The Hope Hotline - The Hope Hotline | S01-E81 | 10-25-23

Episode Date: October 25, 2023

The Hope Hotline | S01-E81 | 10-25-23

if I go on social media I'm gonna be laughing Second of all, I always look at Adalys because she's flipping funny too. I look at you guys' stuff, whatever. I hardly ever look at Logan. Logan, do you ever post? Oh, my goodness. I need to be added to you. You would laugh your butt off. Okay.

Well, then I will because apparently, like, you're not one of my little, like, circles or something. I don't know. Did you fix it? Schedule for 4-3. Did you cancel the other one? I resched or something. I don't know. Did you fix it? Did you cancel the other one? Thank you, my friend. God bless. That's why I keep you around amongst other things.

But many other things. So, Logan, I'll add you. But here's the thing. When I'm on Facebook, I don't really look at Facebook Facebook very much I do post on Facebook every now and then but um like I get chuckles now I don't care I'm gonna use this girl's whole name like today for some reason when I went on Facebook to look at something, I automatically saw Sarah's live from this morning. Happy Heroic. Oh, my gosh. Okay, so listen. Sarah watches this podcast pretty regularly.

If you don't know her, I'm suggesting you become friends with her. Sarah Ballard Richardson. I'm giving a shout out. Okay. If you want to laugh, if you like, like she's going to like educate you spiritually speaking. Um, but if you want a good laugh and just like be a part of somebody's wacky day or just not wacky, Like she talks about other things, like she'll put on her makeup in her bathroom and you're just sitting there. Dear God, what's going on here.

But you know, it's like mindless fun. It's nothing serious. The world is too dang serious people. So I'm just telling you friend, Sarah Ballard Richardson, watch her. She goes live almost every day right yeah

or several times heather says it can be several times i don't get to see it as much as i would like to because i'm not on there every day and if i do if it pops up i'm it's a must watch for me i'm a i'm a hashtag replayer yeah but i'm just saying you will not be disappointed she is funny yeah and and and and listen she does some good preaching on there too not like too much but she does some good preaching yeah very funny very delightful super excited tracy now you're always calm as a cucumber okay put yourself on okay you're calm as a cucumber you still have no idea what happened to you no you're you don't see you sweat my heart's like is your heart beating a mile a minute like when that thing went to 10 minutes countdown i was like what yeah what's going on here that is

our countdown so i was trying then i was trying to fast forward it to like right at the 22nd. And it went to do that. And it went right to the end to you going like, Oh my gosh. What I said to everybody at the very beginning that you couldn't hear is we are still the most unprofessional podcast you could possibly watch. And it's not that I don't care that we're unprofessional. I do care about that to a certain extent. Right. But first of all, we are learning. I mean, we haven't even been doing this a year.

I've never. Can you believe that? I've never done anything like this in my life. And you've never done it before? No. Ever? Never. You're still learning.

Yeah. And I don't know what I'm doing either, people. So it's between all of us. Listen. We're a hot mess. But were you banned or just because choice? Choice. I've been out of it for 10 years. Yeah.

Yeah. I don't blame you. Social media is, it's okay. I mean, I need it obviously, or I would have no podcast, but yeah, rumbles the ticket. Or I would have no podcast.

But Rumble's the ticket. Rumble's the ticket. So get off Facebook. Right. Switch over. Switch over. You can chat there, too. Huh? You can chat on Rumble with us.

We got Sean over there, always consistent on Rumble. Sean. Love it. Yeah. So I see you have my okay so you can put up my um you can take you away okay put my logo up I'm going to start. I'm stealing Adalis' idea, and I'm going to start on the fifth Monday. And it's like four times a year.

It might change, but for right now, it's four times a year. I'm going to do where we, the women, all of us women that want to come. We kind of like do a one-night conference. But it's not a conference. We're just going to all get together. I'm going to speak. We're going to all meet. And then at some point, like depending on how it works out,

it might be where we do have food. We do have all this stuff. I have to figure all that part out. But really can't do any of it until the building gets back together because it's terrible. I can't. I think my husband will kill me if I add one more thing to the list of what I want. After he's done killing me, Travis, Heather's husband, will definitely just take me. You know, my husband will run me, and Travis will back up over me.

He'll finish the job. Huh? Heather will scoot me up. But I came up with the name that I really wanted to do it under because I don't want to do it under beloved. Who wants to be the same? So I was praying, and I was thinking, I'm like, dare to be. Dare to be all God's called you to be the same? So I was like, was praying and I was thinking, I'm like, dare to be, dare to be all God's called you to be, right? A lot of us are so afraid to take that

first step and what we know God's calling us out to become. Sometimes it's as simple as getting outside of ourselves. Some of us are so shy that we would have to dare ourselves to even say hello to somebody because that's intimidating for us. So we're going to walk it out together and becoming and daring ourselves to become all that God's called us to be. But I love that logo. I sent her an idea of what I wanted and she gave me like five choices. I love that logo. I'm like, I'm a black and white kind of girl, but you add that gold to it. Yeah, it's fun. It makes it sharp.

So flip me on over, sister. Okay. So first one is? Monday. This Monday night. So if you're a lady and you live in the area or you come to Foundation Church, please come. I think we're going to do it in the, Heather, am I allowed to do it in the Cabo you come to foundation church please come um i think we're gonna do it in the heather am i allowed to do it in the caboose cafe god bless heather told me i'm in the caboose cafe

it's on the website so that's and so are our spoons but tracy will talk about that um so monday this monday october 30th from 630 to 8, come and join me. And it'll be fun. We're going to walk in some new things. And it'll be exciting. So there you go for that. But thank you because, man, girl, I love that logo. I'm glad.

It's pretty. I know. I'm glad. I'm glad you love it. It's really pretty. Did you like it, Heather? I love that thing. It's beautiful. What about you, Logan? Heather? I love that thing. It's beautiful.

What about you, Logan? Lay it on me, sister. Gold and black are my colors. Oh, gold and black. I love it. And you like the tea. It's so beautiful. And I did like the tea.

She likes the tea. You what? The tea looked like a cross. What tea? Oh, it does look like a cross. So she loved that. What tea? Obviously, I don't know there's a tea in there.

Yeah, there is. There, tea beer. So yeah, beautiful job. Thank you. Priceless. Thank you. Okay. Go ahead, sister.

