The Hope Hotline - Thanksgiving Special!

Episode Date: November 22, 2024

Question #1 I have a lot of family members who don’t agree with me politically, and with Thanksgiving coming up and everything going on politically, I’m wondering how to handle the situation. I’m concerned that some family members might take shots at my views or make snide comments during the visit. How can I deal with that in a way that keeps the peace but also stays true to myself?Question #2What is your favorite thing about Thanksgiving and what is your favorite thing to eat that day?Question #3The Thanksgiving Parade seems to have gotten more 'woke' in recent years. With that in mind, do you think it's still appropriate for smallchildren to watch it, or should we be more selective about what they’re exposed to?

Welcome to the Hope Hotline. It is a wintry, blustery Friday for us. What's the temperature, ladies? 72? 71. 71 degrees, guys. Yep. And it feels amazing. Feels amazing.

This morning was freezing. Yeah. I walked an hour and 20 minutes. What? Oh my goodness. That's like five miles. Well, me and my little Russian girl. I don't know if she's Russian. Natalia.

The beauty that she is. She and I walked for, since everybody dumped me. Oh, my gosh. She's pretty. She's a pretty girl. She is. She's so cute. She's so cute.

But she and I walked. You wouldn't know she, like, she doesn't look like she's from a like she's russian or nothing does she she looks italian right yeah i didn't think she was yeah yeah she looks italian or something with her name she is too which way yeah yeah if you changed if you change her name to natalie yeah that isn't even ital. What were you going to say, Talia? I said it's probably because of her name, too. Natalia. That's true. Natalia. Natalia. Natalia.

In Mexican, that sounds great. Wait. I don't speak Mexican. Why does she do that every time? I do it on purpose because she gets so offended. I love it. Wait a minute. She's like, I'm not Mexican.

If you're Mexican, there's nothing against being Mexican. She's just Puerto Rican. But I'm just Puerto Rican. Oh, man. I can't even do it. I have to close my eyes. No. Say it.

Puerto. Puerto. She just close my eyes. No. Say it. Puerto. Puerto. She has to close her eyes. I can't do it at all. Puerto. Do the last part. Rico. Rico.

Okay. Okay. That was better. That was closer. That was close. So I walked an hour and 20 minutes this morning. That's amazing. Yeah.

We got lost. As far as the problem. That's amazing. Yeah. We got lost. That's part of the problem. Okay. And then we had to hightail it because she does facials too, girls. What? Does she really? She does facials. Like she receives them or she gives them?

She gives them. She's like a whole setup. That's cool. I love that. She's got a whole setup, man. And she's like, I'm so proud. I'm like all these entrepreneurs. I know.

Tracy and then you got Brynn. Yeah. And then you got her. Yeah. Like, I love it. These entrepreneurs doing this stuff. I know. Me too.

It's so good, man. Don't work for the man. Don't do it. Work for yourself. Amen. Mm-hmm. Power to the people. Yeah.

Jeff came into my class on Monday to talk to my biblical finance class. I heard it was amazing. It was amazing. And that was what he said. Listen, if you can launch a business, do it. Yep. Do it. I heard he was amazing. Where is my video for co-op?

Oh, yes. Where is that? I'll show it to you. Dropping the ball. I'm sorry. There's been a couple. We've been doing a lot of videos this week. I have a whole list for you to look at.

I'm a little busy. I have not stopped. I know. But it's okay. But it's okay. It's all good. My back just popped. That felt great.

But I have another video for you. What video is that? Let's do it. Okay. Should we set it up? I don't know. So, Jer sends me this. Tracy's husband, Jer,

sends me this video. And like, it is on point. But, it's for my homosexual husband and friend over there. I'm homosexual? You and Tom. Her husband is. And then you as well are part of this conversation. My husband, who's the homosexual, along with Vanessa over there. I'm homosexual? You and Tom. Her husband is. And then you as well

are part of this conversation. My husband is a homosexual along with Vanessa over there. Love this crap. Oh, hold on. Can't stand it. I can't wait. I was like, dadgummit, Jared.

This is like on point. This is the best of the best. Play it. Oh, you missed. Best friend since childhood. I'm here with the rest of the pies. What's she doing here? Non-threatening, ethically invigorating friend.

You know her? Oh yeah, I know her. That's Big City Girl, who just opened up the corporate bake shop that's taken over Small Town. So what, you were just using me for my family's secret recipes? I was gonna tell you i just i couldn't find the right time time you had like half this movie to tell me wait i can explain everything you know what i knew it was too good to be true good luck at the bake-off oh you missed i'm gonna watch it how does it end how does it end? How does it end?

And listen, next week, my life is over after Thanksgiving. You know why? Why? Because. Marathon? Yes. My life is over as I know it. Starting with one right after another.

And I'm not kidding you about it. One right after another. Just lean in. I'm not leaning in. I can in. I'm not leaning in. I can't. I lean in every year. I just can't anymore. What's one more year?

Marriage is about compromise. True. True. That's a whole lot of compromise, people. I mean, that is one sappy,

nasty, bad movie. Like, it's not even C-rated. I mean, C-actors. It's like D C-rated. C-actors. It's like D and F. Oh, my gosh.

I would agree. They're horrible actors. Right, that's the whole point of it. Yes. I don't know how many of you love Hallmark, but my word. Yeah, let us know in the comments. There is more of me and less of you.

I would have to watch less because there would be no audience. True. Lifetime, yes. Lifetime is also another network. That's the one that he really loves now. Yeah, I prefer it over Hallmark now. A little too much kissing on my, for me.

Oh, really? They kiss too fast. Too fast. Yeah, because Hallmark kisses at the very end. Yeah, and this one, mid-movie. You're right. They're getting a pecker. You're right.

Okay. They're already leaning in. That's dangerous. Getting the kiss. A little slippery slope right there. I said to Tom, my first time, I didn't know his lifetime. I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute. This is way too early for this to be going on.

Calm down. It's been four seasons yet. Exactly. And he was like, this ain't Hallmark. This is way too early for this to be going on. Calm down. It's been four seasons yet. Exactly. And he was like, this ain't Hallmark. This is Lifetime. This is Lifetime. Oh, my gosh. They're a little too fast on Lifetime for me.

Funny. Yep, yep. So, all right. Okay. So, get ready. Have you already watched some, Vanessa? What do you think? How many do you have down? Because Tom watched some Vanessa what do you think how many do you have

down because Tom counts how many do you have I've only I've only watched one I know shocking right well you've been gone yes but

also I've been in bed by 830 oh my every night so I can't I can't fit one in for the record what did I tell you people what time

did I tell you that she went to bed? She denied it and she tried to argue with me about it. I was better this week. You know what? Whatever is hidden in the darkness comes to the light. Isn't that what the scriptures say? Truth always prevails.

