The Commercial Break - Now I'm a Belieber! (The Return Of Carl Lentz)
Episode Date: March 28, 2025Episode #721: Bryan & Krissy embrace the return of disgraced pastor Carl Lentz! Fresh on his apology tour and a new podcast, Carl is bringing a new angle to the religious money grab by offering an ad-...free version of his long winded mea culpa. Is Justin Bieber still hanging around? Let's all find out because THIS is what we should be paying attention to. TCBit: Touchdown Jefferies leads the coverage of the Crabapple Nutbag's tee-ball game. Watch EP #721 on YouTube! Text us or leave us a voicemail: +1 (212) 433-3TCB FOLLOW US: Instagram:  @thecommercialbreak Youtube: youtube.com/thecommercialbreak TikTok: @tcbpodcast Website: www.tcbpodcast.com CREDITS: Hosts: Bryan Green & Krissy Hoadley Executive Producer: Bryan Green Producer: Astrid B. Green Voice Over: Rachel McGrath TCBits: Written, Performed and Edited by Bryan Green To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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This is WSHIT's Head Sports Reporter, Jim.
Touchdown Jeffries.
Welcome to the game of the week.
That's right, I'm the same Touchdown Jim
that scored the final six points
in the state class D championship game back in 1976.
You may remember the game as fondly as I do.
Touchdown Jim, that's me, ran 72 yards in the wrong direction confused
by the bright lights, only to be carried back by my quarterback to the opposing end zone
where the final touchdown was scored. And while I had not even made the team that year,
we were six players short that day because the opposing team failed to show
up and the coach made the call. And that my good friends is how history is made. That's how history
is made. We have a hell of a game for you tonight. The Crabapple Nutbags, our boys, are facing their
toughest competitors in the Sheboygan sheep wranglers
This my friends is as exciting as a six to seven year old tee ball match is ever gonna get
So let's go down to the field where coach Derek Ponderosa is fresh off probation and ready to give his pregame talk
our goals
Listen listen our goals are, listen, listen, our goals are to hit dingers, everybody better have
their eyes on me. Eyes on me, Rylan. Hit dingers. Disgrace the pitchers family.
Make the other players cry and stomp their butts into the ground.
Does everyone understand that? Does everybody understand that? Look fellas, look, look, look.
There are two types of people in this world.
There's two types of people in this world.
There's winners and there's losers.
Just so that we're clear, every time we step on this field, our goal is to be a winner.
And if your dad has said, oh, it doesn't matter whether you win or lose
just as long as you have fun,
well, I hate to say it, your dad's a loser.
Okay?
So let's get our hands in.
That team's pretty good, but we are gooder.
So let's go gooder on three.
Let's go gooder on three.
I could not have said it better myself, coach.
Your dad is a loser indeed.
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On this episode of the commercial break.
We're still in touch, me and Beavs.
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We'll smoke a blunt.
We'll get on Pornhub.
We'll play a little basketball, little B-ball.
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We'll be back together before
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Hope with this whole thing is that you can look at what's happened in our life and maybe you can
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Oh yeah, cats and kittens, welcome back to the commercial break.
I'm Brian Green.
This is my dear friend and the co-host of this show, Kristen Joy Hoadley.
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Best to you, Brian.
Best to you out there in the podcast universe.
How the hell are you?
Thanks for joining us.
Were you a Girl Scout?
I was.
You were?
Well, I was a Brownie, which is the one right before Girl Scouts.
And then I think I did Girl Scouts for one year.
So I just did like Brownie one year and Girl Scout
one year and a half.
Did the Brownies sell the cookies?
I can't remember.
I was so young.
Man, I'll tell you what, it's Girl Scout cookie time.
And that is a dangerous time for all of our waistlines
around here because they are so good.
The tag alongs or whatever you call them
now they have the toffee something or other toffee ones are good oh my god
absolutely addictive a regular old shortbread cookie with toffee pieces in
it it is crack that's what it is it's crack now that I don't smoke crack
anymore it's that's my crack it's crack it there's no doubt. And my kids love them, and everybody loves them.
We spend about $110 on cookies every year,
and they're gone within the week.
And they're getting more expensive,
and you're getting less of them.
It's shrinkflation.
Shrinkflation is happening with the Girl Scout cookies.
And I want to know something.
So one of the people in our family, loosely
related to our family, sells them to us each year.
We go to her to make sure we help her.
Yeah, she's our dealer.
Yes, exactly.
She's our dealer charging $7 a box, but then somebody else on Facebook was selling them for $6 a box.
And then I go to the store the other day and there's a lady, like there is often in suburbia,
selling the cookies outside for $15 a box.
Whoa.
Why the price discrepancy?
Yeah, I didn't think you could just charge
whatever you wanted.
Shouldn't it just be one flat rate?
Like across the country, one flat rate for the cookies?
Why do we have such- 15 a box.
15 a box.
I mean, the difference between six and seven, okay,
but 15.
Yeah, okay, I get the six and seven, you know, one person wants to make.
I guess it's about how much money you raise and maybe not how many boxes you sell, but
I think it should be converse, the situation should be inverse.
Like I think that we should have how many boxes you sell, not how much money you make.
And I guess that doesn't make any sense either.
But listen, I don't care what it is, just make it one price.
$6 a box and you get as many as you did last year
because this year we-
15 is crazy, I'm sorry, I'm stuck on the 15.
It's 15, it was 15. That's crazy.
And these people look like they were scamming people.
I didn't like it and they were a little pushy about it too.
They're like, ah, it's help your local girl scout troop.
And I was like, oh, I'm sorry,
I already bought at the office or whatever.
And she was like, you can buy more, support local.
And I'm like, how do you know I didn't buy them local?
I didn't, but how do you know I didn't buy them local?
I got mine shipped in from North Carolina.
You got a problem with that?
Is that okay?
I don't know.
Anyway, anybody who's got Girl Scouts in their life knows that this time of year is
dangerous and then we all got to wait another year to get them.
Though I do see that they are selling some of these
at the grocery stores now.
Really?
Girl Scout cookies at the grocery stores.
Yes, I don't know what's going on,
but I think I saw them at Whole Foods or Walmart
or one of those things or something.
Things are all up in upheaval.
Yeah, like, I mean, if they're cutting out the middle man,
then how are those girls gonna make money?
You know what I'm saying?
I thought that was the thing,
they were exclusive to the Girl Scouts. They were exclusive to the Girl Scouts.
They are exclusive to the Girl Scouts, but I think the Girl Scouts have decided they can make money
year round on this. Why wait?
Well, that's true.
Yeah. And I don't know if the Girl Scouts are like the Boy Scouts, but the Boy Scouts aren't
exactly on a hot run right now. I don't know if you know this or not, but it's a tough time for
the Boy Scouts in general. And the Boy Scouts, I believe now,
have to allow girls in the Boy Scout troops if they ask.
So there you go.
Do the boys get to go to the Girl Scouts?
Sure.
Probably, I guess.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I went to two Boy Scout meetings.
And I got to be honest.
The guys who were leading the meetings
were giving off vibes, if you know what I mean.
