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Halloween Talk, Plus Deviled Ham and Other Strange Bible Stories · Rush Hour

• 0:08
  SPEAKER_03: Welcome everybody to another episode of the Rush Hour Podcast.
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_03: Me.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_03: Am I the host?
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_03: I feel like the host.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you're the host.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_03: Here with my other hosts, Brittany and Ashley.
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_03: Um so we're glad that you're joining us once again for what is this?
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know what episode this is.
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_03: We're in the 40s.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_01: One million.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_03: One million.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_03: Episode number one million.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_01: One million and forty.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_03: Lucky you guys.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_03: One million and forty.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_03: Perfect.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_03: All right.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_03: So glad to have you guys here.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_03: It's a beautiful fall day outside.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_01: It's so nice out.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_03: Is it 8 30 in the morning?
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_03: You guys ready?
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_03: Had your coffee?
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_00: Nope.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_00: That's okay.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_00: Ashley doesn't have coffee.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_00: I've already driven a bus, so I'm ready to go.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_03: That's true.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_00: And today I had no semi-incidents, so we're good.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_00: Did you have a Red Bull?
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_03: I haven't had a Red Bull in years.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_03: I had a Celsius the other day, though.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_01: How's that?
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_03: They're tasty, but I don't drink them very often.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_01: Make your heart explode.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_03: Celsius will?
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, they're just Red Bull.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_00: I had an Alani the other day.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_00: It was disgusting.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_03: I've never had an Alani before.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_03: I do not like Red Bull.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_03: Are they good?
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_03: No.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_03: People like go crazy for those things.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_01: I don't even try a sip.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_03: They have all kinds of flavors.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_00: They do.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_00: They have a lot of flavors, but I am stuck on my Red Bull.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_00: So what's your favorite?
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_00: I used to be Monster.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_00: It's the Juneberry.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_00: It's the blue one.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 1:41
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I do see you with blue cans.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_03: I Monster's never been really good to me.
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_03: I always think it's gross.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_03: But I saw like Monster made like coffee drinks the other day.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_03: And I was like, I'm going to try one of these monster Java coffee things.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_03: It was awful.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_03: Don't do it.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_00: Did it taste like coffee at all?
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_03: It tasted like a cup of coffee I made here and then poured monster on top of it.
• 2:05
  SPEAKER_03: It had that energy monster taste too, the coffee.
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_03: I was like, this is terrible.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_03: So I've dumped it out.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_03: What a waste of, I don't even know how much I paid for it.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_01: Probably three bucks.
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_01: Probably.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_01: Too much.
• 2:17
  SPEAKER_03: Three dollars lighted on fire.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_03: It's gone.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_03: All right.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_03: Enough about our drinking habit.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_03: Well, we don't our uh beverages that we like to drink.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_00: Better, better words.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_00: You know, morning.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_00: Things that we do.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_03: Anyway.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, we're here today.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_03: We're gonna do a quick episode.
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_03: Well, what do we have announcement-wise coming up?
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_00: We have Rush Run this Saturday.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, yeah.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_03: The race.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_03: If you like races, running, walking, come sign up.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_03: You don't have to sign up online.
• 2:46
  SPEAKER_03: You can just show up the morning of.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_03: We'll register you when you get here.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_03: You should do that.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_03: Wake up Saturday, you're like, it's a good day to walk or run.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_03: Come to Rush Church before you just go walk around your neighborhood.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I think you are allowed to walk, aren't you?
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_01: Well, of course.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_03: People walk all the time.
• 3:00
  unknown: Yeah.
• 3:01
  unknown: Yeah.
• 3:02
  SPEAKER_00: There's no shame in walking.
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_00: I was talking to my brother.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, I just don't know if I could run that far.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, I don't, I don't think you have to.
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_01: I don't think there's any rules.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_03: Follow him with a golf cart and whip him every time he stops running.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_01: No, no.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_01: This is a race.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_01: This is a run.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_01: You have to run.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_03: This isn't the rush walk 5K.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_01: Or you pay double if you don't run.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my god.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_01: Do that.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_03: That'll really raise some money.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_01: For the kids.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_01: It's for the children.
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_03: But yeah, we do have the rush run.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_03: It's our, I don't know.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_03: We've been doing it.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know how many years the rush run's been the thing.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_03: It was before I got Ben one day.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_03: Ben started it.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_03: I'll have to ask Ben.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_03: But at least this is my eighth one, I think.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_03: Nope, seventh.
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_03: Seventh rush run.
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_03: Moving on to something else.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_03: What else is coming up?
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_03: Trigger treat.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_03: Monday 31st in Russellvania.
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_00: Russellvania.
• 3:56
  SPEAKER_03: We'll be at the park.
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_00: 6 to 7:30.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_03: 6 to 7:30, giving out apple nachos.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_00: Apple nachos.
• 4:03
  SPEAKER_00: Which is still what kind of toppings do you think we should have?
• 4:06
  SPEAKER_03: Hot sauce.
• 4:07
  SPEAKER_00: Obviously.
• 4:07
  SPEAKER_00: Well, we're gonna have caramel.
• 4:09
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, that's better than hot sauce.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_03: Good choice.
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_01: Obviously, I saw Landon and Chanel last night, and my my sister-in-law Chanel, she's like, is it too much for you guys to peel the apples first?
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_01: Because we do that for the kids.
• 4:23
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, sorry.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_03: These apples do not come peel.
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_01: They will come with skin on the skin apples easier.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_03: Not skinless nachos.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_03: Sorry about that.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_03: Sorry to disappoint.
• 4:33
  SPEAKER_03: I was like, I don't think we have that kind of time.
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_03: We got caramel goes, like we want like peanuts or crushed peanuts.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, crushed Oreos.
• 4:41
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 4:41
  SPEAKER_01: I'm thinking like doing the bacon.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_03: If we don't, then somebody will be upset.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_01: Someone will.
• 4:49
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, they will.
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_03: We should at least have a little bit of bacon.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_00: Cook some bacon here.
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you do.
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not gonna put raw bacon on it.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_01: There are other alternatives, I think.
• 5:01
  SPEAKER_03: It actually says raw bacon or cooked.
• 5:04
  SPEAKER_03: What about the little jars of real bacon bits that you put on top?
• 5:07
  SPEAKER_00: No, that's not no.
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_00: No, no, no.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_03: I'm not talking about the fake, like the crunchy.
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_03: You're right.
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_00: Costco does sell a big bag of bacon.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_03: I'm sure you could get it somewhere else besides Costco.