And I'm just telling you, I knew it would come eventually. I know. There it is. But let me tell you, this week was better. I was in bed at 10 last night. Okay. So there's progress. You just got home.

I know. That's not like you wanted to see your kids. I'll check back in next week and let you know. I don't want to hear it. I know it's 830 on average. Whatever. Oh, my gosh. All right.

We got questions that we must answer today. Must. Okay. It's a must. It's a must. Okay. Ready? Because I'm going to save everybody from their Thanksgiving hell. We're going to make it enjoyable. We're going to make it enjoyable for you. Must. Okay. It's a must. It's a must. Okay, ready? Because I'm going to save everybody from their Thanksgiving hell.

We're going to make it enjoyable this year. We're going to make it enjoyable for you. Yeah. Okay. So go, Tracy. All right, ready? Okay, Facebook. Hello, everybody.

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Christmas Eve service. It's on Christmas Eve this year, again, Tuesday, December 24th at 7 p.m. So start thinking about who you're going to invite. It's going to be amazing. It'll probably be around an hour, right, Hope? Yeah, right around that.

So that's something you can prepare for, just about an hour and always a good time. I personally love Christmas Eve services. I love being able to go to church

and then go home and then wake up in the morning. I don't know, maybe just because I've done it my whole life. Well, I hope you get up in the morning every morning. Well, sometimes, you know, you wonder if Jesus will come that night and then you don't know. It's maybe just because I've done it my whole life. So it's like an expectation. Well, I hope you get up in the morning every morning. Well, sometimes, you know, you wonder if Jesus will come that night.

And then you don't have to wake up in the morning. That would be nice. No, because Trump's president now. So it's fine. We don't have to pray that anymore. So just a reminder, next week's obviously Thanksgiving, hence why we're doing this episode. But we will not be here next week. So please remember that.

And then if there's any old episodes you want to catch up on, that's always fun to do. Go back and look at some old stuff. But if not, we will see you the following week. And we'll be here ready to go that next Wednesday. And now we're ready to go. Voila. I'm so excited for Christmas Eve service.

And it's going to be great. Oh my gosh. It's going to be great. I wish I could tell you everything. I know. But I'm not. Because secrets are fun. Secrets are fun.

And then I'll make you come. True. That's right. So like she said, we're not going to be here Thanksgiving. And Tracy, you're going to see family. Yes. Now, this is based on the first question. Now, Tracy, is everybody politically on the same page in your family?

Yes. Are they all into the conspiracy theories of your father? Everybody minus my brother, DJ. Oh, really? Yeah. And what does DJ think? DJ thinks we're crazy. Your mom thinks You're crazy too

Yeah mom kind of Like dabbles But she thinks If she enables too much Then So she kind of sticks And DJ's the golden child She loves DJ

Why is DJ the golden child? I don't know Because he's the golden child Because he's the baby He's easy He's the baby He's the baby He's super laid back

He's just easy Okay DJ Does not believe in the conspiracy theories. No, he thinks they're crazy. Okay, I'm with DJ. I'm probably pretty much all of them. Would I not be? Me and DJ would be sitting here together. Yeah, probably.

I mean, you'd be interested. You'd be like, yeah, but. Like, that's what DJ's like. But DJ's like, absolutely not. There's no way any of this stuff is true. But the conspiracies that have become reality, he agrees with those. It's the ones that are a little bit deeper.

A little far off. I don't know if they're far off. I mean, for me, they're not far off. Like the aliens in the sea. What are you talking about? Oh, never mind. I didn't bring it up. That's the new one.

Okay. It's actually not a conspiracy. Thanksgiving's being put on hold for just two seconds. I'm not kidding you. No, it's actually not a conspiracy anymore. Thanksgiving's being put on hold. The U.S. government has come out saying that there are aliens in the sea. I wish I was making that up.

There are aliens in the sea. Yeah. Our government's saying that. Yes. Yes. Then it probably is not true. That's what everybody said. It's just scripture.

I mean, there is a scripture. There is scripture that talks about aliens being in the sea. No. The beast coming out of the sea in Revelation. Same thing. Oh, so, but they're saying aliens. But they're saying aliens. But what are we saying?

They're demons? They're demons. Of course. Most likely. Of course. A hundred percent. What sea? Revelation 13, one through three.

The dragon stood on the shores of the sea and I saw a beast coming out of the sea. It had 10 horns and seven heads. But do you know where they believe the sea is, guys? What sea are they referring to? Oh, I don't know. What is the sea that the government is saying? It's the government, yeah.

But do you know what sea that actually is referring to? No, tell me, please. The Dead Sea. Oh. That's where people believe a lot of, because of the heat that has come out of it. I mean, if you study out the Dead Sea, it's crazy. And the science that has been pulled from

there and the heat that they when they've dug deep right at that location which that location historically has some things that parallel with revelation the dead sea is where actually they believe is where hell is interesting yes so okay if it's like the atlantic ocean oh 100 they believe that the it's the bermuda triangle hello no hope they saw them with their own eyes i don't know why you're like the lochmast monster yes exactly i can't even okay dj where are you? I know DJ's like, this is actually, this is probably the one he does believe. I'll report back.

Okay. No, super interesting. Inquirer minds want to know. Yeah, yeah. You national inquirer. I know. I'm just listening. Talia doesn't even know what I mean

by national inquirer, but. She says no. Is that still around? No, neither is the star, I don't think. I don't think it is either. With three-eyed people. Listen. That's so funny.

Oh my gosh. So now they're saying that there's such thing as aliens? Underwater. Underwater? No, they already admitted there's aliens and UFOs outside. Congress, yeah. In the sky. Confirmed.

Yeah, so now it's, yeah, Congress confirmed that they're in the ocean. I'm just saying. And now that I've Googled it, I'm on a list somewhere. You are. 100%. Also Googled it. Great. Foundation Church.

Oh, my gosh. Don't use that for our computers. Too late. We're on the IP address. Yeah trouble holy moly yeah okay that's the news now you know the more you know okay okay so ty is at my house for thanksgiving okay because her mom is got a thing a cheer thing every thanksgiving you had to do it too back in the day, Tal. Yeah. Yeah. So this is the last one, correct?

Char is like it. She's the last one doing these nationals and stuff. You have to make nationals in order to go there. This isn't even on her team. This is just my mom coaching. Oh, this isn't even Char on your mom's cheer team? Yeah, no. This is for nationals, correct?

This is regionals. Regionals to go to nationals so i have i have talia again this year no thanks so lucky that's right i know she's saying i know that i'm lucky uh-huh that's about right that sounds about right vanessa yes now you're at home. Yes. I'm hosting. Is everybody that's coming on the same political page? So my brother is flying into town, my younger brother. Oh, my gosh. He's not? He doesn't necessarily stand where we stand,

but he's like very much, he's Gen Z, or like an elder gen z okay and so he doesn't believe in anything yeah okay he's very neutral but your other brother yeah your name's mud when you talk politics can you say that again your name is mud when you talk politics oh yeah yeah yeah we don't even touch it you going to be of good help for this question then. Okay. I will not be. I will be.

Yes. Because my side, my personal side of the family, my mom's side of the family, big time liberal. Big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big time liberal. I have an uncle who looks like Dick Cheney, who is the biggest liberal on the face of the earth. And he thought people were calling him Satan if he was called Dick Cheney. Like that was like a trigger word for him. Holy crap.

Wow. He's very big time liberal and a pastor. Believe it or not. And then Tom's side of the family. Yeah. Holy moly. I just had Tommy. I'm laying, like the next day, ready to get out of the hospital.

Not dressed or anything. But his mom, who's the sweetest thing since pumpkin pie, and her husband, who has since passed, came in and started in. Tom let it go for a while. I just had a baby, for crying out loud. It got ugly. Oh, no. Uh-oh.

His mom's like, it's time for us to go. Yeah. Thanks for seeing your grandson. Yeah. Or your niece. It might have been norma i think it was i think it was i could swear it was uh tom tommy though but oh man listen it's rough it's rough when you have politics there's some things religion politics and moral issues for people yeah those are touchy.

Just turn on the football game. Yeah. Pretty much all I'm going to be able to tell you. Turn on the football game, and everybody keep their mouth shut. Yeah. Eat some food. But that's not what happens. I have a lot.

This is the question. I have a lot of family members who don't agree with me politically, and with Thanksgiving coming up and everything going on politically, I'm wondering how to handle the situation. Don't walk in going, we won, we won, and wearing a MAGA hat. Or a Trump Vance hat. You're screwed. A MAGA hat.

Don't wear red at all. Yeah, don't. Literally. Wear blue. Just wear blue. Yeah, yeah, right. Just wear blue. Don't say anything.

Could get real ugly real fast. It's true. Says, I'm concerned, you should be, that some family members might take shots at my views or make snide comments during the visit. And that happens. I can't tell you. People do take shots at you.

Yeah. But if you are doing that to people, if you go to a holiday thing and you're a Christian and that's what you do, let me just tell you this. You ain't winning anybody to the Lord behaving like that. True that. So don't even try. And if you also walk into a room and you start witnessing

and try to start soul winning, like right when you walk in the room or whatever. That's a bad thing, too, because that don't work either. Let the door open. And then I know so many people that literally soul winning is vitally important. But when you shove people, shove Jesus down people's throat, they want nothing to do with you. And then when they finally are open to receiving him, you're not the one they're going to call. Okay.

So, and it says in the Bible, unless he draws them in, unless he draws them in, it's not going to happen. So remember that too. So don't be snide. Don't make little comments.

Keep your mouth shut. But, but also don't walk in trying to win win the loss because they don't want that either you're going to ruin the holiday for everybody but how can i deal with with that in a way that keeps the peace but also stays true to myself that is like staying true to yourself i think is the biggest biggest thing when you're having to deal with this because you also don't want to be an enabler and act like you agree with what they say.

That is a tightrope. That is. I know. That is a tightrope. Because a lot of times when you say nothing, then everybody in the room thinks you are either a coward or you are enabling. When other conservatives know and you're acting, you know, when other conservatives know

and you're like acting like you agree with them and everybody is like, wait a minute, what? Okay, so now that's kind of deceptive too. There is a fine line on how to interact on holidays. It would be best if everybody was just on their best behavior and did what everybody rightfully should do, which is be very shallow and very surfacy, you know, on main major topics,

especially when you don't even see each other that much. Like, there's not going to be too much in-depth conversation, let's face it, because you guys don't know. Like, you don't get to pick your family. You get to pick your friends, but you don't get to pick your family. So a lot of times when we have family, we don't know them that well. We only know the ones that we grew up with. And then by 18, they've grown up.

I mean, they've grown up and out of the house. You don't really know them either anymore, to be totally honest. People change huge amounts between 18 and 25 yeah huge amounts so you're not usually living with them during that time frame so you don't know them that well and back in the day we did because everybody stayed together in small communities and and in homes and that's just not how it is anymore. So a lot of times you're just going to, it's very shallow, surfacy conversation and people should really stick to it. But what happens is, is especially with this election time, people are really

wounded. That's a good word for it. They are so wounded over this loss. And there ain't a lot of them. There's more that be with us than them, as the Bible would say. There's way more of us than them. And that's just the facts. But for the ones that aren't, some of them are lunatics. Like, they're out there, like, again, shaving their heads. Like, I'm all for these women shaving their heads. Getting their tubes tied. Yeah, I'm all for that.

Guess what? Less abortions. Right. You're just making things a lot easier. You're actually coming our way. Yeah. And you're so stupid that you don't know it. You're actually helping us.

You're helping the cause. Yes. Yeah. You're doing what we believe in which is abstinence yeah so because some of them are like for the next four years shaving my head and i'm not going to be intimate with any man yeah kudos yeah that's really the way it's supposed to be it's the 4b movement yeah yeah that's the that's what we tell everybody to do but then we're like that's too extreme to tell people to remain abstinent so it's like they're choosing it on their own.

But out of vengeance, which is not really vengeance. Yeah, exactly. Because the men, after they look at you, they don't want you anyway. So it's like you're not hurting nobody but yourself. Like, eesh. Have you seen some of these girls shaving their heads? Lord, they didn't look that great before they had hair. Oh, man.

You shaved their head. Holy moly. Yeah, they're trying. Oh, man. They shaved their head. Holy moly. Yeah, they're trying to make a statement, that's for sure. And that statement is ugly. They are a sight to be seen. You are not looking good. And you know they regret it, like right after. Like the morning after, they're like, what did I just do?

Because all made in a, you know, that's why slow to speak. Yeah. It's just all, they are so impulsive because of rage. Yeah. And that's why a lot of people like a lot, I mean, there's,

I've seen some of these, um, I saw this lady who wasn't even on like a political show, but she hadn't eaten. She was a heavyset woman, very attractive woman. Um, and she was on the show and she said, uh, that she hadn't eaten. She was a heavyset woman, a very attractive woman. And she was on the show, and she said that she hadn't lost weight.

She had gained weight over the election because of the results of it. She had gained weight. It had stressed her out so much. And I'm like, wow. So people are like, but she's a very vocal person. And there are people who are very vocal like in my family some of them are extremely vocal and so i'm kind of glad we're not going anywhere for thanksgiving so how do you do it how do you navigate how do you stay straight on straight on the straight and narrow and and don't act like you do agree with them.

This is what my MO is, to be perfectly honest. This is what a lot of times I say when people want to go somewhere that I just think that it would be best that we don't go is, you know how I feel about that situation. You know my opinion. We probably don't want to talk about this. That's what I normally say.

