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Hot Topics Part 5

From Dublin to Cleveland

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Introduction and Weekend Recap

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loganhoward111

Hello and welcome to From Dublin to Cleveland. I am Logan Howard, and I am joined with the host with the most, Brendan Thomas Merritt. How's it going, Brendan? How are you today?

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Life is great, always great. And yourself?

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loganhoward111

I am doing well, survives the weekend, and we are on to another week serving the Lord and getting ready for being a teacher. So today,

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BrendanThomasMarrett

What do you mean you survived the weekend, Logan?

Deer Incident with Camaro

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BrendanThomasMarrett

That almost makes it sound like you're in a life and death situation. Whatever could you be implying?

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loganhoward111

ah Well, ae I hit a deer at 70 miles per hour or in kilometers per hour, it is 112, I think was the number.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

It's a snowing weekend.

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loganhoward111

yeah um So for those of you who are not from the States, you have an idea of how fast I was going.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

yeah

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loganhoward111

a deer in my beautiful blue Camaro and ah thankfully it was just right on the left front of the car and it bounced off and no terrible damage was done to the car and I didn't die but if it had gone any farther across it probably would have been launched up into me and let's just say 70 mile an hour things and a deer bad combo.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

All right, good.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

There were casualties.

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loganhoward111

More casualties. Yes.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Not just the car.

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loganhoward111

So God still has a plan for me. So, you know, I'm still here it He doesn't have a plan for the deer that's for sure.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Not the beer.

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loganhoward111

Yeah.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Did you at least eat us?

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loganhoward111

Oh Did I at least eat it no I just kept going down the road

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Probably for ticks anyway.

Hot Seat Questions Introduction

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loganhoward111

Anyways, ah so what we're doing today is we are going to be back with our hot seat questions So if you've seen the title you've seen we've we're back with hot set questions I don't know if it's number six or number seven or maybe number five. I have no idea anymore. I No, the title will note will have it correct but me currently sitting here right now recording this, no idea.

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loganhoward111

um Anyway, but so we're going to have hot seat questions. Brendan and I will go back and forth answering these questions so you get to know more about us. We've had a pretty decent uptick of people listening and so listening to this new episode, you'll get a good idea of kind of who we are and our humor and

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Aww.

Celebrity Assistants Discussion

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loganhoward111

that kind of stuff.

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loganhoward111

so Let's get into it. um Question number one, if you could have any celebrity be your personal assistant for one day, who would it be and what ridiculous task would you assign them?

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Mark Ruffalo. think The incredible Hulk. I just think he is one of the single most repugnant celebrities in the world with the degree to which he absolutely despises genuine Marvel fans and anyone who is like ah left of Joe Biden.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

or inside to the right of Joe Biden so I just said you know what I would make him my PA and I would make him post all my white hot anti-socialist memes for a day.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

He would be spitting feathers and I'd be like paycheck do it for the paycheck if you're starting She-Hulk you can do this Mark that's that's my answer Mark Ruffalo and if he was available the guy who

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loganhoward111

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Play Luke Skywalker, um, both his face. Mark Hamill.

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loganhoward111

Mark Hamill, same reasons.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Yeah. Same reasons.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

What about you?

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loganhoward111

um So, I told you i told you adam sam Adam Sandler for the laughs because you know as most people know, if you've gone back and listened to things, I hate the man.

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loganhoward111

He's just as annoying and his movies are all the same. But anyway, I don't don't hate him. you know Come to the Lord except for Christ your Savior but you know also stop being annoying.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

I'm... Professor Eggman.

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loganhoward111

um I also came up with maybe Steve Carell because that would be pretty funny, but ah you know him talking about Mark Ruffalo, that made me reminded me of ah Robert Downey Jr.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Hmm.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Hmm.

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loganhoward111

and he is comical in almost any role he plays and he's enjoyable to to watch. He's a good actor. ah probably just having him around and just doing random menial tasks and him getting angry or frustrated at those tasks or pretending that he Sherlock Holmes the whole time and he's just trying to like solve the most rudimentary thing like doing the dishes would be absolutely hilarious to watch. um i would I would have a good time with that.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Do you have to dress up in blackface like you did in that movie that one time?

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loganhoward111

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loganhoward111

not Let's just say no, you know, before I get cancelled.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

If you're not willing, the rest of being cancelled is not worth doing.

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loganhoward111

wait Good old kar Christian Karen will come after me.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

You guys think they do exist, so I've met them.

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loganhoward111

ah They do exist,

Nicknames and Stories

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loganhoward111

yeah. yeah um Anyway, what's the silliest nickname that you have ever been given and how did you earn it?

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Oh, silliest. I don't know if this is silly per se, but it might sound a little silly. I was called Silent Bob in secondary school. And I'm primary school too. But it's literally because I i was so emotionally traumatized that I was afraid to speak. So I just like never opened my mouth around people, especially inside the school building. So yeah, people just call me Silent Bob.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

It was better than anything else that they called me, which I can just repeat on a Christian channel.

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loganhoward111

well ah So I think the one I'm going to go with, because I've had a lot of silly nicknames, but the thing I'm going to go with is at ah at my grocery store I worked at, every time Christmas would come around, um we would play these like horrid Christmas music.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

You know, because my tongue can't bless on curse at the same time. What about yourself?

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loganhoward111

And we would have these like little bell ringers that would come and ring the bells. And I have talked at length on this podcast about

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Yes.

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loganhoward111

the frustration with both of these things. um So I would just like be in a rotten mood every time I'd come to work, because I'd just walk in and there'd just be bell ringers and there'd be ah this terrible like music going on, like the dogs barking jingle bells.

