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Introduction and Hiatus
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Hello and welcome to From Dublin to Cleveland. I am Logan Howard. I am joined by the ever-present and ever-vescent Brendan Thomas Merritt. How's it going, Brendan? How are you today?
00:00:13
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ah well It's hilarious he says ever-present, given that we haven't uploaded an episode in like two months. ah Well, he still exists, so...
Life Changes and Engagement Drama
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it's not But I still Astrolux, it's been sort a wild ride, son, since the last one.
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I... Kind of got engaged, kind of wasn't engaged. You were there to pick me up. Got unemployed. Have been loving it. bit too much.
00:00:41
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fuck It's been a rollercoaster. An absolute rollercoaster. Walked away from the working world and somehow I've never been busier. what you know Deliverance calls soul healing calls came out of my ears. But Sherlock keeps me off the streets and out of trouble.
00:00:58
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And that's the main thing.
School Year Wrap-Up and Spontaneous Game Creation
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What about yourself? How have you been? Yeah, it has not, I guess, been as rollercoaster of a ride as you have, but we have been plugging on. We've got, um as it sits, this moment on a Thursday evening, am...
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i am four weeks away from the end of school. So it is a lot of wrapping things up and wrapping up teachings um and children who don't want to be there, who'd rather be outside, teachers don't want to listen to the teacher. that That's been a lot of that this week, but we have ah moved on. ah There was from one moment that was kind of funny this week that I literally had a PE class that I was teaching. um that started in five minutes and I didn't know what I was going to teach them because I had done some like general things in my brain of going, these are some things I could do. And then all of a sudden the class I was teaching just went long and people had like a bunch of questions for me and I would like the older kids and I was like, oh I need to answer those questions, obviously.
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And then all of a sudden i look at the clock and I'm like, oh no, I haven't changed. And I also haven't gone outside. And I also have not set up anything for these little kids to do. um Okay. So I ran to the shed. i opened the shed that has all of the things. And I looked and I saw a giant cone that was like half of my size. And I saw a bunch of like hula hoops that are like open. And I went, we figured out what we're doing today, boys. So we decided to throw the throw the hula hoops over the cone. And if you got it, you got to move your you got to step further back and we'll see how far back you can. And they had a wonderful time. you know There was a lot less grumbling and complaining than there normally has been when we try to play soccer or, as Brendan would say, football. We say football for Gaelic. I don't think we're playing Gaelic with the kids. Uh, they, yeah, we, uh, I was trying to teach them that and they just, they don't understand how to pass or how to share. They're like, I am going to do this one handed. And, um, so there was like betraying where teammates were trying to tackle teammates because they weren't passing them the ball. It was just, it was just a mess. So these, these poor eight year old children, we, uh, we had to go back to the basics of throwing hula hoops over cones and,
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Yeah. It worked. They had a good time, but it was – we can't do soccer. that they The claws come out, and we do not need to see that in first and second grade. Just saying.
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um Anyway, so yeah, the school has
Potential Job Opportunity and Listener Prayers
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been going well. um ah There's an opportunity for me to possibly work at my church, so be praying for those of you who have been praying, continue to pray that God would work in that, and hopefully I'll have news in the next few podcasts to be able to share what's going on, so um specifically. um Yeah, so that's that's been good, and also...
Merchandise Promotion
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I have got new hats for our podcast. So um if you are interested, ah you can Google from Dublin to Cleveland shop or from Dublin to Cleveland bonfire shop. And you will find our shirts, our lovely shirts. And you also find our shop, which shows the other things we have, which is hats now. So they have our logo on them. They're pretty cool. They're kind of like the hat I have here. There's some different ones, but you'll have the logo from Dublin Cleveland logo right there.
00:04:39
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And mine's supposed to come hopefully by the end of April. So that means you'll get to see it on one of our podcasts. I will present the different hats that I have because I bought two of them. But there's different colors. I tried to this time instead of –
00:04:56
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I guess the with the shirts, um I want to just say I wanted to find all the fun, pizzazzy colors. That was my thinking with with the shirts. With the hats, I've gone with what actually goes well with our logo. Because you can't just be putting like, I don't know.
00:05:13
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random colors on on hats or our logo is has a bunch of colors already we've got blue we've got white we've got red orange green like we just have a ton of colors going on there so you you got you can't go crazy with like you know, adding some weird orange flavor, or orange flavored in there, but tons of different colors. Check it out on our store. Um, so that's the, the big thing to check out.
Listener Interaction: Romantic Stories and Advice
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You can also, as always send us an email to from Dublin to Cleveland at gmail.com. One of the things we'd love to do is if you guys would send us some of your, um, I don't know,
00:05:49
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romantic stories that haven't gone well and you'd like advice, uh, you know, some of those personal dilemmas, some of those things, if you would send them to us, uh, we will give you some wise
Game Segment: Mind Meld with Biblical Books
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counsel.
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We will be your agony aunts. Agony aunts. Yes. Our uncles, as the case may be, or uncles. We will be the, uh, single bachelor guys who answer all of your dating questions. Um,
00:06:16
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Because we have such a wealth of experience to draw on. How bad do things? so But a hard-earned, hard-earned experience. hard Yep. So if you'd love to write into us, we'd love to do that. We'll probably do some sort of segment. Even if we don't get any buddies, we'll just hint, hint, wink, wink, pretend that somebody sent us something and say, oh, look at this message today. It's from Matthew. We're closing our plan for episode of 168.
00:06:46
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ah So we have a bunch of of other things coming up. Anyway, let's get into what we're actually going to today. So what we're going to do today is we're going to play some games, which I've already, so we've already talked to Brendan about this and I'm sure he's cringing and is very afraid of what game we're about to unleash.
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My hope and prayer is this is this podcast will not go an hour and 30 minutes. No promises, folks.
Game Segment: Mind Meld with Women in the Bible
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But we're going to play two games. One is called Mind Meld, which is we are going to try to, ah in a category, say out loud the exact same word. And now we cannot repeat the word that we have said before.
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So I'm going to choose our category and we're going to go with... Let's go, let's just, let's start, try we'll try and start easy here. Let's go with books of the Bible.
00:07:40
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All right? That's our category. So we are trying to say the exact same book of the Bible. Now, we cannot repeat ourselves. So this could go really poorly. We could list out all 66 books and, uh,
00:07:53
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It just doesn't match. You know, that might happen, but we're going to try. So how this going work is we're going to count to, we're to say one, two, three, and then we're going to say a book of the Bible.
00:08:05
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So any questions, Brendan, on how this works so far? So far, so good. So far, so good. All right. So once we say our books, and they may be separate. So if we give an example, maybe we said, i said Mark and you said Psalms. We try to find something in the middle between Mark and the Psalms. That's what we're going to try and do. And if we, again, say two things that are different, we're going to try find the middle ground of that. We just can't repeat something we've said before. So, for instance, if he has said Psalms first, can't say Psalms again.
