The Gospel According to Jennifer
Welcome to "The Gospel According to Jennifer" podcast, where faith, humor, and heartfelt stories collide in a lively conversation about life, love, and everything in between. Join your host Jennifer Deibler, along with her co-host Jeromy Deibler as they share their family’s journey from being the acclaimed Christian band FFH to their current path in spiritual direction.
In this engaging and candid podcast, Jennifer and Jeromy offer a unique blend of perspectives on spirituality, mental health, emotional well-being, and personal growth. Drawing from their extensive experiences on the road and life's ups and downs, they explore the joys and challenges of faith, all while sprinkling in some humor along the way.
Get ready for spirited debates, deep dives into controversial thoughts, and heartwarming memories as they invite you into their world of faith, questions, and spiritual exploration. Whether you're a longtime believer, a spiritual seeker, or simply someone looking for meaningful conversations, "The Gospel According to Jennifer" podcast has something for everyone.
Tune in to join the conversation, laugh, learn, and be inspired as Jennifer and Jeromy navigate the twists and turns of life's spiritual journey. It's a podcast that's as diverse as their experiences and as authentic as their hearts. Subscribe today and embark on a captivating exploration of faith, laughter, and the adventure of the human spirit.
The Gospel According to Jennifer
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When my father passed me down his old work shirt, little did I know it would weave its way into a conversation about Memorial Day and the profound way we honor those who've made the ultimate sacrifice. This episode isn't just about remembrance; it's a tapestry of laughter and reflection, weaving through the idyllic streets of New Smyrna Beach to the curious etiquettes of fridge politics at home. Who knew that labeling your yogurt could spark a family debate, or that an inherited shirt could hold such a narrative?
Venturing deeper, we touched on the spiritual metamorphosis my parents are wading through in their golden years, challenging long-held beliefs within the conservative church community. Their journey, contrasted with the often humorous side of faith and leadership, unfolds like an open book, inviting listeners to consider the evolution of their own beliefs. We navigate through the concepts of empowering leadership and raising children to find their unique strengths—a universal challenge that transcends religion and redefines what it means to guide.
And what would a conversation be without a little nocturnal quirkiness? From the unsolved mysteries of the 'pee shelf' to the polarized debates over the moon landing, this episode is a foray into the peculiar habits that color our nights and the elusiveness of truth in a divided world. Dive into the depths of our laughter and learnings, where even the most mundane topics spring to life with wit and wisdom. All this and more is just a play button away in a chat that promises to entertain as much as it enlightens.
here we go, here we go, lord rolling, lordy, lordy.
Speaker 2What a party you want to just apologize now for the whole episode, that we don't have to say it again you know what? You probably apologize, never apologizing to you again welcome everybody to the gospel times. Sorry, did I?
Speaker 1please. I got yelled at by someone, but well, other than just you. Just now, a hair and makeup girl.
Speaker 2One time was like stop apologizing you went pop caller listen oh, tell the story of that shirt this is my dad's's work shirt. Oh, it's a cool shirt, isn't it cool yeah.
Speaker 1And my mom, just she had it and I was like I want that I wear his shirts a lot.
Speaker 2This is the gospel, according to Jeremy.
Speaker 1Are we?
Speaker 2rolling With Jennifer Deibler and Drew Powell and happy Memorial Day weekend to you.
Speaker 1Oh, so you know this, this is gonna be a weird question, but what are we memorialing? I was just thinking about that, aren't we memorize, memorizing? We're memorizing people who died in combat that's what it is right, okay, because because veterans day is for people who have served okay and memorial day is for people who died died, but my dad died, probably from stuff from military okay, so it applied to him not really, but what's?
Speaker 2weird in the parades and stuff where it's a lot of firefighters and well, that's just fireman right. But I was like, are we remembering first responders?
Speaker 1oh, maybe maybe it's only war, I think it's it's only war.
Speaker 2I think it's military Army or military it's just military People who have died in service. Okay, not just war, because in church we make people stand up that are serving, but they're not dead. That's.
Speaker 1Veterans Day. That's Veterans Day, not supposed to do that on Memorial Day. There's a difference. Yeah, just a couple days ago, not days ago, years ago.
Speaker 2There you go, um, make sure you get his shot right, well, yeah, so happy memorial day to everybody. Uh, I'm still back and forth. Uh, you know what I like. I've figured it out what do you?
Speaker 3new smyrna beach yes, that is like new smyrna you know what I like how did we never go to winter?
Speaker 1freaking park winter park's great, but how did we never go to New Smyrna Winter? Freaking park Winter park's great, but how did we never go?
Speaker 2to New Smyrna Beach. All that time in Florida.
Speaker 1Don't tell people about it.
Speaker 2We'd never been there.
Speaker 1It's for the locals only, which we're not. He's bored. I'm drawing a Jewish star. Why? Why? For Israel. It just came to my mind.
Speaker 3Oh, no, my mind, no, I just no, I just was drawing it. I like the doodle are you? Uh, he's sleepy dude, it's a sleepy time no I'm with you, I'm engaged, we are, I mean we're. This is big new samarna guy, yeah, so we're we're.
Speaker 2We're at 3 30 nashville time. We've all had days today. I had, uh, two meetings this morning. I'm sure you had meetings, jennifer. You had what did I have.
Speaker 1You didn't have a lot of meetings today, yet. No, I didn't have a lot of meetings.
Speaker 3That's why you got more energy. Well, maybe I was up very late, though, and you've had a couple coffees, and what's this?
Speaker 1That's tea.
Speaker 3Of the green variety.
Speaker 2I'm drinking one of Hutch's. Hutch came in the other day carrying a 24 pack of seltzer water.
Speaker 1Spindrift Walks in the front door.
Speaker 2He usually walks in the front door, immediately goes upstairs. He walked in, came into the kitchen with his seltzer water. Put it in and goes. Can this be mine?
Speaker 1I paid for it.
Speaker 2We're like oh, we're doing that now. Yeah, we're doing the other night I bought.
Speaker 1Hold the cones from trader joe's. You know those little ice cream cones okay he finished, he polished off a whole box of them and he goes that was the last one and I was like, oh okay, so those will be yours too.
Speaker 3He goes oh yeah, yeah emory does that, she'll, she'll like, and even bentley. Bentley now, because she can get up to walgreens.
Speaker 1Oh my gosh. She walks, that's true, because you guys are so close fun.
Speaker 3Yeah, exactly so she'll come back with stuff and put her name on, but she'll target emory. She'll be like emory, do not drink my, because she knows emy's the culprit always.
Speaker 2That's awesome, do you know, if somebody did that, I would immediately drink it 100%. If someone put my name on something and said Jeremy, stay out.
Speaker 1See, and you accused me of that I would not.
Speaker 3I would be like I would not. But that's your thing. If someone tells you not, you have to do it.
Speaker 1But he says I'm like that, but I'm not like that as much as he is.
Speaker 2Really.
Speaker 1No, I would never. If someone said this is not yours, I would be like okay.
Speaker 3That's more of a learned behavior in college. When you go to college, that's a big deal. If we were living in an apartment.
Speaker 2If you and I were living in an apartment and you got something and you put Drew on it, I'd be like, yeah, he paid for it, that's his, it is yeah, but when your 20-year-old comes in, who pays for zero?
Speaker 1food-wise. He pays for his own stuff.
Speaker 2When he's out he pays for stuff and he asks us for very little and he says can these be mine? I hope he's listening right now and I hope he hears that I'm drinking his Spindrift.
Speaker 1He will never be listening to this, are you?
Speaker 3actually right now drinking the thing he said not to drink Currently.
Speaker 2I put this in my Wawa cup, but currently I'm drinking the thing he told me Because I needed the bubbles.
Speaker 3Is there more? I'd like to have one.
Speaker 2Those look really good. You want one, we want me to go get you one you guys can keep going.
Speaker 3I don't trust you with the stairs.
Speaker 1That's true, these glasses on. That's true.
Speaker 2You need to stay put you want me to go get him one and you guys have to talk.
Speaker 1I want one too. Can you get us one? Oh, this is awesome. Woo-hoo Party on Hutch. We should talk about Jeremy while he's gone. He's such an attention whore.
Speaker 3What headspace has he been recently, Jeremy? I don't know.
Speaker 1With his travel. He's lonely, is he really?
Speaker 3Even though he's around a bunch of people down there.
Speaker 1Yeah, but he likes to be around me.
Speaker 3He's lonely for you.
Speaker 1He's lonely for his peeps. Even if we don't talk, he just likes to be in the same house. I get that I always think I'm the one that likes to be alone. But give me about 24 hours of that and I'm like, okay, I'm bored. I've been very bored but it is.
Speaker 3It is your people, though. Like I'm good at being alone, but it's it's the family, it's the people I'm. I've hit that issue. This is great. Thank you, hutch. Thanks, hutch for purchasing our beverages.
Speaker 2She said. She said you were lonely when you were gone. I really was. Yeah, I mean, I like my pack. I do like to be alone, but I like the proximity of my pack.
Speaker 1I've really noticed how much I don't like to be alone lately. You did tell me you missed me. I have missed you really bad.
Speaker 2Aw guys, that's awesome, that's new though. Because she usually really does like some space.
Speaker 1Well, but you've got to remember too that we have always, always worked together.
Speaker 2Yeah, and so I've never had space in my life. We're not together nearly as much as we used to be no, and that's why you wanted it.
Speaker 1You wanted to draw on it.
Speaker 3I didn't think about that, but now that you have it, it's not working. No, I literally. It looked refreshing.
Speaker 1You like to draw on things. You've done that in several podcasts that.
Speaker 2Star of David's pretty controversial right now.
Speaker 3Yeah, I know, I didn't even realize I was making that. But, now I'm enclosing it.
Speaker 1Now, what's it going to be? A pentagram? No, that would be five points.
Speaker 2We have a friend that he went and got a tattoo when he was young. It's our friend's son and he came to the house and I was like I was like Zach, do you have a pentagram on your arm? He's like, yeah, it was supposed to be a star of David, but it got I messed it up, he got a pentagram. That sucks, that's so great.
Speaker 1Do you know how many people, though, tattoos are so hot? Right now, they are really more than ever.
Speaker 3They're always hot no, when we were kids, oh yeah, no one had tattoos.
Speaker 1Yeah, but you know that comes and goes, right, I mean. So I have a feeling that's what we all need to go into is tattoo removal well, you know when we were kids.
Speaker 2We do have to remember when we were kids. He's coming up a decade after us so they weren't as taboo for him? No, they were taboo when we were kids.
Speaker 1I's coming up a decade after us, so they weren't as taboo for him. No, they were taboo when we were kids. I mean like you the only people that had tattoos were prisoners yeah or people in the in the navy dad was very, a very conservative growing up.
Speaker 3He's not anymore, but he was growing up like my dad would have entertained getting a tattoo really, which is like a huge deal because he was a no alcohol. No, because he grew up in a highly conservative, he couldn't even go to the movies. Oh wow, my grandfather. He asked one time to go to the movies. I think it was like Bambi or something playing.
Speaker 1Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3And my grandfather was like you can go, but if you go I'll have to quit the ministry. He was a pastor. Oh my gosh, it's all shame. Dad was like, well, I'm not going to go, dad.
Speaker 2I guess I don't want to be responsible for that, jeez you know and I'm not saying this is your story, but I have a couple of clients, one that I'm really close to that same story. When she was growing up, parents were hardcore. Actually, two of them Parents, were really conservative and this is just what they did, and this is just what they did. And then in her adulthood, like almost like sort of after she moved out the parents started to really like loosen up and it's really hard for her because she's like where was that when I was a kid?
Speaker 1A lot of people are going through that now.
Speaker 2So the parents are now doing the things that they said were like downright sinful.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 2And she's like what the heck is this all about?
Speaker 1I feel like alcohol us growing up. Alcohol was very taboo. Well, not for me Well that's true, nevermind you don't aren't included. But for me and for I mean but your aunt Cindy didn't drink at all.
Speaker 2True, but she was, she was the she, she was the out Because Verna drank, Mom. I mean, we had a working tap, a working bar.
Speaker 1I know that your parents did, but even some of your family didn't drink at all. True, true, true. And now they all drink.
Speaker 3Yeah, and just like my family. I mean, it was very much. I'm the only one in my family. Now, that doesn't drink.
Speaker 1My parents don't drink your parents, drink now.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Spiritual Awakening and Growth in Family
Speaker 3How weird is that. So it's not hard for you, though, like you're okay. No, I'm totally fine, I was not. It's actually been really cool because my parents have, in the last even few months, have been like going through like a reawakening spiritually.
Speaker 1That's cool.
Speaker 3It's very cool and they just they've been in like the American conservative church system their whole life and they're getting the retirement age and they're like, hey, looking back on it, it just hadn't served us.
Speaker 1Yeah, that brand hasn't served us very well and they're exploring like I will.
Speaker 3I'll say, like the central things that are they're not waiting on, but like there's things that my dad will have, conversations that he'll be like man. I wish have known this years ago in ministry just how to like pass for people and show up for people and are you also like I wish you would have known it no, I'm out of that. I went through resentment phase, did you, but not anymore. I'm just really grateful that they're in, at their age, what they're modeling you know freedom yeah, and evolving and learning.
Speaker 2My dad's in his seven, mid seventies and he's learning new things about what it means to follow the way of Jesus is awesome, cool, yeah, I think, I think the the two clients that I'm talking about, they they're both girls, well grown women, and the stuff that their parents are doing are things that they would have been kicked out for doing.
Speaker 1Right.
Speaker 2And so they're like yeah, it is and they want. They want to enjoy the parents the way it is, but little them is like what the heck? Like this invalidates this whole structure that you made like church on Sundays, wednesdays you know, and they're like what, what was that then? And and I think it would be maybe different if the parents tried to do some amends and be like hey, we're so sorry, you know what I mean? Like we were, but they're just like but moved on, it's almost like it's almost like like it's the same.
Speaker 2I don't want to say symptoms, but I hear the same language from adults whose parents stay together and then they get divorced.
Speaker 1It's like well, what was that all about?
Speaker 2And they're just like we moved on. We're happy. Now we're like wait a minute, what?
Speaker 3about my I can see that. I see that standpoint, I think, because we, my brother, when I say we, my brothers and I kind of already blew up the church thing. We, I think because we, my brother, when I say we, my brothers and I kind of already blew up the church thing, we were already past that. So we were kind of mom and dad were late to the party. We just were happy they showed up to the party at all. Yeah Of like. Hey, this didn't work real well for the Powell family, like let's look around at the three boys, we all in our 20s, 30s and 40s, you, you know it wasn't a great showing, yeah, from the pal kids. So I think mom and dad kind of were forced to evaluate, like hey, what didn't this?
Speaker 3didn't really work for us like we got a lot of, you know, scar tissue and baggage and there's a lot of damage, like just a lot of stuff, and so I think it forced them to look at it when we did as kids and yeah and they never. They never um like left their faith or anything it wasn't like they, yeah, but they just thought, hey, there's got to be a better way to of living this out than what we thought so right I like the move because, like, I don't want to be part of a whatever we call it christianity belief system that's defined by what we're against.
Speaker 2Yeah, you know what I mean. Like, like, we're watching all this stuff with Hamas. Well, hamas's main goal in life is to exterminate Jews. Like they are defined by against, and I hate, I don't, like, I don't want to be part of something that's defined by what we don't do. I want to be defined by what we do, do, do, do.
Speaker 3I love that you just said do, do, do, do, do, do. We're like we definitely can't let that slide yeah.
Speaker 2We're defined by what we do do.
Speaker 3I'm still just a middle school boy at heart.
Speaker 2Well you actually are you definitely are. More than the rest of us. Yeah, you actually are. You definitely are More than the rest of us. I'm the only man here. The joke on the tour bus.
Speaker 3Was that she's the only man here. Well, I mean, the cool thing about for my parents? They were always very loving, grace-filled people, I think. Because we were in leadership, church leadership, and my dad's parents were my mom's side of it, everybody was in church leadership. I think what they've come around to is just the um, the workspace stuff, the striving stuff. Like hey, if I check all, if I check these boxes, then God will give me peace and give me blessing and give me all this kind of stuff. And it was very like self-denial, but you know the surface level version of self-denial, which means you know, basically not think about, not care for yourself, yeah, right, and so um. So I think they're coming back around to more of a hey, like this, this systemic, like people in leadership who can't actually show up and be honest. Yeah, we have a lot of skeletons in the Powell closet and we weren't allowed to talk about it.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 3In hindsight, we're like man. That's why that should have been the place we could talk about it.
Speaker 2Bring those skeletons out, yeah man, I just picture like a closet full of those biology classrooms.
Speaker 1Is that what you picture?
Bag of Bones and Leadership Reflections
Speaker 2That's when I think of all the Do you know what I think of. When anyone says skeletons in the closet, I think of opening a closet door and just seeing Seeing those things on stands, yes, a line of actual-. Interesting.
Speaker 3Bites it too, bones banging, but you're a bone collector, so you probably think Something different.
Speaker 1No, you know what I picture, you know how, like If you see a glow in the dark Person in a suit.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1With just the bones show up. It's like a cartoon.
Speaker 2That's what I picture Talking like black light performance. Yeah.
Speaker 1But it's like a happy skull face. That's what I picture.
Speaker 2Did you see the rat skeleton In our living room?
Speaker 1I don't know if it's a rat. I think it's a squirrel.
Speaker 3Squirrel skull. No, mine sure didn't.
Speaker 1No I'll definitely be showing you that later.
Speaker 3You found it recently.
Speaker 1No, my dad had it. My dad had it in his pile of junk in his barn and I took it.
Speaker 2Well, she went to Montana for a week with a-.
Speaker 1You told him this.
Speaker 2Did I tell you this, and she came home with a bag of bones.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 1Bag of bones.
Speaker 3That's my wife. That's not necessarily normal behavior.
Speaker 2Yeah, I don't. Normal behavior does not apply to Jennifer and I like it because it's fun and funny and keep you know it's fun, it's quirky, for sure.
Speaker 1Is it quirky? I mean just the bones are quirky, even though I would like to kind of be in taxidermy. That's sort of weird. Bag of bones is quirky at best, that's a good band name. It's kind of creepy Bag of Bones. Bag of Bones, bag of Bones. Yeah, the Skeletons in the Closet thing. That's the kind of music it would be. What Bag of Bones.
Speaker 2Is it Bluegrass?
Speaker 1Yeah, probably.
Speaker 2That's a great Bluegrass band name Bag of Bones I.
Speaker 3I felt like Back of Bones is like more heavy metal, but whatever it could be, blues too.
Speaker 1Oh, I see Heavy metal. I feel like.
Speaker 2Just like death rock.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2One of my meetings this morning was about leadership and I was telling the guy because we were talking about? Well, weren't we talking about leadership just now?
Speaker 2Your parents and leadership, oh yeah, kind of oh yeah and leadership. You know, it was one of those nuggets kind of thing. He didn't even wasn't making a big deal out of it. He was doing a talk one time and he said you know, true leadership is actually about the people. It's putting everybody around you in a place to be their best self. And it was like light bulb for me.
Speaker 2I was like, oh my gosh, every time I've ever heard of leadership, I've thought about like a guy with a flag going, here we go. I, a guy with a flag going, here we go. I'm the leader. You know which way are we going? You can't lead blah, blah. And he was like. When he said that, I was like, oh my gosh, that's so true. The best thing you can do is put people in a place to do a great job. Same thing happened with the person I was with this morning. I said that I you know I didn't take credit for it and he's like I to write that down, like these little, like nuggets of like Leadership is it's so overrated?
Speaker 3I think, yeah, in America we just like especially in the church world I come from, it's just so glamorized Like leadership. I mean, I'm just I've had it, I've had enough of leadership.
Speaker 1Because you think it's partly because people want fame.
Speaker 3It's ego, it's control ego. It's all that fame. It's ego, it's control ego, it's all that stuff, it's leadership is what it is.
Speaker 2Hey-o, it's leadership. Oh, got him, isn't it though?
Speaker 1Getting canceled.
Speaker 2I was actually. So then I'm kind of ruminating on this on the way home and I was thinking about that what's the is it proverb where you train up the child in the way they would go, which is a formula that it doesn't work?
Speaker 1But I was thinking, if Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. It doesn't always work.
Speaker 2Well, it doesn't work it doesn't work.
Speaker 1To treat it like a formula.
Speaker 2It doesn't work if you're going train up a child in the way-.
Speaker 1If I keep them in church and buckle them down, I feel like it's like Well, there's a lot of discrepancy around the way they should go.
Speaker 3What is the way they should go and I go right, I go.
Speaker 2Okay, if you, if you know them and you put them in a place like I was actually thinking, okay, does this apply? If you put a child or a kid in a place where they succeed, they will have that for the rest of their life, like, like they'll. But if you try to train them up in the way you think they should go, like once they're old they'll like our son Hutch. He's super coordinated, he's a great skater, great surfer, but he doesn't like competitive sports. If we were to train him up in competitive sports as soon as we he would have just let it go.
Speaker 2He'd have been like I don't care about this, Like he would have just let it go. He'd have been like I don't care about this, Like he would have departed from it. But if you, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1Does that make sense? Yeah, but it's such a shame, it's such a waste. Well, he could be such an amazing athlete.
Speaker 2But what if we tried to train?
Speaker 1Sadie up. What if we?
Speaker 2tried to train Sadie up in algebra and we were just like we're like we're we're I mean we're a family of accountants.
Speaker 1What if we would have done what I?
Speaker 2wanted, which is what.
Speaker 1Gotten them all riding horses. