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From Dublin to Cleveland

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Introduction to 'From Dublin to Cleveland' Podcast

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loganhoward111

Hello and welcome to From Dublin to Cleveland. I am Logan Howard and this is an episode that is going out and it is pre-recorded because we have our lovely friend from Ireland, Brendan Thomas Merritt.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

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loganhoward111

How's it going, Brendan?

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BrendanThomasMarrett

I could lie and say Australia has been great, always great, but the jig is up. We're pre-recorded unless I don't know how Australia is going to be. I'm sure it'll be fabulous.

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loganhoward111

what

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Things that you won't have been since, you know, we last spoke five minutes ago.

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loganhoward111

Yes, so you will you will see you will hear about this eventually but Not now.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Yeah, try.

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loganhoward111

Um, so he's he's still sunburnt still in his room as he was before ah So give us give us your best australian accent brendan see it let's let's hear it

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Get out of the night, what a sheila! Oh my goodness, I see your father! Flying the found the crows!

Brendan's Travel Itinerary from Dublin to Australia

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loganhoward111

that if

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BrendanThomasMarrett

yeah ah If you would like, I can tell everyone my flight itinerary, just to kill time.

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loganhoward111

i mean if you want if you want to share it so they think could i'll find you gonna have fans in the the airport shaky head absolute celebrity

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BrendanThomasMarrett

ontourize it's like oh if they knew his voice

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BrendanThomasMarrett

All right guys on Friday the 13th, yes, I know what's like there was a cursed day Hopefully that means that there will be fewer people on the plane so I can sleep or at least get some food because I am pre-ordinate At 5 55 a.m.

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loganhoward111

the

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BrendanThomasMarrett

I'll be leaving Dublin. I will be on a plane for four hours 10 minutes and then arriving in Athens Greece and um The layover is 4 hours 15 minutes, but I've already explored Athens and Greece anyhow, so I don't think I'll leave the airport this time.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

um Then from Athens to Singapore, the flight will be 11 hours. Praise Jesus that I cope. um Then there will be a layover in Singapore for two and a half hours.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Again, I will not be leaving the airplane. Of course I will, the airport.

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loganhoward111

if so

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BrendanThomasMarrett

I was like, I'm not a good one. and good

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loganhoward111

I'm sitting right here until it goes to where I walk.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

I'm spoke. Then from Singapore to Melbourne, Australia will be a seven hour and 20 minutes long trip. a I will absolutely be leaving the airport because the layover is 10 hours and 20 minutes. Then There will be a two-hour flight to Gold Coast, Australia, which will be like my first main stop, where I'll be taking part in a TSNL, physical natural life revival, um which I spoke of back in May when I did them in Ireland and the UK.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

um So I'll spend the first week in Gold Coast, then the second week in the city of Kempsey, and also Australia. Then on Monday the 23rd, I will be driving back, probably renting a car, going back and ditching it to the airport.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

on Monday 23rd and at 8. Sorry, I should know what time it is before I go. Go Coast, Australia time. I will be flying to Sydney, Australia. That will take 1 hour 25 minutes. There will be a layover of 2 hours 50 minutes before my flight to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. Americans, I'm sure they're still sore about it so I won't be wearing one of, you know, our From Double Cleveland t-shirts. I don't want to rub it in. Uh, that flight will take eight hours and 55 minutes. There's acres. Then there'll be a layover of six hours and 14 minutes. I may possibly have itchy feet and go exploring. Then from Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam,

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BrendanThomasMarrett

I will be going to the Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, France. That will take 12 hours and 55 minutes. How ever will I cope? Then there will be a layover of five hours and 40 minutes before my next flight, which is from Orie, Paris, also called Paris Orly for some reason. um So I'll be traveling from one airport to another by train.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Maybe do a bit of sightseeing, but I don't even know how to time, to be honest. Um, and then get a flight from Orly, Paris

Mission of Healing and Spiritual Work in Australia

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BrendanThomasMarrett

to Dublin, which will take one hour and 55 minutes. And then I'll be arriving back in Ireland on Tuesday, 24th at 1.20 in the afternoon. So basically my flight there takes about one hour, sorry, one day, 17 hours and 25 minutes or some nonsense. And then on the way back,

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BrendanThomasMarrett

more nonsense but

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loganhoward111

what' um

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BrendanThomasMarrett

dinner for jesus dinner for jesus

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loganhoward111

then

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loganhoward111

Yeah.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

how'd you get my ping of a ball for vietnam to get in the visa driving

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loganhoward111

but So

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loganhoward111

Yes. So what is your, what are you actually doing there? What ah what are you going to do? I don't...

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BrendanThomasMarrett

out demons i'll be like hello there what's your name jetabel Okay, I'm pretty sure this girl's mother did not name her Jezebel Up and out of this girl And just casting demons out of people breaking trauma off people seeing the seeing the lost saved the bound freed and

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BrendanThomasMarrett

depopulating hell, populating heaven. It's probably the best you can guess.

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loganhoward111

There you go. Yeah. We have, unfortunately, lost all of the conservative people, conservative American believers, because they can't catch that demon. They don't exist anymore.

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loganhoward111

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Oh, I've met them. I've met several this week.

