Pathway Studios in Johnston Proper. You are Live from the Path. You're listening to Live from the Path, Live from the Path. I'd ask how everybody's doing out there, but it might be a shy crowd. Did you take a bite of something, Dan? Oh, am I supposed to be talking now? I'm having my dessert. I just ate my supper. Man, I'm already down a guy, and I'm leaning on Dan pretty heavy, and he takes a big bite of a cookie. I'm pretty busy over here. Anyway, you're listening to Live from the Path. My name is Ben Foose. Thanks for being with us. We have an interesting show for you tonight. We'll start there. There's a void on the left side of your screen. That's Mike. He might be flying in. He's going to try to make it here by 10.30. Really? We'll see if he makes it in. He's under the thumb of the working man tonight. So we'll see if he can make it in here. That's awful. And Spankenhouser was supposed to be in here, but I haven't seen him. I mean, neither. I haven't heard from him. Not seen him. I don't know what's going on. He's out. Anyway, we're going to get through some Dear Live from the Path. It's where someone has written into Dear Abby looking for some legitimate advice, and we're just going to abscond with that question and answer it appropriately the way Jesus would. Kind of.

Maybe. Maybe. Or so. We also have, and we haven't done this for a while, we're going to do some non-biblical signs of the apocalypse. Oh, nice. There's some doozies in there tonight, so we'll see how that goes. Also, a couple of things that I just came across this week. We're going to talk a little bit about people posting scripture on Facebook. How do you handle that? That's the question. And also, should we be pledging allegiance and singing the national anthem? Or does that put our allegiance where it shouldn't be, a.k.a. to Jesus? We're going to talk about it. There seems to be quite the controversy brewing about it. Oh, really? There is. Wow. There is a Mennonite church. It's a school. And they had traditionally not done the Star-Spangled Banner. And they started to do it about a year ago, and then now they have decided to stop again. So, I'll read you the story. It's from CNN. And I don't know. We'll talk about that.

We'll see if we think the Mennonite man, they're Anabaptists, and feel like they're coming from somewhere good. Huh. I don't know that, in general, the Mennonites are the people that go, hey, I'm going to follow that example. But it's an interesting discussion. I'll know. They don't dress well enough for you? I really honestly don't know all the ins and outs of the Mennonite faith, but a little bit I do know. I just go like, hmm, that's an interesting way of looking at life. Oh, yeah. You know, like, good for you. I mean, I don't look down on them. I just don't know that I go, I'd like to do that, too. Here's the deal. I've only had one interaction with the Mennonites, and they hosed me. Well, not so much hosed me. They bought the school that we were looking at. But they were selling an old school building in Farrar that I think was haunted. Do you remember this story? I told you this a long time ago. I've never heard this. Okay, so there was an advertisement in the Altoona Herald, and the Farrar Elementary School Building was up for sale. I'm assuming a fairly small building? 16,000 square feet. Okay.

Three stories, and it was dubbed the building that wouldn't burn. The Farrar residents were nervous because they had previously had a school building that burned down. So in 1916, I think, they rebuilt this school, and it's poured concrete and brick. The building that won't burn, right? So it's for sale because Farrar has burned with the Bondurant City and the Bondurant Farrar School District, and they don't need this elementary school anymore. A couple had bought it, and they were going to renovate it and put on performances there like children's plays and stuff, and I think it sounded like a really cool deal that they were going to put together, but it sopped them dry. It took all their cash. So they had it for sale. 16,000 square feet. It's on four to six acres of land out in Farrar, so it's 10 minutes from the interstate, maybe. Eight, 10 minutes from the interstate at the Altoona exit. So not a bad location, a pretty good size, and they were looking at like $190,000 for this building. I would love that. I mean, it was awesome. Yeah. And so- That'd be so cool. So we called them, and they agreed to take us on a tour. So we got to walk in and out of this building and go up the stairs, and they had an old boiler

room and a full gym and an old stage area that they'd converted into two classrooms. You could take the classroom down, and the stage is there. They had, when it was built, so they didn't have a refrigerator when it was built in 1916, so they kept it in the ground. So you open up one of the doors in the kitchen, and there's this little, like, it looked like a lazy Susan. You know, it was a half, it was like a drum type of thing with layers in it, and you would put the milk and the eggs down, and then you cranked it down underground, and it went like 12 feet underground, and that's where they kept the stuff. That's awesome. It was. It was cool. Oh, and you had a full-size kitchen, and anyway, it was neat. It was really, really cool. So if you just wanted to get a quick, like, little yogurt, it would take you five minutes to crank it up? Yes. Yeah. Yeah, it would take a while. That wouldn't be annoying at all. I don't think they would let the kids in there to get their own yogurt out of the underground fridge. I'm saying, okay, yeah, I understand. We have to plan ahead for these things, little Billy. I'm hungry.

So anyway, so we looked at this, and of course, Mike and I were thinking, we've got to convince the ladies to let us get this building. Like, we could both go in on it and get 16,000 square feet, and I'll take a floor, and he'll take a floor, and it'll be fine. Yeah. So the ladies are not agreeing to this. They do not want to live in the building that would never burn. I said, it's safe. It's good for the children. And so, but we kept looking into it, even though the ladies had said no, because I thought maybe I could convince my wife to let us buy the property and the land, and then build another house on it, and then I could play in the school. And that could be your school house. So she still said no, but we'd still been checking on it. So we talked to the insurance guy, and here was the big problem. 180 grand, and we might have been able to come up with it, right? But the insurance on the thing was outrageous, because the cost to rebuild a school building of poured concrete and brick is astronomical. It was like a million and a half dollars. So to be able to buy the building and to insure it appropriately, they wanted a million and a half dollars in insurance. And that really tilted it. But the Mennonites came in, and they paid cash. Cashola. And they bought it outright, and they're living in it.

Wow. Like a lot of them? I assume. I don't know. All I know is that the Mennonites bought it. Which is weird, because Farrar, apparently out in that area, has a lot of methamphetamine action. And so, I don't know. Maybe the Mennonites are making some progress out there. Who knows? But that's my only run-in with the Mennonites. I mean, the Mennonites, they like wear the little doilies and stuff, don't they? I mean, I'm confusing them. Don't they have the really long hair and skirts? Oh, wait. Yeah, isn't that them? But do they, is this the group that doesn't use electricity, or like flashy things, or? Well, the Amish are supposed to not. Right. Except for they do use the electricity. And apparently, who was telling that story about the Amish and pizza? Was that somebody here? Somebody was telling me that like, the Amish love takeout, like delivery pizza. But they can't call it in for themselves. That's awesome.

Like, so like, but they'll, they will benefit if you call it in a delivery pizza, they're allowed to eat it. So like, I mean, they're fiendish for it. Hey, buddy. I see you having little cellular phones. That's what I'm saying. So like, that was the story, is that if you get around an Amish guy, and you want to see him go nutty, you order a delivery pizza, and he'll eat it. That is funny. That is amazing. Anyway. Yeah, I just. That's been my only run-in with the Mennonites, I think. I don't know that I've had any direct run-ins with them. I'm thinking there was a church in Atlantic that was kind of Mennonite. Isn't Gospel Chapel? I don't know that much about it. But they were, you know, real quiet, peaceful people. Aren't they pacifists? Yeah. Yeah, I think so. Yeah. I feel like I'd like to buy something from those folks, like the guys that make their own furniture and stuff. Oh, yeah.

That sounds interesting. I think we have a bonnet that we may have ordered from an Amish couple. I don't know. I think we ordered it online, though. I don't know how they're. Something weird about it. Something weird about their restrictions. They must have given to their neighbor for the sale. That's what I was thinking. Like, hey, you can sell this. Yeah, that's pretty shifty. Anyway, you're listening to Life from the Past. Just talking about Mennonites. Hey, there was an article that came up on the Stuff Christians Like blog this week. And it had to do with prayer cards. Like, people turning in prayer cards. Oh, yeah, yeah. So, Dan, what's, like, the weirdest, obviously, without divulging names or anything, what's the weirdest thing you've seen on a prayer card that's come in? You know, what can happen sometimes is that people will be, say, in a bit of a tiff with their marital spouse. And sometimes I will have to edit things. Or sometimes I just don't put them in, like, a public place. If we're going to email them out to our church group. Because it might be, you know, pray for Billy.

He's really got a bad attitude toward our marriage. Things like that. You know, and I'm like, you know, does Billy know this yet? You know, I mean. Right, right. So, I get a lot of that. Or a recent divorcee, you know, like, well, you know, Johnny has, you know, is addicted to this and that. And he's really going through some trouble right now. You know, just real, you know, just mean type stuff. And so, I tend to kind of avoid that, too. Now, maybe you don't send those out. Do you otherwise pray for that? That prayer request? I will pray. You know, and if it's appropriate, you know, I might even, you know, call up little Josephine or something and say, hey, you know, did you really want this out public? You know, is this something you were, did you, were you just venting? Or is this something you really wanted? I can't think of any, like, I'm sure there's been some, you know, through the years, like, odd requests. You just look at it and go, okay, that's kind of funny. But I can't, nothing comes to mind. And I try to forget that stuff, honestly, because otherwise, when I see that person, all I would think of is, you know, you're praying for the mole in your underarm.

That's kind of weird, you know. I would have trouble not saying something like, hey, you know, if they bothered to write it on the prayer card, I'd feel like I kind of want to see it. This green mole you got there, let me take a look at it. I just want to see if we're making any progress here. You know, in the Old Testament, the priest used to look at these things and examine them and declare them clean. Can I take a look at that? There is a girl at my school who will ask teacher, well, the teachers before a class typically will ask if we have any prayer requests for, that he can pray over or she. And you'll get some real serious, like, cancer, diseases, I don't know, real serious issues. And then she'll come in. I think she actually has something wrong for, I don't know, so this may be mean. But she'll, I like this, this is a good preface right here. Go ahead. But she'll just kind of be like, um, yeah, will you just, well, there's this little baby kitten that I saw on the way into class today, and it just looked really sad. So if you could just pray for the kitten, and then the bird that flew past it, like, that's the kind of weird prayer request I hear. You're just like, uh, do I, do I go before the creator of the universe with this, or? Nothing is too small, right? Maybe God created that kitten set on purpose. Maybe so. Just you'd have something to think about. I, actually, I, there are times, I, I feel it's weird, like, um, taking in group prayer

requests, um, because here's, I'm always the fingers crossed guy that a majority of people don't, don't offer one up, because then I'll feel compelled to do it. Yeah. And then I gotta think of something. So, like, you know, you're hoping you and at least the two guys around you don't, don't offer one, because, because once it hits, like, a threshold, there's, like, a 60%. As soon as it hits 60% of people have done one, then kind of everyone has to come up with one. And then you're unspiritual if you don't, you know? Yeah. No, nothing to pray. I'm, I'm pretty much perfect. I mean, I look good. I feel good. I'm very wealthy. I'm very blessed. Isn't it obvious? I mean, you obviously need something. Maybe you should do two. I'll make sure and pray for you. I'll just double up on Fred. He's got problems. Me, I'm in pretty good shape. Now, someone on the chat has privy to some interesting information, because this is true. We did at one point have someone in our connect slip say they would respond to this sermon

by finding the store where my shirt was purchased and burning it to the ground. That's right. And we did not post that because we thought it might be a threat. There's, there's, there's some, there's some guy in Bombay really shaking. No. Daniel. It looks so good here in the hut. So, I was trying to think that, I don't think I've ever submitted a prayer, like a prayer card. You know, I, I, something's really got to be crazy. I mean, I can be in the midst of something actually really crazy. And I, for whatever reason, I don't. I don't know why. I, I encourage other people to do it. And I pray for other people when they do it. And, and, and I think that's really a great outlet, but I, I don't know, I don't even consider myself a very private person. I'll, I mean, I'll talk to anybody and say, well, you know, uh, but, uh, for whatever reason, I've just, you mean send an email out about yourself. It seems like I did that once. It was so awkward, you know, I was just like, pray for Dan. He's at his computer typing up a prayer. So maybe, maybe that's it because I'm often the one who does it, but even that, you know, you know, like if Cheryl does it or someone else would do it or something, uh, I just don't always like in, in the, uh, circle of friends, I don't often share my prayer requests, you

know, I don't know why that is. Maybe I figure nobody cares. I suppose so. I'm not, I'm not, uh, uh, you know, I don't know that I'm one to like, I very often do this, like do the same thing. It's like, Hey, Hey, I really need you to. To pray for me. And it's not, certainly not wrong. I just don't, uh, I feel like I'm, I'm praying for it and my wife's probably praying for it or whatever. Or, on the other hand, like if there's something going on at church, I'm often encouraging people to pray. Yeah. You know, Hey, we've got this big decision, kind of, but you, you know, everybody pray, you know, and stuff like that. But, but personal stuff, I tend not to, which is kind of weird. Yeah. My dad was dying with cancer. I'm like, I, you know, I put people out there, Hey, pray for my dad, but I didn't like talk about it every day, you know. I don't know. I don't know why that is about me. Hmm. Danielle, do you share on the prayer, prayer cards? No.

