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Story Time with Brittany: The Prodigal Son · Rush Hour

0:08
SPEAKER_00: Welcome everybody.
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SPEAKER_00: It's another episode of the Rush Hour podcast.
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SPEAKER_00: It's a beautiful November day.
0:15
SPEAKER_00: It's really cold outside today.
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SPEAKER_02: It's really gross outside.
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SPEAKER_00: Really gross.
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SPEAKER_00: It's supposed to snow, but then they changed it.
0:21
SPEAKER_00: So it's not.
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SPEAKER_00: That's good.
0:22
SPEAKER_00: And we're not ready for that yet.
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SPEAKER_00: But we have Yeah, it's November.
0:27
SPEAKER_00: We're doing another episode.
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SPEAKER_00: Today we have myself, Britney, and Ashley, and we have a special guest on Rush Hour.
0:34
SPEAKER_00: His uh Rush Hour debut, Mr.
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SPEAKER_00: Benjamin Bull.
0:38
SPEAKER_00: Here he is.
0:38
SPEAKER_03: So you fit right in.
0:40
SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the podcast.
0:42
SPEAKER_00: Thanks, guys.
0:42
SPEAKER_00: Yep.
0:43
SPEAKER_00: I'm glad you're here.
0:44
SPEAKER_00: Got away from Calvary for the day, or you just skipping work.
0:47
SPEAKER_01: No, just said I'm gonna go look at this board that they use as research.
0:51
SPEAKER_00: He's looking at our podcast equipment because we do it the best around.
0:55
SPEAKER_01: Well, you definitely the most efficient around.
0:58
SPEAKER_01: We have one set up, and as you all used it, and it was where you started.
1:02
SPEAKER_01: We talked about that.
1:02
SPEAKER_01: You were like, this is what I don't want to do.
1:04
SPEAKER_01: And so try to figure out that's pretty intense.
1:08
SPEAKER_00: We were very grateful to Calvary and letting us use their space.
1:13
SPEAKER_01: We actually have some kids that want to do some podcasting, and so let's make it to where it's a little beat.
1:17
SPEAKER_00: We do have a portable board, you don't need a computer or anything with arms and stuff.
1:20
SPEAKER_00: So but yeah, he's just here checking out how we do things, and I said if you're coming to look at it, we're just gonna give you a microphone.
1:25
SPEAKER_01: And they gave me donuts and coffee.
1:27
SPEAKER_01: Donuts and coffee.
1:28
SPEAKER_00: So we are glad you're here.
1:30
SPEAKER_00: So this is the time in our podcast where we do announcements.
1:33
SPEAKER_00: We talk about rush church things coming up.
1:35
SPEAKER_00: Biggest thing is what, Thanksgiving this Sunday?
1:37
SPEAKER_00: No.
1:38
SPEAKER_00: No.
1:38
SPEAKER_00: Next Sunday.
1:39
SPEAKER_00: Next Sunday.
1:40
SPEAKER_00: Weekend.
1:40
SPEAKER_03: Don't show up.
1:41
SPEAKER_03: I mean, you can show up to church Sunday, but correction on my part.
1:44
SPEAKER_00: Last time we were on here, I gave false information.
1:47
SPEAKER_00: So that's my thing.
1:48
SPEAKER_00: I need to correct.
1:48
SPEAKER_00: I need to correct myself because I said there would be no ham at Thanksgiving.
1:52
SPEAKER_00: I was very wrong.
1:53
SPEAKER_00: There's always I got my information mixed up with something else.
1:56
SPEAKER_00: And so ham.
1:59
SPEAKER_01: I don't what I'm a ham guy.
2:01
SPEAKER_00: Well, I said that, and some some of our listeners heard that apparently and like came to the office are like, What?
2:06
SPEAKER_00: No ham?
2:09
SPEAKER_00: So there will be ham at Thanksgiving.
2:11
SPEAKER_00: That ham thing.
2:12
SPEAKER_00: There will be ham.
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SPEAKER_00: It's gonna be good.
2:14
SPEAKER_00: It's always good.
2:15
SPEAKER_00: So yeah, sorry about that.
2:16
SPEAKER_00: Don't panic.
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SPEAKER_00: There will be ham at Thanksgiving, which is the 22nd Sunday.
2:20
SPEAKER_00: Get your tickets, free tickets, five o'clock and seven o'clock.
2:23
SPEAKER_00: I think we have spots available for both of those still.
2:26
SPEAKER_00: So right, Brittany?
2:27
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
2:28
SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
2:30
SPEAKER_03: She's the knower of all things.
2:32
SPEAKER_03: Am I?
2:33
SPEAKER_00: You're supposed to know those kind of things to help you.
2:34
SPEAKER_00: I am supposed to know those.
2:36
SPEAKER_00: You do work here.
2:37
SPEAKER_00: I do.
2:37
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
2:39
SPEAKER_00: When we first started the podcast, you didn't work here.
2:41
SPEAKER_00: You were just a person.
2:42
SPEAKER_02: I was just a random person off the street.
2:46
SPEAKER_02: We gave her a mic.
2:46
SPEAKER_00: Yep.
2:47
SPEAKER_00: What else do we have coming up?
2:48
SPEAKER_00: What could go wrong?
2:50
SPEAKER_02: There's nothing could go wrong.
2:51
SPEAKER_00: We've had great quotes from Brittany and stories.
2:53
SPEAKER_02: Well, there's no one else.
2:54
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
2:56
SPEAKER_00: Anything else?
2:57
SPEAKER_00: Fifth Sunday?
2:58
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, we have fifth Sunday coming up here at the end of November.
3:00
SPEAKER_03: All the kids in the backyard are under my supervision only.
3:04
SPEAKER_03: Now that those teachers have the day off, and it's a lot of fun.
3:07
SPEAKER_01: What could go wrong, right?
3:08
SPEAKER_03: So far, uh, this will be my fourth one, and nothing has gone wrong.
3:12
SPEAKER_03: So so far we're good.
3:13
SPEAKER_01: Except my kids are sugared up real good, even more than normal.
3:17
SPEAKER_01: Shouldn't have said that.
3:18
SPEAKER_01: We're gonna look back there this fire.
3:21
SPEAKER_00: Let's take to the wall.
3:24
SPEAKER_01: Don't you have a Friendsgiving thing coming up as well?
3:27
SPEAKER_00: Friendsgiving.
3:28
SPEAKER_00: We've been promoting that to the area.
3:29
SPEAKER_01: I send it to uh every church that Calvin's letters.
3:33
SPEAKER_01: We send out invites like 65 churches.
3:35
SPEAKER_01: We've been talking to people trying to get away.
3:36
SPEAKER_01: Somebody asked.
3:37
SPEAKER_03: Announce it to your kids, your teenagers there.
3:40
SPEAKER_01: And then I had a pastor reach out and said, We're in Champaign County.
3:45
SPEAKER_01: Is that a problem?
3:45
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, nope.
3:46
SPEAKER_01: Long drive, but yeah, come on up.
3:48
SPEAKER_01: So make sure you are not that long of a drive.
3:50
SPEAKER_00: They can make it.
3:51
SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah.
3:52
SPEAKER_00: Food games, frizes.
3:54
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
3:54
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
3:54
SPEAKER_00: Worship team's doing worship that night.
3:56
SPEAKER_00: Yep.
3:56
SPEAKER_00: And then Drew is speaking after that.
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SPEAKER_00: So a little devotional thing.
4:00
SPEAKER_00: So oh Drew.
4:01
SPEAKER_00: You know Drew?
4:02
SPEAKER_00: I love Drew.
4:02
SPEAKER_00: Me too.
4:03
SPEAKER_00: He's been on the podcast before.
4:04
SPEAKER_00: Drew's great.
4:05
SPEAKER_02: Well, he was alone with you.
4:07
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, me and Drew did an episode.
4:08
SPEAKER_00: Isn't that like an April Fool's one or something like that?
4:10
SPEAKER_00: They have an April Fool's opposite uh episode.
4:13
SPEAKER_00: And a lot of people didn't catch on, so but it's okay.
4:16
SPEAKER_00: We talked about spiritual beans, like kidney beans and green beans, spiritual beans and stuff.
4:22
SPEAKER_00: So it was actually really good.
4:23
SPEAKER_00: We actually I didn't hear that one.
4:25
SPEAKER_03: Well, yeah, I didn't either.
4:26
SPEAKER_03: It was April Fool's because I was on the beach.
4:29
SPEAKER_00: It was fun.
4:29
SPEAKER_00: We had a good time.
4:30
SPEAKER_00: There was still worthy, it's like worth listening to because we did talk seriously about some stuff, but most of it was puns on spiritual beans.
4:37
SPEAKER_00: But all right.
4:39
SPEAKER_00: What else do we have announcement-wise?
4:40
SPEAKER_00: The tea.