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loganhoward111

And I'd just be like, I'm going to murder somebody.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

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loganhoward111

And I'd just be in this terrible mood. And my coworkers, they would catch on that I'd have this terrible mood. And they would ask me, why why am I in such a bad mood? And I'd say, You know, I just hate this music and I hate this this bell ringing.

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loganhoward111

And they're like, well, you're just being just being a Father Christmas. You just hate Christmas. You just stop being a Father Christmas. And so they would just call me Father Christmas for the whole season of Christmas because I was just hating on Christmas.

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loganhoward111

And rather than scrooge, you know, now i could ah all of those things.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Rather than calling you the Grins.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

hey

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loganhoward111

But yeah, Father Christmas.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

ah Fair enough.

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loganhoward111

but

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Tweets thrown.

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loganhoward111

but

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Maybe it's an American thing.

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loganhoward111

Yep, sarcasm, I don't know.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

What is this sarcasm?

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loganhoward111

I'm not good with sarcasm. If it was sarcasm, I'm not good with it. like

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Either that or they were just like, you know, religiously illiterate and didn't even know what they were saying.

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loganhoward111

Oh. All right, so share the most embarrassing moment from your childhood that still makes you laugh today.

Childhood Embarrassing Stories

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BrendanThomasMarrett

when I first tried to be a playground pastor.

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loganhoward111

A playground monster.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

as I had just watched a 1970s trilogy on the Rapture. I remember the first movie was about a lady called Patty. and she woke up and her father's razor in the sink and her mother's coffee cup was still warm and she realized that billions of people had disappeared all around the earth and the antichrist rose to power and mi yada yada yada and they were all hunting the new believers um and i was like oh my goodness this is like properly terrifying stuff and then at the end of it she woke up in her bed and you're like oh my goodness was all a dream

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BrendanThomasMarrett

but she walked into the bathroom and her father's razor was in sync and her mother's coffee cup was still warm and you're like oh no it's happened she missed the rapture and then the second dream she's one of the new christians who's hiding from the one world government and in the end they capture her and they put her in a guillotine and just before her head gets chopped off she screams i'll take the mark and you're like oh no patty no no no and there's another movie but she's not in because she's dead And I was like, oh my goodness, this is going to happen in the future. This is cray cray. And my dad said, yeah, that story is the book of Revelation. I flipped through every page of Revelation. I could not find the name Patty.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

I thought she was like a literal woman in the Bible. And and then I went to school the next day. And I told all my classmates that a day was coming in which Jesus Christ was going to appear in the clouds, um, in the blink of an eye. I was like, blink, blink, blink from everywhere, blink, ha, too slow. He'll be faster than that. And I said, and he's going to take me to heaven because I'm a Christian. You're all Catholics, but I'm a Christian. And I went to Catholic schools. Well, oh, Catholics listening. Don't get offended with your panties of twist. This is just what I said.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

And I said, and I'm gonna get called to heaven and all of you, 12 to 6 and 7 year olds, are gonna get left behind. ten and And I said, and then there'll be a seven year period called the Great Tribulation. The first three and a half years leave very peaceful, there'll be world peace. But it's a fake peace, don't believe in it.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

and And I said, and then this will be a man and people are going to think that he's Jesus and the Messiah, but he's actually the antichrist. And the second three and a half years, he's going to cut your head off in a guillotine. Let him, and then you'll be in heaven where I am and you can be with me forever. And yeah, I need to say they absolutely hated me. I just went downhill from there. But that was the first ever sermon that I preached.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

had nothing to do with the cross, the blood of the empty grave, nothing to do with Jesus, it was all about me. I was their savior and they just didn't like it.

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loganhoward111

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BrendanThomasMarrett

I don't know why. Personally, I look back, I think it was lit. A man before my time.

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loganhoward111

Yeah, yeah. um So for me, there's... ah So my dad used to play in this um this ah basketball league and he would um ah He would play and I would sit on the sidelines and I'd keep score. or I'd watch whatever and so we'd go and it'd be like this like church league or whatever and so there was another another dad and his kids that would come to play with us and so we would hang out and they were they were good kids, but um they liked to basically

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loganhoward111

mess with each other because they were brothers, so they would like to pull the, like if they were wearing sweatpants and they had shorts on underneath, they would pull the sweatpants down. They would pants them, you know, and be like, hu very funny.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Has to be done.

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loganhoward111

um And I was like adamant. I am not participating in this. Like, don't do this to me. I don't appreciate it. I don't want it. Stay away. So, they would like joke that they were going to do it to me. um And so, one day, the one kid who is like the super antagonistic about this and he would do this very often.

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loganhoward111

I saw an opportunity because again, I had not participated and I was a goody two shoes kid and I would not, you know, I would not mess with other people, but he turned his back to me and I was like, that's a mistake I need to make.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Yeah, you should've known better.

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loganhoward111

but

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loganhoward111

I run up to him and I get a whole fist full of his sweatpants. Unbeknownst to me, I had also grabbed his shorts and his his underwear, the thing all the way underneath.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Why go for one when you go for all?

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loganhoward111

I pulled everything down. I pulled the house down.

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loganhoward111

Everyone was shocked and stunned.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

in more ways than one, I'm sure, yeah?

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loganhoward111

ah I was just like, oh my God, what have I just done? but So the poor kid was absolutely embarrassed in front of everything.

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loganhoward111

It was all my fault.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

and like

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loganhoward111

I totally did it. but So I mean, he learned a lesson. First of all, don't trust me. And second of all, um don't turn your back to me. And then um nobody was pantsed ever again after that, that straw.

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loganhoward111

Nobody was allowed to do it again. That ruined it for everyone.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Oh yeah, you took it too far. You gonna take in the inch? You chose to take the mill.