No. Hmm. It's your fault. Maybe so. What would you do to people? We have, we have secret prayer times at home. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Don't let this out. We're just so focused on everyone else. Maybe that's it. That we don't even. The old splinter in the log, eh? All right. Hey, Mike. Hey. Hey, Mike. Hi, Mike. Hello. Mike, Mike, you walked into a, do a good one. We're going to do, we got non-biblical signs coming up. We're going to talk about posting verses on the Facebook. There's a controversy over the National Anthem and the Mennonites. And we're going to get some dear life in the path then.

And we're just, we're just cleaning up on our prayer cards. Apparently Dan, so it came up because on the blog posting was somebody had submitted a prayer request. It was basically was, I know that our house, I know that we'll be in heaven one day and it'll be great, but right now my lawn needs mowed. Who wrote that? It was on, it was, John Acuff gave an example on the Stuff Christians Like book. Oh. Well, my, my, my lawn needs mowed. So like, but I think the point was, is the guy was trying to get somebody at the church to mow his yard. Like, like you would seek out and go, you know. So that's hard though, because like, does the, does, does the church as a organization prioritize prayer requests based on our own, uh, idea of significance? Yeah. Like if, like if, if, let's say you got a real sensitive bloke who gets real bummed out if his, if his yard does not, if his, if his yard does not get trimmed properly, you know? Yeah. And he has the same, uh, he's destroyed just like if someone's best friend had passed away and, and he's really sensitive. So he feels the pain exactly the same way. Uh, do you ignore his prayer request because it's, it's dumb? Is it wrong to pray for a man who has dumb prayer requests? Like, do you resubmit it to God?

Like, Lord, Steve really needs his yard mode. I don't know. I don't really see, we don't have the resources to help him, but, uh, you know. Oh, was he really meaning that as a prayer? Like, please pray for my yard to be mowed or? Maybe he's really, he's asking the church for help. He wants you to. And I mean, that's appropriate to, hey, the church should help out and. And is it underhanded to submit it on the prayer card? That's a little underhanded. You should just say, hey man, can somebody come mow my yard? Yeah. Well, how? How else would you do it? Because he went around about it the wrong way. Yeah. Well, how else would you do it though? Say, look, Dan, can I stand up in front of the congregation? I have a couple of things I need to say. Yeah, I need my yard mode. Now that I got to all of your attention, I'm looking you square in the eye. I really need a yard mowing. Yeah. Who's going to do it? You know, if they, they could, uh, we have like an email for them where they could say,

hey, could you put this in the newsletter or? Well, I don't understand what's so high and mighty about the prayer card that you couldn't put something like that on there. Well, so here's how he said it. He said, uh, he wrote it on the prayer card. I know our real home is in heaven, but it would be nice if the lawn in our home at church could be mowed so it would be more presentable to visitors. Oh, no, it's not the guy's own yard. He's taking a dig at the church, not mowing their yard. Oh, is that different? Yeah, that's different. Why doesn't he mow it? Yeah, if you see the need, maybe God's tugging on your heart to go take care of it. Obviously, no one else is concerned with it. So maybe the Lord has put you in charge of it, seeing that you noticed the grass is lengthy. He's just lazy. Well, somebody's lazy. I mean. Now see, now I have a question. So like as a pastor man or a church leadership, what if someone did that on your prayer request? Like, would you call them up and say, mow it? If they, I would ignore it in the beginning. And if they kept submitting it, I'd go, I see that God's really laid on your heart the need to have our church mowed.

But why don't you find someone? Yeah, you're in charge of the mowing. Yeah, you're in charge of the mowing ministry. Is that how people get put in leadership around here? You just cause a bunch of trouble and then they put you in charge of it. That's exactly how it works. That building needs maintenance. You're head of maintenance. I'm glad you noticed. No one else has. Mike, you've got to be careful. You're going to be the head of announcements. You teach that out. These brochures aren't great. You're head of brochures. Now, it could have been. Maybe that person in some churches, like little small churches, the preacher does like everything. So maybe the preacher mows and maybe the preacher was really like sharing Jesus with the lost people and going to hospitals and staying up all night studying God's word. And this was just a dig at the preacher saying, I wish you'd get to mow. Right. Depending on the situation. I can see that. People are cruel. Oh, people are cruel.

People always assume that they have the right take on the situation. No matter what the background story is, people are like, I don't care what could have happened. There's no reason for this yard to look like this. Yeah, I know what's really going on around here. Yeah, I do that. I look at things and I think, I know exactly what's happened. Oh, man. I have no idea. I'll tell you what. I'm on the city, not city council. I'm on the chamber of commerce. I'm a board member for the chamber of commerce for Johnston. Okay. It's different than the city council, but it's a chamber. Okay. But we get reports like from the chamber people and city officials. And so I kind of know what's going on and stuff. And I have a tendency to assume I know what's going on. You know, like I see a speed limit sign. Hey, they go. Those guys are just wanting tickets or blah, blah, blah. You know, whatever. Yeah. I'm just Mr., you know, I just assume the worst, you know. And at this last meeting I was at recently, one of the guys was saying, well, there's a road up here that it's like must be 25 miles per hour.

And this is the city guy talking and going, yeah, we're going to change that pretty quick. And I'm like, well, you know, what are you talking about? Well, they got some government funds, federal funds to do this project. Tied to that was the speed limit of the other road. And so as soon as the time runs out of that, bam, they're going to change it back to 35 or whatever. So it's not like they're conspiring against their citizens. So they had to do it? Yeah. Otherwise they wouldn't have gotten the funding? Some suit in Washington, D.C. said, by the way, you're going to have a 25-mile-an-hour road there. And they're like, nobody lives here. It's stupid to have 25-mile-an-hour. You want to talk about the biggest problem with our government is passing things along with other things. Yeah. Like it's the worst. We'll give you this if you do that. It's always that. You can't ever just have a straight vote on something or make one decision. Like we really want to tackle this. Because as soon as you say, look, we really want to make our – we need a four-lane road here. They said, great, we'll give you the funding. But you're going to have to have a dancing elephant in the middle. Exactly. If you don't want the dancing elephant, you don't need our money. It's like being bullied around by a rich guy except for his name is the government.

Exactly. They will have a save the puppy bill. But connected to that is to kill little children. And if you vote no, then the next election is all about you don't care about puppies. They're like, wait a minute. I've been trying to save the children. No, that's not what the bill was. It just kind of – yeah. Drives me crazy. Politics. Politics. Blah. It's so entertaining. You walked in. Well, you're just in time for non-biblical signs of the apocalypse. Daniel, you can sit in that chair. I don't know why you brought a dirty dish here. It's just weird. So I've kept my internet running tonight. Low. You know, I'm just going to turn it off. Yeah, I know. You keep it on. It's on right now. It's pretty low right now.

It is pretty low. I think it's pants and then everybody here. Anyway, you're listening to Life in the Path. You have just stumbled on to non-biblical signs of the apocalypse. I'm basically going to give you a story that is in the news, and you need to tell me, does it signal the end of times? Because there were things that signaled the end of times that God didn't say. And these could be – Wait a minute. That's a bit much. I don't know if you could say that. Yeah, there is. Some things will not be known. Well, that's true. Daniel? We don't know all the information. See? Book of Daniel? There is a certain point when God said, oh, don't write that down. Yeah. Don't tell my – In Revelation. Okay, good point. I can't take it. I think I was having a juice box.

Okay, I may be big, but that doesn't mean I'm not still a kid, okay? All right. Here we go. Here we go. Non-biblical signs of the apocalypse. So here's the deal. I'm going to read you the story. You need to tell me whether it's a sign of the end or whether we have more time. Here we go. Oh, brother. A man allegedly stole a case of toilet paper from City Hall in Lawrence, Massachusetts and then blamed his brother for the dirty deed. Police locked up Roger Pinkham on Thursday after he allegedly nicked 20 rolls of bathroom tissue from City Hall where he worked. But when cops questioned him, he tried to keep himself clean by telling them his first name was David. The bogus name slipped past the police and into the newspapers, what was read by the real David Pinkham, Roger's brother, who informed cops that his sibling pulled a fast one on them. While in custody, Pinkham admitted to stealing office supplies on several occasions and he pulled six tightly folded toilet paper rolls from his buttocks and groin area, according to the Associated Press. I heard this. Six? I wish I wanted to see that last sentence.

That's going to be like a record or something. I don't know if that's… Did he take the cardboard insert out? It doesn't say. And refold it? It says it was tightly folded. That means he would have to have redone it. Because it doesn't come tightly folded. It comes easily rolled. He must have had practice. Tightly folded. He knows what he's doing. If the guy would just get a job, he would actually have money. Well, he works there. He works at the City Hall. He just decided to make… Maybe if the City Hall paid more, he didn't have to steal office of Nokia. Nokia. You know, I can't imagine his brother… His brother has got to be used to this. You know, like that he's reading the paper going, Roger, this can't be the first time. Hey, this is Roger. Is that the first… First of all, you're stealing toilet paper.

And the first thing… How does that get by the police? Like, don't they check an ID or something? Who are you? Dan Hudson. Okay. Book him. Send that to press. Well, does it say they're twin brothers? It does not say. They could be twin brothers. They look the exact same. So their IDs are just useless. There's a different name. Well, yeah, but like… Well, don't… Doesn't happen if like… What do they do if they pull you over? Let me see your license. Don't they do that when they arrest you or try to rape you? Maybe he's in Arizona. And maybe he was not of English descent. He's undocumented? They can't check. Oh, your name's…

Are you attempting to sway this politically? No. I'm just saying that's how it is over there. You're transparent as a sheet, Daniel. So, Jose, I mean, John, you say that your name is… That's pretty low. That's pretty low. To one, steal toilet paper, and then two, try to put it on… Like, you're not going to notice if I did that, Mike, and you got a ticket or some sort of court summons for stealing toilet paper… That's happened to me before. What do you mean? I've gotten mail that should have been yours, and it had my name on it, and it was an overdue library find. Oh, man. Like I could read The Count of Monte Cristo. That book's like a turkey and a half wide. There's no pictures in this. I did not get this book. I like a guy who judges the length of a book by how it compares to a turkey. There's no reason for me. I don't know how people sit through a book that long. I feel daunted within the first couple pages. I never have. Because it gets really awkward.

It's real heavy on one side, and you're only like two pages in, and it's just the page keeps trying to flip back over. And so by page three, I'm done. Read while laying down. Like, lay down on a bed or a flat surface. If that's honestly the situation… Like a teenage girl with my legs crossed up in the air. And a pen in your ear? Yeah. Licking a lollipop? I flick my legs while I'm singing the reading book. No. Uh-oh, out of Shasta. Oh, no. No, I lay down when I read. Oh, okay. I have, like, a book of the election, and if that's honestly your problem is that it's too heavy on one side… Get a kid, though. …so that you're not holding it. Actually, when I was reading it, I was pumping iron with one hand and shooting a gun with the other hand. So I, you know… Run, spot, run. So you already understand the guys have a bit laying down, unless you have a…

I was doing it wrong. …a room farm or something. I don't know. Plus, I was plotting how I was going to steal 20 rolls of toilet paper from the city hall. Not bad. All right. I don't know. Side of the end times, or we've got more time. That guy's just a… He's just a weirdo. Yeah, we got more time. Yeah, I'm disappointed in the police for not checking his identity, but I'm saying we've got more time. You know what? For all the more that he stole, I'd have just hauled them both in. Hmm. Wait. What did the other guy do wrong? He's his brother's keeper, and he's not doing a good job. It should be an offense. Boy. Actually, if that was punishable, we'd be a real pickle. Think of all the… So would I. Think of all the guys that you know.

Now, wait a minute. Is it Jesus punishable? Not a sin of what you did do, but what you did not do. Sins of omission? Yes. Did you not keep your brother out of trouble? How was I going to know he was going to nick toilet paper? How would you not know? If a man that is capable of unrolling an entire roll of toilet paper, neatly folding it so it will fit by his back seat six times while on the clock, and then give your name as a false testimony, I'd say there's patterns to his behavior. That's true. I should have been able to pick him. Yeah. I don't think that's a first offense. No one says it right now. The Meals on Wheels guy should have thought, wait a minute. Where's David? No. No, you're right. He's just a good planner. That's the guy that thinks Fun Dip is part of the food pyramid. All right. Here we go. Or he likes to do it while he's reading in his bed.