And I was only there for two things,
whatever you call them, meetings, Boy Scout troop, whatever,
conferences, I don't even know what the fuck you call them.
At the local Catholic church,
the leaders were giving off vibes.
I could feel it, and I was only 13 years old.
And they wanted to do a camping trip the very next weekend.
And I, and my dad was like, y'all wanna go?
I don't wanna go to, fuck it.
I don't know what's going on there, dad.
Something's going on.
None of those troop leaders have kids
and they're all interested in having kids.
You know what I'm saying?
I'm not saying anything bad was happening.
I'm saying I, in my little pea brain at that time,
I had a spidey sense about the whole situation.
I didn't like it.
It was not for me.
But I did know a lot of boy scouts
and I know some guys who were Eagle Scouts.
Which is not easy to do.
It's like when you become an Eagle Scout,
I think you have to like do a bunch of-
You gotta tie a bunch of knots.
Yeah, you gotta know how to tie multiple knots
when you're an Eagle Scout.
And like, you know, skin a bear with your bare teeth or something like that.
I don't know.
Don't you have to catch a bald ego and ride it around or something?
I think so.
Yeah.
You have to make a fire with nothing but your fingers.
I mean, it's like a complicated thing.
And I, when I see an Eagle Scout, you know, be proud of your an Eagle Scout.
That was not an easy thing to do, but at what age do you stop saying Eagle Scout? Or do you always put that on your
resume? I don't know. I do remember. I wasn't involved in any of those things. Yeah, no, me neither.
I was never involved in any high achievement at any level. None. Zero. Not even like middle level achievement. I do remember interviewing a guy at Clear Channel when I was doing interviews.
I remember interviewing a guy and he had Eagle Scout on his resume.
And I asked him, I said, what is this about?
What do you Eagle Scout?
What are you doing there?
And he said, well, you got to be an Eagle Scout is an important thing.
It's recognized by the United States government.
It's brought to you.
You want to make this a whole diatribe.
And I was, I found myself really impressed.
I didn't hire him because he's going to make me look bad.
He's going to make me look bad.
I didn't need any more competition there.
I looked pretty bad as it was.
I didn't need yet another guy.
I felt like he was the guy who could take my job.
Never had hired the guy who's going to replace you.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah. Hire people who aren't going to replace you.
And I had plenty of those.
Yeah.
Well, I, they didn't let me hire anybody.
Any.
I mean, I didn't like, I only had one direct hire and she never came to work.
So I don't know.
She had a period for like three months.
One time she really did.
I was like, Oh, okay.
I mean, and I wasn't arguing no No, sir, E Bob was I arguing.
I knew better.
My mom raised me right.
I was like, okay, you take the 56 day off in a row, I guess.
Okay.
All right.
Uh, update on fire fest as it stands right now, though, when this episode
comes out, there will probably be more information about this, but I just
noticed something, uh, that is very interesting about this, but I just noticed something
That is very interesting about this there's been an update as we record this now there's been an update
to the fire fest to or to Billy McFarland's
Instagram page where he's telling people this is the only
Official communication is gonna come from me and my Instagram page.
So with a rousing 620 likes, he has announced that FireFest 2 has changed venues.
I just noticed this.
It's now at Playa del Carmen in the heart of the Mexican Riviera.
Mayan.
Mayan Riviera.
Well, yeah, they call it the Mexican Riviera, the Mayan Riviera,
is Quintana Roo.
And that is, you know.
I think that's kind of close to Tulum because that's where I just was.
I've never seen that pop up on my maps of where I was.
I do remember when Raphael visited Tulum a couple of times, I do remember pictures he
tagged himself in had the Quintana Roo or whatever it was.
But that's just a general location. That's not a venue. I do remember like pictures he tagged himself in had the Quintana Roo or whatever it was.
But that's just a general location.
Like that's not a venue.
Like it's not a hotel.
Well, so he's naming.
So here's the thing.
And this is what this is.
I think that I understood this is probably what was going to happen.
There is no stage.
It's not a festival in the traditional sense.
This is more like South by Southwest where where there are multiple places you're gonna go
to see different things.
Because now he's naming clubs at Playa del Carmen
where things are gonna happen.
So it says, happening at Playa del Carmen
in the heart of the Mayan Riviera,
the venues are the Martina Beach Club,
the Carolina Beach Club, the Mayan Water Complex, and other private villas and beach locations.
I mean, if this doesn't sound like the most work you've ever done.
This is where everything can be happening, but we're not telling you what it is.
Yes.
Everything's happening.
Don't worry.
Just come.
We've got a bunch.
Yes.
We have got some people book that you're not going to believe, including
bench warming college athletes from volleyball teams. You're going to love it. It's going to believe, including benchwarming college athletes from
volleyball teams. You're going to love it. It's going to be awesome. It's so crazy. No
one's playing. No one's been announced. Still two months out, not even less than two months
out. Still no one on the agenda. Not one person has been officially announced, not one band, not even one sports star.
He keeps putting pictures of sports stars on his Instagram,
but I don't know that they're going
and they haven't made an official announcement.
And now he's basically telling you he switched locations.
He was doing it here, now he's doing it
like a hundred miles down the beach.
So now if you've bought tickets
and you've got your hotel accommodations, you got to switch them to the new location. This is the disaster
waiting to happen and I'm here for it. I hope that Netflix is on top of this.
Oh they've got to be. I don't care if you're paying Billy. Let Billy make a little
money to pay those people back. Give them a hundred thousand dollars and say I
want all access and you have absolutely no control over the editor's cut.
None, zero.
We're going to show everything.
It really is so wild that he would do this again.
It's insane.
Completely buttoned up and on the up and up.
Not be 100% cocksure and fire ready, no pun intended,
for this, for everything.
And if I was going to do it, I told you this, I would go to a bunch of millionaire investors
and there are plenty of dum-dums out there with zeros in their bank account and I would
say, guys, in an escrow account, controlled by lawyers and actual festival managers who
are not related to me in any way, shape or form, never worked with them before you choose them.
I need money in a bank account
because I have the PR ability to make this happen.
My name-
I mean, he did.
He did.
He did.
He did, but-
He did, but he still does.
That's the thing is that he's so well known now
because of all the drama around Fire One.
He could have pulled this off had he done it the right way.
Could have, but he's not going to.
It's not going to happen.
And this also, this change of venue last minute
tells me that there's not many tickets that have been bought
because he wouldn't, you couldn't do this.
If everyone was planning on going one place,
you couldn't then just move it to another venue.
And I mean, I guess you could,
but that'd be a really shitty thing to do.
So he's already leaving people stranded,
essentially, is what's happening
Here's some of the comments came for the comments
Can't wait to see the Netflix series, please Netflix
Does Playa del Carmen know about this some other person says I'm calling him later on to let them know
Nice a venue change two months before the event.
Sounds very fire-rific.
I heard Michael Jackson is going to play.
Nope.
Breaking news.
Fire two headliners include Snoop Cat, One Pock, Kanye East, Big Wayne, and 25 Cent.
Yeah, the only way he could really actually do anything would be if he did do the holograph,
like a holograph concert for each thing.
Yeah.
Yes.
So someone said Blink82 is taking the deposit money again.