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loganhoward111

Yeah. and They are around. so yeah and is But again, as it talks about prayer and supplication, that's how you get rid of them.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Nothing's done.

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loganhoward111

And so it can be done.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

And again, again, the most important thing is that people get saved first and foremost.

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loganhoward111

Amen.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

You get sanctification. And um yeah, I just say to them, tell me what you don't want to tell me. And then when they start exposing their trauma, or their deepest points of shame, or pain, that's when the demons begin manifesting.

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loganhoward111

Yeah.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

But no, I'm just saying that in people A lot of people have been calling me on Zoom lately and just driving dozens of demons out of them in ice. It takes about three and a half hours to actually get the people fully clean because, I mean, demons have been...

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Probably the mom for decades.

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loganhoward111

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Or even been there at church, as in the car park, maybe three or four some days ago. And there was a woman that had double bent over.

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loganhoward111

him.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

a poor excuse for a church flowerbed. And suddenly, like, going... And there's natural vomiting and there's demonic vomiting. So I kind of just got down beside her and I just said, what's your name? And I said, okay. And where do you come from? The Waters. And I said, okay. So Jesus threw you out of heaven on a lightning bolt and...

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BrendanThomasMarrett

He splashed him to the sea, huh? And I said, well, sorry, Vran, you gotta leave this chick. She's a child of the most high god. She loves her god. I hate that she loves Jesus. I hate that she loves Jesus. And I said, I know you do. But I said, demons far more powerful than you are going to be here any second now. And when you get cast out of them, they're going to be hunting you down because you failed your assignment. So you might want to get a head start, OK? Off you go. And next thing, she's still being totally free and healed and restored. It was just wonderful.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

So yeah, I think um you can be as dubious as you like, as spiritually conservative as you like, um as in denial as you like. But this move of God, it is coming, because even the body of Christ has been sorely compromised in so many areas and levels in these days.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

um so And the world as a whole is just so as say rotten right now. It is on fire. um But it's gonna be on fire for Jesus, but the cleanup Sometimes look messy before it looks good It's messy witness that's worth the engaging and don't pray that Jesus sends you broken people if you've no intention helping them You know yes wasn't You know like our first segment that was just

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loganhoward111

Yeah.

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loganhoward111

Yep, yep. Yeah, well, that was a long intro, but hopefully it was a long intro.

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loganhoward111

Hopefully you learned a lot. it was It was

Podcast Intro Segment Evolution

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loganhoward111

a intro that became the first segment. Anyway, we are back onto our...

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BrendanThomasMarrett

It's a little like a jump to nine minutes and 38 seconds.

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loganhoward111

and

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BrendanThomasMarrett

I like the intro.

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loganhoward111

that we were also, it was all, yeah, we will so if we ever put time stamps in it, yeah, that the intro would just be, whoop, what why did the intro so long?

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Yes.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

It's like he's judging me.

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loganhoward111

But, it is a tell-all special, so Brendan was telling all his stuff in his flight, and he was telling you what he was doing, so...

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Yeah, exactly. Time to the hour. Time to the minutes.

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loganhoward111

but All right, so for this section, this is going to be more relating to work.

Mascot and Cartoon Character Fantasies

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loganhoward111

So, you know, we are both teachers, and we've both done work in the public sphere, so it'll be all fun questions.

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loganhoward111

Anyway, number one, um if you had an office mascot for your work, what would it be?

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BrendanThomasMarrett

A chipmunk.

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loganhoward111

A chipmunk.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Because they're cute.

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loganhoward111

Mike? And everybody at your work is cute?

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BrendanThomasMarrett

No, but I want something cute to look at while I work.

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loganhoward111

right

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loganhoward111

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BrendanThomasMarrett

No offense to any colleagues who haven't watched this, okay?

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loganhoward111

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BrendanThomasMarrett

I always know if I mean what I say, but once I've released the Earth, I ain't taking it back.

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loganhoward111

I mean ours ours already has a knight so I guess I can't really change that but

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Mmm.

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loganhoward111

I think if we had to pick a mascot for our our podcast, some people might say it would be the Thor hammer, or some people might say a mic or something like that.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

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loganhoward111

um I don't know. I feel like it could be just Donald Trump's face.

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loganhoward111

There we go. That could work.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

I thought you'd squeak when I did that, nevermind.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Let's turn on the volume and go, that's two euro I've ever spent.

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loganhoward111

And let me be honest, um, Brendan is probably the most American Irish person I've ever met.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Love that.

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loganhoward111

I haven't met any very, very many Irish people, but he is very American pro America.

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loganhoward111

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BrendanThomasMarrett

like, you know, 15 euros short of just sticking up another flag behind me, you know?

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loganhoward111

Yeah, he

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BrendanThomasMarrett

make irishman

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loganhoward111

he's more american than some of the americans that actually live here so you know all those people who want to burn the flag yeah yeah he's more american than them um all right so if we were um a bunch of so far our if our podcast or our or just both of us um were characters in a cartoon what wacky adventures would we embark on during our days if we had to like create a cartoon of us

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Can we ditch that being a hypothetical and just give that a try?