4:41
SPEAKER_03: Oh yeah, women's tea.
4:42
SPEAKER_03: You know, week one, we had 44 women already signed up, and it's only been out for one week.
4:47
SPEAKER_02: It's a very popular event.
4:48
SPEAKER_03: It is, yes.
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SPEAKER_03: This is also a free event for women ages 14 and over.
4:54
SPEAKER_03: And we have hosts, so people can sign up to be a host, decorate their own table, provide dinner wear and cups, teacups, or regular cups, whatever you prefer.
5:03
SPEAKER_03: And then the hosts also bring a dessert to share for the share table.
5:07
SPEAKER_03: Um and we have games and I'm preparing a lesson and some jazz music and I'll be wandering around serving tables with hors d'oeuvres.
5:16
SPEAKER_03: Enjoys.
5:17
SPEAKER_00: Last year gave out fancy cheese.
5:20
SPEAKER_00: I just show up to the table and be like, cheese.
5:22
SPEAKER_00: Cheese, fancy cheese.
5:23
SPEAKER_03: And we let the women know if they know they ref refill on something, you can just call Cody.
5:28
SPEAKER_00: You know, they have bells.
5:30
SPEAKER_00: I hope not.
5:31
SPEAKER_00: I won't come back with those bells.
5:32
SPEAKER_00: There are no bells.
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SPEAKER_00: Just do a hand or just yell for me.
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SPEAKER_00: It'll be fine.
5:36
SPEAKER_00: So yeah, the tea, always a good.
5:37
SPEAKER_00: We had like a hundred last year, close to 90 something.
5:40
SPEAKER_03: 96.
5:41
SPEAKER_03: So that is December 3rd at 6 30 p.m.
5:45
SPEAKER_03: I got the date right.
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SPEAKER_00: Very nice.
5:47
SPEAKER_03: Note that, please.
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SPEAKER_00: Noted.
5:49
SPEAKER_00: She struggles with dates on this podcast.
5:51
SPEAKER_00: Anything else?
5:52
SPEAKER_00: We're good.
5:53
SPEAKER_00: I think that's all.
5:54
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
5:54
SPEAKER_00: If you have anything else you want to know about, look at the website rushchurch.com or talk to Brittany because she knows everything.
6:02
SPEAKER_00: Not really.
6:03
SPEAKER_00: Katrina would be better to talk to.
6:07
SPEAKER_01: I would love to argue this.
6:09
SPEAKER_01: I say.
6:09
SPEAKER_01: But for anybody that's ever interacted with Katrina, you're not wrong.
6:14
SPEAKER_00: She knows all the things, but Britney is learning.
6:17
SPEAKER_00: She knows everything.
6:17
SPEAKER_02: I actually don't know how to take everything in Katrina's head and put it in my head.
6:23
SPEAKER_00: So don't try to do that.
6:27
SPEAKER_00: If you don't know, we'll send them to Katrina.
6:29
SPEAKER_00: And she'll know.
6:30
SPEAKER_00: But all right.
6:32
SPEAKER_00: Oh my word.
6:33
SPEAKER_00: I think Ashley's got some stuff for us now.
6:35
SPEAKER_03: You ready for my segment?
6:36
SPEAKER_03: Okay, you want jokes or icebreakers first?
6:38
SPEAKER_00: We need like a sound or a chime or something for part of the episode.
6:42
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we'll just do that.
6:44
SPEAKER_03: No, not that.
6:45
SPEAKER_03: You don't want the big towel to be able to do that.
6:47
SPEAKER_01: It's the Ashley hour.
6:48
SPEAKER_01: It's the Ashley hour.
6:50
SPEAKER_03: Whoa.
6:50
SPEAKER_01: Oh, that we don't want an hour.
6:51
SPEAKER_01: No, we'll do like Ashley and five.
6:54
SPEAKER_01: How about that?
6:56
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
6:56
SPEAKER_03: Nice.
6:57
SPEAKER_03: All right.
6:58
SPEAKER_03: I'm going to do one icebreaker first, and then there's a little extra thing today.
7:02
SPEAKER_03: But we're getting ready to get to Thanksgiving.
7:04
SPEAKER_03: Okay.
7:05
SPEAKER_03: So I want you to think what is one small act of kindness that someone did that you will never ever forget?
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SPEAKER_00: Small act?
7:14
SPEAKER_00: Yep.
7:14
SPEAKER_00: A small thing.
7:15
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
7:16
SPEAKER_03: Maybe if it's really that big.
7:17
SPEAKER_03: I mean, big things in your heart, it might be big, but to them it may have been just really small.
7:23
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
7:24
SPEAKER_00: Gotcha.
7:25
SPEAKER_00: So something that you won't forget.
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SPEAKER_00: Something that somebody's done for you.
7:28
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
7:28
SPEAKER_03: Or someone you know.
7:30
SPEAKER_00: Well, today Ashley brought us donuts, so it's really nice of her.
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SPEAKER_00: I'll never forget.
7:34
SPEAKER_00: Never forget.
7:36
SPEAKER_00: That day.
7:36
SPEAKER_00: I mean, that was a really good donut.
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SPEAKER_03: That day that Ashley had a moment of the weekend bought donuts.
7:40
SPEAKER_01: City's sweet donuts.
7:41
SPEAKER_01: A whole box.
7:42
SPEAKER_01: If I bring a whole box for everybody, it's not just me wanting a donut.
7:45
SPEAKER_03: I said that.
7:46
SPEAKER_03: I said I'm taking you all down.
7:47
SPEAKER_00: Like, I don't know if I can pick one moment, but it's always really nice when somebody remembers something that you said like offhand.
7:54
SPEAKER_00: Like you just mentioned something like you're having and then they remember and they like do something for you about it.
7:58
SPEAKER_00: Or like those kind of things are pretty big.
8:00
SPEAKER_00: Like, even though they're just like, oh, he said this, so I'm gonna go buy him a coffee or do this and or bring it up later, even be like, I remember you said this.
8:07
SPEAKER_00: Like, oh, you remembered I said that.
8:08
SPEAKER_00: Right.
8:09
SPEAKER_00: Those kind of things, those stick with you for a while.
8:12
SPEAKER_01: So I did a message on lunch and mentioned that as a kid, other f friends of mine always brought you know rich people food, like fruit roll-ups.
8:23
SPEAKER_01: You know, as silly as that is, we didn't have them.
8:27
SPEAKER_03: Right.
8:27
SPEAKER_01: The next day, or that Monday in my office was a box of fruit roll-ups from Joyce Downey.
8:33
SPEAKER_01: Oh that's awesome.
8:36
SPEAKER_01: I don't like, and I hid them from my children because these are my fruit roll ups.
8:43
SPEAKER_00: This is my luxury.
8:44
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, see little stuff like that, just you know, doesn't have to be like you said, might not be anything, but they don't remember that.
8:49
SPEAKER_00: Right.
8:49
SPEAKER_03: I mean there's plenty, there's a lot of you, it was a those are the kind of things like the person that does it, they don't remember.
8:53
SPEAKER_00: They're like, oh, I did that.
8:54
SPEAKER_00: Right.
8:55
SPEAKER_00: So you you remember it.
8:56
SPEAKER_00: Those are the cool things.
8:57
SPEAKER_01: And there's plenty of big things as well, but that's uh yeah, that's one of those little tiny things that just she probably saw them at Dollar General and just was like, oh, for rule-ups.
9:07
SPEAKER_03: Can you think of anything, Brittany?
9:10
SPEAKER_02: I don't know that I can think of for myself like something somebody's done for me.
9:16
SPEAKER_02: That sounds terrible to me.
9:19
SPEAKER_03: I was like I was thinking, well, maybe we need to work on this.
9:23
SPEAKER_00: Like, I remember all the nice things I do for all the people.
9:26
SPEAKER_00: And they never say thank you.
9:27
SPEAKER_00: And they never said thank you.
9:29
SPEAKER_03: That is not what I'm saying.
9:31
SPEAKER_03: I know.
9:31
SPEAKER_03: Okay, I totally get that because I'm gonna go ahead and share mine.
9:33
SPEAKER_03: Okay, because mine is not to me, okay, but it still blessed my heart.
9:38
SPEAKER_03: Okay.
9:38
SPEAKER_03: So uh my daughter Haley went to lunch with a friend, two friends, and they went to Flying Pepper and it was Mother's Day.
9:48
SPEAKER_03: And the pastor, who is now a pastor of the church down the road here in WrestleMania, Wayne.
9:54
SPEAKER_03: Wayne.
9:54
SPEAKER_03: Wayne, yeah, he didn't know them.
9:56
SPEAKER_03: We didn't know him at the time either.
9:58
SPEAKER_03: It was Mother's Day, bought them all lunch.
10:02
SPEAKER_03: Well, one of the friends has had a has lost her mother for years.
