The Hope Hotline - Church Members Gossiping | AI Demonic?!
Episode Date: May 23, 2025The Hope Hotline | S03-E36 | 05-23-2025...
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Hello, I don't know, can you hear me? Yeah, they can. Can they hear me now? Yeah, yeah, you're good. Hello and welcome to the Hope Hotline. Thank you for joining us today. I don't know, can you hear me? Yeah, they can. Can they hear me now? Yeah, yeah, you're good.
Hello and welcome to the Hope Hotline. Thank you for joining us today. I just walked in here two minutes ago.
I can't get my earbud in. Woohoo! Woohoo! We did it!
All right, guys. We're ready to go. That was... okay, whatever. Um, we're ready to go.
I'm not really, but I'm just saying it.
And, um, I can't get my thing to go up.
What am I looking at?
Oh, I thought you're talking to me.
You guys can't see what's going on behind the scenes, but I don't have a computer working.
Oh, no.
I don't know. It's like not, I might have to go out and get back in. That's part of the problem here. And I can't see. I can but I can't.
My computer's not responding so I don't claim to be the most
professional podcast out there. So with that being said, somebody I was
just texting with Andrea and I said Andrea, because I responded to her and I
go and now I have to go to the podcast.
It's starting right now.
She goes, oh my gosh, Godspeed.
It's my girl.
I'm so excited for this weekend
and I have absolutely no reason to be.
Yes you do.
Yes you do.
Yes I do.
Yes you do.
No, I'm actually-
Happy birthday, ho.
I know what I was talking about. We're so happy. Oh my gosh. Yes, you do
Okay going back I was looking down at my computer, oh my gosh
Wishing you a day filled with joy and laughter, even the demons file a noise complaint. Oh, thank you.
Thank you.
The demon himself, the demon himself has spoken the noise complaint.
Oh my gosh.
I hope you're going to be 28 again.
Yes, I'm that. You're gonna be 28 again. Yes.
I'm gonna be 58.
And you don't look a day past 28.
Nope.
Well, I do.
God bless you for needing glasses.
No, I was saying this is a great weekend
cause it's three days.
Yeah.
It's a three day.
Oh my gosh.
Aw.
Love it. Oh my gosh. Oh, that would be bad. That's true. My girl. I was talking about, let's talk about you, Brittany, but my girl Heather too.
Thank you, pumpkin.
Okay.
All right.
See you have a great time.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. I was talking about, let's talk about you, Brittany, but my girl Heather too.
Thank you, pumpkin.
All right, see you. Have a great time. Okay, bye.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Happy birthday.
Thank you.
I'll expect my 50 pills that are horse size.
Oh, I know they're coming.
Don't you worry.
Oh my gosh.
No, I'm excited for the three day weekend.
Yeah.
Do you have any big plans?
For my birthday?
Yeah.
Well, your three day weekend.
Oh no, my three day weekend?
Well, I do, but they're not like plans
that normal people would want to do.
What?
No, I'm going, well, the first one,
I'm going to go eat breakfast with my mother.
Okay, well, that's nice.
Yes.
Uh, the second one is I'm going to clean my house.
Okay.
Uh, the third one is obviously the, so I'll clean my house on Saturday.
I will go to church on Sunday and then, uh, do the normal on Sunday. And then on Monday, our garage that we had built,
I plan on pouring steps.
Okay.
Concrete, I'm pouring concrete steps.
Yeah.
Okay.
So, I've never done it before,
but YouTube and our contractor are going to FaceTime
and walk me through it.
Listen, you can always ask ChatGPT.
I mean, just in case.
I need pictures.
That you can ask.
And I need like somebody walking me
through the whole entire thing.
YouTube is the gift that keeps on giving with that.
I bet he'll speak to you.
No, YouTube's the best.
Yeah, YouTube's the best.
Now do YouTube.
Yeah.
So that's on the agenda.
The agenda is, I'm gonna get the loose ends tightened up.
That's good, that feels good to do that stuff.
And laundry.
Oh, okay.
I don't know, I'm just not, I kept forgetting it,
and even then I forgot it was my birthday.
I keep forgetting, do you guys forget it's your birthday?
After a certain age, No, you never forget.
Never.
Never.
Okay.
I always have a hurricane on my birthday.
That's true.
That is true.
I'm walking to Florida.
Or a threat.
If you don't, or a threat.
Right, exactly.
Yeah.
I just don't like,
I know Taya looks forward to her birthday.
That was fast.
But I mean, you're 18 going on 19. So
hello, that makes the most sense. Like I was every birthday from 20 to 20, no 20 to 23.
It was maybe 24 to it was rip roaring. It was like, I lived enough in those four years
to make up for the rest of my life on my birthday.
It was out of control.
Out of control in my mind.
But I know, what's there to, I mean, what am I gonna do?
I know, I know.
What are you gonna do?
I mean, what is so great?
Why do you look forward to your birthday so much?
I like traveling for my birthday.
Cause the problem is when I stay home,
I end up doing what you're doing, laundry.
And it's just like, ugh, like it's fine,
but like it's my birthday.
I wanna go do something.
I wanna stay home.
I know that's so sweet.
Do you wanna stay home, Vanessa,
or you wanna travel on your birthday?
I normally travel's so sweet. Do you wanna stay home, Vanessa, or you wanna travel on your birthday? I normally travel on my birthday.
If I'm home, I'm gonna clean.
And I don't wanna clean on my birthday.
It's like the one day, 364 days out of the year, I'll clean.
But the one day, I don't wanna clean
and do laundry and dishes and pick up the dog
and like all the things, all the, yeah.
I just wanna be somewhere else.
Maybe I need to go somewhere.
Yes.
Yes.
But I like being home.
That's gonna be a problem.
Yeah, that doesn't sound very good.
Yeah, I know.
But the idea of traveling, you gotta pack.
I know.
I hate packing.
Then you gotta clean.
I have to clean, so when I get home.
I do too.
It's not dirty.
But if I leave certain people home, when I get home, do too it's not dirty but if I leave certain people
home when I get home it's dirty true yeah do I really need to clean before I
leave right yes yes you do because it'd be worse what is that why do we do that
I do that I can't stand not do the same thing like crazy cleaning like I'm
scrubbing my tub right like the baseboards like I found dirt on the baseboards now I don't care at all I'm livingbing my tub. Right, like the baseboards. Like I found dirt on the baseboards now.
I don't care at all when I'm living there.
When I have to leave my house, that's inappropriate.
Yeah, like I don't know why I'm psycho when I leave town
and I have to clean.
I don't know what it is.
