty two, the
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: much smaller Mexican army of four thousand troops that's half
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: defeated the French near Pueblo, providing a large morale boost
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: for the Mexican population. However, a year later, the French,
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: with now thirty thousand troops, were able to defeat the
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: Mexican army and installed Emperor Maximilian One as ruler of Mexico.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: This victory, too, was short lived, though after the American
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: Civil War end did the US was able to provide
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: support to Mexico and help ex spell the French. In
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: the US. Sinkle to Mayo has become a time to
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: celebrate Mexican American culture.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: There you go.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: So I did not know all that. Yes, today, as
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: we record.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: I'm cool and I was to be prepping on Sinkle
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: to Mayo. I just now put that together. Yeah, man,
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: No wonder they had that opening, No other idiots. Only
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: clear margarita is today for you. My friend could be
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: wearing a sombrero tonight at a restaurant.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: This one will hurt, especially as you prep and can't
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: eat today. Nineteen sixty eight marks the introduction of the
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: Big Mac hamburger at McDonald's. John, Are you a Big
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: Mac guy? I'm not, okay, but I did know that.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: It's it followed the Whopper it made. It's because of
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: the food built America. I'll watch documentaries. Yeah, I know
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: about stuff.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: It's a dead on impression of me.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: It made its nationwide debut John with its two all
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: beef patty special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: sesame seed bun. It was created by Pittsburgh McDonald's franchise
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: Z the previous year, so they had freedom to kind
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: of create their own little Yeah.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: Back then they would do that. That's how the Fleo
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: Fish came as well. Would Yeah, they would make something
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: regionally and then the big wigs would come and decide
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: if it should go national.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: I like it. Yeah, that's me. More of that, don't
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: you think? Yeah, more freedom like that.
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: My issue with the Big Mac extra bread it's the
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: big piece of bread in the middle.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: So people love that that extra because it soaks up
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: the well it does cheap it formed well. I will
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: say that it is a lot of bread. But and
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: I like bread, I don't like that. What's funny is
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: I like thousand island on a salad. I do not
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: like a thousand island on a hamburger. You know, I
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: will say this, what the special sauce is, basically right.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: I haven't eaten it. Yeah, I agree, I haven't eaten
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: a big mac in years, but I will say this,
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: I think I've enjoyed them when.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: I have, even I've never been like, you know what
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: that was grown.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: There's a guy who's famous for eating a big mac
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: every day for his whole life, basically his whole adult life.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: Because I think he made the list one day. He's
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: like famous. He's you know that. He calls himself big
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: Mac Jack or something. I don't know what he is,
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: but he eats a big mac and he's like a
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: healthy guy. He's not like you would think this guy
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: is going to be four hundred pounds. He's just like
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: a skinny yacht. But he eats a big mac every days.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: I think he's still around. I haven't. I don't want
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: to look because I'm afraid to look.
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: I think whenever we're both recovered, we should go have
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: a big mac.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: Let's go a big mac together and see and we'll
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: see if what's the big? What's the big?
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: You know there's a new bigger burger that they've made,
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: okay at McDonald a quarter pounder, no cheese. They've made
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: a new burger that's supposed to be bigger than the
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: big Mac. Oh boy, I can't remember what it's called.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: Uh, did you know that it originally You know this
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: because you watched The Food Building America. Yeah, it originally
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: met by the name do you know the original names? No,
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: the Aristocrat, which that's destined to fail. Yeah, I mean
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: nobody wants like you're at McDonald's first of all. Yeah,
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: I think they're trying to say, like this is an
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: upper crusty burger, like that's gonna make you feel like
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: fancy to eat it, But nobody wants that right here.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: It makes you feel like you're a you're a blue
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: blood because you're the other one was and this is
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: I'm surprised this didn't take off, the blue ribbon burger
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: Blue rim burger. I could see happening. It's not very
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: blue ribbon burger.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And they loved the blue ribbons back then, like
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: the blue ribbon papst Yeah, like that was a big
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: thing right there. You want a blue ribbon at the
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: roots Fair or the fair?
