The Hope Hotline - The Hope Hotline | S01-E88 | 11-17-23

Episode Date: November 22, 2023

The Hope Hotline | S01-E88 | 11-17-23

Welcome to Friday. It's a good day. It's the weekend before Thanksgiving and this is a heavy traveling weekend. Like I think this is the weekend that they say people travel the most on. Right? Most money is spent through airlines this weekend. I don't know if gas is the same, but it's the most heavily traveled. So watch for the speeding traps, people. That's all I'm telling you, because they're out. They know you're coming.

They know you're trying to get to a place as fast as you possibly can, because like screaming kids in the back or when we gonna get there kind of nonsense. And you're just like, get me out. You've been in the car for five to 10 minutes and you're all ready to get out. So those cops, they know you're coming. Been married to one, Logan's married to one.

They're ready for you. They're waiting. Listen, this is what I would tell you to do. Use Google Maps if you're traveling by car. Do this all the time. Use Google Maps because Google Maps actually will tell you if there is a speeding trap ahead. I love that feature.

I use it all the time, especially when I'm headed to the river because Tom usually is like just done because the traffic's horrible. So when you get those little openings of nobody on the road, he's like, pew, he's out of there. He's going as fast as he possibly can because mostly he's frustrated with the slow drivers.

Right. So he's trying to make a point. Get out of my way. Move out, bro. What's that song? There's a song that says get out of my way. Yeah. Right?

In there? Yeah. I have it in my head. I can't sing it. You can't sing it? Well, of course you can't sing it. Well, no. I mean, like, if it's the one I'm thinking of.

It might not be on beat if you sing it. Well, is it? I know. Is it ludicrous? Is it the? of. It might not be on beat if you sing it. I know. Is it ludicrous? Is it the... Well, put yourselves on because people are only hearing your voice. I don't know who it is. I don't listen to secular, to be honest with you.

But I've just heard it, like, on commercials or something like that. Do they have that on commercials? Or maybe it's... I don't go to sporting events. Where have I heard that song? I don't know, but it's, I can't say the words. It's on like probably some kind of kids movie or something. I've had to have it because Brinley or something.

She's, that sing, those sing movies, like they have all the like real popular songs or something. It's got to be on one of those because how's it go? No. Move, girl, get out the way okay thank you logan she got the way listen there's certain words i was trying to like how are they bad yeah no way that's why i'm saying girl with female dog i can no way listen i can rap i can't sing well listen you can't dance so you have to have rhythm and you don't have, so I'm concerned about the rapping part.

I'm going to start taking dance classes and show all you up. Oh, can I please go? Yes, you can. Oh, my gosh. Hey, listen, we actually have the, what's that called? Author, no. What's the name of that place that's the dance studio right down the road? Fred Astaire.

We have the Fred Astaire studio right down the road. Fred Astaire. We have the Fred Astaire studio right down the street. Please, Tracy. For the love of the most high. Jer would love me if I did. If I brought him, he would be the happiest man alive. Are you kidding me? No, I'm not kidding at all. Jer wants to take dancing lessons? He loves dancing

his whole life. Is he a good dancer? I don't know. I'm not a good dancer. I think everybody's a great dancer. That makes sense. That makes sense that you would think that. Because what? See? I'm a good line dancer. Huh? You can't hear you

because you, like, do you understand what a microphone is, Vanessa? I don't think she does. One, two, one, two. I don't think that's like line Vanessa? I don't think she does. Check, check. One, two, one, two. Check. I don't think that's line dancing. I don't think that's official dancing. Line. I concur. You were terrible at it.

I was absolutely terrible. And you're a good dancer. And you're a good line dancer. That's because I used to do aerobic stuff. So you just have to follow the aerobic stuff. It's like a math equation. It always has the same steps, right? Well, that's how line dancing is.

But I don't think you need rhythm for line dancing. I'm going to be honest with you. Now, when Chris does it, which is Logan's husband, he is a good dancer. Are you a good dancer? I think so. Okay. That means maybe not. I'll ask Chris. My secular dancing is fantastic.

Mine too. My dumb dancing is phenomenal. Like in the club? I can get it. Me too. Well, anybody, listen, anybody's good in the club because you're nasty. You're dirty. I know this. And the lights are low. The lights are low.

So you can see what's happening. No, that's true. Anybody can dance in the club. Hope, did you know I was an African dancer? Oh, my gosh. Did you not know that? What does that mean? You are an African dancer.

Yeah. I went to school. Uh-huh. And you know how girls sign up to be a ballet dancer uh-huh i signed up to be an african dancer and i'm not kidding and i have proof yeah what what is an african dancer i have never heard of this before is that like irish dance like you have to like norma took irish dance it's like dance from ireland so you learn to dance like people from africa yes okay that is why listen this makes complete sense okay the other day in the gym we had to do these plea these uh sumo squats you do a sumo squat and

then they made us go up on our toes yes i have never seen someone do a sumo squat and go up on her toes. Yes. I have never seen someone do a sumo squat and go up on their toes like Vanessa. It was like an African dance, voodoo, whatever. That was her. I'm classically trained. Okay. Did you have to do that for African dance? Like that move? Because I'm not kidding you.

She literally went up on her tiptoes like a ballet dancer. I was thinking in my head girl you don't need to go that high take her down some notches it's gonna be all right but she's trying to show everybody up in the room which was only three of us so really you're not showing up too many people like she was on her tiptoes like a ballet dancer like i was impressed i am not kidding i was was like, dang girl. This well is deep. Okay.

What is that? This well is deep. There's a lot of things that you don't know about me. We're learning them. We're about to find out. I've known you for 10 years. That I did not know. I did not know

you were in an infomercial, which apparently happened just prior to coming to our church. How that never leaked out, I do not know. That was new information for everybody.

I do not know. Now, new information for everybody. I do not know. Now, on another note, do we have it ready? Yeah, we do. We do. Hey, listen, I'm going to take a moment in time. I almost need a moment of silence, to be perfectly honest with you, because as happy as I am about this day that's coming up tomorrow, I'm deeply saddened because I cannot share it with the one that I love. Now, I'm not going to do this for everybody, but not very many people capture the heart of the individuals in this room as well as the other podcast team that is not here today. That would be Heather, Talia, and Norma. We hold this person near and dear to our hearts, and we miss her so deeply.

Happy birthday, Kristen. Well, I better not give her last name, right? Kristen. Happy birthday, Kristen. We love you. We miss you. And we hope tomorrow is the best day ever. You deserve it. There's no one like you. Best. Best is the best day ever. You deserve it.

There's no one like you. Best. Best of the best. Does anybody want to say hey to her? She does watch this podcast. Yes, she does. Happy birthday, Kristen. We miss you.