Because you don't know, but that's actually how it all transpires.
And Jeff would be able to elucidate on this a little bit.
But yeah, you have deposit money.
You have to deposit. So let's say that you're hiring Blink 182, Pearl Jam, whoever, you know,
some names a big band, Green Day, you know, some big legacy act. Let's say you're hiring them and
their fee is two million dollars for an hour and a half festival appearance. They're probably gonna
say to you, depending on the negotiations, they're probably going to say to you,
we need 50% at least 30 days before the event, and then we need 50% when we walk on stage.
And by the time we get off stage, that better be in our account or there's going to be problems.
And that's the manager's job of the band, is to make sure that they run around cracking heads if people aren't getting paid.
And bands have, and they probably will in the future.
I would imagine, and this is just from stories
that I've heard with much smaller festivals,
there have been occurrences where a band is late
to go on stage because the money hasn't hit their account.
Yeah.
Oh yeah, it certainly happened.
Because that's the only thing they got.
The only thing they got is to withhold the presentation.
And if someone wants them to play,
I remember when we put on Jam Land Productions,
put on-
It all goes back to Jam Land.
The Jam Land Mountain Blues Fest.
Oh, the Mountain Blues.
The Mountain Blues Fest.
Jam Land Productions presents
the North Georgia Mountain Blues Fest.
I'm so bummed we didn't know each other
about the rain this time.
I know, it was really.
I would have been right there with you.
Of course you would have.
You would have been like assistant associate producer
running around, bringing me beer,
helping everybody get high or something, I don't know.
But we showed up to this land up in the mountains,
this beautiful cleared pasture.
This guy owned a bunch of land.
He had multiple cleared pastures up in the mountains.
And we said, OK, this is going to be the camping.
This is where we're going to put the food.
And the food, by the way, was one Papa John's
who was taking a golf cart.
You had to take a golf cart up the mountain
because it was hard to get cars up there.
So they were taking golf carts up and down the mountain,
bringing pizzas and selling them by the slice.
And we had-
Well, at least it was Papa John's pizza
and not baloney sandwiches.
It was, you're right.
Yeah, fair enough.
People got fed and we had kegs of beer up there
and all that other stuff,
but we like went and bought them at the liquor store.
It wasn't like we had a liquor purveyor sponsoring us.
We had zero sponsors, but we had little vendors and stuff,
you know, selling trinkets and shit like that.
They sold zero trinkets, but okay, whatever.
We had like a thousand people that showed up
to this festival.
Yeah, who doesn't love a good blues fest?
That's right.
Well, plus-
In the mountain, mountain blues.
Yeah, plus we just have some friends where you say party
and they all show up, right?
And I'm sure we were charging like $15 to some people, right?
We had like undercover cops show up.
Oh, really?
Yes, we did from the county that we were in.
I'm not going to get into all the details,
but we had security down at the bottom of the hill looking
for tickets and making sure that people didn't bring glass up
there and stuff like that.
They were like loosely checking for shit.
And we had hired them.
They were like our friends, you know.
You look mean, go down there and, you know.
And so anyway.
He's got some sort of muscle.
The muscle knew some of the sheriff's officers from town
and a couple of them tried to get
in the festival plain clothes.
And the guys were like radioing up to us.
Like, I got a couple of cops here trying to get in.
What do you want me to do?
And I was like, don't let them in.
And they didn't let them in.
And the cops had to get turned away because he just
refused to let them in.
And it was like, private land.
What are you going to do?
Anyway, the point is, is that we had secured like some, okay.
I think, um, I think Tinsley Ellis,
if I'm not sure was there, Donna Hopkins band,
like there was some locally regional acts that you would,
if you were familiar with me.
John Popper.
Yeah, John, skinny, fat John Popper.
You know, some local acts that, oh, we had Moonshine,
Moonshine stills. I remember the Moontaxi.
Yeah, no, no, no Moontaxi.
No Moontaxi here.
Moonshine.
Moonshine taxi, that's right.
Moonshine taxi.
But so like we're up there two days ahead of time
because the stage, we literally had to like
take spiders off the stage.
Like it was just this old stage.
Oh, and it was already there.
It was already there.
It had been set up by the guy for whatever reason,
I'm not sure, but it's been there for years
and years and years.
And then we rented this equipment and they put, anyway,
the guy, my partner, Pete, in the whole thing,
he calls me and I'm up there and he says,
listen, I have an opportunity to get perpetual groove up there.
A pea groove.
Pea groove.
And for a late night set, closing out Saturday night,
midnight to like 3 a.m.
Everybody eat your drugs.
Everybody eat your drugs, including pea groove.
We're all gonna eat our drugs and do this together, right?
And they were just like, they were well known,
but like a regional act at the time. And
so I was a little unconvinced because Pete says we got to get together $5,000. Because I have
5,000, they want 10,000. I have five, they have five. And I don't know that these numbers, like
the exact numbers, but basically we had half. And then we had to put in the other half. He said,
so are you willing to forego $5,000 in profit on the festival? Which we weren't going to make anyway, but are you willing to
forego in order to make it?
And I said, yes.
And he ran around like a chicken with his head cut off trying to get formed.
Cause back then it wasn't like, you know, get on your phone and just
like, sell somebody $5,000.
It was this whole ordeal.
And I remember that P groove got there.
They had played an early set somewhere else at like seven o'clock and they got there
right at midnight and we were all trying to set them up
and they still hadn't been paid.
And the guy from P Groove looked at me and he said,
we're gonna go because we're late,
we're gonna get on stage, but by the end of this,
our managers gotta have that check,
like gotta have that check in hand
or there's gonna be problems.
And luckily we managed to pull it off.
Not enough to check cleared, but we managed to pull it off.
I don't know if the check cleared, but we managed to give them a check. We wrote them one.
Yeah, we bounced the check to P group.
But man, they played a set.
They played a set.
It was incredible.
And then we all got on a golf cart after like me and the singer and
then we got on a golf cart.
We put the keg, like a pony keg on the back,
and we rode around and we gave people beers and other stuff.
Nice. Yeah.
That was the same festival where the guy cut his foot
because somebody brought glass, cut his foot.
He's like profusely bleeding, but he had a pocket full of Percocets,
so he was just like, kept chewing them.
And I was like, dude, you're going to die.
Don't stop that. Yeah, you're like on number five. I think it's good. Let's take you to
the hospital. Eventually, we got an ambulance up there to take him to the hospital. He was
badly bleeding. The adventures of Jam Land Productions. Ah, Jam Land Productions. Really
the golden age for peak Brian is Jam Land Productions. If I'm being honest, if I'm being self-aware, Pete Brian is Jam Land Productions.
Probably that night is Pete Brian.
Me pulling off, bouncing a check to P-groove.
Hoodwinking P-groove into playing my 3 a.m. set at the North Georgia Mountain Blues Fest
that went on to do no follow-up concerts.
First annual.
Well, we did Mountain Jam, then we did Aqua Blues Fest, and then we did some other stuff.
But, you know, it was hard. You can't make a living doing that.
It's so hard.
Yeah, I know. Even Jeff knows that. Even if you're well-resourced and all the best intentions.
It's a lot of work.