00:08:37
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So that's how it's going to work. So with that being said, we're going to try to get to the point where we say the exact same verse. Or sorry, the exact same chapter, not verse. but We might go insane if that was the case.
00:08:52
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It'll be one hour and 30 minutes plus. minute yes All right. So books of the Bible. Think of a book of the Bible. And then we'll say it in three, two, one. Romans. Yeah.
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What did you say? Nehemiah is my least favorite book in the Bible. Nehemiah. Okay, so I said bros nothing for me. All right.
00:09:18
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I like Nehemiah. it's in there I like Nehemiah. I am currently making a board game off of Nehemiah, so I am a Nehemiah fan. i like how you I like how Nehemiah goes around and slaps all the religious leaders. It's a lot of fun.
00:09:33
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You read something Anyway, somewhere in between Nehemiah and Romans. Okay? Nehemiah and Romans. So be thinking somewhere in between them.
00:09:44
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I almost said I forgot to take my decoying time. Okay. Three, two, one. Joel. Okay.
00:09:57
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We did it like a flip flop there. We ran past each other. ah Okay. So Joel, somewhere in between Joel and Luke, somewhere between Joel and Luke.
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Okay. Three, two, one Malachi.
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Oh no, it's getting worse guys. It's getting worse. Malachi and Daniel. Okay, but the the window is closing now. i Is it bad that I need to look up the books in the Bible?
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It's just supposed to be the top of your head. You're not supposed to look things up. people But you're kind of happy between daniel and Malachi, and there are not many options. Just use your brain. There's one. There's one I'm thinking of.
00:10:46
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Oh my goodness, there are many options. There are many options, but there's one I'm specifically thinking of. We're going to get this time of nowhere. Okay. Three, two, one. Jonah.
00:10:58
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I almost said Jonah. Jonah's my other option. What did you say? Hosea. Hosea. Okay.
00:11:07
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I was torn between Jonah and Hosea. So we've got Hosea. And we've got Jonah.
00:11:17
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All right. All right. I'm ready. There are literally two options here in my current life. Three, two, one. Amos. well Yes!
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I came this close to saying Abadiah.
00:11:36
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I thought about it for a second, but I was just like, no, no, it's gotta be Amos. It's gotta to be Amos. All right. So that is how this game works. We do eventually get somewhere. So Brendan, do you have an idea of a category? We'll try this at least one more time. What it would be a good category that you want to try to see if we can get the exact word on?
00:11:58
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How many women listen to this channel? How many women list this channel? I don't know the demographics. So I know we've only had one person who emailed us who is a woman. So that's all I can go on.
00:12:14
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In honor of that one woman, let's do women in the Bible. Oh no. Okay. You decide then. Oh no.
00:12:27
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All right. and Okay. like First round, you say Eve and I say the Scarlet Whore of Babylon. Pull it opposite extremes. it like yep Well, she will be between them, Yep.
00:12:45
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Alright, I have my i i the first name that came to my brain. I'm going to say it. Okay? so Okay. Three, two, one. He's not ready. He's not ready. He's not ready. Okay. He picks the category. He doesn't know what he's doing, folks.
00:13:00
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Okay. Go for it. Go for it. Go for it. Okay. Three, two, one. Debra. Abigail. Debra's class. Abigail is my favorite, though.
00:13:12
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Debra and Abigail. Something in between. That's exactly what I'm thinking. I have a woman in mind. A tweet could mean a lot of things. Could mean a lot of things. Okay. I think I have a name. have a name. Okay. don't know who's a name. I have a name.
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Three, two, one. Bathsheba. in
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i I'd go really close to Debra. was like sticking the book of judges. man Oh, that that was a good one. Okay, so we're between Judges and 2 Samuel. No, not necessarily. Not necessarily. We've got to go between Bathsheba and what was what was your name? Bathsheba is 2 Samuel 11 and Delilah is Judges.
00:14:02
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Who was the person you said? Samson's woman. Samson's woman, Delilah. Okay, so Delilah and Bathsheba. Yeah, yeah, Somewhere in between. Okay. Okay, so we're looking at Judges, 1 Samuel, very early 2 Samuel.
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e
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No, not necessarily. This could be alphabetical. root It could be alphabetical.
00:14:28
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You may not be able to wiggle along. If you are, stop it. Get some help. so I think we understand these rules very differently. We do. We do. I'm going by the appearance of the name. and That's what was called Mind Meld. We're trying to make sure we don't do this. No, this is a Mind Meld. This is an M.E.L.D.
00:14:52
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And you're the one who's screwing it up. Okay, I still haven't figured out a name, honestly. Why is it distracting me? I have a name. It's obvious. Yeah, I have name.
00:15:06
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Uh,
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okay. Uh, wait, no.
00:15:18
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Okay. I think I'm going to go with this name. It's probably going to throw us off, but it'll be fine. All right. Three, two, one. Dina. Right.
00:15:38
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That's the one backwards in Genesis. Well, it was a D name. But you said it was between. it was a D. You did a D before. I thought you were going to D again.
00:15:52
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no because what's your case? My woman, Delilah, is in Judges.
00:16:01
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So dean isn't Dina in Genesis? Is that where I missed that? That's Jacob's daughter.
00:16:09
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whoops and in ireland we call her dinah okay so dina and ruth now dina and ruth you're just changing the goalposts whoever you want to hey it's it's what you say in between those names you know okay I assume was between whatever the last names mentioned were. That's why I was looking up the Dukes of the Bible in order. Okay. You have made this difficult. This is women of the Bible. There's not much. You asked me if I understood the rules, and I said yes, because you had not explained the rules sufficiently well.
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ah It's in between. That could be anything. That that is an open, open definition. Okay, so every round changes the... Okay, so Dina our versus... Dina and Ruth, somewhere in between those two.
00:17:12
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yeah okay. I don't even know what to go with. Neither do I. I said okay, and I hadn't even chosen a name yet. But women are in...
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oh Yeah, okay. I know who I'm going for. um
00:17:34
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Okay, I got a name. All right. Three, two, one. Rachel. Zipporah. two
00:17:45
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Zed, which one the book of Exodus? That was me giving you like literally two options. Miriam or Zipporah.
00:17:52
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Or the women whose daddy died and Moses took pity on them and said, yes, I'll bend the rules just for you chicks. Okay.
00:18:03
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So between Rachel and Zipporah. Okay. Rachel and Zipporah.
00:18:09
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Okay, I'm ready. As am I. Three, two, one, Leah. Who'd you say? Leah. Ah, the ugly one.
00:18:25
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I'm sorry, she wasn't weak on the eyes or hard on the eyes, she just had weak eyes. She needed glasses. Okay. Okay. the last check The last two rounds were like, instead of us going opposites, and but we just went, no, you come my way. No, no, I'm staying over here.