Come back. I know. This was a huge loss for anybody. I know there's lots of people who don't come to this church that watch this, but I'm just telling you, she's been with us for at least 10 years. And an integral part of the church, her husband was on our board. They're like a, what do you call it, a pillar. They were like a pillar for us.

You needed anything. They were one of the 10% that do 100% of the work. call it a pillar they were like a pillar for us yeah you needed anything they were you know they were one of the 10 that do 100 of the work yeah that was them yeah and we miss you girl like no tomorrow right now she loves you so much thank you all you're gonna make her cry can we have a moment of silence please yes we can so sad and i'm i'm literally happy that she's like loving life but i really don't love it that it's not with us so hard but i'm glad you're loving your new life and you'll be back i know that for sure so happy birthday girl we love you here at the podcast and at foundation church you know that and you're important to us. So do you see Trish in the picture picture up there? Do I see Trish? Oh, look at Trish as the gorilla. I thought that was I thought that was a

kid or Dylan. Oh, my gosh. Trish never disappoints. Never, never, never. Oh, my gosh. What is what a special girl. Love you, girl. Tell Lee we said hey to so. All right. right. That's my personal thing I had to get out of the way today. Now, go ahead, Tracy. Do your thing, sister. All right. So we are going to start with like, share, subscribe, and comment, please. We're live on Facebook, Rumble, YouTube, and Blackrobe. And we've got all the different ways of doing all the different things.

So if you are on Facebook, we are on there commenting with you. Rumble as well, YouTube as well, and Blackrobe as well. We've got the option to share on Facebook and you know that goes right to your page and then it will fall into the news feed so other people will see it and they can join. Rumble, again, you can share the link, a little more challenging, but you can always like, comment. And then YouTube, there is the option to subscribe. Again, if it's connected to your Gmail, I get a notification to remind me that this is going live or anything else that I follow and subscribe to. And I've got Black Robe and Black Robe is great because it's our platform. So we did this because you know how Facebook can be and Rumble is great. However, you never know. Some of these

companies have gone woke and we pray and believe that Rumble will stay strong. YouTube, you know, it's everybody's classic pick, but I love that you guys are on Rumble right now. We've already got a great conversation going and Logan's logged in as Logan. So when you see her, that's her. And if I'm commenting, I'm commenting as the Hope Hotline. All right, so we have next is the mug and that is available on our website. We also have my UBU t-shirt and we'll have to start thinking of another one soon too. So everybody keep their ideas out there. Throw them out when you have an idea because you never know what might be next. Never know. On the Hope Hotline tea.

We got the spoon again. I love my spoon. It's so beautiful. You could just keep it to look at like the quality is amazing. Listen, my nephew came here yesterday. Yeah. He's never come to the church before visited. Oh, OK.

Well, he he was a youth pastor at another church in the area. So he was like. But he's stepped down from doing that for right now. So he has another job that he loves, but he was driving past her. He's like, so I'm going to, he just pulled in and I gave him one of those spoons.

Yeah. And he was like, he was like that. Where the heck did you get that? Those are such a, that's such a great quality spoon. I can't even believe it. I know.

Not that spoons are so great. I'm just saying. It's kind of shocking. He was shocked. I know they are. He was like, I can't, this is such a great quality spoon. I can't even believe it. I know. Not that spoons are so great. I'm just saying. It's kind of shocking. He was shocked. I know, they are. He was like, this is such a great idea, but where the heck did you find this spoon? Yeah, I know. I know.

Leave it to Heather. And it took, again, these things aren't always easy. You think you pick the right one, and then it comes, and it's just not what you expected it to be. So we are very happy with our spoons and I use mine so um I okay so that's that um we have a couple of things so we have this but we also have our videos hope oh okay so this is what I was going to talk about so put that up this one okay yeah okay so you can't you can only hear us and only see this but I debated on whether or to – I've gone back and forth all day. Okay.

What's the con? Well, because people are going to think that we're going to do that for Christmas Eve. But I wanted to just show a taste of like how – just a little bit. Not that this is what we do, but do you know what I'm saying? Okay. Should I – okay, Vanessa's saying yes. Do you know what we're talking about, Logan? Yes, but, and I say no.

You say no. And why do you say no? Because I like when you're, I like when you're secretive. No, that's not, that's not, I'm not saying that that's what we're doing, because what I'm saying is I don't want people to think that I'm going to, like, perform, do you know what I'm saying? We want to want people to think that I'm going to like perform. Do you know what I'm saying? We want to see it.

We want to see it. Because it's not even, it's still super secretive. Like this is nothing though. But Logan, if I don't make people have that expectation, is it okay for me? Because I'm like thinking I shouldn't do it. Look how great few Ed was. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Okay.

Well, all right. You made me wait and I had my, like I was so built up about it and I was so excited. You got on stage and you delivered. And you delivered. I know, but. Oh gosh. Show it if you want to. It's because she knows too much if she didn't know

okay but the thing is is if we show this to you guys yeah i'm putting don't have an expectation that this is what's happening because first of all you can't replicate that no so we're not gonna replicate that but this is one of the fun things that we did. How many years ago? Two years ago? Yeah. So not this past one, but the one before. Because we never do everything. We never do anything the same every year.

It's always different. So should we do it? Yes, let's do it. I'm perplexed. And even Logan's nail made me like. It'll make people excited for Christmas. How about I go to the next couple things and then... No, because you've got to stick

with this because if it's Christmas Eve it's... Do you have a coin? Can we fill the coin? I don't have a coin. Ask the audience. They're going to want to see it. I don't know. Galena said let it be a surprise. Oh. Hey, Galena, by the way, I need to see you on Sunday.

Go ahead. Super important. Are we flipping a coin? So Galena said keep it a secret. Did anybody else give their opinion? But the thing is, is just so you know, if we show it, this is not, don't get your hopes up high. I'm just giving you a taste of what we did in the past. Okay, come on in.

Okay, okay, okay okay the water's fine okay heads you win tails you i lose okay heads we're not doing it okay tails doesn't matter if it hits the table and falls on the floor it does i don't want any of these rules that i don't know about to change. If it hits the table and falls on the floor, is it counting? Tracy. Only if it goes in your direction, I'm sure. It has to go on the table because I have to confirm.

Or I'm just playing it. Okay. Heads, we do it. No, heads, we don't do it. Oh, heads, no. What is it? I'm confused. Heads, I win. Tails, you it. Oh, heads, no. What is it? I'm confused. Heads I win, tails you lose.

Heads you win. Tails you lose. Tails I lose. Correct? Heads you win. No, that's the same. Dang it. That's like having a double-faced coin.

Oh, man. Oh, my gosh. I'm a little slow. No, you weren't. That was fast. That was good. That was good. I'm a little slow. No, you weren't. That was fast. That was good. I'm impressed. Heads, we don't do it. Tails, we do it. Heads, we don't.