10:06
SPEAKER_03: It was always a very hard holiday for her.
10:09
SPEAKER_03: And the little gesture that he did by buying them lunch, she has never forgotten it.
10:14
SPEAKER_03: She talks about it all the time, and she says, How does God do that?
10:19
SPEAKER_03: And it's just it's constantly being able to bring up that conversation of God knows what you need right when you need it.
10:25
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
10:26
SPEAKER_01: So and what you're right, Wayne probably goes, I did.
10:29
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, exactly.
10:30
SPEAKER_01: I know Wayne, he's busy, he's doing, I mean, he's he's probably bought lots of lunches, like does it all the time, you know?
10:35
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and would have never known that that specific situation has never left her.
10:40
SPEAKER_02: So probably the I don't know if this counts, but the thing that comes to my mind is that I've seen my son show kindness to strangers that I thought that takes a lot of bravery.
10:58
SPEAKER_02: And I don't know, that just is something that really touches me.
11:01
SPEAKER_02: I've seen him go up to a complete stranger and have a conversation and just be really kind, and I think it gets to me because I think I need to do better at not focusing on where I'm going or what I'm doing and spending a little more time noticing the people around me.
11:20
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that's cool.
11:21
SPEAKER_00: And he's probably like, I just yeah, he's like, that's just his normal self.
11:25
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
11:25
SPEAKER_02: He's like, I was just saying hi.
11:27
SPEAKER_02: Cool.
11:28
SPEAKER_02: This person, this is part of their life now.
11:29
SPEAKER_02: And I'm like, oh, okay, don't lose that.
11:32
SPEAKER_01: Do you remind him of that when he's being mean to his little sister?
11:35
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and then they get in a fist fight, and then we gotta Oh wow.
11:38
SPEAKER_02: No, I'm just kidding.
11:39
SPEAKER_02: I'm just kidding.
11:39
SPEAKER_01: No, you're not.
11:40
SPEAKER_03: Axel would win.
11:41
SPEAKER_03: So oh my goodness.
11:43
SPEAKER_03: Okay, so my neck, my next part here is I have to admit that I've kind of run out of all the icebreakers, you know.
11:51
SPEAKER_03: There's only so many you can think of.
11:53
SPEAKER_03: So I kind of had to ask chat GPT, the the AI.
11:57
SPEAKER_03: Do it all.
11:58
SPEAKER_03: Give me some ideas, okay?
11:59
SPEAKER_03: And so it also asked me a question like, you know, okay, who was on this rush hour?
12:04
SPEAKER_03: Like, what tell me a little bit about these people?
12:06
SPEAKER_03: So I kind of mentioned Cody and gave AI our information to the city.
12:09
SPEAKER_01: I did just a little bit.
12:10
SPEAKER_03: Just a little bit, just a little bit.
12:12
SPEAKER_01: Married to a channel?
12:13
SPEAKER_01: No, no, no, not that much.
12:15
SPEAKER_03: No, just a few little things.
12:16
SPEAKER_01: And here's that's all public now.
12:20
SPEAKER_01: I know AI loved it.
12:22
SPEAKER_01: And it actually did, yeah.
12:24
SPEAKER_03: Like, tell us more.
12:26
SPEAKER_01: I love that American Express account it just set up, too.
12:29
SPEAKER_03: It said, so it gave us titles.
12:31
SPEAKER_03: Okay.
12:32
SPEAKER_03: So AI named Cody the Bible Brain.
12:36
SPEAKER_00: The Bible brain.
12:37
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
12:38
SPEAKER_03: He it named myself, yeah the comic relief.
12:42
SPEAKER_03: Okay.
12:42
SPEAKER_03: Here we go.
12:43
SPEAKER_03: Oh my gosh, I don't want to hear my name.
12:45
SPEAKER_03: It named Britney the relatable Bible student.
12:49
SPEAKER_02: Okay, I know that.
12:52
SPEAKER_03: Awesome.
12:52
SPEAKER_03: So I thought it was really cool.
12:53
SPEAKER_03: But it's literally saying awe to AI.
12:57
SPEAKER_03: Right?
12:57
SPEAKER_03: This is not a real thing.
12:59
SPEAKER_01: Thanks, Computer in California, for telling me that it's who I am.
13:02
SPEAKER_03: So it gave me some questions to ask the three of us.
13:05
SPEAKER_03: And Ben, I'm gonna include you in this too, okay?
13:09
SPEAKER_03: Kind of kind of rapid, kind of rapid questions.
13:12
SPEAKER_03: We just kind of got to answer them.
13:14
SPEAKER_03: Okay.
13:14
SPEAKER_03: So it's about this group of people right here.
13:16
SPEAKER_03: So which of us would get eliminated first on Survivor?
13:20
SPEAKER_04: Brittany.
13:23
SPEAKER_03: I was gonna say Cody.
13:24
SPEAKER_03: Oh, I mean Cody.
13:26
SPEAKER_00: Oh I was gonna say Ashley.
13:28
SPEAKER_03: All right, Brittany.
13:29
SPEAKER_03: Oh, wait, Ashley.
13:31
SPEAKER_03: Okay, all right, got it.
13:33
SPEAKER_03: Brittany, you're off.
13:34
SPEAKER_03: Okay, which of us would accidentally join a cult because the people were really friendly?
13:38
SPEAKER_03: Brittany.
13:39
SPEAKER_03: Ashley.
13:41
unknown: Cody.
13:42
SPEAKER_02: What?
13:43
SPEAKER_02: Okay, if they were really nice though.
13:45
SPEAKER_00: How many times have you joined a cult accidentally?
13:47
SPEAKER_02: Twice.
13:48
SPEAKER_02: Okay, see?
13:48
SPEAKER_00: There we go.
13:52
SPEAKER_02: But they were so nice.
13:54
SPEAKER_00: No, no, I changed my answer.
13:55
SPEAKER_00: Ashley is pretty gullible.
13:56
SPEAKER_00: Jill believes.
13:59
SPEAKER_03: All right.
13:59
SPEAKER_03: Next one.
14:00
SPEAKER_03: Which of us would be most likely to get kicked out of a restaurant?
14:06
SPEAKER_01: Hold on.
14:06
SPEAKER_01: Who are they with?
14:09
SPEAKER_03: It's the four of us.
14:10
SPEAKER_03: It's the four of us in a restaurant.
14:11
SPEAKER_03: Who's gonna be a few?
14:12
SPEAKER_02: I think we're all going out at the same time.
14:13
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, if it's the like if you're with your family, the Phillips.
14:19
SPEAKER_01: If if you're you know the whole family?
14:21
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, because you're all loud?
14:25
SPEAKER_01: I don't want to say I mean loud.
14:27
SPEAKER_01: I'm as loud as anybody.
14:28
SPEAKER_00: So yeah, yeah, like Ben's loud, so I was gonna say kick him out.
14:32
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I I've never been kicked out of a restaurant.
14:35
SPEAKER_00: I'm not saying you have, but it's true.
14:37
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
14:38
SPEAKER_00: The probability between all of us, you the probability.
14:40
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
14:41
SPEAKER_03: I probably next question.
14:44
SPEAKER_03: Which of us could survive the longest without without a cell phone?
14:51
SPEAKER_00: Brittany.
14:52
SPEAKER_03: Brittany.
14:53
SPEAKER_03: Thank you.
14:54
SPEAKER_03: Welcome.
14:55
SPEAKER_03: I wonder.
14:56
SPEAKER_03: Because she's all into that, like grounding, I heard.
14:59
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, grounding.
15:00
SPEAKER_03: Like um natural thing.
15:02
SPEAKER_01: She was like, Jocelyn throws you under the bus all the time.
15:05
SPEAKER_02: Okay, Jocelyn is just as crazy as I am.
15:07
SPEAKER_02: So that's not fair.
15:09
SPEAKER_00: But when she is texting somebody, she doesn't know the other world exists.
15:12
SPEAKER_02: Like she's she's texting, she's like, You can't talk to her.
15:16
SPEAKER_02: I cannot talk and text at the same time.
15:18
SPEAKER_00: She just like nothing.
15:22
SPEAKER_03: Okay, next question gone.
15:24
SPEAKER_03: Which of us would be the worst person to have as a getaway driver?
15:29
SPEAKER_02: Um, you would be the best.
15:31
SPEAKER_03: I know! Right?
15:32
SPEAKER_03: That's what I was thinking.
15:34
SPEAKER_02: Ashley would be the best getaway driver.
15:36
SPEAKER_02: I would probably be the worst getaway because I don't really drive fast.
15:40
SPEAKER_02: I don't think.
15:42
SPEAKER_00: No, the worst?
15:43
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, the worst getaway driver.
15:44
SPEAKER_00: Brittany's the worst.
15:45
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
15:45
SPEAKER_02: I use like my turn signals and stuff.