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loganhoward111

We shouldn't, yeah. We're already good at writing stories, so we could write some really well. like you Yes.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Maybe for 150th episode, we'll just like, and then make it go, you know, and an animated one.

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loganhoward111

I'm just going to make a note of that while I'm talking.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

I do.

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loganhoward111

yeah

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Because I'm like, Ew, I never actually listened back to these. i Once they're recorded, I like genuinely don't listen back to them at all. I keep meaning to, you never do. So yeah, I think all these wonderful ideas we have, they just totally get lost in the ether.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Ooh, I think my character would look like a bunny rabbit, and I think yours would look like, I don't know, a mobile-faced dog, maybe like a polar bear or something.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

And we just have the most wonderful adventures. But we'd have two arch nemeses, not dissimilar to Pinky and the Brain. What are we gonna do tonight, Pinky? The same thing we do every night, Brain. Try and take over the world! I think... And they could be our sisters. No, I take that back.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

um Um... They could look like Nancy Pelosi. On your end. And... I don't know, maybe one of my really, really bad politicians as well.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Game and writing, the green and agenda guy in Ireland. Yeah. And yeah, we just go around like, you know, you know, our little beep, beep. And it'd just be, I'd be iconic.

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loganhoward111

Yes.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

And we'd be doing our, you know, mountainsides and there'd be lots of anachronistic encounters we have with, you know, famous people past and present, and they tell us how amazing we were, and we'd high five them, and we'd just make people happy. Unintentionally stopping the end of the world in every episode.

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loganhoward111

i I would be excited for the third season, because then the third season, we would ah we would start doing some of the weird stuff where you go into other like dimensions or whatever. And then we could go into like your books, and we could go into like the color the color like universe or whatever, and just have like an adventure in the color universe, which would be pretty wild.

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loganhoward111

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BrendanThomasMarrett

ah yeah

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loganhoward111

That would be fun. And then your ghost, your ghost, the unsaid book, we could go into all the different stuff, run into the characters, but run into Benjamin.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

but i

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loganhoward111

so That would be a lot of fun.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

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loganhoward111

Yeah. I don't know. I think it would be, I think for me on my end, I'm just thinking we just make cartoon versions of ourselves and we would just have these adventures of, um,

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Oh, yeah,

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loganhoward111

We'd have like ah and an episode of we'd have more spiritual one like Buffy the and Vampire Slayer just in cartoon kind of spiritual stuff.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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loganhoward111

Most of the episodes would be us trying to solve spiritual mysteries.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

and yeah

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loganhoward111

um And we could have like why like people who claimed to have, um you know, like Samson's hairbrush or something like that.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

you

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loganhoward111

And we've got to go and find Samson. but

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BrendanThomasMarrett

It's like I can confirm this is his dandruff.

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loganhoward111

yeah

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BrendanThomasMarrett

I had this fucking dandruff problem, you think about it?

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loganhoward111

Yes, um, but yes, that would be a lot of fun

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BrendanThomasMarrett

God love him. And then after, you know, that series finally gets cancelled because we've offended too many politicians and they've gotten us taken off Gable TV. Then we could like revamp and have like, you know, a superhero TV show, which would be slightly more serious, but still really, really great.

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loganhoward111

yes and then we'd keep running into all these superheroes that would claim to be good, but they're all just politicians and they're terrible

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BrendanThomasMarrett

That's it. Fucking people. Your name is spelled backwards. And we would we wouldn't know until like you know they're wearing a name tag, and then so we see them standing in front of a mirror, and we'd be like, hu oh my

Teaching Job Swap Chaos

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BrendanThomasMarrett

goodness, I know who that is now. And we'd have to like and know drop them off in like a pyramid-shaped glass prison in the Bermuda Triangle.

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loganhoward111

Yep.

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loganhoward111

All right. Describe a day and for both of us if we swapped places like we both taught at the opposite place.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

OK.

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loganhoward111

wait and What chaos do you think wouldn't sue?

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BrendanThomasMarrett

um Well, I think you would be asked, teacher, traditional, explain for me. And you would not have a bold notion what was being asked of you whatsoever. And then you would probably do what most Ethel teachers do at the start and be like, you know, that is a wonderful question, students, you know. It just requires a very long explanation.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

and I don't want to confuse the others. So I'm going to talk to you individually after the break, okay? Okay. And then you'd probably spend your 15-minute break Googling-ish.

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loganhoward111

I actually did that the other day.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

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loganhoward111

I'm not going to tell it tell what I actually did it for because then someone will listen to this and they'll know what I did.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

well

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BrendanThomasMarrett

is Jesus, I'm a sight. Yes. Oh, that's good to know. okay

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loganhoward111

Got it.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

You know what? Think of that episode of The Simpsons where Bart steals all the teachers' answer keys and then none of them know how to do the jobs.

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loganhoward111

Yep.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

That is based on my profession.

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loganhoward111

Yep.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

No answer key. No learning. um And yeah, Jeepers, if I were to be teaching your itsy bitsy tiny humans mathematics, um I think I would probably do something really generic like...

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Okay, here we have... one pin, and we have another and and another and pin.

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loganhoward111

Bye!

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Okay, how many pins is that? Teacher, we're supposed to learn the algebra. I said how many pins are there. And here we go, five pins. And I say, you know what?