Heads, we don't do it. Heads, no. Tails, yes. Heads, no. I'm seriously, I'm kind of like I kind of feel like Logan does a little bit. I've played around with this. So her saying that totally made me confirm my doubt. So we're just flipping this coin because we're talking about it

so we can move on to the important things. No, it doesn't. What else is new? What? Our opinion doesn't count. Okay, and remember, 10 pounds. The camera adds 10 pounds. Oh, my gosh.

This is so true, though. It 10 pounds. Oh my gosh. This is so true though. It does. Oh my gosh. What is it? It doesn't count. It has to be on the table. That's why I said. Yeah, you got it. That's why I said.

Because I would have won. She would have won. See? And I knew. Don't mess up. It might not work. I think it will. will i think it's gonna work this time oh what is it freaking tails play it i'm nervous wait do you want but don't get your hopes i mean listen people it's not that don't get your hopes up i'm just saying we don't ever do anything the same all All I'm doing is we actually have on video something that we've done in the past. So if you've never been to one of our Christmas Eve services, you don't know some of the things that we do to add a little bit of fun. So all I'm saying is don't get your hopes up high. This is just one of the things because we don't have anything else to really show you like what we do.

Although we do have Norma's, but that's Norma and Vanessa and Naz that year, which was really good. But we can't even do those because it won't make sense. Yeah, I know. That's why I went to this. All right. I have one question. Mike's on or off? Mike's on or off?

Yeah. Do you want our mics on for commentary or do you want this to be a solely? Just leave them on because Lord knows we might need to say something. Okay, ready? Here we go. Here we go. Haul out the holly

Put up the tree before my spirit falls again Fill up the stocking I may be brushing things Forgive the fat on the sides of me. Again, the camera adds ten pounds. at the spinnaker. Yes, we need a little Christmas right this very minute. It hasn't snowed a single flurry, but Santa dear, we're in a hurry. So you climb down the chimney. This is after I went into some cat food.

On the bed. Sat right in cat food. It's time we hum some tinsel on that evergreen bough For I've grown a little leaner Grown a little colder Grown a little sadder

Grown a little older And I need a little angel Sitting on my shoulder I need a little Christmas now Call out the holly For once I taught you all to Live each living day Fill up the stocking

But it's in vain It's one week past Thanksgiving Day now But we need a little Christmas Right this very minute. Candles in the window, carols at the stint. And we need a little Christmas right this very minute. It hasn't snowed a single flurry, but Santa, dear, we're in a hurry. So climb down the chimney. It's been a long time since I felt so deeply.

So hard. All there's Vanessa. So hard. Those are neighborly. So hard. The fruitcake. All there's Vanessa with the mice. On that day very bound. For we need a little Christmas. Right this very minute. Candles in the window. Carols at the spinning. And we need a little Christmas.

Right this very minute. We need a little Christmas right this very minute. We need a little Christmas now. Got a little can-can going on right there. All of us have lost holiday weight since this, just so everybody knows, except for Norma. We need a little Christmas now. We need a little Christmas now. There you go. Round of applause for the location.

Logan, have you ever seen that before? No, never. No? There you go. Oh, I hate the socks with the green dress. Wow, Logan Logan I know How dare she It's so beautiful

But I want to rip the socks Off of you girls It was not meant to be beautiful No Wait this is the We're not going for style Logan Logan this was our warning Disclaimer

No one was injured Seriously hurt during Let me put this on okay so when we played it put that on there so when we started it out we had a disclaimer so that people knew

okay this is not serious we are not being serious this is all about fun but I cannot tell you how many people came up to me and they thought we were actually really great singers because they actually thought

we were singing that whole entire thing they did not know we lip synced it at thing. They were like, I didn't know you could sing. They did not know we lip synced it. Yeah. At all. And I'm like, come on. They're like, man, you guys sing good. I'm like, that was a lip sync.

But we must have done it well. Yes. So Christmas Eve, be here or be square. Galena said, as much as Hope hates Hallmark movies, this really looks like the start of a Hallmark movie. Uh-huh. It did. Listen, I made Tom go there and take Christmas pictures with us.

Let me just tell you, for somebody who's so Hallmark-y, he was so whiny. So grinchy. He was so grinchy. Yeah, but it came out amazing. But the pictures were great. He's a great photographer. Okay, go ahead.

Next. Okay, so do you want this or no? Yes. You do. Okay. Okay, this is Foundation Church Kids, which I love that you put that in there. Yes, FC Kids. Foundation Church Kids.

Yeah. Please, if you, I don't know how many people, because Heather's, Heather and Travis never take off. I am forcing them to take off Fridays, which they're supposed to, but they never do. So she's not with us today, but if you haven't signed up, I'm not kidding when I tell you there's limited seating. So you have to sign your whole entire family up.

Whoever is coming needs to be signed up and you have to attend the church in order to come. That's it. Okay, and then we had a question about this. Do you wanna clarify just again, like what they're gonna be doing? Yeah, we can do that really quick. Now there had a question about this. Do you want to clarify just again what they're going to be doing? Yeah, we can do that really quick. Now, there's a mistake on this. If you know what jacked means, J-A-C-K, all of those letters are an acronym.

But we made a slight error that we have fixed. You don't know about it because Heather went in and secretly fixed it. But it should read Jesus Jesus acts of Christmas kindness. You got to have a C. That's true. We're missing the C. Okay. So this girl's going to be working real hard this weekend to make sure all of these cards

that you're going to be picking up, you're going to pick up on Sunday at the table this package. And this package is going to have 12 different, not different, they're going to have 12 little like five by, I think it's five, whatever, it's five by 10, five by 11 cards. And these cards are for you to give to an individual because we're going to count down to Christmas, 12 days. You have 24 days to count down and do 12 acts of kindness.

We have inside that packet a smaller envelope with ideas in it. Good going, sister. Johnny on the spot. So inside that packet, along with those cards, those cards look very similar to what you've been jacked it's very similar to that right it's um but you're going to be able to invite somebody church you're going to maybe share the love of christ with somebody maybe they're not saved you might be able to have an opportunity to win the lost um but inside each of those packets, inside that packet is another envelope with 12 suggestions or ideas for you to use in doing your acts of kindness. So we kind of did some thinking for you so you didn't have to either come up with your own ideas.

I mean, do your own idea if you want to. But do it. Because really, I mean, there's a lot of people out there that the holidays get lost in what it really means. And this is an opportunity for us to really make sure things stay focused on what they're supposed to be focused for and giving back. Kindness goes a long way. It really does. And sometimes that might be the only thing somebody gets that year. And it's not because they're poor.