15:48
SPEAKER_00: Well, that's I follow the law.
15:51
SPEAKER_00: That makes you a terrible getaway driver.
15:53
SPEAKER_00: That's right.
15:53
SPEAKER_02: That's right.
15:54
SPEAKER_00: Hold on, guys.
15:54
SPEAKER_02: Ashley, who has her CDL, however.
15:57
SPEAKER_01: Oh, I've ridden a bus with her.
15:58
SPEAKER_01: I'm aware, Mike.
15:59
SPEAKER_01: You with that break real quick.
16:01
SPEAKER_01: Uh yeah.
16:02
SPEAKER_01: I'm glad that front, those front seats are padded.
16:04
SPEAKER_03: So all right, last one.
16:07
SPEAKER_03: If the if the four of us were straight on the island, who would become the leader?
16:12
SPEAKER_03: And who would panic and who would absolutely be useless?
16:17
SPEAKER_03: So sorry, three of us, I guess.
16:20
SPEAKER_03: Who's gonna panic?
16:21
SPEAKER_03: Who's gonna be the leader, and who's gonna be useless?
16:24
SPEAKER_02: Um Ben's probably gonna take charge.
16:28
SPEAKER_02: Possibly.
16:29
SPEAKER_03: Okay.
16:30
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna be the loudest.
16:31
SPEAKER_02: I don't know if it's actually the person in charge.
16:34
SPEAKER_00: Um, who's panicking?
16:36
SPEAKER_02: I think Ashley's panicking.
16:39
SPEAKER_00: I think I'm totally.
16:40
SPEAKER_02: I think in that setting, yeah.
16:41
SPEAKER_01: You don't panic a lot of other things, but that one I think you would be.
16:45
SPEAKER_02: I have like a pretty strong back, so I feel like I wouldn't be useless.
16:48
SPEAKER_02: You know, I could carry things.
16:50
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, my shoulder hurts.
16:51
SPEAKER_00: I'll probably be useless.
16:52
SPEAKER_01: If I have to sleep on the sleep on the sand for two nights, I'm out.
16:55
SPEAKER_01: Right.
16:55
SPEAKER_03: Cody wouldn't have his cell phone, his ale eight, his lizard, or it's a deserted island.
17:03
SPEAKER_01: There's probably lizards around.
17:05
SPEAKER_00: Find a new lizard.
17:05
SPEAKER_01: He'd have new he'd have a horde of lizards doing the work for him.
17:09
SPEAKER_01: Coconuts, let's go.
17:10
SPEAKER_00: You guys would be like, We gotta pay, I got I'm just gonna take a nap in the sun.
17:13
SPEAKER_00: We're on a beach.
17:14
SPEAKER_00: Forget it.
17:15
SPEAKER_00: It's useless.
17:16
SPEAKER_00: This is nice, guys.
17:18
unknown: That's right.
17:19
SPEAKER_04: Everyone will laugh.
17:20
SPEAKER_01: That first day is gonna be like, this is awesome.
17:22
SPEAKER_00: This is I'll become useful eventually when I realize that we need to be that first day.
17:28
SPEAKER_03: I'm just like, This is a nice vacation.
17:31
SPEAKER_00: Perfect.
17:32
SPEAKER_03: Okay.
17:32
SPEAKER_03: All right.
17:34
SPEAKER_03: On to jokes.
17:35
SPEAKER_04: Oh.
17:36
SPEAKER_03: All right.
17:36
SPEAKER_03: I got two jokes for you today.
17:39
SPEAKER_03: Did you know that Arkansas was mentioned in the Bible?
17:45
SPEAKER_00: I'm talking about Little Rock for something, didn't they?
17:51
SPEAKER_00: I'm just kidding.
17:52
SPEAKER_03: No.
17:53
SPEAKER_03: Noah stepped out on the Arkansas.
17:56
SPEAKER_00: Oh my god.
18:01
SPEAKER_01: Real bad.
18:02
SPEAKER_01: No, they're all real bad.
18:04
SPEAKER_02: This is That's actually probably one of the best ones.
18:06
SPEAKER_02: That's probably one of the better ones.
18:07
SPEAKER_01: So I mean, I got some Bible jokes, but they're all the same kind.
18:10
SPEAKER_03: Alright, last joke, which is a Bible joke.
18:13
SPEAKER_03: I haven't done Bible jokes in a long time.
18:14
SPEAKER_03: True, we don't know.
18:15
SPEAKER_03: Because I want to be careful and not, you know.
18:21
SPEAKER_03: All right.
18:22
SPEAKER_03: Why can't Jesus wear any jewelry?
18:25
unknown: Gosh.
18:28
SPEAKER_00: Because of his I don't know.
18:34
SPEAKER_00: Uh I don't know.
18:35
SPEAKER_03: Because he breaks every chain.
18:38
SPEAKER_03: Breaks every chain.
18:41
SPEAKER_01: Wow.
18:42
SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna be honest, though never would have got there.
18:45
SPEAKER_01: Ring like not a chain.
18:46
SPEAKER_01: It's right here.
18:47
SPEAKER_01: Whatever, come on.
18:48
SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's hilarious.
18:49
SPEAKER_01: Well done.
18:50
SPEAKER_01: Very good.
18:51
SPEAKER_01: That was good.
18:52
SPEAKER_01: Very good.
18:53
SPEAKER_01: Good job, Chat G.
18:53
SPEAKER_01: I mean, yes.
18:54
SPEAKER_01: Good job, ChatGPT.
18:56
SPEAKER_03: Actually, that was not ChatGPT.
18:57
SPEAKER_01: No, this is where you go.
18:59
SPEAKER_02: That's from your brain?
19:00
unknown: We know.
19:00
SPEAKER_03: Oh, okay.
19:01
SPEAKER_02: How many jokes have I had for my brain?
19:03
SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
19:03
SPEAKER_02: You said it wasn't Chat GPT.
19:05
SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
19:06
SPEAKER_03: But it was not on ChatGPT.
19:09
SPEAKER_01: So where did you research?
19:11
SPEAKER_03: On the internet.
19:12
SPEAKER_03: Google.
19:12
SPEAKER_03: TikTok.
19:13
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
19:14
SPEAKER_00: TikTok research.
19:15
SPEAKER_00: Which got that from ChatGPT, which probably nothing's original anymore.
19:20
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
19:20
SPEAKER_00: It's everything's meaningless.
19:22
SPEAKER_02: Not so much and our lessons.
19:26
SPEAKER_00: This took a turn.
19:27
SPEAKER_01: Ecclesiastes.
19:28
SPEAKER_01: All right, all right.
19:29
SPEAKER_00: I was going for King Solomon, you know, everything.
19:32
SPEAKER_00: Nice.
19:33
SPEAKER_00: Very depressing.
19:33
SPEAKER_00: Uh, but today we're not talking about that.
19:35
SPEAKER_00: We're talking about this is our continuing our series, story time with Brittany.
19:40
SPEAKER_00: Um we've done, we've done, what have we done?
19:44
SPEAKER_00: Um, what was the first one?
19:45
SPEAKER_00: Jonah and Big Fish.
19:48
SPEAKER_00: We did Samson and Delilah last time.
19:50
SPEAKER_00: They were so the theme is like Bible stories, like Sunday school stories that everybody knows.
19:55
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
19:55
SPEAKER_00: And just kind of like a retelling of them, like going a little bit deeper and seeing what we missed.
19:59
SPEAKER_00: Put them in context.
20:00
SPEAKER_00: Put them in context.
20:01
SPEAKER_00: See if there's like, you know, everybody knows these stories from Sunday school, but sometimes there's a little bit of you know, deeper look into it.
20:08
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
20:09
SPEAKER_00: But today we're doing a story that most people know, I think.
20:12
SPEAKER_00: The prodigal son story that Jesus tells.
20:14
SPEAKER_00: It's a parable.
20:15
SPEAKER_00: And where's that at, Brittany, in the Bible?
20:18
SPEAKER_00: It's in Luke 15.
20:20
SPEAKER_00: Good job.
20:20
SPEAKER_00: Luke 15.
20:21
SPEAKER_00: I looked up the wrong book, so she was like, Where's that ass?
20:26
SPEAKER_00: Like, and it's Luke 15.
20:27
SPEAKER_00: And she was like, I'm in 15.
20:28
SPEAKER_00: It's not here.
20:29
SPEAKER_00: I was like, well, then you're in the wrong book.
20:31
SPEAKER_00: She was.
20:32
SPEAKER_00: And it was in the wrong book.
20:34
SPEAKER_00: Because I know I heard what he said.
20:36
SPEAKER_00: Luke.
20:36
SPEAKER_00: Flip to something else.
20:38
SPEAKER_00: But yeah.
20:38
SPEAKER_00: So if Britney would do the honors of, you know, telling us her story, her take on the story, you can begin now.