• 5:17
  SPEAKER_00: Why can't the amount of people we're gonna serve?
• 5:20
  SPEAKER_00: We need Costco spices.
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_03: You're right.
• 5:22
  SPEAKER_03: I'll make the sacrifice.
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_03: I'll go to Costco later.
• 5:26
  SPEAKER_01: You're gonna buy this bag of bacon and we're gonna serve one plate of bacon topping.
• 5:31
  SPEAKER_03: Costco's a dangerous place to go.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_00: Then we're gonna give it to you for breakfast, then you can fit in your eggs.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_03: See, multi-purpose bacon.
• 5:39
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 5:40
  SPEAKER_03: You do lots of stuff with it.
• 5:41
  SPEAKER_03: Come see us at trick-or-treat.
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_03: It'll be fun, I promise.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_03: You'll get you'll get something on it.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_03: If you got any recommendations for toppings, just let us know Sunday at church.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_03: Shout them out when you see us.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_03: I love when we tell people to shout stuff too.
• 5:56
  SPEAKER_00: Shout it out in the middle of foyer, please.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, not in the middle of service, but the foyer is fine.
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_00: I will pay you a dollar if you do it in the middle of service.
• 6:06
  SPEAKER_03: John's head will explode.
• 6:08
  SPEAKER_03: Please don't do that.
• 6:09
  SPEAKER_01: Someone will be upset.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, sorry.
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just kidding.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_03: But yeah, shout out to your favorite toppings for the caramel apple bar.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_03: Uh that'll be a fun thing.
• 6:19
  SPEAKER_03: I love when we did the ice cream thing and people just shouted ice cream flavors at us, even though some of them were liars.
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_03: Well, so that's exciting.
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_03: Our volunteer training is the 31st also that morning of breakfast and coffee.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_03: And usually we have a good group.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_03: I invited several different people that I know in the community to come hang out.
• 6:40
  SPEAKER_03: It's for anybody that works with teenagers or just wants to know more about how to deal with teenagers, maybe.
• 6:48
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
• 6:48
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I think that's a good thing.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_03: It's uh focused on a youth ministry setting, but also you can get valuable information about working with teenagers in any capacity, I think.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_03: So that's free.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_03: You can just show up that morning.
• 7:01
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know if I have anything else to say.
• 7:03
  SPEAKER_03: That's a lot of youth stuff.
• 7:05
  SPEAKER_03: TCTC is filled.
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_03: Can't take any more people.
• 7:08
  SPEAKER_00: That's great.
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_03: What do you guys have?
• 7:11
  SPEAKER_03: Anything?
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_03: You know, fifth Sunday until next month, right?
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_00: Right, end of November.
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_00: November.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_00: You know, the thing that's coming up, you'll guys hear we'll hear Sunday at church is that we'll start announcing the Thanksgiving dinner, which will be the Sunday prior to Thanksgiving, correct?
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_00: It always is.
• 7:27
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_00: And two seating, so you have to get your tickets ahead of time.
• 7:30
  SPEAKER_00: Free, of course.
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_00: But um you will dollars a piece.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_03: See me Sunday for your Thanksgiving dinner tickets.
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_03: I'll even five dollars.
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_03: Special deal.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_00: Special deal.
• 7:41
  SPEAKER_00: Nice.
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_03: No, they're free.
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_03: You don't have to pay anybody.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_03: Don't pay anybody.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_03: Let's see.
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_03: What was I was gonna say?
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_01: Well, we had fun at the tailgate without you asking.
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we did.
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_03: We gave out a lot of hot chocolate.
• 7:54
  SPEAKER_03: People were excited.
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_01: I heard it was rainy.
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_01: It was pretty yucky outside.
• 7:59
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 7:59
  SPEAKER_03: It was just cold when we were there.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_03: It rained after we, before and after we were there.
• 8:03
  SPEAKER_03: While we were there, no rain.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_00: Good.
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_00: How much hot chocolate do you think you went through?
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_01: Quite a bit.
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I felt like we were busy the whole time.
• 8:13
  SPEAKER_03: We were passing on hot chocolate.
• 8:15
  SPEAKER_03: We could barely keep up.
• 8:16
  SPEAKER_03: We had marshmallows, whip topping, and fall dust.
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_00: Fall dust.
• 8:21
  SPEAKER_00: Was that crushed up leaves?
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_00: Or sprinkles.
• 8:25
  SPEAKER_03: Or sprinkles.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_01: Nice.
• 8:28
  SPEAKER_01: But the kids really liked the hot chocolate.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_03: They did.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_01: Our hot chocolate was a perfect temperature, too.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_01: Ooh.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_01: I got that.
• 8:35
  SPEAKER_03: Don't burn your teeth on this.
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_03: They were like, what?
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_03: I was like, just don't just.
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_01: Rosalind took a drink.
• 8:40
  SPEAKER_01: She's like, that just burnt my teeth.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, oh, sorry.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_03: Then we had lid issues, but I took care of that.
• 8:50
  SPEAKER_03: Don't trust the lids.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_03: Anyway, it was a fun time.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_03: I'm glad we came out.
• 8:54
  SPEAKER_03: I liked our tailgating season.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_03: Really fall-looking hot chocolate, I must say.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_03: They were very nice looking.
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_03: Except then I put lids on them and couldn't see it.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_03: Lame.
• 9:05
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 9:05
  SPEAKER_01: It was a good tailgating season.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_01: Yep, tailgating is now over.
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_03: There was something I was gonna say, but I forget what it was.
• 9:13
  SPEAKER_01: You'll remember it.
• 9:13
  SPEAKER_03: I will.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_03: I'll tell I'll shout it out mid-episode, don't worry.
• 9:17
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, Ashley, you're up.
• 9:19
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 9:20
  SPEAKER_00: So you want icebreakers or jokes first?
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_03: Jokes.
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_03: Oh wait.
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, Jason.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_00: I'm ready.
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_00: Why did the cantaloupe jump in the pool?
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_03: Cantalope?
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_03: Jump?
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_03: Fruit.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_03: Freshen.
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_00: Into the pool.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_03: Into the pool to refresh himself to take a dip.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_01: I'm thinking like cannonball.
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_01: Oh.
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_01: Cannelope.
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_01: I can't put it together.
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_01: Me neither.
• 9:59
  SPEAKER_00: Because it wanted to be a watermelon.
• 10:02
  unknown: Oh, okay.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, but I like hearing your, you know, your feedback.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_00: I like how now you think it comes.