And then you get to the hotel room.
And I clean the hotel room.
That I don't do.
Same.
Everything, light switches, remotes. I wish I could find that video Everything. Lights, switches, remotes.
I wish I could find that video.
Bathrooms, sinks, and counters.
Cause we had a video of you cleaning.
Norma has it.
It's on her TikTok.
How well did that thing go?
That TikTok-
That was a long time ago.
I think like maybe on the, I don't remember.
It wasn't that.
Oh.
I don't know.
But all I can say is my hands aren't going
where somebody's hands with junk on them was.
I mean, it makes sense.
It does.
You think about that remote.
I know, I know, it makes sense.
You think about that remote, people, TikTok.
You think about that remote.
When you go into a hotel room and you pick up that remote,
who held it last?
What were they doing before they held it last?
Right.
Where was their hand before they held it last?
I don't let my mind go there.
Neither.
Scratching what?
Do you also like life sound your like airplane tray?
No.
I feel like you're missing an opportunity there.
Well, okay.
That's like, don't make my mind go somewhere.
I'd rather shut it.
But I don't, because I don't wipe down like the handles
when I go and sit down at the airport.
Okay, people aren't naked with a TV tray.
What about the bathroom?
They're scratching places with a TV tray.
Do you use like the toilet covers?
They are picking usually, well, they might be. What is what, do I what? Do you use like the toilet? They are picking usually.
Well, they might be.
What is what do I want?
Do you use toilet covers every time?
Every time.
And if I don't have one, I make one.
Oh.
Or I squat every time.
No, crabs ain't getting me.
I can't even drink after I said that.
What?
Vanessa does not.
When you get crabs, you'll be thanking me
or you'll be wishing you did.
How many years have you made it without crabs?
40?
I think you're good.
Hey, it only takes once.
I don't know if that's how you got crabs.
Is that how you get crabs?
I don't know, but I ain't trying.
I ain't trying to get them.
Is that like a known thing when you go to the doctors?
They're like, are you sitting down
without a toilet seat cover?
Back in the day, back in the day,
like there wasn't all these STDs like there are today.
What happened?
Back in the day, my fear is, and everybody,
I wasn't even active, and everybody's fear was,
you're gonna get crabs crabs because that was prevalent.
There was an epidemic?
Proportions, in certain places.
Oh my God.
Epidemic proportions.
Oh yeah.
That's interesting.
Can you see crabs?
No?
Yes you can.
So if you look and don't see any crabs,
can you sit down without a toilet seat?
Listen, only reason I'm telling you about the toilet
is because I sat down or I went into the bathroom after a girl, and don't see any crabs, can you sit down without a toilet seat cover? Crab star. Listen, only reason I'm telling you about the toilet
is because I sat down or I went into the bathroom
after a girl who was known to have crabs.
Okay, that's where this began.
And there was one on the toilet.
Oh no.
100%.
That I would always use a toilet seat cover after that.
Day one for me today.
That's the reason I did.
Today's the day.
Today's the day.
I'm just telling you, I was like, wait a minute,
what is that?
No way.
That's crazy.
I just unlocked a new fear.
That's insane.
I mean, you can see them guys.
I mean, look it up.
Do I have to look it up?
And then put it on the camera.
Put it on the thing.
That's not like a bed bug.
Oh, that's me cleaning.
After I traveled, I wiped down everything.
It's that serious too.
It's that serious.
I'm that.
TikTok can't see that.
But if you go to my daughter's page, you can.
I'm surprised you don't like bring your own sheets.
Don't think I haven't thought about it.
Because you know what happens on those.
My mom, my mom used to, that's the reason why they got an RV
and traveled by RV.
They were like, maybe we're not gonna sleep
on these sheets anymore.
I have changed the sheets at hotels before though.
Can you please bring me a set of sheets please?
Because what I saw in that bathroom,
making you come and clean,
makes me think these sheets were not changed.
I want a whole new set, I will take care of it.
Oh my gosh.
Oh yeah.
Cause I had no choice, I couldn't change rooms.
So I literally had to stay in that room.
There's no other option.
So I'm like, please,
either you come and clean the bathroom
or I'll clean the bathroom.
I will clean the bathroom.
I'm not bougie.
I mean, it was a nice hotel, but I'm not so like,
I'm not so pretentious.
I can't clean the bathroom.
I'll absolutely clean the bathroom.
But I want new sheets.
Cause the guy was like, ma'am, the sheets were changed.
I said, how can you guarantee that
after you saw what's underneath the toilet?
True.
And he's like, I'll bring sheets up to you.
Thank you.
Appreciate that.
There it is.
Oop, there it is.
That thing has abs.
That thing ain't nothing to play with.
And you can see it.
I mean, pull one up that moves.
Pull one up that moves.
Like you can literally see them.
Okay, I think I found another one.
What about this?
Does this look appropriate?
That's it right there.
Oh my gosh.
No way.
Yep.
This is absolutely not okay.
Well, they live on people's cooch.
It's like hair lice, but for that area.
Well, you do know,
cause this girl was scratching.
Itchy. Oh.
All the time.
They look like little crabs.
Look at them.
I can't look anymore.
Yeah.
I can't look anymore.
She could not relieve her hand from her cootie cat.
Oh.
Like it was there all the time.
Oh my gosh.
Somebody said to me at Pastor Rodney's,
at the conference that I was at,
they go, oh, I watched your podcast.
I go, just a little warning.
It gets a little racy.
She goes, I know.
I love it.
It's PG-13.
It is, it is.
Sometimes rated R.
Depends who's in the room.
Norma?
It's like, it should have a sign that says, beware of dog, but something totally different.
Literally.
It should have like a, what's that?
What's that thing?
Since I'm watching that P Diddy trial thingy.
What's it say?
This is for entertainment and advisor.
It has advisor warning.
This is for entertainment and something purpose only.
What do they usually say on TikTok?
So we don't get in trouble.
Oh yeah. Yeah and something purpose only. What do they usually say on TikTok
so we don't get in trouble?
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Entertainment purpose.
Maybe we need to run that on this.
Maybe terrible.
Well, that should be the beginning part.
Like a label.
You know how certain like movies have this label.
Jonathan has one at the beginning of Check the News
and he's like, if you're highly offended,
please do not watch this.
Sounds about right.
Yep.
I'm like, come on on everybody has one except unless
you're a guy and even you can get crabs. I'm just giving a public service
announcement. No respect to our person. Yeah I'm giving a public service announcement.
