Leftovers - Our First Variety Show SUPER EPISODE!!!

Happy Monday, we are back in with the ERC Leftovers podcast.

I can't even look at you. I can't bring you anywhere.

What do you do? We haven't we just hit record?

What? How are you just talking?

About like breathing way too much when we talk like high and

you just I felt like you extended the happy Monday like

did you do that on purpose? And then you just started

hyperventilating. Like what?

Oh, so we on on theme Chris this morning.

It's already the the Ask Me Anything episode, which usually

gets a little a little crazy and more off the rails than usual.

We're already, we're just starting off the rails.

We're not even getting off the rails.

We were never on the rails like. You did that on purpose.

Set him. Up it was a setup.

Am I, am I crazy? There's, there's two other

people with us today, Matt, am I crazy?

Did he extend the the breathiness of that word happy?

I I didn't feel it. I think you're sensitive.

I think you were looking for it. You were looking for it.

Veto Vetoed I've. Been voted off the island on

that one. Thanks for having my back, guys.

Along with me, Pastor Matt, and the incredibly distracted Pastor

Chris. Kristen's here.

She's back with us and I'm also sitting in on the AMA episode

this week. You're back up for preaching

this Sunday, so that's exciting. We had you on last week in

reflecting on your first message.

So thanks for jumping in. We got a couple more voices in

on only questions and we're going to play some games.

I've I've I've drummed up some some fun audio games for for

y'all to compete against each other on.

There will be a a Leftovers champion today.

I don't know. Kristen, Dom, did you OK?

I'm not crazy. Did you see how he put his

little fingers together? Like Mr. Burns, it was evil.

It's going to be fun. It's going to be fun.

And we have a new segment on the on the show today as well that

we'll get into and hopefully make it a recurring thing.

We'll see the the feedback that I get that we get, but like,

yeah, giving me one more chance to enlighten the world.

Thanks, guys. So let's get into it.

I think we have a good icebreaker question off the top.

Kristen, what are we? What are we starting with today?

Last track of my spot here. Easter's coming up, so thinking

about there's all the candies, everybody's got their favorites.

So how are we feeling about the Peeps, folks?

OK, so love them, hate them. So Easter, this is like overall,

we're going to go through a couple different Easter candies

because they're all like specific Easter candies.

Absolutely. And like you look forward to

them. It's like the only time of year

you can get them. Right, like you're not getting

peeps in Halloween baskets, right?

I mean, they come in different shapes now, but we're talking

like classic peeps. Bunnies.

All bend with the bunnies, but that's as far as we're going to

go. No other shapes, Bunnies and

little baby chicks. Which one and?

We're just going like, yay, nay, yeah.

What are we thinking we're. Talking the classic yellow

because I. Because they taste different.

The pink or the blue. You ever get purple ones?

Why are they just? Kidding and and I gave them to

it. Judged you.

So hard that. Sounds disgusting, I'm sorry.

No. I had doctor pepper peeps.

I found them on clearance if you can imagine.

So you know they're good. So they have to be good.

And I gave them the students and they were like begging for more

the next week. And I was like, we ran out of

the Doctor Pepper peeps. I don't know what to tell you.

So all that to say, are we talking the classic yellow

peeps? Let's let's do classic or or

even like pink. But we're not like Doctor

Pepper. Weird, yeah.

Pink. Pink.

Blue, yellow. Yeah, yeah.

Straight up. Yeah, straight, straight peeps.

OK, they're cute little eyeballs painted on.

There was a time I liked peeps as a kid.

I did thought they were thought they were delicious.

No longer and I can't I don't know if that's I feel like the

quality has gotten worse. I feel I, I tried to peep

recently feel like they're crusty, like it was it was hard.

It was not good. I, I like if it's like a soft

marshmallow in there with just like kind of a crispy sugary

crust on the outside. OK, that was fine.

But in my adult, I feel like the quality of peeps in my built

hood has just like fallen way off from what I remember 30

years ago. OK, OK, so today do I want to

peep? No, no thanks.

Little baby mat he would like he would he would down some peeps.

I would eat some peeps. Yeah, I'd go through a sleeve.

That's fine. A sleeve.

Chris, would you eat a case of Peeps then or like, how are we?

On a dare I would, but in general, I don't like them.

Really. No, not even as a kid.

Like it's just, it's not my thing.

Give me chocolate or give me death, you know, like I'm I'm, I

go that hard on that topic. No man, I don't.

It's a man of principle. Yeah, I don't get down with

peeps. Dom, are you a peep man?

No, they are disgusting. I'll start off.

I'll start off strong on this one.

I think I've always. Thought they are.

Just it feels so grainy when you're chewing on it, like just

it's pure sugar and nothing else.

I just never been a fan all. Right, Kristen, where do you

we're going to have? To listen, I've had all the

peeps in the different colors. I've had peeps on a stick,

highly recommend that. Like do you roast like campfire

roast? The Nope.

That could be good. That might be or put them in the

microwave. Those Doctor pepper ones, I bet

if you roast them over a fire that's that might be a game

changer. What would that do?

What would the fire like? Caramelize.

You get a little like like a Creme brulee crust on the

outside of the marshmallow dude. OK, I'm back in.

We got a fire pit out back. We can do this right now.

Elevated peeps, that's what we're going to have.

I would eat a classic peep. I actually like them.

Wow. They're not my super favorite

but I would definitely eat peeps.

OK. You just bite their little heads

off 1st and the rest is great. Is.

There a reason why you bite the heads?

Off it just seems like the right thing to do.

Kristen's killer instinct. Peep.

The little eyes looking at you get.

Out of your eyes. Yeah, so you just take care of

that right away, all right? OK.

OK, so Peeps were not a big one. How about the Cadbury cream

eggs? So Chris said you like

chocolate, so that gives you your chocolate.

OK, and there's, but there's variants of these too, right?

Because there's the caramel cream eggs now too.

It's the same chocolate shell, but they fill them with caramel.

Baloney. You say caramel and caramel.

Caramel. Caramel.

Caramel, caramel, caramel. Yeah, yeah.

No, you got. A classic classic.

Classic on that one. And if you go classic on that

one, that might be the greatest Easter candy ever created.

They they are a weakness of mine.

Chris and I are. Yes, Chris.

Yeah, I would eat, I would eat a Cadbury cream bag any day of the

year. Doesn't even have to be Easter.

It's that good. I don't need, I don't need to be

Easter for it. I would eat them anytime that is

that is an elite candy in general.

I cannot remember the last time I ate one.

Like don't buy. I never.

Buy that they start putting them at the checkouts now, like at

the dollar store and the quick start this time of year.

Like it's always a temptation. Every time I go past them I need

an immense amount of willpower to not buy them.

I am surprised. You're welcome.

Yeah, yeah, learning new things about you guys.

Dom Cadburys, that's one of my go TOS.

Yeah. All right.

Kristen, you've been got a. Trifecta here.

Oh man, are there other are there other chocolate?

OK, so, but there's oh, there's the mini Cadbury cream eggs,

though, too, right, That have like the shell, the candy shell

on them. No, because I'm I need the

filled ones. I need the hollow.

Are there other like chocolate Easter candy?

I know M&M's makes the the pastel colored ones.

And yeah, Reese's probably makes bunnies.

They do. They do shapes with everything.

Like I'm not counting those. They they make them Easter

thing, but those aren't like Easter chocolates.

Are there other Easter chocolate thing?

Like, what about a classic chocolate money?

Hollow or salad? Hollow.

Hollow, yes. But I'll tell you what, you,

you, you're kind of writing off Reese's, you know, Reese's, the

Peanut Buttercup Easter eggs, you're kind of writing them off.

But here's why they're better than regular Reese's.

OK, go ahead. I have thoughts.

Go ahead. Chocolate to peanut butter ratio

is better on those, so therefore they are better than the actual

Reese's. Agree.

I'm just like, if you put Reese's out there, that's not

like, oh, I have that around Easter.

And so yes, they make the eggs, they make the I think they did

like Santa's or Snowman this year because they also have a

better peanut butter to chocolate ratio on them.