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BrendanThomasMarrett

You have done such a wonderful job. I don't think we need to look at any more mathematics today. Let's do a play with Plato and use our imaginations." And then they would learn nothing, and then they would all complain about that evil substitute Irish teacher. But because the question was that I would own there for a day, my nose is gonna off my nose. That's what I get.

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loganhoward111

um yeah i think uh i think i think on my end you might what the chaos that could ensue is you might you might um maybe verbally tear down a poor student i

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BrendanThomasMarrett

that problem

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loganhoward111

can just imagine i could just imagine this kid just looking up in the like just some some kid just being distracted and you'd be like

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BrendanThomasMarrett

um desertd um

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loganhoward111

Look at me right now. I'm teaching. Smacking.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

That was me the year I began teaching.

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loganhoward111

Yeah.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Now I am actually so beyond caring, it's not even funny.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Now if you start straight out of the room, i like I don't even know your name.

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loganhoward111

Yeah.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

I can't.

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loganhoward111

Yeah. And me, I would just walk in and they'd ask me things and I just go, I don't know. We'll figure it out.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

should

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loganhoward111

We're learning together. Let's go. We're learning together.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

screw like Let's look at the answer key to get all projector on the screen yeah But English is you don't know until you actually study it um Like I remember the day of my interview for this job.

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loganhoward111

Yeah. I don't know what what English is. I don't know how to speak.

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loganhoward111

Yeah.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

but I was asked this is several years ago I was asked if a pre-intermediate, didn't know what that was, if a pre-intermediate student asked you, Brendan, to describe the zero conditional, first conditional, second conditional, what would you tell them? My exact answer and my quote was,

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BrendanThomasMarrett

I would not explain them. I would give them a reasoning activity which included the language point.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

and then I would give them a listening activity so that they could further get used to the language point. And then I would go to the board and I would write on the board zero conditional and the formula. And I would write examples of the formula in the positive. And I would write examples of the formula In the negative, I would then give them an example of the formula for a yes-no question. And then I would give examples on the board of questions for detail using the formula. And I said that for literally zero conditional first condition and second. Took me 15 minutes to get out of my mouth. Never said what the formula was.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

I just kept repeating the formula. And at the end, the interviewer was like, you really fluffed your way through that one. But they were so short-staffed that I got the job.

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loganhoward111

i field up

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BrendanThomasMarrett

And I still didn't know what those conditions were of the first four years of teaching.

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loganhoward111

as this as they're going as this As the thing says, if you can't describe a dog, you tie that dog to a tree and then you describe the tree.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

The tree. Using the formula.

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loganhoward111

Oh yeah, obviously.

00:22:35

BrendanThomasMarrett

Of course.

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loganhoward111

All right, next one. Describe the funniest email mishap or autocorrect fail that you've witnessed at your workplace.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

a I wore nothing really funny, but when I was applying um for the course to get on, to get this kind teaching job, um I saw that the name of the person running the course was Morgan.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

so I don't condone witchcraft, people. That was a long time ago. Don't let them bite me. But in the 1990s and early 90s, Sabrina, the teenage witch, was on TV five days a week, okay?

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Not the Netflix one with the kooky-spooky, ultra-Satan statues and all that crack.

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loganhoward111

Oh. No.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Just the original with Melissa Hastings or Harsh, whatever her name is, Harsh. So um I... Or that the fat woman.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Whatever her name was. She was blonde. a so So she had a couple of seasons living at home with her aunts and then she went to college and her husband was called Morgan.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

So I said, okay, Morgan's a woman. So I thought it was a little bit cheeky to just reply to someone I've never met before as, you know, Ms. Cox, because the surname was C-U-X.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Or sorry, I would be cheeky to say Morgan to talk directly.

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loganhoward111

Yeah.

00:24:03

BrendanThomasMarrett

So I sent the email back to Ms. Cox. Um, and then I got an email back like two seconds later saying, hi, Brandon, just you don't get to shock your life when you meet. I'm a man.

00:24:19

BrendanThomasMarrett

said And then the very next thing I thought of was Morgan Freeman. and The name can be for a man or a woman, but Serena's house made for the first thing that was in my head. And I was like, it's obviously a Sheila, but there you go. It was not a Sheila.

00:24:36

BrendanThomasMarrett

The surname was a prophetic. There you go.

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loganhoward111

um I don't know. For the most part, I don't think I've seen anything insane emailing or anything like that. Most of them that happen for my end is I just forget to attach what I need.

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loganhoward111

like ah They're like, oh, send this over.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

yeah

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loganhoward111

And I'm like, OK, here you go. And then they're like, where's the attachment?

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BrendanThomasMarrett

yeah

00:25:03

loganhoward111

And I'm like, oh yes! Let me send you another email with the deck.

00:25:07

BrendanThomasMarrett

Did you get it? How strange. I definitely meant it.

00:25:12

loganhoward111

Oh, I feel like I did that one time sending you one of the episodes. I sent you the the email and you were like, where's the episode?

00:25:19

BrendanThomasMarrett

I wasn't

00:25:22

loganhoward111

And like, oh, you're lying.