Don't sit on toilets. Don't get crabs. That might have the crabs. Exactly. Always look
before you sit. Always. I'm just saying. Always. The fact that I've
never gotten crabs. That's impressive. It's a miracle. It's the Lord's. When you sit,
they die and they fall into the toilet. That's the anointing. Something. I don't know what it is but they're there. They are there. Yes they are.
So, oh my gosh, my mother. Mother, what are you doing here? It's her birthday too. It's the day she gave birth. Her birthday day.
She was six weeks late.
Look at the camera down there. That is crazy.
There's no way. She's on time now. Thank you mom. Most of the time. Thank you mom. Most of the time.
Well, I can't deny that. You're ripping my earpiece out woman.
You drove all the way down here for this?
Oh yeah, all the way.
You wanna sit down over there and watch it?
Yeah, I am.
Oh, put these in there.
Okay, oh, how sweet.
I asked her today, I call her pretty much every day.
I'm like, what are you doing today, mom?
Oh, a little of this and a little of that.
You did not mention the whole pot line.
I don't wanna go to hell.
Oh yeah, right, no lying.
At least you weren't in here for our cootie cat
and kind of conversation. Oh my gosh. I'm gonna watch it later. Yeah, yeah. Right, no lying. At least you weren't in here for our cootie cat and cootie conversation.
Oh my gosh.
I'm gonna watch it later.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
She'll watch it later.
Nothing she does surprises me.
Right, right.
Oh my gosh.
Thanks, mama.
So sweet.
Love you.
Love you, girls.
Love you.
Gotta do it for the 6-0, big 6-0.
I know.
Can you believe it?
If I had a daughter who was 60 years old,
my mom already has one that's 60.
What the heck?
What happens?
How does that happen?
How does that happen?
You have a 60 year old kid.
My mom feels weird about having a 40 year old kid.
Yeah.
That is weird.
I know.
I mean, I feel weird when I'm a 26 year old.
Right.
I can't imagine 60.
I'm shy, but my older sister is 61.
Wow.
It's pretty crazy.
That is crazy.
There's,
Travis, it's very informal today.
Okay, so you wanna, okay, listen,
what's gonna happen is,
Okay.
Because I'm gonna be sitting here and TikTok,
everybody, because our TikTok numbers are like off the
charts. Can you check that really quick tick-tock our our numbers have been
really good on tick-tock I don't want to lose them for you telling people what to
do viewing as soon as we start as soon as she starts talking they can't hear
her so they just see me sitting and they all come off. They like not all of them, but they like Kelly said they drop.
Yeah. OK. That's the problem.
And they all like left.
No leaving. You're not allowed.
So just do it. We'll go quick.
She said because it never went back.
OK, go ahead. Just do it. Now the people watching. She said, cause it never went back. Okay, go ahead.
Do it.
Just do it quick.
Now the people watching me will be happy that I'm talking.
Oh my gosh.
Who cares?
Exactly.
Who does care?
Okay.
If you're watching on Facebook,
I want you to comment and I want you to share
and do all the fun stuff on Facebook.
So we know that you're watching.
You can be watching on the whole pot line
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If you're on YouTube, say hello,
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If you wanna chat, come over to the Rumble app
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You can find us very easily.
If you're watching on TikTok, on Hopes or mine,
I want you to come over to Rumble, try it out, see it out.
And if you want, go check the replay later on.
Hope's birthday is not today for the ones asking it is tomorrow. So you can say happy birthday to her now. And
if you see her on Sunday, you can give her another happy
birthday. She loves that stuff. Just kidding. No, she doesn't.
But yes, she does. She's giving me the dirty look. Okay. Also,
please send your questions in. Send them into askhope at
hopehotline.com. Any question at all, please send it in.
We got some fun ones today and we wanna get to those.
So Hope is gonna be so mad,
but she has way more followers than this,
but this is her heyitshope01.
I might have to find another way to do this
because we are just.
Another 73 people.
73, we're almost double that.
We're almost double that. You're like double that. She has a lot more people.
A lot more. Like it's like thousands. That is a lot. 173 is not a lot. Thank you. Talia agrees. Okay, thank you, Tal.
Okay, I'm gonna probably have to change this out so that it doesn't show that.
Maybe I'll find another way to do this, but and then the same with the whole
pot line. We have these are older things. But yeah, so we're on both TikTok. Hope is doing lots of fun questions and random things that pop
up. And then Natalie, her graphic fell off. So I wonder if I can find it real quick. But she is
going to be on May 30. So that is next Friday. So you do not want to miss that. If you have any
questions for her, please send those in. We are also on Instagram, you can follow us there and
you will find all kinds of updates over there. And you can also get our merch at
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you're here at Foundation Church on a Sunday, you can purchase any of these
merch, including Foundation Church's merch and some new stuff we got out and
the TLP. So those are those are our fun things for today, and I think that is pretty much it.
What you think about that? I think I think that's good with the M&Ms in my mouth.
Perfect.
I'm so hungry. I need to. Me and Vanessa are very hungry girls.
I ate a sandwich.
We already had our snacks.
We were very snacky.
I can use some more snacks.
I'm going to tell you right now,
I love these three questions for today.
I'm excited.
Yeah, they're good.
I mean, I flip and love these questions.
Let's do it.
The first one makes me spicy.
The second one makes me defend AI. I can't
remember the third, but I did love it. Okay. But very interesting. You know, this
question is church-related, but it really could be people in general, like when you
go to work and stuff like that.
It's not church related, but this question was, a church member keeps asking personal
questions after service.
How do I politely shut it down?
I mean, I'll be honest with you.
Who cares about being polite when somebody is rude?
Like who gives somebody the right to be nosy
or to ask you such questions that are personal?
A lot of times when I wanna ask somebody something
that I think might cross the line,
I always say,
this is a personal question,
so you don't have to answer it.
I totally understand if you feel uncomfortable.
Like how do people not understand?
Yeah, that's good.
Not to ask, I mean, not to like,
to not know that you're going into a place
that might be crossing lines
to make somebody completely uncomfortable.
I think some people just lack social awareness.
Me too.
It's just one of these things
where they maybe weren't taught
or they might be on the spectrum, autism.
But some people just lack social awareness.
Yeah, I guess so.
I don't know.
It's so irritating to me.
It does make me spicy, but I'm gonna tell you right now,
when people come up to me and they wanna find out
information about other people, which is not uncommon.
People are very nosy, like, excuse me, Birkin, people are, I mean, they're beyond.
And I don't know if it's because we're in a social media world where everybody knows
about everybody because everybody's posting their business all the time. So people feel compelled or feel like they have, um,
the right to ask questions like they normally might not have back in the day
when I walked 10 miles to school in the snow uphill, uphill,
but still it's like, what the crap? Yeah. You know what? I always say to them,
now, if you're like TikTokers,
there's probably TikTokers on here.
This podcast is a Christian podcast,
but it also hits things from a non-Christian mindset too.
So this, if you're a TikToker and you're not a Christian,
this will be like, well, that won't work for me.
But it might, you could put a spin on it.
But you know what I often to ask people
when they ask me a question about somebody
they have no business asking and they're being nosy.
And it's always, it's very gossipy.
I always ask them, how does you knowing this information
spiritually speaking help you?
Right, that's a great question.
I asked them a question with the question they're asking me.
Now I'm asking you, you want to know this about Sally.
How do you know something,
whatever you're asking me about Sally,
how is knowing this information about Sally
going to spiritually help you?
Right.
You explain that to me,
and then maybe I can give you the answer.
Cause I'm going to want to know like,
what's your motive behind knowing this information?
Right. Right. And if it's because because you say I want to pray for her
stop it I might literally right in the face in the name of Jesus in the name of
Jesus knock some sense into you yeah tell you asked me to do it again.
Sorry for those.
That's good.
At the end of the day, it's all about the heart posture.
Oh my gosh.
And you're trying.
You know what Pastor Rodney was doing at the conference?
He made fun of you.
Did he?
Oh man.
He goes, he was like,
You love Vanessa.
Lean into it.
He goes, what does that mean?
Lean in.
Drew, what does that mean?
Wait.
He goes, I want somebody to explain that to me.
Yeah, me too.
Let's lean into you.
Lean into it.
Is that like you be you?
He was going.
Another one is let's unpack this.
I know he makes fun of that too.
Yeah.
You see, I have limits.
Do you?
That's what I want to know.
Do you really?
I mean, I know your limits to a certain extent, but they're not, they're not as limited, I think, as they need to be.
But I just said, I draw the line is that heart posture, heart. Yeah. Heart posture is a good
one. I mean, what's the other, how else will you, how do you say it? Exactly. What is your,
the motive of your heart? Okay. I mean, yeah, that's a lot of words.
That's a lot of words.
What is the heart?
What is the heart posture?
What is your heart?
It's about the same.
Heart posture.
It might be one more word.
What's your heart posture?
It's like one more.
Actually, when you like say it like that,
what does that mean?
Exactly.
Upside down, sideways, yeah. Upside down sideways.
Yeah.
Oh my gosh.
Like if somebody came and asked you a question, if somebody came to you and asked you a question
that was personal about you, how would you respond?
Because personally, depending on who it is, I might not be polite.
Yeah.
And that's just the God's honest truth.
I might not be polite.
I might be like dog down dirty.
If it's a one time.
Grab a coffee, let's sit down.
If it's a one time, I'll have more grace
and I would like probably like change the subjects.
But if it's someone that's consistently coming to me for
like, yeah, we're gonna have a conversation about this.
It's like, why do you need to know
personal information about me?
I don't know.
See, I'd be like, what do you wanna know?
I guess it depends, like how bad is it?
Is it like rude or is it just like-
I think it's rude to ask personal questions about people.
Unless you know, you have a very close relationship
with them, then really nothing's off the table then.
Okay, but if you don't know somebody and you're going up
and most of the time, if somebody is, most of the time
if you have an intimate relationship with somebody,
you're close friends with them,
you don't need to ask a question.
You really already know pretty much everything.
So there's no real questions.
Like you're just, for me, I'm like, I,
I have literally said to people,
I am uncomfortable in answering this question
and I'm not going to.
And I've also said to them, why do you want to know?
Right.
Yeah.
See, and for me, I, I really, I don't know.
I guess I don't have a ton of like stuff
that I don't wanna not share, if that makes sense. But I don't know, I guess I don't have a ton of like stuff that I don't want to not share,
if that makes sense.
But I don't ask personal questions.
But I don't mind if people ask me personal questions.
But a lot of times people aren't asking personal questions specifically about you.
A lot of times what people are doing is they're asking personal questions about you and another
scenario with someone else
or a scenario. If you're working on a job and someone comes up to you and says, like,
how did you get that promotion? How did you get that promotion? Did you talk to somebody
or do you have favor with somebody? Like, like, how did that happen? I'd be like, that's
not your dad gum business. Go pound sand.
Yeah, okay.
Well, yeah, I need some examples.
That's the stuff I'm like,
it's not your business how I got my promotion.
That stuff's different.
But that's what I'm talking about.
That's what people do.
They're never asking you like,
hey, listen, when you were in your bedroom last night,
what did you do?
I mean, they're not gonna ask those kinds of questions.
And if they do, they're a freak.
But I'm just saying like.
What was the question again maybe I misunderstood it no it's it's a church member keeps
asking personal questions after surface how do I probably shut them down and
they're probably being asked like hey this guy is interested in you we or or
hey what do you do like what's your hobbies and they're probably like I
don't know you I don't want to talk to you about what my hobbies are.
Like-
See, I probably would answer that.
If the person didn't give you the heebie-jeebies.
Right.
And that's what I think is going on here.
Okay, okay, okay.
I think it's probably,
and I know that this isn't judgment call on my part, okay?
But the odds are it's either a girl who likes a guy
and he don't like her,
and she's trying to make conversations with him,
and he really wants to keep the distance.
And let her down gently.
Or it's the other way.
A guy likes a girl and he's trying to create
and cultivate information or create a conversation
so that he can like get in there.
And she's like, dude, I'm trying to like keep some,
I don't really wanna talk to you.
Okay.
This is when I see them in the distance and I dodge them.
I mean, if that, I mean, and then sometimes
it's weirdo men that are older,
trying to talk to younger females and just have like, just try and get to know them so they can so it looks like like everybody can see they're having a conversation with a young female and makes them feel good about their ego and that girl's like, get away from me. deal with these situations. Like nobody even when I was younger. Are you kidding me? I never got
approached by weirdos. I did. But I also wasn't in church which is really sad. During like a time
period of my life when I was younger like I would say probably between like 16 and I don't know 20
and then I had kids at that age. So I don't know if it's just like I avoided I don't know I never
get in these situations.
I've never had anybody come up to me
and say something where I was like,
I'm really uncomfortable.
Are you kidding me?
For real.
Oh my gosh, did you guys plan this?
What?
What are you talking about?
Oh my gosh, okay.
Is all through, oh my gosh.
So I didn't go to the Tampa, I lied to you last night.
Oh no, see?
Are you kidding me?
Yeah, no, he had the playoff.
Oh my gosh, this is my girl.
This is my baby girl.