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loganhoward111

Oh, man. Yeah.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

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loganhoward111

Yeah, that was funny.

Revealing Bizarre Talents

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loganhoward111

um Anyway, but next question.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

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loganhoward111

Share a funny or bizarre talent that you possess that not many people know about?

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BrendanThomasMarrett

The ability to lie really really well.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

But I only use it for the forces of good.

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loganhoward111

right right like right

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Don't exactly call me like, you know, does this mean that we can increase evil to increase good? Absolutely not. I only use it for for good. and i I might take someone away on their birthday and be like, I'm so sorry, but everyone else had plans on the old forgot or they couldn't make it or I told them and then they told them um to come and make the person feel really, really bad on their birthday.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

And then I'd create this like elaborate ruse as to why we have to like take a detour on their birthday. And I'd be like, I know this is not what you planned. And yada, yada, yada. Just make them feel absolutely terrible. And then be like, you know, for brave. And then there's like a big birthday party. And and there had been all alone. But yeah, I can be very, very convincing.

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loganhoward111

Nice. um I feel like mine is just is's just my finger that bends in a really weird way.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Put it away from the screen please.

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loganhoward111

like yeah

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Goodness thanks.

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loganhoward111

It's not the middle finger, it's just the like ring finger.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

What's wrong with you?

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loganhoward111

It just...

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loganhoward111

And every time I do it, everybody just like either has a volatile reaction or they're like, oh, do it again.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

still I don't think Anna's ever said do that again.

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loganhoward111

Oh, they have, they have, yeah. So yeah, that's that's a bizarre weird talent. and Yeah, I guess, I don't know. I don't feel like I have any other kinds of weird talents like that.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

That's like your party piece when the party's pretty much wrapping up and you want people to leave. It's like, okay, let's see. And then they all just get up and go.

Unusual Closet Items

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loganhoward111

Yeah, they're like, poos. ah All right, what is the strangest item that you have in your closet right now and is there a story behind it?

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Yes, but only if I can actually find another look.

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loganhoward111

He is in his closet and he is looking for something. So we can find it.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

delay the people while I'm searching.

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loganhoward111

okay so uh let's see my thing ah i have So I was big into trading cards like sports cards. So if you're talking like football cards, ah basketball cards, um baseball cards, I was big into that growing up. And so in my closet, I still have multiple containers of these cards. Now supposedly,

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loganhoward111

They'd be worth tons of money. But as a kid, I would take them out and I would have little games that we I'd play with them. So I'd play a football game and I'd have all the positions out and everything. um And I'm sure some people store their cards in their closet, but it is kind of a strange thing that that I do it. um

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loganhoward111

I'm trying to see if I have anything that's weirder because I probably do. I just don't. I have a bunch of wall hanging stuff. Stuff that's supposed to be on the walls, it's not.

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loganhoward111

um So that's kind of strange because you're supposed to hang it on the walls. so i But I have not hanging on the walls because I'm late. Oh, he's found something.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

I was looking at the wrong wardrobe. It's the word. Arwen's sword from Lord the Ring, the Felter of the Ring. If you want him, come and claim him. And she casts her spell and watches an asagul and her horse is away.

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loganhoward111

Hmm, so is it is it sharp?

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Oh yeah, you this has drawn blood before you.

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loganhoward111

Oh Nice Yeah, oh No, that's that's it's not terribly clear but it is kind of cool Nice I have a katana that looks kind of similar to that but I

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Yeah. And it's got this right thing on it. That's right, how clear it is in the screen. Yeah.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Ooh, OK, you can't open the attic.

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loganhoward111

What was that?

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BrendanThomasMarrett

I've got Katana's words in the attic. They're great.

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loganhoward111

ah Gotcha. Yeah.

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loganhoward111

um Yeah, I'll grab it off the wall real quick because it's right here.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

My story behind this is I was at Comic Con and I saw it and I bought it. And then I just had to walk through Dolan City Center like with a big sword. And people were like, what is this?

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loganhoward111

Yeah.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Gorgeous.

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loganhoward111

It's got a handle to it.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

That's nice, yeah.

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loganhoward111

Yeah.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Bye bye. I challenge you with all.

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loganhoward111

Yeah.

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loganhoward111

It's got a good metal connector here too. So when you go to stick it in, it it's nice and metallic.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

yeah

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loganhoward111

and

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Yeah, it goes. Or just...

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loganhoward111

Anyway, that was our show and tell.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

We bonded three years ago over weapons.

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loganhoward111

We did. That's why we do this podcast.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

That's right.

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loganhoward111

That's why we do this podcast.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Let's make it happen.

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loganhoward111

Actually, it was been four years. It's not three years because we didn't start this podcast for like a full eight months.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Really?

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loganhoward111

Yeah.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Gosh. Excuse me.

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loganhoward111

Yeah, we just wasted all awesome, great content just talking.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We used to write, like, paragraphs to each other every single day.

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loganhoward111

Yeah.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

On a group forum, people were probably just reading it, like, who are these two people? Did they even know each other? We we didn't.

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loganhoward111

Yeah.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

We just got overly personal in, like, non-public forums. It was it was great. Now look at us.

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loganhoward111

ah All right.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

We were only personal in our own public forum.

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loganhoward111

There you go. Yep. Who needs those people?

Stand-Up Comedy Opening Jokes

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loganhoward111

ah If you had to perform a stand up comedy routine, what would your opening joke be?

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Right. Go big or go home.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Sure, when I first hit puberty, I wasn't too keen on the idea of facial hair and moustache beard, but it's grown on me.