Do your thing. All right. We have our wonderful way to share, like, and subscribe. You can do that on Facebook. You can like and share and subscribe on YouTube. Um, and then when it comes to rumble, there is the opportunity to like share. There's a link that you can share though. It's not the same as when you do it on like Facebook and stuff. So, but you can share that link, um, onto Facebook if you want to get people off of Facebook,

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UBU, which my mom just commented when we first started that knowing might not be professional, but in our own UBU way. Thanks, mom. I appreciate that. Yeah, that sounds like a mom's comment. I know. That's why we keep them around, right? Again, the QR code is there, and it will take you right to the shirt. If not, you can always just go to foundationchurchfl.com and click shop. And our last but, again, not least is our spoon. It's multipurpose.

You can use it as if you're a mother and might need to get somebody's attention or if you're or if you're a chef um you can stir anything stir the pot oh there you go there you go um but again you can scan me right there or foundationchurchfl.com click shop and um you can order those and then of course you get those.com. Click shop, and you can order those. And then, of course— Can you get those here at church? Yes. Heather says you can get these at church. Heather says yes.

They're in the merch shop right now. Oh, my. But, hey, listen. Like Heather said, good point. It's not just for women anymore. Right. No, definitely not. Men.

Men can use them. But, hey, listen. My dad never needed the spoon. Right. The old hand. I know Men can use them. But listen, my dad never needed the spoon. Right. The old hand. I know. The old hand. Well, my dad didn't cook either.

I don't like Tom in the kitchen. Yeah. He only knows how to fix like, how many things does he know how to fix? He knows how to fix eggwich sandwiches. Okay. Which is just fried eggs. I'm just telling you, every time him or Tommy go in there and they're trying to fix anything, it's so disgusting after they're done.

Oh, yeah. And it's only like two ingredients. I know. I know. I know. Get out. Get out. Okay.

Let's see. Heather's like, she knows. It's true. Eggwich sandwiches. Okay. Heather, what else does he know how to cook? Well, frozen pizza don't count. He didn't cook that.

He didn't have to do that. What is the other thing he knows how to make? I don't know. He doesn't really know how to fix anything. Thank you, Jesus. Wow. Oh, dear Lord, yeah. When Tommy made this cake, it was bad.

Like a box cake? And then when he tried to make that chocolate-covered, like, he was trying to dip fruit, remember? And the fruit was, I think, burning because the chocolate was... Like, strawberries are melting. Marshmallows

are non-existent. He tried really hard. He bought a lot of ingredients. Like, he would have three times the amount that he would need for one portion. It was like, how much shortening do you need? Like he'd have containers. I'm like, dude, you know, it only takes a cup. He'd have like three of them.

He's horrible. Well, just in case. I'm like, I need a whole pantry just for your one meal. It wasn't even a meal. He was into baking for a short period of time. Baking. Aw, Tommy. And he was horrible.

He's the worst baker you've ever seen. He swore he'd get better. He did not. Not so much. And then he gave up. He's way better at other things than I. Yeah, exactly. He's a sweet boy. He is a sweet boy. Sometimes you just got to's a way, he's way better at other things. Yeah, exactly.

He's a sweet boy. He is a sweet boy. Sometimes you just got to realize like, it's just not your wheelhouse. No, it's not like the, the, the girl that he's dating right now, like she's organized.

Thank you, Jesus. That is good. Cause otherwise he'd be a hot mess. He'd be a hot mess. He'd be a hot mess. Awesome. Let's see, which I really don't know her very well, but I know that she's organized. Good.

That's one good thing. Check it off. She's a Christian. Good. I know that for a fact. Two good things. There we go. She's already been investigated by my husband.

Oh, my gosh. So we go. She's already been investigated by my husband. Oh, my gosh. So whatever. Okay. Let's go to the first question, I think. Yeah. Ready? Absolutely. All right.

So the very first question. Hey, we didn't post questions, right? We did not. So what did we post? Just that we were live at three. Just that we were live. We were live at three. We just couldn't hear us.? We did not. So what did we post? Just that we were live at three. Just that we were live. We were live at three. We just couldn't hear us.

Barely. Okay. All right. So first question. I love your name. How did you get it? And do you like it? Or would you rather have had a more common name like most people?

So when I was growing up, I did not like my name. Is that common? Like, did you like your name? I don't know. Cause it wasn't a normal name. And so I didn't have to like, you know, the people have like Jessica, it's like Jessica B, Jessica L, Jessica. So I liked that, that, but like, I didn't, I was kind of indifferent to it. Yeah. But there's a lot of Tracy's. Not where I grew up. Not in Massachusetts? No. Did you like your name? Logan's very different. Logan is girl or boy.

Yeah. Logan, did you like your name? That was the hardest part was just I'm a girl. And it still is. I'm a girl. Well, we know this. I went by Lo for a long time. You went by what? Lo.

L-O. Like J-Lo? Just Lo. Really? Did you knew that or Did you do that? Or did people do that? Yeah, I did that. Oh, that's cute.

It's very creative. Because Logan was like, oh, was it a boy or a girl? So, Lo. Very cute. Yeah, that's cute. I did not have a nickname. You can't do much with Ho. Yeah.

It's four letters. And I cannot tell you how many times people have thought my name was Ho. Which at the time, there was a period of time that that might have fit but i'm just saying not really but kind of um that seriously like how do you who's gonna name their kid ho not somebody nice not not norma like yeah not my mom but in general who names their kid ho nobody does but i can't you're on the phone and people can't understand you so they're thinking your name is i'm like it's hope i like you could always tell when somebody can't understand it so you just spell it but my name is so i think i went to school there's only one other hope there which is unusual because we were in a

very I mean even though I grew up in that DC area our school is one of the smaller schools even though it was a big school and um there's one other hope I didn't I didn't really growing up I didn't really like my name my sister's name is Faith so no either I was called Faith or I was called my real name or I was called Heather or Holly. Those were my most common names people called me. I was not, I mean, it's weird. But no, when I was growing up, I didn't like my name at all. I didn't hate it, but I didn't really like it.

I wanted to be like a common name like Julie or Karen or, you know, like everybody else. Now, listen, I love my name. I think you get out of wanting to be like everybody else and then you're like, oh, I think it's unique. So I'm glad that I don't have a name like everybody else, you know? So you're different. But try and find like key chains with hope on it. That's one of the reasons why I hated it.

