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Episode 150!
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In this episode, Brendan tries to guess NFL logos, Logan tries to guess in 20 questions a character from the Bible and the both share this that frustrate them about society!
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Introduction & 150th Episode Celebration
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Take two.
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A From Dublin to Cleveland production.
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Hello and welcome to From Dublin to Cleveland. am Logan Howard and I am joined by the one and only Brendan Thomas Merritt. It is episode 150. Thank you all for your patience in waiting for us.
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Brendan, how are you doing today? What's going on? And great, always great. at Congratulations on the big 150. I can't believe that we're here. And thank you to all our viewers and listeners who have made it possible, who have stuck with us through thick and thin, through our repeated promises that, no, we're going to commit to making and releasing an episode a week, and then we disappear for months on end.
Brendan's Revival Experience & Logan's Internship
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It's that darn thing called ministry, you know? Ministry just gets in the way. That is the truth. Yes, we had a big revival here in Ireland in KT Meath two Saturdays ago.
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um We saw lots of people get saved, lots of people get water baptized, lots of people get delivered from the bonds of the enemy.
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And before people left, they were begging for more. we're currently planning our next revival. So it's been a... The best kind of cray cray. And then last week, I just fell into an absolute coma.
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and I still had to, like, you know, live, you know, go to work and do all that crack. But as soon as I got home, I was just conked out. Dead to the world. and But yeah, it's been it's been really, really great.
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Had bit of car problems for a couple days. And then realized the problem was not only fixable, but very much my fault. But God's good. it only cost me 40 quid.
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And what about yourself, Logan? What is new with you? What's happening? Yeah, so I've been doing an internship with my church, and that's been going very well. We are gearing up for a big week of ministry next week. We have a full week.
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We're having a ah youth group from a different church come in and serve with us. They're going to do some service projects and a soccer camp. and kind of a ton of stuff. They're going to be getting to see missions in in action and they're going to get to basically live out of our church for a week.
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So it'll be ah lot and a lot of running around and making sure all those things are done. The plan is not to have all of our meals set. So we get every weekday we get to go out and get people's food.
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um So it'll be quite a quite an event and undertaking, but God has been good in blessing us with um people willing to to support financially and using their time to help us get it done. And at the end of the week, we've got a ah home days, which is like our festival.
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So if you don't hear it, see an episode from us next week, you know exactly why. So... ah it For sure, will Logan will be busy. If Brendan's not busy, you might hear from him.
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um But I will be very busy. so um But after that, it starts to settle down a little bit until school starts in the fall. um So there's not anything huge. I did do have like two preaching opportunities that are coming up towards the end of July and the beginning of August. So that's exciting to look forward to. Yeah.
Podcast Merchandise Announcement
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at different churches too so not even just my church which is kind of exciting um but we'll see how that goes it hasn't officially yet but we'll see um in other news i received something in the mail or the postage depending on what side of the the ocean you're on um i received our brand new t-shirts so here pack is the b The huge logo on the back and on the front, we've got nice one in the lapel there.
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um So a nice shirt for the summer. And then, course, eventually it's going to get cold again. And we've got a nice sweater here and got the and nice logo on the front. And...
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Beautiful logo on the back. So if you are listening to this on Spotify or um any of the podcasts, you will see our logo in full bloom. If you would like a shirt of your own, you can buy it in the link in the description. We'd love if you'd support us in that way. It is super cool. I love these shirts. They're great quality.
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um They've done a great job with them. I won't tell the people of what happened, of how they got my order wrong. um Whoops, I said it. But they got it right the second time. I'm sure they'll get it right the first time for you, though.
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And I know one buys a shirt because you scared off or I'm paying our customers.
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Although I'll be getting mine this week. They just look super, super cool. Yes.
NFL Logo Guessing Game
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So today is episode 150. We're going to be doing three different things today. First on the docket, Brandon is going to finish the NFL logo series. So he's going to see eight more logos. This will conclude the NFL version.
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There are more sports teams in America, so we may bring them out into the future. But um the NFL section will be done. ah So we'll be doing that first. The second thing we're going to be doing is Brendan is going to turn the tables on me, and I'm going to have 20 questions to try and guess a character from the Bible.
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ah After he goes through these logos, he's probably going to make it really hard on me to figure out who this person is from the Bible. and lastly, we'll be doing dandruff, which is, of course, our old thing that we haven't brought back in a long time.
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But things that make us frustrated or angry or scratch our head because it's dandruff. Right. And then we'll close with Romans 8.1. So that is our docket for this afternoon, evening, morning, whenever you listen to us.
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ah That's the plan. So with that being said, i have to get on here. i have to share my lovely screen, the presentation version. Yes.
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And here we go, Brendan. Here's your first logo. Can you see it? I want to make sure you see it. And then once you do, just say what you see, what you're noticing here about this logo.
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I see a bird. At least I see a bird's head. and It is shaped like a shoe. I do not know if it is a falcon, a hawk, or an eagle, because I just have no interest in birds.
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I know what budgies are. i know what pirates are, and that is where the height of it. Yeah, his head looks like a shoe. He's blue. He's white.