Fun Dip! Fun Dip! A man accused of breaking into a Farmington, Connecticut home used one of the oldest excuses in the book. Make that the good book. That's right. Suspect Levon Sarcassian allegedly said, God made him do it. The victim of the break-in came home Sunday and discovered the front door had been kicked in. Inside, Sarcassian had allegedly caused more than 10,000 in damages by smashing a Roman statue and marble table, as reported by the Hartford Courant. During his spree, Sarcassian also showered and dressed himself in the clothes of a deceased former resident of the house, according to investigators. When confronted by the resident, Sarcassian allegedly said, a light from above told him to do this, and that God wanted him to help the world. Cops charged him with burglary and criminal mischief, and bail was sent at $50,000. He has a history of bizarre run-ins with the law. This week's alleged home invasion would only add to his body of work. He was arrested in 2008 for threatening Kappa Sigma fraternity members at the University of Connecticut, and the dispute stemmed from a trip to Miami for two frat brothers and another man, paid for by Sarcassian. While on the jaunt with him, he provided the tree with drooling, cocaine, and a prostitute, but told them to keep quiet about it. The secret got out, and another Kappa Sigma member asked him about the wild adventure, which triggered the threats.

From there, he became increasingly menacing to fraternity members, which eventually prompted Yukon police to provide several days of protection for the victims. He got a suspended sentence in two years, probation for the conflict. God sent him. What are the… Now, here's the deal. Who keeps a bunch of clothes for a dead guy in your house? Yeah, that's what I was thinking the whole time. I was like, who keeps the former owner, deceased former owners, clothes? Well, I don't understand what they're trying to say. Like, the house was occupied, right? Uh-huh. Yeah. It could have been a spouse. I mean, that happens. Well, they're not a… Are they a former owner because they died? That's a weird way to put it. Is that like me to say, I own this house outright. Me and my wife used to own it, but she passed. That's unnecessarily said, isn't it? That's kind of… I mean, there's no reason to say it like that. But it sounds more like there was a man living there. He died.

Someone bought the house, and they kept his clothes. Yeah. That's what I was thinking. Oh, it says deceased. That's a weird thing to say. Deceased former resident of the house. That's some weird journalism. That's someone who used to live there. So it could have been… It doesn't talk about ownership. Why does it matter that he's deceased? Well, where did he get it from? Like, did they pack his clothes away and put him in the attic, and this guy went looting up there? Or were they still in the closet ready for action? I think they were still in the closet. It's this person's spouse. That's how I'm reading it. Just a resident. It's just a weird… It's a weird tidbit to include as part of the journalism. Yeah, yeah. They're trying to make him sound crazy. Okay. I can see that.

What kind of house is this anyway with a $10,000 statue and a granite table? Marble. Was it a marble table? Yeah. I think they had it coming. They're living a life of excess. Maybe he does work for a guy. You got extra clothes. Farmington, Connecticut. I like this that this guy showered before he put the clothes on, though. He went in, scrubbed himself down. It's respectful. You remember that story we had about that guy that got trapped in the shower and called the police because he thought the dogs outside the door were going to come after him? Yeah. What? Anyway. Are you saying a dude broke into the house, used the shower, and then the dogs tried to attack him, so he called the police? Yeah. The owner came home and then had dogs outside, and the guy was afraid to come out, so he was just locked in the bathroom, and he called the police to come get him out. But he took his goods off before he got into the bathroom, so he was stuck in there El Natural. Yeah.

Yeah. He didn't… Wow, that just seems interesting. What was he thinking? He left his sheeting out the hallway. I don't go in the bathroom without keeping my stuff on me. He found some of that Amish myth? Oh, it could be. Methamphetamines for the methamphetamines. I don't know. Big difference. You know, that's not bad. I think we just got more time. I think that guy's just wacky. Yeah, I think that guy's just insane. Yeah. All right, here we go. Where is Joel Cohen? I don't know. I got hungry. You ate Joel Cohen? It's over. That is exactly what I'm saying. End times. Here we go.

Mitsuyuki Akira, a researcher from Okoyama Laboratory, has developed steaks based on proteins from human excrement. I saw a video on this the other day. You saw a what? A video. They showed the whole process. That's really gross. Including the guy? Here we go. Let me give you the rest. And then you can talk about it. Tokyo Sewage approached the scientists because of an overabundance of sewage mud. They asked him to explore the possible use of the sewage, and Akita found that mud contained a great deal of protein because of all the bacteria. The researchers then extracted those proteins, combined them with a reaction enhancer, a reaction enhancer, and put in an exploder, which created the artificial steak. This sounds like the Aaron story, does it not? This is really gross. The meat, in quotes, is 63% proteins, 25% carbohydrates, 3% lipids, and 9% minerals, and 100% delicious. That's actually really good. The researchers color the poop meat red with food coloring and enhance the flavor with soy protein. Initial tests of people saying it even tastes like beef. I can't imagine someone being like, so what's this again? Then telling him to be like, okay, yeah.

You know, could I have some more of that, please? In that case, seconds. It's the guy that says, look, Tom, we have way too much sewage here. We need you to find out what to do with it. Can you make it into food? Eats! That's what we can do with it. Food! When it costs the same as, like, steak. Yeah, they said this. Why don't you go ahead and get a steak? They said the scientists, they hope to price it the same as actual meat, but at the moment the extra meat steaks are 10 to 20 times the price, they should be thanks to the cost of research. Well, couldn't he say, look, like, we turn it into fertilizer, or we can harden it and make a brick out of it or something? Can't you, like, get energy out of that or something? Yeah, can we burn it for fuel? Yeah. And this guy wants to eat it again. There's other things to do. Take it and dump it out in the ocean or something? Give it another go. If we recycle our water, why not that stuff? It's like, oh.

That's weird. I'm just, I'm grossed out right now. Like, there's not many things that I'll say no to when it comes to food. I wouldn't even try it. I don't, I wouldn't. I would not. Oh, I don't want to say that. No matter how much money. You thought you were sketchy about eating at a church potluck because you don't know who made the stuff? Think about that. You don't know where the excrement came from. Oh, by the way. I used the poo new poo meat. Listen to that. What are they calling it? Do they have a name for it? Yep. Uh, the, the title on the, um, uh, the title on the picture is Poop Burger. I really hope that's not the marketing, uh, classic Poop Burger. They had, they had video of it coming out like, like one of those giant, uh, Play-Doh machines. Oh, that's so gross. Why does it have to come out like that? I don't know. Spam.

Yeah. Uncovered. How do they get the texture like, I mean, the texture seems like it'd be the hardest part, wouldn't it? No, I can imagine the taste being pretty hard. I don't know if I'm the unrealistic one here. I tell you what though, this opens up an excellent opportunity, uh, for employment for people who would otherwise just cannot find gainful things to do. Wait a minute, I smell like crap anyway. I just go work there. You're looking for poop tasters? I said, I'm talking about the guy that's providing it. Steve. Gotta go to work today. Got a newspaper. Steve, we need more. I need X-Lex. Let's get this done. Oh, man. It just made it even worse putting a face on the madness. No, seriously, the, the, the, it's the process that gets me. Listen, the research extracts the proteins, combines them with a reaction enhancer, and puts it in an exploder, which creates the artificial steak. It's the gold in the errand. I don't know what happened, and then I had a steak made a poo.

This guy's like a physicist or something. Then he's a reaction enhancer, and then an exploder. And then an exploder. Those are the technical terms. That sounds like an eight-year-old designed this process. You grab the poo. We got this microwave for the poo, but we're going to call it the exploder so people don't correlate the two. But yeah, and here's a reaction. I can't imagine the other scientists wanted to let him borrow it. Hey, guys, I need the exploder. For what? I don't know about that. You want to make poo steak, and you want to take over? All right, wait, here. Here's the final sentence. Here we go. They hope that once the research is complete, people will be able to overlook that ugly detail in favor of perks like environmental responsibility, cost, and the fact that the meat will have fewer calories. You're welcome. Eat some wheatgrass. That's at least not already digested. Take a walk and burn the calories. It doesn't matter.

Eat a steak and go work out. Yeah, that's exactly true. I tell you what I'm doing. I'm willing to call this the end of the world. Yeah, I do. The end is near. This is the end of it. The Lord did not say, you know, here, I'll give you dominion over their animals and enjoy them for your sustenance. Oh, by the way, also follow around with a bucket. Just in case you don't kill the giraffe and eat it. Just follow its tail. Just take its step. Yeah. Yeah, is that true? Could vegetarians eat this? No, because you don't know what it's processed. Well, I suppose it depends on who you are, right? Because some vegans will say, like, any part of the process they won't take. Yeah, no, no, no. That's been, that was excrement from a person who ate meat, so I can't eat that. It's just like. Yeah. So, wait a minute. Is this coming from animals or people?

It's people. Possibly. Because it's human sewage. I guess unless the rhino was using the toilet. Human sewage. Human sewage. Yeah. So what does it look like or smell like when you put it in the microwave and heat it too long and it explodes? Oh, no. I don't know about that. Is that how you're making steak, Dan? It's your place? Microwave. Keep it out of the microwave. Is that why I didn't like steak growing up? This is chewy. He just nukes it. We're going to try this out on the kids. They'll never know. Gristle's just like, oh. Thank you. I'm going to vote as, well, I guess there's soy protein in it. I don't know. I guess it depends how committed a vegetarian you are would be my guess.

It's extremely, like, healthy. That's the good thing. I mean, it is. Your body got rid of it. It didn't want it. I understand the concept, but they add proteins to it. It truly, I mean, the way it broke down percentage-wise, it is healthier than steak. 9% lipids is not that at all. That's like me having an empty can of corn, throwing it away, putting a Twinkie in it, and giving it to you and saying, here, here's something to eat. You've taken something that is garbage, put food in it, and then said, here's the entire meal. I would rather take the corn than the Twinkie. And it's kind of like the cereals will say, this is part of a healthy breakfast. You have this sugar bowl with toast and orange juice. It's like, oh, don't get me wrong. I'm not going to be the one who's going to be like, yeah, let's design a marketing campaign for this because I'm really grossed out still. But I see where they're talking about when they say one of the – I can't believe you're trying to meet them halfway on this. What are the pros they're saying? I'm not meeting them halfway. I'm saying I agree with one of their pros. I don't see how mixing chemicals with human waste is healthy. Why don't you just eat the protein and skip the poop? There.

There we go. You need the breakdown again? Yeah, the breakdown of percentages. Okay, hold on. 9% lipids. I'm coming from the exploding stuff, right? No, no, 63% proteins, 25% carbohydrates, 3% lipids, and 9% minerals. That's extremely – I mean, if they're trying to say – So it's very lean. It's an alternative to steak. No fat. If they're trying to say it's an alternative to beef, they're absolutely right. So is chewing on your own shoe. No calories. It tastes the same. Came from a cow. What steak are you eating? Does it taste like your shoe? Or what kind of shoes do you have? I'm just saying if you're trying to find a healthy alternative to steak, eat a Ritz cracker. Let's sprinkle some protein on it. How filling is that going to be? No. Yeah. I'll take my three squares of poo a day.

Yeah, exactly. Then I will have this problem. Three square meals of human excrement every day, please. No, and I'm not saying, yeah, I'm going to be the guy that goes out and try it. This is why I don't eat at the church potluck. This is exactly the real thing. It's really healthy for you. Because if you can follow a rational line of thinking to where you're eating a poop burger, then I obviously cannot eat things that come from your kitchen. You make bad cooking decisions. I'm going to see what I can do and see how expensive it is to have one of these shipped over to me. I'm going to come over to your house. We're going to cook. At least they don't have to bring it in a refrigerated truck. It can't spoil. It's already unwanted. We're going to cook some steaks out, and I'm going to hand you the poo steak. And you're not even going to know. I'm not coming over. That's a guarantee. I'm coming over to your house. If you bring a poop meat burger sandwich over to my place, I'll bury you in a hole. It'll be worth it because this hole, I will be enjoying myself thinking to myself, I've got to like to eat the poo steak. And then I'll wait until you get fed by the worms for a while, and then I'll cook you, I guess.

I'll show you to the Japanese, and we'll eat it. We're going to eat for years. The end is near. That's it. I think the end is near. Yeah, they planned this through. It wasn't like a wild accident on a drinking binge. They did it on purpose. It was like a lot of funding and science and research, and they're doing it on purpose. We have taken the instrument that the Lord has provided with a digestive system that says, here's what we can't use, and said, let's use it. Let's try that again. Your second chance. I'm even more useful now. I wish I knew whether that guy was married or not, because here's the deal. I barely get away with any sort of wild hair idea with my wife, but I can't imagine, what did you do at work today? Well, I'll tell you what we've done. Synthesize some poo steak. Oh, wait, wait, wait. Don't flush it. Sweetie. Sweetie. Get the net. Oh, come on.

That could have been our dinner. Oh, my goodness. Disaster. Oh, man. That's funny. Part of a balanced breakfast, if you eat something else. You have something entirely different. You'll be healthy. If you eat a protein shake with this bowl of cereal, you'll be good. All right. All right. So, all right. That's the end of the world, boy. End of the world. We don't see that many ends of the world, but that's going to do it. All right. Here we go. Principal Terry Eisenbarth apologized to parents and children at Washington Elementary School in Mount Vernon, Iowa, in May, and promised to stop his ritual whammies, in which he summons kids on their birthdays to his office, sings happy birthday to them, and ceremony spanks the child's backside with a cushion hockey stick. What? DeWine registered May 27th. Does he say whammy? Is this a school?