I'm the one that gets you in trouble.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah, exactly.
Okay, like, do not, who else is coming?
Do not tell me, my husband.
I have no idea, I didn't do this.
That's all Heather.
Yeah, Heather helped us set this up.
I have no idea. Don't shoot do this. That's all Heather. Yeah, Heather helped us set this up. I have no idea.
Don't shoot us.
Yes, this is all...
No because every 15 minutes somebody's...
Will you stop being so observant?
15 minutes?
No.
Oh my gosh.
Who's next?
Listen, it's fine.
Keep going.
I don't know.
Okay, so I haven't been in a situation where I've been like, oh my gosh, Who's next?
Listen, it's fine. Keep going.
Okay, so I haven't been in a situation like this,
but I know some people in this room
have been in a situation like this.
I have been.
Vanessa, you've been in white.
Talia has.
I can't put my finger on any interactions like this.
You've not had some creep try and have a conversation
with you and try and talk to you about things
that are personal in nature. And you're like, I don't try and have a conversation with you and try and talk to you about things that are personal in nature.
And you're like, I don't want to have this conversation.
I don't want to answer this conversation.
I don't want you to know anything about me.
What about your hair, Vanessa?
Huh?
Your hair?
Your hair?
I don't want to say it because the person probably watches.
Remember the whole.
About your hair?
Well, I heard it, but I know about it.
It's because we forgive.
I literally don't have any recollections.
Okay if you're in the chat we want to know have you been in this situation
before? I'm trying to remember. I yeah I I deflect a really don't think there's, it's very rare, but let's
Tracy, let's think about this.
How tall are you?
Five, eight and a half.
Okay.
Do you think like, I don't think most men will mess with you
as far as this goes though.
Awesome. They don't.
But I never, I don't know.
Yeah.
Yeah. And also you're like,
it's not that you're like,
everything goes over your head.
It doesn't.
You're not like a dingbat
where everything goes over your head.
It's just, you're more or less like,
I don't care.
True.
Ask your question.
And can you just ask your question
so I can move on to the next thing?
True.
Versus me, I'm like, I don't have time for you or this.
Get out of my way so I can get to the next thing.
Yeah, that sounds about right.
Fair.
I'm just saying, I don't know very,
this is what I would say for you to do.
Yeah, okay.
Make them as uncomfortable for asking you the question
as they've made you uncomfortable and being asked.
That's good.
Do you have an example?
If somebody came to me and asked me,
like give me an example.
Give me a question.
Hope, so what I was thinking was, do you think you and I can like sit down weekly and have
a conversation about maybe starting a podcast together?
I know you do the whole pot line, but do you think you and I could like really get into
some nitty gritty stuff like on my podcast during my days. Okay and Tracy
what makes you think that I would want to do that with you? Well you know you do
a podcast and so I just thought like why not do another one I mean I have a very
interesting perspective on life. Can I stop you right there? Okay yeah sure sure sure.
What makes you think that I want to hear your interesting perspective on life?
Well, see, I know these pastors and these like, they're very high up.
You're never going to be uncomfortable, but most people would be like...
I know, at this point, yeah.
They would be like...
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, good. I just want her to have an example, or her or him to have an example of like...
Like, literally throw it back on them. Make them explain to you why.
And you ask questions.
Always ask another question.
Never answer a question.
Always ask a question with a question.
That's good.
That always throws people off.
Yeah.
And it is the greatest way to get people.
Jesus did it.
That's how Jesus communicated.
Yep.
He never asked the question
that he didn't know the answer to.
That's true. That's true. And that he didn't know the answer to. That's true.
That's true. And if you didn't want to answer one, he always asked one.
True. True. And put them on the defensive. That's the thing, you gotta always make
the person be on the defensive. You're always on offense. Yeah. Offense moves
down the field. Offense is good. Do what Jesus said. Every time. What are you gonna say, Tal, real quick?
What did you say?
I said, you can ask, who are you?
Why are you asking this question?
Oh my gosh.
And they're like, oh, let me tell you about myself.
Okay, I'm excited for the next one.
Are we ready?
Okay, yeah, I'm gonna make,
just don't let me forget to go back to the sponsors.
Let's do it, let's do it.
Let's go to this one.
Looking to apply for a job that supplies AI models that data through tasks.
So my question is, as a Christian, is AI to be avoided?
I mean, I know there are people that think, literally believe that that AI is the Antichrist. I mean, I don't personally believe that AI
is the Antichrist, but can they hear if that you're that far away? You're smart. I know that my thing is this. My mother's in the room so she can confirm
this because you guys are way too young. I look at AI like I do, like people look at
the digital, like here's what I'll say. Right now, everybody is with cryptocurrency. They think cryptocurrency
could be the next Antichrist too, right? Because of the Mark of the Beast that we're leading
down that road. I mean, it could be, AI could be too. I don't know.
But the thing is, is it's like checkbooks.
Mom, when they first brought checkbooks out,
everybody thought that was Antichrist, remember?
Like it was not good.
Christians were in an uproar.
I can't imagine.
I know.
I really can't.
Because we're not using currency.
Oh.
Now you guys weren't around for this.
You were little,
but I remember when the debit card came out.
Holy smokes.
Oh, credit card.
Credit, yeah.
Credit card.
Satan himself.
Satan himself. Satan himself.
So far, do all of these things lead to it?
It might.
Probably.
I mean, right now, like when you do your credit card or your debit card, all you're doing
is tapping, right?
We went from with the credit card.
To inserting. To inserting, to tapping.
And what are we going to have to do with our hands or our forehead?
I feel like there's places in the world that actually do that.
But I will say to all those people that think AI is the next Antichrist, do you own a credit
card, a debit card, a bank account? And you
would say to all those things, well yeah, I have to. Well, so do the people that
like to use AI. They're using it for like their businesses and they're making
money and it's doing making things shorter and making like marketing and
advertising. It's helping them. It's excelling their, it's making their business
successful and things like that. Now A very good pastor friend of mine
doesn't write his messages off of them,
but he teaches AI, like him and AI are close friends.
They literally, he's correcting and teaching.
I sat in Tom's office with him and I said,
you know you're teaching chat GPT.
He's like, yeah, I know.
But if I wanna ask a question and I want it right, I you're teaching, you're teaching chat GPT. It's like, yeah, I know. But if I want to, if I want to ask a question
and I want it right, I want him to give me the right answer.
Exactly.
It's probably why we get a lot of the right answers.
Right.
Because of Pastor Rodney.
Exactly. Thank you Pastor Rodney.
Thank you Pastor.
So.