It's a lot of work.
And to get to year number two takes a lot.
What's Memphis on year number six?
No, I think this is eight.
Oh, this is eight?
I think so.
We've been doing this for eight years?
I think it was 2017 was the first, so yeah.
Okay, all right.
I remember Jeff talking about it that when we went out to dinner and he'd be just excited
because he'd gotten the green light to go spend some money to do this.
Yeah. He was all excited. I was like, well, whatever you need, bro. I had Jam Land Productions.
So if you need me to be there, let me know. However, I was waiting patiently by the phone
and I still am. So, tells you everything you need to know about Jeff's faith in Jam Land Productions.
I remember he's outside and we were like smoking a cigarette or something.
And he's like, yeah, bro.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I got this.
Yeah.
Uh-huh.
Yep.
Yeah.
No.
Well, it was worth a shot.
Oh, you're welcome any time.
Well, thank you.
But will I get paid?
That's a question.
No.
Okay.
I got kids. Yeah. Okay. Tickets, I know that I got,? That's the question. No, okay. All right. I got kids. Yeah, okay.
Tickets I know that I got.
But even that's hard.
I mean, even that's, you know,
it's so hard to get away an entire weekend.
Maybe this year I'll ask Astrid like,
can I please go?
Please?
Well, she might love me.
You never know.
She's a sweet lady.
She's so amazing.
If I really said, hey babe, I really wanna go want to go to this, we would figure out a way to
make it happen.
But there's so much Catholic guilt in me, I wouldn't be able to sleep at night.
I'd be like, ah, the fucking kids and the fucking dog and the fucking bills I got to
pay, blah, blah, blah.
All right, let's take a break.
When we get back, I have a Karl Lentz update.
Karl has posted an apology video online.
It's about an hour long.
We probably won't get to all of it,
but I thought, well, let's get it started.
Let's see what it's all about and see what Carl's up to.
You remember Carl?
Hey, hey girl.
Hey Carl.
Hey girl.
Justin Bieber's best friend for a while.
Yeah, Justin Bieber's preacher for a while.
Yeah.
Hillsong dude of the year.
The Hillsong dude of the year. Victory V Dude of the Year. With the victory V.
Victory V. Hard to preach on a full dick.
All right. Got to go, girl.
All right. We'll get into Carl when we get back.
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That really wasn't that difficult, now was it?
You're welcome.
All right. I got my Beeps hat on, youtube.com slash commercial break. That's right, girl.
Hey, girl. All right, I gotta get my phone here just in case I gotta call somebody and pick up the phone. God, see you. Hey, girl.
Hey, girl. All right, that's better. I'm here to make an apology, girl, because
I'm sorry I jizzed all over your mom's front door, but I did leave her a couple of dollars
just in case. Christian, what you up to over there?
Christian Oh, just hanging out. I've missed you.
Pete Listen, I've been talking to the Lord. I've been walking with the Lord this morning and
He said, you know what you need? A new picture of tits. And I got a call from the Lord and
I answered it and He said, holy. And I said, all right, I'll give her a call. But this
isn't me, you know, you understand. I'm just a vessel for the Lord and I have a vessel.
But just like a plane can't land with a full tank of gas, I can't preach with a full vessel. So I got to release that vessel, but I don't want to make things messy for you and your husband. So
just send that picture over. I'll release my vessel.
And then we'll get on to preach it. All right, well, I got a new haircut and I'm
going to say I'm sorry here. I got to let you go. I'm going to do this video.
I got to talk to you.
Yeah, my wife wants me to make a video, tell the people I'm really sorry about all that
stuff I did. And you know, we got kids, so she said, you better get on it, Carl. It only
took me three years, but here I am. Better late than never, said God or Jesus, or one
of them in that Bible. Okay, all right, I gotta go. I gotta call Biebs.
Here's Carl in his basement, seems like. Very, very nice house. I like Carl, got a beautiful house.
And he's got a single microphone, he's staring into the camera, and this is the beginning. We'll
do some of his apology video. I don't know how much of this dribble I can get through.
This just came out?
About three months ago.
Oh, really?
Yeah, but you heard it last, so. But I noticed that Carl has been on a lot of podcasts lately.
Has he? You've done the tour.
Yeah, he's been doing the tour. And I also know, and a lot of them are religion related,
and he's kind of doing the apology thing. And here's the things I did wrong and here's the
things I learned. But one of the things I didn't know about Carl
is that back then when he was hanging out with Biebs
and all those people, he did Impulsive,
the Logan Paul podcast.
Oh.
And that's one of the bigger YouTube channels in the world.
And he was on that.
It was like seven years ago, but he was on it.
He was kind of a force to be reckoned with.
Yeah, he was.
He was high.
And he had a force to be reckoned with.
Oh yeah, high up.
He was high, all right.
All right, let's hear what a car has.
Let's give him a shot, Chrissy.
Maybe he's a changed man.
In case you're just clicking on this
and you don't have any idea about.
Already with the music and multiple camera angles?
Yeah. Really?
Okay, all right, he's gonna keep it interesting.
He knows how to produce? Okay. All right.
He's going to keep it interesting.
He knows how to produce a video.
He does.
My wife, Laura, the Lentz family, we have been out of the public life and sphere.
The third woman in my throuple, my maid.
For a couple years now.
Actually, it's moving on about four years.
And we went through some things.
Because that's an important thing to get across.
It's been four years since you've seen me.
And now it's time for me to reclaim my throne.
That's right.
As a family that some people know about, other people...
Trump's in office, and I figure now's a better time to scam people than ever.
So here I am.
Don't.
But we're going to use everything we've been through to hopefully bring some new life and
some new hope to people.
And what you're going to see on these first couple episodes, especially this first one,
you're gonna see a couple that is healed and healing.
And it hadn't been the case always for us.
We haven't been at a place where we've been able
to talk about our own life and our own pain.
And we are now.
So when you see us going through this story.
So good gravy, get on with it.
Let's talk about the sucking in the fucking, Carl.
What are these episodes he's doing?
I guess he's doing a series of these,
like a podcast, vodcast kind of thing.
Astrid says I sound like an old man when I say vodcast.
A video, a podcast that's on video on YouTube.
Yeah, you know, still seems full of shit.
Yeah, still seems full of shit.
And I think this was always the plan.
Get out of the public eye for a while
and then use the redemption story
to make more fucking money.
Yep.
We're looking to the future.
Cannot wait to talk about other things,
but it's irresponsible for us not to talk about what happened
because it was so public and I think it's fair
to be able to open it up
and allow people to take from it
what they can. So in this first episode, we're going to answer some questions.
You had a full blown other girlfriend.
I had a couple of them, Christy. And I think it would be irresponsible of me to let all
those women go without making this video first. Listen, I'm not saying I'm a change. What you're seeing here is a man
who's healed and a man who's healing from his deep penile wounds. And I don't take pictures of me.
I'm out of the public light. I had to take a picture. All right. All right. One picture.
One picture. I'll sign it. I'll grab one. The beaver hat is great. Yeah. All the girls,
you gotta take a picture of me. I stand in the back, I'll autograph it
with my hard sword of the Lord.