Whammy. I like that he calls them whammies. Are you ready for your whammy? It's like, no, that's just creepy. I don't know. That is weird. I think it's awesome. That's local. I just lie. He's not awesome. There's no reason for it. It's just being funny. It's a cushioned hockey stick. No. He's still spanking the bottom of a child and going, whammy. Are they alone in his office? Please come to my office on your birthday. Here's the deal. I don't have a birthday. Let me tell you this. Here's what I think, though. It's not his fault that there's a bunch of perverts around and the culture has demonized the man with the cushioned hockey stick who likes to whammy the children. That is weird in the first place. I don't see the culture that doesn't find that.

Here's the thing. If my child was misbehaving and they needed a whammy, I'm more okay with that than I am a fun whammy on your birthday. That's just teaching the wrong stuff. Especially, I mean, because the only way it can go down is, happy birthday to you, big silly green whammy. Get out of here, you little scamp. Come on. There's some wrong way. Don't tell your mom. It's still a count. It's still a count with the number of wax equals the child's age. It's at an elementary school, so at the most, what are you, 10 or 11? 11 waxed with the whammy? You watched the wrong kid. Like, some 10-year-old's going to grab the stick and whammy him with it. He apologized to parents and kids. And he promised to stop his ritual whammy. Based on, I mean, what was his explanation? I'm sorry. Sorry for the whammy. I'm sorry I whammyed your children. It was all good fun. That's like finding something that's not good fun and calling it good fun and then apologizing for it.

It's like me coming up to your house in my car, repeatedly rear-ending your vehicle in its driveway, and then you saying, that's outrageous, and I go, oh, man, you're right. You know what? I'm sorry. It was a good time. Some people take it the wrong way. Sorry about your statue, man. It was all good fun. By the way, I used the shower. Put on your dead husband's clothes. He had great taste. I appreciate it. And it fits me. I just don't understand people do stuff like that and then try to be like, plead the innocent card. Like, I had no idea this would be interpreted as offensive. Now, listen here. I was physically striking all the children. I can just imagine him being in front of the crowd and being like, my bad. I didn't mean to. And someone gave him a ceremonial whammy as a sender. Here's the thing. He's an employee of the state. The government is paying this man. To whammy children.

I suppose that would be, if you think of it in like terms, it would be like someone at the DMV giving you a whammy. What's your birthday? Today! Whammy! Or the judge? Or the judge at the trial? Whammy! We noticed that you were speeding. Whammy! I didn't know that was inappropriate. Excuse me. It says ritual whammies though. So like, it would imply that he's done this for more than one year. Yeah, that's even better. Yeah. He's been doing this for like 30 years. As long as I've been doing it all the time, then I guess it's okay. I guess what I'm saying is, is like, how did it not come out until now? Like, is there just one kid who decided he didn't like it? Because there was probably one parent who decided it. People have been whammied for a long time, apparently. How has that been okay? Or possibly the kids are so scared of a principal that's more than willing to outright whammy your butt in the middle of school.

They're just like, this guy's creepy enough to do this. I'm not telling you about this. This wouldn't be near the story if he didn't call them whammies. Oh, that's true. Yeah, the fact that he finds this way too fun is ridiculous. I'd say we've got more time. The story doesn't explain him enjoying himself. But who calls him whammies? Well, you're imagining it. Like he's got a big clown grin on his face and he keeps a stick in a case or something. He's got to unlock it in jazz. I'd say we've got more time. He's a little creepy, but I think we've got more time. I agree. All right, here we go. Ryan Martin, 29, and Erica Claiborne, 20, nine-year age difference, were charged with reckless endangerment in Derry Township, Pennsylvania, in April. After Martin was shot in the jaw. Here's the classic. The couple were playing a game resembling Marco Polo with a loaded handgun. And with an eye closed, Claiborne firing when Martin shouted, Gun! Martin was supposed to duck out of the way before Claiborne pulled the trigger. What? Gun!

Marco, gun! Marco. I can't take it. Marco, gun! That's just stupid. Wait, see, I get, I mean, he's blindfolded, he hears gun, so he just points and shoots? Or did I misinterpret that? So how do you play Marco Polo, right? You come up out of the water and you say Marco, and the other person goes, Polo. And their eyes are closed. And you try to jump at him and get him. Right. So this person, I think, is saying something, and the response is, gun. And they have to duck? So, Marco, gun! And then they're supposed to shoot wherever they heard gun. And this guy got shot in the face. Who wants to win? It was just like, dude, I'll hold the gun. I really hope you get me. Like, I'm really sick of being the dude who yells gun. I really hope you get me so I can play Marco. That has got to be the stupidest thing I've ever heard of. Were they drunk? Actually, I have a very similar story with underwater fireworks.

A friend of mine, we were in Davenport or something, at a hotel. And they bought some underwater fireworks that they were going to throw in the pool. But they wanted to test to make sure it worked first, you know. So they filled up the sink, left the fuse out, and a guy had scissors. And he goes, okay, when it gets underwater, we'll make sure it burns for the law and then cut it before it gets to the firework. This is stupid. This is a stupid plan. Of course, they didn't cut it in time. So it blew up in the bathroom and caused lots of damage. I think I was sitting in the other room. There was a green ball of light and dudes jumping like they were rolling, you know, like a movie style, jumping out of a car. They come flying out of the bathroom, horizontal, and then there was smoke. So we had to cover up the smoke detector, and then we had to send a couple friends outside on the balcony and act like they were smoking. Yeah. So it wasn't obvious. We had a bunch of dudes out, like, holding cigarettes as if they're creating all the smoke that's coming out of the thing. That was the cover-up plan. That's awesome. Well, we're doing this. Some dude's got, like, four cigarettes. He's like, this is all me. It was a disaster. We replaced the – basically remodeled the bathroom so as to not get charged for the damage. Underwater fireworks do work, though. Apparently.

M80s work fine, too. Just throwing that out there. Don't try that at home, kids. Yes. M80s work fine. So the end is near. We have more time. I think that's just people being stupid. I'm trying not to say the end is near, but a dude that just yells, gun, and is supposed to duck from a bullet. Is this a couple? A man and a woman? Yeah, yeah. Ryan Martin. See, this is the thing. The man – okay. I cannot imagine the woman that says, yes, let's do this thing. I think this is a natural selection, isn't that – but that's about the survival of the strongest and the – Yeah, that's true. Darwin bringing that into this. Or maybe they got cocaine from Sarkozy there earlier, and they were all fired up on stuff. Yeah, she seems to be more than willing to supply it as long as you don't tell anybody. Yeah. A creeper.

They'll weed themselves out. And then the second she got shot in the jaw, the principal camera ran behind him. Whammy! Whammy! As just for added effect. Hey, you just got shot in the jaw, but here's a whammy. Enjoy it. All right, here we go. See, if they were playing whammy, no one would have got hurt. That's right. We would have had to apologize later, but people would have been fine. Eventually, I just said, hey, sorry about the whammies. I just can't imagine the parents just being like, oh, it's okay. So what was that, more time? Or into the world? The hit is near for them. I got shot in the jaw. I don't know how you overcome that in a relationship. Like, hey, remember that time you shot me in the face when we were playing Marco Gunn? Yeah, that was some good times. Ten years later, you know, I'm really sorry about that still. Maybe you just celebrate the good aim. You were supposed to duck. Here we go. Everywhere you look, people are telling you how to go green.

Walk, recycle, compost, turn off the water, turn off the lights. But it looks like there's one place in America that didn't get the memo. The firehouse in Livermore, California has a light that's been on for how many years, Troy? 118. Mike? I don't know. I haven't heard a story. You're taking a guess. Oh, seven. It's 110. 110 years. I've heard about that before. This isn't more like an Indy's Deer. This is just a… Wait a minute. They changed… It's the same bulb? It's the same bulb. Same filament. Like, everything. It's in, like, the top ceiling part of the firehouse. And they have, like, visitors who can come and see this thing. And it's been continuously going. How is that possible? There you go.

So here's a live cam. This is the bulb cam. This is… It's a live camera so we can see this bulb on. That's great. You know what would be so horrible? It refreshes every 30 seconds. If some… We just, like, we're watching this right now and some dude runs up and just throws a rock at it. What's wrong with you, Troy? I thought that'd be really funny. Whammy. What do you mean? This means a lot to somebody and you want to vandalize it? It's a bulb. That's the first thing you come up with is violence? No, I never said I was going to be the dude. I said this would be horrible, but… You're going to watch. Here's 20 bucks. Okay, so you're too chicken to put your plan into action, but you want some other miscreant to do it? I apologize that I'm immature enough to think that that would be hilarious. It was just good fun.

All right, so here's… Yeah, it was all good fun. It is whammy. Here's some facts on this bulb. It's 110 years and counting as of June 2011. It was first installed at the fire department courthouse and moved to the main firehouse in 1903. It was moved over to the first station, and that's where it's been there ever since. It's a four-watt bulb, but they have no plans for it afterwards. They throw festivals around it. You can email it. You can send an email to it at Hotmail. I didn't realize it was that extensive. I don't know how… Why is it running this long? Did you say four-watt? Four-watt bulb. See, it's a hand-blown bulb with carbon filament. It began at 60 watts. It currently shines at four watts. It left burning continuously in the firehouse head. As a nightlight over the fire trucks, for more research test results on another bulb, you can follow the link. Huh. You can visit it.

You can visit the bulb, depending on the availability of the fireman on hand. Go to the rear of the station and ring the bell. Oh, that seems like a mistake. Otherwise, you can see the bulb if you look through the window up on the top of the wall to your left. There it is. Okay, now I feel really bad. That you were going to break it? Yeah, I didn't realize there were that much festivities around it. Yeah, there's an economic boom going on there. The link's on the website. Is this what our entertainment is coming to? Like, we have the movies, we have the video games, then the bulb can't. There's a book about it. Oh, hey, they got awards. There's a letter from President George W. Bush, Senator Barbara Boxer, Ellen Tauscher. The State Senate of California has recognized it. Are you serious, California? They hate everything. But this one energy hog bulb has been going on for 180 years. Is it in Shelby, Ohio? Yeah. Okay, I was going to say, if it's not in Shelby, Ohio, that's going to make no sense. Because the city of Shelby, Ohio recognizes it. They got kids' books.

The Little Light Shines Bright. Should we send them a certificate? Live from the past. Live from the past certifies this bulb. We should totally send them one. Do it. Let's do it. We recognize this bulb. Here's the party. Donkey bulb of the year. Here's the 2011 celebration. They had another party for the bulb on June 18, 2011. An afternoon of food and fun and a walk down memory lane. Of bulbs. There's some guys. Hanging out like, look at the white bulb and air bulbs. This is where we're waiting. People are always, are too, you know, they're overstimulated. This is what they want. Look how popular that stupid eagle cam is. I was, yeah. It's still going on. I think we should show that. I don't know. I haven't looked at it forever.

It's still going on. One of them flew away. Good. What's the matter with you? No kidding, Troy. You're a callous person. So, I'm callous because the baby eagle flew away. Isn't that the point? First of all, you want to break a century-old bull just so you can laugh at it. And eat poo steak. I never said I would eat it. I said I would make Mike eat it. A bird leaves its family and you overjoyed. Okay, so do you cry every night when you go to sleep for every bird that leaves their family? I'm not picking one extreme to the other. I'm just okay with it. I'm not throwing a party. I don't know. You know what? Yes. God riddance. Another bird family broken up. God. I'm sick of that bird. He's probably a Republican anyway.

Wow. He's an eagle. Definitely. Such a conservative. I'm sick of it. You're listening to Life in the Path. I don't know what's happened to you, Troy. Obviously, my work day was very long enough to the point that I was so callous and mean. This is not a one-day event. Something over the last two weeks has molded you into a curmudgeon of a human being. A curmudgeon of a human being. They have a festival. There would be little kids crying because the bulb went out. And you would be standing on the town square going, Holding the charge just like on my knees. And this is the rock that did it. Every single person in that town. I can honestly imagine the firemen like holding up the bulb shattered pieces. That's all they've known their entire lives. They've never known that bulb not shining. Unless someone who's 111 years old. I don't think so. Nope. You never know. They can't see anymore anyway.

Exactly. Troy's dastardly deeds are the end is near. Dastardly deeds. That's how we're going to end it. The end is near. Troy O'Connor. Wow. You might actually correct Lashley. I need to identify you appropriately. I need to identify you appropriately. Oh, man. Good job, Ben. You were listening to Life in the Bath. The end is… No more biblical signs of the apocalypse. That's beautiful. It is. That's creepy. Yeah. He's still… He's not dancing for anybody on the… That's watching the show. You guys need to see me. Oh, bummer. All right.