It's because they don't have family around or i mean that's really so true you know that's really sometimes the the case they don't have family lots of people um like what is it called when you move from somewhere transplant yeah they they transplant themselves down here they have no family and maybe it's just them and their husband and you do something kind for them and it's like brightens their whole holiday up. So that's what it's all about. But really the point is to share Jesus with someone and potentially, if at all possible, get them saved. That's what it's all about.

Invite them to church, get them saved. Maybe they need healing in their body. Maybe they need hope of some kind, and you might be that for them. So go ahead. Next thing. Awesome. Okay. And then our last thing today is if you missed it on Wednesday, we are doing Hope's favorite things. In every podcast, we are going to share a new present. So we'll pull a present away. Yesterday, we had the Longhorn. Wednesday. Wednesday, we had the Longhorn Steakhouse gift card that is one of the presents. Go get a stampede this weekend, people. And the reason why is because of the stampede.

Get that stampede, people. So if you're the winner and you win this, you have to go get a chocolate stampede. That's just part of the rules. And then you have to take a picture and show Hope and tell her how amazing it was. You have to. And then today's is going to be the infamous Gold Bond neck and chest cream. Which the birthday girl, who I acknowledge, she's the one that saved my neck. She's the one.

She's the one that introduced me to this. She's the one. Thank you. Best thing ever. I'm telling you. Okay, so this is the little cream. It will be a part of the basket. And in order to win, I'm going to put us back on.

In order to win this, you have to listen for the secret word. You didn't tell me what the secret word is. I know. I'm not going to yet. We're going to flash it for you. So I have my helpers here to remind me. And I have it on my little notepad over here, so we're not going to forget. But you have to, the listener has to be listening. So you're going to have to get all the secret words. And then at the end, you're going to have to email us and we'll give you information

when we get closer. But you'll email us what the phrase is, the secret phrase. And then your name will be put in to win. So there'll probably be a bunch of people that will know the phrase. Your name will be put in. We'll pull the name somehow, we'll get more information as we get closer. And then one person will win all of the prizes. So if you're a guy, this might be a great gift for your wife. True. I was thinking about this morning. I'm like, why would a guy want to win this? Well, for your wife, she'll love it. Trust me. And listen, give her the gifts you don't want, but that stampede has your name all over it. That is true. All over it.

You could share it. You could share it with your wife. He could share it with his wife. No problem. No problem. Yeah. Take your wife out to dinner. She gets part of the gift.

You get part of the gift. And then you get lucky later on. So you have dessert there and then you have dessert later. She'll love you for it. That's all I'm going to say. She will. Absolutely. All right.

And that's it. We can go to the show now. 31 minutes in. Or no, 29 minutes in. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 29. Lovely. Yep.

But hey, we're all about having fun. Yeah. And we got lots of fun stuff coming up. That's right. People might not know. So now you do. That's right. And if you're a youth that attends the church, I talk to Jer, which is Tracy's husband.

We're going to have the youth helping out with the Grinch thing. Good, good. That's going to be awesome. That'll be so fun. So put your name in the hat for that. All right, let's go to the first question. Let's get rolling, my friends. So how do you ask for prayer without claiming the sickness over oneself so how do you ask for

prayer without claiming the sickness over oneself so this is a person asking how to stand or how to ask in prayer without prayer for yourself is that what you're understanding it to say to how do you ask for prayer without claiming the sickness over oneself? Meaning praying over sickness that it doesn't come on you or that you're praying over the sickness that you have over yourself without putting it on you, I think is what they're saying. Correct? Oneself meaning me?

Yeah. Okay. That's what I thought. I feel once you speak that, you have the issue even to ask for prayer. It seems to make symptoms stick. Life and death are in our words when you say, I have, I am, you're claiming that over yourself. So when you say you have a fever, cancer, or whatever issue, are you claiming them over? I hope you understand the question. I kind

of do understand the question. I believe that that, I believe you're saying, if I pray or if I ask for prayer because words have so much power, am I speaking that over myself, then making that thing adhere itself to me, and now I own it because words have power. I would say this. No. And the reason is because I'll say it like this. For example, if you, you can't deny what is true, right? So if someone were to have a fever, no, we'll use cancer because cancer is, a fever comes and goes or can go and you really sometimes don't even talk about the fever.

I would say this, if you had a fever, how I would pray about the fever. I would say this. If you had a fever, how I would pray over the fever if I had one is I would speak directly to it. I would not own it, but I would speak directly to it. I would command that sickness. It's like what we spoke about at the conference this year. And I referred to it one other time. But at the conference, we learned that when Jesus talked about the mustard seed speaking to the mountain and it be cast into the sea, what that scripture was referring to,

it says, if you have the faith of a mustard seed and you say to the mountain, be cast into the sea, it will happen. It's basically what it says. The mustard seed is on the Mount of Olives, right? Where Jesus did most of his teaching, a lot of his teachings and a lot of speakings. The mustard seed is the most invasive plant they have. That plant grows into a 10-foot tall mustard plant or mustard tree. They call them trees even though they're a plant because they grow so tall.

And it even says that the mustard seed is like the kingdom of heaven and that if you plant it, then birds will sit in it and they will nest, right? So birds only go to tall things. So that's what the kingdom of heaven is even used, is even referenced or likened to the mustard seed. So it said, if you have faith of a mustard seed, the mustard seed is the smallest at that time, the smallest seed that was in Israel at that time. I think they say now that there are others that are smaller, but it's the smallest seed that grows the tallest tree or plant. And it said, if you have the faith of a mustard seed, which is super tiny, and say to that mountain, and the mountain that was being referred to at that time was a mountain that you could actually see off in the distance.

It was a prior king, and the king wasn't great. He was actually not a great king. So if you say to this mountain, and he pointed to that, they believe, rabbis believe that Jesus said, if you have faith of a mustard seed, and you say to this mountain, the mountain could be cancer. And he said that he pointed to that. They believe he pointed to that mountain.

So your mountain is cancer. Your mountain is sickness. The mountain is disease. Your mountain could be anxiety, depression, whatever it is. You speak to that mountain. So you say to the mountain, you don't pray to Jesus about that mountain. You don't say, Lord, help me do this. No. Or Lord, take this away from me. No. It says, Jesus about that mountain. You don't say, Lord, help me do this. No. Or Lord, take this away from me.

No. It says, speak to the mountain. So I speak to cancer, whatever it is. If it's blood cancer, if it's lung cancer. So let's use lung cancer. So you say, I speak to lung cancer that is in my body. And I cast you into the sea. Well, the sea that you can see from the Mount of Olives is the Dead Sea.

What lives in the Dead Sea? Absolutely nothing. It's full of salt. Nothing lives. You'll actually, you can go in, people go and float. You do nothing. And your body just floats because it's full of salt. People go there for medicinal purposes, in fact.