I'm back, baby, I'm back.
I love it.
I love the good gravy that comes from fame and fortune
and money and pennies from heaven, baby.
Pennies from heaven.
I still got a beautiful house.
I've been laughing all the way to the bank.
All right, and I got a new pair of glasses from Warby baby. Penny's from heaven. I still got a beautiful house. I've been laughing all the way to the bank. All right.
And I got a new pair of glasses from Wabby Parker.
This video is sponsored by Wabby Parker.
He might've had some hair work done.
Oh yeah.
I got hooked up with Frank Bonato.
I got Frankie's follicles.
He had a hair transplant, his head to my head.
I said, listen, you're too old, but let me carry the cross.
No pun intended.
I got you.
Give me your follicles.
All right.
And look at my beard, salt and pepper.
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
I'm a change man.
And I still go to the tanning bed, Doc.
I got a nice tan.
I'll tell you what.
Four years in the sun.
This has been a lot of fun.
We had a good time here at the left household.
Good time.
Kids are healthy and in therapy and homeschooled.
They can't go out in public, but it's okay.
I'm back, baby.
Here I am.
Got a nice microphone.
You see that?
Yeah, it's nice.
He's got a couple of gold chains on.
Oh, wait, does his one necklace
have an L? Yeah, probably, because he's that kind of guy.
People have, like, why has it taken us so long to talk? Why is Laura still married to
me? Who's at fault? We handle some of the real hard questions.
Why is Bieber acting crazy? We're still in touch with Biebs. I say, hey, Biebs, come
on over. We'll smoke a blunt. We'll get on Pornhub.
Play a little b-ball.
We'll play a little basketball, a little b-ball. I'm in my timeout period, but trust me, when
I come back, you're going to love it, Bebs. We'll be back together before too long.
Paparazzi just waiting outside for us.
All right, I gotta go.
Hope with this whole thing is that you can look at what's happened in our life and maybe
you can recognize a little bit of your story in ours and together we can all grow.
So the future of the podcast is going to be me bringing on people that I love that have
changed my life, that have helped me heal, that are helping me heal.
And that's the future.
But the right-
Including four-time AVN winner, Farrah Abraham.
Farrah Abraham is my first guest.
We both had a time out, but now we're back preaching to the Lord.
Preaching the good word, Chrissy.
The good word is sucking and fucking.
I love it.
It's a time out of tradition, us preachers.
This is our story. So for those of you that are brand new to this, we used to be in ministry.
I made some mistakes that cost us a lot.
Everything.
We talk about it all.
Not everything. Not everything. When I got caught, I gave my wife an ultimatum.
I said, open marriage or I'm leaving.
And all that money is in my chest hair.
That's what they want.
That's what the ladies want.
And now we're here.
We're in this space and I'm really excited about it.
So thank you.
Which is a 5,000 square foot beautiful home
overlooking Napa Valley.
So I want to thank you all very much.
Me, really.
Yeah, the good years were good, and I'm a good saver.
For checking it out.
Episode one, hope you enjoy it.
B-side.
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Listen, I'm not arguing the guys right to make money and and maybe this is a redemption story
Maybe he is learning some things from this. So I just want to be clear
You don't have to but this is an impromptu on the redemption
Yeah, but this is an improv comedy podcast and as far as I'm concerned
It was all bullshit in the first place and he's good. This is like FireFest 2. You know what I'm saying?
Uh-huh. All right lights on with lights on
So when you when you go through something like we've gone through a
Crisis or something that's really hard you either. Oh his wife is on the podcast. Is that her? Yes, that's really hard, you either... Oh, his wife is on the podcast.
Is that her?
Yes, that's her.
Oh.
Okay, he's got his leather jacket on, his chains.
He's got his leather jacket on.
It does say L on that.
I despise you.
I thought his wife was blonde.
Break down and...
No, I think that was the girl you were sleeping with.
Oh, okay, yeah.
Two different people.
Or maybe this is the girl you were sleeping with. Oh, okay. Yeah. Two different people.
Or maybe this is the girl you were sleeping with.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Who knows?
And let it define you for the rest of your life.
Or you get up and you fight and you try to break through and remind yourself that we're
all right in our story and nobody else can control the true real narrative of your life.
And we have had a journey of making sure
we don't lay down, die.
I mean, am I right or am I right, babe?
We've had a journey.
We're writing our own story, all that snake bullshit.
All right, girl?
Come on, girl.
You knew it.
I am let a hard chapter define us.
And by hard chapter, I mean my dick.
So it's a real pleasure and a real honor
to be sitting here, a little bit surreal for me.
My hope for this is that we can at least show people
that there is another side to a tragic story.
Because as it stood before we've done this.
I don't know.
She looks like she wants...
Tragedy.
I don't know, this is not tragic.
This is you... Cheating. Che looks like she wants. Tragedy. Yeah, I don't know, this is not tragic.
This is you.
Cheating.
She finding a girl in a park.
Yes.
And sending her nude photographs
and asking her to do the same
and then sleeping with her
and then repeated multiple affairs
and then apparently other shenanigans
that went on in the church.
This is not tragic.
This is, it's only tragic if it happens to you.
She is part of the tragedy. You are the reason for the tragedy. Yes. Yes, it's only tragic if it happens to you. She is part of the tragedy.
You are the reason for the tragedy.
Yes.
Yes, it's not tragedy.
Haven't spoken, we haven't talked.
We participated in a documentary, which we'll talk about.
But I think for us, you know,
most of the people know one side of the story,
which is yes, it is true.
I got fired from my job.
I broke my marriage vows.
I broke the trust of a lot of people.
I had an amazing position as a pastor and a leader, and I fell on my face.
Blew it.
That is true.
That's part of the story.
And we're here today, still alive, still married, still have the ability to get a real hot dick.
It's like I'm on victory V.
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Shout out to my wife. Shout out to you. Which is what I was doing when I was screwing that 19-year-old lovely.
I said, praise Jesus, praise my wife.
We have more joy and more peace than probably we've had.
No, Carl.
You have more joy.
Okay, let's just be clear about that.
This is your dumb idea.
And that's part of the story.
So I hope when people maybe do talk about something that we need to, they include it
all.
Hey, go cheat.
You'll find more joy and happiness than you've ever found on the other side.
Listen, everybody loves a redemption story.
Am I right?
Or am I right?
Don't you love a redemption story, honey?
Of course.
Let me put a lot of words in your mouth before you start talking.
That's what's going on here.
Well, totally.
Yes.
Yeah, she's just sitting there.
She's just sitting there looking nervous and like she wants to crawl out of her
skin, angry with him, about to cry.
And he's just putting words in her mouth because he's telling her the narrative he wants her to follow.
And if I were in the same position, like true contriteness, true contrition comes from the ability
to let other people tell you just how hurt they have been by your actions without narrative.
And that is the hardest kind of apology to make is where you have to sit there
and listen to just how terrible it was to bounce a check to P.
Guru when they really needed that $5,000.
And I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Or when you promise people you're going to have a funny comedy podcast, but you keep showing
up every day in their inbox with this dribble.
I'm sorry.
I really am.
I'm sorry.
That's not a narrative.
That's just me.