I'm like very transparent, but let's not do this. This ain't the time or the place. But I don't say this isn't the time or place. I always just say, you know where I stand. I don't think you really want to hear it. Let's just move on. Because then I'm not enabling them, and then they definitely know I'm not agreeing with it.

What about you, Vanessa? So I think we've just been so consistent over the years that they just know where we stand. Like the hurricane. Like the hurricane. Nobody checked in on me. Nobody questioned why we stayed because they know we're crazy. Yeah, I didn't get that either. You know what I mean? Like we're just got how you doing? Yeah. Yeah. No one was like, you need to leave. You need like, no, they were like, we know that you're going to say, so we're not going to fight you on this. Like stays, you know, like, you need to leave. You need, like, no. They were like, we know that you're going to stay, so we're not going to fight you on this.

Like, stay, you know, like, God be with you. Yeah. So I recently was in New York in October, and we had a big family dinner. My older brother was present, who is very passionate about his views, and he's a big liberal. And we kept everything surface level we talked

about the kids we talked about life we talked about things that did not pertain to politics whatsoever because i know where he stands and he knows where i stand yeah but not always is it like that i know i think you just have to like. But haven't you ever been in a family environment where aunts and uncles, and it's not just siblings, like, because that's normally where it happens. Yeah. It's like, it's the extended family. Like, I've gone to family reunions, and it's been like, we're not going to talk about this.

Yeah, we just don't do that at the holidays. Like, it's just my immediate family like it's my mom some people it's big like i've known people they have 40 people come to their house no that's never been my story thank you i have i've had that many people come to my house before i've had that i've had it where we it has been yeah democrat democrat republican right now sitting at the same table and it's been aunts and uncles and oh yeah it's rough yeah yeah it's rough no thank you and there you know the sad thing is is you genuinely they're great people right on the whole yeah they're just misled yeah that's i don't know if you necessarily choose them as

friends but because they're your family you see you can extract the very positive things out of them and you can enjoy those things but then you add that element of where you're just so different yeah it makes it very rough and some people you some of you, I don't know, like maybe you, your family is like toxic because some people have toxic, toxic families and they love to just come in and stir the pot. I wouldn't entertain it. No. Yeah. Yeah. I think you're shutting it down thing is smart. And one thing that I heard, I'm not going to say who said this because I don't like him anymore. Because he's, he was a believer and he doesn't say things like Jesus would say them. But when it came to like atheists, he would always ask an atheist

that would come to him and be like, oh, you believe in God and blah, blah, blah. And he's like, have you researched that before? Like every question they would ask him, he's like, have you ever researched that before? Have you ever looked that up? Like, have you done your, like, have you done your due diligence? Because most people that are just throwing things out to date, like take a stab, they don't actually have an opinion about the other side. It's just what they know. So what they've heard, what they've heard, anything like CNN, what they've been told

with it. So have you ever done your own research? So, I mean, but that, that could, they could say, yeah, I have. And then it could end up in like a discussion. So I think yours is probably the best way to handle it. It's just like, I think we both know where I stand and I just want to enjoy today or something like that yeah it just shuts down debating yeah absolutely there's so many other things to talk about like you probably don't know what job they're in or how they're doing in their work or you know what their house maybe they're upgrading their

house like there's so many things to talk about with people that are positive that are positive so you just ask about everybody loves talking about themselves so you just ask lots of questions how are your kids what grade are they in even if they're super superficial and if you have 40 people keep go to the next person be like oh it's so good to catch up go to the next person ask superficial questions and if all else fails yeah and i'm not joking even though this is funny okay and i mean it's true if all else fails go on google and look up great questions to ask at thanksgiving dinner no seriously i'm not kidding no seriously you will be shocked yeah because i have looked up yeah i know i have a deck of cards and it's conversational starters yeah you just do it yeah bring them with you have a deck of cards and it's conversational starters. Yeah.

Do it. Yeah. Bring them with you. Have a game. Yeah, yeah, yeah. People love games. I don't. But everybody else loves games.

Me too. And if you're a mixed company, maybe not wear red. You know what I mean? Right. Maybe not wear your turtleneck. Well, don't, yeah. Don't purposely, because listen, I know people who have worn certain things to just trigger the room.

You don't do that. Oh, my dad. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Rise above. That's Jeff. Totally. Jeff has this shirt that says awake, not woke. It's his favorite shirt. He wears it when he travels.

Every airport run. And I'm just like, you chose violence this morning. Always. Hey, Sid. I know. My thing, too, is when the whole day is over with because everyone knows you're the believer in the room and sometimes

you might be the only one that's there because when Tom's family is when we get together with Tom's family we're the only Christians and the whole entire family we're the only ones so when you leave that room how do you want to be remembered yeah right right and with grace and dignity yeah a person who stands by their principles a person who is not the coward in the room but also like when you shine jesus is the one that's seen and so

like it's it's a powerful statement to make when you can be strong. And the scripture is so true, but strong in the Lord and the power of his might. And sometimes without even words needing to be spoken. And so that's how you want to leave the room is where people see him. And a lot of people, especially, they won't remember what you said, but they will remember how you made them feel. Yeah, it's true. Yes.

You know, the one thing I will say is like with, you know, when you have the Lord, like the confidence that when you have a strong, intimate relationship, one where, you know, you have the intimate conversations with him, you're in his word on a daily basis, which all of us should be.

Everybody should be. And I'm not talking five minutes or your 30 minutes devotional. I mean, digging into the word and understanding who you are in Christ, but understanding the safety net that he provides you by being his child. See, there's something to be said,

like all of us that have an intimate, strong relationship with the Lord. It's like when you are growing up and something scary goes on and your dad, you know, your dad's like standing behind you. So ain't nothing going to happen. Like you're good. Well, that's the same thing that you offer people when you walk in the room as a believer, and they don't even know what that is. But that's the Holy Spirit. And then there's like this presence that you bring in, that tangible Jesus that they've never felt.

And that draws them into him because then they want what you have. But you already have it, so you understand it because you know the safety and the rest that you walk in daily. And a lot of people are in turmoil, people. They're just, they're a whole big mess. Whether they're happy that, you know, Trump won or not, they think he's their savior. He's not. And then the next thing is, is, okay, we got Trump for four and then we'll have Vance for eight. Okay. That's great. And I'm all for that. Don't get me wrong. That would be like coup d'etat,

cherry on top. At the end of the day, those two men are not your savior. So remember that they're going to like not get it right. And you've got to, you've got to be steadfast in your walk with the Lord because you don't know what's going to happen in the next four years. And you offer something that no one else in that room sometimes has,

but they can feel that presence. Yeah. And they need to feel that presence because I don't think any other way sometimes they're going to get saved. So integrity, character. Yeah. Say what needs to be said, but with few words, let your words be few. Lead with kindness. Yep. It's a fruit of the spirit. We

should all have it. Yeah. Yeah. But be strong and stern and not weak. Yeah. Because kindness doesn't mean that you're a pushover either. Absolutely not. So, but there's the right way. And they might end up not, even if you have to say something that is factual, actual, they might not think it's kind, but as long as you know, that's all that matters.