00:18:44
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You gotta come this way. You chose two sisters and I chose two sisters-in-law. We're were we're not and all yeah but we're not not moving at all in between. Oh my goodness. um
00:19:00
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Alright. i I have somebody. so do I, but I don't know her name. I don't know her name either. That's the problem. Oh, we're in the same woman then. what probably We might be. yeah i don't think she has a name.
00:19:15
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i see she does I know she does. and You never hear it in the movie, but it is actually mentioned in scripture.
00:19:28
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No, it can't be.
00:19:32
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Oh.
00:19:35
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Maybe she doesn't. as she She has to.
00:19:41
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She does, but it's just not what you think it is. Okay, I will...
00:19:49
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I love the word we're probably talking about completely different women. It would be hilarious if we are, yes, but I think we're talking about the same person. um Let me just make sure I find...
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No,
00:20:07
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I'm second-guessing myself.
00:20:13
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What do you mean you're second guessing yourself?
00:20:17
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Of course she has a name. no I don't think she has a name. She does. i couldn't find it in the two Bible chapters i thought it was in, but on Google, so i'm gonna assume it's legit.
00:20:31
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Well... I'm just going to, if it's the same person we're thinking of, I'm just going to say what i where I know her from. that I'm not going to say her name because I don't know it. I don't see it. i know know yeah It is there.
00:20:44
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It's in the second place where you would expect to find us.
00:20:50
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Okay. I will... Guess do a Google search of her name. Watch it be somebody completely different. I'm betting... but more Those of you listening at home, do you know her name? and Do you know the second Bible verse? I will have her name. It's not what you think it will be. It's the second place you would consider it being.
Game Segment: Mind Meld with Animals
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Oh my goodness. It's not there. but
00:21:28
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No, I'm confused. Is that a name that has been given to her by tradition, not by the word of God? Yeah, it sounds like it.
00:21:38
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Yep, it says not in the Bible. Stop.
00:21:49
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All right. Calm down yourself, man. No, calm down. Calm down. I don't think it's in the Bible, folks. It is. Pause. Don't get too excited.
00:22:01
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You get far too hasty, and that's how you end up in the messes you find yourself in on a routine basis. You just calm yourself.
00:22:11
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All right. All right. Thanks, peace of God. This wasn't in my head. It is in the Word of God. And it's mentioned in the movie. Yes, she does have a name.
00:22:23
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I'm going to butcher the pronunciation, and that's okay. I probably will too. Do I say the name that it is supposedly right here in front of me? Yes, and then I'll tell you where it actually is located. Okay. Unless we're both completely wrong. All right, here we go.
00:22:39
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Three, two, one. Zalika.
00:22:47
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Okay, what did you just say?
00:22:51
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Jokovic? Jokovic? Oh no, we were talking about somebody different the entire time. Moses' mother in Exodus 6.20.
00:23:04
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I was talking about Potiphar's wife. Her name is Mrs. Potiphar. I know. That's why I kept saying, I don't think her name's in here. I don't think her name's here.
00:23:15
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Because it's not. It's in tradition. anymore In Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coach, which I starred fun on YouTube, guys. Her name is Mrs. Potiphar. What?
00:23:27
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and we lived never I thought we were talking about the same thing. I thought we were literally talking about Potiphar's wife. I was like, okay, we're talking about Potiphar's wife. Great, great, yeah. Why didn't we just choose the Virgin Mary?
00:23:41
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Oh, man. I don't know. I don't even know anymore. This is hilarious. Oh, man alive. Alright. Okay, so between Potiphar's wife...
00:23:57
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And what was yours? Jacobette. Jacobette. Wait, there's no way that's the pronunciation. I think that's what I've heard.
00:24:07
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You were born of my mother. You have it. But to me, that looks like Jacobette. So I'm going call her Jacobette.
00:24:17
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All right. I have a name. I have a name in between these two. I don't know how. oh There's literally only one woman who's mentioned between them. Yeah, it's gotta be. Okay. Okay, ready? Because we're at the end of Genesis to the very start of Exodus. There's only one woman. Yeah, okay. We'll get to get this time. Three, two, one. a sethphon family That's who I meant.
00:24:45
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Yes, the Joseph's wife. Joseph's wife. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What did you call her? Asethna, that was the name that they have for her.
00:24:57
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I called her Potifera. Hold on. Which I know sounds like Potifar in a feminist way, but let's see. um
00:25:09
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Genesis 39, which I remember from Joseph, of the Mid-Termot Drinkoat, is when Mrs. Potifar puts the moves on him. Forse he's in prison. 41, interprets the dreams of the Scallywags. 42 for Pharaoh. So Genesis 42.
00:25:29
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Says she's mentioned 41. End of 41. That makes sense. Yes, got too excited. Sorry, I said the father's name.
00:25:46
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sorry i said the father's name and i part I said Potifair. That's the dad's name. yeah who don Who she belongs to. yeah But we were talking about the same person.
00:25:56
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We were talking about the same. The only woman who's mentioned the Bible between Potifair and Jacobette. That was harder than it should have been. It was. Given that we're both pastors, that was that was pretty that was pretty bad.
00:26:12
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One of us may have been trying to betray the other. And I don't know...
00:26:20
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Only may been. Only
00:26:26
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All right. Do you want to do another round? Do you want to do our different game? Start your brain. All right. um
00:26:35
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I don't know. What would be a good category? Let's see if we can come up with a good one here. um What about living his places? Places. Animals. Animals was what I was thinking. So let's go with animals. Miracles.
00:26:47
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let's let's just Let's do animals. Let's see if we can get adomites animals. Not necessarily in the Bible. We'll we'll do this just any animal. It's hard enough doing it when we only have limited options. Oh, we're going outside. We're doing animals.
00:27:03
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Oh my goodness. Okay. yep All right.
00:27:07
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I've got an animal in my brain right now. You might want to get that checked by doctor.
00:27:15
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You ready? I think I know what it's called.
00:27:22
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Or am I thinking of a sickness?
00:27:26
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No, I know the difference now. Okay, I got it. Okay, picking an animal. doesn't have to be from the Bible.
00:27:33
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Three. Because God made them all anyway. Two, one, and an elephant. Oh, that's your favorite.
00:27:42
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Yep. What did you say? A bronchosaurus.
00:27:48
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Bronchosaurus. So that's the that's the dinosaur, right? Isn't that what it's called? I almost said bronchitis, but I think that's a sickness. I think it's a dinosaur, yeah.
00:27:59
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Bronch...
00:28:05
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okay so Oh, bronchosaurus. Okay, yeah. He has a long neck and a long tail. I think we can get this. We can get this right here.
00:28:17
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Yes. Got one right in my brain. me Got one right in my brain. Puts us right in between. of A bronchosaurus and an elephant. I've got a name.
00:28:28
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Whenever you're ready. I'm just trying trying to figure out how there endpoints. There's something in the middle between them. I don't know. I have the exact middle. i have I have figured it out. I know it's the exact middle between those two.