Oh my God.
I apologize.
Both parts are true.
We don't need to do this podcast.
The world definitely doesn't need another podcast just to have one.
What is going on in the background?
Can we just look at this for a second?
Yeah, there's a neon light.
Well, I don't know what, that's why I'm kind of confused
because he's got two camera angles.
And so when the camera is at one angle,
you can see this book.
He looks like he's in like a lawyer's office
with this law, like law books in the back.
This is my sex dungeon.
And a hand, like with a piece, doing the peace symbol.
No, no, no, no, no, Christy, that's a heavenly penis jizzing, as a jizzing accent.
I don't know if you get that.
So I told my wife, I said, if we're going to do this podcast, let's do it in our red
room downstairs.
In our dungeon.
No, not sex dungeon, I appreciate it.
But then from this angle, now you see some kind of a neon light in the back
and a lion maybe, statue?
Yeah, well, the first part of this, I think,
was like preemptive and he was in a different location.
No, no, I know that.
Yeah, I don't know, I don't know what's going on here.
Yeah, but it certainly does.
It's like a corona light sign.
It's super like 4K, 8K,
like lighting has been obviously done up correctly.
Yeah, Carl, can you help us?
Yeah, seriously.
Yeah.
It's responsible to share what's happened in our journey
because we have led a lot of people in our lives.
And up until this point,
I think there's people who are interested
to see what I'm gonna do with this,
what you're gonna do with this,
what happened to our marriage, what happened to our lives.
And so we're going to use every bit of this to give people hope.
I think people see people fall and fail and they kind of like that.
But it's like, I think there's also this other side of redemption and this other side
of like, no, but you can get up again and you can make it.
And make money from it.
And I think you can get up again and I think you can replenish your bank account by telling
people you are still godly and have them show up every Sunday.
Yeah, because what were they going to do each on their own?
Well, I was going to do OnlyFans and Carl was going to go on tour with Bieber.
Yeah, OnlyFans, that's right.
Carl was going to sleep with tour with Bieber. Yeah, OnlyFans, that's right. Carl was going to sleep with
Hailey Bieber.
Yes.
For us, our story has been that, you know, it was kind of, it was out there for a lot
of people to see and which was really hard. But I think this side they also can see is
the healing and the what can happen when you work hard at a relationship.
Yeah, and I think people don't sometimes understand that talking about this stuff, it is hard.
It is triggering.
Why is he sitting on a stool?
I don't know.
Why is he sitting on a stool and he's so quick to interrupt her?
This sounds like an episode of the commercial break.
A TCB infomercial with Kathleen Madigan.
I mean, if we're all healing and apologizing, let's do it now.
I'm sorry to Kathleen Madigan for apparently interrupting you too much.
I didn't think you did.
Kathleen didn't say that. I didn't think I did either. But everybody on YouTube agrees,
Brian's an asshole. So let me start my apology right here.
Do it.
Yeah.
Get up on a stool.
That's right.
All right. I know we're only like one minute into this, but we're going to have to take a break. We might have to get back to this next week, but all right, let's take a break.
And when we get back, we'll try and plow through a little bit more of this dribble. We'll be back.
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Back here with Karl Lentz on his apology tour.
Episode number one of his Apology
podcast apparently.
It's Apology podcast.
It's called Turn the Light On or Down or something.
I'm not sure.
We'll get back to it.
Here we go.
We have put to rest a lot of things, but bringing this up, it's another credit to you for being
brave enough to talk about this because for me, a lot of it is humiliating.
A lot of it is embarrassing.
A lot of it is you just want to look at it and shake your head, but we're choosing to go,
the least I can do is put our story out there and say,
hey, if this helps you avoid the pain and the tears,
so thank you for even.
The least I could do is get a book deal with Simon Schuster
and put some more money on our bank, you know what I'm saying?
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Swords for the Lord.
The sword for the Lord.
The hard sword of the Lord is my new church.
We're going to be female-focused. I want to give back to the Lord. Swords for the Lord. The hard sword of the Lord is my new church. We're going to be female focused.
I want to give back to the ladies.
I know I've done you wrong.
So I'll be teaching pole dancing on Sunday.
Mud wrestling on Monday nights for the kids.
It's going to be fun.
We're going to have fun at this church.
Female-focused.
Female-focused.
Female-focused.
I'm sorry, focused.
I meant focused, I'm sorry.
Okay, honey, back to you.
What did you have to say?
You were talking?
I'm sorry.
Agreeing to do this.
It's a big deal.
I know it's been emotional for both of us.
And I know it's gonna be worth it.
So that's what we're going to do on this podcast, especially early on.
We're going to talk about our story.
Okay, get to it.
I know.
We've been talking about what we're going to talk about.
Let's talk about it.
Because everybody else has.
And I think it feels good.
It feels natural to be able to speak to it.
Yeah, that was totally natural.
It feels good. I feel great. I'm feeling good to it and then we're going to move on. Yeah, that looks totally natural.
It feels good, I feel great.
I'm feeling good, I'm feeling great.
What about you, honey?
You're feeling great.
Keep her mic muted, please.
You're feeling great?
Yes, nod your head.
If you need help, blink twice.
You're feeling great, I'm feeling great.
Everybody loves this.
This is wonderful.
It's high energy stuff, high energy.
We do different things, but as it stands right now, we're going to try to answer as many
questions that we've been told by people we love.
We asked around, so what do you think would help people the most?
Were the questions that people are asking, and some were like, ah.
For you to move to Thailand.
Never to be heard from again.
And so we're going to do that.
We're just going to go question for question and see where we go. But with the hopes that people will be able to look into. You're going to do that. We're just going to go question for question and, and see where we go.
But with the hopes that people will be able to look into it.
You're going to take questions?
Why didn't you let us know ahead of time?
Yeah, I have questions.
I got lots of questions.
Like how much does that Rolex cost on your wrist?
Yeah.
This thing can go, I can glean from that.
I won't do that.
And that's our story as we know it.
So I'm going to, whatever you I'm gonna, whatever you wanna say,
whatever you wanna ask, shoot for the stars.
Yeah, so I get a lot of women and men on my DMs
or, you know, reaching out to me
who have gone through similar situations.
And so that's why I wanted to do this
because it's hard to answer a lot of things
in that setting,
but to be able to share our story and help people in that setting.
I hear you, girl. Excuse me for a second. I'm going to rub myself if you don't mind.
You're looking sexy today, girl.
That may be struggling or don't know what to do in whatever situation they find themselves.
What's that?
It's got a neon cross on the back.
The Montley Crue neon cross.
Yeah, the cross you don't find often at churches.
I'm hoping that this is going to help them with, you know, whatever they're going through.
There's no way it can't.
Have you found, I think this is interesting.
There's no way it can't. There's no way it can't. No. Have you found, I think this is interesting. There's no way it can't.
There's no way it can't.
I'm too important.
Yeah.
I'm too important.
I think too much of myself.
What a marriage breakdown and a church breakdown looks like from a different side,
and I think I would never have known what I feel like I know now about it, how lonely it is,
how hard it is, how, and we've seen people reach out
that have just been through so much stuff
and they've just been out there floating around.