Yeah. Because like everybody would have like monogrammed or not monogrammed, but something that had their name on it. And all I could find was an H. Right. Right. You know, you can't. So even to this day, you're not going to find anything with hope on it or anything like

that, but I'm okay with that. How did I get my name I got my name um because my parents were not saved when they got married my mom always she grew up in a Christian home kind of uh but um and she had the fear of the Lord but she really wasn't she'll probably tell you she really wasn't saved it was after um like my older sister was born shortly thereafter and my sister's three years older than me they got saved and then from that point on they prayed about every single one of our names there's a um there's a older sister then there's my brother john and my little sister Faith, who you'd hear me talk about all the time.

We're like boom, boom, boom. My mom had like triplets in three years because I'm born in May. My brother was born the following July, and then my sister was born the following October from him. Yeah, wow is right. Like what was she thinking? Like put me out of my misery if I was her. What are you thinking and listen all

like it's bad enough can you imagine triplet changing diapers no and she didn't have like we have huggies pampers she did cloth no yeah miserable miserable no thank you um so they started naming us all biblical names there's got to be a john in every christian house right there's got to be a john yep positively you're not really you're not if you're a christian family and you don't have John or James, or now it's like Zedekiahs, Ezekiels, and Calebs, and I almost said condoms. That is not a biblical name. But I was like thinking, I'm like, I don't know why that popped in my head. I'm like, that ain't no Bible name.

I figure I'll just tell you what I was thinking. But like everybody's got biblical know why that popped in my head. And I'm like, that ain't no Bible name. And I figure I'll just tell you what I was thinking. But like everybody's got biblical names now that are in Christian homes. Back in the day, the only people you saw do that was Catholics. And they were like Peters and Pauls. They were some saint. Right. Of course. Yeah.

So now I'm glad I have my name. I'm glad I have my. Are you glad you have your name? I am. I have my name. I'm glad I have my, are you glad you have your name? I am. Yeah. I had the same issue with, uh, with like the key chains too.

Cause it was always Tracy without the E. Right. So it was like so close and you're almost like, does it matter? You're like, yeah, no, it does.

Yeah. Like Talia. Yeah. I mean, Talia, like Talia's in here too. Like Talia, like you're not going to find any name.

Like, are you, do you know any other Talias? I'm looking at Talia's in here too. Like Talia. Like you're not going to find any name. Like do you know any other Talias? I'm looking at Talia right now. Like one that was called the same but the other one was weird. I have never heard of somebody else being named. And I love your name.

Yeah. But I've never heard of anybody else. Me neither. I've only seen them on TikTok. Yeah. Never. Like Brinley. Who has the name?

Brinley's not common. Logan is now common. But it wasn't common back in my day. I knew nobody named Logan. Or Boyce, too. Not even Boyce. Yeah. And Tootie. Who's named Tootie?

Who's Tootie? Actually, I've met a few people that their nicknames were Tootie. And I'm like, what? Oh, but she's got a common name. She does have a common name. I mean, Tootie's got a common name. She does have a common name. I mean, Tootie's got a common name, but like I've never heard of another Tootie except for Tootie. Is it Tootie from or is that Tootsie? It's a movie Tootsie.

It's not Tootie. Sorry about that. About to say you have a movie after you, but you don't, girl. So that's that. That's my name. I'm sticking to it. I'm not changing it. Although my older sister was going to change her name.

Which one? My older sister that has a regular name. Her name is Sandy. She fell out of the loop. I mean, all of us. Right. She's going to change her name to like Joy or Love. Because everybody used to go, where's with faith and hope?

Where's Joy? Where's Love? So she wanted to be a part of that. She's like, maybe I'll just change my name to joy or love or dear god not love even though she was lovely but stick with joy or something like that although she was like my babysitter she was a tough nut at times so definitely at times i did not feel the love so that would not have been a good name for her but on the whole yeah yeah but some people have changed their names i've i've seen it i don't

know why you would do that unless like some people have done changed their names because they're movie stars or whatever right but i mean why else would you change your name have you known anybody to change their name i list off people that should change their name oh oh ouch ouch why would you want them to change their name? Is it a mean name you want to change them to? I taught swim lessons to this sweet little girl. Her name was Quesadilla. I taught swim lessons to a little boy. His name was Cavassia.

Oh, yeah, that's rough. And I met little girls named Hennessy. What's her name? Hennessy. Oh, those? Yeah, you're right. You know what I

back in high school she was a really pretty girl but her name was Shalavia oh Shalavia first of all I would want to punch my mom

right in the face for naming me that but second of all just having to spell it as a kindergartner yeah like who makes their kid have to spell out Shalavia?

That's so long. But you know what she called herself? Special. She goes, my name is Shalavia, but I get called Special. I'm thinking, I'd love to know why that is. But really pretty girl. Maybe that's why she was called special. I don't know.

Whatever. Okay, next question. Should children be allowed to have cell phones? And if yes, what age do you think is appropriate for them to have them? That is a really good question. That is a great question. That is a great question that is a great dadgum question there's so many like I toyed with this question like yes and no because like my kids were homeschooled right so what I'm I'm going to say is I'm going to give you my yes and no answers

based on the way people live. Okay. Like if my kids went to public school from kindergarten on, they would have a cell phone with blockers on it like crazy, but they would have a stinking cell phone because i want to know i want to be able to get in contact with them but my thing to that is if i feel like that why am i letting them go there which a lot of parents do you're like yeah you're going to school but you're going with the cell phone because right and i sit there and go if that's how you feel then maybe you should not have them there. Maybe you do what it takes so they're home with you.

I don't know. So if they're homeschooled, they absolutely don't need one. I don't think my kids got one, and Heather can correct me if I'm wrong because she would know. I don't think my kids got them until they were in like eighth or ninth grade so it was late right yeah it's like 13 good yeah probably 13 they weren't they were a lot older but when they did I had that thing blocked like there's no tomorrow they would get so mad because they couldn't go anywhere on that phone. Could not go anywhere.

And so they have great, like, I would say Apple phones have a great parental. Now, I don't know how good it is anymore because I don't have parental controls on my kids. And obviously, they're 22 and 24. So I haven't done parental blockers for a very very long time but at the time like it was they had really good ones on their apple phones like they couldn't go anywhere on those things now i know that times change and updates do too and they're allowing like you can't even go on like you if you can go on google you can look at porn and that's the truth twitter has porn on it like you you should not have apps for your kid allow apps on your kids phones um at all so and

then i mean i i kid you not i went on google one time to look up uh cain and abel and i saw cain and abel and something else while i else because I was teaching a class, and I was trying to find images and stuff like that. The image that I got of Cain and Abel, I'll never forget. But that happened from just going and doing a search on Google. You think your kids are safe.