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: What? Those both did poorly in the marketplace under those names,
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: and so they settled on the name Big Mac.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: Interesting.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: John Stetson was born this week, eighteen thirty. Do you
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: know what he's famous for?
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: Tats?
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: He was an American hat maker. He founded his hat
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: company in eighteen sixty five. Stetson learned the hat making
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: trade from his father in Philadelphia. After he was diagnosed
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: with tuberculosis and given only a short time to live,
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: he moved to the American West to use his remaining
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: days exploring the wild frontier. This is kind of a yeah,
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: you know, he's kind of out there trying to be like,
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: you know what, I'm gonna make the most of it.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: He was dismayed by the flea infested coonskin caps worn
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: by many of the gold seekers, So in eighteen sixty
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: five he created his quote Boss of the Plans hat.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: It was made of durable, waterproof felt and the wide
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: brim provided protection from the hot sun. The hat was
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: an instant success and was worn by such notables Buffalo
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: Bill Calamity, Jane Will Rogers, Annie Oakley, Tom Mix, and
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: the Lone Ranger, and Stetson's line of hats became known
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: as the de facto cowboy hat.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: Wait did he recover?
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: Though it does not say.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: That seems important?
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: I mean he had tuberculosis, so and it was the
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: eighteen hundred.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm gonna say, but maybe being out.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: We mean out west? He Yeah, all that dust in
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: your lungs, that's gonna help.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: It worked for Doc Holliday. Oh wait, yeah, uh.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: You let me. I put this on here because I wondered,
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: have you ever you're from Nashville, have you ever found
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: yourself in a cowboy hat trying to pull it off?
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: Like be like that guy?
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: I think in high school there, you know, everyone has
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: a little country music phase. Yeah, I might.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: Did you have the big belt buckle? No?
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: I had lots of friends who did.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: I might have worn some boots a few times.
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: On the jeans.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: Boots hurt if you If you're not, they're not comfortable. Though.
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: You got to get you got to break those in.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Now it was a little kid. Yeah, i'd play cowboys
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: and Indians and stuff, but.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: And wear a cowboy hat. Yeah, did you have a
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: little little cheesy one. Oh yeah, but it wasn't a
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: stats and it wasn't a true stetson. There's probably these hats. Man,
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: when these people get on these planes to head to
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: Nashville or head from Nashville. When we're leaving and they
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: get all on trips, they have them stacked on their
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: head two three deep. So they look ridiculous because there's
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: nowhere to put these hats to keep them from getting crumpled.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: So they're wearing like a hat stacked a suit Doctor
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: Seuss character.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you see it a lot. Yeah, uh, there's more.
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: Listen, anyone wearing, in general a cowboy hat in Nashville
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: is not from here, right.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: In general?
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: In general, there's a couple. I'm sure there's people. But yeah,
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: unless you like run, you're wearing it. Hey, power to you,
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: you need it. But I watched Taylor Sheridan shows. I
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: get it's rough.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: We all see it. John. Finally, this week nineteen fifty four,
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: British runner Roger Banister became the first person to.
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: What run a four minute mile.
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: Or a minute mile, completing the run and in three
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: minutes fifty nine point four seconds, according to his book
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: The four Minute Mile.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: Which that's appropriatelyvan.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: His training consisted primarily of thirty minute runs with hard
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: intervals three to four times a week, so he would
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: increase the speed in the middle. I guess when you
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: do those high intensity intervals. And he worked and saying,
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: what's funny is the people who trained with him, once
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: they saw him do it, they did it like shortly thereafter.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: So it's almost like there is something to that. Do
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: you think that's what's going on or do you think
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: it's all drugs with all these records being broken since.
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: No, I think I think you do.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: You think it's like human achievement just needs to go
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: once you see it's possible.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: So said, he had a private lesson last night. This
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: is a great example, and she actually ran a four
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: minute mile. I couldn't belave it. In volleyball, they so
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: we hadn't measured her vertical in a while. Yeah, and
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: this guy was working with her and she measured three
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: inches higher than the last measure.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: Is huge, huge, four that's huge.