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He's gray. He's green eye. i think these people are...
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You know what? I saw a TV show years ago and someone said, go Hawks. I'm going to say they're the Hawks. The Hawks. Okay. Where would you say they're from? Not a bold notion.
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and It's blue. so'm going to pick a Democrat stage. I'm going to say in New York. ah It is not New York. It is Washington State is where they're from. It's specifically the city of Seattle.
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And I will have to give you a point because they are the Seattle Seahawks, which they call themselves the Hawks all the time. So Hawks is very on par. That is their short name, but they are the Seahawks officially.
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Happy days. so there you go. You get one out of two points because you didn't get the exact where they're from, but you got to learn what they are. Wow. In fairness, when we got like 33% of what they are. so i i don't even deserve that point. I'll take whatever I'm given.
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All right. Here's your next logo. Okay, I see an S and F, which I'm automatically going to assume is San Francisco, inside the Eye of Sauron.
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The San Francisco Dark Lords.
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the francisco dark lords ah in Francisco Dark Lords. Alright, so San Francisco?
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Absolutely correct. They are from San Francisco. ah They are the 49ers, which unfortunately with their logo no one would ever get that they are the 49ers, but San Francisco 49ers.
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How? That's my response. How? Yeah, like I said, you'd never get that one.
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Without knowing what it actually is. good Anyway, on to your third logo. Oh, for goodness sakes. This looks like Woody the Woodpecker misshapen.
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I'm just colored. Pretty sure one the Angry Birds looks like this.
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Like I said a moment ago, and don't do birds. I don't know what this is. i
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I want to say the woodpeckers, but I think woodpeckers have a bigger beak, don't they?
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I mean, the top of the head almost looks like a wing. say the red wings, um because red, I'm going to pick
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was going to say a Republican state, but I just got what the state, North Carolina there. I don't know why. going they're the Red Wings from North Carolina.
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Red Wings from North Carolina. They are from Arizona. Same difference. Opposite side of the country. It's the same country.
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yeah And they are the Cardinals. It is a Cardinal. Isn't a Cardinal like a Catholic priest? It is a Catholic priest and it is a red bird.
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Yes. Okay. Sure. Whatever. Alright, two points to verse three. Moving on to the next one.
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and Okay. This looks like... a horse with 1980s hairstyle, bit too much moose maybe. On second thoughts, I think it's a goat.
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Or a male goat, whatever a male goat's called. um
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Like, you know, where in that Bible story where the were that were the two wild life animals are butchering each other in ah and Daniel.
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The goats... um
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His horn is gold. California is the golden state, isn't it? going to say the...
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do call a male goat? A ram, is it? I'm going to say the rams from California.
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I think you get two points for this, because they are the Los Angeles rams. No way. Yeah. There you go. I'm getting good at this. You are.
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You are. They're getting to piece together the color coordination. with date Yes. They used to be the St. Louis Rams. They moved in the last 10 years just to Los Angeles. so I got it rice that i got it raised you got it right. i You got it right. That's two points. I'm pretty sure that's two points.
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All right. Here's your next one.
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For those of you listening rather than watching, I see a big G. and Golden Gate comes to mind, I suppose. And there is ah yellow ring around the green background.
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And don't they say that
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the Golden Gate turns green in the sunshine? Or is that a fabrication? Or is that the Statue of Liberty? I don't know. Something you have is big and green. um Where's it going, Gase?
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That's San Francisco as well, isn't I'm going to say...
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G-O-A-T. Greatest of all time. going to say the goats. I'm just going to keep on going back to the goats. I seem to be in a wildlife, well, not even wildlife, farm yard animal trend tonight.
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I'm going say they are the goats from San Francisco. The G is for the Golden Gate Bridge. Okay. The G is actually for Green Bay.
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da explain the green They are the Packers. that is They are called the Green Bay Packers. Oh, like the guy in the office who's really, really coarse and crude. and Yeah.
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yeah Packer. yeah Yeah, it's hard to tell from the logo, but... Don't patronize me. Yeah. All right, here's your next one.
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You've shown this before, and if you haven't, I've seen it before somewhere. I think you've seen it before. They are the Vikings. They are the Vikings. That is a point. And they're from the U.S. of A. from Texas.
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The mustache is a giveaway.
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They would not survive in Texas because they are a cold weather state. It is Minnesota Vikings. The pale complexion would burn real quick in Texas. That is where I've heard it before.
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But you do get a point for Vikings. Good job. Thank you. I'm not even even score. I hope you are. he'll be You're up to, I think this is five points now. Five points.
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And we've made it through six logos. So pretty good. meanwhile All right. We've got two left. It's where I've been practicing. I genuinely forgot this game existed.
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Okay. This is like like a blue demon with a white outline. pretty sure I've cast this demon out of people before. boy. i been Deliverance on them.
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And the blue line, he looks very cold. He looks like the white witch from Narnia just...
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Stabbed him with her wand. Where in America is cold? Alaska. They're the blue lions from Alaska. They are the Detroit lions.
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So you get another point. Detroit's that cold. Get another point. Detroit is not that cold. Unless it's middle of January. That's cold for appropriation right there. I don't even believe that's a thing, but sure.
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Alright, last one Seven, ah six, seven points. You got seven points. Okay, this is a the bear head.
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He's orange. and He looks like um the bear version of p Tony the Tiger, you know, Frosties. And there's a stylized crab claw behind him the shape of a C.
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I don't want to say California again. and
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Unless you are really lazy you put this together, lastminute.com, and they're all just like Californian, which they might be. They're not. Okay. then and I will not say the Californian Bears.
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there is actually There is actually a ah college team that is the cal California Bears, but... Oh, I was just going to copyright that myself. That's good to know.
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I'm going to go back to Carolina again, but I'm going to go north or south. The second letter in north is an O. Orange starts with O. I'm going to the north Carolinian bears.
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Now, you might be saying, but Brendan, the second letter south is also an O. I thought of north first, and I'm sticking on my with my gut instinct. So for those of you listening, apparently in Brendan's world, there is only Ohio, North of Carolina, Texas, Alaska, and California. That is all that's in the United States. Everything else doesn't exist.
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Wild land. Go back to the Indians. Oh, New York is in there too. I forgot you got in New York. But this is the Chicago Bears. You do get a point for the Bears, but they are the Chicago Bears. Yeah, sure. I forgot that place existed. Yeah.
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Anyway, that has been probably the best game of Brendan Guess' logos that we've ever done. He was on point. Maybe he's been doing research on the last few times and somehow his bad things had been not recalled, just came back. I don't know, but it was it was very good. Well done, Brendan. Good job.
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ah Thank you. Thank you. Wow. In the words of one Michael Scoush, How the turns table.
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um We are now going to play a game of 20 questions, which we have not done in so, so long.
20 Questions: Bible Character Game
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The 150th episode, we're just getting all our best things the past. We'll clap with them together, friends. um so i have in my head a Bible character.
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Dun, dun, dun! In a Bible con... was going to say contest. Podcast. Whatever this is. Yes, yes I do. And Logan is going to ask as many as 20 questions in the hope of guessing who it is.
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And I asked him before we hit record. if he wanted this to be easy or difficult, and he said, Brendan, you're gonna suck so majorly badly at the logo game, you might as well pick something impossible.
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I think he underestimated me. And you know what, friends? I'm not simplifying my choice. I chose a hard one, and I am sticking with it. Broski of Broskis, your first question.
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Is this character in the in the Old Testament? Yes, I should clarify, friends, only yes, no questions are acceptable. um Yes. Okay, so it's an Old Testament character.
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All right. If I can question, also yes. what do What do you mean is also yes? Yes, no questions only, please.
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um Now like, you know, you have 17 remaining. Joke, joke, joke, joke, joke.
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Is this character in the first five books of the Bible? No.
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Okay. 18 questions left. Does this character up appear
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during the time of the kings?
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Yes. Okay. That's good to know. Good to know. ah
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Is this character a
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follower or supporter or believer in Yahweh? Yes. Yes. but I hate the confident little smirk you're given. Ice was a hard one.
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You were a reason. You'd better not get this.
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All right. um Look in your eyes, almost like you have like an algorithm in front of you, and you just, like, by process of elimination, releasing all the false options.
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Okay. Does this character show up during the time of David? No. Okay.
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Does this character show up after Solomon? Yes. Okay.
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Does this character... um
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Does he receive any instruction from God?
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Gentle viewers, you'll notice that Logan is right now asking two questions and one very craftily. Not only does he want a yes and he always wants to verify if he or she.
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This guy knows how to play the game. Yeah.
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and
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You don't read about a download he receives, but you can tell he's hearkening to the will of God. If that answers your question.
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There's no, so say it to the Lord. But you can tell that in his life that he knows the will of the father.
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So it's yes, but it's not as overt as it is to other people. Okay. yeah not So it's not like a direct, thus saith the Lord.
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Okay, that helps. but But it's very clear from, you're in between the lions, it's yes. um Is this person considered a prophet?
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No. No.
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okay Does this person um is this person around the time of King Ahab?
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a and
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Yes. Yeah. Yeah.
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That's a good thing.
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Yeah, you don't see this person with Ahab, but if you were to put the timeline together, there would be a crossover, yeah. Okay. Good to know.
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um
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Did this person have to do with the
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Northern Kingdom?
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So Israel. believe that answer is yes. 20 seconds.
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No.
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Okay, so no. So Samaria was the capital of the kingdom of Israel, right?
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Nicholas Matsakis, yes, yes, Nicholas
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Matsakis, Okay.
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Nicholas Matsakis,
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All right. um Was this person a part of the Southern kingdom? So Judah as is kingdom.
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Yep.
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Okay. So far, if I'm keeping track, I have 11 questions. Is that correct? Yep. Okay.
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That was my 12th question, right? yeah That was question 12. And that right there was question 13. um um
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Hence and so thick, friends, you could cut it with a knife. Is this person a king? no
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Okay. Okay.
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Alright.
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It's harder when it gets down to this this kind of stuff. like You've got a general gist and then you're just trying to... You don't have a bold notion and you're fooling no one.
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Does this person have a vineyard?