00:25:23

BrendanThomasMarrett

going to shame you but that was great.

00:25:27

BrendanThomasMarrett

That was the sign you did it correctly.

00:25:29

loganhoward111

Yeah.

00:25:29

BrendanThomasMarrett

Credit worker too.

00:25:30

loganhoward111

90, 95%, yeah. Alright, if each of us were a character in a mockumentary, what would our ex exactgger exaggerated workplace personas be like?

00:25:44

BrendanThomasMarrett

Oh, I think, you know, I'd kind of like to go, like well, use like the office as an example.

00:25:51

loganhoward111

yeah

00:25:52

BrendanThomasMarrett

um One, I think maybe I would kind of like to say Michael Scosh, because he's obviously the first person everything's of, but I actually think I would be like Jim Halpert because I just don't care. You know the way like he, John Krasinski, okay, he's great, but he doesn't actually act in the office.

00:26:08

BrendanThomasMarrett

He just sits in his chair and looks the camera.

00:26:10

loganhoward111

Yeah.

00:26:11

BrendanThomasMarrett

That is the definition of me at work.

00:26:15

BrendanThomasMarrett

I just sit there. She is your juicy courage. Explain.

00:26:24

BrendanThomasMarrett

I'll explain 90 minutes after the break. Work with your partner for now.

00:26:32

BrendanThomasMarrett

I'll just put the answer key in the projector. That is me. I just have lost all drive, all address, all care. yeah This ship has just run dry.

00:26:40

loganhoward111

00:26:43

BrendanThomasMarrett

What about you?

00:26:45

loganhoward111

Hmm I Would be like the new guy that just got hired at this place and so my character would just just be the new guy and so he like

00:27:00

BrendanThomasMarrett

You have to call me a photocopier.

00:27:02

loganhoward111

He's like has absolutely no idea how to do anything. Has no idea that you could like microwave stuff or you could do any of that. All that he's just doing is just like trying to figure everything out as quickly as possible.

00:27:11

BrendanThomasMarrett

I need

00:27:16

loganhoward111

And then sometimes he's

00:27:16

BrendanThomasMarrett

a couple to try to make up a coffee.

00:27:20

loganhoward111

supposed to ask the most simplest questions and everyone's just like, why is he asking this question? Like he should know.

00:27:25

BrendanThomasMarrett

Mm-hmm.

00:27:26

loganhoward111

But he doesn't know because he's not been here.

00:27:31

loganhoward111

Yeah, that's where we're at.

00:27:34

BrendanThomasMarrett

that's higher That's fair.

00:27:35

loganhoward111

ah all right If you could introduce ah the funniest blooper award um on our podcast, what who would be the reigning champion?

00:27:42

BrendanThomasMarrett

That's fair.

00:27:47

loganhoward111

Who would be the funniest? Who would who have made the funniest blooper?

00:27:51

BrendanThomasMarrett

Oh.

00:27:56

loganhoward111

I'll let you think about it because I have my answer. It's me.

00:27:58

BrendanThomasMarrett

Because for the YouTube ones, I actually think I may have done us a disservice because I used to actually cut out all of those because like I kind of thought, oh no, that took some professional.

00:28:10

BrendanThomasMarrett

Whereas nowadays, I would just leave them in because I just assume people would laugh.

00:28:14

loganhoward111

Yeah.

00:28:14

BrendanThomasMarrett

um So I suppose I went in such a rampage deleting them back then, I don't even know which funny ones we've left in. Because like I said, I don't even rewatch these.

00:28:23

loganhoward111

yeah He doesn't care.

00:28:25

BrendanThomasMarrett

Not to this way or discourage any of our audience from listening in.

00:28:30

BrendanThomasMarrett

ah Ooh. You give me your answer and I'll see if it draws my memory.

00:28:35

loganhoward111

Um, so I think it's me because literally the first ever episode I completely mispronounced your name and was like I went it was strong and wrong like I was strong I would went in it and I was like, this is it and The whole time all I see on my screen because normally right now I can see your full name And so I would you know, at least give it a better attempt back then.

00:28:42

BrendanThomasMarrett

00:28:46

BrendanThomasMarrett

you

00:28:51

BrendanThomasMarrett

brendan

00:28:59

loganhoward111

It was just your first name And so I was like it's brendan merriment I just went strong into it the whole time thinking that was it, because I had no way of seeing what it actually was.

00:29:12

loganhoward111

And I think even on like um your character profile, it has it, but like it's Brendan like the first part.

00:29:12

BrendanThomasMarrett

Yeah. Yeah.

00:29:19

loganhoward111

So all of my interaction with you was just it was Brendan. So this I just knew Brendan. I was never tied the two together.

00:29:24

BrendanThomasMarrett

yeah

00:29:27

loganhoward111

And it was, it was yeah, it was a rough moment right off the bat.

00:29:31

BrendanThomasMarrett

You know I actually think that is the answer because of all the mistakes you ever made, all the bloopers, that is the one we've definitely cited the most.

00:29:40

loganhoward111

Mm-hmm.

00:29:41

BrendanThomasMarrett

even on the you know on the channel, so yeah, that is the answer.

00:29:41

loganhoward111

Yep.