00:28:43
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Oh no, I have three options in my head. Oh no.
00:28:53
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Now I have four options. Okay. I'm going to go with, go with your gut. Just go with your gut. Yeah. I'm going to go with my gut. All right. Three, two, one. Wooly man.
00:29:06
Speaker
Oh, that was an option. Oh, I thought about it. I did think about that. So you said Rhino, right? Yeah, because an elephant is gray.
00:29:18
Speaker
I was thinking woolly mammoth because you said a dinosaur, which is dyed off, and I said an elephant, which is large. So I went in between, which would be a woolly mammoth that is dyed off and is large.
00:29:31
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That was my thinking.
00:29:35
Speaker
Like I said, ever-shifting goalpost. Yeah. Yes, the goalpost moves. Now the goalpost moves to Woolly Mammoth and
00:29:50
Speaker
my name and a rhinoceros. Rhino and a Woolly Mammoth. Okay, so now we have to figure out somewhere in between those two things. This is going to be tricky.
00:30:04
Speaker
It's going to be very tricky. I should have just said Rhino last time. You should have said rabbit, that was my favorite animal. After we had already done your favorite animal. I don't know how rabbits were between dinosaurs and elephants, but, you know.
00:30:22
Speaker
Okay, I know what I'm going to go for. I know my... i don't have I don't have good logic for why I'm choosing what I'm going to choose. my rationale is probably inexcusable.
00:30:33
Speaker
Oh, no. That seems to be the yeah the rule of the game, so it's okay. i i have I have just come up with a rational thought now. Okay. Here we go. let yeah Three, two, one. Hippopotamus.
00:30:46
Speaker
I thought of hippopotamus at the same time I thought of rhino. What did you what did you say? Sabertooth. Ooh. Because there's a woolly mammoth in the Ice Age movies. Oh, that's right. And if you're a Christian who's watching this, then now you're like, oh my goodness, they support the old Earth theory.
00:31:04
Speaker
It's a movie, guys, and this is a game. it's It's a dumb movie, but a day can it is somewhat dumb. I like the part with the squirrel and the chestnut or whatever.
00:31:17
Speaker
the best bit. The rest of the movie is boring compared to them. Forget the rest happens. All right, so we've got a saber tooth and a hippo.
00:31:29
Speaker
Saber tooth and a hippo. All right, saber tooth and a hippo. Okay. Okay. I don't know that's where you're going to go, but I'm going to go with it, I think.
00:31:42
Speaker
Okay. All right. Are you ready?
00:31:46
Speaker
I don't know if I know what it's called.
00:31:51
Speaker
I think I know what it's called. That makes me change everything that I'm thinking.
00:32:00
Speaker
Oh, wow. I was right. And now I have a question. But I will not ask my question. Excuse me. Okay.
00:32:11
Speaker
Good heavens. You ready? Yep. Three, two, one. T-Rex.
00:32:21
Speaker
What did you say? I know T-Rex ages ago. lynx. You the cat? Because the saber tooth's a cat. Okay. yeah My question was
00:32:35
Speaker
lynx body spray. Where'd they get the name from? Did they have the animal? Is it called Wings Body Spray? I thought it was Axe.
00:32:47
Speaker
L-Y-N-X? No, we had an A-X-E. Axe. um I have an axe in my shed, but we only use it for cutting wood. No, that was a body spray that we had in the the States that all the all the campers would spray.
00:33:05
Speaker
And they had to spray it outside because they stank. They are the same brand of male grooming products owned by uni Lever. Launched in 1983. They share identical formulations, scents, and branding.
00:33:22
Speaker
But Lynx is used in UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand due to trademark issues. Both are marketed primarily to young men who stink and sometimes yeah then the rim stinks after they've sprayed all their Lynx slash Axe as body sprays and fragrances.
00:33:43
Speaker
But it's called Axe in the US, Europe, and Ireland might be technically of the continent of Europe, but we're not continental Europe, so we don't really feel like part Europe.
00:33:54
Speaker
And it's Lynx everywhere else. There you go. Excuse me. So it's trademarks. but we yeah We're talking about the exact same thing, but a different name. It's like, wasn't it like Burger King that's called Hungry Jack's down in Australia or something like that?
00:34:10
Speaker
is i think that that was another trademark. I don't know. There you go. Excuse me. Yeah. Apparently it doesn't count overseas for some reason. So anyway.
00:34:21
Speaker
<unk> given them Well, then actually do have a king. There you go. So we had got figure out something in between links and. We were talking about the same thing when it came to body sprayer. But we can't get the same thing when it comes to the animal kingdom.
00:34:35
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um Okay. Okay. Now I have one. I'm going to glean from where we're currently at. Okay.
00:34:46
Speaker
Three, two, one. Alligator.
00:34:52
Speaker
Well, now we both have reptiles, so we're we're getting there. What did you say? Pterodactyl. I was sticking with your dinosaur theme. Yeah, we just chips in the night.
00:35:06
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Oh, no. um
00:35:12
Speaker
I'm trying to rack my brain. I said I'm going to stick with with the with the reptile family. Okay. All right. um I can literally only think of two.
00:35:31
Speaker
Okay, I think I'm ready. All right. Yeah. Three, two, one. Lizard. Oh, forgot lizards existed. I almost went with crocodile, but I felt that it was too similar to alligator and someone was going to be typing the a little nasty comment. They're actually the same thing. You can't say that again. I thought that that that's what I was. that's That's why I didn't do that. But that was the first thing I thought of. And I went, no, I can't do that. Brendan's going to be like,
00:36:00
Speaker
No, why would you pick crocodile? You already said alligator. I just want this game done. You should have just said crocodile.
00:36:10
Speaker
Oh, well. Oh, well. All right. no Got to think between a lizard and a... Crocodile. Crocodile.
00:36:21
Speaker
There's only one option. We can do this. Okay. I've got an option. Ready? Three. but Don't get too specific. Keep a general. Yep. three two one gecko
00:36:37
Speaker
did you just say snake next i was thinking snake but i went no gecko is actually in between the two don't think i was thinking has been your response to every single one of these maybe you should think i'm just playing my rationale that's all snake and a gecko snake and a gecko
00:37:04
Speaker
um i had one in mind and you took too long i forgot the word it is okay i remember right now okay i'm ready three two one salamander
00:37:23
Speaker
salamander and a chameleon. I didn't know that so many reptiles existed. I'm going to try to do it. Hurry up. I can see one in my mind's eye, but I can't remember what he is.
00:37:37
Speaker
i think I know what it's called. I just need to make sure that what I'm picturing actually is. Yeah, I can see it. I can see it in my mind's eye, but I... For the life of me...
00:37:51
Speaker
Sorry to all of you who are already screaming it out to the television screen right now. Yes, I was. calm i know What it is.