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None is mentioned. Okay. So it's not him then.
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um
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yeah
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Is this person a priest? Yes.
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that That's good information.
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Is this person's name zedika no
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Five questions left.
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So for those of you listening who have not actually heard a full one of these, the reason is because we had to do a lot of editing because there's a lot of thinking in between. So I'm trying not to be that person who just has a lot of dead silence.
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Yeah, and there were a couple times I was about to say, but those of you listening on the podcast version, Logan has not disappeared. The video track has not run out. He's just thinking. What noticed that you would very unsubtly go, um.
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Yep.
00:29:21
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It's like, don't hang up. Still listen to us, please. We have something of value to impart.
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Please be there when I get this.
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All right, five questions to go. Five questions to go.
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i guess I'm going to ask this one. Is this person in First Kings chapter 22.
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First Kings 22. Yes.
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I think I will say no, but just give me a second. It's possible he has a minor role, but I don't believe so.
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Well, while he's looking at that.
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No. OK.
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no
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no okay
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Is this person in 1 Chronicles 24? That's
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that saying
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encouraging the one. It's really not going to help me, but it will sort of narrow it down. 1 Chronicles or 2 Chronicles? 1 Chronicles 24.
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first chronicles twenty four
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No.
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No.
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Three questions to go.
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Three questions to go.
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It's just off because it's like, do I just take start shooting names out of left and right? um
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The priest.
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Assuming you need them, I'll let you ask 18 and 19, then because it's their 150th, if you would like a clue, then I'll give you a clue after your 19th.
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I see.
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Did this person have any interaction with Asa?
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No.
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thought I'd had it.
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okay that was 18 out of 20. Yep. yeahp
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Is this person's name Alicia? No.
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Okay, you've got one question to go. Would you like a clue?
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um Yes.
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I should probably have asked you another question before asking if you wanted a clue. Are you writing down the questions that you've asked? Um, sort of whether you say yes or no to things.
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Okay. Do you remember what your 17th question was?
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Yeah, it was 1 Chronicles 24. What was the first response I gave you? ah You said you thought so, but no.
00:35:49
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Nope. That was my answer. Yeah. You said you thought that it was there. asked you a question. You asked me a question, I asked you a question.
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I don't remember what the question was.
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I asked you 1 Chronicles asked.
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so's what i asked Benzin, what's the relevance of that? I don't know. That's I asked.
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I see. Said the blind man to his death. Then I feel like some of my questions earlier were not yeses. Because if it's the person that I'm thinking it is now, they were not during King Ahab's raid.
00:36:43
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But Ahab and Jezebel had a daughter named Athalia. You... Scallywag, smart aleck, trying to undermine my Bible knowledge.
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And this high priest had his position in the days of Athaliah's reign.
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He's just not mentioned. Exactly. no direct... Moan Levi when they're seen together, but through the timelines, you can tell that there was that they exist as a man. see. so is this person Jehoiada?
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For your bad manners, i'm going to say no. is. but but is Led me astray. His name translates of God's knowledge.
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There you
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he was I think there were some more names that you could have been more difficult, because like, Elishiama as priest? Yeah, that would have been a... He literally mentioned once, that's it.
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But you would have gotten it on your 19th try.
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Yep. Well, with a little assist, hopefully you figured out before I did. i don't know. I think the King Ahab was a red herring that led me astray, but...
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I told you, the timelines match up. I didn't say that you see them together. I said the timelines match up.
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All right, if you say so.
00:38:26
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if he was the high priest at the time when Eagat's daughter was running the kingdom of Judah, hello. All right. Fine.
00:38:39
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exactly Anyways, um so into our final segment, well, final segment before the final segment, ah we have our- I sure there an easier of saying that.
00:38:53
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I'm sure there was. Poor second.
Dandruff Segment: Observations & Critiques
00:38:57
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Dandruff, right? So things that frustrate us or make us scratch our heads ah in confusion.
00:39:04
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um So my choice this week, and so we'd love to hear what you think and which one you think is worse. um Dandruff. My choice this week. Yes, you you need you need that to solve it. For those of you who don't know what Brendan just did, he just showed his shampoo live on help live on the the podcast. So you do need to remove dandruff.
00:39:29
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But Not this kind of dandruff, of course, because this is just confusing things that is happening in the world that should not happen in the world, but for some reason still does. So mine today, and you we want to hear what you think and which one you think is worse.
00:39:45
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um So send us an email at fromdoubletocleveland at gmail.com. Today we have in my camp, the other day I was driving down the road and this is...
00:39:57
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This would be you know June 25th, year of our Lord, 2025, right? um Which has been five years from what some would say was the best of times, the worst of times, the COVID of times, 2020, right?
00:40:16
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So that happened. Great time for Meme Lords. Yes, it was a great time for Meme Lords. For everyone else, it was Bad time. Great time for the meme lords, though. um And the video game industry.
00:40:29
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Also good time for them. But, um and streaming. Yeah. But anyway, driving down the road, 2025, right? And here is a person who is turning left at the stoplight in front of me.
00:40:43
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has a full mask over their face. One of those surgical ones. And it's like right over their nose. And they are the only person in the car.