It's doing the Lord's work right now.
Yeah. It's thinking funny.
It's like, I mean, I don't know.
Like I think we get too, I don't know.
I think we can become too worried about certain things
and you're not gonna stop it.
It's like we didn't stop credit cards.
We didn't stop the checkbook.
We didn't stop debit cards.
And everybody owns them and everybody uses them. And we know, and all of us know
what the progressive, how progressive it might go as Christians, where it might
lead, but it might not. It might be something completely, did none of us saw
cryptocurrency. It could be that, who knows, AI could be the same exact thing.
I say, you know what, take a chill pill, take the job.
If it, you know, unless you feel convicted about it.
Exactly.
I don't worry about those things.
I mean, like if, like I have left companies
because I thought that they were working
against our own country.
In some of the research and development that they were doing and I thought they were cooperating with other countries that would do harm to
us.
So I left that company because I'm not going to support a business or I'm not going to
work for a company that helps destroy or hurt Americans.
But in this thing, in this, I'm like, we don't
know. We have no evidence really to speak of. I mean, I know people are turning
on chat GPT or they have those things on TikTok where somebody will say, ask, I
asked chat GPT if I was the devil and I wanted to take over the world what
would I do? Okay do we is that really what chat GPT did or is that what
somebody told it to say and then they said they think he said it? Right yeah. We
have no proof. Right yeah. I mean I do find it interesting, but I also know that there's no proof that that's actually what happened.
So, and the other thing is, is if you're not going to use AI, then I tell, I suggest that you don't go to Walmart, you don't use Google, and you stop buying from Amazon.
Right.
Otherwise, you're a from Amazon. Right. Otherwise, you're a double-minded.
One thing's okay and the other thing is not.
And I think everybody's got like,
they get these blinders on on one thing,
but again, you're using, most people,
my phone's over there, have an Apple phone.
That's just as bad.
Does that make, am I making sense?
Yeah, Google Maps using AI to find the fastest way home.
That's artificial intelligence.
When YouTube recommends a video,
that's using artificial intelligence.
So I asked Chachi BT to give me examples
of artificial intelligence that we've been using for so long.
So if you're against, like you're saying,
if you're against Chachi BT or Gronk or any of you're against, like you're saying, if you're against ChatGPT or Gronk
or any of these other ones,
but you're willing to use Google Maps to get home faster
or go on YouTube and find another video
that might be similar, that's AI.
But they'll say, well, I'm using it for good.
Well, who's to say other people aren't either.
They're saying because you're using it though,
you're helping it to become bigger.
Well.
But so is Google.
Like you get, so what's the difference
between Googling something and chat-gbting something?
And you shouldn't be just absorbing information.
You should be fact checking.
Like when you put something in,
you should be fact checking.
And if you're a Christian,
you should be checking it with the word.
Even if it's not biblical,
like you still should be checking it with the word. We're not, we're not robots.
We're not just consumers. You have to be able to check facts. That's part of using
a brain. Right. Yeah, but I think like people who make these staunch stands and
things like that, I think the bigger thing that they need to be looking at
and making sure for themselves is, and which a lot of people who are not
Christians and that aren't believers, they have the biggest problem with hypocrisy.
In fact, if you're a Christian and you have children and you make these rules like no
AI, but your kid sees you getting Amazon delivered, they're going to grow up and they're going
to realize they're gonna grow up and they're gonna realize.
They're both the same.
And if you don't think they're the same,
then you really need to dig deep.
But hypocrisy is the biggest thing that kills a Christian.
A hundred percent.
So if you're gonna make a stand,
make sure the stand is not hypocritical.
Right. Right.
And that in everything that you do,
it aligns itself with this stand in your life.
Right, with convictions, yep.
Again, people will say,
my kids aren't allowed to watch this,
but when the kids go to bed,
either they're watching the very thing
they told the kid not to watch,
or they're watching something that's extremely similar. Okay, if the rule and this is the thing that I would say
happened in our home, Tom's big on no hypocrisy and I love that because I hate hypocrisy.
But one of his big stands was if the kids can't watch it, we can't watch it. If the kids can't say it, we don't say it.
If the kids can't drink it, we don't drink it.
If the kids can't eat it, we don't eat it.
All across the board, as far as,
and his big thing was, is whatever we tell them,
they cannot do, which is what I'm trying to say to you.
Whatever we told our children you're not allowed to do,
we didn't do.
So it wasn't do as I say and not as I do. You'll kill
your kids. True. Even in not in a Christian home, you want to have no
relationship with them, live one way and tell them they can't live the same way
you are. But a lot of people will do that. They'll be like, we'll wait till the
kids go to bed and then we'll, whatever it is. If you can't do it in front of them, you shouldn't be doing it. Yep. That's the facts. So if you set a rule of something is the Antichrist, make
sure that the other things that are Antichrist really are. Oh, I knew it. Oh my gosh! Bend down. Bend down. That's my, that's my baby boy.
He'll be 60th.
Not yet.
Not yet.
60.
Not yet.
Such a brat.
Five eight, five eight.
This is birthday dear.
It's the best thing that ever happened to me.
Ah.
Oh.
Look how happy he is.
That's my main squeeze right there.
Oh my gosh, I love you guys. I finally main squeeze right there. Oh my gosh.
I love you guys.
We finally got classy.
Oh my gosh.
For those who didn't hear,
my husband just said the show just got classy.
I have arrived.
What did you say, Tommy?
The headliner.
Oh my gosh, true.
She has finally had some show and some music.
Tommy goes, the headliner is a disaster.
The only reason you guys got last
is not because you're the best.
Well, actually, actually Thomas, actually Thomas, it's because you had to come from Tampa.
You also gave him Tommy a better reaction than me.
I didn't even get that.
Oh, why did I kiss?
Listen, holy crap.
Okay, can I just tell you why?
I knew that was gonna happen.
No, I did.
I did.
Do you know why?
To like not giving me a good reaction.
You know what?
You know why that is?
Cause you always come through.
He doesn't always come through.
That's the truth.
It's true.
I always know. Like if there's something, if something special is going to be normal pretty much.
Tommy?
Tom, are you coming in here for something?
No.
All right.
Now let's make this a podcast. Let me tell you what's wrong with America.
Oh my gosh.
Get out of here.
That's funny.
I love you guys.
Thank you for coming.
Are you leaving Norma?
Okay.
I don't really care that the other two are going.
I would have been sad if Norma got us.
I love you guys.
I love you guys.
I love you guys.
I love you guys. I love you guys. I love you guys. I love you Okay. I don't really care that the other two are going.
I would have been sad if Norma got us.