You know, though they're they are doing better now.

They make the big cups now though too.

So there's like same amount of chocolate shell.

It's just bigger. So there's more peanut butter on

the inside. They also make them with Reese's

pieces in the peanut butter in the inside.

Those are ridiculous. It's like 4 bucks for a 2 pack

of those bad boys. But that'll set you back a

little bit there. You got like a bottle of lead in

there after you go to the. But.

I am dying, right? Now, I have not eaten yet today,

and I'm about to get hangry on all of you because this is Matt.

Oh my gosh, Matt, you've opened my eyes up to possibilities.

I did not. Know they're so good, they're so

good. But you know what?

Be be healthy, fit, fitness. Do that.

Fitness Reese's in my mouth. What are you talking about?

Absolutely. That's where you're, yeah.

Oh my 6. All right, last one, Jelly.

Sorry, you're a hard thumbs down on the cadre.

Yeah, I don't. Eat, no, don't eat them.

No, cannot remember the last time I ate one.

OK, I, I feel, I don't know, I'm kind of nervous about so the

last candy I've got Jelly beans, but there's I have opinions on

Jelly beans. There's there's the regular,

like classic Jelly beans, but then there's like the tasty like

Starburst Jelly beans. There's also, so there are

classics, but there's there's like fruity.

There's also spice flavored Jelly beans though, like

sometimes you can get the orange, the orange ones are

orange. But if you do like spice drops

or the spice Jelly beans, like the orange is like clove or, or

like the green ones are lime or the green ones are peppermint

like you can. So I don't like the fruity

regular Jelly beans at all now. You like bougie Jelly?

Beans. I need the.

I need the spice flavored ones. I don't want my white one, it

tastes like coconut. I want it to taste like

spearmint or peppermint. And then I want my green ones to

be the other mint. And then I want my red ones to

be cinnamon, not cherry. And I want my grape ones to be

licorice, not grape. OK, All of that that you listed

aside from like licorice, that sounds like I'm like chewing

toothpaste, like no, no. So that's, and I realized around

Easter, it's probably the fruity ones are probably the more

popular ones, but I'm taking those separate from like the

Starburst Jelly beans top tier. Like those are the those are the

Mac daddies of the Jelly. Beans, we agree on that.

I would if I had any choice. It's just starburst I don't

need. I don't even need the other

ones. It's Starburst Jelly beans all.

Right, Chris? It's not chocolate.

OK, OK, fair, fair. Chocolate covered Jelly beans

Starburst Jelly beans. I am a huge sucker for Jelly

beans. Oh, there we go.

OK, which? Ones, pretty much all of them

outside. I don't like any of the purple,

like whether it's grape or licorice, like just keep that

away from me. But any, I mean, the Starburst,

there's Jolly Rancher ones that I don't know if you guys have

had, but those Jolly Rancher Jelly, yes, yeah, they are

pretty good. And they're Skittles ones.

Like I love all of them. I'm not a huge sweets person

outside of chocolate, kind of like Chris, but this is one of

those things that I, I, I would eat these.

I'm I'm a sucker for sweets in general, so this conversation

was. Terrible, but.

Oh man, Jolly rancher Jelly beans.

Easter candy bag. I did not know they made them.

I I didn't know. I knew.

They got into the candy cane game, but I didn't know that

they were in Jelly beans because I always go with the Starbursts

because those are the best. I will buy them as much as I can

until they're gone. Yep.

OK, give me one second here. Oh boy.

How do you guys feel about like the Jelly Belly?

Like they go crazy on their flavors.

So I will say again, it's not chocolate, but if I'm going to

make an exception, they make a Jelly Bean that tastes like

movie theater popcorn and that is amazing.

Oh, OK, so this is where you lost me.

The I, I don't like the buttered popcorn Jelly Belly and I, I

don't Jelly Belly's weird for me 'cause I feel like they make the

variety packs a lot of the time where, yeah, they have the

flavors labeled on the outside, but like, there's 60 flavors in

this jar and it's like Bernie bots, every flavored beans and

Harry Potter. Like you could get, you could

get one that tastes like earwax and you could get one that

tastes like cherry pie. Like you just you don't know

what you're getting. And I don't love that.

I don't, I don't like surprises. Surprise, shocking.

I know. I don't like surprises so.

But you're a buttered popcorn Jelly Belly guy.

Oh. My gosh, they're just, they're

so good and it makes no sense. Just like how do they make Jelly

bellies that taste like you ate a skunk.

It makes no sense in my brain that they are able to do that,

but they can and it's. Wait, wait, wait, wait.

You you think movie theater popcorn tastes like you ate a

skunk? No, no, no, no, no.

I'm saying Jelly Belly. They do things inside tiny Jelly

beans with flavors that don't make sense.

Like I don't know how they do it.

So if you've ever played bean boozled, which I used to do with

my kids until I had one too many skunk Jelly beans and I'm like,

I quit forever. The the was coming through my

nostrils like I was breathing skunk.

I don't know how they did it. It's impressive.

OK, but the the popcorn ones, like you would voluntarily eat

them? Like not part of the game?

100% absolutely. But it's like a mind thing

because in your mouth it's a Jelly Bean and it's chewy.

But then it's like, it's like Willy Wonka.

You're like, oh, like it tastes like popcorn, but it's not

popcorn. Would you?

Bring buttered popcorn Jelly beans to the movie theater to

eat either instead of or with popcorn.

I think you got, I think you got to go hard and you do you double

down. You do them both.

You would double this, the Jelly beans and the I.

Mean I'm just weird enough to try it.

I would like to see this. I would like to do it I.

Would like to do it and he's super hungry, right?

Now, so he's probably. Going to do it right after this.

Oh my goodness. Fill your belly with popcorn and

Jelly Bean popcorn. I'm going.

To eat my weight in popcorn and Jelly beans one of these days

and it's going to be fantastic. Yikes, Yikes.

You heard it here. You got a lot of people that are

going to bring you the task on that.

Let's go to a movie, friends. Are there any other Easter

candies that it's just, it's this time that was the list that

we came up with, right? Those three things, Chocolate,

chocolate bunnies. What are we missing?

The peeps and the peeps, Yeah, and the Jelly beans if you.

Like kids pretty standard. Yeah.

OK, that's what we get. Yeah.

And like I said, I don't know, there's the Easter themed

whatever is the M&M's make their pastel covered shells.

They don't taste any different. There's there's M&M's.

Yeah. All right.

Well, so in general though, do any of OK you with children, did

you do Easter baskets? OK, so you still do Easter

baskets? Well, we're all in it for the

candy, so yes. Do you get an Easter basket?

No, but I but I treat myself OK. Treat yourself.

Yeah, Do it, Kristen. Treat yourself.

Uh huh. I I would.

You know what? I would be in favor of having to

hunt down an Easter basket. That would be just fine with me.

I would do that. And we have done that with our

kids, even when they're older. We just made the hiding places

really ridiculous. Yeah.

Yeah, and that can get intense. Cool.

All right, that was fun. Easter, Easter candy coming up.

Get your yard signs or Easter yard signs at church on Sunday

or Wednesday. Put them out loud and proud.

Bring your one more to Easter April 5th.

OK, where are we at? What's next, Kristen?

Oh gosh, are we playing a game? Is it game time?

I'm kind. Of.

Oh, it is game time all right. Matt's got ideas, yeah.

OK, this is going to be fun. We are playing a game that we're

going to call Friendly Feud. We totally came up with it.

It hasn't been done before. It has been done before, but we

just can't call it what it is. So we've surveyed 100 people

with our vast resources. And so we got a pretty good,

pretty good spread, pretty good survey field.

And there's going to be 7 rounds, 7 questions each of you.

I'm not sure how we're going to do this.

Somebody, we're going to just have to like raise hands or

something. I don't know.

I'm going to have to see in my see in my eye.

You can, you can slap something or, or raise your hand as either

before I finish answering the prompt.

You can slap at any time. But when you slap, I will stop

reading and you and you have to and you're on the clock.