As long as you know that it was, and that the heart behind it, there's nothing you can do about that either. But I agree with you. Lead with kindness. So it goes a long way. Anything else? What about limiting your time there

oh dear lord yes not staying unless you're hosting it unless you're hosting it you're like yeah if you're hosting you're trapped yeah that's that yeah or start playing that song it's closing time yeah oh no you know it's you know you know always and i said this was so funny because this happened at our volunteer dinner dance. But when they start playing We Are Family, I got all my sisters in me. You know that the DJ is leaving. Time to wrap it up. The party's over. It's time to go.

Put on We Are Family by Sister Sledge and get the heck out. Yeah. You can't stay here. Wait. How's that saying go? Yeah. Linda says it all the here. Wait, how's that saying? Yeah. Linda says it all the time. Linda, drop it.

You can't. You can stay. You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here. Yeah. She says it every youth group. Yeah. Okay. One more question.

What happens like when your family doesn't invite you to the holidays anymore? Make new traditions. That has happened to us holidays anymore. Make new traditions. That has happened to us. Yeah. Okay. Like not necessarily me personally, and it might have happened to me personally. I didn't recognize it because I probably didn't care,

but I have had family where their family would all get together and they would be the ones that weren't invited. It's mean and it's hurtful, but, um, that's, that's where that scripture counted all joy, you know? Um, so what happened with this family is they created new friends that became closer to them than their own family was. Yeah. And they have a more intimate relationship with these people that they were way happier, way happier hanging out with these friends than they were with their own family.

So God can fill the voids and the gaps. And so if your family doesn't want to be with you, that's okay. That's okay. You can make your own. And it won't necessarily feel like that right away, like you're like, that it fits. But over time, as you find the friends that actually are very much like you, then it'll be totally different.

It'll be a great time. But, I mean, you're not the only one that's gone through it. Lots of families have gone through that. And just navigate through it. If you think about it, though, there's a lot of people who this Florida is a transient state, right? And so what happens is a lot of times people come down here and they have no friends, they have no family down here. And so they have to create that because they can't go home every holiday and their family ain't coming down to them every holiday. So at our church, it's funny because at our church, a lot of people, like at your house, how many people are coming that are friends that aren't family? Zero. So all of them are family?

Well, you suck. I have my in-laws. I have my brother coming down. And so she's not welcoming anyone. But I also did Friendsgiving. So we have a whole separate day that we do thanksgiving with friends yeah we just did that on sunday um and i had like all my girlfriends about 40 of us there um abide yeah um and then thanks Thanksgiving is like family.

Yeah. And ours has been both. It's family and friends or it's just been friends. Sarah's doing that too. She's having friends over as well on Thanksgiving. Yeah. Now that makes sense because you move down here and stuff like that. So for me and you're the consummate, uh, hostess with the mostest. So, yeah. But a lot of people do that. They move down here and they create their own little core. That's what I did. Yeah. So it just so happens you go home for, you don't go home for Christmas though.

Not this year. Yeah. But you go home for Thanksgiving every year go home for christmas though not this year yeah but you go home for thanksgiving every year i try yeah yeah so but lots of people do that and there is no it's not because there's issues with their family or their family didn't invite them it's just the way it is yeah yeah i did for a while i didn't go home every thanksgiving but it just depends when jay was working a lot i didn't want to leave him by himself on Thanksgiving. So sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't. But yeah. And you just, I mean, it's,

is it the same? No, but sometimes it's better. And that's the truth. Yeah. And it's all in the way you look at it. Yeah. If you go into it with the right mindset and the right heart,

you probably, you might have one of the best Thanksgiving's you ever. I have some of my best Thanksgiving's necessarily haven't been because all my family were there yeah they've like there's one that my family we went somebody blessed us and allowed us to go and stay at their home in Tennessee and it was now my dinner wasn't the greatest but But the time we had was just the best. It was such a great time. And it was just my family, just my two kids and my husband.

And that's the only time we've ever done that. That was, I cherish this. It's super special. I do, too. Yeah, so it's all in the mindset and how you do it. But it can be hurtful. That is mean. It is. To be left out. to be left out that you don't let bitterness like take root yeah like see it for what it is and then pray that god would restore because he also does that he's done it for me um and he can

he's the same god and he doesn't show favoritism so if he can do it for me he can do it for you and the greatest thing a lot of times is once there's restoration, it's better than it was before. Yeah, totally. So you can look forward to it. I'm not kidding you. Every single time

I've had something restored in my life, God has made it so it was better than it was before. Yeah, same. So look forward to that. Satan, he can try and steal all he wants to, but God, he wins he wins yep every time his plans aren't our way so you think that it'll happen a certain way that things will come back together it probably won't happen the way you think it will just

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and what is your favorite thing to eat that day? What is your favorite thing? I literally did not think about this question until just this second. I told them it, but I haven't thought about it. So I'm going to let you guys go. What is your favorite thing about Thanksgiving? Tell ya. Peanut gallery. Yes. What is your favorite thing about Thanksgiving? Tell ya.

Peanut gallery. Yes. Well, my favorite thing. Yes. To eat. Just favorite thing. Favorite thing. And then the favorite thing to eat.

What is the favorite thing? In order. In order. Yeah, do it. Okay, my favorite thing is obviously getting with the people I love and the food. And then my favorite food is mashed potatoes. Of course. I knew it.

If she could have mashed potatoes every day. Or potato. Just potato. It doesn't matter. She loves to doctor those potatoes up or mashed potatoes. Oh my goodness. It's ridiculous. I've never met a person that loves potato more.

What did you say? I said I'm a hoe for a potato. That's my bio. I'm a hoe for potato. For potato, yeah. Awesome. Sounds about right. Yeah, it does sound right.

Sounds like Talia. Didn't you make that up? Maybe. I'm pretty sure Vanessa made that up. Oh my gosh. Great. Yeah. I'm pretty sure Vanessa made that up. Oh my gosh. Great. Yeah. I'm a great influence.

Great. Did you teach her the twerking? No. No, that was my grandma. Your grandma taught you how to twerk? My mom's mom. Oh yeah. Now that sounds about right.

She taught me the wobble at like six or like seven. Oh my gosh. It's pretty great. It's pretty great it's pretty great that's that sounds about right i know that woman that sounds right about right okay next one when are you you want me to go yeah go ahead um so jeff works a ton and is always on the phone with the clients or doing something so thanksgiving and like any major holidays, he is off the clock. And so I get his full attention and I love it. Blame you.