They're not safe. That phone is dangerous, very dangerous. I don't think kids should have cell phones at all. I're not safe. That phone is dangerous. Very dangerous. I don't think kids should have cell phones at all. I personally don't. There's no reason for them to have cell phones. I mean, if there's ones that they can't gain access to the internet, I'm fine with. Okay, so let me ask my little techno person over here. Is there a way, I know like my kids used to play with our old cell phones, but they couldn't get on them. They could only play games on them. Uh, they could hear, listen to music on them, but there was no texting. There was no nothing. Right. Are you able to do

that still with a cell phone? Um, I mean, yes, but depending on how old they get and who's in their circle, there is easy ways to hide things and there's easy ways to gain access to things. But there are ways to really, really have good blockers on there. So they can't even go do a Google search? Is that possible? I'm not 100% sure because there like ways to take YouTube off of the phone I'm not sure if Safari can come off of the phone so if Safari can't like that app can't come off the phone then you click on it that's what's gonna pop up is like a search engine it might

not be Google but it could be any kind of search engine Safari is like Google I mean right it doesn't matter so yeah you know there's a bunch of them that are all different. Okay. So one thing that's kind of cool for like elementary school. So for example, if you're a blended family or split family and you don't have like decision-making like a hundred percent where your kids go to school and they have to go to public school and you have no option. Which I never even thought about that because if you're blended family, your kid's going off to the other spouse's house right you need to be able to get in contact with them too that too yeah but I never thought about that yeah and yeah and that's a whole nother can of worms but yeah um one thing that I saw a mom just post about is that they did apple watches for their kids so while they're at school they

know where their kid is based off their apple watch they can't really do a whole lot Apple Watch, but they can text like, I love you and like heart things and stuff like that. So it's a little safer. However, there's always ways to do things that are inappropriate, probably anyway. But I feel like an Apple Watch would be a little bit more challenging, especially for little kids, you know, where it's just kind of like you only put certain apps on there and or none at all, you know, just like whatever ones they have. That is brilliant. I know. I thought that was a really cool idea.

Oh, my gosh. That is brilliant. Yeah. So Apple Watch is limited. It's not limited. You can't put apps on there. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Lots of apps. But on the whole, you have more control over it than a cell phone. Right. Oh, for sure. They can still call you on the Apple Watch, correct? Right. So you'd have to pay, or if they connected to Wi-Fi, but probably the best way is you

pay for your own plan so that it has a phone number. And so wherever they are, you have access to it. And then if you have like Life 360, which I i have and you have that on the apple watch or i'm not i'm not sure if that's exactly the app for locating but you would see where they are if they're walking now at this point it shows like a shoe showing them walking or if they're driving in a car and how fast they're going like there's so many things to do in and out be like stalker life but knowing that your kids are where they are saying that they're safe especially when they're little like that you know like well that's how i

would be like i don't think any elementary school student should have a phone i know i think i don't think junior hires should i i agree junior high i think's worse oh gosh because they start to learn oh yeah but the thing is, the world is crazy. It is. So like, how would I want my kid to go to elementary school without a phone?

Probably not. I can see totally why parents do it. Right. 100%. I mean, but I don't think it's, but I don't think, I don't think it's safe. I don't think it's wise at all for elementary school students and junior

hires to, I don't think senior hires either, but, but, but the thing is, is they're going to do what they're going to do anyway. And I, I still had,

listen, I still have blockers on my kids when they were in senior high, but, and I did not inspect what they tom did tom went on their phones yeah he knew what they were doing yeah so and like we talked about it last week like there there was calculator apps that you think it's a calculator and then there's things hidden in the calculator app and so like unfortunately a sneaky kid is gonna do sneaky things yeah and so that it makes it very challenging.

And then have you heard about that, Talia? A calculator app? And that's like old, old. I'm sure there's like, I'm sure. Is there newer stuff? Yeah. What's the newer stuff, Talia, that kids, so parents can know? Like, what's the newer stuff that kids are doing to hide from their parents?

So Snapchat, you have your My Eyes Only. So Snapchat, My Eyes Only. WhatsApp has disappearing messages. WhatsApp now has disappearing messages. That's lovely. On Instagram, you swipe up. You can put Facebook on. So Instagram, you can do vanish mode.

So now you can't even see what's on there. In the private. And the DMs, yeah. so the text and the dm so you could be texting and direct messaging somebody and your family never knows about it yep i'd go i go off yeah yep oh my gosh that's not good it's not good it's not good that's not good well the thing not good. That's not good. Well, the thing is, is if you don't, if you're not doing anything, then you have nothing to hide. Yep. I'm not saying that people don't make mistakes and that you can't, and that you can't move past them.

But, like, you better have moved moved past i don't know that's like i'm just not a big fan of the cell phone i think it's hurt us more than it's helped us and um the other day i forgot my cell phone i had to go um drive down the road like 20 minutes and i was like kind of like oh my gosh what if somebody needs me like that and i to myself, what did you do back in the day? I know. They had to wait. Yeah. Guess what?

Right. They'll live. You'll live. Yeah. But I got anxious about it. I know. Like not like anxiety-ridden, but I kind of rose up like, oh my gosh, what if Tom has to call me about something?

Or what if somebody like here has a problem or whatever. And now there's this expectation that you will answer right away. So it's not like then people are like, why is she not answering? Is she okay? Like, where is she? So it's, we have, we've built this like into society now. Like how do you, it makes you anxious. Yeah. It's not good. It isn't. Tom talks about it all the time, but it is so accurate. Um, oh my gosh. And then there's my contractor calling me. God,

it's, it's so nice to know that people care so much about my podcast. They pay attention so well. Um, so I don't know. I, I like, I don't know. It's like, uh, there's so many safety reasons. It's like, um, like I don't, I don't want my kids to have relationships with people

that I don't want to know about. Um, they don't like phones ruined so many things. Like kids don't know how to use their imaginations anymore. Um, they have too many, have access to too many things they shouldn't have. They waste too much time on them. Like, I'm going to tell you, like, I'm going to give props to Heather because, like, Heather's been very, I was not like this, which I should have been.

Like, Tommy went through a period of time where, like, he gamed way longer than he should have. Way longer. Now, Tommy also liked to go outside and play. You could find him in a tree, right? So it's not like he gamed so much that he never came out of his room. He did come out of his room, but not near as much as he should have come out. It is unhealthy.