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_01: Riddle me this.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_03: This is more like we have turned it into a riddle.
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_03: It's like jokeslash riddle.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_03: We should do riddles on here.
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, okay.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_00: No, I hate I hate riddles because I never get them.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 10:31
  SPEAKER_00: Compared to these jokes, which I'm getting every one.
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, you might get this one.
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_00: Why do bees more bees?
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_00: Bees.
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_00: I like bees and cats, as you can tell.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_00: Why do bees have sticky hair?
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I think I know the answer.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_03: Tell them.
• 10:53
  SPEAKER_01: No.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_01: And ruin it?
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_01: That's I yeah.
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_01: You can answer it.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_01: Because they use a honeycomb.
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_01: Good job.
• 11:02
  SPEAKER_01: Two points.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_01: I win.
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_01: Hold on.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
• 11:13
  SPEAKER_00: There you go.
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just good at riddles.
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_00: I have two icebreakers.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_00: The first one is would you rather sleep in late or take a midday nap?
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_02: This is not a question.
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_03: The only answer.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_03: Sleeping in late.
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_03: I like to stay up late.
• 11:43
  SPEAKER_03: Midday naps make you more sleepy.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_03: They suck.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_01: Am I allowed to say neither?
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_03: No.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_01: I don't like to sleep in.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_03: Then take a nap.
• 11:56
  SPEAKER_03: I'm really aggressive right now.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_03: I'm very sorry.
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_00: How many hours of sleep do you think you get?
• 12:01
  SPEAKER_01: I go to bed at 9.30 and ish.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_01: Usually.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_01: And I get up at 4:30.
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_03: Brittany's going to bed at 9.30.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just logging on with your friends.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_01: Oh man.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_03: I would go to bed at 8:30.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_03: Do you really?
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_03: For a snack sometimes, yeah.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_01: Cody works.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_01: That's what our podcast is about right now.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_03: What this?
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_03: Me and my cereal habits.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_03: Cody, you can't eat that late.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_03: I think that's bad for you.
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_03: Out of my house.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_03: It's my house.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_03: I'll eat what I want.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_03: She said I can't eat that late.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_03: I don't think so.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_03: Like, I'm gonna be on the couch tonight with a bowl of cereal.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_03: Like, right before I take a bite, Brittany storms in the door and he's like, put that down.
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_03: I was like, what the?
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my goodness.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_00: At least you're allowed to eat lucky charms.
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_02: Oh.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_03: Oh.
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_03: I took a drink of coffee at the wrong time.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_03: Couldn't fill the empty airspace there.
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_03: We got inside jokes that we're not getting into today about lucky charms.
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, I don't think we're allowed to get into lucky charms, but they are bad.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 13:19
  unknown: Okay.
• 13:19
  SPEAKER_01: We'll talk about that in a minute.
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not in on naps.
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_03: I'm not into naps.
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not into naps.
• 13:25
  SPEAKER_01: And I when I sleep in late, I feel like um I'm missing out.
• 13:30
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 13:30
  SPEAKER_01: I get that.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_03: What if everybody else is sleeping in a few days?
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_01: On life?
• 13:33
  SPEAKER_01: Doesn't matter.
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_03: I see.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_03: What's the latest you would sleep to?
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_03: If you had nothing to do for a few days and you're on vacation.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_01: If I don't set an alarm, sometimes I sleep in until seven.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_01: That feels very late.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_03: What about you?
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_00: How long do you I would rather sleep in late, of course.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_00: However, when I'm camping and the weather is cool and I'm in my hammock, a midday nap with a cool breeze, there's nothing sound nice.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_00: It is so nice.
• 14:09
  SPEAKER_03: And I'm and I'm not meaning to make a mistake.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_03: I forgot about hammock naps.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'm like, wait a minute.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_01: I want that.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_01: Change my answer.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_03: Dang.
• 14:17
  unknown: Yeah.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_03: It's too late now.
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_03: We're sleeping in.
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_00: Moving on.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_00: I already know your answer and how angry you're gonna get, so just chill for a minute.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_03: No one can see who you're talking to right now.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_00: Cody.
• 14:30
  unknown: Cody, that is true.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_03: She's pointing at me and talking to you guys like I forgot.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_00: It's me.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_00: It's Cody.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_00: Apparently.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, I'm not the angry.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_00: Christmas decorations.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_00: When do you put them up?
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_03: Do you want to go first, Cody?
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, you don't put them up until you get done with all the holidays that come before Christmas.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_03: You don't just skip holidays willy-nilly.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_03: All right.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_03: That's just how it goes.
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_03: Turkeys come first.
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_03: You celebrate family and Thanksgiving.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know why I'm talking with the Lisp, but I'm so angry.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_01: I put mine up the day after Thanksgiving.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, perfect.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_03: See?
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_03: Me and Brittany are on the same page.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_03: Literally, though, the day after.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_03: She can stay on the podcast.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_00: I will if I'm getting kicked off the podcast and I'm not gonna answer.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_03: I will say Ashley's like, my trees up right now.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_01: Sometimes I don't host Thanksgiving.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_01: My mom does.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_01: So the week of Thanksgiving, I will put up my Christmas stuff.
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_01: And then I'll go down and celebrate Thanksgiving and then already have a head start on my Christmas decoration.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_03: That's fine.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_03: I don't care.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_03: It's not good to decorate whenever I want to.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_00: We're looking at Cody for approval.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_03: I'm not gonna throw anything.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm going to share why I put my tree up whenever I want.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 16:01
  SPEAKER_03: Well, I can guarantee it's not gonna be a good enough reason.
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, hold on.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_00: Is it up right now?
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_00: It is not up right now.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_03: However, headphones off and leave.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_00: However, this week does start the preparation for it because preparation's fine.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_00: November 1st, I will be putting it up.
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_03: That's terrible.
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_00: In like a week.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_00: In a week.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_03: The day after Halloween?
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe even Halloween night.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_00: Probably not because I won't be, I'll be exhausted.
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_00: It's a busy day.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_00: But anyways.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_03: Where's my Santa suit?
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_00: No, I don't do Santa.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_00: He's allowed in my house.
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_00: I just don't.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_00: Anyways.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_01: Keep moving on.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_01: It is November 1st.
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_01: What's happening?
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_01: So here's hold on.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_00: Here's where it started.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_00: When I moved out of my parents' house after high school and moved to Texas for my year-long honor academy ordeal and all that, I could not go home for Thanksgiving because you only had like three days and then you'd be back.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_00: And my parents didn't have enough money to fly me out.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_00: So they I had to wait for Christmas break.