And I didn't realize that was like a real thing.
Can be worse than talking.
As was just public.
Oh, it can be worse?
It can be worse than cheating in a marriage that happens?
The 50% of marriages?
This is just, you guys are pretending like
you're the ground zero for all things terrible that happened. You brought this is just, you guys are pretending like you're the ground zero
for all things terrible that happened.
You brought this on yourself, Carl.
We had amazing friends that stepped up and helped us, but that's not the case for a lot
of people.
We had some support systems with our family.
That's not the case with a lot of people.
And you just don't know what to do.
And so I look forward to that changing.
We can be a part of that.
And people are in marriage situations where you feel lonely and you feel like you
can't get through it. We are evidence, absolute evidence that you can, you know, and that
there's hope after a lot of pain.
There's still time actually for it to fall apart.
Yeah, don't worry, Carl. You'll fucking up sooner or later. I'm sure of it, first of
all. Second of all, I mean, he's falling
short of saying, call me if you have a problem. I can only imagine, I can only
imagine what it must be like to have a fam, to like cheat on your spouse and
then so publicly have a blow-up and then have to show up at Thanksgiving dinner
with your spouse's family. It's got to be the most uncomfortable thing in the
world, but you got to do it. You know you got to do it if you want to stay with your loved one. You got to
do that. That's right. And you said before, like, we're going to tell our story and then we'll move
on. I don't know that we'll ever move on from it. It's kind of, it's a part of our life. And so
probably through this. Yeah, but he wants to move on. I don't know that I'll ever let you forget it, but yeah, he wants to move on.
That's right.
It is going to come up in different ways.
Yeah.
So yeah, I wanted to ask you some questions.
Yes, ma'am.
That I think people want to know, especially because, you know, I was telling you about
this, but you kind of three years ago, stuff happened. You,
you know, apologized publicly.
And like an Instagram post.
Yeah, he did. Yeah, it was like an Instagram post. Like, hey, yeah, I've been fucking the
hot maid. Hey, listen, yeah, I've been fucking the hot maid, but all things considered, I have been
doing a lot of preaching too. So I figured, what? It's like a scale. It's bad and it's
good. I show up to church every Sunday. I wipe my sins clean and then I wipe my dick
on somebody's curtains. Okay? All right? What's worse? Honestly, let's be real. Who's not
jizzing on the curtains?
Here. And so I think a lot of people are like, what's happened? Like, what's, you know, they
probably have a lot of things that they think about you and things that they've seen the
media, things that people have talked about that we haven't answered.
I mean, like everybody's just been on bated breath waiting to see what they have been
doing for three years.
I've been in a constant state of depressive solitude since Carl's Instagram post, waiting
for Carl to answer my questions about what happened.
Though it seems pretty clear what happened.
There was a hot chick at the park and you fucked her and you got caught.
She decided to tell the world you fucked her.
Maybe you talking about if I ask you the questions and then you.
Yeah.
Perfect.
Yeah, perfect.
Great.
Go do it.
I love it.
I'm embarrassed, but go ahead.
Yeah.
I want to crawl inside a hole and die, but sure, no problem.
I'm here.
That could be fun.
Yeah, perfect.
It could be fun.
It could be fun for her because she's like, I just want to throw you against a wall.
Here's a roast I would like to see.
Yes, this is the roast.
It's coming.
Yes.
Okay, let's go through it.
Okay.
So, firstly, why do you think we waited so long or why did you wait so long to talk?
We waited, that's not a great question.
No, what happened?
Right.
How did you meet her?
What did she look like? Right. What birthmarks did she have? Was she better in bed? Why did you continue? Yes.
All the things. He had a full-blown relationship with her, didn't he? He did. He was like dropping stacks
of money off at her mom's house or something. Yeah, well he didn't even tell her he was married at first.
That's right. And he was sending like weird photographs from the car
and I'm on my way to meet the Lord and here's my dick.
And.
Ha ha ha.
Belong to talk because we had a bigger priority, which
was to save our family.
Yes.
More accurately, for me to save my own life
and then work to try to save our marriage and then work to try to save our marriage and
then work to try to save our family. And very difficult because my instinct is to go to
war immediately.
Save my own life.
My instinct is to…
What's that, the order?
Yeah, is that the order in which things needed to be taken care of? First and foremost, I
need to…
Me.
Yeah. First and…
First. First and foremost, finished myself off so I didn't get blue balls.
Second of all, take lots of pictures so I had material to not have blue balls in the
future.
Third, take all the money I could from the church.
Fourth, call you and tell you there may or may not be a TMZ article coming out and could
I pay you to stay around?
And then number three, the kids are somewhere, I don't know, they're 12 or something, 13.
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Yeah.
Well, no, we aren't,
but the people who watch this regularly will.
Give context, give clarity,
and the way all that went down,
we had to make a choice right up front,
which way are we gonna to handle this chapter?
And for me and you, I think the best advice that we got was you cannot, for me, you cannot save face
and save your life at the same time. I remember hearing that going, well, that doesn't work for
me because I want to salvage my reputation. I want to tell people what happened. I wanted to do all
this stuff. Yeah, that's all he cared about was his reputation. Yeah, that's it. I want to tell people what happened. I want to do all this stuff. Yeah, that's all he cared about was his reputation. Yeah, that's it.
I want to salvage my reputation.
You just hurt the woman.
The thing about being famous is, I imagine, I don't know, but I imagine, is that everything
is amplified.
And the people in your life sometimes didn't choose that amplification.
They didn't choose to make the speaker so loud.
And so when you do something like this,
when you fail the church, when you fail your marriage,
when you're cheating on your spouse
and your kids know about it,
is that it's everywhere all the time
and all you care about is your reputation.
How about caring about the feelings
and protecting the people that you love or trying to?
You know, they may not necessarily want your protection
in that moment, but trying to shield them
from some of this by coming out and immediately saying, this is what I did. I'm sorry. I did jizz on the curtains.
Hard to preach on a full deck. It's hard to preach with a beaver hat on.
How does they preach it, Bongo Brian?
Cartoon Mickey, what was his name?
Cowboy Ken.
Cowboy Ken, there you go.
And I need to get in a place of healing because I am in deep, deep trouble.
And I remember we chose, that's an understatement.
Healing over reputation, protection, it's very difficult, wasn't easy.
I mean, just all about the him, him, him reputation, what did I look like, what was going on?
Yeah, I think he's a narcissist.
But I think you have to be a narcissist to believe that you're the one that's talking
to God and everybody else needs to talk through you.
And I think that's a certain kind of sickness, if I'm being honest.
God, the better it got.
It didn't mean the voices ever went away or you could see things out of the corner of
your eye or hear stories could see things out of the corner of your eye
or hear stories or see things being spun.
But once you make that choice to go, I don't really care.
At the end of the day, there's nothing to salvage here.
People are gonna think what they're gonna think.
All I care about is trying to save what matters.
All I care about is trying to save this family.
And I was in trouble.
Think what they're gonna think, I mean,
well, it was just kind of cut and drop.
Yeah, there's nothing else to say.
I feel like somebody's opinion that you cheated.
And listen, can I just be clear about this?
You cheated on your wife.