It is unhealthy. And I say this from experience, not because of personally attacking. But like my son, all his friends, all his friends were ones that he gamed with. And I justified it because I'm like, oh, he's still talking. He's still visiting. He's, okay,

with a lot of people he didn't know, a few that he did, like he would go to church with and stuff like that. That is not healthy for your kid to be in, like, his room. We had black, which we still do, black curtains in his room. Like, up

all night. He'd get up to his school or whatever i mean that's not like that's not healthy i mean thank goodness he was thin but there's a lot of kids listen have you seen these gaming kids oh yeah like they're not healthy looking at all it's not good right it's not good at all for us but so what i loved about heather was is and tommy was beyond this but i was like dang sister i'm so proud of you because i was not smart in this but like she puts limits on her kids still to this day and if she thinks for a second that they're they're playing games far too long and they she still has limits on them right but if she feels like they want it too much they want to play too much

she even knocks it down she's like you know what i think you're fiending for the gaming too much guess what's happening right you're getting less yep yeah they play instruments both of them like there's a balance right and i'm not saying she did it right every time, but for the most part, I think, like her kids, like on the weekends, she'd give them a little bit extra time, but that's healthy. Yeah, that is. That's super healthy.

It's balance, people. Let them play the gaming, but don't let it rule their lives. I let Tommy, I mean, I hated the gaming, and Tom was like, yeah, it's all right. I hated it personally, but I should have fought a little bit harder on it because I just don't think it's healthy at all. He's got great dexterity because of it, but who cares? I mean, he's like, he can do anything. But kids, I mean, I would say probably the same thing about Talia.

And Talia didn't sit there and game. You know what I'm saying? So she's just on her phone. But I'm just saying, it's like, these kids know more about computers and things like that. And there's got to be a healthy balance. You can't like say nothing, no to everything. But you should have limits on on all things so um so if your kids gaming too much especially if they're a christian like it's not good how much

time are they in the word and you could say that the same thing about sports too like there's there's is such a thing as too much sports. Am I correct about that, Tal? Talia was a gymnastic cheerleading freak. Gone all the time. Great athlete,

but it's way too much. You never get a break. COVID I would say her mom says covid is the best thing that ever happened to their family because they really realized when everything shut down how much god wasn't a priority that the sports was number one and you get so caught up in it and it's week after week after week after week that you don't realize how like caught up in the sport that you actually are you think oh i'm a christian and

i'm this no you're more of this than you are a christian because that's what's priority for you your sport so um it's not just gaming it's sports i you can have the most athletic child in the in the world you can have one that's obese gaming and then you can have one that's super fit. Both of them are wrong though. Because there's not a balance at all. But you know what I remember? Do you remember back in the day? I don't know if you guys

would remember this but I couldn't even go on the phone. We had limits on being when we were allowed to be on the phone. Were you guys like that? Well, back in the day when we had cell phones. No, we did not have cell phones. When we had our cell phone, though, if you went over your minutes or text, it cost money.

Oh, that's right, because cell phones had minutes on them and you got charged. I forgot about that. We did have a house phone and I had my own number. i was on you had a house phone with your own phone number yep you're rich you were richy rich we were and my parents were like i'm so sick of picking up and being like tracy trait so it would just ring specially for me i was the only girl too oh did i think i had something you know what my parents had what my parents had the old andy griffith phone oh you held one yeah yeah part and then they yeah oh my gosh no it wasn't cool because after about five to ten minutes you're like oh god see you had to let go

okay to switch a room but the funny thing was is um we had a we didn't have we didn't have cell phones. I think the first cell phones my parents had was that real big block that you carried around in the car. And it was like the biggest. You'd pull the phone out of the block and the phone was like that huge. It was ridiculous. We were not allowed to be on the phone. And some of you that are in my age bracket, you'll totally remember this.

Not allowed to be on the phone for more than 10 minutes in case somebody was calling in. Oh, that's right. Because all it would do is ring busy. Right. And there was six of us in the family. So we all had to share that phone. If it rang busy, you know, if my dad found out somebody tried to call more than like twice or three times and you were past your 10 minute limit

wasn't pretty the best thing that ever happened was call waiting yeah like there was no time limit when you got call wait when we got call waiting it was like we had arrived right and then you could stay on the phone forever. But if that thing clicked, you better answer it and then you had to get off. But cell phones have changed everything. Everything. Yep. It's just crazy.

Answering machines were beautiful. You used to stumble over your words and you couldn't do anything about it. That was it. That was it. Now you can delete it four times. Listen, I do that right now. I was going to say. Speaking of. Listen, we couldn't even get about it. It was it. That was it. That was it. Now you can delete it four times. Listen, I do that right now. I was going to say. Speaking of.

Listen, we couldn't even get the podcast starting today. Oh, my gosh. And then you couldn't hear me. Oh, that's not. But it was, yeah. It's just so interesting how, like, life evolves. And in some ways, it's evolved better. But in other ways, not so much.

It's challenges. Yeah, absolutely. Not so much. So balance, let's get back to the cell phone. Balance is everything. Yeah. Like put blockers on those things for your kids. Protect your kids.

We're to guard our children's hearts. So your job is to protect them. If you feel like you have to give them a cell phone, then give them a cell phone. Block it to the best of your ability. And you know what I would tell you? As crazy as this sounds, like, take a person that's like Talia or someone like that.

Talia is, what, almost 18, right? Always longed for Talia and Tommy. But, alas, it could still happen. I'm just saying. I love the girl he's dating. I love her. And listen, Talia's like a daughter to me.

But it is a big age difference. Whatever. You never know. But not that I want anything to happen. That's, I don't. Because I have to be

very careful too because I love the girl he's dating too. I like her. I don't really know her that well. But I because I love a girl he's dating too I like her I don't really know her that well but but I do know I love but I'm just saying okay so here's the thing take a Talia she's almost 18 I'm not saying if you know Talia I'm not telling you I'm telling you if you know her you probably can come up to you but if you don't know her don't drive her crazy find somebody though that you know that's in that age bracket. If you have younger kids and they have cell phones,

have them give you some insight on the little tricks that kids have to hide things so that you can try and eliminate as much as you possibly can from your kids' exposure to the things that you don't want them to be exposed to. There might not be a way to do that, but if Instagram, if what she's saying is true, then you don't let them have Instagram. If what she's saying is true about calculators, you don't let them have a calculator app.