20:49
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
20:50
SPEAKER_02: There was a dad.
20:52
SPEAKER_02: That caught me way off guard.
20:53
SPEAKER_02: That's the uh I thought dropped the microphone.
20:56
SPEAKER_00: Well, that's that's the chime for just when Britney tells stories, that's the sound we use.
21:00
SPEAKER_01: I just turned to cough, and all of a sudden we had a world of Disney in my ear.
21:05
SPEAKER_01: The field crops are coming.
21:07
SPEAKER_00: Do you need that again?
21:08
SPEAKER_00: Do you need that?
21:08
SPEAKER_00: We need that again.
21:10
SPEAKER_00: All right.
21:11
SPEAKER_00: Ready.
21:12
SPEAKER_00: Here we go.
21:14
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
21:15
SPEAKER_02: There was a dad, and this dad had two probably pretty grown sons.
21:22
SPEAKER_02: The older son was a very good son.
21:25
SPEAKER_02: And the younger son was wild.
21:28
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
21:29
SPEAKER_00: How wild was he?
21:29
SPEAKER_02: He was pretty wild.
21:30
SPEAKER_02: Like he just didn't want to listen or follow any of the rules.
21:32
SPEAKER_02: He had his own way of doing things.
21:34
SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay.
21:35
SPEAKER_02: And he went to his dad and he was like, listen, older man.
21:41
SPEAKER_02: I want you to give me all the money you're gonna give me before you pass away.
21:45
SPEAKER_02: I want you to give it to me now and I want to leave.
21:48
SPEAKER_02: And the dad said, Okay, here you go.
21:52
SPEAKER_02: Gave him all his money.
21:53
SPEAKER_02: He went straight to Vegas.
21:55
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
21:56
SPEAKER_02: Spin it all.
21:59
SPEAKER_02: Wild nuts.
22:00
SPEAKER_02: Nights, all this stuff.
22:01
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
22:02
SPEAKER_02: Anyways, all of his money is gone.
22:04
unknown: Perfect.
22:05
SPEAKER_02: All of his money's gone.
22:06
SPEAKER_02: Well, then like the city became really there.
22:11
SPEAKER_02: There was a fam famine.
22:12
SPEAKER_02: Famine.
22:13
SPEAKER_02: Everybody was starving to death.
22:14
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
22:15
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
22:16
SPEAKER_02: And he also had no money now because he spent it all on shoes, probably.
22:22
SPEAKER_02: Shoes?
22:23
SPEAKER_02: Shoes and that would be a hot commodity back then.
22:26
SPEAKER_01: I'm not sure Luke says shoes.
22:30
SPEAKER_02: So, anyways, he already spent all of his money.
22:32
SPEAKER_02: So he's like starving to death.
22:32
SPEAKER_02: And he goes and he's like, I'm gonna have to get a job.
22:35
SPEAKER_00: But he's got shoes.
22:35
SPEAKER_00: He's good.
22:36
SPEAKER_02: He's got shoes.
22:37
SPEAKER_02: So he went and got a job, and while he's working this job, uh he's taking care of somebody's pigs, and he realizes that the pigs are eating better than he is.
22:47
SPEAKER_02: He's like staring at these pigs with envy, like, I want what that pigs eat.
22:52
SPEAKER_02: I'm so hungry.
22:52
SPEAKER_02: That is how hungry I'm gonna eat this pig food.
22:54
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
22:55
SPEAKER_02: And then he was like, honestly, if I'm gonna work for somebody, I should just work for my dad.
23:01
SPEAKER_02: Because his employees are better off than I am.
23:05
SPEAKER_02: They still have shoes.
23:06
SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna go back, I'm gonna go back to him.
23:09
SPEAKER_00: Where the shoes are plentiful.
23:11
SPEAKER_02: Where the shoes are plentiful.
23:13
SPEAKER_00: I just like how you picked shoes just randomly.
23:16
SPEAKER_00: I thought it was safe.
23:17
SPEAKER_00: For those listening, it does not say shoes.
23:19
SPEAKER_00: There's no shoes in the box.
23:21
SPEAKER_00: It's just Britney's version of the story.
23:23
SPEAKER_02: Anyway, so he goes home pretty pretty sad.
23:28
SPEAKER_02: He comes home and his dad sees him in the distance, and his dad actually takes off running and wraps his arms around him, and his son apologizes to his dad and tells him that he's sorry for what he's done.
23:45
SPEAKER_02: And his dad puts some ro puts a robe and a ring on him and tells his servants to fatten the calf because he's not gonna be a servant, he's going to be a son.
23:59
SPEAKER_02: And they have a party.
24:00
SPEAKER_00: And they have a party.
24:02
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
24:02
SPEAKER_00: That's that's the story, right?
24:04
SPEAKER_02: That's the story.
24:04
SPEAKER_00: That's the story of the prodigal son.
24:06
SPEAKER_00: Brittany, well done.
24:08
SPEAKER_02: Oh, thank you.
24:09
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
24:09
SPEAKER_00: Couldn't have done it better.
24:10
SPEAKER_03: Nice.
24:11
SPEAKER_00: I like when Brittany just I love the details that are added.
24:14
SPEAKER_03: We just remember so much.
24:15
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
24:16
SPEAKER_03: We won't remember the shoes, honey.
24:18
SPEAKER_03: No, there was no shoes.
24:19
SPEAKER_03: But I like that.
24:20
SPEAKER_00: That's why I like Brittany telling the stories because of the shoe stuff, you know.
24:23
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
24:23
SPEAKER_00: All the little things.
24:24
SPEAKER_02: I'm sure they're really nice.
24:25
SPEAKER_00: I probably missed.
24:28
SPEAKER_03: In Bible school.
24:29
SPEAKER_00: I'm the Bible Bible brain.
24:31
SPEAKER_00: Bible brain.
24:31
SPEAKER_00: She's the student showing me, you know, what I missed and stuff.
24:34
SPEAKER_00: So so yeah, that's the story of the prodigal son.
24:37
SPEAKER_00: If you haven't heard it before, you have now, thanks to Brittany.
24:41
SPEAKER_00: But we'll look at it a little bit differently, pick out some details and stuff and what was really going on here.
24:47
SPEAKER_00: It's easy to see the story and think prodigal son, he left, he came back, he was forgiven, and I had a party.
24:53
SPEAKER_00: But there's a few other things that we kind of need to pull out, I think, and and take a look at.
24:58
SPEAKER_00: And so for since Jesus told this story, this parable that he's telling, anybody know what a parable is?
25:04
SPEAKER_03: Like a not real story.
25:06
SPEAKER_00: Like a not real story?
25:07
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
25:08
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
25:08
SPEAKER_00: Like it's not, yeah, he made it up.
25:10
SPEAKER_03: Right.
25:10
SPEAKER_03: Like just something to be able to point to something bigger.
25:15
SPEAKER_01: Biblical truth.
25:16
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
25:16
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
25:17
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
25:17
SPEAKER_00: Jesus tells parables, and there's stories that he just makes up and he's telling them, but they always have a truth and a meaning behind them, a purpose.
25:24
SPEAKER_00: So heavenly truth.
25:25
SPEAKER_00: I like this.
25:26
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
25:27
SPEAKER_00: But this is one of those.
25:28
SPEAKER_00: It's a parable.
25:29
SPEAKER_00: And for we've called it the parable of the prodigal son.
25:32
SPEAKER_00: That's what we call it.
25:33
SPEAKER_00: Like that's what I've always known it as.
25:35
SPEAKER_00: And you look at it, Jesus didn't start the story by saying a certain man had a reckless son.
25:41
SPEAKER_00: He started the story by saying a certain man had two sons.
25:44
SPEAKER_00: That's how the story begins.
25:45
SPEAKER_00: There's two sons.
25:46
SPEAKER_00: There's a focus of both of them when Jesus starts the story.
25:49
SPEAKER_00: And do you know who Jesus is talking to when he's telling this story?
25:53
SPEAKER_00: Well, who's his audience?
25:55
SPEAKER_00: Remember?
25:57
SPEAKER_00: No?
25:58
SPEAKER_00: No.
25:58
SPEAKER_00: I don't remember.
25:59
SPEAKER_00: This is do you know, Ben?
26:01
SPEAKER_00: The Jews, the Jewish people.
26:04
SPEAKER_00: The Jewish people.
26:04
SPEAKER_00: But specifically in this one, he's started this by talking to the Pharisees.
26:09
SPEAKER_00: He's speaking to the religious leaders.
26:10
SPEAKER_00: He's talking to Yeah, they're Jewish.
26:12
SPEAKER_00: So you were right.
26:13
SPEAKER_00: Good job, Ben.
26:15
SPEAKER_00: So he's talking to religious leaders, he's talking to the Pharisees and the Sadducees and all these people.