00:38:16
Speaker
Oh, it's it's just that OK. Well, I don't know.
00:38:23
Speaker
I don't even know anymore. I know exactly what it is. I'm so excited to say it. This going to be the highlight of my entire life. I'm not going to get it. I don't even know what I'm going to I don't even know what I'm going to say. I don't know what's going to come out of my mouth right now.
00:38:40
Speaker
That thing you pictured, that's what I'm going to say. But you already said that.
00:38:47
Speaker
The next thing you picture in your head, that's the next one. Okay. Ready? Three, two, one. A worm. Iguana.
00:39:02
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Iguana was the right answer. It just didn't occur to me. I thought we were sticking with the reptile family. yeah Nope, I gave up. right
00:39:17
Speaker
I gave up. All right. Iguana and a worm. Sorry, everybody. Making life difficult. All right. I'm ready. I got with something.
00:39:27
Speaker
Okay. Ready? Do you have something? Yes. Okay. Three, two, one. Snail.
00:39:41
Speaker
Did you just say a barracuda?
00:39:45
Speaker
I don't know what that is. Oh, I didn't know what you said. So. Spider. Oh, spider. Okay. So. You know, the worm is an insect. And.
00:39:56
Speaker
Iquanas have legs. Spiders are cold insects. Spiders are arachnids. I said people call them insects. And they have legs.
00:40:07
Speaker
Okay. Okay. We can work with this. We can work with this. We can work with this. All right. Um.
00:40:16
Speaker
I got it. I got it. Snail and a spider.
00:40:25
Speaker
Okay. Ready? yes Yeah. Three, two, one. Scorpion.
00:40:33
Speaker
What did you say? be A beetle. A beetle. Okay. A beetle and a scorpion. No, a beetle. Not a beetle. A T is pronounced T, not D. They're the Beatles.
00:40:50
Speaker
You have no idea how difficult it is. It's the Bitales. Come join us and listen to the Bitales. Where they're like, teacher, why you say water? It's water. And I'm like, a T is T, not D. Stop watching France.
00:41:09
Speaker
The USA has lied to you. Beatles.
00:41:15
Speaker
Scorpion. Yes. Scorpion. Beatles. Scorpion. Keep scorpion in your head. I'm going with the theme here. Beatles. Scorpion. Okay.
00:41:26
Speaker
I'm ready. Three, two, one. Crab.
00:41:35
Speaker
I said crab. What did you say? i did not say crab. and i said crab. I crab. You said Scorpion, and I said I'm going to stick with the Scorpion theme. Have you ever seen the movie The Mummy with Brendan Fraser? No, have not cultured.
00:41:52
Speaker
Bro, it is such a feel-good movie. It is everything the perfect summer evening movie needs to be. um the so you say i have up the adventures A woman who is really, really nerdy but kind of funny in her own quirky way um she reads from the book of the dead and ends up resurrecting a mummy from ancient egypt and the scarabs are the insects that were poured into um okay it's class and the 10 plagues of egypt begin playing in the land i think i think we have a bit of a more open goal here we've got
00:42:37
Speaker
A crustacean. We're in the crustacean class now. We're under the sea. Under the sea.
00:42:46
Speaker
Okay, I have two things in mind. One is the obvious one you're going to say. And one is the thing that I stepped on when i was in Athens.
00:42:58
Speaker
And I needed tweezers to pull all the spikes out my feet. But I just forget what it was called. Yeah, don't pick that. yeah do that three okay All right, you ready?
00:43:10
Speaker
Yeah. Three, two, one, lobster. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. That was beautiful. We we got there.
00:43:22
Speaker
get there folks We got there. All right, dare we even try the other game? Go on, why not? Okay, so hopefully you enjoyed that.
Counting Game with Humorous Phrases
00:43:37
Speaker
Hopefully it didn't make you lose any more hairs than you already have. But if it did, i apologize. And you can send all of your hate mail to me at fromdoubledtocleveland at gmail.com.
00:43:51
Speaker
Apologize. Anyway, moving on. The next game we're going to do is it's a counting game. I just need the example gave to this game before we turned on the recording. What was the name I called it? Is that I'm thinking of the example that I gave for this game before we switched on the recording. Yes, it is this this could get very entertaining.
00:44:18
Speaker
um Anyway... What we're going to do is there are numbers. This is something I saw on YouTube, Facebook, is there are numbers one through 10, and we are going to go through numerically counting one through 10. So I would say one, Brendan's would say two, back and forth. However, what we're going to do after we go through 10 is whoever said 10 gets to choose the next number.
00:44:44
Speaker
that gets to replace one of the numbers. So for instance, Brendan could say, I'm going to replace number nine with yath girl. And what we'll do yath queen. Oh, yath queen. And you have to say it the exact way or make the sound or whatever it is that you replace it with. And you have to make that exact thing.
00:45:04
Speaker
And so then Brendan would start with one, two, three, four, and we get to to nine instead of saying nine, We say, yeah, queen. And we continue on through it. So that's how this is going to work. Um,
00:45:17
Speaker
This is all just off the top, off the cuff. I have not pre-planned anything. Brendan had some wild things that he was planning. But again, i get to choose every other one, so he can't be as demented as I hope. Because I know you have like kids who watch this under 10, I will not give the example that I gave before we hit the board. Yep.
00:45:41
Speaker
All right. So I will start with one. yeah I will start with one. we'll justre We're just going to count to ten, and then when we get to ten, which I believe will end on you, you'll get to replace one of the numbers. So, one. Nugent knows his odd and even numbers.
00:45:58
Speaker
He's a big play. I am. I'm starting with one. And I have said two. Three. This is so remedial. You have to.
00:46:10
Speaker
ah thought Again, notice that another word, but Logan has viewers under 10 to watch this, so I'll i'll say our medial. Six. Seven.
00:46:23
Speaker
i have a master's degree. It does become my life.
00:46:30
Speaker
Eight. Nine. Ten. All right, Brendan, what are we replacing? Let him go again. coming in What are we replacing?
00:46:42
Speaker
You pick, what are we replacing it with? So you replace a number and then make a phrase, saying, joke, whatever it is you want. Oh, I thought because you were on odd numbers, you would go first. Okay.
00:46:55
Speaker
Nope. Okay. Let's replace number six. With what?
00:47:04
Speaker
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Okay. That works for me. All right. So you start with one.
00:47:15
Speaker
One. Two. Oh, yeah, because then otherwise I'd be the one saying it. Yeah, sure. Three. Four. Five. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
00:47:27
Speaker
Seven. Eight. Nine. Ten. All right. Let's replace with... Let's replace two by saying three is a magic number.
00:47:41
Speaker
Can I write this down? nope
00:47:46
Speaker
No, you can't. All right, one.
00:47:59
Speaker
You're intentionally screwing with me changing two three. Three is a magic number. Three. Four. Five. four five Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
00:48:15
Speaker
Seven. Eight. Nine. Ten. Your pick.