There's no calculator app on your phone, period. There's all these little tricks to things, then figure it out. But I will tell you this, when I worked for the mobile forensics company that I did, one of the biggest crimes, not biggest crimes, but we solved this love triangle crime through cell phones. And I'm just telling you, what they are saying, you will do.

So what happens is this love triangle, this man was married. He and his mistress decide they're going to kill the wife, right? So the wife is killed. They both deny they have anything to do with it. Well, they know the husband has killed her. So they have figured that out. They have solid proof. But the mistress is saying, absolutely, I had nothing to do with it. He's saying she had absolutely nothing to do with it he's saying she had

absolutely nothing to do with she didn't even know and what we did is we took their devices and there are ways to communicate with people that you don't want they that can be hidden and one of the ways that we solved this crime was is they were playing a game, a mutual game together. Right. And on that game, for the number of hours that they had been playing it, they should have been much higher, much a higher level. And if you went into the game, you can communicate in these games with one another. And that's what you have to watch your kids, because what are they saying while they're playing these games? What is their communication? In that game, and who are they communicating with?

That's what I want to know. And in this game, that's where they found out all about the plan that they had hatched to get rid of the ex-wife. That's how they solved the crime. That's how they knew that the ex-wife. That's how they solved the crime. That's how they knew that she wasn't, the mistress was involved. So I'm just saying to you that you have to be really careful. You don't know what your kid's doing. You don't know how they're communicating, the ways they're communicating. Sneaky, sneaky, sneaky. I'm not saying they're killing people. They're not. I'm just saying

they'll figure out ways to figure out what they want to do, however they want to do it. So another good thing to do is just not let them have it in their room either. I'd like either overnight or whatever, like have them a charging station where they just, yeah, they just put it away and they're like, like Heather did. She access, they can have access during certain hours in a common area. Like there's ways to do it that like you dabble into it when you first start it, especially with like, like you were saying, junior high kids. Plus, I mean, especially with young females, right? Communicating with young males.

You want to make sure that that communication is pure. And, like, for example, my kids were not allowed to date until they were 18 but they liked people they still talked to people they never went out on a date and they never like it was not there was nothing impure or anything like that but that's not always the case that's not always the case so if your daughter is communicating especially in junior high acceptance is high and boys are getting girls to do things and take pictures and things like that and you think well nobody will ever know baloney i can promise you just from my previous job you have access to everything nothing is ever deleted off that device.

People, when you delete that device, you think it's gone forever. Hillary Clinton proved that unless you destroy it completely by smashing it with a hammer, it's never fully destroyed. You literally have to take a hammer to that device in order to make it be nothing, null and void.

That's the reason why they did that. You can never fully erase a device logan's looking at me like what no you can't pictures everything that are on there yeah so when you turn that see for me i would never turn in a telephone that you might have anything on that you don't want anybody to see because it's never fully erased but now it's in the cloud so it doesn't even the device it doesn't matter that is true and the cloud is even worse the cloud is worse yep so live a very careful yep yep what you do what you see where things go galena was just saying that a mom posted about her son using the bible app

to text and send pictures to his girlfriend. I know. I'm just saying. I know. There's ways. There is. There's ways to hatch little plans and get around things. And knowing your kids. If your one child is very sneaky and really struggles with like being honest and maybe like maybe don't have a phone for as long as possible but and then there's kids that just hate like they you can tell they hate lying they hate being sneaky the second that they do they're so compliant right exactly and so I mean that's hard when you have multiple kids but you know setting rules and if they break the rule then their phone's taken away for a month and it's just like and then eventually they realize it's on them they can either like obey the rules or not and so but

there's always ways to be sneaky and so it's just having rules in place and then punishment and then follow through with the punishment too that's huge and as a parent like you're responsible for what your kids do and don't do while they're in your home. Right. And so anything you give permission to, be very careful with that. Yeah. That's dangerous. God expects, I mean, it's the only investment you can take to heaven. God expects us to be wise with the investment that we've been given. So one last question.

We got six minutes to go. Let's go. It says, I've been dating a guy for several months and we are getting serious. At what point do I need to share my past with him? You say you are a private person, and so am I. So I don't want to tell someone something super personal about myself, and then we break up, and I will be concerned that they might tell someone. Listen, I know first and foremost about this.

Like, I'm just going to tell you. There's things about me that no one knows except for my husband. Not even my kids. Not even my kids. But I told my kids, listen, if you ask me, I'm absolutely going to tell you the truth. But there's nothing good that comes from it. So just know I was a wild, crazy person. If you can think of it, I probably did it.

I mean, it's true. Outside of drugs. If you can think of it, I probably did it. So I just, I'm like, but I was never going to share my past with somebody. I am a super private person. Now, some people are like not, and they're like, well, if people find out, I don't really care. Like, and there are some things in this life that I truly feel like that about.

But like, there are things like even when Tom's preaching, I'm like, shut up, dude. Like, I don't, the world doesn't even know that. Clamp it. But he's not like that. He's just like, I don't care. There's plenty of people that are out there like him, that are like that. There's nothing wrong with being like that.

Absolutely nothing. Worst case scenario, somebody found out something about me that I didn't want anybody to know. I'd be like, whatever. I mean, I'm scenario, somebody found out something about me that I didn't want anybody to know. I mean, like, whatever. I mean, I'm not that person anymore, right? But at the same time, especially when you're first dating somebody, I will say there are certain things that you might want to tell within a certain range of time. One being if you're vaccinated. I would say that.

But even that I wouldn't say you need to tell anybody right away. Because, well, the Johnson & Johnson vaccination, probably you really don't need to say anything because that was more like a flu vaccine. So it's like if you were vaccinated with the Johnson and Johnson like they did away with it for a reason like it it it means nothing like it really has nothing to do with anybody but if you took the mRNA like even kissing you can swap i mean yeah logan's looking at me like are you freaking kidding me oh my gosh yes so if you are gonna like kiss somebody and you're vaccinated you

might and the other person is what we call a pure blood you might want to tell them that because there's a reason they didn't get vaccinated and they don't want to be vaccinated or get those what do they call those it's not dna gene altering what are you talking about yeah it's gene altering but it's like it's it's in the blood. It's not DNA, though. I don't know. If you're going to kiss somebody because it has been proven, like Peter McAuliffe is saying, that men and women that are married, one got vaccinated, the other one did not.