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_00: So I was stuck with other kids or with other teenagers in Texas.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_00: And we decided to have like a Friendsgiving.
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_00: It wasn't really real Thanksgiving dinner, but because we were kind of all sad that we weren't home, we did Christmas things also.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_00: Like we decorated a tree, we did ornaments, like it just really felt family-centered.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_00: So that's where it's for me, it started going earlier and earlier because I didn't have to wait for Thanksgiving to put up a tree, or wait till after Thanksgiving to put up a tree.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_00: And so to me, I my family, we spend the year in thankfulness.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_00: I don't have to just designate one holiday to be thankful.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_00: It's a great reminder, but if I'm only using Thanksgiving to be thankful, then I'm not I'm missing the whole point.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm using the whole holiday season to spread cheer and to be prettier at my house and to just feel peaceful.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_00: So yes, that is my reasoning.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_00: And I know you don't like it.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_00: It's a very nice reason.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_00: And that's okay.
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_03: Her reason.
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_03: She can do what she wants in the house.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_03: For me in my house, we'll do things the right way.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_03: Growing up, it was for me, it was Thanksgiving.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_03: And then the Friday right after Thanksgiving, go get her a tree.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_03: Go get a real tree.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_03: Go cut it down.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_03: That was always Thanksgiving, and the day after you go cut a tree down and put it up and do Christmas stuff.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_03: So that's just what we did.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_01: It does take a while to decorate for Christmas.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_01: I want to enjoy it as long as possible.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_01: So I do try to decorate as quick as possible.
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_03: How long have you leave your trees up?
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_00: Like mid-January.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 19:11
  unknown: Okay.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_01: But when it comes down to the room.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_01: What do we do wrong then?
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_01: Christmas night.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just kidding.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_01: Like what?
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_01: We have a bonfire.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just kidding.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_03: We light that sucker up.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_03: No, I don't do real trees anymore.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, fake trees still.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_03: My mom loves Christmas.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_03: Like five trees in her house.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_03: Wow.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_03: They're all different themes.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_03: Pretty cool.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_03: That's fun.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_03: Or crazy, either one.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_03: Sorry, mom.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, she listens, doesn't she?
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_03: Love your trees.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_03: They're great.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_03: I don't think she does that many anymore, though.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_03: She used to.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_03: All right.
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_03: We're done.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_03: We're done?
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_03: Yep.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_03: All right.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_03: That's all for this episode.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, sorry.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_03: Just kidding.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_03: I wanted to talk about briefly.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_03: Well, I have some like weird stories of the Bible or like spooky stories of the Bible.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_01: I wondered what the theme what we were talking about today.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I didn't tell Britney.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_03: I told Ashley this morning.
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_03: And I want to talk a little bit about Halloween, the holiday as Christians, like, what should we do about Halloween?
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_03: Because it's a I see it all over the internet.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_03: About how people argue about Halloween and people argue about should we celebrate it?
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_03: Should we have anything to do with it?
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_03: And I know people have different opinions on that.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_03: And I just wanted to have a I don't want to debate Halloween.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_03: I don't want to like, but I do want to how do we handle those conversations.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_03: I was talking to people yesterday as I was out places and it came up about Halloween and like what's the Bible say?
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_03: What do Christians do about Halloween?
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_03: Is it okay to do trick-or-treat or all these different things?
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_03: And so I figure we could just have a talk right here, just us, right?
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_01: About we're in a safe spot.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_03: Our thoughts about Halloween in general and what the Bible actually says about these kind of things.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_03: And so I'll open it up.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_03: You guys have any thoughts about Halloween?
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_01: I know we talk about Halloween all the time.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_03: Ashley, you're you're kind of on the other side.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_03: You don't like Halloween really that's right.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_00: I do not like Halloween.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_00: Do I think it is against the Bible?
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_03: So what's your what why don't you like Halloween?
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_00: So what Hall to me, at least what the world has turned it into, okay, is very if you look at everybody's yards, they're very demonic, yucky, blood, you know, just ugh, you know, things that are like spooky, you know, and death, and I don't know, like it represents nothing I stand for.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_03: I agree a little bit with that.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_03: Like, I don't like the celebration of death and gore and all the like the you know, the movies and the stuff like that.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_03: I've never been a horror horror film person.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_03: I don't like all that stuff.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_03: So I don't like how we glorify death or violence or the that aspect of it.
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_03: So yeah, I can get behind.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_03: Behind that part, like what the world's turned it into.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_03: The whole holiday as itself.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_03: I don't find one way or the other.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_03: I don't think it's demonic as it is.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_03: I think people can make anything evil that they want to.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_03: Brittany, what do you think?
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_03: Any thoughts?
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I have a ton of thoughts, but I don't know if they're appropriate.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_03: Sure, they are.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_03: It's just us.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_03: Just us talking.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I haven't always I don't ever know how to put that.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_01: I haven't always walked straight.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_03: You mean you haven't always narrowed you haven't always had Jesus by your side, I guess.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_01: Not always.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I thought that I was, but I learned later that I wasn't.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_01: Halloween was always one of my favorites.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_01: We celebrated it to the fullest with the gore, with the scary.
• 22:51
  SPEAKER_01: We weren't doing anything weird.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_01: We weren't like Ouija boards or you know, we still were, I don't know, living.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 23:03
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe we weren't.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_01: But now that I'm trying to be a little better, I'm having trouble navigating what's appropriate and what's not.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_01: I noticed that I don't gravitate towards that.
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_01: Like I don't have the desire to watch the scary movie.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_01: I don't have the desire to go to the haunted mansion, you know, kind of thing like I did before.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_01: But so now I'm just trying to figure it out on what's best for my kids and for me.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_03: I think they're that's good to be discerning about different things of like what we're gonna do and what we're not gonna do.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_03: And that's good when it comes down to should we celebrate Halloween, I think it's what Britney talked about, like being discerning, being like this is what we do.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_03: And if it's not explicitly against what the Bible talks about, like Ouija boards or spells and stuff like that, you know, is actually what scripture says to stay away from those things, like like supernatural, evil, you know, stuff like that.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_03: But dressing up as Captain America and going to get candy from house to house, trick-or-treat as itself, it's not that, and it's not nowhere in the Bible says you can't do that.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_03: And so but that being said, if you have a problem with that, then don't do it.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_03: If you're a Christian and you say, I'm not gonna take part of any of this, that's perfectly fine too.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_03: And as other Christians, we can't argue about this.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_03: This can't be something that we, you know, stop talking to each other or go somewhere else because this Christian thinks Halloween's okay, and I think it's this.