So we cook together. We do all the things together. That's my favorite. Also like my kids. I just love us being a unit and we're just enjoying each other. We tend to do like board games and it's all it's a thing um and then my favorite food stovetop stuffing so gross i don't know what

it is i've had it maybe during childhood it's so nostalgic to me and i just love that hey that makes sense yeah i love it i love it sometimes there are foods that are yeah sometimes there's food that is just like that like it's like a hug it reminds me of like just being a kid like yoders this i wrote wrote yoders rolls have you ever had this no but i've heard good things they are like amish when I was in elementary school those, like when I have those, those were our elementary school rolls. And every time I eat them, it takes me back to being in elementary school.

Yeah, there are just some things that you're just like, that's it for me. I get fat off of those things. Just. And I only eat it once a year for Thanksgiving. I can't have soap top stuffing any other day. No, absolutely not. Just Thanksgiving.

Only Thanksgiving. And I eat my weight in it. Oh my gosh. Yes. That's me with mashed potatoes. Oh my gosh. I eat Thanksgiving meal, I don't know how many days. Yeah.

I eat lots of leftovers. I'm excited for Heather's jalapeno poppers. Those are good. She's now going to make those for you? Yeah, I told her to. Oh, my gosh. You're such a brat. I'm going to be thrilled.

So jealous. He's going to be so happy that you asked that for that. You should watch her make it. Heather makes a killer jalapeno popper. I've heard. Oh, my gosh. I've not tried it yet. I haven't.

They're so good. They're so good? Jealous. They're fantastic. Anything with bacon, you can't go wrong. True, true. Absolutely. So go ahead.

What's yours? Okay. Well, I like, because when I, okay, the girls were five when we separated. So every Thanksgiving when I would have them, it'd be really like special. So every other year we'd be all together. So that was always super special. So now this year I have everybody and I get to meet my nephew. So I have, we have Alexis, Kylie, Kenzie, Tootie, me, Jair, everybody's going up. And then my sister-in-law and the new baby are coming. So I

love like being able to like be together for the holiday, all of us, like that's super special. Um, and that's usually the years I didn't go up as usually cause I didn't have everybody. So we would just pick or choose. Um, but yeah, so I love that. That's like my favorite thing. I used to, coming up next, but I used to love the parade. Like I love just having it on and like just nostalgic. We'd always have it on. My grandma would have it on and we went to her house and then my mom always played it. So it's like one of those like traditions that we would always have on. I don't think I've ever watched it, but it's on. Like I see it, but I never like sat and like enjoyed it. It's just in the background and it's like supposed to be there.

If it's not, it feels weird. Well, I agree with that. It's like, it's like supposed to like, yeah, you're supposed to like see it, but not pay attention. Who cares? Who cares what they're dancing to? But it's appropriate. And then my favorite thing to eat is everything.

Like I like everything. I like the gravy. And then our favorite thing to eat is everything. Like I like everything. I like the gravy. And then our stuffing is the Pepperidge Farm one. Oh yes. The bag one. That's my mom. Okay. So that's my mom.

And then just mashed potatoes and gravy and the cranberry sauce is very important. Kayla makes an incredible, or Kaylee. No, mom. See, I like cranberry. It's the orange with it. But which one is it? It has to be canned. I used to be like that until I used to like the canned only too.

But now it's my mom, I think, that makes it. Yeah, Kaylee always requests it. So it's like everything. Just like the smorgasbord of everything. And a roll. And then the dessert afterwards. And then you make a sandwich later. And like, I just love Thanksgiving.

And then the turkey sandwich the next day. Or at night if you eat too early. You can have it later at like, I just love Thanksgiving. And then the turkey sandwich the next day. Or at night if you eat too early. You can have it later at night because you'll be ready for it then. Or when you wake up like at 3 o'clock in the morning. Or 3 o'clock in the morning. And you're like, I need a snack. Exactly right. But you don't get stovetop stuffing only once.

Only once on Thanksgiving. And then you can't do it. No, I have rules, okay? Of course you do. Boundaries. Bound do. Boundaries. Boundaries. Boundaries. Oh, man.

Because I'm a hoe for stoned up. Yeah. Stuffing. Inappropriate. I love it. Mine is, I think, personally, I think I love Christmas. I love Christmas because everybody's nice. And it's like the one time that people give each other grace and they smile

and they're very courteous to one another. There's something very, very special about the joy of Christmas. But the day is good, but it's not like Thanksgiving. Like Thanksgiving. I was going to be like, what about Thanksgiving? I was going to be like, do you mean Thanksgiving? Thanksgiving, there's something sweet and precious about it. And I mean, and I don't care if it's just with your friends or your family.

It's like everybody gets together. And the reason they're together is for a pure reason. It's not because they're coming together and they're bringing you something. They're coming together because they just want to be together. You know, and I just I love Thanksgiving just because of being with your family and laughing and joking around or not even laughing and joking around, just sitting watching football or, and famous. I personally watch the, I will even TiVo if I have to, but I'll record.

I watch the parade. I mean, I watch. I don't have it on in the background. I'll rewind it. I watch it. I will peel potatoes and watch the parade. I don't have it on in the background. I'll rewind it. I watch it. I will peel potatoes and watch the parade. I don't have it on in the background. She's serious.

I'm serious biz. It's been like that. We've watched it all my life. And when I've missed it, it sucked. Thanksgiving just ain't Thanksgiving. But sometimes you can't watch it because like i there was one year it was so bad that i was like i'm turning it off you're you're not

getting my viewership because i'm even though i love it's a part of tradition right principle is way more important than tradition so for me but um just being together i'm like you just being together and enjoying each other and i don't know there's something super special about the whole entire thing you you bond more when you're like growing up everybody always did stuff in the kitchen everybody hung out in the kitchen there's something about breaking bread with people yeah and just being together and that that creates such bonds and great memories and and things like that and now like florida homes they're so open that the kitchen and the living room are like one yeah which i love that me too it's because you don't miss out anything yeah it's great for entertaining

it's great for entertaining so nobody misses out on not, because back in the day, our kitchen was separate from our dining room, separate from our family room, separate from our living room. And so, and the kitchen was huge. So everybody hung out in there. But if you were in the family room. Right. Somebody was in the family room, you're missing something. Right, of course.

So that's what I love about this. But my favorite thing i think i'm like you tracy that's part of the reason why i had to lose weight is because i don't think there's anything that i don't love no seriously i love everything me too everything i mean and i like savor it me too me too yeah jeff makes a very good turkey. Let me tell you. I bet. I can imagine. He does the spatchcock. Okay.

So explain that. Yeah. Where you remove the breastbone and it lays flat. And so it cooks more evenly so that the skin is even. Like it's all crispy. Oh, okay. I was going to say, is it soggy? No, it's all crispy. Oh, okay. I was going to say, is it soggy? No, it's all crispy.

Does he do it on a fire or does he do it in the oven? On Sunday, he did it on an open fire and it was like chef's kiss. It's a lot of work so I don't think we're going to do that. We're just going to put it in the oven. Oh my gosh. I can't do any other way but the fried i can't do it any other way wow that's the best

okay because you we i inject that sucker with a whole bunch of butter and everything else yeah and as you cut it like it just oozes yep like i can't do anything and i like the crispy skin yeah the skin has to be crispy so with a fried turkey I got an upgraded fryer a few years ago not one of those big cylinder ones but one that's electric changed my world

changed my life but I'll never not do a fried turkey and it cooks rather fast yeah every pound is a minute. Okay. Oh, wow. It's fast.

That's really fast. Way fast. Oh, wow. It takes forever to heat up the oil, but. Oh, okay. And it requires a lot of oil. It does. Yes.

Well, not my size because my thing only holds so much and then you can only put so much oil in it. My turkeys are big. Yeah. Because you have to measure that really good because if you put in oh yeah turkey and the the oil overflows danger danger danger yeah i know that well fires happen because of it yep oh i've had it go over big time not probably it's for the fire ones the ones that have the fire beneath them. That's where it's dangerous.

Oh, yeah, that makes sense. My electric one's not, but it's not. It's no bueno. But, yeah, I mean, I just can't wait for Thanksgiving. I literally look forward to this as much as I think I look forward to Christmas, but for a whole new way. It is. It's very different.

Very different. There's no other holidays that are more important to me outside of 4th of July. Right. Yeah. Those three are my, like my holidays. I know. I understand Easter. Don't get all your panties all in an uproar over it.

Okay. I understand. But like there's some holidays, like we don't do dinners for Easter and stuff like that. I appreciate the spiritual aspect of it. But when you're talking about family things, we don't do anything for Easter. We don't do a dinner. We don't do anything. We just relax.

So if you're going to talk about the celebratory side of things, those are my three favorite. Because those are like you get everybody together for those three holidays. And you really celebrate. What about the dog show? Oh, no, I'm not on that. Because those are like you get everybody together for those three holidays. Right. And you really celebrate. What about the dog show? Oh, no, I'm not on that yet. Oh, the dog show? The dog show.

Do you watch the dog show? Oh, heck yeah. Okay. There's a dog show. Yes. And I'm going to talk about that. Because here's the thing. After the parade. Does Norma love that?

Norma's favorite. Oh, really? Okay, somebody said they watched it. They watch the dog show yeah every year right linda way to go linda yeah 100 so we're gonna go to the next question because i got three minutes okay which involves the dog show oh okay you didn't read my answers did you i didn't see there you go linda says the thanksgiving parade Thanksgiving Day parade, seems to have gotten more woke in recent years. Oh, my gosh.

Yeah, I know. I read that, and I'm like, I agree. It's terrible. Yeah. But your question is very good. With that in mind, do you think it's still appropriate for small children to watch it, or should we be more selective about what they're exposed to? Yeah.

Holy moly. Yep. selective about what we're what they're exposed to yeah holy moly yep okay lots of people like don't are like you yeah they're out and about and they're doing they're making thanksgiving dinner or whatever their kids propped up in front of the tv and they have no idea what their kid is watching on the on the parade it's bad sometimes not the parade itself the parade itself for the most part is still very very clean it's the broadway stuff have you ever seen it no okay all right i watch this see if you notice something and this happens all the time guys uh one of the reasons i turned off it was two years ago this one was last year but i'm about to show you two years ago i think

it was two years or three years ago i turned the parade off completely because i'm like i'm not supporting this play this okay i don't have it hold on what do you mean you don't have i don't have this one okay what are you talking about i don't have the youtube thing i don't know how to get it over and i didn't screen record this one so let me have screen record not this one um okay what i'm going to talk about well you do that yeah yeah can you get that one do you you think? Yep, yep. Okay. So what I'll do is I'll read you some scripture. So it is extremely important for us to, like your question is so good

because people don't think about guarding their children's heart or make, I know some families that might. I'll say this. I've known families that they don't let their kids watch anything. Okay. Nothing. They watch stuff.

They let their kids watch nothing. And the hypocrisy of it caused the kids to, when they finally got to be of age, they rebelled, and they were all over the place. They were like child out of wedlock, another one just off the rails, cutting themselves. Yeah, cutting themselves. I mean, I've seen it where parents don't let their kids do anything,

even like watch anything. But they themselves watch stuff. Parents, be very careful that you're not a hypocrite. So if it's not good for them, it's not good for you. If they can't watch certain things because you have a certain parameter for them, remember, they watch you. And if you go outside of the parameter that you're saying that they can't, then they will look at you in hypocrisy.

And believe me, I know hypocrisy will cause your children, you'll lose your children over it. And you think I'm crazy, but I'm not. Be very careful what your kids watch. Be very careful about the restrictions that you put on them. But, I mean, I was careful about what my kids watched, but I didn't go to the extreme that was not reasonable, right? Because the world is the world.

And if they go to school, my kids were homeschooled, so they didn't. But they also were around other people. So there's balance to everything. And I think people forget balance because they don't know balance. Does that make sense? Some people are not balanced, because they don't know balance. Does that make sense? Some people are not balanced, so they don't know balance. So they put this on their children, and then when their children are in the real world

and they realize that you're not balanced, that's a problem. Especially, well, I'll just leave it at that. If you know you, you know who you are, you know who I'm talking to right now. Be very careful about hypocrisy. Be very careful about like tying your kids down so much that they can't function without being in trouble or without everything being put in question

or whatever the case may be. Because all of that is not healthy either. Spiritually speaking, it'll cause them to run the other direction, sin, rebel. And I'm not big on don't have boundaries because your kids will rebel. Have those flipping boundaries. But you have to have balance. Balance is everything. And if you're spiritually feeding into your children,

but you're not being hypocritical, then they will be okay. But if you're like one set of rules for them, and you act like you're to the extreme on things, but then privately they see the other side of it, maybe you're a very angry person. Maybe you have rules that they can't watch a certain thing, but you listen to music that you shouldn't be listening to. Does that make sense, ladies?

Yeah. A lot of people don't get it, but you're sending mixed messages to your children. And with the Thanksgiving Day parade, kudos for knowing that this thing is woke and that maybe there are things that your children shouldn't see. Are you having problems getting that still? Or did you find it? Yeah, it's four minutes. So we're at 3.44. So you don't have to watch the whole, we don't have to watch the whole thing. What we're going to do is we're going to only watch

like, because it's almost immediate. Okay. But but here let me just read the scripture to you proverbs 423 new living translation says guard your heart above all else for it determines the course of your life now when your children are small it is your job to guard their heart because it determines the course of their life amen okay so take that that into consideration by who you let your kids hang around with, who you let your kids be exposed to, what they listen to, what they watch. And what's the correct word I'm looking for? Because a lot of times people don't want to people are afraid that if they're not open-minded to things then it'll cause their children or it will they will look like they're

either racist bigoted they're they're not they don't have grace, they shame people. I mean, there's a whole slew of titles that people are given if they're not open-minded, okay? Be closed-minded. When it comes to certain things, when it comes to trans, homosexuality, abortion, things like that, be as close-minded as you possibly can. Because your children, like, you need to read what your kids are reading in school if they go to public school.