26:20
SPEAKER_00: And the conversation starts because they were very angry at him for eating with the sinners, hanging out with people that they didn't think should be hung out with, the low class, the people that were below them, apparently.
26:32
SPEAKER_00: And so that's how this whole thing starts.
26:33
SPEAKER_00: And Jesus tells three stories in a row.
26:35
SPEAKER_00: This is the one he ends with.
26:36
SPEAKER_00: But so two sons, there's a focus here.
26:38
SPEAKER_00: Jesus says, A man had two sons.
26:42
SPEAKER_00: And so sometimes we get swept away in the younger brother's dramatic return.
26:45
SPEAKER_00: We completely forget the elder brother at the end of the story.
26:49
SPEAKER_00: Which in Britney's retelling, she didn't talk about the older brother at the end.
26:53
SPEAKER_02: I don't know if you want me to talk about him or not.
26:54
SPEAKER_00: I'm not saying like you know.
26:56
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
26:58
SPEAKER_00: Brittany probably knows about the older brother.
26:59
SPEAKER_00: She just tells the story, everybody remembers it for us.
27:02
SPEAKER_00: That's right.
27:02
SPEAKER_00: Right?
27:02
SPEAKER_00: That's her job here.
27:03
SPEAKER_00: So if you're like Brittany doesn't know a whole lot about the Bible, if you think that, like, she's just, she does.
27:09
SPEAKER_02: She's I think so.
27:12
SPEAKER_00: No, but you know, Brittany's role in this series is to tell the story how we heard in Sunday school.
27:16
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
27:16
SPEAKER_00: Like the basic stuff.
27:18
SPEAKER_00: And then we kind of take a look back at it and be like, oh, there was another part to it, or there was another thing that I forgot about it, and something like that.
27:25
SPEAKER_00: So so often we get stuck on the younger brother.
27:28
SPEAKER_00: When the younger brother comes back, his dad rewards him, looks like, throws a party, gives him jewelry, new clothes, new sandals, I think is what it says.
27:37
SPEAKER_00: Does it really say sandals?
27:38
SPEAKER_00: Pretty sure.
27:40
SPEAKER_00: It is sandals on his feet.
27:41
SPEAKER_00: It's all about the shoes.
27:43
SPEAKER_00: Good job.
27:44
SPEAKER_00: And he's like, My son was gone, but now he's back, and we're having a party for him.
27:48
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
27:48
SPEAKER_00: And the elder brother does what?
27:50
SPEAKER_00: Doesn't come to the party.
27:52
SPEAKER_00: Stands outside and makes his dad come out, talk to him.
27:55
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
27:56
SPEAKER_00: The dad goes over and he's like, he's like, and the older brother doesn't even acknowledge his brother.
28:01
SPEAKER_00: He says, This son of yours is like he's kind of like this other guy.
28:04
SPEAKER_00: Like, I've already kicked him out of the family in the older brother's head.
28:07
SPEAKER_00: He's like, This son of yours is wasted all of your money, went off and did all these crazy things.
28:12
SPEAKER_00: I stayed here the whole time.
28:14
SPEAKER_00: And I worked for you.
28:15
SPEAKER_00: I did all these things for you.
28:16
SPEAKER_00: I never broke any of the rules.
28:17
SPEAKER_00: I've always been here with you.
28:20
SPEAKER_00: And now you're throwing him a party.
28:21
SPEAKER_00: And so he doesn't understand what's happening.
28:24
SPEAKER_00: And and the father is, you know, tells him how important it is to welcome him back and forget and and like offer him forgiveness and show grace and show mercy.
28:39
SPEAKER_00: And so the younger brother was lost out in the reckless living.
28:45
SPEAKER_00: The older brother was just as lost, even though he was standing right inside the father's house the whole time.
28:50
SPEAKER_00: So he's still not getting it.
28:51
SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
28:52
SPEAKER_00: He served his father not out of love, but out of what?
28:56
SPEAKER_00: What he was gonna earn from it, what he was gonna get from it, was his whole transactional mindset of like, I stayed here, I deserve the good things.
29:05
SPEAKER_00: I deserve your love, I deserve all these things because I stayed here and did not leave, and I've always been here.
29:11
SPEAKER_00: And so his mindset was that way.
29:14
SPEAKER_00: And so the father turns to the angry older son and says, My son, you are always with me, and everything I have is yours, but we had to celebrate and be glad because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again.
29:26
SPEAKER_00: He was lost and he is found.
29:28
SPEAKER_00: And so that's how the story ends.
29:31
SPEAKER_00: That's the end of the parable.
29:32
SPEAKER_00: And just like we talked about a couple weeks ago with Jonah, the story just kind of ends where there's no what did Jonah decide to do.
29:39
SPEAKER_00: This story decides to end, and Jesus doesn't tell us what the older brother decides to do.
29:43
SPEAKER_00: Kind of leaves it as a cliffhanger.
29:46
SPEAKER_00: And so Jesus never tells us the older brother walked into the party, or if he stayed outside in the dark, he left the ending completely open.
29:54
SPEAKER_00: Jesus wasn't telling this story to he wasn't telling the story to the prodigals, to the ones that have been lost and then came back.
30:04
SPEAKER_00: He was telling it to the Pharisees, to the ones that have always been there, and they should have known better.
30:08
SPEAKER_00: And so in Luke chapter 15, tells us he was speaking directly to the Pharisees and religious leaders, which in the story would be the older brothers.
30:16
SPEAKER_00: So the point of the story, Jesus tells the whole thing, and he's talking to the religious leaders, and he makes the main focus the older brother at the end.
30:24
SPEAKER_00: And sometimes I think we forget that.
30:25
SPEAKER_00: We always make this story about the one that left and come back, which is important.
30:30
SPEAKER_00: But he's the point of the story right here, the whole thing comes down to the older brother.
30:36
SPEAKER_00: And the tragedy of the story isn't just the son who ran away.
30:39
SPEAKER_00: The tragedy is the son who stayed home, followed every rule, and completely missed the heart of the father.
30:46
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
30:46
SPEAKER_00: And so, and that's how that's how we should we should remember that part of the story because I think that's why Jesus is telling the story in the first place.
30:55
SPEAKER_00: And so we usually identify with the younger brother who needed forgiveness.
31:00
SPEAKER_00: How hard is it to admit when we are acting like the older brother, though?
31:04
SPEAKER_00: We're bitter because someone else got grace that they didn't earn, quote unquote.
31:09
SPEAKER_00: So have you ever felt like the older brother before?
31:12
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
31:13
SPEAKER_00: Maybe not.
31:14
SPEAKER_02: But yeah, I mean, when I first heard the story, that that is where my focus was.
31:19
SPEAKER_02: Like when I first learned the story, I was like, I don't even get why this part about the older brother's in there because I would be mad too if my brother did that to my parents, you know.
31:28
SPEAKER_02: That's where my mind went.
31:30
SPEAKER_02: And I like never even could explain the older brother part.
31:36
SPEAKER_03: I was the prodigal son in the story, so that's what I relate with.
31:40
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
31:40
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, me too.
31:41
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
31:42
SPEAKER_01: I mean, and I wasn't.
31:43
SPEAKER_01: And definitely you look at this and you go, it the hardest part is to say, well, I did everything right.
31:51
SPEAKER_01: Why is why are we having this party?
31:54
SPEAKER_01: You know, but one of the things I looked up a little bit was how the older son.
32:02
SPEAKER_01: First of all, there's all kinds of contextual things, like even the dad running was completely unheard of because you have to pull your robe up and share your legs and disrespectful to Yeah, Jewish Ben didn't run in public.
32:17
SPEAKER_01: Didn't run in public.
32:18
SPEAKER_01: And then there was even a a place, there was a historical thing where the community could would exile this brother before he even got back to his dad's house.
32:31
SPEAKER_00: I just recently heard this one too.
32:32
SPEAKER_01: And so literally, I'd me too.
32:34
SPEAKER_01: And it was this idea that like they would break a pot in front of you, like you have lost your inheritance to the Gentiles, you are ex com essentially excommunicated.
32:44
SPEAKER_01: But if the father that act of him receiving says, no, no, no, you're still with us, and then the community would just be okay with it.
32:55
SPEAKER_01: So, yeah, all these things that I'm like, oh he was running there to beat the essentially to beat the crowd that's going to try to excommunicate his son.
33:02
SPEAKER_01: If they saw him first.
33:03
SPEAKER_01: And again, those are all the that's all the the prodigal son.
33:06
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
33:06
SPEAKER_01: Uh that's all him.
33:08
SPEAKER_01: But this this idea of the the son that's here, that's followed all the rules, that's been a part of this community, that's done everything he's been asked.
33:19
SPEAKER_01: But he sees it as you know, Cody said, missing his heart.