• 24:47
  SPEAKER_03: It's gonna be for me, I'm gonna not do this because I feel like I shouldn't.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_03: And another Christian can't come to that person and be like, well, you think this and you get all upset about them because they're not doing trick-or-treat or whatever it may be.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_03: I use that as an example because a lot of people like to go get candy.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_03: I like to go get candy.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_01: I like to who doesn't like candy dress up and go around the neighborhood and I've eaten a piece of candy.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_03: So, really, my whole point is like as long as it's not against scripture, which some things are clearly in scripture what we shouldn't be doing, but other things, like dressing up as your favorite character and going out in the community and doing things, it's not inherently evil by itself.
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_03: And Halloween is a mixture of a Christian holiday and pagan holiday anyway.
• 25:35
  SPEAKER_03: If you go all the way back to the roots, it's kind of two things mixed together.
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_03: It's it's kind of uh and like that.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_03: So you can go find resources.
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_03: If you want to know more about that, I can point you to good resources that you can listen to or read about Halloween.
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_03: So, but my main whole thing is if some if you come across somebody, one of your friends, is like, oh, we're not going trick-or-treating because we don't do anything, and be like, Well, that's okay.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_03: You're allowed to not do that, it's fine.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_03: But you can't, I don't want people to act like they have the right to go tell other people that they can't do that because it's against the Bible, because it's that part's not against the Bible when it comes to trick-or-treating and dressing up and doing the fall festival kind of stuff around Halloween.
• 26:18
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, the other stuff is more debatable if you want to talk about, you know, well, but then again, Paul talks about Romans 14 a lot, is like what's good for somebody might not be as you know, there's discerning things.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_03: Just because this person wants to celebrate this day, this person doesn't, doesn't mean you can't get along and you still aren't Christians together, and you're not part of the body of Christ.
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_03: And so hope that makes sense.
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_03: I think that's as far as we need to go on that topic, really, unless you have anything else to say.
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_03: So Ashley hates Halloween, and that's fine.
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_03: I'm just kidding.
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_00: I don't, and we're friends, and we're friends.
• 26:52
  SPEAKER_00: Hold up.
• 26:53
  SPEAKER_00: It is not that I hate Halloween.
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_03: I know you don't hate Halloween.
• 26:56
  SPEAKER_03: You can talk.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_00: I just don't to me, I just don't like the demonic side of it.
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_00: That's all.
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_00: And I think it's because the darkness, the the principalities that we are struggling against, like, you know, we're not fighting against each other, we're fighting against the the dark realm.
• 27:11
  SPEAKER_00: They have taken it and just turned that holiday into like darkness.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_00: That's stuff that they do behind the scenes.
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_00: People don't even see it.
• 27:20
  SPEAKER_00: But we're talking about hometown, kids running around getting candy, cute little outfits.
• 27:25
  SPEAKER_00: I don't care.
• 27:26
  SPEAKER_00: Do that, celebrate it.
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_00: Go ahead.
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, you know.
• 27:29
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, will I ever let my kid dress up in gory?
• 27:32
  SPEAKER_00: No, I will not.
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_00: That's also something I won't do.
• 27:34
  SPEAKER_00: If somebody else does, that's up to you.
• 27:36
  SPEAKER_00: I don't care.
• 27:37
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not arguing over it.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_03: My thing, that's my point of this conversation was to say in the church, don't attack people because they do these things.
• 27:44
  SPEAKER_03: There's there's things worth debating over, there's things worth pointing out and be like, hey, it's probably not, but this might not be one of those things.
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_03: So just in my point of view, and from what I've seen.
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_02: So you know.
• 28:00
  SPEAKER_03: Let's see.
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_03: I wanted to talk about a few weird stories from the Bible real quick.
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 28:05
  SPEAKER_03: We got 10 minutes or so.
• 28:06
  SPEAKER_03: We can keep going.
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_03: We're only at 28 minutes.
• 28:09
  SPEAKER_03: People listen to us for a lot longer about more ridiculous things.
• 28:13
  SPEAKER_03: So, I mean, I say weird or spooky stories.
• 28:17
  SPEAKER_03: Anything stand out to you guys that you can think of from scripture that's weird or kind of.
• 28:23
  SPEAKER_00: It was weird when, like, uh didn't like a demon get cast into a to a pig or something?
• 28:29
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, yeah.
• 28:30
  SPEAKER_00: And then it jumped off a ship or jumped off the cliff.
• 28:33
  SPEAKER_00: Mark five.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_00: Jumped off the boat.
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_03: That's on my list.
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay.
• 28:37
  SPEAKER_03: I have it on here.
• 28:37
  SPEAKER_03: Good job.
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_03: Jesus encounters a man living among tomb caves in in a land, and the man's naked, bound with broken chains.
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_03: He's hurting himself with stones, and he's possessed by a swarm of spirits that call itself Legion, which means we are many.
• 28:52
  SPEAKER_03: When cast out, the demons request permission to enter a nearby herd of 2,000 pigs, which immediately hurl themselves off a steep cliff into the sea.
• 29:01
  SPEAKER_03: Is that kind of weird?
• 29:03
  SPEAKER_00: It's very weird.
• 29:07
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh.
• 29:08
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, the pigs just go in ballistic.
• 29:10
  SPEAKER_03: This is a straight, like creepy movie style scene.
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_03: Like you come off your boat, you land, and this crazy naked guy's coming out of these tombs on these in these caves, and he's like, and Jesus is like, hey, knock it off.
• 29:24
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, now you have to put yourself in the point of view as the pig farmer that's just like watching all this go down.
• 29:31
  SPEAKER_03: Well, to the next point, it goes on the story.
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_03: Goes on, and they're like, get the heck out of our town to Jesus, like and his disciples, and they're angry that this happened.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_03: They're angry that they cast these demons out of this person into pigs.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_03: You can understand, like, that's how they how they live.
• 29:48
  SPEAKER_03: That's their farming pigs.
• 29:50
  SPEAKER_03: So yeah, they're not very happy.
• 29:52
  SPEAKER_01: He's standing there, he's like, Is that a naked man?
• 29:55
  SPEAKER_01: And then he's like, Oh, pigs are jumping on the cliff.
• 29:59
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_01: No, um, my whole year salary.
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_03: So yeah, that is a uh that's one of those stories I had on my list about you know, the first case of deviled ham.
• 30:10
  SPEAKER_01: So I think I know the next one.