So if you say to that mountain, and when I pray for people, I specifically speak to whatever is going on in their body. If it is anxiety, I say, anxiety in the name of Jesus, I cast you into the pit of hell, or I cast you into the sea. And since I have learned this, I often think I'm casting you into what's called the dead sea, if that's what they believe he was referring to. It's a perfect analogy because it has to die when it goes straight into it. Cancer, I'm speaking to you. I'm casting you into the sea, the dead sea. You have to die. You cannot live. You cannot exist. So you will not live and you will not exist in my body. Okay. You have to speak to what is true. If you have a sickness, my body. Okay, you have to speak to what is true.

If you have a sickness, illness, or disease, you have to speak to what is true. You can't say, I don't have that. Okay, you're a liar. Your words mean something. You can't lie, right? Because that's deception. You're now deceiving yourself.

You're deceiving someone else. Your words hold value. So you have to speak what is true, but you don't have to own it. And when you speak to it and you command it to go, you're not saying I'm owning this. I'm keeping it. You're actually saying I speak to you and you have to go. You don't have any life in me. You don't have any rights to me. The blood of Jesus and the stripes that he bore, that's what is mine. That's what I hold to. So when you do that, you're not really, symptoms don't stick if you're doing it correctly. If you walk around and you tell people your symptoms are what the

doctor says, and that's your reality, then you're probably going to be sick and riddled with whatever the doctor says you're riddled with. But if you say, this is what the doctor says, but I do not receive it, that is not my hope. That is not what my doctor tells me. My doctor says, I am healed. 1 Peter 2.24, in Isaiah he says, Isaiah prophesied that Jesus would die on the cross and he would be bruised for our transgressions and our iniquities. And by his stripes, we would be

healed. Even Isaiah prophesied that Jesus would do that on the cross, those three things. And then first Peter 224, it's referred back to that those are the things that Jesus did when he died on the cross. So I would tell you that even though you speak things and they do matter and words do matter and they are powerful and they do make a difference, it's how you say them. It really matters how you say them. If you own them and you walk around and say, there's a lot of people that walk around and say, I have a thyroid condition. You've now just owned the thyroid condition. If you say, if people say, listen, I heard that or I heard, what are you believing for? You can say the doctor says I have a thyroid condition.

I don't own that. That's the doctor's report. I stand on what God's report is. I stand on what Jesus did on that cross. Okay. There are ways to say it. That's why, like, I'll use my daughter as an example. One of the reasons why she's seen the healings in her body that she has is because she doesn't talk about it.

She's very careful with her words. And when she does talk about it, she doesn't own it. When people want to talk to her about it, people are taken aback by her. But you have to be really careful about the things that you say and how you say them. And if you can't say them the right way, don't say them. Words do matter. That's why it says, let your words be few. But she's seen lots of healings because she speaks life over her situation. Words do matter. That's why it says, let your words be few.

But she's seen lots of healings because she speaks life over her situation. And that's what people need to do. You can't go around and like, there are people that thrive on sickness because it gives them attention. Can you pray for me because of this? And you just want the attention of what that is. But that sometimes being sick isn't terminal. So you get attention from no, like, like people who have a sickness or a disease that is terminal. Some of them thrive on it, but then others will be like, yeah, I'm not, I'm gonna be very careful with what I say, because they know the end result is death.

Then there's the ones that it's not death. Like some people have arthritis and things like that. And they love to complain about their aches and their pains. That's because your aches and your pains draw attention to yourself. But at the end of the day, there's no deadly end result for you. So it's really easy. But it's still at the, for me, I sit there and go, who wants to have pain? It's like my wrist. I was mad. I was mad.

I was having pain in my wrist. Guess what's gone. No pain, no pain in my wrist. It's gone. But I was like diligent and angry and I was not settling. It was not staying on me at all. And every single time I feel like it might be trying to come back on, I nip it real fast so that it doesn't even get an inch. And that's the thing.

Just know this, that Satan knows who means what they say. He knows who holds value in the words that they speak and holds the value in what the word of God claims and promises for them. He knows that. And then there's the ones that don't know the word of God. They go, it's. Kenneth Hagen did a great teaching on this, and I was just listening to it, I think Monday or Tuesday, where people are

robbed from their healings because they don't know the promises of God and they don't know the word. And they sit there and they're perplexed. I was healed. Why is this? It's because you don't know the words. Satan comes. And if you did, you know the scripture John 10 10 Satan comes to steal, kill, and destroy If you don't think he's going to try and steal your healing from you He will He does

It's the Let's see Catherine Coleman Andrew Womack And I think it was Benny Hinn I think it was Benny Hinn. I think it was them. Those people have said 90% of people lose their healings after they've received them because they don't know the word.

They went to somebody who had faith, and they received their healing. Now they need to have equal faith to keep it, but they don't know the word. So when it tries to come and get stolen from them, Kenneth Higgins said something brilliant. He said, he talked about somebody who he had, he used to do eight week, eight week camp meetings, right? He would do nothing less if you didn't let him come for eight weeks, you want eight to 12 weeks. He ain't coming. Don't bother him. And this was when, not when he first got started

for many, many years. And it would be morning and evening, morning and evening. So eight to 12 weeks at a church. And he would see the first week, he wouldn't see that many miracles. And the second week, that's when they started popping because people have started understanding faith. And there was this man, he said, that came, and he came with a walker. He could barely walk with a walker. And then he had hearing aids, and you had to scream for him to hear you with the hearing aids on.

He was that deaf. He came with his daughter. So the first week they came, no results. Second week he came, the man was healed completely of his hearing loss and he left the hearing aids behind and he left the cane behind, left walking and he left hearing 100% completely well. Three weeks later from that, in three weeks, he still was coming, but what happened was is his friends, he would go every morning and he would meet his friends for like to hang out, you know, like the old timers do. They all go and eat breakfast together.

They talk about what's going on in the town, that kind of thing. So every morning he would go. like three weeks later at a specific time on one of the days, he lost his hearing for like a minute and then it came back. And then the next day he went and he lost his hearing, but now it's for 10 minutes. And then the next time he went, he lost his hearing and it was gone for good. It might've been an hour on the second day and it was gone for good. It might have been an hour on the second day and it was gone for good.

Gone. The thing is, is when it went for the first minute, the man, Kenneth Hagin says, I know what you said the first minute that you lost it. And he goes, what? And he goes, you said, I thought I was healed. And he goes, that's exactly what I said. And he goes, you were healed.

Power in the words. And he said, if that man would have known that Satan was coming to steal his healing he would have never uttered those words but let alone he would have had the knowledge and the power behind the promise that had been provided for him with the healing that he had already received he would have started attacking it faith-wise and but the the man what happened is he got healed and then he just went on about his life. And prior to that, he had no understanding

of how faith worked. So he didn't receive his healing. Then he gets healed and he doesn't go after it. That's us. That's us. Most people, if you get healed, most people won't keep it. You know why?