You listened to Life in the Path. Those were the non-biblical signs of the apocalypse. So, what? The meat made out of human poo did us in. Yeah. That was the end. Yeah. And Spankenhauser did us in. And his violence. Yeah. My violence. And a torn bird famous. I don't know. The guy… The Marco gun thing. That's pretty bad. The whammies are funny. Whammy creeps me out. That guy's in Iowa. We should call him. What are you going to say to him? I don't know. We'd like to get your official statement on… Do you call them whammies? Or is that just something the journalists…

I tell you what, Troy. If I can get him in here, will you let him give you a whammy on air? I probably would. Yes. Yes. While we're saying happy birthday. Hey, my birthday's July 23rd. So, if you can do it then, that's cool. 7-23. Perfect. Hey, for your birthday, you should take us out to F&O's. That ain't no kidding. So, for my birthday, I'm taking you out to F&O's. Do you want a whammy or an F&O's? I am broke as a joke right now. So, hopefully, I have enough money on that day. I'd be more than happy to. How are you going to afford to go to this place in Indiana and violence their light? If that's your deal. It's Ohio. Oh. It's even farther. Throwing it out there. Shelby. That's why you keep missing.

Yeah, I know. I keep going to random towns in Indiana. I'm like, where's this bulb? No. I don't plan on going. I just thought it would be funny if someone did. And now I take back the funny because that would be absolutely horrible because I didn't realize it was that big of a deal. He's broke as a joke. Yes. All right. Was that really the only thing you focused on about everything I just said? I said, I'm broke as a joke. You had me at broke as a joke. I'm going to bulge my true feelings about this light bulb. He was trying to figure out what 80s movie you stole that from. Broke as a joke? I was rhyming it in my head. Basically, after he said that, I was like, broke as a joke and a cloak and a cloak. And that's what was going on in my head. I don't have no idea what he was saying. Broke as a joke when a bulb is broke. And I'll hide in my cloak if I rock. Your songs are weird, Troy. My bad.

You're a weird character. I need to work on my poetry. All right. So here's the deal. People on Facebook, they post scripture. And the question is, what is the appropriate response? I hate it. What? I don't know what to say. Yeah. You know what I mean? You can't disagree with it. You don't have to comment on it. Like there's, it doesn't have to be commented on for it to stay on Facebook. I would defriend, I defriend people that do that. I do that. I know. And I'm still on your friends list. And also, I do post what day of the week it is. Yeah. You're on your friend. And then I post. You're on the ignore list. I'm on the ignore list. I don't see your posts, but you still believe that you're my buddy.

Oh, that's good to know. Yeah. When I go home tonight, I'm just going to take you off. I forgot people could do that. Well, that explains a couple of things. That they can block you. It's the best. Yeah. No. In all honesty, if someone puts it on their Facebook, you don't have to comment on it. Just a little tidbit of a reminder. Like, the thing I put today, I didn't expect any comments. What did you put today? I put, if anyone would like to do me a favor, if you were to contact Bill Gates or Oprah and ask them for a couple thousand dollars apiece for me, I would really appreciate it. That's not a Bible verse. No, it's not a Bible verse. I'm saying it's a comment. You sent out something that said, hey, if anybody would like to do X and X, and you said, I did not expect anybody to respond. It was a joke. Like, I didn't put that on my Facebook, expecting someone to call up Oprah and be like, hey, Oprah, can you just have a triangle thing or a couple thousand dollars? Did you not expect someone to comment on what you put out there? No.

I don't care if anyone comments on it, so I'm not sitting up all day waiting for someone to comment on my Facebook. But if you didn't care at all, why wouldn't you just think it to yourself and go, ha, and then move on? Just in case someone else got a ha from it. They didn't have to comment saying they got a ha. Oh, dear God. And then you can't. I love me, but don't say so. That would be outrageous. Fine. Fine. Completely cut that out. Back to the Bible verse. Hey. You put it on there. You read it. I'm clever, but don't mention it. I'm awesome, but you don't have to tell anyone. No, you put a Bible verse on there, someone can read it, and then possibly think about it, and then ponder upon life's mysteries. I ignore it. I've never known anybody that could dig such a big hole as you. You go, you keep talking, and you keep digging, and you keep digging, and two minutes in, you look like a complete jerk.

Everyone that's watching this or will watch this, I've been dealing with this for about five, six years now. It's complete. I'm immune to it. I really don't care. And as I'm… So what I was saying… Gonna need a wheelbarrow. But I'm in the hole. I broke my shovel. I broke my shovel. Okay, so what's the answer? What's the answer to this Bible verse section? Well, so, I mean… Now, okay, is it different if you just put a Bible verse out there? Or if you say, here's what I'm reading through right now, and then hit people with it? Is that acceptable? I think that's good. If it's just a verse, I usually skip over it. It's because… But if you were to say something like, hey, man, I'm really feeling this today, or I needed this encouragement, or something like that, is that different? Or here's what I've learned, this is what's jumping out at me, or… I like that. Especially verses that I don't normally jump out at me.

I like it when people get excited about a verse that I found to be second string. I put it on the bench, like, eh, that verse really didn't mean anything. Yeah, that's just someone else. And then someone else finds it, and I say, man, it means more than I thought. That's really great. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I may have used the verse before. Usually when something very significant is going on, I'll throw a verse out of it. I can't… I don't remember ever doing it, but I probably have. No, I do remember doing it. You did it when Osama Bin Laden died. Did they? Mm-hmm. Oh, like the whole… What did I put? Oh, no, no, no. I don't remember. Something about… I skipped over it. It was on the zone. It wasn't I'm really digging on this, so I gave up on it. I remember doing something. Because everybody was either celebrating or whatever, and I thought, I'm going to do something… I can't remember.

I can't remember what I put. No. You can look it up. I think… How far back can you go? I have a hard time when people just write the Bible verse, because I think that they're talking to me directly in a condescending manner. Yeah. Like, I know Jesus. You need to know more about Jesus. Mike Foose needs this passage today. Mike Foose needs this. Most of what I post, I think… You are the only person who thinks that. I don't think so. No, I'm the same way. If your name is tagged in it… Danielle feels about that. Seriously. Because it's like, oh, I'm so great that you all need to know this verse. Yeah. Well, I'll tell you first-handed that that's not what I'm trying to portray. It's like an advertisement, really. But not for God, the person that posted it. Yeah.

Like, they look holy. I'm a deep thinker. Check me out. Yeah. Okay, I apologize from now on. I will make sure that I completely ignore you guys out of my posts, just so I don't offend any of you. Don't worry. It's already done. All right. Pre-filtered. Thank you, Mike. Actually, I get straight. I get straight, Troy. I like to see what he's up to. He's still on my thing. I see what he does. I knew it was. I knew it. Thanks, guys. I knew it. Thanks, guys. They like me. Do you ever thumbs up other people's scripture? Because people like that.

When you post a scripture and your pastor gives it the thumbs, people like it. Oh, I never thought of that. People probably do like your approval of the scripture. Or if your pastor completely bashes you down on the comment. He caught me being holy. That's true. You don't want to be more Jesus than when the pastor comes around because then you and him are on the same level for a little while. Like, I'm being super Jesus and you love Jesus too right now. Me and the pastor are on the same Jesus level. People like that. Yeah. I don't know. I've never. You should do that, Dan. I don't like all the Bible verses. Yeah. I like this because I like Jesus. But don't, intentionally don't like the pictures of their kids at their third birthday party or something. I don't like. Whammy. You know, and you also get, you also get, who is it? So you get the pastor and then the guy that wants to, wants to argue with you about it. Right.

I tend not to, I don't like to, if there's a certain scripture that I'm thinking about or whatever, like I may, I don't recall doing it. What is that? Sound like wind. But, uh. That's exactly what I thought. I'm not going to lie. If it was, would you? Oh. Hey. Of other things, this is also what's keeping us out of the big time. I didn't say it in an accusatory manner. I just said it sounded like the wind. The wind filter. A professional radio man would say, hey man, he would think in his mind, I think I heard somebody wind in here. I better not mention it because we're on the radio. Not this crowd. Hey, is that wind? Hey, let's stop what we're talking about. Hey, it's live from the path, not filtered from the path. It sounded like a wind. Anyway. I'm just, I'm just. That was creepy.

You do get, uh, you do get the theological debate of the guy that wants to look at it and say, uh, oh, you know, you know, you're not reading that verse in its right context or, uh, you must be reading the new King James. Do you ever consider doing it, uh, just so maybe, uh, your non-Christian buddies know where you're at? Throw something about Jesus out on there because you're like, you know what, maybe I haven't let anyone know that I'm living a Christian lifestyle. Wham-o. He is the way, the truth, and the lies. Post it. I think if you end with wham-o, that probably, uh, just defeats it, I think. Oh, I thought it just kind of drives it home. Wham-o? It just is way too creepy, like a padded hockey stick. I don't know. I'm just going to shut up, so I hope no one minds that I just stop talking entirely. Well, that's fine. How often do you post a Bible verse, would you say, Troy? Not very often at all. Do you ever, do you quote the whole thing or just reference the number, like Mark 17, three? See, I look those up when people do that. When people say, like, uh, 2 Thessalonians, get me fired up today, then I'll go read 2 Thessalonians. You do that? I don't know.

I don't ever, I've never, I've not read Thessalonians. Huh. All right. Anyway. You've never read Thessalonians? Is it in the Old Testament? It's new. No. Dude, we read that in the LTG not, uh, a few months back. I've read it. First and 2 Thessalonians. I don't recall. It's my favorite. What it's about. Thessalonica. That's what I remember. Paul was mad at him. Oh, it's a joke. Okay, no him or her, uh, at the, uh, Egalia preschool, staff avoid using words like him or her and address the 33 kids as friends rather than girls and boys. What? Friends. Hey. Society expects girls to be girly, nice and pretty, and boys to be manly, rough and outgoing, says Jenny Johnson, a 31-year-old teacher.

Egalia gives them a fantastic opportunity to be whoever they want to be. No, that's what God wants them to be. You're ruining it. Oh my gosh. That's just ridiculous. Why? What about, what's ridiculous? Not what you said. I'm talking about that. What do you mean? I, calling your, you can't just say it's ridiculous. There's a conversation to be had. Okay, fine. Why is it ridiculous, Troy? Okay. Please talk to the microphone closer. She's offended because, or in some way impacted that society expects boys to be big and manly and girls to be girly. Yeah, that, that happens, but you're not going to eliminate by calling all the kids friends because eventually they're going to realize, yes, I'm a girl or yes, I'm a boy. And if they don't, you're not teaching them the right stuff. So, well, so here's what she said. Those, those bent on shattering generals say there's a hierarchy where everything that bullies do is given higher value. But I wonder who decides that it is higher value, she says.

Why is there higher value in playing with cars? I didn't realize that was the case. Who assigns stuff like that? That's just ridiculous. That is absolute. I think she has a chip on her shoulder about the way she was brought up and she's trying to flow it on people. Yeah. Like a dad that loved her brothers and he didn't know how to give her a hug or something. Look, dad, I can play with cars. I may not be the only one, but I hear women talk about all the time, not women in general, some women that I've met before talking about how their husband brings home the bacon or whatever and that like that. And I'm like, okay, so you expect, you know, men to provide for you and come out like this, but then you are completely for, I mean, women and men's equality, but then you're also counteracting itself by saying, you know what, my husband provides for me and I don't have to do anything. I'd like to distance myself from Troy's comments. That's entirely fine. I am not married and I am not worried about offending any women. Again, views expressed here are not from a lie from the path that's an entity, but only That is my opinion, 100%. The sole participants in the conversation, mostly Troy Galear. If I offended someone, I apologize. That is just my observation of the situation.

What a yellow-bellied response. That's just saying. Manly men. By the way, if I hurt your feelings, I really apologize. I'm not saying I'm a manly man. I am more than happy to cry. I'm more than happy to play with dolls when I'm hanging out with any little girl that I know or something like that. Hold on, hold on. What I'm saying is… Let me get you another shovel because the one you got is not big enough. Without any rebuttal, in all honesty, it has nothing to do with manly men. The manly man thing kind of thing is, like, I go hunting. I go fishing. I do this. I don't cry. I cry all the time. I hate hunting. I hate fishing. I am more than happy to lay on my bed and read a book. More than happy to. With my legs flinging in the air, my ponytails all up, and my lollipop, whatever you wanted to say earlier, it's ridiculous that that's how people say society co-enacts with this and says this is what happens. However, there are women and there are men who say this about this gender and this about

this gender, but it's all about equality. I think that's absolutely shattered. It truly is. And when you try and call your kids friends… Do you think there's such things as effeminate dudes? What? Do you think there's such things as effeminate dudes? Dudes that tend to, like, oh, like graphic designers or… Yeah, absolutely, and there's nothing wrong with it. Or people who work at Sears. People who work at Sears. Yeah, I'm effeminate. Sure. I think there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. So, but are you saying they're naturally effeminate? Some people do. God created them effeminate. I think that I'm emotional, and by some people saying that, and I'm willing to cry, some people say that because of that, I'm not a man. Don't personalize this now. I didn't say… Okay, fine. Troy was a woman. I said, do you think that the Lord created dudes, that the dudes that are effeminate, he created them effeminate?