So if you want to try to time it to the end of the sentence,

that's fine. But if I only get halfway

through the sentence, you have to answer and you got like 5

count to answer. So anyway, it works like Family

Feud, we're calling it friendly feud.

And you get 3 points for the number one answer.

You get 2 points for the number 2 answer, and you get one point

for any other answer on the board. 7 rounds, I'll keep

score. OK, going to be fun.

Here we go. First survey Name something a

little kid might want to have at their birthday party.

Kristen. Cake.

Cake is the #2 answer. Beat that Chris, you slap

second. Slapped words presents,

presents. Presents is.

It's on the board. It's the number 8 answer.

Somehow it's the last answer, but you get a point.

I'll I'll overlook words. Words was not on the board.

That was the first word out of your mouth, but we'll let it

side Dom 5. Count what you got.

I'm a weird one. I would go balloons because I

was obsessed with them. Balloons is the #4 answers so

that's worth a point. The top 3 answers were clown #1.

No, no are. You guys like scary clown

people. Are you afraid of clowns?

No. No, but I wouldn't.

Invite 1 to a party. What?

No. Why?

I don't know, that's what the survey says.

Clown was #1, Cake was #2 and Pony was #3 so you guys, you

guys got the others. Also on the board is bouncy

castle, ice cream and friends. OK, besides the bouncy cans

house was this list from 1956? Who wants ponies and clowns at

their party? I had a pony at my party once.

My kids, I mean, my three youngest girls, actually 4,

Clara would love a pony at her at her party.

And the girls would probably think the clown is a good idea.

And then afterwards would be like, we don't need to do that

again. But they'd like the concept of a

clown, I'm sure. All right.

After one round, Kristen has two points.

Chris and Dom each with one round #2 Name some things that a

doctor or dentist office would have in the waiting room to make

the experience more fun. Chris.

Magazines. That is the #2 answer.

Christen or Dom anyone? No one slapped Dom's in.

OK. They always have like a section

with kids toys to keep your kids entertained.

Toys is the #3 answer that's worth a point, Kristen.

Name something Doctor Odensis would have in their waiting room

to make the experience more fun. They all have TV's now.

That is the number one answer. 3 points for.

Kristen See, I thought about saying that, but what about what

they're showing on that TV is remotely fun?

It's always like just miscellaneous random.

Courtroom. TV.

Yeah, yeah. So I thought about that answer,

but I'm like, that's extremely boring to me.

I don't want to watch that in the waiting room.

Old episodes of Murder She Wrote like What Are We?

Doing right? Now so good, So good.

OK, Angela Lansbury, you take your points and go somewhere

else. Wow.

Yeah, I said it. After two rounds, Kristen has

five points, Chris has three, Dom has two.

Next survey name something you might try to grab onto when

falling Chris. Somebody's hand.

Somebody's hand, another person is the number one answer on the

board. We're going to give it to you,

another person. This question is funny because

it it premises that you fall all the time, but so like that's

just more. I'm not, I don't remember the

last time I like. Yeah.

So anyway, name something you might try to grab onto if you

were falling. Kristen A chair.

Chair is the #4 answer on the board.

Tom #2 answer still out there? Counter.

Counter. I will give you table.

That's number six answer on the board #2 answer was a railing #3

answer was wall. I think railing probably if you

were falling down the stairs like.

Real quick, how did you start that question again?

Name something you might try to grab.

On OK now stop because I almost buzzed in when you said name

something you might try to. Grab onto.

And and I just, I almost threw my hand up and I was like, don't

do that. What would your answer have been

if it was just grab onto? Nope, never mind friends.

That's where the thought process stops.

Perfect. OK, after three rounds, Kristen

and Chris are both tied with six, Dom close behind with

three. It's getting intense in here.

All right, survey number four, name something a dog does while

waiting for their person to come home.

Chris poop that is not on the board, Pee, pee and poop is not

I I think that's a very valid answer, especially in the puppy

stage that we're in. But no Kristen.

They sleep. That is the number one answer.

Ass pooping. Waiting for you to come home.

This is when all three of you have dogs.

So this is this is fun Dom. My dog's just bark and wine.

Bark is the #2 answer worth 2 points.

He's getting back in the game here.

Name something a dog does while waiting for their person to come

home. The number 3 answer was sit by

the door #4 is look out the window. 5 was chew stuff and 6

was Waggot's tail. Somehow no poop poop poop.

Does your dog listen to the podcast?

Would she be embarrassed? Shame, I think your dog's

pooping in the house too much. Oh my goodness.

All right, server #5 name something you might wish you had

in the summertime, Tom. So you're good.

First pool is the number one answer.

He's making the comeback, Chris. Sunscreen.

Sunscreen is not on the board. I'm going to, you know what?

OK, suntan is number 4. I'm going to give you.

I'm going to give you suntan at #4 You get a point on the board.

Kristen #2 answer is still out there and two others also

available. Name something you might wish

you had in the summertime. I'm going to go with sunglasses.

Not on the board, I'm sorry. And when we get #5 it's going to

be maybe a weirdly phrased question, but number 2 was air

conditioning #3 was ice cream. And then number 5 was snow,

which I feel like should be sunglasses.

So. But the people have spoken.

That's what the survey says. In our research, sunglasses

didn't didn't make it. So sorry.

Sorry about that. Wow, wow.

All right, survey number six. Kristen is holding on to a slim

lead with 9 points, Dom has 8, and Chris has seven.

It's still anybody's game. Tiny.

Fist, don't you shake your tiny fist with me?

Name something that might have a blinking light.

Kristen A. Car.

That is the number one answer. Nailed it.

Dom. That was my answer.

I don't even know where to go from here.

That was that was all I had going in my head 4. 321.

A bicycle. That is not on the board.

Not on the board. Valid at night though.

They definitely say they do. Yeah, Chris, name something that

might have a blinking light. Fire alarm.

Fire alarm is not on the board. Gosh, Kristen's building her

lead. The number 2 answer was traffic

light, 3 was police car for ambulance, 5 telephone and 6

computer. People are screaming through

their cars or wherever they're listening this right now and

they're like, you guys just don't get it.

You don't, you're not you're not in touch with people and how

they're surveying. So we could we could be better.

It's OK. All right.

Final survey. Kristen has a commanding lead,

but the final rounds were double 64 and two points are available.

Kristen has 12, Dom has 8, Chris has seven.

So you got you got a pretty good lead here, but you get the

number 2 answer. You're locking it up.

If you lost your BBQ tongs, name something else you might use to

flip what you're cooking on the grill.

Chris Fork. Fork is the number one answer.

Worth 6 points. He's up by 1.

Kristen, you have to get something on the board to take

the lead back. I'll read it one more time.

If you lost your BBQ tongs, name something else you might use to

flip what you're cooking on the grill.

Dom I'm. Going to go grab some spatulas.

Spatula is the #2 answer worth 4 points.

Dom is now tied with Kristen. This is for all the marbles. 3

more answers available on the board.

Kristen. Can I flip it with a knife?

Knife is not on the board. Chris takes it home. 13 to 12 to

12. The remaining answers were hands

or fingers, a shovel and sticks. For real.

A knife makes way more sense, but the people have spoken.

I did not deserve to win that. There's no way.

And I am not going to somebody's house if they're flipping stuff

with their hands. See, that was going to be my

first answer. Hands No.

Call, call the food department there.

The quality control happening at that cookout.

Oh, my God. All right, that was fun.

Friendly feud. Chris comes out on top with the

first game of the day. What are we jumping into next,

Chris? Are we back into questions?

We are. We are.

When you say the Lord's Prayer, what are you thinking about?

So what does the prayer mean to you?

We got serious pastors in here. Yeah.

So we kind of we kind of touched on this a little bit last, well,

at least we alluded that we would be talking about this last

week. The Lord's Prayer for me is the

baseline of where to start when, when someone says, I feel like I

don't have the words to pray, like that's how Jesus taught his

disciples pray, right? Lord's Prayer.