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loganhoward111

yeah Yeah.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

but um

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loganhoward111

Ah, yes. um So I thought about mine. Mine is going to be mine mine is going to be a story because ah when I was a kid at camp, I had an amazing counselor or cabin leader counselor.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Okay. Hmm.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

yeah

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loganhoward111

But he told the story because we were goofing off all at at night. And he's like, look, if you guys go to bed, I'll tell you a story. And we're like, deal. So he tells us the story.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

okay five minutes ago you were a goody-goody two shoes may a wreck of a poor comp leader's head

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loganhoward111

What was that?

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loganhoward111

Yeah.

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loganhoward111

Yeah. Yeah. It wasn't just me.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

be here

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loganhoward111

first There's another 20 kids in there.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

and does like a

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loganhoward111

Kids, it wasn't just me. You know, I wasn't the only bad. Anyway.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Oh yeah, and it was the deer that ran in front of your truck, yeah. There's always one else to blame in these, okay. I i see what's happening here.

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loganhoward111

yeah Yeah, I'm just doing the Brendan Thomas Merritt way. It's not my fault.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

That was someone to take the haul.

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loganhoward111

you know

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BrendanThomasMarrett

Which is a great lesson to live by, kids.

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loganhoward111

Yes, there's a whole country about it. It's called, it's not my fault. Just look it up. It's good.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

the the the

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loganhoward111

Anyway, um so this story that he starts telling us is about this time that he had gone to the zoo. And um he had, he had to go to the bathroom pretty bad.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

yeah

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loganhoward111

He had had Taco Bell beforehand. And um Taco Bell, as most people know, in the meme community just runs right through people. And then you have to just have the runs and everything.

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loganhoward111

Well, he he felt this coming on because of course, you know, he's at at the zoo and he then goes to the first toilet that is ah that he can get close enough. It's next to the monkeys and so he goes there and he goes to open it and it's closed for cleaning and he's like,

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loganhoward111

Great, this is not good. So he's like, all right, well, you know, I got to go pretty bad, but we can make it.

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BrendanThomasMarrett

One last thing.

00:23:37

loganhoward111

We'll go by the elephants. So he leaves the leaves the monkeys. He starts wandering to the next spot, gets to the elephants, and he's like, just the bathroom suite. So he goes to the bathroom. That one's also closed for cleaning. Apparently at one o'clock in the afternoon on a Tuesday, they decide to clean all the bathrooms. So the second one's bun's cleaned and he's like, all right, there's no way. He's like, I got to beat the cleaning people to the next one. Like I have to beat them there so that they they can't like go and close it up. So he goes and he tries to get to I think it was the giraffes probably and so he gets all the way to the other side of the zoo and he's like at this point I'm it's coming out like it's gonna happen and so he gets to the other side that one's closed as well. They have already started cleaning and you can't go in and he's like are you kidding me? So he's like there is only one other place in the whole

00:24:36

loganhoward111

in the whole um zoo and it's the gift shop. And he's like, I can make it to the gift shop. And so he was solely focused on going to to this gift shop because he's like, this is the last hope I can make it.

00:24:43

BrendanThomasMarrett

As the events were to say, the potions

00:24:53

loganhoward111

So he goes to the gift shop. He goes in the gift shop bathroom because it's open and he's like, yes. And then he gets in. There's two stalls and the two stalls are being used.

00:25:07

loganhoward111

And he sees and he's like, oh no. He's like, it's coming out. Literally, I have no choice. It either comes out now or, or not.

00:25:19

loganhoward111

Like, like, I'm just, my pants and it's going to be, I'm going to have a brown mess. And he's like, I am not having that. So he looks at the sink. He doesn't double take the sink.

00:25:29

BrendanThomasMarrett

I was thinking that.

00:25:31

loganhoward111

pulls his pants down, goes right in the sink, and then before either of the two people can get out of the bathroom stalls, he legs it out of the front door as quickly as possible, legs it out of the zoo, gets in his car, drops home.

00:25:52

loganhoward111

So, what he did was he left quite a mess for whoever was in the bathroom to wash their hands, as though they were

00:25:57

BrendanThomasMarrett

00:26:01

loganhoward111

but

00:26:04

loganhoward111

yeah

00:26:08

BrendanThomasMarrett

that is how I love that but not for his sake but the fact that you know like so funny ah did you have this you in your pockets or none

00:26:12

loganhoward111

yeah no Yeah. So we we could not go to sleep after the story. We we had so many questions.

00:26:27

BrendanThomasMarrett

but

00:26:30

loganhoward111

There were so many questions. But yeah, so that is that is a story I have remembered ah for a long time, just because it is so funny. But yeah, that would that's the story I would tell. oh

00:26:42

BrendanThomasMarrett

It's a good one. It's good.

00:26:43

loganhoward111

All right, what is your most embarrassing guilty pleasure song?

Guilty Pleasure Songs

00:26:50

BrendanThomasMarrett

Oh. Chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp. You don't even know what it's called. I think it's it's called a chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp song or something.

00:27:05

loganhoward111

Oh man. Well, now I'm embarrassed because mine's totally worse.

00:27:11

BrendanThomasMarrett

Oh. I didn't think the walls were a song.

00:27:15

loganhoward111

Oh, there's there's a song so it's by Shania Twain and it's called I Feel Like a Woman.

00:27:19

BrendanThomasMarrett

Love Shania.

00:27:21

loganhoward111

I Feel Like a

00:27:21

BrendanThomasMarrett

I feel like one month it goes across my mind.

00:27:26

loganhoward111

but

00:27:30

BrendanThomasMarrett

It's like, so you think you're Brad Tisch?

00:27:32

loganhoward111

yeah Yes, but also embarrassing even though

00:27:33

BrendanThomasMarrett

It's classic. It's classic. Love Shania.