Do you find any effeminate traits of dudes in the Bible? Do you find effeminate dudes? Now, there are some effeminate… I know Laban seemed kind of like a weasel. Well, Jacob was an effeminate fella. He was a bit girly. Moses was frail. What do you mean he was girly? He was a mama's boy. So that makes him girly? He wrestled with the angel. He was cooking. He can't be that. So that makes him girly. He was cooking. What's wrong with him? What's wrong with a man cooking? His brother was out there killing wild beasts, and he was in there with his… You're saying his brother was more manly because he was hunting. He was more girly because he was cooking. Yes. You are saying two stereotypes right there. The man is hunting and the girl is cooking. Now, in that culture, that would be definitely true. Do you know how stereotypes come about?

Because they're 95% true. Yeah. They say Chinese women are bad drivers. 95% of them are. That's why it's a stereotype, and it's pretty close to being true. That's statistically proven that 95% of Asian women are bad drivers. Yes. Statistically proven. Yes. Pull up the statistics. I don't have to show you anything. I don't keep notes. But if you're saying it's statistically proven, it has to be proven statistically. I'm saying the stereotypes are generally backed up by fact on the majority. It's not about the majority, though. Why is it about the minority? You have to break it down into singularities. I don't have to do anything. I think you should break it down into singularities. Just because, yeah, you can call me a feminist. So you just got done saying that it's ridiculous that people are placating to their individualism in preschool, but then you want to break it down into the singular. That's not individualism. When they're calling all their students friends, how is that individualism? Because they're avoiding calling each other boys and girls.

So by calling them all friends, you're saying that's individualism? They're taking away your individuality by calling you friends and not a boy and a girl. And that's why I'm saying I don't think that's right. You just told me to break it down to the singular. And what I'm saying is I have said since the beginning that I think that calling all of your students friends is wrong because eventually, no matter what, they're going to figure out, okay, I'm a girl or, okay, I'm a boy. How are you going to stop anything that she's trying to stop by calling her preschool kids friends when someday they're going to figure out that I'm a girl or I'm a boy? I'm hoping that they've figured out whether they're boys or girls by the time they're in school. Exactly. Hopefully that has – it just makes absolutely no sense to me. That's kind of like Little League when all the liberals think we're not going to keep score because we don't hurt feelings. Every one of those kids knows who won and who didn't. And the parents are telling them if they don't figure it out. Yeah. I mean, you know. I think that – I just don't understand the concept. I don't understand why she's doing it. Well, I mean, they're insinuating that there is a social construct to gender as if the gender rules – the gender experience was not somehow innate, right? That men don't – that is the culture that's causing the problem, not what's inside of us, that there aren't specific roles for us. Like we would look at it from a godly perspective and say God has created man and God has created woman, and he has given direction for both on what their lives look like and what their roles are on the earth and in the family. And I would say that's innate. She looks at it and says we are not allowing people to be themselves because we are constricting them to this construct of what a gender should be within a society. Which goes from the whole frame of mind that says, you know, gender is not all that specific anyway.

I mean, some places are having scales of – it's not really girl or boy. There's something in between girl and boy, and it's all part of the – honestly, the gay and lesbian agenda, which is – I hate to get into that, but it's – there's just creepy things they're doing that are just like they're afraid to have men be men and women be women. Well, like a – if you were to bust out like the – how can I say this? Like the average man portrayed in the Bible, he would be absolutely hated in our society pretty much in general. Like he just wouldn't. You know, and I don't know. Like I do believe that. I do believe the Lord has created men and women obviously different. He would be hated by the liberals. He'd be a great leader that people would run to. Look at – somebody mentioned Driscoll in here. Look at him, Mark Driscoll. People flock to his church because he stands up and says, here's how it is. True. He doesn't, you know – You know, I heard him say something the one time is he had a lady that was going to his church and came up and argued with him after one of his sermons and said, Paul is a misogynist and a bigot. And he goes, at least I know she read it. It was like – like he goes, I can tell at least that she read Paul. And I don't agree with her opinion, but I can at least tell that she read it based upon her interpretation of it. You know, because from our – from the current cultural perspective, you look at a guy like Paul and – you know, especially if you take him out of context. But even then, I mean, the way that he describes men and women and their role is extremely offensive to some people. Yeah. And that's because they take it out of context.

They take it only half the perspective. If both are doing their role correctly, it's easy for both to do their role. Yeah. Yeah. They either like to – I mean, it's particular when they talk about the roles of husbands and wives. If you start with take the wife first and then stop, she looks like a slave. Exactly. You know, if you take the dude first and stop, it looks like he's being trampled all over by his wife. Yeah. You know, but when you put them together, he laid out both – They complement each other. Yeah, exactly. They fill each other's voids. Anyway. It was weird. It's always been weird. I was thinking about it when we were talking about gender stuff is that they do the studies and they talk about how ladies are paid less. Ladies tend to make less than men. And there's a number of like legitimate reasons for that, which is women don't tend to be in the workforce as long because they stop to have kids or whatever. And they get up all in arms about it. And I was thinking about that. I wrote a paper on this for school once and I – and the thought basically was who's getting the wrong side of the – who's getting the wrong side of the thing there? Like the guy, you know, doesn't take time off to raise his kids. He's working. He spends a lot of time outside of the home.

The lady gets paid less but spends time with her kids. It's like the guy actually is in like overall value of life. That's – the guy is on the shorter end of the stick because like Luke, he's the guy that's being – he's not being screwed but like, you know, which is worth more ultimately? Like the more you make per hour or the time that you're being able to spend with your family, the time that you're being able to lead. Like the guys have created a culture in which we look at the money they make and we give value and forget how much value they're losing by spending all their time raising the bar and making the money. You know, if we were looking at it from a broader perspective, a reasonable person would say the guy has the shorter end of the stick. He's done it to himself but he's the guy with the short end. Like you look at the lady and you say, well, she makes less per hour and that – I mean there's people that are actually straight up discriminating against ladies. I'm not saying that doesn't happen. But like generally speaking, it's just a – it's a form – it's a function of, you know, what their lives look like. And I – if I had to compare the two, I would generally say that the lady's life tends to be worth – have more value to it, inherent value than what the guy's life is even though he makes more money per hour. That's true. Like I can come home and hear a story from, you know, my wife about the kids and she'll remember that story for years to come, you know. It's like, you know, remember that one time that, you know, Grace did this or blah, blah, blah or, you know, she was doing this. And then my story is – remember that day that I went to work and it was just like yesterday? Had a really good break time. And it was just the day before. I brought peanut butter and a pickle sandwich. That was pretty all right, you know. That's true. It probably – like, like, don't get me wrong, like, the stress of being an at-home mom is pretty brutal from what I can understand. And obviously I don't think that I am capable of handling it, which is why I believe that the Lord created us as two separate beings. Like, there's ways that my wife can provide for our kids that I just couldn't do it. And I love my kids to death. The whole nurturing thing.

And I just don't – I don't have it. Like, I just don't have it. You're like, suck it up, get over it. Yeah, I just – I don't know. Like, I don't know, there's just something about – I don't know. I mean, she'll wake up in the middle of the night, that kid doesn't need more than turn around funny. And she goes, there's something funny about – she must not be feeling right. And I'm like, maybe she's just turning over. I don't know. You know, and she's dead on. The kid's got a fever or something, you know. And I would just let her go. Like, well, she's fine. She'll go back to sleep. I don't know. And I think God's done that. Like, I just – I don't have that. And I don't know. Like, I really appreciate that on the other half of my wife, you know, that she has that. I think some of the negative part of society of as they have paid women more, they have paid men less. There's only so much money to go around. So what happens is so many families now really need both working at some level. I mean, to have whatever – I mean, it's a choice to whatever lifestyle they want. But that's why so many of them are both working. So the kids suffer is what's happening.

They're being raised in daycares and raised by strangers and – People that want to spank them with hockey sticks. Hockey sticks and – it's awful. Whammy. Whammy. Think if you found out your kid's daycare was doing that. But really, I mean, it's pretty tough for just a guy, just an average Joe guy, not big exec guy, but just Joe dude to go out and get a job and make enough money for their family just on his income. It's tough. It can happen, but it's not as – it's fairly rare. You're going to live at a lower standard than everybody else probably. Yeah, you're going to live at a concentrated standard. And many people can choose that. Like you're going to have to watch it. You know, you have to watch every dime you have. And that's – people, you know, they're not comfortable in that existence, you know. Like you always feel like, man, if I just had just a little bit more, maybe I wouldn't have to watch every single dime I have, you know. And people get exhausted living a life like that, you know, that they watch $20 come in and they see their budget is $19.80 and they go – Exactly. Oh, bummer. But it's the value. I mean, it's the value that you're adding. You know, does that other person working – it may add money to the budget,

but did it add value to your life? Did you add, you know, substance to your kid's existence? Did you, you know – Right. I mean, we've always been – you know, we could have made a lot more money than we do. But, you know, Cheryl's never had a full-time job since we've had kids. Before we had kids, she had a full-time job, great benefits, all that good stuff. And she's always had a part-time job. Well, then when the kids were old enough that they were both in school, then she has a school job where when they're home, she's home, which that's worked out well. But still, it's not like a 12-month-a-year – Yeah. Yeah. And so it's worked out. And I've had a flexible enough schedule. Like when the kids were really young, she had like just a morning hours job. So I took, you know, one day off a week, but I split between two days. So, like, Danielle spent 12 hours a week at a preschool, you know, type of thing. And my mom – you know, it just worked out well. Not everybody has that, you know, flexible schedule that I had when the kids were young. But I feel – my heart goes out for families that are – It's tough. It's tough. I mean, and there's some situations where, you know, there just isn't anything else to be done. Like, whether you felt really great about doing it or not, I mean, that money's got to come in.

Well, and that situation especially, you have to take – you have to take hold of that entire beast. You've got to take care of the in and you've got to take care of the out. And, I mean, you can't just say, okay, I'm going to work extra hard and we'll get more money. Because if you don't take care of the out, your out is going to equal your in, you know, and that's not what you're after. So, I mean, you've got to grab that beast by both horns and pay really close attention to it and not say, well, I'm me as the man. I'm bringing home the money and I'm working hard for it, you know. And then when it comes to paying all your bills, you kind of check out and say, you know, my wife does that stuff, you know. And if you're not paying attention to where your money's going, then you making it really doesn't even matter. You just as well be wasting it. Speaking of wasting it. No, it's not a very good transition. Here we go. Segway. Why I don't sing the Star-Spangled Banner. I'm going to read most of this because actually the guy does a pretty good job of articulating himself. This is a Mennonite man. And he says, his name is Mark Schloenegger. I choose to belong to a strange tribe. Goshen College, my alma mater, made national news this month when its board directors decided that the Star-Spangled Banner would not be played before athletic events. As could be expected, the decision was met with confusion and contempt. Wasn't this just another example of our tradition of values being trampled by the unrelenting march of political correctness? What sort of ingrates subject to our nation's anthem, anyway? Fluffy-headed campus philosophers? Lazy latte-sipping liberals? The decision not to play the national anthem reversed last year's decision to play it for the first time in Goshen College's 116-year history.

That, too, caught the media's attention. It also caused widespread concern and confusion among the college's students, professors, alumni, supporters, and, yes, donors, many of whom felt like playing the anthem compromised the college's Christian values. Goshen is a small school in northern Indiana that's owned and operated as a ministry of Mennonite Church USA. I'm a Goshen graduate, a longtime member of the Mennonite Church, and the pastor of a Mennonite congregation. Mennonites live in countries all over the world. Though we speak many languages, have different ethnic origins, and express our faith in diverse ways, we all claim the Anabaptists in 16th century Europe as our spiritual ancestors. The Anabaptists agreed with most of the ideas of the Protestant Reformation, but felt that reformers like Martin Luther and John Calvin didn't go far enough. Anabaptists rejected the practice of infant baptism, for instance, believing that water baptism should be reserved for believers who confess a faith in Jesus. Because they understood the exercise of state power to be inconsistent with the church's identity and mission, Anabaptists also advocated for the strict separation of church and state. This then-radical stance was prompted by both theology and necessity. Anabaptists had the distinct notoriety of being tortured and killed by both Catholics and Protestants, wielding the power of the state against them. Instead of compromising their core convictions about what it means to follow Jesus, thousands of Anabaptist men and women adhered to their freedom of conscience, even as they were mocked by neighbors, burned at stakes, and drowned in rivers. Although there certainly are diverse viewpoints among individual Mennonites today, we continue to advocate for the strict separation of church and state. Most Mennonite churches do not have flags inside them, and many Mennonites are uncomfortable with the ritual embedded in the singing of the national anthem. That's because we recognize only one Christian nation, the church, the holy nation, that it's bound together by living faith in Jesus, rather than by man-made, blood-soaked borders. To Mennonites, a living faith in Jesus means faithfully living the way of Jesus. Jesus called his disciples to love their enemies, and he loved his enemies all the way to the cross and beyond. Following Jesus and the martyrs before us, we testify with our lives that freedom is not a right that is granted or defended with rocket-thread glare and bombs bursting in air. True freedom is given by God and is indeed not free. It comes with a cost, and it looks like a cross. Let me stop there. So, he's rejecting the singing of the Star-Spangled Banner with the implication that it is interfering with where our true allegiance should lie to Jesus. Mike. Like, I don't think he does that.