And so those words in and of itself, like verbatim, good

enough, like they're not even good enough, probably like the

way you should. Those are probably the words you

should start with. But there's also, there's also a

model within that, right? We've maybe taught with the

acronym acts before There's adoration.

Our father who art in heaven, hallowed holy be your name.

That's that's adoration. See is is confession.

Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who who trespass

against us. Thanksgiving give us this day

Our Daily Bread like we're we're relying on things from God and

and acknowledging him in gratitude.

And the final part of Acts is is supplication bringing bringing

needs for yourself concerns for others.

Those sort of those are all kind of packaged in lead us not into

temptation, but deliver us from evil for that as the Kingdom and

the power and the glory like those.

Yeah, those things. So that Acts acronym is often

what I think about in just like the model of the Lord's Prayer.

Yes, those words are specific and those words are powerful,

but there's also the the things, the types of things that Jesus

is praying about in that prayer. That's what I think about.

Yeah, I think pretty similar answer.

But to me like it feels like home for lack of a better like

phrasing, like saying that it can it can feel repetitive or

you can kind of fall into like mouthing the words just because

you know it. But it when truly sitting in

that prayer, when truly sitting in those words, like it does

feel like home base. Like it is that defining prayer.

Like when you don't know what to pray, that is that should be

your go to. That is the that is the ultimate

prayer that we're we're shown how to pray, but the line of,

you know, hallowed be thy name that like it's always just a

reminder that God is set apart in sacred and we get to pray to

a father who loves us unconditionally so much that he

he is set apart. He doesn't hold grudges.

He he doesn't remember all your past mistakes.

When you ask for forgiveness, you are truly forgiven.

And that's like, yeah, that's the comfort in that prayer for

me. I I have found myself more

recently I found myself praying this over and over and over

again as like I lay in bed at night before I fall asleep.

I'm very much aware the Lord knows everything about me,

things I don't even know about myself.

And so I have found this prayer extremely comforting simply

because I get to recite the words that Jesus has helped me,

has taught me. And so I mean, there's so much

comfort in that. And because as we were even

talking like last week on the podcast, like these, these

prayers, these needs, these longings that are, that are too

deep for words or groanings, like I think the Lord's Prayer

gives us words for all of those things.

Because if you actually stop and deeply consider like line by

line, what we're actually praying for in the Lord's

Prayer, it is all covered. And I do like to point this out

to people. Notice that the vast majority of

the prayer has nothing to do with what we think we need or

what we want. What is that like 1/5 or 1/6 of

the entire prayer? Therefore, if I'm doing the math

right in my own prayer life, if I'm modeling Jesus and I believe

that God knows what I need even before I need it, most of my

prayer time is going to be in thankfulness and gratitude and

just telling God who He is. If you read the Old Testament,

you'll notice that often times the prophets are just literally

telling God who He is. And why do we do that?

Because it changes the position of our hearts so that we put

ourselves in the right place to be able to receive both with

grace, the suffering that happens in this world, but also

to receive the, the, the benefits and the blessings that

God gives us every single moment of our lives.

So again, I'm just, and I don't know why it has happened

recently, but the Lord's Prayer is connected with me very deeply

recently. And I just find myself always

praying in at night over and over again.

And I'll just over and over and I don't know how many times I do

it, but it's just it's very comforting to me recently.

That's awesome. Yeah, well said.

I think that's it. It's all a lot of the things

it's Yeah, it's all right there as as a model, as a focus.

I love that you brought up the the parts of the prayer and how

much it's focused on God, not us.

We so often go in prayer in in our our need and our things.

And I and I think even even the opening of prayer is is

approaching God, right. Our Father who art in heaven,

holy is your name, your Kingdom come, your will be done on

earth. It's it's acknowledgement of his

glory. It's stating humility and

submission to your your will be done.

Like that's how even even when we're asking for things for for

ourselves or or for other people like that, should we should

enter into that with I'm good with how this is going to play

out in your sovereignty. Like, like I'm gonna I'm gonna

be able to trust in that. But I'm asking here.

I am. So yeah, that's so good.

Well, and you know, one of the interesting things about this

topic in general is the fact that why, why would Jesus teach

this at all? Why would he teach it at all?

Well, the, the context of that is if you had a rabbi, so you

had somebody who you are apprenticing under or learning

from, all of them had prayers that they taught their

disciples. And so when the disciples come

along and they say Lord Jesus teach us how to pray, they're

literally just asking for the thing that other rabbis are

doing with their disciples. But Jesus delivers on a level

that I am quite sure no other rabbi or, or teacher or, you

know, Father of the faith ever gave them.

And I'm, I can only assume I would need to do a little bit

more research, but I can only only assume that adoration, even

if it's not the Lord's Prayer, adoration for who God is, that

had to have come first. Because if you understand the

10, the 10 commandments, you will have no other gods before

me. Therefore, I have to start with

adoration. Yeah, that's good.

I think we got it. We are going to move into game

#2 Hooray. I don't.

I really look forward to this. I think it's I think it's going

to be great. Pitch you guys against each

other. It's fun.

See, I gave the squinty eyes at Kristen, like trying to

intimidate her, and she just smiled.

It's. The tiny fist.

It's not intimidated. She's got a tiny fist.

It's fine. All right.

Our next game is going to be higher or lower.

We are going to bring up a sort of lifestyle topic, things that

people engage with or don't, and it's all of them are going to be

what percentage of American adults and then fill in the

blank. We're going to take turns and

and go around here. It's going to be someone's turn.

So Chris, I'm going to ask you the first question and then

you're going to kind of set the line.

What percentage of American adults blank?

You're going to pick a number. If you are within, if you get

exactly right, 00 to 100, you get 3 points.

If you're within the 10%, like five, 5% on either side, you get

2 points. And then Kristen and Dom are

going to weigh in and they're going to guess either higher or

lower than the line that you set.

And if they're correct, they get one point.

And we'll just kind of just kind of rotate around and there's,

it's probably going to be some discussion in between because

these are highly controversial topics.

So we'll, we'll add our, we'll add our input as well.

So, Chris, you're up first. The first question is what

percentage of American adults make their bed every day?

Well. First, do you make your bed

every day? The vast, vast majority.

Of days. Yes.

And The thing is like, I do that as a way to honestly, I'm not

trying to act like husband of the year here, honestly do that

to honor my wife. She's never asked me to do it,

but most days I am out of bed after her.

And so I just, you know, well, that's that's telling too, by

the way. Yep, Yep, that's my life

friends. But you know, like I just, it

takes me about 5 seconds to like, and I don't make it like

tuck. I don't, I hate tucking.

Oh, you can't touch it. Oh gross, I know I I can't have

my feet tucked in. That's for next.

That's for next time. Percentage of households that

tuck the sheets. Yeah, I can't, but, but I'll

lay, I'll lay the blanket across the top really nice and I'll

smooth it out a little bit. And, you know, and, and the vast

majority of the days I do that unless I wake up late, which

does happen and then you know. Sometimes you're in a rush and I

guess, OK, OK. So.

I, I don't like our, my wife is a lot better at it than I am,

but in general, in general, we don't.

Kristins shaking her head too. No, no, no, nobody sees it.

I'm. Just gonna get back in.

It's fine. I don't know.

Yeah. Dom any strict discipline in

life there no. Never even think about it, not

even a thought that crosses my mind.

My thing is like, and this is going to sound a little extreme

but I don't care. You walk by the bedroom after

you get up in the morning and you know, it looks like a crime

scene because the blankets are everywhere and stuff and you're

like, this looks terrible. Like let's just fix this real

quick. It takes 5 seconds.

Just do it. Make your bed.

I just, I don't walk by. It mine's in a corner of my hat.

Like I don't walk by my bedroom unless I'm going in like into my

bedroom and during the day I'm not going back.

I get up, get out, and I'm not back in there till I'm thinking

about going to sleep. So yeah, it's kind of the same

thing as Kristen. Like good gravy, Gonna undo it

right away. You don't.

Get me wrong, I like a made bed. Like it looks good.

I like crawling into the made bed.

Just don't take the time to do it.

Okay. That's fair.

So what percent of American adults, what line do you want to

set here? Well, now The thing is I was

confident and then I'm one out of four in this room.

I'm far less confident about my percentage guest now.

So that has also. Isn't that a perception?

If we think we do something, we think like the majority of

people. Do I'm adulting kind of

sometimes. You know what, you guys have

changed my perception. So I'm going to go lower than I

thought. I'm going to say 40%. 40% Wow,

OK, I like that line. I think that's a good number.

Kristen and Dom, we'll just do a we'll do a countdown from 5 and

just give me a thumbs up because I don't want you to play off of

each other. So like you just thumbs up,

thumbs down when? I am.

Why do it? Whether you you think it's

higher or lower than 40%, three, 21 both went lower, the answer

is 27%. So the room is accurate.

One one out of four was survey says 27%.

That sounds incredibly like when we actually think about it, that

number feels bad. Most adults are gremlins.

So if you don't make your bed, you are in the majority of 73%

of adults that don't make their beds.

So good for you though, Chris, Good for you.

I have I have less hope for humanity now than I did before

this segment. We're not even done yet.

This next one isn't going to help, I don't think.

What percentage of American adults don't fully stop at stop

signs? The the rolling stop, as it

were. Kristen, this is for you.

Honestly. So honestly, we've talked about

actually I've talked about stop signs before as like a useless

thing, right? Yeah.

So I. You're not.

Stopped. I don't, I don't like and I

don't, I don't want to think I'm just like a reckless crazy

driver out here, but like I slow down.

I'm not just like blazing through stop signs, but full

stop. No, I'll get down to like one or

two MPH and then I'm on my way. If there's cars there, I stop.

But like if there's if there's no cars or kids at an

uncontrolled and there's just going to.

Run, full stop. Does not happen without cars or

kids. Your pastor's a Sinner.

No. OK, so you're the same.

Yeah, no, it's slightly tap on pedal if there's nobody else

around. OK, dumb.

Typically, I do come to a full stop.

Wow, I don't. Know like that was just

ingrained in me so much that I still do it out of habit.

So much integrity. Yeah.

Stand up guy, you can totally be lying right now, but I believe

you, Kristen. I'm a rule follower.

Yeah, that's all that. It could be in the middle of a

cornfield and I would still stop.

Wow. OK, So what number?

5050 in the room? What number do you want to set?

I think I'm seeing you have less faith in humanity, I think.

I think I do, yeah. Because there's the California

roll. You know, it's like everything's

kind of a yield is what you're describing.

It's like we live in the Midwest where you're like, I don't know,

do you have to? I'll go with 45.

Don't fully stop. Yes, OK.

No switch that, sorry 65 don't fully stop. 65 don't fully stop.

OK, so 2, she's taking roughly 2 thirds, 65%.

I also like that. I think that's a pretty good

guess. All right, Chris and Dom, 321

thumbs up or thumbs down. Here we go, 32101 up, one down.

Chris is higher, Dom is lower. The actual percentage, 70% of

American adults don't fully stop.

So Kristen, you get 2 points for being within 5% and Dom you got

none. Sorry Chris, you get one point

for guessing within the margin. Sorry I didn't go over points in

the first round. Kristen got 2, Dom got one and

one, and Chris. Chris, you got you got nothing.

Oh, no, you guys correctly this time, right?

Yes. OK, so all right.

Kristen, after two rounds has three Dom and Chris each with

one. Next question, back to health

and fitness. So you can walk off your peeps.

Chris, what percentage of American adults get 10,000 steps

per day? I do.

I like my my average is like 11/5 some somewhere around there

almost 12,000. I do have kids.

I go for walks. Do you talk with your hands a

lot? Not, not this hand.

OK, just the other hand. The other hand, OK.

I'm like 7500. Wow.

On average, yeah, not a lot. I'm real bad.

I mean. No, I don't.

Move between sitting, yes. Or, or I should with pictures

and people like or like I did. I did get up one time because my

watch told me to and I was like, and then I moved her out a

little bit and then I sat back down.

It is, yeah. I just don't move a lot.

It's OK. Dom no, no.

OK, all right, so we got all three of y'all are under hoof.

So Dom, what percentage of American adults get 10,000 steps

per day? What percentage you want to put

on? It I honestly think it's really

low. Really low.

I don't know why, I just feel like it's very low.

I'm going to go like, I'm going to go 30%.

Wow, wow. OK, 1/3 of people, Chris and

Kristen higher or lower 321 they both went.

Lower than 30%. They I do less faith.

I think it's bad. You're right, it's 21%.

Wow, one in five getting 10,000 steps a day?

That's crazy. Well, I think it's too like it's

feast or famine on some of the stuff.

There's some people who are so active.

So my sister-in-law, she, you know, she runs in front of House

of Hall of Fame. I think she's probably pretty

normally 15 to 20,000 a day. Wow.

But so and I will say, so while it's 21% for 10,000 in, in the

7500 range that you're talking about, that jumps up to like 55%

of people in that range. So there is that extra kind of

quarter, which 10,000 steps is a pretty baseline barometer for

just like average fitness and activity.

But even in the range that you're in, Chris, you're still

in like the top half of active people.

Kristen, we're not going to ask your number, all right?

Did you, did you scoot over to this office, by the way, for the

podcast or did you walk? Listen, listen, I usually scoot.

So I got a couple more steps this time because I walked.

I did push in the chair this time.

Congratulations. Thank you, I'm really proud of

myself. All right, Chris, it's

appropriate that it's your turn for this question.

What percentage of American adults drink coffee every day?

It should be 100%. It should.

Wow. It should be because that is

God's golden liquid gift to the world.

I love coffee. We like coffee in this office.

I I drink coffee just about every day.

We usually have a pot going. If, if.

I mean, I'll make a pot even if you guys aren't here, but I

don't know if you guys do when I'm gone.

But yeah. OK, Dom.

You're missing out bud. And Dom, you're not.

I do not drink coffee. Never Coffee.

Nope never never. A combination of the taste but

also like I don't have a high caffeine intake to begin with so

if I drink coffee I just get super jittery because I don't

eat early in the morning. So then the only thing in my

system is caffeine and I'm just wired and I can't do it.

Do it before you preach. Next time, let's find out what

happens. Let's just find.

Out. Oh no, that's a good idea.

Speed up your words per minute a little bit.

No, your pacing was great. Don't.

Don't change the thing. Fastest service ever.

All right, Chris, what percentage of American adults

drink coffee every day? I'm going 67%.

Wow. For the kids out there, for the

kids, All right, Kristen and Dom, there's a really good line,

I think. And we're.

Yeah, higher or lower, 67%, three, 21 ones were split,

Kristen lower, Dom higher. You each get a point because

Chris got the number exactly correct.

Thank you to every teenager in my life for giving me the

wherewithal to say 6-7. No way.

Let's go and that you got it that's.

Awesome. He did.

Yeah, that's awesome. That line.

So that brings you into a tie with Kristen.

After 4 rounds, both have five points, Dom trailing with two.

But there's three rounds left. We got time to catch up.

Kristen, what percentage of American adults have never flown

on a plane? So 18 and up.

What percentage of American adults have never flown on a

plane? Never flown.

Has everybody everybody flown? Yes, yeah.

I have Yep. Yeah, I do know.

Yeah, there's until I've, I've known some adults even in this

church that like while I've known them here, just have never

been on an airplane. So, like it happens.

There are there are people, but in my perception, not a lot.

I can't imagine that it's a lot of people.

Yeah. Because at some point it just

comes up, even if you're not just you have to.

It's almost like you'd have to avoid it at some point.

Yeah, with 22. Percent, 22%, Kristen Dom higher

or lower in 321? Both higher.

It is lower. It's 13% and Kristen's also not

in the margins and nobody gets any points this round.

That's really low. It is really low 13 percent,

1:00 and 8:00 roughly Yeah, even a little less than that.

But it's just that normal. It is that normal.