00:40:55
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yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So my choice today, for those of you listening, is why in the world do we have people who are running around in this world with masks still on their face in the car by themselves?
00:41:11
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Are they worried they're going to contract a disease from their engine? Are they worried that somebody is smoking something out in the world? Because I know it's America and we smoke weed like it's going out of style.
00:41:24
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But are they worried that some kind of weed is going to wafer in through and get them? Do they feel that they are sick and they're driving someone else's car and they're worried about getting their germs?
00:41:34
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But then if they sneeze, doesn't the stuff still go through their nose and get on the steering wheel anyway? Yeah. I think this is either a a very uneducated person or someone who has just woke up from a coma But I've seen more of them. so maybe maybe there's a lot of coma people who just came from COVID and then woke up and decided to put on a mask. But it doesn't make sense to be by yourself in a car with a mask on.
00:42:00
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um I really hope they're not a Uber driver or any of those kind of things and that they think they need a mask to protect themselves because newsflash, it doesn't protect anybody. Yeah.
00:42:16
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I think Uber and taxi drivers see the best and worst of humanity, is especially the worst on daily basis, regardless. Yep.
00:42:25
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So that is my choice for this week. Brendan, what is your choice? Well, listen, I am acutely aware that when we play this game, viewers tend to go with you. um But I'm going to play ball anyway. not going to relent. I'll win eventually.
00:42:41
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And I am going to say... I am, was going to say sick to the back teeth, but will not say speak sickness over my life. I am fed up of celebrities who are living the most immoral, disgusting, reprobate lives telling the middle class how to live hours.
00:43:01
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um Like when you've got J-Lo, for example. and telling people like you know to vote blue, for instance. Like, yeah, we vote for abortion, killing children!
00:43:14
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When we all know, like i don't mean, how many husbands of that woman have? And was it her first or second husband who said that like she literally is a witch like who kills chickens and that she had bats of blood and all this nonsense?
00:43:31
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And then lecturing people how to cast their vote? Or Mark Hamill, who... I mean, it's really, really hard for me to go back and watch like the classic Star Wars at this point, just thinking, oh my goodness, these people just... Such iconic heroes in the film industry.
00:43:51
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But just grew up to become the most like hateful, spiteful, wicked people. And didn't his... son, was it, get a prostitute pregnant, and then he tried to, like, force her to kill the baby.
00:44:10
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i mean, when I first saw The Last... not The Last Jedi. Is It Last je i What was, like, episode... eight called? Um... Was It Last Jedi?
00:44:25
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The one where he tries to kill his nephew in his sleep? No, that was episode nine. Okay. Last Jedi's episode nine. Episode... No, that's the Rise Skywalker. Rise of Skywalker. Or should we say a property? Last Jedi is eight, right? because Because Luke dies in that one. Because he's the last Jedi.
00:44:44
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used to think he was... proud beage time Let's go. Disney's Star Wars doesn't exist, let's be honest. Try to block that from my memory. Yeah. like I used to feel sorry for him, thank my goodness. He was hard done by that movie.
00:44:56
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And then I'm like, you know what? This guy would try to kill his nephew in a sleep, but he'd try to kill his own grandchild. mean Just wickedness. And yeah, am you know what? i'm just And then Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
00:45:11
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I'm Irish. He's not my prince. Yeah. But when I see British people losing the plot with him on their heads, just exploding, get it. i do I'm like, if he had represented my country and my country had literally bought him a palace and he had literally ruled, like, lived in this palace and this palace and hooded in this palace and spent time that palace.
00:45:34
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and And then he would just like to go on ah an apology tour, calling my country, know, racist, you know, anti-immigrant sleazebags, totally understand the backlash.
00:45:46
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So, yeah, I'm just fed up reprobate celebrities involved in new occult and witchcraft and murder and who live the most unhappy, miserly, loveless, anti-god, anti-life lives telling everyone else how to live.
00:46:09
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I'm fed up of it. It makes me scratch my head. And it's not just the psoriasis. It's the confusion. Where are these people get off? So, yeah. Do you know who Rosie O'Donnell is?
00:46:24
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She's not the fat, ugly one who's like hiding in my country right now. Mm-hmm. Yeah. but but It's not like a two-second... No, sorry. I don't know. A one-minute clip from Sex and the City or whatever the new version that show is.
00:46:43
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Isn't she like a lesbian nun or something? I just... No. No, Lord. No. You guys can take her back. We don't want her here. This country has problems.
00:46:54
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They're all fixable, and that's what I love most about them. Also, I hate most about them, but also what I love most about them. She's an enigma. I have no intention of solving. Take her back. Take her back, Trump.
00:47:06
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We don't want her either. handcuffs on a Take her back. We don't want her either. but
00:47:13
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Well, just send her to Albania. Let her live in international waters. International waters with all the other whales. I don't want her here. Get out of my country. um I think Benny Johnson posted a photograph of her recently.
00:47:28
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and What I like about Benny actually whenever he gives the comments here in Ireland, which is rare, what he does, he's like, oh, it's such a beautiful country and the people are so beautiful and so friendly and I've always had good times in Ireland.