00:27:40

BrendanThomasMarrett

I think you can tell the decade someone was born by if they even know who Shania Twain is. She was up there in the 90s, she was.

00:27:47

loganhoward111

00:27:47

BrendanThomasMarrett

I don't know how she would have imagined.

00:27:48

loganhoward111

She was, she was.

00:27:50

BrendanThomasMarrett

Wayne!

00:27:53

loganhoward111

ah All right, next question. If you had to create a meme based on your last embarrassing moment, what would the caption be?

00:28:02

BrendanThomasMarrett

Oh dear. When was I last embarrassed? I try not to feel...

00:28:11

loganhoward111

Yeah, kind of try to reject that feeling.

00:28:11

BrendanThomasMarrett

embarrassed or shamed.

00:28:13

loganhoward111

Yeah.

00:28:14

BrendanThomasMarrett

Yeah, golly.

00:28:18

BrendanThomasMarrett

a um Um... I don't know how I felt embarrassed, but I think I remember the last time someone tried to shame me. They were church people who thought they knew better than I did about what to do with my own luck. Um... what How do I make a meme art, though?

00:28:41

BrendanThomasMarrett

Without getting excommunicated. but I'll be on like this. Episode 133 next week. Like any church availability?

00:28:50

loganhoward111

Yeah.

00:28:50

BrendanThomasMarrett

Oh.

00:28:54

BrendanThomasMarrett

You go to your answer and then I'll hopefully have one then.

00:28:57

loganhoward111

and Okay, um so mine probably has to do with um I'm just gonna go off of like you said, the last time somebody tried to shame me, which would be my sister um does on a frequent basis.

00:28:57

BrendanThomasMarrett

Bye then.

00:29:08

BrendanThomasMarrett

yeah

00:29:10

loganhoward111

If if I haven't shaved or I didn't, so like now I haven't shaved um or like didn't trim a nose hair, she'll just be like,

00:29:10

BrendanThomasMarrett

00:29:19

loganhoward111

you didn't trim your nose hair that's horrible why'd you not do that and so the meme would be something along the lines of when your sister tells you uh you're i didn't trim your nose hair and i'd just be like and pulling it out and like petting it

00:29:42

loganhoward111

yep

00:29:46

BrendanThomasMarrett

heading is definite

00:29:56

BrendanThomasMarrett

Oh, I have one but it's kind of dark You know that you know the picture of the girl who's smiling and the fliers in the background and

00:30:00

loganhoward111

Hmm, okay.

00:30:06

loganhoward111

I think so, yeah. Oh yeah, yeah, that one, yeah.

00:30:10

BrendanThomasMarrett

Yeah, yeah. Going with the story that I gave her earlier about how it was church people who took me off.

00:30:15

loganhoward111

yeah

00:30:16

BrendanThomasMarrett

You know, you know and so so you know, the top of it would be like, when someone asks you what you'd like to see happen in the church, and instead of like, you know, revival or Holy Spirit breaking out, are people getting saved?

00:30:31

loganhoward111

have

00:30:32

BrendanThomasMarrett

Just her evil little evil smirk and the fire in the background.

00:30:39

BrendanThomasMarrett

Sorry, but that's okay.

00:30:41

loganhoward111

holding a key that wants to let them out.

00:30:43

BrendanThomasMarrett

egypt Holding a match, duh.

00:30:44

loganhoward111

see

00:30:50

BrendanThomasMarrett

Or a lighter.

00:30:52

loganhoward111

Oh, brother. All right. um We'll do two more questions.

00:30:57

BrendanThomasMarrett

Okay.

00:30:57

loganhoward111

So if you could switch lives with a vegetable for a day, which one would it be and why?

Vegetable Life Swap

00:31:04

BrendanThomasMarrett

Oh.

00:31:07

BrendanThomasMarrett

mushrooms in the wild, because people are going to assume you're poisonous and just ignore you anyway.

00:31:15

loganhoward111

Fair.

00:31:15

BrendanThomasMarrett

And if it rains, you've got like a ready-made umbrella.

00:31:18

loganhoward111

That's fair, yeah. um Mine would be Larry the Cucumber because then I could dance.

00:31:32

loganhoward111

and And be Larry boy at the same time. Like that's two for one. That's two for one right there.

00:31:32

BrendanThomasMarrett

Okay.

00:31:39

BrendanThomasMarrett

I wasn't raised on veggie tails. I'm just going to nod and smile and be like, OK.

00:31:45

loganhoward111

All the veggie tail people send Brandon hate messages of why he needs to watch veggie tails.

00:31:52

BrendanThomasMarrett

Or send me veggie tail memes, and that will just validate it for me.

00:31:55

loganhoward111

Because he's not busy enough. Just send him off.

00:31:59

BrendanThomasMarrett

Exactly. It's not like he has other things to do, like a living a life.

00:32:05

loganhoward111

Oh, all right. So ah you, you don't have a pet, right?

00:32:11

BrendanThomasMarrett

No, my brother has gone goldfish.

00:32:14

loganhoward111

Okay, so if an animal could write a Yelp review about you, so like the last animal that you came into contact with, if they could write a Yelp review about you, what do you think it would say?

00:32:17

BrendanThomasMarrett

And probably Yelp.

00:32:31

BrendanThomasMarrett

With like 10 exclamation points because it was a dog who bit me while I was on a walk so then I kicked his head in. for

00:32:42

BrendanThomasMarrett

And then I went looking for a big stick and I was going to smack him but he ran away. So he could his album you would probably, would probably be, YOOP! It was the least you deserved. See, unlike Logan's deer, I had a reason to tag the animal that I did.