• 30:14
  SPEAKER_03: I don't have it in any order, but you don't go ahead and pick one if you want.
• 30:17
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, go ahead.
• 30:17
  SPEAKER_01: Um, when the disciples thought that Jesus was a ghost.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, it's a ghost.
• 30:22
  SPEAKER_03: It's a ghost on my list too.
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_03: Good job.
• 30:24
  SPEAKER_03: Matthew 14.
• 30:26
  SPEAKER_03: They're on the Sea of Galilee, and uh there's a big giant storm, and it's late at night, and the disciples they're really scared.
• 30:34
  SPEAKER_03: It seems like they were actually more scared of what they saw out on the water.
• 30:38
  SPEAKER_03: Disciples weren't terrified of the storm anymore, they were terrified of this figure out on the water that they didn't really know what it was, and they thought it was a ghost, apparently.
• 30:48
  SPEAKER_03: That's what they say.
• 30:50
  SPEAKER_03: And it's kind of like a weird story because why would they they must have thought they saw something and they were like, we don't know what this thing is.
• 30:59
  SPEAKER_03: It's kind of storming, obviously, and it's night, and they're like, something, something out there, the lightning's flashing, you see like a figure out on the water.
• 31:07
  SPEAKER_03: That's how I picture it in my head.
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_03: It's like, oh, did I see something?
• 31:10
  SPEAKER_03: And they look closer and like there's a person out there, and like that's weird because people don't walk on water.
• 31:15
  SPEAKER_03: We're in the middle of the water, their head just like starts filling with all this.
• 31:17
  SPEAKER_03: Like, is this like some kind of spirit or a ghost or what's happening?
• 31:21
  SPEAKER_03: And so, kind of like we do when we see things come sometimes, we're like, what the heck was that?
• 31:25
  SPEAKER_03: It's kind of creepy, yeah.
• 31:27
  SPEAKER_03: Um and so they they they realize that it's it's Jesus, and and they come, they they kind of see that it's him.
• 31:38
  SPEAKER_03: What can we take from this story?
• 31:41
  SPEAKER_03: Kind of I I like to see this as are you okay?
• 31:45
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 31:46
  SPEAKER_03: What do you take from this story?
• 31:48
  SPEAKER_01: Obviously, there are ghosts.
• 31:50
  SPEAKER_00: My mind has not, I'm like, hold up.
• 31:52
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just gonna go.
• 31:53
  SPEAKER_00: If they use the word ghost in scripture, cause trouble.
• 31:57
  SPEAKER_00: Do you think they were just mixing what they thought were ghosts, or do you think ghosts are real?
• 32:01
  SPEAKER_03: Well, some people call this the Holy Spirit, the Holy Ghost.
• 32:04
  SPEAKER_03: So I think it's like spirit, like they they had this idea of spiritual things and you know, right, supernatural things that they they had in their mindset.
• 32:14
  SPEAKER_03: And they've we even see back another one of my weird stories is the witch that raises the ghost of Samuel from the ground, then he appears and talks to King Saul.
• 32:23
  SPEAKER_03: That happens in Kings.
• 32:24
  SPEAKER_03: And so they have this idea of like spirits and demons, obviously, and they they know about these things.
• 32:31
  SPEAKER_03: They have, and so they just think put yourself in their shoes, and you don't really expect to see a person out on the water in the middle of a storm at three in the morning, right?
• 32:40
  SPEAKER_03: Instantly your brain just starts, you know.
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that's what I think, that's how I picture it.
• 32:45
  SPEAKER_03: And so I think it's because they were they were scared of Jesus, he came to them in a form they didn't expect.
• 32:52
  SPEAKER_03: How often do we misidentify God's presence as a threat?
• 32:55
  SPEAKER_03: How many times do we misunderstand something in our lives that's happening, and maybe God's letting it happen for a reason and we take it as a threat, and we're like, we're not I don't want any part of this because maybe it threatens how comfortable our lives are or threatens our desires of what we want, and we kind of push back on that.
• 33:13
  SPEAKER_03: We're like, no, I don't, that's probably that's not God.
• 33:15
  SPEAKER_03: He wouldn't do that, he wouldn't say that to me.
• 33:18
  SPEAKER_03: You know what I'm saying?
• 33:18
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 33:19
  SPEAKER_03: Kind of like we miss we miss mistake the presence of Jesus as a threat, and we might miss out.
• 33:24
  SPEAKER_03: So in our darkest hour, like in a storm or in the middle of the night, God often shows up in ways that disrupt our expectations.
• 33:33
  SPEAKER_03: Fear will tell us it's uh something coming to destroy us, it's something that's not good for us.
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_03: But when we have faith in Christ, it means take courage, don't be afraid.
• 33:42
  SPEAKER_03: And so I think sometimes we misidentify what God's doing in our life because of our sinful nature, of our humanity, of wanting to be comfortable, wanting to want what we want sometimes, and then when something threatens, even when Jesus says you need to not do that, we'd be like push back because it threatens our way that we want to do things.
• 34:04
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 34:05
  SPEAKER_03: So I kind of see that in the story.
• 34:06
  SPEAKER_03: They they didn't expect Jesus in that way, and so they kind of took it as a threat at first, and then once they realized it was him, Peter jumps out and wants to walk on the water with him.
• 34:15
  SPEAKER_03: So I think that's a cool thing.
• 34:18
  SPEAKER_03: Anybody else have a weird story from scripture that you might guess on my list?
• 34:25
  SPEAKER_03: No?
• 34:26
  SPEAKER_03: I did talk about the witch already that raised the that was a weird story.
• 34:31
  SPEAKER_03: I have another one that I can't explain.
• 34:35
  SPEAKER_03: I don't really know what it means.
• 34:36
  SPEAKER_03: It's one of those things in the Bible that I'm like, I still don't know what to do with this, even after I've looked at it.
• 34:41
  SPEAKER_00: Really?
• 34:42
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, there's lots of those things.
• 34:44
  SPEAKER_03: Do you not have any other things?
• 34:45
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
• 34:46
  SPEAKER_01: I look well, I do, but I don't I have probably one or two.
• 34:54
  SPEAKER_03: But the first one, the this one is where did it go?
• 34:59
  SPEAKER_03: I'm looking through my notes.
• 35:01
  SPEAKER_03: Matthew 27.
• 35:05
  SPEAKER_03: Jesus dies on the cross, there's a massive earthquake, rocks split, the temple curtain tears in two, and then Matthew tells us this bizarre thing that happens.