Like, it's, I don't know, I feel like he's a little off base here. Like, this isn't Thailand, you know, where you're subject to severe beatings and cruel punishment because of your religious beliefs if you don't believe what the government tells you to believe. You know, I mean, most of the country is based on religious freedom. Now, I mean, they do encroach, you know, I guess, and we've created a culture in our country that's anti-Jesus, I guess, you know, but it's not mandated. It's just a byproduct. Well, so is it, I guess, is it wrong to pledge allegiance to something other than Christ? Well, I mean, I think you're trumping up the meaning of words. Like, I pledge allegiance to the flag. Like, I'm, you know, like, I'm happy about the country that I live in and the freedoms that I grew up with. I don't put them over Jesus, but, you know, I appreciate them. I don't know that I have to, you know. I don't think it's one or the other or all or none or whatever. Yeah, to love your country is okay. If push comes to shove, Jesus comes first. Right, it's whoever's on the throne, right? Like, as long as Jesus is on the throne, there could be all kinds of leaders underneath him, you know? I mean, as long as you know that, you know, if America disagrees with Jesus, then you go with Jesus. Yeah. I mean, the Bible even says to, you know, honor the king and, you know, the whole thing. And that's in a pretty wicked area where they were killing Christians, you know? They didn't necessarily tell them to sing this Roman Spangled Banner. We recognize only one Christian nation, the church, the holy nation that's bound together by a living faith in Jesus rather than by man-made, blood-soaked borders. I tend toward that thought, but at the same time, maybe even more as I get older, I become more patriotic, I guess, for lack of a better word. I mean, like, I used to kind of battle with people in the 90s about having, like, the American flag at the church building because some of the guys were like, we need to have an American flag. I was like, our allegiance is to Jesus, you know?

And they'd kind of disappear, and then someone would find them and bring them back, you know? And they're, like, gone now, actually. But now I think that's kind of a shame. Why would I fight that? I mean, it's not like we were suddenly giving up Jesus going, oh, I'm here for the flag, you know? I mean, it doesn't hurt to honor the nation, especially when you consider how we were birthed, you know? I think there's a lot of… Yeah, we were based on religious freedom when we started. I mean, that doesn't really call for, you know, what we are now, but… Well, we've slid a long ways. But, I mean, we still enjoy more religious freedom than most people do in the country, and I don't, you know… I just wrote an article today for the Johnson & Living magazine about, you know, how cool it is that… The things we're saying, like, today, right here, in some countries, would give us a death penalty, you know? I mean, the things we say freely and write and speak from a church in a government building, you know, could never happen in some places. I mean, it's really cool that we have that freedom. Not nearly as cool as the fact that we have freedom of Christ, you know, so… Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Me too. Flag, whatever. I'm not going to trade one for the other, but… I don't know. I don't know. It seems like a big to-do or over a big to-duh.

You know what I'm saying? Like, what's the… I don't understand… So, there were comments following, and, like, people were, like, very upset with this guy for not doing it. And then there were the people that are in support because of his freedom and said, well, you know, he should be able… Well, if he doesn't want to say it, he doesn't want to say it. I guess I looked at it and I said, I think he's kind of being silly. But I don't find him offensive at all. It's like, well, I mean, it's the Star Spangled Banner. You know, and I don't want to say that dismissively, but, I mean, it's just a tune that most people are not singing while they're thinking. I mean, it's the same thing as going to worship a church and just, you know, bopping along and, like, not really paying attention to who you're talking to, who you're singing about, what you're singing about. I mean, it's not like most people are really thinking about how great their country is, why they're doing it, except maybe at the end when people are crying. Well, it's not like he's trying to ban it from the whole country. He's just saying, look, we're not going to do it at our sporting events. We, you know, I don't, you know, it's a, we just don't, we don't dig on it, you know. It's not like we do, you know, we don't read from the, I don't know, the Koran before our sporting events. You know, no one's getting mad at us. And there's Muslims in this country. Right. You know, like, like, it's just, it's a sect of people that aren't buying into something, whatever. It's not like they're, you know, protesting Washington, shutting down the government, you know, doing a bunch of disruptive things. They're just saying we're not going to do it. Yeah. It really shouldn't be a big deal. Yeah.

I don't know. Yeah. Blood choke borders. You know, that's what my article is about is when we went to D.C. a couple weeks ago and we were, well, for the National History Day portion of our trip, the very last event, all, they all come together in this, this arena, field house thing. And there's like a few thousand people because it's all the students and parents and teachers and all these people. And it's just this, this vast array of color and everything. And, and I'm a purely unemotional guy. I can't tell you the last time I've, like, cried or even shed, you know, kind of welled up type of thing. Sorry, Troy. But I sat there, Danielle and I were on the opposite side of, of, of all the students were on, on, on the other side. Because we kind of came in late. We dropped them off and went and found a place to park and all that stuff. So we're just kind of observing. And I actually, like, swelled up and, and it was like, it's an emotional moment when the color guard, color guard, color guard came in. Okay. And they're marching. And, and, and it's, it's like a grass field on the inside. So it's like a padded fake grass. Okay. And it's actually padded, you know, so it's the end of the arena ball or something. Yeah. I don't know what to do. It doesn't matter. But, um, like immediately, I mean, we're talking a few thousand people, the students, it was, it was deathly quiet.

I mean, immediately. And, and they all crossed their heart. I don't see this in basketball games. I don't see it in, in any public. But, and you could literally hear the soldiers walking and we were at the very top seat looking down and I looked down and I thought, holy cow. And, and Danielle has a picture, and this will be in, in the thing if, if they use it, of the sea of people, students, junior high, high school, and parents and stuff too. Every one of them holding their hand over their heart as the flag is coming. And it is very amazingly, uh, kind of a reverent, quiet moment. And, and, you know, you could hear him barking off the orders and they do the flag and they, you know, star-spangled banner and everything. And it was like, that just hit me. It's like, you know, you kind of look down on the younger generation, the kids, you know, they're just lots and blah, blah, blah, whatever. And it's like, I didn't think that, Dan. Well, Troy and I, we've had conversations. We kind of think that. Sorry. Um, it was just, it was just a cool moment. Uh, you know, I don't know, maybe it's the context. We just spent, you know, several days doing history, you know, in walking the very footsteps of George Washington, that kind of stuff. And, uh, so it was just a powerful event. And it's like, wow, I, it, I, I welled up. I was like, couldn't look at Danielle, like, cause it's really neat, isn't it? It's really good. And later on, she was like, man, I had a tear. I'm like, okay, I did too. Oh, man.

Cheryl's like, I did too. She was on the other side of the building. And, uh, oh, it was pretty, it was, it was pretty neat. You were listening to Live from the Path. And thanks for being with us here tonight. Uh, so far, so good. Uh, let's get to, uh, Mike, or Dan, do you have some, uh, you have some Dear, uh, Dear Life from the Path? Well, I was afraid, Mike, you weren't going to be here. So I, I quickly, uh, I mean, I put great research into finding some. This is actually Dear Mrs. Webb. Oh, Dear Mrs. Webb. Um, so I didn't want to, you know. Who's Mrs. Webb? I don't know. It's some generic person. We're going to say Dear Life from the Path. All right. I like it. Uh, okay. I'm dating a man who wants my seven-year-old daughter and me to move into his home. He has two kids, 11 and 13. He has a horrible relationship with his ex-wife. They fight instead of talk. They share the custody of parenting of their children. The schedule is very erratic depending on her work schedule.

No one knows where the children will be staying from week to week. He is happy with the situation because he gets to see his kids. The children, however, have no stability or responsibilities. Their grades are in the basement, D's and F's. My daughter has weekly commitments with her father, and our lives are scheduled and stable. I think living there would be chaotic for us. He says he cannot change the situation and really wants me to live with him, but I don't think I could manage. Please help. You know, this is funny and not funny at the same time. You know what I'm saying? It's funny because this situation is absolutely absurd. But it's not funny that, like, someone's actually seeking advice on it. That people have put their kids in this situation. Anyway, the chat is not tolerating this story. That's a very insensitive word I see. Yeah, there's no way this is a good idea. It's not even close to a good idea. I mean, is there such thing as different parenting styles where you can say, I'm a little lax and crazy on my schedule, or, and then the other parenting style is, I'm a little bit more strict. No, option A is you're a bad parent. It's your job to tell your kids where to go. It's your job to make sure that they have things to do. It's your job to make sure that they're doing their schoolwork. It's your job to see them in a structured manner.

It's your job to love their mother, regardless if you are still married to her or not, I guess. You know, like, they learn these things through your example of relationships and how you handle them. Like, it's a disaster. It's an absolute disaster. Somewhere along the line that the mom kind of is, like, doubting whether she's supposed to be a mom or not or something. Yeah. Well, you know, we're divorced. Can't really help it. So, I guess I'll do it. I think you should move in. I need someone else to help me clean up this big mess that I made. And I'm currently just shoveling it from corner to corner. And I need a dustpan. If you can be my dustpan, that'd be great. He's a… People have a weird filter. They seem to be able to recognize a crappy situation, but then for some reason can't keep themselves from stepping in it. Yeah. What do you think? Look at that big pile of junk. Well… Oh, I can't believe that happened.

Do you think I could… Maybe I could help the junk situation. Maybe I could be a helper. Should I step on this landmine? Because I'm not really sure. I'll die if I do it. But what do you think? I've got… I've got to hear the advice. What was the advice? This is not like a spiritual person, necessarily. Yeah. This is just this person. Here's how they answered it. There is no issue here. You would be nuts to move your daughter into a chaotic, unscheduled environment, and double nuts to move your daughter into someone's life without the benefit of marriage. So don't do it. This man has a chaotic life, failing children, a nasty relationship with his ex, all swirling about him, and he wants another family to move in? He has too much on his plate as it is. You're having an excellent preview of your future with this man. Chaotic. This living arrangement does not sound like a good fit for you or your daughter. It's not fair to your daughter to be placed in such chaos.

I agree with her. Yeah. I'm assuming it's a girl. Yeah, it's Mrs. Did she say to dump the guy or just don't move in? She said don't move in. I'd dump the guy. Yeah, I would go dump the guy. I'd go that far. If he's pressuring to do that, it's just time to… Well, that goes back to… You know, that's a good Bible perspective on it is you're not looking for someone to hang out with. You're looking for a spouse. That's what you're looking for. And that guy ain't it. He is not marriage material. He's not looking out for the best of this woman or her child. Right. Where's your benchmarks for a solid guy? You know, like what parts about him do you like? He can't take care of his kids. He can't hold down his regular marriage. Obviously, he's an unscheduled mess. What parts do you enjoy about this guy?

You know what this guy is? This guy is the guy on the first path that our speaker talked about Sunday. Yeah. It's all about me. It's me. The me path. Yeah. It's the me path. Yeah. His content was out of this world awesome. It was very good. Is that up and available on pathwaychurch.org? Yeah. If you go to the pathonline.org and click on media, you can listen to the prior sermons, including from Jack. Very good. Yeah. That's awesome. Here's another one. I'm 20 years old. I have the opportunity to work as a silent partner in Fake ID Production Shop for the local college students. In exchange for a small capital investment and access to some of my contacts, I can own 40% of what could be a very lucrative business. I would want to be a silent partner with absolutely no paper trail linking me to the business.