00:48:35
Speaker
Changing number nine to Granny eats old grey rabbits and paints houses yellow. Oh, that's not even fair. That's not even fair.
00:48:48
Speaker
yeah Geography. Granny eats old grey houses and paints... Well, she doesn't. Change it! change it This is my last minute, Dan.
00:49:01
Speaker
Granny eats old grey rabbits and paints houses yellow. Geography.
00:49:09
Speaker
Alright, go ahead. You can start.
00:49:15
Speaker
Oh no! If I say number one, that means I have to do number nine. try this game One. Three is a magic number.
00:49:28
Speaker
so Three. Four. Five. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Seven.
00:49:40
Speaker
Eight. Granny eats old gray, not houses, rabbits, and paints places yellow geography. And ten.
00:49:54
Speaker
Whew! All right. go... Let's replace the number...
00:50:00
Speaker
let's go let's replace ah the number
00:50:08
Speaker
four with the words um let them know
00:50:19
Speaker
i feel like you're going to build like no please here all right number one three is the magic number three
00:50:34
Speaker
Let him know.
00:50:39
Speaker
Five.
00:50:45
Speaker
Seven. A's. What was it? Grandma eats.
00:50:56
Speaker
don't even know.
00:51:00
Speaker
Grandma eats rabbits. No, is it there's an O. It says geography. Grandma eats old... Granny eats old rabbits.
00:51:15
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Granny eats... Old... Old rabbits and paints the house yellow. Color. Granny eats old... Paints the house yellow?
00:51:26
Speaker
No, Granny eats old color.
00:51:31
Speaker
Old gray rabbits? Yep. Old Gray Rabbits, and Paints the House Yellow. and then the subject? Geography. Ten.
00:51:44
Speaker
I'll get it one of these times.
00:51:48
Speaker
And then I think you have to finish, so.
00:51:52
Speaker
i You have to say the number! I want to change number five, but I'm curious to see what you're building four and five into. So I'm going to change seven to eight.
00:52:07
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No.
00:52:12
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All right. Start us off.
00:52:16
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Have we changed number one yet? One. Three is a magic number.
00:52:23
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Three.
00:52:26
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Let them know.
00:52:30
Speaker
Five. It's time to find out what you're trying to do. but um
00:52:40
Speaker
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
00:52:45
Speaker
ha
00:52:48
Speaker
Eight.
00:52:53
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Granny eats old grey rabbits and paints houses yellow. Geography. Ten.
00:53:01
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I'm in suspense. during a revival already
00:53:08
Speaker
ah So let's do number five. We're going to say Joe knows. thought to say something really, really with me there. Okay.
00:53:30
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Number one.
00:53:34
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Three is a magic number. Three.
00:53:46
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Let him know. Joe knows. Stop. Stop.
00:54:00
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It just comes to me. Okay.
00:54:04
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Right.
00:54:07
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Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Eight. Eight.
00:54:22
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It's your number.
00:54:25
Speaker
I said the real number, Ace. Oh, you did? I didn't catch it. I'm sorry. um granny Granny eats ah old, is it gray?
00:54:39
Speaker
Old gray ah rabbits and paints the house yellow. Geography.
00:54:47
Speaker
and Beautiful. Your pick.
00:55:02
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And a change number one because if we don't change it now, we're just going forget two changes.
00:55:09
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Like we've forgotten thus far.
00:55:14
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Um...
00:55:31
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And changing it one, two.
00:55:35
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Logan wishes he could be Brendan. Okay. Thomas Maris, just to make it harder. Okay, go ahead. Start us off then.
00:55:46
Speaker
Given that you butchered my surname on this channel one many times. Logan. Logan. Logan.
00:55:56
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okay
00:56:00
Speaker
I literally have, I'm a teacher. Like, I've got pens and paper all the way. I could literally be a cheese and you wouldn't know. Logan wishes he could be Brendan Thomas Marish. Three is a magic number.
00:56:15
Speaker
Three. Let him know. Joe knows.
00:56:27
Speaker
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
00:56:45
Speaker
Seven?
00:56:48
Speaker
You replaced that. I did. You did. You replaced it with a different number. I did. I thought I replaced Ace with Ace.
00:57:00
Speaker
That would make no sense. Ace. Eight? Nine.
00:57:08
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Nine. No, it's that. You replaced that.
00:57:18
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I hope those of you at home are doing a better job than I am. You should beat Alzheimer's. Assuming you do it correctly. Granny eats old gray rabbits. I had to get rabbits in there somewhere after you didn't bring them up in the last game. yeahp And Ben's house is yellow.
00:57:35
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Geography. i It's still 10, right? 10 is still 10. 10 is still 10. Okay. All right. So... You should change the 10 to 10 is still 10.
00:57:49
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ah
00:57:54
Speaker
So I'm going to change number three. And I'm going to say that number three is... In French, it means...
00:58:08
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So in French, it means is what I'm replacing with number three. All right. right Number one, Logan wishes that he was Brendan Thomas Merritt.
00:58:20
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As well, he should.
00:58:24
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That would be funny if that was number two, but it's not. ah
00:58:34
Speaker
sir Three is a magic number. In French it means...
00:58:49
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Well, I know it's not three's magic number again. It's not.
00:58:55
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It's got something to do with the nose.
00:59:02
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Nobody knows where they might end up. Nobody knows where they
00:59:09
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I know. You know.
00:59:15
Speaker
Starts with the letter L. Starts with the letter Logan knows? Starts with the word let.
00:59:24
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Let them know. Joe knows. Let Brendan know.
00:59:32
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Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Eight.
00:59:39
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Eight. Grannies eat old gray rabbits and paints the house yellow. Geography.
00:59:51
Speaker
Ten. All right, so you've got two left. Eight and ten to replace. Okay. And it changed her to ten. Love ya lots like jelly tots, broski.
01:00:05
Speaker
probably lots of jelly tots broski this is a mess and really
01:00:13
Speaker
what the heck is number one in french it means that's not number one that's number three number one you picked get all the ones i chose you were ready for number three though he was ready I totally can say it hard for you. I never thought I would have to say them.
01:00:36
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um
01:00:42
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This is the most fun I've had a long time, folks. This is hilarious. Logan wishes he could be Brendan Thomas Merritt. Three is a magic number.
01:00:57
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In French, it means... Let them know.
01:01:02
Speaker
I'm just using my fingers now to keep up. he Joe knows.
01:01:10
Speaker
I have to remember where we're at here. Is this supercalifragilisticexpialidocious? Yeah. and who
01:01:22
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Eight. Still eight.
01:01:28
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Granny eats old grey rabbits and Payne's house is yellow. geography Love you lots like Jelly Tots Broski. Is that how it goes? Or was that the whole thing? That's how it goes. answer i Okay. All right.