• 35:13
  SPEAKER_03: You heard this one before?
• 35:15
  SPEAKER_03: Matthew records a bizarre detail mentioning nowhere else in the gospels, but Matthew says, tombstones broke open, and many holy people who had died are raised to life.
• 35:25
  SPEAKER_03: After the resurrection, these undead figures leave their grave, enter the holy city of Jerusalem, and appear to many people.
• 35:31
  SPEAKER_03: So basically zombies.
• 35:34
  SPEAKER_03: People rose up out of the tombs.
• 35:36
  SPEAKER_03: Matthew tells us that they came back to life, and then when Jesus rose from the dead, they went into Jerusalem and started talking to people.
• 35:44
  SPEAKER_03: So imagine you're living in Jerusalem, and here comes Uncle Fred walking down the road.
• 35:50
  SPEAKER_03: He died a couple years ago, and he's like, I'm back.
• 35:53
  SPEAKER_03: And you're like, what the that's what that's what I see in this story of like, what is happening?
• 35:58
  SPEAKER_01: I do think it's interesting that only Matthew writes about it.
• 36:01
  SPEAKER_03: Only Matthew writes about it.
• 36:02
  SPEAKER_01: Because the rest of them are like, let's just not.
• 36:04
  SPEAKER_01: Let's actually not bring that up.
• 36:09
  SPEAKER_03: So what any thoughts on that?
• 36:11
  SPEAKER_03: Ashley's like, what?
• 36:12
  SPEAKER_01: I think it's really cool.
• 36:14
  SPEAKER_00: I somehow missed that.
• 36:17
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, that's a good one.
• 36:18
  SPEAKER_01: Do we think they were gory?
• 36:21
  SPEAKER_01: Or do you think they looked good?
• 36:22
  SPEAKER_01: They looked normal.
• 36:23
  SPEAKER_00: Hold on.
• 36:23
  SPEAKER_00: That's that's what that's where I'm that the word say came back to life.
• 36:28
  SPEAKER_00: That to me, that means life entered their bodies.
• 36:32
  SPEAKER_00: It says the flesh came pink again.
• 36:35
  SPEAKER_00: The the like to me, they would look normal.
• 36:38
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 36:40
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, when Jesus came back to life, he came back.
• 36:43
  SPEAKER_03: He had his scars, he had holes.
• 36:45
  SPEAKER_00: He had scars, yes, but he still looked normal.
• 36:49
  SPEAKER_00: Are you questioning that?
• 36:50
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 36:51
  SPEAKER_03: No, I I don't know.
• 36:52
  SPEAKER_03: Mystery.
• 36:53
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know either.
• 36:54
  SPEAKER_03: But he I I would say that it didn't say that he looked not normal.
• 36:59
  SPEAKER_03: Look, didn't it didn't mention anything except for that he had his scars and stuff, so they knew it was actually him.
• 37:04
  SPEAKER_03: But this is a weird story that's weird.
• 37:08
  SPEAKER_03: And it's weird that Matthew does it, and so I kind of dug into it a little bit.
• 37:14
  SPEAKER_03: So when Jesus died, the veil didn't just rip, the ground cracked open, tombs unlocked.
• 37:20
  SPEAKER_03: You know, it's a it's a strange story.
• 37:24
  SPEAKER_03: And so resurrection isn't just a future promise for the end times, it's a present reality.
• 37:29
  SPEAKER_03: Like we can live this new life right now.
• 37:32
  SPEAKER_03: I think that's what Matthew's trying to tell us in this story.
• 37:34
  SPEAKER_03: He's like, Yes, one day everybody's gonna be resurrected for their new glorified body, but it starts now with Jesus.
• 37:43
  SPEAKER_03: He died, he came back to life, and new life starts in this moment.
• 37:47
  SPEAKER_03: We get to live in his kingdom right now.
• 37:49
  SPEAKER_03: We've talked about this before on here, but like I think he's and there's lots of different ways you can take this story.
• 37:57
  SPEAKER_03: Um, I I don't know if we want to get into a lot, but I just wanted to bring it up because it's weird and interesting.
• 38:02
  SPEAKER_03: It's very weird, and I don't have an answer for it yet.
• 38:04
  SPEAKER_03: I've looked into it a few times, and most scholars will be like, we don't know for sure.
• 38:08
  SPEAKER_03: We just don't know.
• 38:09
  SPEAKER_03: Like there's theories and stuff like that.
• 38:11
  SPEAKER_03: So if you want to look at that, you can go check out the theories.
• 38:14
  SPEAKER_03: But I think the thing that we can take from it is you don't have to wait for heaven until this life's done.
• 38:20
  SPEAKER_03: You can start living new life now.
• 38:22
  SPEAKER_03: Jesus brings life, lives life to the fullest, and that means forever and currently you get life.
• 38:28
  SPEAKER_03: It means good.
• 38:29
  SPEAKER_03: So that's what I read when I see that story.
• 38:31
  SPEAKER_03: It's weird.
• 38:32
  SPEAKER_03: I don't even know how to explain it.
• 38:34
  SPEAKER_03: But when I read stuff like that, I'm like, well, my my whole life's based on belief in a guy that got killed on a cross and then came back three days later.
• 38:42
  SPEAKER_03: So if I can believe in that, I can believe this happened too.
• 38:46
  SPEAKER_03: Oh yeah.
• 38:47
  SPEAKER_03: What the heck was that?
• 38:48
  SPEAKER_00: Sorry.
• 38:48
  SPEAKER_00: What is that?
• 38:49
  SPEAKER_00: That's my ice machine.
• 38:50
  SPEAKER_03: You have an ice machine in here?
• 38:52
  SPEAKER_03: Oh my gosh, this is all right.
• 38:54
  SPEAKER_03: All right, we'll do one more, I think, and then we'll call it good.
• 38:57
  SPEAKER_03: This one's I don't I don't know about this one either.
• 39:00
  SPEAKER_03: It's weird stuff.
• 39:00
  SPEAKER_03: I love this stuff though.
• 39:02
  SPEAKER_03: Makes me makes me happy that they put it in the Bible.
• 39:06
  SPEAKER_03: 2 Kings 13.
• 39:10
  SPEAKER_03: So there's these guys, and hold on, let me find it.
• 39:15
  SPEAKER_03: Where did it go?
• 39:19
  SPEAKER_03: This is a story about Elisha's bones.
• 39:24
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, the coming back to life?
• 39:26
  SPEAKER_00: Or the dry bones of Elijah?