Because they don't get discipled or they don't start studying healing. And so Satan comes in and he steals it from him. And the thing that they say is, I thought I was healed. And doubt and unbelief sink in. As soon as doubt and unbelief sink in, you're in trouble unless you attack it with faith. That's why when my wrist started hurting, I was like, no, no, no, no, no, no. I am healed in the name of Jesus. No pain. You are gone in the name of Jesus. I spoke to it because Satan's not robbing me. God paid a price and I'm going to take every single promise that's mine because that price was dear. It was his son that he allowed to have his

blood shed for each and every single one of us. And I am not going to take it for granted, let alone. What is it when somebody doesn't appreciate? It's not that they take it for granted. It's like you don't appreciate what was done for you. I don't know what the right word is. Ungrateful. You're ungrateful. And I'm not going to be ungrateful. It says actually in the last days, people will be, um, unthankful, which is basically the same thing as being ungrateful. I mean, if you seriously, I have a son and I sit

there and think, I, there's no way for all of mankind. Would give up my Tommy. Not happening. But God said, we are worthy. He loved us that much. He's like, you know what? I love you that much. I will sacrifice him for you. And then on top of that, Jesus said, you know what? I will be sacrificed because I love them that much. Okay?

So when we don't take what was done on the cross, it's kind of like a slap in the face to the price that was paid mightily for each and every single one of us. So do your due diligence. That's why Tom hits faith and unbelief like with a vengeance. And that's why we see so many people

that are healed, stay healed. Because you have to be relentless and you have to teach these things. People go get healed at these revivals, camp meetings or revival meetings. Like Pastor Rodney has these meetings in these churches. People receive their healings and then they lose it. Why? Because they go back to the church that doesn't teach them squat. They should stay in the church that brought Pastor Rodney, but they don't. They go back to their COVID caving church or their weak church

that preaches nothing. And then it's lost. It matters where you go. It matters what you're taught. It matters who you hang out with. Iron sharpens iron. It matters. It all matters. So you speak to the sickness, illness, and disease. You speak to that specifically. It said, don't talk to Jesus about your mountain. It says, speak to the mountain. So you speak to that mountain, whatever it is, whatever that sickness, illness, and disease is,

you speak to that and you command it to go straight into the sea. That's what binding and loosing is. I command it to either straight into the sea. That's what binding and loosing is. I command it to either go into the sea, the dead sea, or I command it to go straight into the pit of hell where it belongs. That's where sickness and illness and disease lies, not in heaven. We get whatever is on earth. We can expect whatever's in heaven here on earth. That's what the Lord's prayer says. There's no sickness, illness, and disease in heaven. So it can't come from God.

It had to come from Satan, and it has to go back to where Satan resides, which is in hell. Correct? Correct. All right. Let's go to the next question. Since God knew everything that would happen in the future,

what was his end game? Which I never even thought about this question before in my life. Like if God knew that Adam and Eve were going to sin, that people were going to go and die and go to hell, why would he even do it? I think that's what this question is basically saying. Does that, would you think it's saying? I'll read it again. Since God knew

everything that would happen in the future, what was his end game? He knew that revelation was going to come. Tribulation would happen. He would have to slaughter people up to the bridle of the horse. Why would he do that? That's what he's saying, correct? Yeah. Great question. Have you ever thought about that question? Never, never never the panel all says never the peanut gallery over there so whoever wrote this dang good one not a one of us ever thought that I never thought that you know why I always thought he created us is because I always knew and this is one of the things I'm going to talk about, but it's because he wanted relationship with us. He didn't need us, but he wanted relationship with us and he wants to be

worshiped and glorified. And that's what the word is full of, which I've always thought that's why we were created. Never thought like, well, dang, he did know in the end, like, why would he even do it? But I think I digress. Let me go back to the question. I don't know. I don't know exactly now that you phrase that question. I'm gonna be honest with you. I have no idea why he did it. But this is my opinion. Okay. And I hope this will answer your question. Let's look at Revelation 4.11. Now you have no scriptures because I didn't give any of these to Tracy. Because let me tell you why.

Because me and Heather were trying to figure out the jacked up thing last night together. So I was running all over the place. She was running all over the place. So normally I'm doing podcast prep. I was here at the podcast for my husband, not doing podcast stuff like I normally do. Only partial.

So you have no scriptures. That ain't her fault. That's my fault. Revelation 4.11 says, You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things. And by your will, they exist and were created. So this clearly says in revelations, you are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory, honor, and power.

So part of what our job is, in my opinion, is for us to give him the glory and the honor that he is due because he does create all things. He loves to create. And that's what also it says in the word, that he loves to create. Isaiah 43, 6 through 7, this one hits it up even better. I will say to the north, give them up. And to the south, do not keep them back. Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth.

Everyone who's called by my name. And the my is in caps. So it's referring to God. Everyone who is called by my name, whom I have created for my glory. It's for his glory. I have formed him. Yes, I have made him. So we're created for his glory and honor. And so I would. So here's the thing. It also says, oh, what's the scripture that says? Can you look it up for me, Tracy? There's a scripture and I want to say it's in the New Testament that says that we are his glory and honor. We're considered to have glory

and honor, but it's either Jesus who said it or God who said it. And I want to say it's New Testament, but I'm not sure about that. God created us for his glory and honor. Okay, so we're to glorify him. But if you look at the word glorify, which is what I did, it also means magnify. Now you have a magnifying lens, which is not what we're talking about. But then magnify also means to worship. So you have magnify, which is like a magnified lens. This can bring things in bigger and further away. Did you find it?

It's not Psalm, right? Psalms. Psalm 8. What does Psalm say? We are crowned by the majestic sovereign ruler of creation. We are crowned with glory and honor. Every single person made in God's image, crowned with glory and honor and given dominion in the world. I can't barely hear you because of that thing, because it's the computer. Put yourself on though, so people can yeah yeah um so we are crowned by the majestic sovereign ruler of creation we are crowned with glory and honor that's it every single person made in god's image crowned with glory and honor and given dominion

in the world yes because in that scripture it says that he created that means that god is saying we are his glory and honor as well we We're to glorify him and honor him. But in that, he also says we are. That's Psalms. I thought it was a New Testament for some reason. But thank you for finding that for me. Because it's important for us to understand it's a reciprocal thing. Right?

But truthfully, in truth, we are to worship him. And that's like, when we go to heaven, what are we going to do? It's not the only thing that we're going to do, but one of the things we're going to do is we're going to worship him in spirit and in truth. Right. And he loves that. He wants that. But he also wants relationship with us. He doesn't, this is one of the things I love about what my husband says when he preaches to the congregation. It's very much like how God is with us and how Jesus is when he's drawing us in. He's not drawing you in because he needs you. He doesn't need you. God needs nothing. God's God. But he wants us. And like Tom always says, that's a way more powerful emotion to want something instead of need something,

but he wants us. That want is what made him say, I'm gonna send my son for you. It's such a powerful thing. And so I agree. He knew Adam and Eve were gonna fail, but he wants a relationship with us, but that's not why he created us.