00:47:41
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But I actually think heart breaks for us a little bit that we have to tolerate her nonsense. Now, I'll be honest, would not actually recognize her if I passed from the street. I'm just like so focused on my own life.
00:47:53
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But if someone was like, oh, that's Rosie O'Donnell, I'd be like, yeah not literally but I don't want to hear but he did post a photograph of her just looking like absolutely wretched just said since she fled here in exile she's just totally gone to the dogs more so than before but don't want to take her back He was the one who went after AOC this week, didn't he? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I haven't seen it yet, but I know that he was like, oh yeah, this woman has been so burdened by life, apparently. and That is not actually true.
00:48:31
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And i think Megyn Kelly has a segment on her as well. and in In view of his reports. But...
00:48:41
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She'll run for president next election anyway. So, you know. that Oh, and undoubtedly. But listen, it'll make for good entertainment, know. As always, that is but America is the content machine.
00:48:54
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Like but Trump swearing at both ah Israel and Iran and then saying whoever drops the next bomb is gay, which was literally the funniest thing I've ever seen any human post.
00:49:12
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Both of those people hate wigs.
00:49:22
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You just have to say it as it is. does. He does not care. does not care. What annoys me is I have meme and I've had it on my phone for a couple weeks now.
00:49:36
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I've just been so preoccupied with the revival that I hadn't posted it. and And now i'm mindful of fact that when I do post it, people are going to say that I just copied Trump.
00:49:49
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But it's over you can see on the screen, maybe not. The devil whispered I'm coming for you. ah can't see the bottom. And I whispered back. That's good. Now everyone's going to think I stole it from Trump.
00:50:05
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Not that I'm calling BB Netanyahu the devil. I'm not. But, you know, people are going to say, oh I know where you got that from. And I didn't. I've had my phone for weeks. Oh, boy. Well, anyway, folks, ah sorry for the extra political chat. But if you want to... Not sorry. Not sorry. It makes me scratch my head.
00:50:24
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And the fact that we spoke at mine more than his people know that you're voting for me this time around. Please. Do let us know what you were thinking and which one you think is more of an annoyance.
00:50:37
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um Also follow Brendan for some white hot means at his Brendan Thomas merits on Instagram, because I'll tell you, if you are easily triggered, you're going to get triggered watching.
00:50:51
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andation But you know what, if you suffer from like PTSD when you anything that's not your own, mine will be great for your mental exercises.
00:51:03
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Non-threatening insofar as not going jump out punch you. But you will see them and they will train the muscles in your mouth not to go, ah but just to remain calm.
00:51:18
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It's just a meme, it's just a picture. Breathe Breathe in. But yeah, magnesium white hot memes.
Spiritual Discussion & Romans 8:1 Significance
00:51:28
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Yes.
00:51:28
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Well, anyway, Brendan, would you take us to where your Bible verse is today? Romans 8.1, right? That is correct.
00:51:40
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I know what it says, but I'm going to open it up anyway for the Word of God's class. Alright. Romans 8.1 Therefore... therefore What's it there for, Brendan?
00:51:53
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Well, it's there because of what came before. There is no... That's a pathetic joke, I know. But Logan laughed, so it's okay. I feel validated.
00:52:04
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It's a pastor joke. it's I was about to say that, and I was like, does that sound of myself? It sounds okay when someone else says it.
00:52:15
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Therefore, there is no, no, everyone repeat, no, no, no, condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. so What the heck, let's read verse two as well, it's all good.
00:52:31
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Because through Christ Jesus, the law of the spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death. And we could read the entire chapter, but we won't because it's almost midnight and I'm going to bed.
00:52:42
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Ha ha ha ha ha. and you know what? It's...
00:52:50
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It never ceases to amaze me how many of God's children live in a perpetual state of unforgiveness, especially towards themselves. um they have the head knowledge that they're forgiven of all their sins.
00:53:09
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Not by anything that we've done, but by what chart z Jesus Christ has done on the cross.
00:53:21
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But not the heart knowledge. They're very different. Or they have an understanding that God loves them, but it hasn't penetrated their heart.
00:53:34
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All the times you are told you're ugly, you're a waste of space, you are a joke, you are a disgrace. Those words have penetrated your heart. The fiery darts, the arrows, the sword, the spear, the javelins, they've gotten in.
00:53:50
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But actually they've almost closed it off one's receptivity to the love of God. And I can think of times in my own life, especially when i was younger, a where I carried a lot of guilt and a lot of shame, lot of fear, a lot of condemnation. And I wouldn't have used those words. I would have had all that lingo necessarily. And would have said, no, but I'm forgiven.
00:54:15
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I'm good with God. Because I had the head knowledge. But not the heart. My heart was very much focused and ingrained attacks people had directed towards me, at the enemy directed towards me, hate and shame that I was carrying myself.
00:54:35
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Taking thoughts captive um to the word of God was not something I was ever taught until way too late in the game. and so therefore anything of the enemy threw my way I embraced, I accepted.
00:54:50
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I wore them like badges of merit, thinking that if I was hated, um must have been doing something right. Which I definitely took to a twisted and perverted extreme. um And then there were times when I knew I was in the wrong.