It is normalized normalized thing fine on the plane.

So next round Dom you're up for. Oh, this is a fun one.

This is back to the the making your bed sort of thing.

What percentage of American adults hang their toilet paper

under under and and if you don't know like so that's that's it's

coming down the the back of the roll instead of the front of the

roll. Now I've never I'm not I'm we're

we're an over always been an over the prac.

Do you know why you would hang it the other way?

I heard if it's if you have like little kids or cats or dogs.

It's so that they can't. It's a lot harder to like

unravel the roll from that way. However, I've just I've never

done that and I have dealt with an unraveled favor all more than

more than once. But like, I don't know, it just

that seems wild to me. I've I've never been in a house

where that's like regularly. I don't think I've ever even

been at over at anyone's house ever in my life where it's

around the other way. I don't know if I even know

anyone. You know what?

You know what it is, it's the beard.

So coming off the front versus the mullet coming out the back,

you want the beard, not the mullet.

It's the mullet of toilet paper that's.

That's right, it is the mullet. Of nobody does that but weird

hockey Canadians. My mother-in-law.

Does. Yeah, my mother, my

mother-in-law does only 'cause I know, like if you go to her

house, right, it's like that. But if she can, yes.

Oh, never thought about that. That's why.

But if she comes to our house, she will do it that way.

Oh. If she has to.

Replace. Yep, it will.

You'll be. Like it'll flip and I'm like and

I shut her and then I flip it around.

Sweet, sweet lady. Love her all.

Right, Dom, you get to set the line.

I would go if I I would be really low.

Like like I said, I've never really I'm surprised that you

have someone like that regular in your life even that that does

it that way. But like, it happens in our

house sometimes just because my kids don't know any better,

like, and then I fix it and turn around right away.

And I I realize I need to correct their ways in my

upbringing of them. But what do you think, Dom?

What percent of American adults hang the toilet paper under?

I want to go really, really low, but I don't trust people, so I'm

still going to go see I say that, but I think I'm going to

go like 18%. OK, 18%, Chris and Kristen

higher or lower in 321, both lower than 18.

Yeah, it's actually 30%. Really.

Yeah, no. Do they all like live in the

same state? They might just the entirety of

New York City. Yes.

What? Is happening.

Wet Rogue. So that's no, that's no points.

Again, you guys guessed wrong and Dom was not within the

margin. So we're going into the final

round. It's anybody's game.

Chris, Kristen, Dom, we're going to, we're going to come back to

Dom. It's going to be his turn

because he is. It's unfair.

It's seventh round. We're going to we're just going

to go the one that's trailing has the greatest chance to make

up the points. So Don, we're coming back to

you. What percentage of American

adults own cars? This might seem like a strange

question, but we're in middle Iowa don't don't like people in

Los Angeles and New York plenty of it.

They don't have cars like they they'd use Uber or bus system or

like whatever else. Don't need to have cars.

So and those are large populations of people in the

country, right. So it sounds a little crazy for

us because how do you I mean, most people have cars, but I

think it's AI think it's a funny thing.

So Dom, you have two points. You got to get it right on the

nose to to be in the game. Kristen and Chris, you're both

tied at 5:00. So we could end up with a

tiebreaker here and I'm going to have to come up with something

for that. But we'll see how it plays out.

Dom What percentage of American adults own cars?

So are we going just individual adults or like household like

what is that percentage based count?

It's those are the same like if a if a husband and wife if they

own them individually or own it together like they both.

Yeah, OK. It's all like a household would

be both adults in it. I think it's gonna be still

relatively high. Yeah, even with, even with

bigger cities. Like, I mean, I'm gonna go like

80. I'm gonna go with like 86 or 80.

Yeah, 86 percent, 80. 6%, that's not bad.

I I I would expect it to be pretty high.

I think you similar. You got to have a car kind of

yeah. And not in the city, but like

you're right there's. Kind of a change.

There's nothing overwhelming but you, you, you can.

We can. We can, I think.

I'm going to change it to like 91.

Oh my goodness, it's going even higher.

OK, higher maybe I'm giving you guys free points.

All right. Just just by presented, like how

do you not take the math? You're at 91% here, but you guys

can do what you want. Higher or lower.

Ready. 321 lower. That is correct.

It is. It's 74%, which also still

sounds like a reasonable percentage to me.

But 74% of American adults own cars.

Yeah. Kristen and Chris, you tied at

six. I didn't have a tiebreaker

ready. She shook her little fist at me.

Before that question, that was a credible threat.

I feel yeah, I feel like because I threatened him, he should get

that one are. You feeling?

Bad. Are you just?

Confessing right now I do. I'm so sorry.

I shake my fist a lot. I.

Shake my fist a lot, especially when she's trying to intimidate.

Yeah, all right. We might come back to a

tiebreaker a little later in the episode to to give that higher

lower away. But yeah, so anyway, you guys

are great. Thank you for for humoring me

second game down. All right, we're going to try a

new segment here and we have some we have some theme music

for this one. So we're going to get into it.

This stemmed out of the stemmed out of the making the bed.

Kristen asked, do you fold bath towels?

And then there's this advented into into this idea for the

segment. So we're going to we're going to

debut this for the first time. This is adulting with pastor

Matt. It's called adult day.

I'm. Adult.

All right, so yeah, this came out of Kristen asking how I

would fold bath towels. And that brought me to the

conclusion I don't, I don't have multiple bath towels.

Like I don't I don't fold bath towels because I don't have

extra bath towels like they come off the hooks, they get washed,

they go back on the hooks, not folding bath towels.

So we also have on the ERC pic shelf JP Pakluta.

Welcome to adulting, navigating faith, friendship, finances and

the future. If you want to check that out

for your your four FS growth here at ERC.

But so I'm just going to rant on adulting in minimalism a little

bit from my towels and you guys can tell me how how crazy I am

about this. But my thoughts are I don't need

a whole lot of extra space with the bath towels that I'm not

using like that. And, and maybe I'm a weirdo and

an adult who like starts and finishes their laundry on the

same day. I, I could see how that's a

crazy world to live in for some people, but I do that.

So if I'm washing the towels like they're gonna, they're

gonna go in the washer. I'm, I'm also like if I start a

load of laundry, though, it doesn't sit in the washer for

very long. Like I, I, I go get it and dry

it. There's not, there's not like

wet clothes sitting in my washer ever.

That's got to get changed over. That's got to get done.

So my towels happen quickly. I just don't, I don't need to

have extras. And it's the same with bed

sheets. And this is where you guys

thought I was getting a little crazy.

Yes. Don't have extra sets of bed

sheets either. Take them off, wash them, put

them back on. I'm not, I'm not taking like if

I had extra bed sheets, what do? What do I need those for?

Am I, am I not? Am I taking a week to wash the

bed sheets that I'm taking off the bed?

Like no, I'm just just getting it done.

And who doesn't love fresh sheets?

Like I'm just, I'm just doing it right away.

You might be the most real adult I've ever met.

And I can only say that because I've only ever like existed in

houses where like, yeah, I threw the laundry in and then like 5

or 6 hours later, I remember I put that in or this is even

better. This is even better.

Put it in the washer and you're like, I'm not doing that right

now. So you just lift the lid of the

washer so it doesn't get smelly because if it.

Stays in there. So you just lift the lid.

You're like, you know what? I'll come back to this in an

hour or two and then eventually throw it in the dryer.

Now when it comes out of the dryer, who knows how long until

it gets folded and put in a drawer.

I said I can't deal with wrinkly clothes either.

Like it's got AI, just got to fold them quick.

That's why this is this segment is perfect for you to coach me

how to be an adult because. We could not have been college

roommates. That wouldn't have lasted.

I don't know if Chris is ready to be an adult.

Wow. I've.

Known you too long? So how crazy am I?

Thoughts on I just I don't we have 9 beds in our house.

I'm definitely not having extra sheets for all the beds.

I could maybe be reasoned into like an extra king, an extra

queen, an extra twin just for like happenstance things.