33:23
SPEAKER_01: It's because I followed the rules, and it's all just a transactional I do this, I get the reward.
33:30
SPEAKER_01: I do this, I get the reward.
33:31
SPEAKER_01: Instead of being, yeah, this idea that like his father's heart is some is is different than that, and so he's missed out.
33:39
SPEAKER_00: Well, yeah, but yeah, the older brother starts off when the father comes out, he's like, All these years I've worked for you or slaved for you.
33:45
SPEAKER_01: I did everything you wanted me to do, and I've never asked for anything.
33:48
SPEAKER_03: And do you think it's kind of pointing to like the whole concept of we don't do good works to get to heaven?
33:54
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I think it's the idea that we don't do good works to earn our salvation, we do those things because of our salvation.
34:01
SPEAKER_01: Like God has already done all this for us, so in return, we should be that should be our response is to though do those things.
34:10
SPEAKER_01: But for him, it's just and I think the Pharisees are the same exact.
34:14
SPEAKER_01: That's you know, and I I catch myself all the time going every time Jesus looks at the Pharisees, those are the people he talks the worst about and to and calls them all kinds of names, and you know, it wasn't nice.
34:27
SPEAKER_01: I mean, people think Jesus is nice, read the Bible.
34:30
SPEAKER_01: Um, like this idea that he's I mean, he's he's very blunt with the he's not blunt to the people that need grace, he's blunt to the people that need grace and don't even know they need grace.
34:40
SPEAKER_01: Those are the ones he's like, it's right in front of you.
34:42
SPEAKER_01: Open your eyes, and I think that's this son is it's all here, it's yours.
34:50
SPEAKER_01: Just understand the heart behind it.
34:52
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I think it's a warning to like us.
34:57
SPEAKER_00: I think all of uh we kind of grew up as in church, at least I did, and so it's the idea of you've seen people be with God so long that they think that they you you can have that kind of start to slip into the mindset of I deserve this, or God should do this for me because I followed him for so long, and or you know, and get that transactional relationship there, and and I think it also speaks to the heart of this idea that in uh in the eyes of God, all of sin falls short of the glory of God and the punishment of you know the wages of sin is death.
35:29
SPEAKER_01: Like you looking the part, following the rules.
35:34
SPEAKER_01: Well, there's you still deserve death.
35:37
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like he your older brother didn't deserve what he was supposed to get anyway.
35:41
SPEAKER_01: He just happened to be born into the first.
35:44
SPEAKER_01: And so when we when we go, well, I've always been a church, I've been to church every day.
35:48
SPEAKER_01: I was you know, every Sunday.
35:50
SPEAKER_01: Well, that's great, and obviously we encourage that as a church, but it's not this idea of just doing right, it's it's a heart connected to the father, is really what is and and the prodigal son and most people I know that had that season in life when they return are their heart is connected.
36:14
SPEAKER_01: I think the people that I know that are least connected that are are the ones that have just kind of always been there, and so it's easy though, it's easy to compare.
36:23
SPEAKER_01: I think we all compare with each other, and especially siblings.
36:28
SPEAKER_01: I got some of them.
36:28
SPEAKER_00: It's interesting how the two sons are treated differently by the father.
36:31
SPEAKER_01: Yep.
36:32
SPEAKER_00: He the the slider son comes to him and asks for the inheritance, he could have said no.
36:36
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but he didn't.
36:37
SPEAKER_01: He gave it to him, which left, which was also like public humiliation for the father.
36:43
SPEAKER_00: Well, basically, when he asked that, he's like, I wish you were dead.
36:45
SPEAKER_01: Wish you were dead.
36:46
SPEAKER_00: Because basically, and then inheritance when somebody dies, if you come and ask for it early, you're saying, I don't care about you, I just care about what you have.
36:53
SPEAKER_01: And honestly, they didn't have cash.
36:54
SPEAKER_01: It was like, I'll sell a third of what I own because the older brother gets two-thirds, and so he sold a third of what he owns and he went to the bank and took it.
37:05
SPEAKER_01: He was just like, Hey, I'm gonna sell a third of that, which to the community is my son wants me dead, which is public humiliation.
37:13
SPEAKER_00: And he lets him do it, yeah, knows what probably knows his son's gonna go off and and leave because 100%.
37:19
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
37:20
SPEAKER_00: He he's he's he does it and he's patient and he waits for him to come back.
37:24
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and he waits, and then the son comes back and shows him that what I forget it happens, but then the older patient that the father's patient and he waits that the younger son comes back and there was a party, and then you see the older son outside of the party, outside festivities, and the father goes to the older son and goes and gets him and tries to explain to him what he's doing.
37:49
SPEAKER_00: So at one point, he lets the younger son go and do things and he's patient.
37:53
SPEAKER_00: The other one, he pursues the older son and shows him, you know, why he's messing up.
37:58
SPEAKER_01: And even that was a even that was a smack to the face of the father, because as the oldest son, he's supposed to host the party.
38:07
SPEAKER_01: The hospitality of the the that region and that era was hospitality.
38:13
SPEAKER_01: It doesn't matter if they show up at your door, you feed them and clothe them, they could be your worst enemy.
38:16
SPEAKER_01: But yeah, this is what you did by him not participating again as a slap to the face of the father.
38:23
SPEAKER_01: He makes the father come out to talk to him.
38:25
SPEAKER_01: Another, like all of this is this father is the most humble man you ever met in your life.
38:31
SPEAKER_00: And you know, we miss that all the time because we focus on the guy that fed pigs, and yeah, but we we focus like we call it the parable of the prodigal son.
38:46
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we focus on the one, but there's another one, and the father's there, and there's all there's almost you could talk about I could talk.
38:51
SPEAKER_00: This is one of my favorite parables, I could talk about this parable for a long time and pick out all the little details, but the way that Jesus ends it is always interesting.
38:59
SPEAKER_00: Why do you think Jesus left the older brother standing outside at the end of the parable without telling us what he was going to do?
39:04
SPEAKER_00: Because I think it's who he's talking to.
39:06
SPEAKER_00: He's talking to the Pharisees, just making them think like, realize that this is you.
39:10
SPEAKER_00: You have a choice.
39:11
SPEAKER_00: Like, are you gonna come with me and see what I'm doing, welcoming these sinners and these people that you think are unworthy or outcasts?
39:21
SPEAKER_00: Or are you gonna stand outside and pout in the dark by yourself?
39:24
unknown: Yeah.
39:25
SPEAKER_01: I mean, this you're right, you could talk about this.
39:27
SPEAKER_01: There's so many things historically and just contextually that you can go.
39:34
SPEAKER_01: It's crazy.
39:35
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's great story.
39:37
SPEAKER_01: Imagine that told by Jesus.
39:38
SPEAKER_00: Told by Jesus tells great stories.
39:41
SPEAKER_00: And so all the different things you could take from this, you know.
39:43
SPEAKER_00: Are you keeping score as the older brother?
39:45
SPEAKER_00: Are you like thinking people don't deserve grace or or you know, all these different ways you can take the story?
39:52
SPEAKER_01: There's a sentence, but while he was still a long way off, his father saw him.
39:56
SPEAKER_01: Which means what?
39:57
SPEAKER_01: It means the father's standing there looking for him.
39:59
SPEAKER_01: He's waiting for him.
40:00
SPEAKER_01: He's waiting for him.
40:01
SPEAKER_01: Like it's like it's not, oh, I happen to note he knocked on the door.
40:06
SPEAKER_01: Like he was standing, and while he was a long way off, he saw him.
40:09
SPEAKER_01: Means I'm standing here waiting for you to come back.
40:13
SPEAKER_01: There's all kinds of yeah.
40:16
SPEAKER_01: Anyway.
40:20
SPEAKER_00: I don't I think I think we'll just leave it at that.
40:23
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
40:24
SPEAKER_00: All the things you could any questions or comments from you guys or what do you like about the story?
40:28
SPEAKER_00: Anything details that stand out?
40:31
SPEAKER_02: Um, I think it's just really important from what I first said of the I only look at one point of view is definitely to sit back and look at all the different because I think that in I personally can be in all three seats.
40:47
SPEAKER_02: Like as a parent, as an unruly son, or as even now and lose focus.
40:59
SPEAKER_02: So that's what I'm going to take away from it.
41:04
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
41:07
SPEAKER_03: I've I've just like dissected we you guys just dissected a whole lot and my brain is like.
41:13
SPEAKER_03: Oh, you're still trying to catch up.
41:15
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
41:15
SPEAKER_03: Like I I don't know.
41:16
SPEAKER_03: I mean the part Ben where you said like you know, the father was waiting or looking, like it it reminds me of you know, I lived a wild life in my previous years of being alive.
41:34
SPEAKER_03: But God called me for this life.
41:39
SPEAKER_03: Okay.