01:01:41
Speaker
So I am going to replace the numbers. ah So number eight, since that's says the last one, last run through. So I'm replacing the number eight with 678391. 678391.
01:01:53
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six seven eight three nine one
01:01:58
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six seven eight three nine one Okay. Wait, sorry. ah yeah You don't even know what it is. Sorry. 8, 6, 7, 5, 3, 0, 1. Yes. 6, 7, 5, 3, 0, 1. 6, 7, 5, 3, 0, 1. 6, 7, 5, 3, 0, It's 1. phone number. Is it your phone number? No. Can we call you? No.
01:02:14
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This is Jenny's phone number.
01:02:20
Speaker
six seven five three ah one it's a phone number is it your phone number no can we call you no now this is jenny's phone number Who's Jenny?
01:02:33
Speaker
but Jenny, I got your number. I just forget holding a pen. It's a song. It's a song. Jenny, I your number. 8-6-7-5-3-0-9. eight six side five three oh nine I didn't even add the nine, so. You didn't add the nine.
01:02:52
Speaker
Are you adding the nine? Nope. sure Sure, we could add the nine. Yeah, yeah let's that that makes it better that way. For who? 675309. I tried right on my hand, but I can't even read what I tried to write. All right, anyway.
01:03:10
Speaker
like seven five three oh one nine oh my goodness okay
01:03:19
Speaker
You appeared to have frozen, are you still there?
01:03:35
Speaker
Aha! We have returned. We have returned. Okay. So, back to the beginning. Back the beginning. All right. Sorry for all of those who have lost my connection there for a minute, but back to the beginning. All right. Um, Brendan or Logan wishes he was Brendan Thomas Merritt.
01:03:57
Speaker
Oh, thanks, man. It's not easy.
01:04:02
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Three is a magic number.
01:04:06
Speaker
In French, it means.
01:04:12
Speaker
Let them know. Joe knows. Yeah. i joe
01:04:37
Speaker
Yes. That works. Yep. All right. It works or it's correct? One or the other. It's correct. We'll say it's correct because that's what I gave you.
01:04:48
Speaker
all right um I don't know the song you're getting from. Rani eats old ah the caller old gray rabbits and paints the house yellow.
01:05:02
Speaker
Geography. What was number 10?
01:05:09
Speaker
depression
01:05:13
Speaker
It's not I love you to the moon and back. No, it's not supposed to go to the moon, but it's about love. Yep. Love you lots like Jolly Tots, bro. Let's go. Let's go. let's go that was...
01:05:26
Speaker
That was a quite the exercise folks. ah We might, we might've passed the dementia test. This is a dementia test. We failed,
01:05:41
Speaker
but we had fun doing it. We had a good laugh. Hopefully you enjoyed this as well.
Spiritual Reflection on Jacob's Dream
01:05:46
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ah Brendan, what do you have from God's word? This ah lovely podcast.
01:05:53
Speaker
Oh, well, this lovely podcast, as opposed to our not-so-lovey podcasts... Yeah, like last time. Episode 166, or as I call it, 666, will live in infamy.
01:06:08
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In the longest 19 minutes of my life. All right, guys, please crack open Genesis, the first book of the Bible, chapter 28, verse 16.
01:06:20
Speaker
verse sixteen Genesis 28, 16.
01:06:27
Speaker
In this story, we see Jacob. um Jacob, I'll put this politely. You did not want to play a poker with Jacob.
01:06:39
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He would cheat you out of house and home. He was a scatty lad. He had an older twin brother, Esau. And Esau effectively had a birthright.
01:06:52
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which Jacob ended up with. And a blessing was supposed to come to Esau, which Jacob stole. He dressed up Esau. He adopted a manly voice. And he cheated a blind man. His name was Isaac Personally, think it's ironic and kind disgusting and creepy that the blind man is named Isaac. But hey, I hadn't read the Bible. I just think that's a bit of a slap in the face. It's like, you have eyes and you don't use them. But, you know.
01:07:31
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and So when Esau found out, he was livid. Bit to be tied. And he threatened to murder his younger twin, Jacob.
01:07:43
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So Jacob ran away. While he was running away, he came to a place called Bethel. And in Bethel, he went to sleep. He used a rock for ah pillow.
01:07:59
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And that just shows how even in very inhospitable terrain and difficult soul seasons, difficult times you go through, the Lord can still give you divine rest.
01:08:10
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And while he slept, he had a prophetic dream, almost like a vision in a dream. where the Lord opened his eyes to see what was happening in the spirit realm all around him.
01:08:20
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And he saw a mighty staircase descending from heaven to the earth. Now, Jacob was the grandson of Abraham.
01:08:36
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Abraham was a contemporary of Nimrod, the emperor over Babylon, Nineveh, Erek, let's say the land of Ur and all these different cities and kingdoms that he'd established. Nimrod effectively created a one world government in his day and they would create ziggurats. Ziggurats were stepping stone pyramids.
01:09:08
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um Temple towers, which they would build on mountains. They had four sides to represent four mystical rivers. They would have gardens on top of them. It was a counterfeit Garden of Eden, effectively.
01:09:21
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And angels would descend down and they would worship them. Those angels received their worship. They became demons. They became the powers, principalities, despots, and spirits of wickedness in high places who rule the nations today.
01:09:40
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what people would do is they would build massive Staircases to encounter the counterfeit divine. But actually, you know, angelic beings who are supposed to protect people, but then grasped them, took control of them, arrested them.
01:09:57
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But that's not what Jacob sees. Jacob does not see people building steps up to a counterfeit divine.
01:10:09
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People breaking their back, using all their labor. spending every cent they have, given all their energy, to try to have an encounter with the miraculous, the supernatural.
01:10:20
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He sees a supernatural God coming down to us, making a for us, sending the staircase down to us, setting the staircase down on the earth.
01:10:36
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And he sees angels going up and down, up and down, up and down, because there's always more angelic activity. and the operations of heaven protecting you and working on your behalf, and there are demonic ones working against you.
01:10:50
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And he looks up and he sees the Lord, the Lord Jesus. Some people say it's Father God. It's not. In John 1.18, Jesus says no one had ever seen God the Father, only the Son.
01:11:05
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So what he's looking at Jesus on the top of the staircase. And and has an encounter not just with the angelic, but with the creator of all that is.
01:11:17
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And when he awakens from his vision in a dream, he says in Genesis 28, 16, then Jacob awoke from his sleep and he said, without any doubt, the Lord is in this place and I did not know it.
01:11:40
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The Lord is in this place, Jehovah is in this place, and I knew it not. The Lord Almighty is in this place, and I did not perceive it.
01:11:52
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So often, friends, you're going to find yourself in a situation and you will think, I feel so alone. I feel abandoned. I feel forsaken.
01:12:03
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i feel that God's rejected me. He's already promised he'll never do those things. Even when you don't perceive it, he is moving on your behalf. Even when you don't feel it, he is doing more behind the scenes than you could possibly begin to imagine.