It wasn't because he needed to have a relationship with us. He had the Holy Spirit and he had Jesus, right? They were all present at the time when the earth was created. But there's something special about, we're even above the angels. I mean, there's something special about about us were you about to say something so like I don't know I we're very very special and I think we forget how special we really are especially people who feel inferior with others or don't know their value. That's why I often say get in the word

because if you feel like a lesser human, you get in the word, you're going to find out. There's absolutely no reason for you to feel that. The only reason you do is you compare yourself among yourselves. You're comparing yourself amongst other people, and we're not to do that. That's what the word is very clear, not to do that. You found it, Tracy? I'm looking at you. Yeah. Hebrews 1, 4 through 14 is the son of superior to the angels. And then it goes down

and explains all of that all the way through 14. So Logan's putting that up for you. Good stuff. Yeah. Good, good. You reading it? Oh, you want me to read the whole thing? Not, how long is it? There should be a small. It's 14?

Four through 14. Four? It starts with a. Yeah, go ahead because that's, yeah, do it. Go ahead. So he became as much superior to the angels as the name he has inherited is superior to theirs. And then it says the title is The Son Superior to Angels.

For to which of the angels did God ever say, You are my son, today I have become your father. Or again, I will be his father and he will be my son. And again, when God brings his firstborn into the world, he says, Let all God's angels worship him. And speaking of the angels, he says he makes his angels spirits and his servants flames of fire.

But about the son, he says, your throne, oh, oh, God will last forever and ever a scepter of justice and a scepter of your kingdom. You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore, God, your God has set you above your companions and anointed you with the oil of joy. And he also says in the beginning, Lord, you have laid the foundations of the earth and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish. You will remain. You will wear out your garment. You will roll them up like a robe and a garment and they will be changed, but you will remain the same and your years will never end um to which the angels did god ever say

sit at my right hand until i make an enemy a footstool of fear uh are not all my angels ministering spirits to send to serve those will inherit salvation i don't know where i'm like reading i'm like where is it there it's it's in hebrews we're gonna maybe it's right before that i gotta go to one we just did this too that's why we knew it was in, both Logan and I were like, it's in Hebrews. In Hebrews. Yeah. Uh, after these, yeah,

I'm going to have to keep looking because I don't know if it's God's final word, his son. I still love that. I still know those scriptures. I still love them. I know. Because it still shows you your value. Yeah.

Which is so important. Yep. But here's the thing. If you go to, if you find it, let me know. I will. I will.

But here's what I would say about with Adam and Eve. So again, he wanted relationship. He doesn't need it, but he wants it. But that's not why we were, one of the reasons we were created so he would have a relationship with us, but it's just, it's just a cherry on top, right?

It's not like that's the reason why. It's just a part of. In Genesis 3, it says, And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord among the trees of the garden. This happened when they had just been deceived by the serpent. So it just shows you that God was walking and he was looking for them in the cool of the day. And it says in the study Bible, for that particular verse, it's once a place of joy, which is the garden.

Once a place of joy and fellowship with God, it became a place of fear and of hiding from God. So it just shows you that particular place, the garden, was a place that they communed together. And I can't remember, but there's a reference to them walking in the cool of the evening, the cool of the day and something in the evening. It doesn't say it specifically, but it is referenced. And that's where lots of people believe

that Adam and Eve would conversate and walk with the Lord, just conversating like friends. Did you find it? No, okay, I'm gonna keep going. So I know that God knew that people would fail, but he also knew there would be people like us that would not. And I feel like it's like when you go out and you work really hard to, I don't know if the person that wrote this,

I don't know if you've ever either gone out and won souls or you've ever gone out and done an event of any kind where you're trying to glean a response and pull people into the Lord so that they have a deeper understanding or a relationship or get saved or healed or whatever. And in those times, I've done them. And I've like, man, this is a lot of work.

This is really hard. Now to God, nothing's a lot of work and nothing's really hard. But when I've gotten the response from just one person, I've been like, people say this just to say it, but then there are people who say it and they truly mean it. And I've done big, huge VBS events where I have hundreds of kids coming through and it is a it is a crazy time. And then you'll see one of them get saved and you sit there and go, I don't care. This these thousands of dollars that have been spent, this monumental effort that we have gone

through, all of the volunteers and, you know, herding cats, you sit there and go, you know what? If it was just for that dadgum kid, it is so worth it. And you know, you almost have to fight back the tears because you mean it so sincerely. And I feel like that's how God is. If it was just one that would go to heaven and be with him like Adam and Eve, because he just had the two of them that he would walk and communicate with. If it's just one person that he would communicate for the rest of the rest of eternity, it probably would have been worth it to him because we are his creation and he knew that. And so he also knows that there will be few that choose and go his way. Narrow is the way and

few there be that find it. But the few to him, I think it's worth it. He knows that there will be ones and we will worship him. We will glorify him. We will honor him and we will magnify him for eternity and he is worthy so i think that's the reason why he did it we are done i am four minutes over and if you can't find it one minute over i'm one minute over can you find it we found the cool of the night you found the cool of the night yeah is it genesis 3 8 yeah that's what i've already read you got it yeah okay okay but you didn't know that because i didn't give you scriptures yeah yeah okay that's the one they reference to but there's there's like when i was doing my research there are like all these different little theologians that have their theories and then

they use this over here and then they pull over there. I'm not going to do that. That's what they're kind of doing with this verse. It's kind of hard because everybody's pulling in weird verses to kind of search real quick. But I don't want to throw stuff out there. But the thing is, is if you have time, you can go and reference all of those and pull it all together. But sometimes it would bore the tar out of people if I did that for every single question. I know. So I'm not doing that.

Because you can deep dive. Listen, this girl's a studier. I like to study. But you don't. I'll lose every follower or listener or watcher right now. Click. You're off. So if you don't know the Lord is your Lord and Savior,

if that question doesn't answer why you need to come his way, like you have a, in that question, I answered why you are so valuable. And you need to know that. And if you don't know him, or if you've walked away, you need to get it right. And today's your day. Say this prayer with me right now. Heavenly Father, I come to you right now. I know that you were sent to this earth to die for my sins and you were bruised for my iniquities and you were the chastisement of peace was upon you and you may not understand what I just said but it is scripture and a huge price was paid for each and every single one of us. I thank you for what you did on that cross.