00:55:07
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Times when I had very definitely, very visibly hurt people um emotionally, relationally, mentally, physically. and carried all of that around. And I didn't, I suppose as I knew that I didn't deserve forgiveness. didn't know that I was worthy of it.
00:55:24
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But I focused on what I deserved. I had religious mentality. And what ultimately happened was my relationship with Jesus was filtered through condemnation that I carried, the shame that I carried. carried that long enough, and then the fear sets in, well, maybe I'm not really good with God.
00:55:44
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Maybe he's not okay with me. Am I really his kid? Because I've been told that i am but didn't know my identity in Christ. I didn't know how total the forgiveness of God was.
00:56:01
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how
00:56:04
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definitive the finished work of the cross was. But the blood of Jesus speaks a better word and still speaks it. that the blood of Jesus was enough and is enough.
00:56:18
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um I let God reality slip to the wayside. And I put the reality of my heart and my fifis, to use 2020 lingo,
00:56:31
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um take precedence. It's very vulnerable place to be, very scary place, very a lonely place to be. And a lot of the years were lost, friends.
00:56:42
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There came a point in my life where I realized I'd spent more of my life living in fear, shame, and condemnation than in the goodness of God. And that is not what Logan or I want for annie of you.
00:56:56
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So don't walk around in a state of false humility. Oh, I have to feel this way. because now you don't. The word of God is as it says.
00:57:07
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And i said there's no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. So don't be a so arrogant that you render the word of God of no effect in your life.
00:57:19
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Be humble enough to take God's word at face value. Yes, but you don't know what i've done. I don't need to. God does. And he still said the cross is sufficient.
00:57:31
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Yes, but I feel that I know what you feel, but Jesus felt the blood drops coming out of his body and the blood of Jesus still speaks a better word. So
00:57:45
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come boldly before the throne of grace. Lay your condemnation down. Lay your shame down. Lay your fear down. And you walk in the freedom that Jesus died to give you.
00:58:00
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He did not die so you could survive. died so you could thrive. Here ended of the lesson. Run away with bro. Take it home. Yeah, no, good stuff. um Kind of what you were going with. you know I think the reason why we think all of that is because even here, Paul, like all through Romans, is saying, here's all these like wages of death is sin, or the wages of sin is death. Yeah.
00:58:26
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The way just sin is death. Right. And then it talks about all through the first chapter of Romans, how all of we're like led astray by our own desires, our own wants. And then eventually that leads us down paths where it sends us completely away from God and we reject God outright.
00:58:43
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Um, and that we refuse to, to believe in him. And the, it even gives us over to like vile passions and sins and wickedness and all of this stuff. And, um,
00:58:54
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And so all of that's through Romans as he's pointing out how deadly, terrible sin is. And a lot of us, when we get to this part, go, okay, that's cool. Jesus accepts me. He's given me a ah way to be saved.
00:59:12
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I'm still terrible on the inside. And we think that even after we we believed in him, even after we started to follow him, even after we've started to change our lives from that wickedness and start to eliminate some of the things that we used to respond in anger or hatred or frustration. And now we respond in healthy ways, in patience and kindness and graciousness.
00:59:34
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All of those things are fruits of the spirit. It shows that the spirit is working within us. But even when those things happen, we we neglect those and say, well, I'm still bad. um A lot of people like to think that that even in Christian circles, that they have a bad heart, right? That their heart is still a heart of stone.
00:59:54
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They're still rejecting of God. And truthfully, there may be some cases that's true, right? If you have a lot of head knowledge and you never let it affect you or go any deeper,
01:00:05
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There might be still a heart of stone that God hasn't been able to get to. But I think we focus so much on that you're just a bad person. And we preach or we tell people that they're evil and they're bad, that they don't realize once you've accepted Christ, you have a new heart.
01:00:20
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It's brand new. And the way God looks at you, even when you do sin and even when you do make mess up, yeah, there's a little bit of that that tension that's brought in for when we do wrong.
01:00:31
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But God sees us through Jesus Christ. So those sins that we've committed that that are there are nailed to the cross with Christ. They are not with us anymore. He sees us through the blood of Jesus Christ.
01:00:42
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And that's why we get to verse or chapter 8, verse 1, and it says no condemnation. There's not going to be a time when it will come back and, you know, Oh, now we've got to execute Logan. He screwed up when he was five years old and told a lie about to his parents. you know he's He's gone. our Logan drew on the the bathroom toilet seat right to hell.
01:01:05
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that just you That's just horrible. It's the worst thing he's ever done. so and i'm I'm making light of that, but even terrible things that people have done, whether that's murder somebody or abuse somebody, whether verbally or physically, whether all of the horrible things that go on in our world, you can be forgiven of those things.
01:01:28
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There is only one sin that separates us now from ah from heaven, and that is what we do with Jesus Christ, right? If we reject Christ and we sin against Christ and we sin against what God says,
01:01:41
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right to hell. um And that's why it's so important that we tell people because there is hope, there is redemption, there is new life, there is new um new findings in Christ that apart from him, we are doomed for hell. We are on the lu the the road to hell.