But also that doesn't I don't that doesn't happen often enough

where I've like needed an extra set of sheets.

I've never really been in a panic of like, Oh my goodness,

where's the spare sheets? I am concerned about the amount

of towels to people in your house though, because you've got

a lot of girls. So like I'm just imagining teen

girls. Like do.

You really think that those towels are going back to the

hook like 13 year old version of some of your girls?

Do you really think that they're going to go hang that back up?

Oh they already don't hang it back up.

I hang it back up but what it was.

So I want more towels laying on the floor.

No, you get 1. I don't need all the extras

laying around too. What happens?

One towel? What?

Happens when you go take a shower and there's no towel.

Then they yell at me and get dad go bring me my towel cuz I'm

already in the bath and I didn't think about this cuz I'm 6 and I

left my towel on the floor from last night.

What does that mean for me when I have to yell at Lissa and I

have to do I have to start yelling?

Hey, I'm I'm 45. Like please I'm 45.

Bring me a. Towel like.

What? No, just my towel.

Because you only have one. I only.

Have one now my towel. I wouldn't have brought you the

towel. I need my.

Towel. No.

You're going to walk out there wet and cold.

Get that. Get that towel.

Go to his maid bed. Yep.

Fine, I'm just drying off on my major.

Blanket. Yeah, there you go.

See, you're, you're honestly convincing me.

Not probably for the right reasons though, because I, I'm

very much one of those people. Like I'm doing laundry all in

one day. Like it's getting done.

I have to set reminders otherwise I will just forget.

But it is getting done in one sitting.

But the last load is just going to sit in the dryer.

It is just going to stay there. Folding's like the final phase.

Yeah, like I don't quite get to that point, but I don't have to

if I have less things. Yeah, like if if I have less of

it, well, OK, maybe now I can actually fold it because I only

have one towel. I mean, it's not as hard as the

10 that I have in the washer right now.

It's true, it's true. And that's, and that's so for

me, like a load of towels coming out of the dryer is nothing.

There's no folding. Like I'm, I'm skipping the

folding stuff. I'm just hanging them straight

up. Doesn't take any time at all.

I don't feel like my family needs an intervention.

Like I think that they'd be scared if you came over and

you're like listen y'all get one towel.

And they that's they can have multiple towels but like, aren't

those being hung up too? No, no they're not.

What? He's got random towels that's

like laying. Everything, yeah, little

gremlins. They just it's on the floor.

Like we have legit our upstairs bathroom has way more towel like

bars. There's at least three bars, 4

hangers, and they'll still end up on the floor.

Oh my goodness, can you give me nightmares tonight?

I'm just so you're thinking about all the towels on the

floor in the Hendo house. Not going to be able to sleep.

Nope. Nope.

See, now I am thinking into the future, though, because right

now it doesn't matter because I live by myself, so I can leave

things in the dryer and it's fine.

Nobody's going to complain, nobody's going to.

Nobody even knows. Except now I just outed myself

that I do these things, but whatever.

But in the future, yeah, I mean, it'd be nice to have less things

so that doesn't happen. I don't want 50 towels on the

floor of the bathroom. I mean, but maybe not because

I've been married for 25 years. We're still leaving this towel

on the floor. He's lived with the person for

that long. That didn't change anything

about his habits. You know what?

Yep Matt, you have taught me yet another way.

I am not quite an adult yet. Thank you for for just knocking

me down a beg. I just needed it.

In this in this summer, he's going to leave us all alone.

Yeah, you guys are going to have to give up the adult thing real

quick. I think we have to.

So I'm thinking after all of this, like the three of us are

going to read that book together so we can be adults or we need

some MAT training. We have to, we have to read that

before he leaves for the summer though 'cause if we're reading

it wow, whilst he's gone, we'll only figure it out and then

he'll be right back to help us adults again.

But we, we. Need.

You won't have applied any of the principles, that's right.

Matt's an enabler. I'm going to go ahead and just

deflect. We'll make it his fault.

Good job. Good job, Kristen.

Thanks. I hadn't thought of that.

I you know what? Yeah.

All right, this has been adulting with Pastor Matt.

Next time on this segment, we'll talk about blaming other people

for your problem. Thanks for that lead in Kristen.

All right, we got a spicy question for question 3 here.

It is recently we did. Was it in the fall?

A year ago, we did Revelation. Yeah, we were in Revelation.

Fantastic. Lots of life groups doing that

one together and some jokes came out of it as we learned about

the White Horse. So our question.

The Four Horsemen of the White Horse.

Specifically the White Horse. Specifically we're wondering is

Taylor Swift, the White Horse, very specific, Very specific.

And that did come up in multiple life groups, I know.

What? So we want to hear from our

pastors all. Right, so, so the white just

little biblical context. Let's let's set the table a

little bit. So Revelation 6 one through 8

that the first of the four horsemen that this white

horsemen a symbol of conquest or or false hope, false peace, even

even like Antichrist, right. Is is so wow.

Yeah. So this got serious real quick.

I think in a nutshell, you guys can jump in.

No, it is like my default position.

Is she potentially a type of the White Horse?

Like I mean allusion to the is is it, is it potential that some

of the things she sings about or or some of the example that she

gives is is a deceptive false peace or or false hope in

certain things? Yeah, I think that's true.

But I also think that's like, it's a lot of modern secular

society, which, I mean, she perpetuates and and falls into

that category too. So in that way, yeah, I think

she's maybe like a type a sign of some of those things.

Is, is she the source of all that?

I would fall short of saying yes to that.

So, thoughts? I mean, I think if you said yes,

you'd be giving her too much credit.

But OK, I said it earlier, but like, I think if you look into

any earthly things, any worldly things like that, you are going

to find glimmers and glimpses of these things.

Like if you're truly looking hard enough, there's so many

people that I've heard just in the last, I don't know, 5-6

years be called the White Horse or the Antichrist.

Like there's, it's thrown around almost like candy.

But I think it's because we see all the, the earthly and worldly

things within them. And they're prominent figures.

They're more well known than, you know, you or I, But I think

they definitely, yeah, like you said, they have little, little

things that kind of allude to it or show glimpses of that.

But I think you'd be giving her too much credit to say yes.

And I, and I think you're right, as much of A following and

influence she has within, within the music world and even just

just popularity world, like when, when we're coming to like

Antichrist level things, I, I think that influence and

indoctrination and power is, is going to be far more reaching

than than even she is right now. She's she's an interesting piece

in a larger cultural cog that's moving in a particular

direction. But at the same time, again, go

back a ways. When Elvis started dancing on

TV, people thought, oh, my goodness, look at the way he's

dancing. Yeah.

He's sexualizing our our entire generation of people and and all

these kinds of things. And The Beatles come along and,

you know, and they're, oh, no, these teenagers, what are they

going to do, these Beatles, you know, all this kind of stuff.

And so again, she's not more or less than either of them, you

know, or any popular example, whether that be a movie star or

a music artist or whatever. So like, she could not be the

White Horse. Worst case scenario, she's a My

Little Pony because she is not on that level.

Yep, My Little Pony. There you are.

There you are. Theology man strikes again.

Rats All right so yeah, I think I mean, I don't think there's

anything really like incredibly conclusive about about those

things. But you're you're right in the

just the direction that the world is heading sort of it's

just she's just possibly another piece of false.

I mean, I say false influence in the way that you shouldn't be

putting your hope in Taylor Swift.

Like if you hear your hope belongs in Jesus and not Taylor

Swift, so the. Interesting thing about even our

modern culture is that we think we're so evolved and we think

we're so advanced and all these kinds of things.

You could look at any of our leanings as a culture, whether

you think that, Oh no, our, our culture is no longer repressed

sexually and we're just, come on, the Greeks went way farther

than we have yet to go and we think we're this new hip thing

and we're not. We are repeating what history

has already already done, and we just don't study our history

well enough to know that Yep, it's all been done before,

nothing new under the sun. None of these things are

surprising to God, and if you study your history, it won't be

surprising to you either. Yeah, all right.

Final game and then and then we're out of here.