You need to understand what they're being exposed to and be close-minded to it. Now, with that being said, also, again, there's people who, and I'm not saying to do this, because I didn't. I'm just saying there are people who will say, my children will never read this, okay? I'll just use Harry Potter as an example. My children will never read Harry Potter. But you sit and you watch shows and movies that may not be sorcery,

but are just as bad they have homosexuality in them because most of the sitcoms always has a gay person in it yep and or you have people who are there you know you're watching a show where the a woman has a child out of wedlock there's cussing up a storm in the in the movie or's violence. Just make sure that when you set standards and rules that you are abiding by the very thing that you're setting so strictly for your kids. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Again, my kids didn't read Harry Potter, okay? I'm just saying, but when we set guidelines, we made sure that the rules that applied to them applied to us. So if they can't watch it, we don't watch it.

Does that make sense? Absolutely. Yep. All right. Don't be a hypocrite. Don't be a hypocrite. There's balance to everything. There really is.

There is balance to everything. And if you don't know what that balance is and you're still confused by what I'm saying to you, then contact me. And I'll sit down and I'll talk to you about it. Seriously. You can tell me what your question is and I'll walk you through it. I'm not kidding you because this is a big deal. Parenting, people screw up their kids all day long. Parenting is a big deal. And they screw up their kids because they don't get it right.

And I'm not saying that I was perfect, but I have two saved children. And they mess up, but on the whole, they get it right. So, you got it? It's not the whole video. It's okay. She said just the beginning. Okay. Well, na, na, na, na, na, na, na na na na

na na na that doesn't help what are we doing so she had to screen record it because that's the only way I can get off YouTube because YouTube doesn't let me download videos so we had to screen record so now I got to put it in Dropbox

oh dear me so nice well it was three minutes I wish there was a different way I'm going to ask Aaron I can't pull it up right now but i was gonna ask aaron if he knows how to um just pull a youtube link but i don't know if you can i must just i want i need to i mean i don't want people sitting here waiting i know that's did you not see that in there i did not oh can can we do this real quick because we haven't done

this yet oh i don't really want to do that right now because I don't want to leave this subject. But so after the, so you probably didn't hear me when I said there was a video on there. I did not. I heard a scripture. Because you were, I came in here and I talked to her and I told her I had this, but you were busy doing something. So I should have like made you look great at me. Yeah, there was an issue. Yeah, that's all right. Okay, so right after Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade,

they have a dog show. It is Norma's favorite thing. It's called the National Dog Show. On the National Dog Show, they have every single dog, every breed. So they do small, medium and large. And they all compete against each other. All the different breeds.

And it is so pure and sweet and cute. And she watched it. I don't even know if she watches it anymore. But man, she watched it every year. It was her favorite, favorite thing. You guys did last year? We did last year, yeah.

Okay, we might just skip this. Nope, it's here. It's here? Yeah. Okay. Okay, just let me know when. Now, for you that don't watch this, that don't watch the Thanksgiving Day Parade, you might be saddened that this happens before the parade actually starts.

It's about an hour before the parade starts that they have this thing that's like Broadway shows. And they have, so it's basically marketing and advertising for Broadway shows so that you'll go to New York and go and visit these shows. And they do all like, they probably do 10 shows where they give you a little excerpt where they sing and dance right at the big circle where everything is.

This was last year's. And I just thought to myself, dear me, oh my. How far we've come. Go ahead. And now it's also one of the splashiest and funniest new musicals on Broadway. It's set in the days of Prohibition. Tells the story of two men forced to flee Chicago after witnessing a crime. Well, here is just a taste of the spicy.

Some like it hot. Do you see what I see? That ain't, that ain't no guy in a dress. I mean in pants. That's a guy in a dress. Playing that bass and pants. That's a guy in a dress playing that bass. What is that thing called? The cello? No, I don't think it is.

It's a bass something, but it's not. It's a bass, stand-up bass, but I don't remember. I don't know what the real time is. But that's what they're doing. They're exposing our kids to the trains and that wasn't the only one you can stop it now okay that wasn't the only one i saw last year really and they know and they have those dancers out there the guys what they'll do is they'll make it be where it's a girl a whole girl thing and they'll have guys and and even in so much that we have like when the bands go passing through for the

parade they will have guys doing you know now it's acceptable like cheer tampa bay bucks and buccaneers have take four guys have taken four girl spots on the cheer team. It's crazy. Yes. No. Yep. And so when you're watching the parade and when the bands go through and you'll see it just little spurts here and there where guys are now very flamboyant doing like taking girl spots, doing flag, doing cheer, doing different dance stuff. It's not good.

It's not good. But specifically in the Broadway stuff, you'll see it very much so. It's not, you need to pay attention. Yeah. Broadway in general, that's the culture of that. All the shows. Yep.

The majority of the male cast are homosexuals. Yeah. It's very, very, very sad. It's very sad. And it's not cool. So on that note, if my kids were small, the Thanksgiving Day Parade would not be something

that I just had turned on and I had it on in the background while my child was sitting watching it and I wasn't present. the background where my child was sitting watching it and I wasn't present. I can promise you that. I'd be watching everything that they were watching. And then I might still keep it on depending on like, again, I said three years ago, I turned it right on off because it was just out and out. And they must have had so many complaints because the following year was very different. Very different.

So they probably got a lot of complaints about it. As they should. Yeah, as they should. I don't want agendas shoved down my throat. And I don't really care who you are in love with and who you're not in love with, okay? And I don't care about your orientation. I don't go around telling everybody my orientation and I don't really care about yours.

Live your life, do your thing, but don't go around telling everybody my orientation, and I don't really care about yours. Live your life. Do your thing, but don't shove your agenda down my throat. I don't walk around and do that to other people. I don't want to have it done to me, but I also don't want it done to my children where they think that this is a normal way of life and that we just have to accept it. We don't have to accept it, and we're not going to accept it.

So with that being said, watch, watch that with your daughter or your son. And then if you see something like that, like that guy in the background, you go, that's a guy that shouldn't be. And something ain't right with him. He's got mental issues and he does. Somebody needs to help him Truthfully. He needs help. So great, great gospel moments there and teachable moments. Does anybody have anything else they want to add? Anybody? No.

No. I think we're good. Well, happy Thanksgiving to each and every single one of you. We will see you on Sunday. We love you. It's another year down. And January will be at two years at this. Yep. Can you believe that? I know. So crazy. I know. It's another year down. And January will be at two years at this. Yep.

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