Norma, don't leave us.
That's funny.
I knew it.
Did I call it or what?
You are so smart.
And now it's over.
Nobody else is coming.
They were right on time too.
They were.
They're so good.
You know why they came on time?
Because they raised from Tampa.
I think they've been sitting back there.
So good.
So proud of them.
Thank you, Heather.
Huh?
Oh, they did just get here.
Thank you, Heather.
I love you.
She's the best.
She is the best.
So back to, back to what we're talking about.
Don't be a hypocrite.
Amen.
That's it. Amen. That's it.
Amen.
That's the big, it's really not about,
and I know you, listen, I say, if you're Christian
and you got an opportunity to work for a company doing AI,
if you feel convicted,
if you can find something in the Bible
that backs up that conviction, that like reinforces it to you,
or unless you really know, you can hear the voice of the Lord clearly because you talk to Him every day.
Because a lot of times people feel convicted and they're not, they don't know the Word,
so they've convicted themselves and it's not true.
Right, yes. I feel like that happens more often than not.
It happens a lot.
Too much.
Mm-hmm.
It happens a lot. People feel. Yeah. It happens a lot.
People feel convicted over nothing that they should feel a conviction for.
Feelings.
Yeah.
All feelings.
Yeah.
When in reality, if you don't have a real strong relationship with God and you can't
hear that still small voice clearly, make sure it's in the Word and it backs it up. Or go to somebody that is very
balanced. And when I mean that balanced, it means they hear the voice of the Lord. They,
you're going to think that I feel cocky, but I mean, I trust their opinions too, but I think
everything we said right here is very balanced. Like I don't look at just one thing.
I sit there and go, what does, like me saying, okay, AI,
let's look at Google, let's look at Apple,
let's look at Walmart, let's look, okay,
all of those are very similar to that.
And no Christian feels bad about going in
at a job at Walmart.
A very global company run by very not good people.
I just sit there and go, be balanced.
And if you have a tough time with that,
find somebody else who is balanced as well,
seek their counsel and their guidance
and have them help you make that decision.
So, otherwise go take the job. I like that. Yeah. Yeah.
James 126, Amplified Classics says, if anyone thinks him himself to be
religious, piously observant of the external duties of his faith and does
not bridle his tongue but dilutes his heart, this person's religious service is
worthless, futile and barren. So this goes along with being a hypocrite. Romans 2.1 says,
Therefore you have no excuse or defense or justification, O man, whoever you are
who judges and condemns another. For in posing as judge and passing sentence on
another, you condemn yourself because you who are judge are habitually practicing the very same things that you censor and denounce.
Make sure if you think if you think think something should not be done, participated in,
or you have a judgment call about it, make sure that you yourself aren't doing something similar.
You are allowed to judge. A lot of people say, see the Bible says judge, and no, you're not allowed to judge
unless you're doing the same thing.
Jesus said you'll know them by their fruit.
That's judging.
You're going to have to judge the fruit.
Also, He said to expel the wicked man from among you
because a man was having sex with his father's wife.
In order to know he's wicked,
you have to judge.
Yeah, correct.
And if in order to tell somebody they need to be saved,
how do you know they're not saved?
You have to judge because their lifestyle.
I mean, judgment is all the time.
The thing is, is you cannot judge
if you are doing the very same thing.
You have to shut your mouth. So make sure if you're going to tell somebody that they shouldn't do it,
take a job for AI or you're telling people that they shouldn't celebrate this
or they shouldn't do that, make sure that whatever you're doing
is not got any hypocrisy in it.
Yeah.
Because that is dangerous.
You will lead people astray.
Oh my gosh, that looks gorgeous.
Beautiful.
You did good, girl.
She just arranged my bouquet,
which I'll show everybody before I leave
because that's a lot of flowers.
Yeah, you can bring it over here.
Look at this bouquet of flowers.
I love flowers.
That is beautiful.
That's so pretty.
That's so pretty.
Thank you. Great job sister.
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All right the next question this one is
possibly longer than five minutes but can we interrupt your question?
Oh I see something. Stop being observant just appreciate a surprise.
Ah!
The Peanut Gallery. Yes. Aw.
You gotta read the card.
Read the card. Yes.
Do I read the writing?
Writing.
May your day be full of laughter, cake,
and zero church drama.
So far, so good.
So, start on the other side.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh. Oh. Oh. It's cool. It's cool. Oh. That's so flippin' funny.
I'll read that again.
But it says, listen, if we had a dollar
for every time you lovingly pushed us
out of our comfort zone, we'd be living on a beach,
somewhere sipping holy water. Look at the bottom. Oh, this is whoever wrote.
Oh, I think I just, whoever wanted to know whether they should work for AI.
Do it.
Just do it.
Do it.
Just do it.
But seriously, thank you for being a kind woman who doesn't.
I don't think I'm on. But seriously, thank you for being a kind woman who doesn't,
I don't think I'm on, who doesn't cheer,
who doesn't cheer from the sidelines,
but jumps in, grabs our hand and says, girl, let's go.
Chet, you're taking butt.
You're challenging us.
This has got, you know how one of the reasons why?
The grammar is perfect.
Yeah, you know it's not us.
True. That's so funny.
Girl, let's go.
You challenge us, stretch us and pray for us.
You don't only help us grow.
You make sure we don't shrink back.
May your day be full of laughter cake and zero church drama.
Love you.
Big jet GPT, Vanessa, Tanya, and Tracy.
Oh dear Lord, some mercy.
Oh my gosh.
What in all of cake pot is this?
My son is going to be so happy.
And so is my husband.
Norma, get on this.
You can make protein pops with that.
No way.
For real.
Yes.
For real. These. For real.
These are cake pops.
I'll send you a TikTok.
But protein pops too.
Yeah.
Everything.
Or you have like fruit juice pops.
Yeah.
Oh, this is like popsicles.
Yeah, you put it in the freezer.
Popsicles.
Yeah.
I know.
Holy moly.
Oh my gosh.
Red light therapy. That's, that's Vanessa all over it. Yeah.
Totally. Oh my gosh. We're gonna wait for the question next week. The next week's
going, the next one's going in. Oh my gosh. You speak my language. I love this.
You can store your protein shake in there. Oh my gosh. You know who's gonna end up taking this?
It's my son.
Maybe.
You know he makes cold brew now.
Oh, that's a perfect name for it.
If you want an excellent cold brew.
Yeah, I do.
I do.
I do too.
Tommy, Tommy.
I'm telling you right now, Tommy's cold brew is killer.
Hey.
I'm not kidding you.