00:29:45

loganhoward111

Yep.

00:29:45

BrendanThomasMarrett

Yeah.

00:29:48

BrendanThomasMarrett

Yeah, it's well chosen.

00:29:48

loganhoward111

All right. Share a story about a colleague or your student's most memorable excuse for being late or not turning something in.

Classic 'Dog Ate My Homework' Tale

00:29:59

BrendanThomasMarrett

I've literally had students tell me that dogs had eaten in their homework.

00:30:02

loganhoward111

I had one this week.

00:30:04

BrendanThomasMarrett

I was like, okay. You're an add adult. If you don't do it, what am I gonna do?

00:30:11

loganhoward111

yeah

00:30:12

BrendanThomasMarrett

You're around and the children spank you? I'm like, do I look like I care? and Do it. Don't do it.

00:30:18

loganhoward111

yeah

00:30:18

BrendanThomasMarrett

See if I care. I just have to put something in the lesson log. I'm not going to drag you by the way.

00:30:22

loganhoward111

it zero

00:30:25

loganhoward111

Yeah Well see here's here's the difference you don't have to deal with angry parents because they're just adults like you They should know better and it's up to them. No, I have to deal with parents who might go price touch cut i share home

00:30:42

BrendanThomasMarrett

yeah

00:30:43

loganhoward111

This is fear that's just hanging over me I could drop any bullet.

00:30:46

BrendanThomasMarrett

yeah that's

00:30:49

loganhoward111

Yeah. Yeah the dog eating the homework. That's just Yeah, I live Yeah, oh Brother All right.

00:30:55

BrendanThomasMarrett

I'm pretty sure you can't have pets in your accommodation with 12 other brazilians. hello well

00:31:06

loganhoward111

I'm gonna skip one here if you

00:31:10

BrendanThomasMarrett

You won't skip the juiciest ones. I need to know which one you're skipping. Hang on.

00:31:12

loganhoward111

Okay. ah All right. Let's let's try. We'll just let'll just keep going. We got time. Let's do them all. If you could create a new office holiday, what would it be called and how would it be celebrated?

00:31:23

BrendanThomasMarrett

Oh, that wasn't all that interesting. A holiday. Oh.

00:31:28

loganhoward111

Just a new day off of work or not.

00:31:31

BrendanThomasMarrett

I think I would call it the first

00:31:41

BrendanThomasMarrett

Uh, the first day off, it's a long title. The first day off in our new tradition of having one day off every month. It's a long title.

00:31:53

BrendanThomasMarrett

It's a working title. I might edit it later on. But when you establish that there is a first day off and that there will be a day off every single month, well, one has to assume that we'll be seen through.

00:32:05

loganhoward111

Yep.

00:32:07

BrendanThomasMarrett

So therefore, you're only getting one day off. You are actually rigging it so that you get 12 days off.

00:32:13

loganhoward111

The first monthly day off. but

00:32:16

BrendanThomasMarrett

That is a short writing.

00:32:17

loganhoward111

but Yep.

00:32:20

BrendanThomasMarrett

I told you it could do it some editing.

00:32:23

loganhoward111

Um, I think it'd be fun to have a, uh, a certain person appreciation day. So like a Logan appreciation day, a Brendan appreciation day where the whole, what was that?

00:32:34

BrendanThomasMarrett

And who do I hear about after the two of us? I would appreciate myself. I would even stretch myself to appreciate you. After that, who do I want to celebrate? Exactly.

00:32:48

loganhoward111

I think I think it'd be just just it you pick one person and that's the only appreciation day that you get.

00:32:50

BrendanThomasMarrett

optional attendance mandatory

00:32:57

loganhoward111

So if it's the person who you just has has ah a character that they are very like, you know, some people might say they're egotistical that they're the people who you appreciate that day.

00:33:12

BrendanThomasMarrett

That's not happening.

00:33:16

BrendanThomasMarrett

I say lash me not be.

00:33:16

loganhoward111

ah what

00:33:20

loganhoward111

worth a shot. um

00:33:24

BrendanThomasMarrett

I do not abide.

00:33:27

loganhoward111

If your work email had an off out of office reply

Brutally Honest Out-of-Office Email Suggestion

00:33:31

loganhoward111

that was completely honest, what would it say?

00:33:34

BrendanThomasMarrett

I don't care. Stop. I don't read them. They go in my Google bin.

00:33:45

BrendanThomasMarrett

One day my boss asked me, and she was like, Brandon, do you have the email I sent? Nope. She was like, I sent it five minutes to ago, so can you email there? So I went with the email. I was like, see, it hasn't come through. How strange. So she looked at her phone and she opened up her sent messages and she's like, see, but I definitely sent. And I was like, you know, sometimes there is a lag. Sometimes there is a delay. And then when she walked away, I opened up my bin and I moved it back into my inbox.

00:34:14

BrendanThomasMarrett

I didn't want her to know I'd automatically deleted it.

00:34:17

loganhoward111

00:34:21

loganhoward111

oh boy yeah i think mine would be something like um if it if this is outside of office hours or this is on a weekend

00:34:22

BrendanThomasMarrett

I just don't care. I don't care. Sue me. I've been in the workforce too long. My might um but but my emotional range is just because it's been drained. It's gone. What about you?