• 39:28
  SPEAKER_03: We have that one too, but we're not gonna get to it.
• 39:29
  SPEAKER_03: This is 2 Kings 13.
• 39:32
  SPEAKER_03: Long after the prophet Elijah dies and is buried, an armed band of Moabite raiders attacks Israel during a funeral procession.
• 39:39
  SPEAKER_03: In a panic, the mourners throw the dead body they were carrying into Elisha's tomb and run away.
• 39:44
  SPEAKER_03: As soon as the dead man's body touches Elijah's ancient bones, the man instantly comes back to life and stands up on his feet.
• 39:52
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my word.
• 39:54
  SPEAKER_03: That's one that like is deep in the Old Testament in Second Kings.
• 39:58
  SPEAKER_03: But they're just having a funeral and like they get attacked, and they're like, Oh crap, look, throw the body in the tomb, let's go.
• 40:04
  SPEAKER_03: And it lands on Elijah's bones, and the guy comes back to life, stands up.
• 40:10
  SPEAKER_03: That's fantastic, right?
• 40:12
  SPEAKER_01: Isn't that just everybody's like, run?
• 40:14
  SPEAKER_01: Everybody's like, and then he immediately gets stabbed by a spear.
• 40:21
  SPEAKER_01: Does he?
• 40:21
  SPEAKER_03: I don't think that's but I don't think that's in there.
• 40:25
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, it's one of those.
• 40:29
  SPEAKER_03: So yeah, that's in uh that's in the Bible, and that's one of those weird ones where I'm like, ah, that's really that's really weird.
• 40:36
  SPEAKER_03: But I think we can take that's really awesome.
• 40:39
  SPEAKER_03: I I don't know how to take that.
• 40:42
  SPEAKER_03: That's just a cool story that I always like.
• 40:44
  SPEAKER_03: Like, oh yeah, throw him on some bones and he's back up on his feet.
• 40:47
  SPEAKER_03: This is so there are stories of people that come back to life in these miraculous ways in the scriptures, but uh Elisha was long dead, and so but somebody was thrown on to him after he's been dead for a long time and touches his bones, and just brushing against them revived a dead man.
• 41:05
  SPEAKER_03: What kind of lingering influence are you leaving behind?
• 41:09
  SPEAKER_03: Like after you're long dead and gone, is your impact still gonna have on people that you knew?
• 41:15
  SPEAKER_03: Are they still gonna know Jesus because of your life?
• 41:17
  SPEAKER_03: Are they still gonna be able to find life in what you did in your life?
• 41:21
  SPEAKER_03: I guess you could say.
• 41:22
  SPEAKER_03: I think that's a cool thing to take from this story of like what are you leaving behind?
• 41:27
  SPEAKER_03: And is it gonna be an influence to people long after you're gone from this life?
• 41:31
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and you're building something for his kingdom that'll just gonna last.
• 41:34
  SPEAKER_03: So weird story, but I take that as a that's I don't know.
• 41:38
  SPEAKER_03: I thought that's just something that you could see in it, but maybe that's not why it's in there at all.
• 41:42
  SPEAKER_00: But that's what but it goes along with the series, so it's good.
• 41:47
  SPEAKER_03: Sounds good.
• 41:48
  SPEAKER_01: I think it's really cool.
• 41:49
  SPEAKER_01: I think we have a lot we need to look into now.
• 41:52
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 41:53
  SPEAKER_03: All right, I'll leave the rest of these out.
• 41:54
  SPEAKER_03: We ran out of time, but maybe we can talk about them next time.
• 41:57
  SPEAKER_03: Maybe we can talk about them next time a little bit.
• 41:59
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, we can keep going.
• 42:00
  SPEAKER_03: I think before Halloween.
• 42:02
  SPEAKER_03: There's the ghost hand that writes on the wall in Daniel.
• 42:04
  SPEAKER_03: You know that one, right?
• 42:06
  SPEAKER_03: The ghostly hand appears and talks to the king.
• 42:10
  SPEAKER_03: It's like, mm-hmm, or you're gonna die.
• 42:12
  SPEAKER_03: Or something like that.
• 42:13
  SPEAKER_03: You know, that's how it goes.
• 42:15
  SPEAKER_03: It's a paraphrase.
• 42:16
  SPEAKER_01: That's not in the all I can think about is like on Matilda when the chalk is just like moving.
• 42:22
  SPEAKER_01: It's like that.
• 42:22
  SPEAKER_03: He's like, All right, we have to get going.
• 42:25
  SPEAKER_03: But uh thanks for this.
• 42:26
  SPEAKER_03: Uh hopefully this was interesting and helpful to you guys.
• 42:30
  SPEAKER_03: As always, we'll be back again.
• 42:32
  SPEAKER_03: I try to do one every week.
• 42:34
  SPEAKER_03: Sometimes we get really busy.
• 42:35
  SPEAKER_03: We didn't do one last week, but that's just how it goes.
• 42:37
  SPEAKER_03: Uh this month, October, right now, is our best month on the podcast ever.
• 42:42
  SPEAKER_03: And we've only put out what?
• 42:43
  SPEAKER_03: Two?
• 42:45
  SPEAKER_03: Like we've surpassed more people have listened this month than any other month we've got a year.
• 42:50
  SPEAKER_00: So thank you guys.
• 42:50
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you for listening.
• 42:51
  SPEAKER_03: Appreciate you guys.
• 42:52
  SPEAKER_03: Let's pray and then we'll sign off.
• 42:54
  SPEAKER_03: Lord, thank you so much for this time.
• 42:56
  SPEAKER_03: Thanks for this opportunity to talk, hang out together.
• 43:00
  SPEAKER_03: Thankful for your church.
• 43:01
  SPEAKER_03: And I'm thankful that we are allowed to disagree on things and we can see things differently, but we can still love each other and we're still part of the same body, and we're still doing our best to follow you and do things that you want us to do.
• 43:15
  SPEAKER_03: And so, yeah, be with us this week as we go out.
• 43:19
  SPEAKER_03: Be for those listening, whatever's going on.
• 43:21
  SPEAKER_03: Just lift up all the concerns and requests that people have.
• 43:24
  SPEAKER_03: You know what they are.
• 43:25
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you for Jesus and love and grace that you gave through him.
• 43:28
  SPEAKER_03: In his name we pray.
• 43:29
  SPEAKER_03: Amen.
• 43:31
  SPEAKER_03: All right.
• 43:31
  SPEAKER_03: Thanks, guys, and we'll see you next time on Rush Hour.