I'm not exaggerating. I'm not exaggerating.
I believe it.
I needed these.
I'm a built bar addict.
I know. True.
And I went to go get these cookies.
The cookies and cookie dough.
Yeah. All gone.
What?
All gone.
No way.
And the coconut is your favorite. It's mine.
It's your favorite too, Vanessa?
And the brownie.
I like both brownie and coconut.
A manicure set, much needed
since I don't go to the manicure anymore
because I destroy my nails.
The manicures did not destroy my nails.
I destroy my nails.
Try.
You can keep it in your pocketbook.
Oh my gosh.
How did you know I love these?
I don't.
No, we, yeah, we thought we could give you know I love these? I don't know.
We thought we could give you some new things to try,
or I've already had these.
You can.
They're so good.
Yeah, that was the Holy Spirit.
Holy Spirit 100%.
And this bag.
Isn't it so cute?
It's Kate Spade.
The cutest.
Jera picked this up, didn't he?
No, but that's a good guess.
That is a good, now he's gonna go buy something.
I'm gonna tell him that he guessed that.
No, did you send him to Kate Spade?
No. No.
No, you have, or did I just send him to Kate Spade?
I know I have sent him.
Maybe.
Stop figuring things out, just enjoy.
Just take it in.
And don't worry, your horse pills are coming.
They are.
Oh my gosh.
This is so cute.
Isn't it the cutest?
Oh my gosh, I am one happy 58 year old, soon to be.
This is the best.
I never do this for them, guys.
You need to know.
What?
Yes you do.
A suck egg.
You bless our lives every single day.
You are just a blessing to be blessed.
Oh my gosh, that card.
Wasn't that awesome?
That card's the best.
Oh my gosh.
I'm probably gonna read that card about 10 times.
Please do.
Oh my gosh, that card is flipping hilarious.
I'm like, this can, I mean, they're quick witted,
but this just doesn't seem right.
This is too good.
They're not that clever.
This is just like, just doesn't seem right.
This doesn't seem right.
All right, people.
We got 12 minutes and counting or 12 seconds and counting.
Next question is a hot topic and we will be hitting it on Wednesday because Friday we have Natalie.
Yes, which we are going to be like always. But next question is somebody, you know, this is something that Tom and I talked about when
we first saw this, but the next question, I'll give you a little tip.
It's, I'll read it to you.
Progressive Christianity has become a growing movement that emphasizes inclusion, social
justice and a reinterpretation of scripture through a modern lens.
But what exactly does it teach? And how does it, as core beliefs, align or conflict with
historic biblical Christianity? I'm not really going to get into the historic and biblical part of it,
because, I mean, it's not necessary. But the thing is, can a Christian embrace progressive ideals while staying faithful to the authority of the Bible?
If you don't know what progressive Christianity is, we'll get into this,
but this is one of the things that Tom and I have said for several years now.
It will be the thing that causes the great falling away.
Yeah, I believe that.
It's not good.
So, if you want to know a little bit more about it,
and obviously I gave you the answer to that question,
but see us on Wednesday, 3 o'clock.
Can't wait to see you.
Have a great three-day weekend.
If you go, if you live in the area,
and you come to our Foundation Church,
we will see you Sunday. Tune in if you don you live in the area and you come to our foundation church, we will see you Sunday.
Tune in if you don't live in the area.
We are on all social media platforms except for TikTok.
And what's the other thing?
See you Sunday.
Yep.
Is there something else?
My brain is fried.
I would say happy Memorial Day,
but I've been told that's no longer politically correct to say.
No way.
What?
You can't say there's nothing happy about Memorial Day.
OK.
OK.
I know.
I said it one time to somebody.
Happy Memorial Day.
We don't say that.
And then I started singing it all over the place.
Oh, no.
There's nothing happy about Memorial Day.
I might have to change our post.
I understand that it's not considered happy, but it is a celebration.
And is that progressive? Are we, are we adapting to that? Because I'm going to have to talk
to you about the post liberal. Cause it's like the politically correct police. Are we
still saying happy? I say, let's say it. Happy Memorial Day. Let's just say Memorial Day. Memorial Day.
I know, how do you say that?
Like what do you say?
Memorial Day.
No, that doesn't work.
In remembrance.
I know, but even that doesn't work.
I already thought of that one in my head.
I don't know.
You know what? You know who would know?
Chet GPT.
How do you say, ask it how do you say happy
Memorial Day in another way? That would be similar to happy Memorial Day. As I
wait. He's pretty fast so we'll get we'll have it really quick.
So I asked, how can we say happy Memorial Day
that isn't offensive?
Memorial Day is a solemn occasion dedicated
to honoring military personnel who died
in service to the country.
It doesn't understand what you're asking.
Because it's serious nature.
Some of the people are saying that happy Memorial Day
can come off as insensitive or tone deaf.
I told you.
Thoughts of alternatives to having Memorial Day
are honoring and remembering those who gave it all
with gratitude for those who sacrifice everything,
remembering our fallen.
It's wishing you a meaningful Memorial Day.
Wishing you a meaningful.
That's a lot of words.
It literally is.
With respect and remembrance on this Memorial Day.
So far my.
Thank you for your service.
This one.
Thank you for your service.
No, because that doesn't end. And we remember and honor your fallen comrades today.
Oh my gosh.
That's it.
That's what you got.
Those are your options.
No.
So for all of my non-politically correct friends,
happy Memorial Day.
And for all of you sensitive,
like needing safe places,
spaces and sit in the corner and suck your thumb.
Happy remembrance and honoring of Memorial Day.
How about that?
Yes.
Enjoy your Monday off.
Don't forget to say thank you to a veteran.
They deserve it.
And there are, don't mom, don't they have,
you can go to national cemeteries and play,
put flowers down.
You can put a basket for 10 days before,
or in 10 days after they will leave it.
So maybe go to a cemetery, to a soldier's grave,
cause like my dad, my mom has already got his basket down.
But maybe go and honor a soldier who has no one,
no one who will remember them,
put a nice thing of flowers down for them
and remember them and honor them for that day.
It's a great way to look at the day a little differently.
But thank you to everybody who served this country,
who has given me the freedoms and my peanut gallery
and everybody else in this room to do and say
and experience all that we get to.
We live in the best and finest country
on the face of the earth.
That's why everybody wants to run here.
True.
It's true.
So thank you to everyone who has somehow sacrificed
something so that we can have the life we live. We honor you, we thank you to everyone who has somehow sacrificed something so that we can have the life we live.
We honor you, we thank you, and we will see you Sunday and Memorial Day is all yours. Bye! Real Talk.