You guys are going to endure me torturing you for one more fun

game. It'll be great.

This game is called Liar Liar. It's going to be great.

So the way this game works, it's basically 2 truths and a lie.

There's going to be 3 rounds and it's essentially the three of

you versus me. I've found some crazy zany

scenarios that don't even sound like the real going to give

three of them to you at a time. Two of them are true, 1 is a

lie. You need to find the lie to

advance to the next round. And it's really the three of you

against me. So as long as one of if, if one

of you gets all three of them right, I lose.

So you can play the game if you want.

If you want a first round, the three of you each pick a

different answer and that guarantees that one of you

survive. You can, but then that person

needs to get the next two correct.

Either way, you're working as a team.

You can you can Give your opinion, you can give your

insight, whatever else, but three rounds, you got to pick

the lie out of the three. OK, here we go.

First round. A street sweeper in Detroit in

the 1930s became known as the baby magnet because on two

different occasions he got hit by babies falling out of fourth

story windows while working below.

Oh my gosh #2 There is a beach on the coast of North Carolina

that is known as the Tamagotchi shores.

In 1997, a shipping container fell spilling 100,000 digital

Tamagotchi pets. Even today, 15 to 20 toys wash

ashore every month #3 no babies were killed in the scenario

number one, by the way, they just fell.

They, they survived. But like, he was got hit by

babies in two different times. So that was weird.

So babies falling out of windows, Tamagotchi shores #3 A

butt was a medieval, medieval unit of measurement for wine.

Technically a buttload of wine is 126 gallons.

No? Come on.

OK, so you guys can discuss amongst yourself or decide how

you're going to own here. You have to.

You have to find the untruth. You have to find the lie.

Out of these three, two of these ridiculous things are true.

I'm buying the butt load all day, guys.

I think that's real. It's got to be real.

It's a butt load. I.

Don't know the Tamagotchis. I feel like I feel like we would

have heard about that. Maybe.

Because then I want to go get one like if it's still

happening. Yeah, I'm thinking #2's probably

a little lie. I'm going with that too.

Yeah, are. We all going to answer the same,

but yeah, we're risking. Are you?

Or you do the butt. Well, no, because I think the

butt. Oh, he knows the butt's a real

yeah. I think that's true.

OK, OK, I can't say for sure, but I think it is.

We could all be out on the first round if we all choose the same

answer. Or yeah, what is he?

Going to do now stay in then your odds increase exponentially

of winning the game. Do we just go hard at this?

I trust. Oh my goodness.

OK. Shortest.

Break this game. That was the why.

You all got it right. Tamagotchi shorts don't exist.

Otherwise, we're just going to cut and drive there.

I want. One that means a butt load is a

real thing though. 126 gallons. OK.

Actual Chris is going to use that a lot now.

Well, and now that I know exactly precisely how many

gallons it is, I just need to find ways to like talk about

things that it's that much that's.

A. Lot that's so many gallons.

All right, so you all survived. I'm a little shocked, but well

played. Next round #1 Chess Boxing is a

sport where opponents alternate rounds of boxing and speed chess

until their opponent is either checkmated or knocked out.

Number two, the artificial chemical sucralose, was

discovered when a scientist accidentally heard the phrase

test this chemical as taste this chemical #3 Red carpets were

originally used to celebrate Vikings coming home from raiding

excursions and represented the blood of their foes.

Those are all. Really.

OK, so I can tell you right now number one is true chess box.

It is. I'm watching chess.

Box I have watched it is a thing.

He thought about competing. It's insane.

I'm weirdly curious about it. Wow.

OK, so you have knowledge on it, You're OK.

So you're 100% sure? Number one is.

True. So we have a 5050.

OK. So the artificial chemical

sucralose, discovered when a scientist accidentally heard the

phrase test this chemical as taste.

This chemical, or red carpets were originally used to

celebrate Vikings coming home from rating excursions and

represented the blood of their foes.

I'm saying. Red carpet makes sense.

I don't feel like a scientist. I'm saying #2 is a lie.

Yeah, well, or I feel sorry for that guy if it's not like, why

is he a chemist? You can't be just eating stuff.

I. Mean as a scientist, you think

you're just like, you're like what?

Like. Those are the ones that don't

make. It.

That's just, that's just the yeah, no, you're not making it

if you can't listen. I think it's a lie.

See, I was leaning that way too, but I do we do we all three

answer the exact same again. OK, I'll take it.

I'll take the red carpet. OK, just in case do.

You think that's a lie? Keeping.

A lie, that's the that's the lie.

Do you think red carpet's a lie? I could I could take that one

just in case it is a lie because I don't know.

Kristen's hedge in the back here.

I'll take it. And then you take the number 2.

OK. Dom and Chris going with

sucralose. Good pivot, Kristen.

That was the lie. Red carpets were not used for

Vikings. They just the the blood of the

foes was just yeah, they. Just put real blood.

Right. Yeah, no, no red carpets needed,

Chris, so. You're our only.

You are the only hope final round.

Chris and Dom can still give you give you some insight.

So all right, this one is all about actual people.

Gary Cremen, the founderofmatch.com, went through

a tough breakup when his girlfriend left him for a guy

she met on match.com. Chris Hanson, the host of the

show To Catch a Predator, was fired after being caught

cheating on his wife by a hidden camera.

In 2001, John Spinello, the maker of the board game

Operation, died on the operating table in the middle of a heart

procedure. Stop it these.

Are. These are good.

So match.com hidden camera catch a predator or creator of

operation dying on the operating table.

Which one is the lie? These are really difficult.

Yes, I have no idea. Dom, you got any insight?

I don't on this one. I thought I did, but I don't

like those are. They're all plausible.

I want to say I heard something about #1 like I, I want to say I

have a recollection of hearing that because it's just kind of

humorous that he created the thing that made his girlfriend

leave him and find someone else. But but also now I'm playing in

my head. All right.

Well, he's switching the numbers.

It would go to #1 being the lie if he was following some sort of

oh. Pattern.

Oh, so you're like, but you're playing this player.

You're like 5D. Chessing this thing OK?

And This is why he can do chess and box.

Way to go Dom. I believe in your toughness and

your intellectual. I will never be a chess boxer.

It's not going to happen. Would I fall to such a

predictable pattern though? Or would I think you wouldn't

think I would fall to such a predictable pattern.

So I did it. Wow, tangled web, we beef.

On the operation one just sounds sad and weird.

But it also sounds true. Yeah, like that seems.

Normal. I don't know, I'm coming on #2

Hold on though, how long has the game operation been around?

A really long time. I mean would he even be alive at

that point or would he have died before that because the game is

ancient. I mean, I played it in the 80s.

Well, he it's 2001 that he died. And the the date of The thing is

not like, it's not like a, the whole incident.

I'm, I'm not going to get you on like a technicality.

It's like that. It's not like he died in 2008,

not 2001. Like no.

Kristen, I feel like you're on your own.

The the middle 1 I feel like is weird like that he got caught on

camera. If you do a show, that's gotcha.

Camera based on camera. I feel like you'd be smart

enough to like avoid that. So an operation when I think

that could happen and then Dom's feeling already about the first

one I'm going to go to. Going back to #2.

Was it? It it is the operation one is

the lie that did not happen to the creator of operation.

But yeah, Tom, you're right about the match.com really

having to catch a predator somehow the guy did not have the

foresight to realize there might be cameras watching as everyone.

Yep, all. Right.

Well, I'm glad the operation guy did OK though.

It's the the odds are heavily stacked against you.

I'm surprised like for you to get to the last round still

alive with one of you is is pretty darn good.

So it was well done. All right, so we'll see if that

was entertaining to listen to or not.

We'll find out. You can let us know, or don't or

don't. Or don't just radio silence

coming back from this episode. Yeah, but thanks for hanging

with us, church family. Hopefully we had a little fun

with you all today. Have a blessed spring break this

week and we'll catch you on Sunday.

Dom. Preaching time #2 excited for it

man. Blessings you prepare and yeah,

have a blessed week, Church.