00:33:00

loganhoward111

Yeah, yeah. yeah me Well, it depends on which, so if I use my sister's dog, um hit yeah the Yelp review would be something like, very confused why this man is staying at our house.

00:33:10

BrendanThomasMarrett

And I could hear it barking in the background, yeah.

00:33:19

BrendanThomasMarrett

It still doesn't like you, no?

00:33:20

loganhoward111

it Still has no idea why I'm here like it tries to bark at me It's but it's it it kind of likes me, but just doesn't fully trust me um It's it's a cute Yeah, yeah, so the the deer of course would say 10 out of 10 or 0 out of 10 would avoid at all costs will mow it down will not swerve

00:33:29

BrendanThomasMarrett

Okay. but i tonight That's okay.

00:33:48

BrendanThomasMarrett

Health hazards.

00:33:49

loganhoward111

has no regard for dear lives. suspicious

00:33:56

loganhoward111

No regard. Oh, brother.

Conclusion of Hot Seat Questions

00:34:00

loganhoward111

Anyway, that has been our tell all questions, hot seat questions, whatever it is we're calling it these days.

00:34:07

loganhoward111

I don't know. I'll figure it out. But ah regardless,

00:34:11

BrendanThomasMarrett

We're making the bone nails.

00:34:12

loganhoward111

Yeah, yeah, well I'm not making the thumbnail right now, so I'll make it later. But whatever the thumbnail says, that's what this title of the show is. um Anyway, ah let us get into the Bible

Bible Discussion Introduction

00:34:23

loganhoward111

section here. So I'm going to read quite a bit of this, and it'll I'll read, we'll be in 1 Corinthians chapter two, I'll read verses six through the end of the chapter, 16, and then, Brandon, I'll let you speak first, and then I'll close this out.

00:34:39

loganhoward111

um So we do, however, speak of wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age who are coming to nothing. On the contrary, we speak God's hidden wisdom in a mystery, a wisdom ah God predestined before the ages of our glory. None of the rulers of this age knew this wisdom because they had known it. If they had known it, they would not have crucified.

00:35:02

loganhoward111

the Lord of glory, but as is written, what no eye has seen, no ear has heard, no human heart has conceived, God has prepared these things for those who love him. Now God has revealed these things to us by the Spirit, since the Spirit searches everything, even in the depths of God. For who knows a person's thought except his Spirit within him? In the same way, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

00:35:25

loganhoward111

Now, we have not received the spirit of the world, but the spirit who comes from God, so that we may understand what has been freely given to us by God, who also speaks these things, not in words taught by human wisdom, but those taught by the spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people.

00:35:42

loganhoward111

But the person without the Spirit does not receive what comes from the God Spirit because it's foolishness to him. He is not able to understand it since it is evaluated spiritually. The spiritual person, however, can evaluate everything and yet he himself cannot be evaluated by anyone for who has known the mind, the Lord's mind, that he may instruct him. But we have the mind of Christ. So, Brendan, what do you notice in this passage that sticks out that you really like?

Spirit's Role in Understanding God

00:36:12

BrendanThomasMarrett

The word spirit is used a lot. I don't think I've ever heard the word spirit used as many times in 60 seconds as I had just there.

00:36:23

loganhoward111

Yeah. Spirit or spiritual?

00:36:28

BrendanThomasMarrett

That's it in all its forms.

00:36:29

loganhoward111

All in this run on sentences.

00:36:33

BrendanThomasMarrett

And sometimes out of capillaries and sometimes lower case.

00:36:40

BrendanThomasMarrett

Sure thing. Okay, so yeah, when Adam was made, man was made, and the woman, humans had three parts. Body, soul, and spirit. um We're told that, you know, the the body was made first, then Jesus breathed, the breath of lives, and to him a spirit and a soul, and both of them were living. Then they they disobeyed, they sinned with an act of their will, and the spirit died instantly.

00:37:08

BrendanThomasMarrett

and you cannot pass on what you do not have. But the wonderful thing about Holy Spirit is when we put our faith in the finished work of the cross, he brings our dead spirit to life and he moves in and cries, Abba Father, proclaiming we are children of God.

00:37:24

BrendanThomasMarrett

um It's not something you can work towards. It's not something you can manufacture. It is a spiritual thing, being a child of God, being part of the body of Christ in him. It's a spiritual thing, not by human.

00:37:39

BrendanThomasMarrett

um operations, or arm twisting, or your own righteousness. It's all from God's righteousness.

00:37:46

BrendanThomasMarrett

And in verse 14 it says, you know, the person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit. We'll consider this in foolishness. If ever somebody tells you, the Bible's not true, read that verse.

00:38:01

BrendanThomasMarrett

Second Corinthians 2, 14, if you're not a Christian, you'd think Christians are nuts. Boom, you've proved the Bible.

00:38:05

loganhoward111

Yeah.

00:38:08

loganhoward111

yeah

00:38:09

BrendanThomasMarrett

And then verse 15 is a little bit of a curious side. It says that Christians are not subject to merely human judgments. Now the word judgment has a few different meanings and different words can be used. People will always judge. They'll always condemn. That's not what it means here. Here it's there the Greek word anacryno.

00:38:33

BrendanThomasMarrett

which means a completing process to question, to study, to inquire, to investigate, to thoroughly examine. So it's that people who don't have Holy Spirit within them, they can't fully understand you, what you think, why you have the hope that you have,

00:38:56

BrendanThomasMarrett

or who you are in Christ and why you have the mind of Christ. It's why they are such slaves to the reprobate mind and fall for every passing fancy and that comes their way and are so ridiculously easily deceived. And they annoy the Christians for not falling into an equal amount of deception because you're on another level.