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: And but he went over and looked, because you know,
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: he's shooting video and you can measure up and down
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: the net. She was actually in drills and he went
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: and measured the net she'd been hitting really well, and
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: I was like, oh my gosh, this is at the
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: men's level that had it up in the gym. Wow,
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: it was three inches higher than it was supposed to be.
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: So he's like, okay, and he told this whole story.
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: He's like, I want to lower this now, but I
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: need you to keep jumping like it was already high.
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: He's like, that's hard for people. When you lower it
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: back down. Now you will lower What are your expectations,
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: expectations as supposed to wear it?
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: What's high?
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: Yes, there's a sermon, then that's gonna be.
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: I got it all on film.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: I'm giving you can find the scriptures to prop up
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: whatever you want to say that story, and that's how
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: you do it.
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: Proof texts the mess out of that.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: That's something else. That's good stuff, Go Sadie.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's good.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: She didgree she's jumping out of the building over here,
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: so she's leaping tall buildings in a single bound. Well,
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: I'm uh, I'm about two weeks away from getting back
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: on scooter. John, You're gonna do that little film that
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: I'll and then people be like, what are you doing,
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: you idiot?
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: But the next leg of the tour is called the
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: Redemption Tour.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: I think it is. I think it's idiot. Right back
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: on the right, back on the horse.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: He joke's gonna be written from this probably.
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: I mean, I've got a i got a song idea
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: or two, and I've got a few little yeah, I
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: got a little yeah. We'll see. I mean, it's just
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: the things like this is what my buddy Mark Lowry,
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: who has become a new friend. He one of his
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: most famous bits is from a accident that he had
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: on a It was a motor scooter, like a real
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: Maxi scoot, like one hundred mile an hour guy, and
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: he was in an intersection and laid it down. I
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: can't remember what happens to may cut him off or
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: he didn't see what was happening, and he broke his
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: leg so severely, and then they took him away in
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: an ambulance. And he has a twenty minute bit about it. Oh,
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: he tells, and it is so funny, but he goes,
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: it's the worst day of your life. But you know,
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: as it's happening, this is going to be twenty minutes. Yeah,
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: you know, so I said, well your lips to god there.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: I hope that happens. Yeah, but his was way worse.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: He has like cadaver ligaments, wow, in his leg to
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: save the leg they had to put like cadaver. So
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: he always talks about like during the rap, should the
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: dead and cross rise first? He has his legs going up,
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: the leg going up ahead of him.
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: That's funny.
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty good.
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: That's good.
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: Mark Lowery dot com.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he's a buddy.
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, God, you should check out Johnny W. Dot com
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: i EW dot com for all man.
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: He's back on to our we're back out and we're
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: going to reschedule those dates that I missed, and uh,
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: there's a bunch of dates that we already had that
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: we're keeping and we can't wait. And please get those
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: tickets JOHNNYW. Dot com because I got er bills, y'all.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: That's right, that's right.
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: Keep your balance out there, kids, Yes, that's If your
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: hat blows off, you can always get another hat, right,
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: if it's a stetson even Yeah, it don't matter. It's
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: not worth crashing. Nope, yeah, no.
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: Note and sometimes a broken nose may straighten everything out, and.
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: A crooked nose makes the world right.
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: Crooked esophagus could anyway.
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: I should also check out our past episodes at our websites.
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: Talk about that podcast dot com.
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and if you wanted to send us a message,
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: you could send it to.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: Hello, I talk about the podcast dot com.
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah. We appreciate all the guys who reach out and
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: send this message. Always means a lot to us. And uh,
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: I mean, what a journey, Johnny, that we've been on.
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: We're back, and uh, it's good to be back. And
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: thanks for You're such a good friend, and thanks for
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: thanks for holding down the fort while I was gone.
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: But I'm I'm back, so I'll be driving the bus
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: from here.
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: So I don't need you to step back now, Calm down.
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you've been doing y'all.
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: Hey man, I'm really grateful that you're that you're doing
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: to leave you a lot of time.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: All right, guys, thanks for timing you games. This week
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: was do it again next week here on talking about
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: that