You didn't murder anybody.
This happens all the time.
All the time.
I'm not trying to wash away the pain
that it caused everybody else in your life.
But I'm saying this isn't like the world's
most surprising sin.
You are in good company when it comes to preachers who
have cheated on their wives or had sex affairs or whatever. You're in good company. It's
kind of like part and parcel, you know, milk and cookies, coffee and cream, preachers and
extramarital affairs. It happens.
Matthew 18 I was in really, really, really deep, deep
trouble and I remember immediately thinking that this is going to be a different
road. The night that all that stuff went down, or the day after at least, you know, we were
staying at a friend's house because we had sold our house in New York and staying in
a friend's house in Brooklyn, and they graciously let us use their apartment. And when all this
stuff went down, we were obviously just shell shocked, reeling.
Why were you shell shocked?
You knew the whole time.
What?
We were shell shocked.
Shell shocked.
You knew the whole time.
You were a part of it.
Your dick was there.
Right.
And they were staying at somebody's house.
They were staying at a friend's house.
Oh my God.
Staying at a friend's house.
That had been a really weird dinner conversation.
So Carl, I don't know if you've read any newspaper ever today, but it says here you were dicking
down some girl you met at the doggy park.
It makes me feel weird to even talk about it.
But then I got a call from the person who lives there. And he said, basically, I want, you know,
with somebody that worked for him,
he said, you guys have to leave
because the owner of this place
does not want to be associated with you.
Oh, so it was like a friend's place.
Ooh.
Oh, damn.
Yeah, it was probably a church-related property,
is my guess.
It was probably Bieber.
Yeah, it was probably Biebs.
Yes, you might be right.
It's one of his properties.
Yeah, you might be right about that. Yeah. Probably was some kind of celebrity. So some kind of celebrity, somebody associated probably Biebs. Yes, you might be right. It's one of his properties. Yeah, you might be right about that.
Yeah.
Probably was some kind of celebrity.
So some kind of celebrity, somebody associated with the church, somebody, you know, high
up, a politician, whatever.
Like where does he want us to go?
He's like, doesn't care.
He wants you out in a couple of hours.
And we are, all of our stuff's here.
Our kids are here.
There's, you know, some photographers and reporters around taking photos
and all this stuff is flying around and our kids are like, what's going on? I remember we had to
take everything we have in this apartment, put it on this-
Daddy, did you cheat?
Daddy?
What's a hard sword of the Lord?
Daddy, who's that?
Oh, that's, that's Auntie Stardust.
Daddy met her at a special club for heavenly adults.
Late at night.
In Brooklyn.
And then we got a U-Haul and a U-Haul van.
And we're just throwing stuff in there.
And our kids still don't really know what's going on.
And we're just, you know, I'm in like a weird,
comatose trance mode of just, don't even know where I am.
You're trying to survive.
Yeah.
And me and Roman, we're in the U-Haul,
and we just started driving.
You were in the van.
I would have been running around with a butcher knife.
Oh my god.
I would not have been want to be in 50 yards of that woman
that night for sure.
And I do, I can kind of understand. I want to be in 50 yards of that woman that night for sure.
And I do, I can kind of understand, we all understand the stress of being
caught in the corner and like, don't know what to do, don't know where to go.
We've all been in, if you've lived enough life, you've been in some situation
that you've probably gotten yourself into that you don't know how you get yourself out of that's very stressful and that feeling of just like, what do I do now?
What do I do now?
Well, we started driving.
I remember getting on the highway,
you're pulling out of Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
And I just remember thinking like, what are we doing?
Where are we gonna go?
And Roman's next to me, he's my little guy still.
He's dad, what are we doing?
Why don't we have anywhere to go?
And I couldn't get a hold of anybody at that point.
Yeah. Yeah. what are we doing? Why don't we have anywhere to go? And I couldn't get a hold of anybody at that point.
Yeah, no one was taking your calls.
So I called Stardust and we stayed at her house for the next couple of weeks.
What do you mean, where do we go? I mean, they had to have like, a hotel.
Yeah, that's where you go. That's where people go when they need a place to stay is a hotel
and Airbnb, something, Rent a home real quick.
I don't know. You can rent a home overnight almost.
There's a lot of people who are kind of going to handle this however way they're going to
handle it. And we finally found our friend, Kim Clark, who said, come and stay with us
in Connecticut. And our first couple nights, we really felt like, man, the whole world
has ended. We have been…
It was COVID as well.
It's COVID.
So weird.
We have no idea which way is up right now.
We're in trouble.
And that was one of those nights I'll never forget.
I'll never forget sitting in that car looking at my boy with all...
Yeah, I bet.
Yeah, I bet that was one of the most intense feelings.
I do have empathy for, even if you got yourself into the situation,
it never feels good.
That kind of stress never feels good.
That kind of stress never feels good. And with children, every move that you make
is also amplified.
And so I can't imagine being in a similar situation
in a U-Haul van, driving around, nowhere to go,
what do we do?
Kids are too young to understand what's going on.
But hey, at least you don't have blue balls.
Oh, exactly.
At least you didn't preach on balls. Oh, exactly. Yeah.
At least you didn't preach on a full dick.
That's right.
Belongings and two U-Hauls going like, what?
How did I get here?
Like, is this real life?
And that's why we made the decisions that way.
Shit, I've been caught.
And it's all up in the mixed face.
Shit.
Shit.
For me being a control guy, letting it go was not easy.
Which part, the girl?
Or?
Oh, I let it go all right.
I was letting it go all over the place.
I'll tell you what, I let it go on Tuesday,
then on Thursday morning, then by myself on Friday,
and then in the church parking lot.
I was just letting it go for a control guy. That was kind of hard, I'll
tell you that one. All right, well listen. We can't do Carl forever. I wish we could.
We can get back to it though. We want to go more into it because now I'm kind of
interested. Now I'm like, okay, what did happen? Like, what is the minutiae of how
this all went down? See, he's getting me. Now he's roping me into his silly story.
God damn it.
It's the good lighting and microphone.
Yes, it is the good lighting and microphone.
You know, there's a reason why people like him.
It's because he's an engaging character, right?
But most narcissists are engaging characters.
And I do feel for her.
She had, this is not her fault.
And so I have a lot of empathy for where she's at.
And I can only imagine what she was feeling at this time
I got like he's talking about how he's feeling
It is all about him, but let's be honest. It was always all about him and she knows that she's she married him
She knows what's going on. Well, and then Hillsong Church is no more either the church that he
Well, then didn't it turn out that there was other stuff going on with the original founders?
All kind of shit, yeah.
And they paid high-priced attorneys to...
It's just all shenanigans.
It is.
It's like, you know, I'm not against religion.
No, there's some really good churches around.
It's the ones that want to be famous and make a bunch of money.
It's the ones that become all-powerful that just really start to destroy lives in so many
different ways. And Carl is a testament to that. When you're a rock star preacher, you
know, and you're playing fast and loose, you got a bunch of-
Got a full dick.
Yeah, got a full dick. You got to empty it. All right. Well, listen, maybe we'll get back
to Carl next week.
Maybe we won't.
Hope you have a good weekend and all that jazz.
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