01:12:21
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He's always with you. He's always for you. He works all things together for your good. do you know the word all means in Greek? It means all.
01:12:32
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Not a few, not some, not what he finds convenient. He works all things together for your good. And even when you can't articulate it, when you don't suspect it, when there no visible signs, even when you're not getting three angelic visitations, ten Bible verses, a prophetic word, and a poem, he is still there working on your behalf.
01:13:01
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So whatever you're going through right now, perhaps you need to have a Jacob moment. Take out your Your pillow, even if your pillow's made of stone, enter the divine rest, even when you're on the run.
Discussion on God's Love and Listener Prayers
01:13:17
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Even when you're being gang-stalked. Even when forces out there want to take your life. Enter the divine rest.
01:13:29
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Because the Lord is setting that staircase down towards you. Angels are going up and down to receive instruction from the Lord on your behalf.
01:13:42
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His face is on you, his eyes are on you, his eyes go to and fro around the earth to look at the righteous.
01:13:52
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And even in the midst of what you're going through, Jehovah is in that place, even if before this moment you had not perceived it.
01:14:07
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a man amen amen all right bros did you get anything from janet 28th you'd like to share with god's kids i thought you you nailed it perfectly um i think that ah we have to remember how much God loves us, how much he cares for us. Nailed it on the head there that, um, he takes care of the Robins. He, um, takes care of the little animals and they survive. And so we are of infinite more value to him than they, because we have a soul. He created us in his image. Um,
01:14:48
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we are given dominion over the earth. So we have, ah he he loves us even more than that, than than just the regular everyday animal. if he takes care of them and he closed the ah the flowers and all of the stuff makes them beautiful. Like, what is he, why would he not do that for us? I think it's, ah even as we're saying this, some of you might say that's just French. You know, I don't even know what that means because I'm just used to all this terribleness happening all the time. And um I think it, it takes, it takes seeing God and seeing who he is and knowing and building that relationship with him, inviting him in to show you, who he is, to be your father and your heavenly father, um because he loves you and he cares for you and he has a plan for you. um
01:15:35
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So even when it doesn't feel like it, God still loves you. Even when it doesn't feel like it's going great, God loves you. Um, and how awesome that is. I will say, as we looked at this verse, it seems like Jacob had an interesting way of seeing things. He saw this immediate place as the place of God. Like the next verse, he's just like, we got to build a statue and a monument to this place. it It's not the place, it's the person.
01:16:00
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And so it's the person that you are interacting with. Um, So just don't think that Jacob is some perfect human because like Brendan was saying, you know, he he made mistakes and said some silly things. He was scallywag. It was a scallywag and God used him.
01:16:15
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So if God can use him, if God can use some of the terrible people, um we just did a ah parable that focused on that, ah that talked about the parable the wedding feast and how, um you know,
01:16:28
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it God invites even the good and the bad into heaven. So there is no nothing that holds you back other than rejecting Christ. And so we have to accept him and let him be our heavenly father and he'll lead us ah lead us to where we need to be.
01:16:43
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So let me close us in prayer and we'll do some quick shout outs and then we'll send you on your way. So Jesus, we thank for this day. Lord, I'm thankful for Brendan. I'm thankful for each and every one of those who listens. I pray that you would help each of us to be reminded of your love, your love for us personally and how much you care for us. Lord, help us to see ah the fruits of that love, to be able to see your goodness in the land of the living. Lord, as even David wrote that we would see it and see it daily. I pray that, uh, you would allow, each of us to see your goodness, to see all the things you do for us, all the, uh, the thousand ways that you are doing things in our lives that we just miss. Help us to see those things. Help us to be appreciative and thankful for everything that you're doing.
01:17:30
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Um, help us to not have an attitude of pride or haughtiness, but an attitude of gratitude to be grateful for what you've given us. And, uh, I pray that you would, um,
01:17:40
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Continue to show us what you have for us. Continue to show us our paths and our walks and help us to walk uprightly and to choose you every day, to reject the sin that so easily ensnares us and walk in your ways. Lord, if there's anybody who doesn't know you as their savior, I pray today would be the day of salvation, that they would put their trust in you.
01:17:59
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Lord, all it takes is turning our hearts and believing in what you said and what you did, that you truly died for us and you rose again and you're living at the right hand, and you have designed all of it, that we can put your faith and trust that you will bring us to heaven one day.
01:18:13
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I pray that people would put their trust in you, even as they listen to this podcast. How awesome would that be? That we don't even need to see it or know it, but that you get the benefit and the glory. We thank you for all you do for us. In Jesus' name, amen.
01:18:28
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Amen. Amen.
Wrap-Up with Shoutouts and Banter
01:18:30
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Thank you so much for listening. Quick shout outs. I will say, please do honestly, the, the Jenny song, you don't need to look it up. It's not terribly great. It is very secular. so Just saying it was, as soon as he said eight, my brain,
01:18:47
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Sorry. But I will say for shout out, check out our bonfire page, buy a hat. We would love that. that ah That shows your appreciation for us. And it shows one of the things we want to do is ah this this does take work. It's not like we just roll out of bed and run a podcast. It does, does take some effort on our parts and we do live far apart. So we would love the appreciation and um we'd love you to be able to just wear those around and, and show others that there's a cool podcast that you can listen to and that you listen to. So we'd love if you'd support us in that way and you can check it out. You can find it. If you Google from Dublin to Cleveland store, you'll find it pretty quickly. But we'll also have a link in the description down below. So you can click that as well. So as always, like, follow, subscribe us wherever we're found. Brendan's got plenty of books. Check them out. He's going to make more.
01:19:42
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So check those out too. um But anyway, Brendan, anything to shout out before we head out? Shout out the LGBTQ123USB community. u sb community
01:20:04
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The best way it has to get cancelled is just to give them an inch. I know they take the mile. Give them the inch anyway. And we've now been cancelled by the conservatives. Thanks, Brendan. Good job.
01:20:17
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We had people listening to us. We've now lost all of them. He made fun of the the left and now the right just went, yeah, well, I said that. I can't believe he said that on television. I'm watching it and he said that. Oh!
01:20:32
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that My grandma listens to this podcast, Brendan. How dare you?
01:20:41
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Oh, did I say shout out? I meant shout at. Yes. yes Yeah, there you go. that's That's maybe a little better. I misspoke. Shout at them with the gospel of love um
01:20:56
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All right. Well, this this podcast has completely gone off the rails. Thank you so much for listening. Thank you for getting to the end. um I guess skip the shout outs if – But thanks again. Hopefully you have a wonderful rest of your evening. And thank you again to Brandon Thomas for – Thomas Merritt for his time. It is, I want to say, 2 in the morning or something crazy like that.
01:21:21
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So he needs to go to bed. Thank you all. See you next time. Bye, friends. Cheerio, guys. Thanks for joining us today.