I thank you for dying for my sins. I ask you to forgive me of my sin. God, I thank you for sending your son. A heavy price to be paid for each and every single one of us, and it should not be forgotten, and it should not be taken for granted. From this moment on, I will do what you tell me to do. I will go where you tell me to go. And I will live for you forever. In Jesus' mighty name we pray. Amen. And the reason I say I will live for you forever, and I don't always say it all the time, is because a lot of times people think that then they can say the sinner's prayer, they can start on that path, and then they can turn around and live however they want to.

You don't get to live however you want to. He is the Lord of your life from this moment forward. So you're going to do what he tells you to do, and and you're gonna not do what he tells you not to do. And by doing that, you will live for him forever because it says in Revelation, those who endure to the end will be saved. So right now you've said the salvation prayer and you are on your way to heaven, but you have to endure to the end.

That's what the Bible says. So that's what we're gonna do. And we're gonna help you. If you need a good Bible, let us know. We're going to help you get hooked up. If you live in the area, come to Foundation Church. If, oh, the secret word, God bless, we almost forgot it. Secret word is the. The secret word is at 405 is the. Okay. So find a good church. It says we're to win the lost and disciple believers. So you have to get hooked up.

If you don't have a good church where you live, find other Christians that are solid, that actually believe the Bible, that actually live what the Bible says. Okay? Hook yourself up with them. Iron sharpens iron. Become strong. Become discipled. And then you'll

start producing your own little disciples yourself. Listen. Gobble, gobble. I wish I could gobble like a turkey. Too bad Jared's not here. Does he know how to gobble? He does all the weird noises. He's so good.

For me, next week, I'm going to enjoy being off, but I'm going to miss you guys. I'm going to miss doing the podcast. But us girls, we're going to have a great time. And I hope you do too. I'm hosting, obviously, Heather, my other child, and my mother. What are you doing? Put yourselves on.

So you know what each of us are doing. Like, you care. You don't care. But we're going to tell you anyway because we all like to know what everybody's doing. That's true. So I'm having a small little intimate. What are you doing, Trace? I'm flying to Massachusetts tomorrow.

Your mother is going to be so dang happy. She's already so dang happy. Like, it's flipping freezing up there. You better be so dang happy. She's already so dang happy. Like it's flipping freezing up there. You better bundle up, girl. It's so cold. My whole family, everybody's going to be there. Doug and Kayla already there. So we got the whole family this

year and they weren't going to come. So they did. What? I know. How could they not? She's got FOMO. How could she? That's why she came. You know her so well good going girlfriend yeah you would have you would have been devastated oh 100 you can't do that we're doing like the polar express like there's there there's no way she could have missed this one tootie's gonna have such a good time she's so excited tootie's in the room i'm

looking at her okay logan lay it on me. Are you having the baby this weekend? She better not. I'm not allowed to. Okay. We are doing a turkey trot on Thanksgiving morning. So, she thinks she's running it. They're all leaving me in the dust. I was walking with

Vanessa, but I just found out before the podcast she's leaving me. She and Logan are going to go and run the turkey trot together. But I told them it's like the tortoise and the hare. I'll be passing them up. The little hares over there are going to wear themselves out, and this tortoise is going to ignore them as she passes them by. But that's okay.

I go solo. Please take a video. I will. I will go like this as I'm walking by. See you, sisters. So, Logan, what are you doing after the turkey trot? Chris is working so I'll be doing a marathon of my own I'm going to start over

By yourself? Wait a minute a marathon visiting people Or a marathon of TV A marathon of eating and visiting people Okay because I was about to say You're coming to my house Because you can't do like 90 day fiance marathons all day for Thanksgiving.

I can't allow that. That's not allowed. I'm going to jump around and see people and say hi. But I'm going to go to Andrea's for a little bit, see an old friend that I used to paddleboard with. That's fun. Go to her house. She's in town.

She's a snowbird. And then I'm going to go to sarum's because she is a phenomenal cook yeah let me just tell you about sarum for her food oh my gosh that's so that he listen we stole the idea about my favorite things from sarum god love that girl yes she's good she can she can wrap a present like nobody's business i didn't know that i don't She can wrap a present like nobody's business. I didn't know that. I didn't either. She can wrap an egg roll.

She volunteered to wrap all my gifts for me this year. Okay. Wow. I'll pay you. Girl might be taking her up on that. You know she's building the closet for Caleb

in his room right now? Her and her husband are building the closet for him. My little community. That's sweet. She's something special. She loves to organize and I think this would little community. She's something special. She loves to organize, and I think this would be huge. She's got great eyelashes, doesn't she?

She hooked me up with the old Thrive. She's the one. And she makes good-looking kids, too. Oh, man, her girls. Yeah, beautiful. Her son's a good-looking kid, too, but he's really little. But I'm just telling you, the daughters, let's say if you're a single young man

and you're looking for a really beautiful girl and you there's only one that's actually failable because she's of age she's like what is what what is the oldest i'm not going to say the name 24 she'll be 24 this year she's beautiful i think i have that right she's beautiful early 20s yeah yeah beautiful she is Sweet as pumpkin pie. I love her. Love that girl. Me too. Okay, Vanessa, where are you going, girl? I am hosting.

So my in-laws are coming, and then I have family coming. Jeff is going to spatchcock. Okay, explain spatchcock. I learned this this morning. What is that? She's Puerto Rican. She might have got that wrong. What?

What does that mean? Wait, it's when you cut the turkey. I think it's when you cut it through the ribs and you kind of like lay it flat. Right? Yeah. Have you ever done that, Tracy? No, but I just Googled it. It's a thing.

So that's what they're doing. So and then we're going to Jeff is going to cook it on an open fire. Chestnuts roasting on an open. I'm just saying, listen, that is one dangerous thing. Cooking a meal over an open fire. Please take video. We're not in Alaska, people. That's where they do that.

Just in case. You're not in Tennessee anymore. You never were in Tennessee. You're not in Alabama anymore. What are you making? Oh, but she's also getting her mother-in-law's Hungarian desserts. Yeah, for sure. And you better share some of those

dadgum things. That's all I'm going to say. What am I making? I love stovetop stuffing. I'm embarrassed. In the box? Yes. Oh my gosh. I love it so much. Me too. And the bag like what there's nobody stuffing that's better than my mom's i don't care what anybody says no i do too but because i don't have access to your

mom's stuffing i'm gonna have stovetop well you could make fresh that's the only time i get it is thanksgiving and christmas yeah so all right we know what we're doing we don't know what you're doing but we hope it's good right don't take yourselves off girls because we're all gonna say happy thanksgiving together at the same time come here to wear your fat pants come on to come on over here because they're not gonna see you better over here more room we're all gonna say happy thanksgiving together hey wait a minute no the other way bring it in girl here let me turn it in like this there we go now we're all together ready one two three happy thanksgiving bye everybody bye real talk

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