If they're intimate with each other and they kiss one another and things like that, he's like they are proving 100% that it's an exchange, that the vaccine, whatever is in that vaccination that goes into your bloodstream passes through the fluids. So if you're going to be, and I'm believing that this person's a Christian. Okay. So, but if there's somebody watching that's not saved and you're intimate with people

and you have like HIV or you have something like that, that's like a venereal disease or something like that, that somebody can't get rid of. Okay. Don't do that to them. Like you need to share that information because they, that you're what ultimately you're doing is you're making a decision for them that whether or not they'd be with you, you don't get to make that decision.

And then you give them something that they can't get rid of for the rest of their life that's why i say vaccination um like venereal diseases and things like that you absolutely should share that information before you become intimate or swap spit with somebody but on other things in life like what about if they have like kids and like and they're on like a first date would you tell if they have kids and they're on a first date yeah like should they like would you just be like hey by the way i'm a single mom you know why i wouldn't tell that that's personal information you know why i wouldn't say anything because you don't even know if you're gonna like this person after the first date yeah it's another's another daggum business. Find out if there's even like you're dating to find out if

this person's somebody you want to be involved with. You're not dating to be committed. You're dating to find out if there's even a future commitment. So to share all this personal information about yourself initially, I think you're crazy because you don't know this person. You don't know this person to even trust them. It's none of their daggum business. Like all that information about you that you keep close to your chest. Some people don't care a lick about ruining someone's reputation after it's all said and done or not even ruining a reputation about just sharing personal information about others. To them, it's kind of like not that Tom does this with people. He doesn't at all.

If you tell Tom something, he's not going to tell anybody. He's not. But there are people that are very flippant about themselves and sharing their information, and then they're also very flippant about sharing their information about others right i i would never tell anyone anything until i knew that there is like a commitment as far as we're gonna we're gonna this goes. We're going to be exclusive. That's good. And let's see where this goes.

And at that point, that's when you say, now listen, there's some things that I have to share with you now that we've taken a step to go and to see how far. But even in that, I wouldn't share everything depending on how personal it is. Like, let's see, what would I say? I'm trying to think of something that would be okay to share at that time. When you first start dating like like I wouldn't even share like how many guys that I had dated in the past until I was ready to be exclusive with somebody I'm not

even talking about some people have like I'm not like this I don't have a wild past like sleeping around I I didn't I don't have a wild past in that. But I wouldn't be one to say this is how many people that I've been in the bed with when I'm going to be exclusive with somebody if somebody has that past. I would say I'm not a virgin, but at that time, it's not your job. You don't have to share all that information. And I mean, for me, again, I say what good comes out of it. So I would just be very, very careful. Like you can talk about your past relationships, why they didn't work, things like that.

But I wouldn't go into any great detail about anything personal about yourself that you don't want anyone else to know. If you were to break up, that's how I would play it. I mean, what do you say? Yeah, no, I agree too. I think you just dabble with it and you kind of start with like what you said, like a little bit at a time, a little bit at a time. Cause you do that with friendships too. Like you don't just dump just dump something on somebody you don't even know. Because friendships don't always pan out the way that you think. They start out in honeymoon relationships and everything's great. And then something hits and then it turns sideways and you never saw that coming.

Oh, yeah. And if you don't want anybody else to know it, if it's not your husband. Exactly. But like you said, if it's going to husband exactly but like you said if it's gonna affect them like their health you always know when it's going to the place of marriage is the future you always know that and like once I knew like marriage was my future with Tom that's when I literally we never said he never told me he loved me until like a month before he asked me to marry him. I know people think that's crazy, but Tom and I both are not big on like people throw I love you out way too much. They do.

I'm not big on that. I've like your feelings should be true and they should be real. And like if I tell somebody that I love them, then they know. That's exactly how I feel. I think that people fall in love with love versus really fall in love with the person, right? And so they fall in love with the idea and then they try and make that person be that. I've known people who've dated somebody for a month, two months, and they're already saying I love you to them. How do you know you love them?

You like them. You don't know that you love them. Love is something that happens over time. It's what you think you feel, but how do you know you really feel that? It's because you feel that you feel that. But truthfully, how many times do people after two months of dating stay together? I think it's a word that we've, I think it's just something that's really, really flippant and really easy to say. Does it work out for people that start dating after two months and they said, I love you and they end up married? Yeah, it does.

But on the whole, no, it doesn't. It really, it doesn't it really really doesn't so um i think you got to be really careful with that but but i knew even though he hadn't said i love you until like a month before he married uh asked me to marry him i knew we were headed in that direction and and when i knew that we were heading in that direction about a year before i sat him down and i said okay now here's everything you need to and we dated for three years so that's two years of not knowing everything about me he got little bits of in trickles but the final things that I would tell no one unless I was married to them like the things that

my parents knew about me that what happened then until then no you don't get that you don't get that that you don't nobody's earned that right you know so i just think everybody's different but if you're a private person there's nothing wrong with that i literally just had this conversation with my son just recently like like three or four months ago um because he kind of was busting my chops because i'm a private i said there is absolutely nothing wrong with not having to expose everything to somebody when you first start dating them sorry charlie you don't earn that and you don't get that i don't care how much somebody

feels like they have the rights to know that it's not true you don't you absolutely don't so um two cents why are you laughing over there, Logan? Sean and I are just in agreement. On what? That the rest of your audience is like, well, we said it after two months. Oh, dear God. You guys are crazy. Two months and you were selling somebody you love them?

Like how many times does that work out though? I told Chris after three months. I was the first to tell him, but I knew for sure. sure yeah but how many other guys did you do that with two no I'm saying all the guys you ever dated you told me you loved him at that oh so you only said three in total two before him one I was in high school didn't know what love was yeah the second one I think I loved him but in a totally different way yeah but how many guys did you probably date I don't know hope no I'm just saying well yeah because you're hot so you probably don't know but I mean I went out with a lot of guys right I never told him I loved them I never really dated them long enough but I've only told two

people in my whole life that I love them that were males. I was in serious relationships with them though. I waited to me. It's like, it's a big deal to tell somebody of the opposite sex, not your mom, not your dad, not your, your kids or whatever.