00:34:50

loganhoward111

You're not going to hear anything.

00:34:53

BrendanThomasMarrett

so Just give that the triangular or like brackets and just be like, you know, insert head shake.

00:34:59

loganhoward111

Nope. All right. What workplace rule would you impel implement if you were in charge for a day?

00:35:16

BrendanThomasMarrett

Let me see. Sometimes people talk about absolutely obscene stuff at work, both As no, when I'm not at work, I'm quite a big champion of free speech, so I don't know if I'd really impose like a keep certain topics of the tail work necessarily. Um, I would change the work hours. We have a 75 minute lunch break. I see absolutely no reason why it should be 75 and not 60. Um, because if it's 75 minutes, then I can know the first bus I could properly get would be half an hour later.

00:35:53

BrendanThomasMarrett

Um, if we finished 15 minutes earlier, we would finish at 4.30 and I'd be able to get a bus 20 minutes from then and arrive home an hour earlier.

00:35:55

loganhoward111

Thank you.

00:36:03

BrendanThomasMarrett

So I would change the days. I've already said it's management. I've said it's, and they're like, that's not happening. But I threw it out there. I thought it was a class idea.

00:36:15

loganhoward111

where's the shot um i'm gonna go something like well if i have one day i'm gonna change it so that i am the manager so that i would charge the rest of the way i know i know yeah no i i mine would just mine will probably be something along the lines of i would just send everyone home i just say oh everybody can go home for the day

00:36:17

BrendanThomasMarrett

We're just hitting them in.

00:36:27

BrendanThomasMarrett

Still needs the job. You still care. You still have all that energy and zeal.

00:36:35

BrendanThomasMarrett

da Love those days. Amazing.

00:36:45

loganhoward111

Go home early. Have a nice day.

00:36:47

BrendanThomasMarrett

Or, how about, don't come in tomorrow? Because if they've already come in, they've already spent time public transport. And I have to spend more time going home.

00:36:58

loganhoward111

Yeah.

00:36:59

BrendanThomasMarrett

Why not honor the time commitment by giving the next day off?

00:37:04

loganhoward111

That's fair. That's fair.

00:37:07

loganhoward111

All right. Last question. What is the funniest work related dream or nightmare that you've ever had?

00:37:16

BrendanThomasMarrett

o Ooh, funniest.

00:37:24

BrendanThomasMarrett

I once had a dream that I was like just sitting on the toilet grading test papers. Probably because the test papers were then going to be flushed down the toilet because they were crap. ah I woke up and thought that one was a bit mad.

00:37:42

loganhoward111

Yeah. like i yeah on I think mine is...

00:37:44

BrendanThomasMarrett

Yep.

00:37:51

loganhoward111

It has to do with... Like, I have this recurring nightmare that just keeps happening.

00:37:56

BrendanThomasMarrett

Yeah.

00:37:56

loganhoward111

So, my first job was I worked at a grocery store.

00:38:00

BrendanThomasMarrett

Yeah.

00:38:01

loganhoward111

And um we would always close at certain times. And one of the most terrifying things or frustrating things is when people would come in after we closed and they would say, well, I just need one more thing. And they would just like try and push the push their way in the door, go through the door.

00:38:18

loganhoward111

And so I have this recurring nightmare. Even when I have not worked at this store for probably four or five years now, I just have this recurring nightmare. It usually happens when I need to get up early or I'm stressed about something going on in my life. And I just have this nightmare where I'm back at the store.

00:38:36

loganhoward111

I'm closing the doors. I have to go out and get the carts and bring them in. And every time I go out and get carts, somebody sneaks in the store every single time. And there's like hundreds of carts outside and I'm just trying to get all the carts in so that I can go home and I can't get all the carts in. And it's just, it just keeps going and it's it's miserable.

00:38:59

BrendanThomasMarrett

Ouch.

00:38:59

loganhoward111

yeah

00:39:01

BrendanThomasMarrett

These are a dream youth, that dream in Jesus' name.

00:39:03

loganhoward111

Yeah, it's not,

00:39:05

BrendanThomasMarrett

Every one of the lovers.

00:39:06

loganhoward111

not ah not a restful sleep when that happens.

00:39:09

BrendanThomasMarrett

No, like, get behind me, Satan.

00:39:12

loganhoward111

Oh, man.

00:39:13

BrendanThomasMarrett

yeah

00:39:14

loganhoward111

so Well, anyway, if you have your work-related answers, we'd love to hear them. You can send them to FromDoubleToClevelandAtGmail.com. And, of course, you can always get ahold of us at BananaMan17 and Brendan Thomas Merritt on Instagram.

00:39:29

loganhoward111

All right, Brendan, turn it

Reflection on God's Love and Commitment

00:39:31

loganhoward111

over to you. from where Where are you bringing to us from the Word of God? What are you bringing to us? And what what can the people learn from what we're sharing today? So go ahead, Brendan, take it away.

00:39:42

BrendanThomasMarrett

Sure. So originally, friends, we're going to look at Song of Songs 4-2. Your teeth are like a flock of sheep just shorn, coming up from the washing. Each has its twin.