01:01:59
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That is just our path. And so that's when it says here, there's no condemnation. We don't have to equate everything we're doing to now we're just black, horrible, evil.
01:02:10
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Now, that doesn't mean that we can just go around sinning freely, ah you know, that grace may abound. um That's not what it's saying. It's not saying that, well, just sin as much as you want because it doesn't matter.
01:02:23
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No, it means that we start start cleaning those things up. but it also means we can be gracious with ourselves. We are not, uh, sometimes our own worst enemies are ourselves. Um, I know that for a fact for myself is the own, my own worst web enemy is my own overthinking tendencies to think that I'm not good enough or that I'm not enough for other people or even for God sometimes. Right. So no condemnation.
01:02:49
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Um, and Christ sets us free from our sin. So, If you sin today, you messed up today, ask for forgiveness, it's gone.
01:03:01
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As far as the East is from the West. It is not something that you go, well, I sinned yesterday and I'm struggling with it still today. So i might as well sin again. Just go right back to it. No, you're free.
01:03:13
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In fact, part of the the struggle when we even struggle with sin and even if you fall for sin, part of the ways we can know that we have the Holy Spirit within us and that we truly are saved is when it actually you are able to fight it Right. When you're able to actually overcome it, because apart from Christ, apart from the Holy Spirit living inside of us, you wouldn't even want to fight it.
01:03:33
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You would just fall for it every time and just immediately go into it. So the fact that you're even willing to fight and go against it um is a proof of the Holy Spirit living within us. So that is an encouragement.
01:03:46
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At the same time, you know, it's it's a lot. It's hard to fight sin. It's hard, especially when you try the first time to fight it and you try the first time to get rid of it and stop it continually happening in your life. It is hard.
01:03:58
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um But as you go along, Christ will give you the strength. God will give you the strength. The more you ask him, the more people you bring into your fight with it to say, hey, I'm struggling with this. And it's somebody you trust and you tell them and they are somebody who is trustworthy and will be encouragement to you.
01:04:15
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That's what pastors are for. That is what friends are for, especially good godly ones are for that
Listener Engagement & Conclusion
01:04:22
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encouragement. If you don't have those kind of people, you're listening to two guys who you can easily reach out to and we can be an encouragement to you.
01:04:29
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So send us an email from belvindocleone at gmail.com. If anything reached your heart, touched you, or you want to give us your opinions on our dandruff this week, or tell us how you figured out who Brendan was talking about after the first question. yeah When Logan said, when Logan asked Old Testament, you were like, wait about Jerusalem and the reign of Italia and Joash.
01:04:56
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Yeah. um Anyway, ah let me pull it out in prayer and then we'll send you on your way. Okay. So Jesus, thank you so much for this day We're thankful for 150 episodes that we've done.
01:05:09
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How awesome that is Crazy mind boggling it is. And Lord, I know that we're not always as faithful as we want to be. with this podcast and doing as many out as we need to be or want to be. um But we do know that you're the one who designs our time and you have put us in our specific places and our locations to be an encouragement to those people around us currently.
01:05:29
Speaker
And we're thankful for this outlet that we can be encouragement to those outside of our normal everyday connections. We pray that you would bless all those who listen, that you would encourage them, that you would help them to realize there's no condemnation in you, um that there is not a convicting.
01:05:44
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You're guilty. You're terrible. You're horrible. You're evil. That is not a voice that comes from you. Help them to realize that today. Help us to be an encouragement to them if they need to reach out. Give them the the courage and boldness to be able to contact us and send us an email um because we are not you're not willing to unlisten to it, right? We're not we're not out here saying, no, we don't want to hear from you. We do want to hear from them. We pray you'd be willing to do that.
01:06:08
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And we just pray that you would continue to grow this ministry, that you'd help us to have time for it, open doors and opportunities for it that it may continue to grow and that we could even have on another 150 episodes.
01:06:19
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From a thing that me and Brendan thought we'd just record episodes for our kids that they could watch one day, we pray that would be a blessing to even more people than just our kids if we ever have them one day. um I rebuke that when we have them.
01:06:31
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And then I do the same in my head.
01:06:36
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Again, ah thank you for all that you've done for us. We love you. ah Send us on our way and those who are listening on their way with a blessed rest of their day. Jesus' name, amen.
01:06:47
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Amen. Amen, bro. Amen. Thank you, friends. we will see you when we see you. um Hopefully soon. Sooner than later. um i plan at least something in the next month and we'll we'll work from there. It is summertime. Usually summertime. Logan's completely off and Brendan's just running the show.
01:07:07
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um I'll release one next week even if you'll be preoccupied with your on the ground ministry that that's okay yeah i'll i'll do it for next week logan's been boogying me about the one irish name he knows that is not saint patrick for the last three months so i'll put him out of his misery and i'll make an episode on that yeah i just want to know about him so anyway guys you'll find it next week anyway uh anything you want to say before we go brendan Guys, thank you so much for sticking with us this long. And I do believe the best is always yet to come. i will see you in 151 next week.
01:07:48
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Amen. See you all next time. Bye-bye.