It's a big deal to have to just be able to, I mean, I just don't think that everybody should be just saying it. It's a bit, that's a, that's when you tell somebody you love them, you saying i am committed love is a commitment right you're saying i'm committed like oh how could you be committed to somebody only after two months to that level it worked out for you and chris but you on the whole did not say it to people yeah no no

and maybe it worked out for like sean because he never really said it to anybody. And he was he knew. But I'm just telling you. It usually doesn't work. It doesn't work. Yeah. And now you've said like that for me. Like it's a it's a big deal.

Maybe not to a lot of people, which, you know, I could be crazy. No, it was a big deal when I said it, but it felt like I had to. I don't know, but it worked out. How long was it for you, Tracy? A week. Was it a week? How long did you date, though, Chris, Logan, before you got married? We were friends for a few months, and then we dated.

Okay, and then how long did you take before you got married? Four or five years. So you married? Four or five years. So you dated for four or five years and a committed relationship. Okay. And you said like two months after you started dating him. But you had already been friends with him. Yeah. So that's kind of different though.

I think so. Well, yeah, because you were friends first. Yeah. And then you decided to date. So it wasn't like you just started dating him and you knew him for two months. You have known him for months. Then you decided to date. It is a little, that is a little different.

I like who I was around him. Yeah. And that's why I wanted to just tell him. That's a little different because most people just start dating. Didn't really know each other. And then in two months they're saying, which is what apparently happened with Tracy with Tracy she's not she's not going to tell us how long give me the lowdown sister oh my gosh well let me just ask you this Jer's the one I should be worried about how long did it take Jer to tell you he loved you like 24 hours pretty much dear

God oh my gosh it's probably because you're the hottest girl he ever dated oh my gosh no no he dated some hot girls but um no he literally bought me a ring within a month of knowing me like the first day we talked to the time i mean you are a dang prize like you think about listen i'm just saying this and this is completely truth. I don't know many of you. Like I don't know many girls that are like you. Like you're one of the most well-rounded, level-headed, always like this. I'm not blowing smoke at you I'm just saying to you you are a strong woman which a lot of people

that have your personality are not strong women they're mousy right but I have not listen I might have bought you a ring within 24 hours if I was capable of having a homosexual relationship.

I'm just saying. I can see why he would do that with you because there aren't many women like you. Anybody has ever gotten to know her or even knows her moderately. You're a rarity, girl. You are not the norm at all. I told you I loved you. Yeah. I know.

I admire her. Like, you're a rarity. But because you are a strong woman, you know? In so many ways, spiritually and everything else. But I'm just saying that, yeah, I can see why he did that. Because he was like, dang, this girl likes me. I better grab her, keep her before somebody else snatches her. I totally get that.

Now I've gone 11 minutes and five seconds over. Always. Always. I don't know when to shut up. It's all right. This has been no spiritual questions whatsoever today, people. But there's nothing in the Bible anyway that tells you that. I will say this.

The one thing, one scripture that I can come up is, if you try and hide something, like everything that you want to hide should be brought to the light. That's what the word says. Anything hidden will be brought to the light is exactly what it says. So if you need to say everything if you unless you don't know it like that's one thing like there's still to this day like I'm gonna be married I don't even know if it's like 27 years in December to Tom there's still little things that every now and then like he'll say and I'm

like oh I didn't know that about you it's very rare and there's still little things that every now and then, like, he'll say, and I'm like, oh, I didn't know that about you. It's very rare. And there's still some things about him, about me, he would be able to say that. But nothing that he or I needed to know about each other that would have made us change our minds about whether or not we should marry him. The other thing is, is both of us prayed, and we asked God, is this the person for us? So it was really irrelevant if there was

something in my past or his past that would have bothered me because god told me he was the one so i didn't have to like all that stuff just doesn't matter most people though never ask is this the person for me they never do and they end up marrying the wrong person or they'll hear something about the person and they'll be like, yeah, I don't like that. So they dump them when really they were the one. It's just you made the carnal decision. So everything should be told, though. Once you know that that person's the one for you, everything should be exposed.

Take a chance. Share 100% everything about yourself and uh if that person's the one god's told you you're not really taking a chance you're just being honest and transparent and starting out fresh and new and um having starting your relationship as far as meritally pure and totally transparent with one another it's like um you know It's like when you keep something from somebody and then when you finally tell them about it, then you're like, oh, I feel so much better. Enter marriage like that. It's freeing.

Don't hide anything because if you get into that marriage and you're holding something back, that could be rough. That could be rough. All right. So let's do the sinner's prayer. I don't know how to transition into that. Sorry. There's no transition for that. Sometimes I can be really fast, really creative.

I ain't got nothing for you today. So if you need to get saved, if you don't know Jesus as your Lord and Savior, or if you've walked away and you need to get your life right with him, let's do that right now. Let's do it together. Just say, Heavenly Father, I come to you right now. I thank you for what you did on the cross. I thank you for dying for my sins. I ask you to forgive me of all the sins that I've committed. I thank you for dying on that cross I thank you that you are the Lord of my life From now on Whatever you tell me to do, I will do

Whatever you tell me or wherever you tell me to go, I will go If you tell me not to do something, I won't do it You are the Lord of my life I thank you, I praise you In Jesus' mighty name we pray, amen Simple as that. Let us know if you said the sinner's prayer with us today. We can help you get you involved with maybe some great Bible studies.

If you live here in town, get you involved in the church. Also, get you a good Bible. We can help disciple you along the way. If you don't live in the area, tune in on Sunday mornings. And also, maybe you live in an area where we do know of a good church. We can help you find that as well. But let us know so we can pray, stand with you. And it says to win the lost and disciple believers.

Let's help get you discipled. So guess what? You will turn around, start winning the lost and discipling yourself. We need to multiply ourselves. Super important. We need to take as many people to heaven as we possibly can. Thank you for joining in. We need to multiply ourselves. Super important. We need to take as many people to heaven as we possibly can. Thank you for joining in. I will see you Friday. And don't forget the stand up in Tampa Bay, the river, Tampa Bay. They have a conference this

week. It's called Breakthrough. If you haven't watched it, you can go back and watch the replays. But if you can make it there in the next, I think it goes until Sunday night, correct? Sunday night, you will not be disappointed. Go visit it. Go as many times as you can. I think Tom and I are up there tonight. Can't wait. Pastor Rodney Howard Brown, phenomenal. You'll enjoy yourself. You know, you'll walk in different than the way you walk. You'll walk out different than the way you walked in. Okay, have a great time. Tonight is Wednesday night, so try and be at church. Either way, Thursday, have a great day, and I'll see you Friday. Bye. Real Talk.

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