00:39:54

BrendanThomasMarrett

Not one of them is alone. But Logan thought that was too risque and inappropriate. So therefore, we're going to turn back a page and instead look at Song of Songs.

00:40:03

loganhoward111

Okay.

00:40:07

BrendanThomasMarrett

Ignore that face he just pulled. I don't tell Liz. and its I'm starting to look at Song of Songs 2.14.

00:40:18

BrendanThomasMarrett

My dove in the claps of the rock, in the hiding places is on the mountainside. Show me your face. Let me hear your voice, for your voice is sweet and your face is lovely. Song of Songs is a beautiful book between a husband and his wife, but it's also between um Jesus um and really enticing the nation of Israel um and in context to his love. And the wonderful thing that I like there is the reference to a dove. Because doves are birds that mate for a life. When one dove chooses mates, partner, so lifelong it keeps an eye on that mate.

00:41:10

BrendanThomasMarrett

It doesn't. It's not like a little Randy Scallywag, like dolphins. I once saw dolphins winning adultery on the nature show. if That wasn't very, very nice. It's not that way with doves. With a dove, there's that commitment. One might say a covenant. um You know, it picks one, chooses one, loves one, doesn't let them go. I think that's really, really beautiful. Intentionally, chosen picture by Jesus.

00:41:40

BrendanThomasMarrett

Yes, for Israel in that context, but also for us, that's his body. When he sets his sights on you, in the eyes of the Lord, Rome, or in the world, looking for the righteous, he looks at you. He sees you. He loves you. He adores you. He sings songs of love over you. He's devoted to you. You're like a diadem in his hand, like a piece of gold that he traded himself for.

00:42:10

BrendanThomasMarrett

To buy, you're a treasure in his eyes. He loves you completely, even if you're in the crags. Even if you're in a rocky season, on a rocky mountain, in inhospitable terrain and harsh environments, his eye is always on you. And he is always ever working things together for your good. Amen.

00:42:33

loganhoward111

Amen. Well, all I can say is it's a good thing we're not Jewish, because if we were Jewish, we would not have been able to read what we just read.

00:42:45

loganhoward111

I can say, if you weren't married, you couldn't read it.

00:42:46

BrendanThomasMarrett

For two, y'all need not be a teen yet.

00:42:50

loganhoward111

but

00:42:53

loganhoward111

It's too inappropriate.

00:42:56

loganhoward111

but Oh, well. Anyway, thank you, Brendan, for sharing and reminding us of God's love and how much he loves us, because he does. um And it's just a picture of that. And yeah, he loves us so much. And it's we don't always fully understand it. We don't always fully see it all the time, because we think that maybe he's far away. But he's always with us. He does love us. he's If you just think back to all the times and things that he's done for you specifically,

00:43:26

loganhoward111

and the things he's done for pet his people and the things that he's loved for each and every one of them. yeah we we could We would drain the ocean dry if we tried to count every single drop. we would we wouldn't like All of the ocean would not be able to fill it up if we counted all of the blessings and all the things he's done for us. So he loves you, love him with all your heart, love him with all your life, sacrifice those things that are wrong or sinful or holding you back from fully loving him as you should. So do that today, spend time doing that.

00:43:59

loganhoward111

Brandon, would you pray us out as we head on for the rest of our week?

00:44:03

BrendanThomasMarrett

And

Closing Prayer and Blessings

00:44:04

BrendanThomasMarrett

by the God, I think if you love thank you I thank you because you are love and that we are recipients of your love. Unnarrated grace, favor we don't deserve, that we could never work for, never win, never earn, never attain by human attempts. But it's a free gift.

00:44:31

BrendanThomasMarrett

One you give freely, one that you delight in giving and one that you best demonstrated by the finished work of the cross of Jesus. The blood you poured out to wash us clean and the empty grave and the fresh life that you walked out in from that grave that you now give to us and our spirits, our souls and ultimately our bodies. We thank you for your love. We thank you that you see us as worthy of that love.

00:45:03

BrendanThomasMarrett

And if anyone on this sound of my voice is struggling in that area, they don't think they're worthy of your love. Because of anything they've thought, said, or done. Or anything that they've heard. From demons, humans, social media bots, whatever it is.

00:45:28

BrendanThomasMarrett

Jesus, pour your liquid love out in those people. Give them a fresh understanding of the absolute goodness of God, your incomparable love, and the reality that as numerous as the sand is on the seashore, so numerous are your thoughts for us. In Jesus' name. Amen. and men Amen. Amen.

00:45:52

loganhoward111

Amen, amen. Well, next time friends you will hear of Brendan's adventures and how that that goes on, but as this episode is going out he's probably on his way and he's traveling so be praying for him as he travels um and he will need it and God's going to do some awesome things so be praying that God will do those awesome things and Brendan will have good opportunities um and that the devil or the demons won't get in his way that he'll be able to succeed through

00:46:06

BrendanThomasMarrett

00:46:20

loganhoward111

is through the Lord and through His Spirit. So be praying for Him. We will see you all next time. Thank you so much for listening. Goodbye friends.

00:46:30

BrendanThomasMarrett

Ciao! Sláinte!