I think this fake ID business could be a goldmine. What do you think of the problems it could present? Are you serious? It's got to be your daughter. Say, look, I really need to spice up the column this week. Can you write in with something? What do you present the problems with? I'm thinking about joining the mafia. But you know what? Their racketeering really seems lucrative. I want no ties. So what happens, I mean, the guy takes your money and runs, but are you going to go to the police and say, yeah, hey, yeah. I gave him a bunch of money for a fake ID program, and I told him no paper trails, but just kind of took off with my money. A silent partner. Who's the face of the company? Look, it's ridiculous. Look, you guys just have to print them up. Bob will handle all the advertisements. Who'll take care of the marketing and everything? I'm Bob. Maybe. Come to Bob's fake ID emporium. So I, with the chamber, was working with Green Days, and they like to have a board person

over where the beer tent is, where they take the money. The beer tent's in a different area, but we take the money and do IDs. And so I was there kind of overseeing, which is a strong word, but that's kind of, but anyway, a new crew came in who was taking the money and talking with people, and the guy was training. He was talking about how to, like, check for fake IDs and stuff. I was just like, wow, really? I mean, I know people have done it for forever, but I'm like, you really don't think someone's going to notice? I mean, you know, you break your thing apart, or you got a little raise. It was kind of funny. I thought that was interesting. Maybe for old people. My dad used to get paid when he worked at, when he was a bouncer at a bar when he was a lot younger. He used to get paid in fake IDs. So the bar owner wouldn't get in trouble. He would get 20 bucks per fake ID instead of getting paid hourly. For just a couple weeks, my dad was like, let's see what happens. And my dad would pull in hundreds a night of fake IDs. He would get 20 bucks a pop for each fake ID he brought in. So that the owner knew 100% sure that he was checking every single ID, because that's how he got paid. Wow. Yeah, that's…

That's a good setup. Yeah. Yeah, kitchen. Well, obviously, they do get copped. I would have been… I just couldn't imagine messing with your license, you know, and tampering with it. At some point, you take it back to get a new one. Yeah. I guess you just say, oh, we lost it, or something. Yeah, normally, you don't use your own license. Oh, you just take someone else's license. How is it done, Troy? Well, I'm just saying… You read a book? You're a silent partner? I was in high school two years ago. You don't use your license. It has nothing to do with the license that you have. You make everything from scratch, laminated everything. You make a new license? You make a new license. And see, I don't know why this is necessary. Like, I would never go… Even if I had a fake ID, I would not go to the Green Day celebration in the town. At the beer tent.

As they said, it doesn't happen here, because everybody's… Their parents are there, and… Right. I mean, that's just dumb, but, like… Oh, Bobby, I thought you were 16. When you're in high school, you go to your high school buddy who works at the gas station and say, look, can you just give me some stuff? Yeah, but there's people who don't want to just drink at home. There's people who want to go out to a bar or a club when they're 17, 18 years old, and want to go drink at a bar with some of their older friends, or just for the fun of it, and they can't get in without a fake ID. Huh. If they crawled through the ductwork, they could. Yeah. Do you realize how hard it would be to crawl through the ductwork, plop in, have a good time? I mean, most people want to look good when they go to a bar or anything like that. Go in the return. Don't go in the out. Go in the in. I like Troy's example, because it's not just like, is it hard to get into the ductwork? It's, can you do it and have a good time? I wouldn't have a good time in ductwork. I'll be honest. I'm claustrophobic and a large guy. Fair enough.

You better drink at home. Or not drink at all. Or drink at home. We're going to be a prude about it. Go ahead, Dan. What's the answer? You guys said a lot of it. When I was young, fake IDs were the purview of local mobsters. To me, the definition of a mobster is a dumb lunk who shakes down people, moves drugs, runs prostitutes, and is involved in counterfeiting. Who's this hip cat? This is counterfeiting. It's illegal and a felony. Blah, blah, blah. I don't want to spend five minutes in jail. This is going to get your whole life off a track. What kind of woman would marry a man with a record? It just goes on. Blah, blah, blah. Oh, I'm sure there's plenty. Then she says, I recommend you read Rich Dad, Poor Dad for ideas about legal ways to invest and become financially. That's really cool. A good one. Okay, he's got one more. She seems like an awesome lady. There were some I looked at that I kind of threw out that I didn't use.

Here's one. I'm a 28-year-old single professional woman with a successful career, and I am financially well off. I'm also taking classes for a graduate degree. I love my career, and I'm a bookworm. Probably folds her legs. People assume that I have it all, and I should be tremendously happy. In reality, I drive about 100 to 150 miles per day, have little free time, and I'm frequently so exhausted I just fall into bed at night. I have some casual friends I do things with, but I have no close friends. I haven't dated in almost three years. I'm considered attractive, but don't normally spend a lot of time on my appearance. How can I have it all, yet have nothing? This isn't me, and I don't like my existence. It would be nice to just sit, talk, and laugh. When I do, it feels like I'm wasting time. I feel like I'm 40. Help. I feel like I'm 40. It's like, what's wrong with that? Manage your priorities. What do you want? I mean, she wants a fun, happy-go-lucky life, but she also doesn't want to sit around and have a happy-go-lucky life. I'm thinking so moved. Maybe that's just what I saw out of it. She was just like, I want to have fun, but then when I'm having fun, I feel like I'm 40. Maybe she doesn't know how, Troy.

No, no, no, no, no. You can't. No. What? I think she's afraid. That's what I'm saying. She doesn't know how. No, I think she knows how. She's afraid. She doesn't know how, man. It's like someone who passes the balloon shop and goes, those balloons look fun. You know what? I'm not going in. I don't even know how to get the balloons. What balloon shop? She just needs to meet a nice, fun-loving guy that will show her how to have a good time. That's what it takes. A lady can't have a sit and laugh on her own. She needs a dude to do it for her. What? She has to be arm candy. Arm candy? I'm just saying. What do you mean? I don't understand what you're saying.

So what is your advice to her? Find a dude? Quit your job. Get out of grad school. Go work at an ice cream shop for a while. And then when you decide that that's not the way for you. She's exhausted. She's too tired to do it. How could you love your job and hate your existence if that's all you do? Well, and she's taking a graduate work. I love my job. I hate my job. All I do is my work. I love my work. I hate my life. I don't get it. Maybe she's bipolar. Schizophrenic. Schizophrenic. Well, I suppose it could be. I don't think anything was mentioned of multiple personalities. Well, they don't usually say that. Hi, I'm Sally. And Beth. My friends call me John.

I wish they'd stop. I'm the baptizer. Okay. It says, let's see. You have a full-time job. You're in grad school, part-time. You have a horrific amount of commuting and no life outside of work. You're exhausted, have no beloved, and have no close friends. You don't even pamper yourself. Then in bold, I cannot imagine why you think you have it all. Sounds like a difficult, exhausting, and lonely life. It may be time for you to rethink your priorities, find the kind of work and community so that you can just sit, talk, and laugh. You may want to consider what kind of past experiences in your life may have led you to such a lonely existence. It's time for you to dream, plan, and move towards the life, connections, and commitments that will fill your heart and challenge you. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Or ask Jesus what he wants. Jesus, where do you want me to go? How do I feel better about myself? I don't care. It doesn't say, sir, is the way, the truth, and the life, does it? All right, you're listening to Live from the Path. That was dear Live from the Path. People submit completely. Those were unreasonable. Those are the worst.

Those are going to be the worst submissions for help ever. I had one. If I knew that I was for sure going to be here, the wife picked one out this week where it was a guy wrote in to Abby and said that there's not enough resources for men that are abused by their wives. We were certainly going to talk about this guy, but I didn't bring it in. You didn't bring it in, huh? Bummer. Hey, listen. There is very little time left between now and the Spirit Midwest Music Festival. If you have not done so, you need to start clearing your calendar. It's a Friday, Saturday. It's the first weekend in August. We will be broadcasting live, Olympic-style coverage. We're in some good shape. We're in some good shape out there. We're fully approved by the staff at the Spirit Midwest Festival. That is nice. So we will have T-shirts that say staff? We'll have to make our own. We can do lanyards. Can I get one that says a bouncer? That's not what a lanyard is. What am I thinking of? A lanyard, like the thing that goes around your neck. That's what we need.

No, a lanyard. No, that's not what a lanyard is. Yeah, it is. A lanyard is a safety rope. Yeah, that's a lanyard. No, it is. That's a lanyard. That's a girl's purse string. Yeah, that says Army National Guard on it. Yeah, that's a lanyard. Anyway, we're going to set it up. And we've got a lot of cool bands coming up. We're going to be doing quite a few interviews with bands that are not local. A couple folks you can check out. I don't like people that don't live by me. That's fair. I'm not so sure about this. They're different than me in ways. They're effeminate. If you use the YouTube, go Google Ted Yoder. Ted Yoder plays the… He's cool. What was he? The Hammered Dulcimer. The Hammered Dulcimer.

He is freaking sweet. He's a sweet bippy. He's fun to listen to. So you can check him out. He does some hymns. He covered Eleanor Rigby. He did a cool job with it. That's a great song. So you take out Ted Yoder. Also, we're going to be doing an interview with Jeremy Willett from the band Willett. You can check them out. They're also on YouTube. Can't we fly him in for the interview? What's our budget look like? No. They're going to be in Nebraska. Dan, how much money do you have? I've got a little bit less than what we need. Bummer. It's pretty tough. We already know by my rhymes that I'm broke as a joke. Spangler. Spangler Dowser is broke as a joke. True that. I'm out like gout.

I'm out like the gout? How's that? That don't even make any sense. The gout isn't out. The gout's in. The gout is a vitamin D deficiency. That's Ricketts. No, I didn't. Ricketts is vitamin D. The gout is high uric acid. Ricketts is vitamin C. High uric acid is… No, vitamin C is scurvy. No. Yes. Yeah, scurvy is vitamin C. Ricketts is vitamin D. Uric acid, I think, is the gout. How are you out like high uric acid? Explain yourself. Forget it. Is that just something you… Forget it. Forget it entirely. Show us the gout.

Forget it. Is that just something you and the homies say? Poor Troy. Hey, we're going to have to put that on the connect card next week. Please help Troy with his uric acid. By the way, our connect card input has dramatically increased over the past couple weeks. All right. Due to the announcement? Going to the end and saying, here's a way you can respond and just kind of driving people to it has made a huge difference. Huge. And we even added a bunch of people to the newsletter this week. Sweet. Whatever you said. You know, people… Is that a general statement? Supportive? No, I think it was about the scurvy and the rickets and stuff. Oh, right. Okay. Excellent. Otherwise, she doesn't mean it. Okay. Excellent. All right.

All right. We got seven more minutes to show. You want to just cut out early? No. Let's talk about something. This is usually the best stuff right here. Okay. I got nothing. What? Tell us the story. I don't know. What happened? You want to keep it going. You got to have something entertaining. Hold on. Anyhow stories… Oh, I took a picture. I meant to email it to you. Darn it. I was at the QT today, and I took a picture of a bike tire that was chained to the bike rack because someone stole the rest of the bike. Who changed their bike with the quick change wheels on it? You know, the levers that just flip out, and then you can pull the tire off? He chained it on the tire. So they just pulled the levers and took the rest of the bike.

What an idiot. Oh, that hurts. That's got to hurt. That is terrible. Yeah, let's do it. What is this? How do I get the background on a paintbrush? Have you been to the eye doctor lately? He's asking technical questions. Turn to Jesus. You can't read that? He'll clear your sins. Not after a long day of staring at a computer screen for eight hours. Don't try to sell it like a work injury. If you can't read that, you need to go to the… You need to go to the… Oh, that's true. I am also at work. I work a full-time gig in front of a computer. I don't have a problem seeing that. I can't see it. I'm telling you, you need to go to the eye doctor. I really don't care. I don't care if I can see. I don't care.

I don't care. Troy drives like an Asian woman. For the record, don't care. Nah, we'll only go see the eye doctor. Don't have health insurance. It's not like the dentist. I don't have insurance. I can't pay for it. I feel your pain. I have absolutely no insurance and I cannot go to the doctor. I tell you to go in there and then run away, but I think you'd hit the doorway on your way out because you didn't see it properly. Or I'm the size of the door and would probably make another door. Well, make a mean face. Maybe they would leave. They would leave their own office by me making a mean face after they gave me an examination of my eyes. Yeah. So I'm basically going in like, yeah, I'm taking this place over. Yeah. Yeah. I think that would do it. Coming in through the ducts. Y'all are going down.

Check out this face. And the optometrist is just like, all right, now, because he did that, I'm out of here. You could grab two pairs of glasses and say, I'm out. My eyes are good enough because I'm an eye doctor that I can see that guy is angry. You're right, Ben. This was a mistake. Let's call it. That's what I'm saying. It's time to do it. Troy, regale us with a story. Story about what? What do you want to hear? This is what I'm talking about. This is why we can't put together a legitimate program. Any story? Tell me a story. Well, it was a… That's a lie. Coward. That's why I don't tell stories. Why? Because you're called a coward. Your brassiere is on too tight.

All right. You've been listening to a lie from the path. Ah, you read books. It's best if we leave right now. Am I getting ragged on? We have four minutes to go, and we're going to ditch because it's not good to hang around any longer. We will see you next week. I'm surprised we made it this far. It's pretty impressive. I'm done. I'm done. The book's comment made it completely bad for me. Thanks for listening to Live from the Path. We will take you out. This is Willett, who will be at the Spirit Midwest Music Festival, and we'll be talking with you about a week before that. Thanks for listening, and have a wonderful week.