41:40
SPEAKER_03: So it and I think about you know, I could have died at one point and not known God and gone straight to hell.
41:50
SPEAKER_03: But because he loved me, I was alive and he was waiting for me to return to him, and now I'm gonna live eternity with him.
42:00
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, like that's just that's heart-wrenching, like knowing that God loves you so much that instead of letting you die without knowing him, he waited.
42:10
SPEAKER_00: So that's the character of God though.
42:14
SPEAKER_00: We see that in other places.
42:15
SPEAKER_00: We see in 1 Peter, 2 Peter, like somebody like the questions raised, like, why isn't Jesus just come back, or why is why is this still going on?
42:22
SPEAKER_00: And the answer is that God's patient and he wants all to come to him.
42:27
SPEAKER_00: And so I think that's just the character of who God is.
42:29
SPEAKER_00: We see that in the story of waiting for the lost to to realize and come to him because he's waiting.
42:35
SPEAKER_03: Right.
42:35
SPEAKER_03: And I've been asking that a lot lately.
42:37
SPEAKER_03: You guys know that.
42:38
SPEAKER_03: I'm like, why is Jesus letting this continue?
42:41
SPEAKER_03: Like, why can't we just be done with this?
42:43
SPEAKER_03: But just a reminder, no, not not everybody knows him yet, and he doesn't want them to perish.
42:49
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
42:50
SPEAKER_00: And I think we we do get tired of brokenness and darkness in the world.
42:57
SPEAKER_00: But with life's a gift.
42:58
SPEAKER_00: This is something that God's given us, and it's for a purpose, I think.
43:02
SPEAKER_00: And so sometimes when I find myself asking, like, why has Jesus come back and just finish all this?
43:07
SPEAKER_00: Like, I have to remember, I think this life is what he's given us, and he he w wants us to live it, wants us to learn and grow and discover who he is more.
43:17
SPEAKER_01: I think I don't know, but it's a it's that idea of you know, we could teach that the purpose of being a follower of Jesus.
43:24
SPEAKER_01: I just saw something this morning about that actually, and it was the idea of like a lot of times we get it as spending eternity with him, but honestly, Jesus is like, no, your whole point is to bring the kingdom of God to earth.
43:36
SPEAKER_01: That's literally your job.
43:37
SPEAKER_01: It's not I mean that's a huge blessing, but that's not what this is about.
43:42
SPEAKER_01: You know, spending eternity in heaven is obviously awesome, but Jesus is like, What are we praying for?
43:50
SPEAKER_01: That your kingdom would grow here on earth.
43:53
SPEAKER_01: Like that's what you're called to be as a Christian.
43:56
SPEAKER_01: And people dealing with people and loving people.
44:00
SPEAKER_01: Is hard and situations are hard, and I always say loving people sucks.
44:04
SPEAKER_01: That's what I always say.
44:06
SPEAKER_01: Like can I say that on rush hour?
44:09
SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
44:09
SPEAKER_04: Uh beep.
44:11
SPEAKER_01: It's difficult.
44:12
SPEAKER_01: It does.
44:13
SPEAKER_01: I mean, it it's it it's it's the biggest blessing ever and the biggest headache ever.
44:19
SPEAKER_01: You know, you've been in youth ministry before.
44:21
SPEAKER_01: I just don't it it you can be working at McDonald's and you're dealing with people.
44:25
SPEAKER_01: Well, yeah, and like anytime you deal with people, it's hard.
44:30
SPEAKER_01: And I think God's like, yeah, tell me about it.
44:33
SPEAKER_01: So bring kingdom of God to earth.
44:36
SPEAKER_01: Frustrating.
44:37
SPEAKER_00: But when but when you do that and you see it, and you see it when it clicks, you're like, ah yes.
44:42
SPEAKER_00: Because I've been working with like yeah, work with teenagers for almost 15 years.
44:46
SPEAKER_00: I have, and so sometimes it's frustrating because you feel like you're talking to a wall, you know, and nobody hears you.
44:50
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes you are talking to a wall because there's nobody here, and then but for you the moments when you see it and something some and somebody they get it, somebody in their life doesn't have to be teenager, just anybody, but when you do see it, it's so rewarding.
45:03
SPEAKER_00: It's so that does and you're reminded like this is what we're supposed to do.
45:07
SPEAKER_01: And that doesn't even have to be a time of big giant got it.
45:12
SPEAKER_01: It can be my son's nice to somebody.
45:14
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
45:15
SPEAKER_01: It can be tie that in a nice little bow back to the beginning of ooh, look at that.
45:21
SPEAKER_01: But this idea of those little things that when we people were pouring our lives into, obviously, our own kids, other people's all of us here are other people's kids, other adults, like when those little things you go, ha ha it clicked.
45:36
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
45:36
SPEAKER_00: They're not completely oblivious.
45:38
SPEAKER_00: And that's one thing.
45:39
SPEAKER_00: And that's what that's why we follow Jesus, that's why we become Christians.
45:42
SPEAKER_00: I think for the long time it was like in my head, it was I'm gonna follow Jesus and be a Christian because I get to go to heaven.
45:48
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's what I'm yeah.
45:49
SPEAKER_00: That's your point, right?
45:50
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but that's the point.
45:51
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna follow Jesus because he's gonna make my life better, and the purpose of bringing his kingdom here.
45:57
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you become part of something bigger, you get and and yeah, we get you get heaven, you get eternal life.
46:03
SPEAKER_00: But that can't be ding ding ding.
46:05
SPEAKER_00: Yes, awesome.
46:05
SPEAKER_00: But if you become a Christian just to go to heaven, you're missing half the point.
46:09
SPEAKER_00: You're missing a lot.
46:10
SPEAKER_00: We're probably more than half.
46:11
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
46:12
SPEAKER_00: I mean that's a whole nother podcast.
46:14
SPEAKER_00: That's a whole how we got there.
46:16
SPEAKER_00: But I was also gonna anyway, the prodigal son story.
46:19
SPEAKER_00: It's a good story.
46:21
SPEAKER_00: Go back and read it, Luke 15.
46:23
SPEAKER_00: I also discovered connections between this parable and Jacob and Esau in the Old Testament.
46:28
SPEAKER_00: Really cool stuff.
46:29
SPEAKER_00: I don't have time to get into it on here, but if you look at I mean, it's all about the inheritance and there's two brothers and there's inheritance and some of the wordings of the exact same.
46:39
SPEAKER_00: Esau ran to meet him, threw his arms around his neck, and kissed him.
46:42
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's what the f the exact same phrasing of the father running to the son.
46:45
SPEAKER_00: Anyway, I don't have time for that today, but if you want to look at that yourself, you should because it's really interesting, takes the story in another direction, another level.
46:54
SPEAKER_01: And it's like the Bible connects to itself.
46:56
SPEAKER_01: What?
46:57
SPEAKER_01: It makes sense because Jesus was a Jewish guy, he knows the Old Testament, and he's talking to Jewish people and he's like they know the Old Testament, especially the Pharisees, they would have known every what'd they say, Dot and uh I forget.
47:09
SPEAKER_00: They they but the point of me bringing that up is when Jesus looks at the story of Jacob and Esau, he points out that even Esau, the bad guy in Genesis, the bad brother, found a way to forgive his brother.
47:19
SPEAKER_00: That's how the story ends.
47:21
SPEAKER_00: Why is it often harder for the Pharisees, the obedient people, to show grace than it is for people to who have lived down the outside?
47:29
SPEAKER_00: So he's he's throwing it in their face again.
47:30
SPEAKER_00: He's like, even the guy that you guys hated in the Old Testament, Esau on the bad side, even he can show grace to Jacob in the story, and you guys are still sitting outside pouting.
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SPEAKER_00: So yeah, I think it's a cool, cool thing, but we don't have time.
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SPEAKER_00: I gotta get off here.
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SPEAKER_00: Ben's got a job to do.
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SPEAKER_01: Are we setting records 48 minutes?
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SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
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SPEAKER_00: We've we've had John on here before.
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SPEAKER_00: So never mind.
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SPEAKER_01: Never mind.
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SPEAKER_00: All right, let's pray and then we'll be done.
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SPEAKER_00: God, thank you so much for this time.
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SPEAKER_00: Thanks that we have opportunities to talk about you, get into your word and discuss and talk about things.
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SPEAKER_00: Talk about life.
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SPEAKER_00: So, yeah, pray for those that are listening, all the things we have going on in our lives.
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SPEAKER_00: In Jesus' name, we pray.
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SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, thanks for joining us, Ben.
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SPEAKER_00: Thanks for having me.
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SPEAKER_00: Thanks for donuts and coffee.
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SPEAKER_00: Got it all.
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SPEAKER_00: Good conversation.
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SPEAKER_00: As for the rest of you guys, we'll see you next time on the next episode.
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SPEAKER_00: Thanks for listening.