00:39:26

BrendanThomasMarrett

You are the hell and woman of salvation. You see things the way Christ does. And Holy Spirit searches the minds of Father God and then reveals those things to us. His heart rate is God. He knows everything. But all three of them are in continuous relationship. They love each other that much. And then He'll reveal things to you as per Father God's will for your life and the lives of those around you. So you're not going to see things that other people do.

00:39:55

BrendanThomasMarrett

And you shouldn't. And you don't have to. You'll see things on a deeper level. Further back, as they really are, and what's to come. So when other people are freaking out, you might just be laughing your socks off because you know God works all things together for good, and is doing so even now. And when other people are celebrating and cheering, even over our wicked, defiled, perverted things, you might just feel very, very sad.

00:40:25

BrendanThomasMarrett

because God's heart is breaking for what's to come down the pipeline. People won't get it, they'll understand this, they'll understand you, and they don't have to. But God does. And it just says it's just something that you have the heart of God. And that's the main thing. And then just pray that Holy Spirit opens their eyes to see the finished work of the cross, the blood and the empty grave, and that they mature and the things of the Spirit as well. Amen.

00:40:54

loganhoward111

Amen.

00:40:57

loganhoward111

Yeah, um thank you for sharing, Brendan.

Divine Wisdom vs. Worldly Wisdom

00:41:00

loganhoward111

um Yeah, so this is this was my Bible reading the last couple days. um And Paul is kind of getting at this point, if you, you know, go back to chapter one, he's had all these people be like, Oh, well, worse with so and so and we're with you know We're with Apollos and we're with we're with Paul and we're with all these different people. and um He's like, look, why are we divided about this? Why are we talking about this? and Then he goes into how they're so they're trying to find all these mysteries and all these like secret things that the the Bible talks about. and

00:41:37

loganhoward111

You know, there's places and times for that, but he's like, that's not the main thing. Like you're missing the main point. The main point is Christ and Christ crucified, that he died for you and he died on the cross for you. And a lot of people get lost in the... all the other fun things that you can find in scripture because there are so many we could spend the rest of our lives doing that and you know there's a lot of people who do that and those are good things but um we always have to bring back to the the port importance of what christ did for us um if we lose that or find don't find that in the weeds we're we lose the point and we lose what we're doing um but then he just gets into this wisdom and it talks about how you know

00:42:21

loganhoward111

The wisdom today, the things that we see around our world today, it's not wise, right? It's not falling after God, it's not seeking after him. And all the things that we see today, we see whether it's um our democratic leaders, whether it's people to the left, people um who are not falling God and living their own life, living woke, living whatever, living out their lifestyle, all of that's gonna come to nothing.

00:42:48

loganhoward111

they They think they're wise. They think they're smart They think they've figured out how the world works and how all this is gonna happen and it's gonna come to nothing It's gonna come to ruin and it's gonna come to uselessness.

00:42:59

loganhoward111

That's why it's so important that we tell them the truth because They need to know it whether they believe it or accept it.

00:42:59

BrendanThomasMarrett

And then.

00:43:06

loganhoward111

That is totally on on them and God um but it's our job to tell people and so um It's really cool this verse that's from Isaiah 52, 15 that's in here. It says, what no eye has seen, no ear has heard, no human heart is conceived. God prepared those things for those who love Him. God knew all this stuff and He prepared it from the foundations of the earth of what we needed to know and to give us the heart to be able to receive it.

00:43:35

loganhoward111

um You know, when a again, Brendan did a good job of talking about verse 15, but that verse kind of really points out the difference between David and his brothers. David was a man who had a heart after God. He didn't look like the the king. He didn't look like he was the strongest, tallest, best guy to be king and rule.

00:43:57

loganhoward111

but he was because he had the right heart. God always looks at the inside. And so um the spiritual person, when we have found God, when we understand Him and when we've accepted Him as our Lord and Savior and when the Spirit has come upon us, we're able to discern things and see things that other people don't see, that other people can't get. um You know, some people would say in a so in a worldly sense, you know I was very lucky to have survived my dear accident and I had no issues happen. you know They would say it's a coincidence or that was just some weird thing by chance. But as a spiritual person, we know that God has a plan for everything and he has designed things. So the purpose and meaning behind why that happened and what I need to do in my life

00:44:45

loganhoward111

is something that only the Holy Spirit can point out and show and grow and say that, you know, I have a purpose and I have God has plans for me, that most people in the world, if they hit a deer would say, Oh, I just got really lucky that I didn't, they didn't die.

00:44:59

BrendanThomasMarrett

Maybe.

00:45:00

loganhoward111

Whereas I can honestly say that God has a purpose and a plan for me, because he's been building it and setting it for a long time.

00:45:04

BrendanThomasMarrett

Maybe. Maybe.

00:45:07

loganhoward111

And so we're coming into it. um And it's going to be exciting and awesome to see what God does, not in a you know prideful way. This isn't for Logan's glory. This is always for God's glory. but So, yeah, those kind of things that we can see.

00:45:24

loganhoward111

through it. We can see what God is trying to do only because we have the Spirit inside. um And again, the Spirit doesn't come for us. It doesn't you know it doesn't come because of us. It doesn't come because we did something better, stronger, cooler than anyone else. It's because God planted His heart in us. He gave us he took our hearts of stone and gave us a heart of flesh.

00:45:46

loganhoward111

our hearts of stone that are so against God that sometimes, even when we have our heart of flesh, we still sometimes go back to our heart of stone. We still go back to hating, um unforgiving, unloving, uncaring, unkind, um immoral, all those kinds of things.

00:46:02

loganhoward111

We still go back to those things because unfortunately we still have our sin nature in us.

00:46:07

BrendanThomasMarrett

Yeah.

00:46:07

loganhoward111

But now we have the option to choose. We have the option to choose that we didn't have before.

00:46:10

BrendanThomasMarrett

man

00:46:11

loganhoward111

It used to be kind of like um A dog returns to its own vomit. We just would go right back to what we were doing before, not think anything of it, right back to the thing we were doing before, right back, right back, always back. And now we have that option to choose, to choose who we're gonna serve, to choose God, to follow Him. And um that spirit gives us that option, which is so cool. And we were kind of talking about this last Wednesday at our our prayer meeting, but God's is so amazing how God gave us the spirit and the spirit is a guarantee of our inheritance in heaven.

00:46:52

loganhoward111

um Because we have the spirit living inside of us, we are guaranteed to be with Christ one day.

00:46:53

BrendanThomasMarrett

00:46:58

loganhoward111

um And so anytime we see God's work in us or we've seen that God has worked through us, that is a guarantee that the the spirit lives within us and that we're gonna be with him one day forever.

00:47:10

loganhoward111

um So if any of those if any of you are out there and you're work struggling with um you know whether you're saved or not or where you're at or Any of those things. if the If God's Spirit has worked in you for His honor and glory and has used you and used things and has taught you things and you've been able to understand things that other people can't understand or see things that other people can't see, that is God's Spirit working inside of you. That is God changing you and and making you who you need to be.

00:47:40

loganhoward111

and so um Remind yourselves of that, that that god's spirit if God's Spirit is within you, that you are saved and you are on your way to heaven. and You don't need to worry about it because he is with you. So, Brendan, would you close us in prayer and we'll send these fine people on there on their day.

00:48:00

BrendanThomasMarrett

Amen. Thank you for these moments. and I thank you that you are absolutely good. For the same love that you had for the man and the woman in Eden, it's the same love you have for Jesus. It's the same love you have for us.

00:48:23

BrendanThomasMarrett

And if anyone is sitting under the sound of our voices today and has never put their faith for salvation, for heaven, for eternity in the thinnest work of the cross, where they can't add to it and they can't work hard enough to get through good books, nor should they try, but just looking at the life of Jesus, the crucifixion of Jesus,

00:48:51

BrendanThomasMarrett

the blood of Jesus and the resurrection of Jesus as sufficient. The cross plus nothing, the blood plus nothing, the empty grave plus nothing, faith plus nothing, your grace, your unmerited favor plus nothing. Jesus, I pray that your Holy Spirit would begin to tug um their heartsrings on their their mind, on their will, and with a conscious decision, they would say,

00:49:19

BrendanThomasMarrett

I believe that. I receive that. They can't work for it, it's not a bribe, it's not a trick, it's not bondage. It's a gift. And all they have to do is reach out and receive the gift. And so long as they go on believing it, they'll continue to have that guarantee. Signed, sealed, and delivered. Holy Spirit. And I expect you to take over.

00:49:47

BrendanThomasMarrett

lay them more and more into you, more and more into the revelation, the opinion in the word, but always keeping the crucifixion at the center.

00:49:59

BrendanThomasMarrett

Show yourself to be powerful and mighty in and through them to make the mighty men and women of God recipients of every good, perfect and pleasing gift you have for them.

00:50:15

BrendanThomasMarrett

that they will fulfill their destiny on the earth. They'll see the purpose for which you've put them here. And with boldness and humility, they will fulfill it. And they would see your goodness in the land of the living. In Jesus name. Amen.

00:50:32

loganhoward111

Amen. Amen.

Podcast Reflection and Thanks

00:50:33

loganhoward111

Well folks, it is we are eight days away from our Officially third anniversary start of year four of this podcast. We have done 132 episodes now, which is wild to think that we have spent so much time doing this.

00:50:51

BrendanThomasMarrett

Yeah.

00:50:51

loganhoward111

I'm sure it is days worth of content if you're trying to go through it. um But we are so thankful for each and every one of you. Thank you all for listening and, um you know, support us.

00:51:03

loganhoward111

And as we continue into the next year and we'll continue to give you things to talk about, things to listen to and um You know, no matter where God takes us the next year or through it, we'll try to continue to keep this up and keep going because I mean, what else are we going to do?

00:51:21

loganhoward111

It's not like we're married or anything.

00:51:22

BrendanThomasMarrett

Men.

00:51:26

loganhoward111

And of course, in the next year, we will we're going to aim to get our in-person episode done so we can do some really fun things when we go. When I go over to Ireland and hopefully that'll be an awesome fun time. so Hang in there everybody and we'll see you hopefully in a couple days. but Thank you for all you do. Thank you for listening and of course you can get a hold of us. Send us emails from Dublin to Cleveland at gmail dot.com and you can find us on our Instagrams, Logan, BananaMan17, Brendan Thomas Merritt on Instagram and Facebook and find us there. so Thank you all and anything you want to close out with Brendan?

00:52:07

BrendanThomasMarrett

Yes, I'm pretty sure I'm being shadowbanned on Instagram because I've said stuff like Zuckerberg, but hunt me down people. My memes need liking and they deserve them. They are white hot memes. Logans are okay too.

00:52:20

loganhoward111

I just like his, you know? that's i just that happens he's He's the reason why he gets views elsewhere, because I just like all this stuff.

00:52:22

BrendanThomasMarrett

Passable.

00:52:35

BrendanThomasMarrett

He is my number one fan, the only reason that I have like any standing in the world whatsoever.

00:52:42

loganhoward111

Yeah, yeah. That's what they say. So they say.

00:52:45

BrendanThomasMarrett

There we go.

00:52:46

loganhoward111

All righty. We will see you all. Have a wonderful week. Bye, friends.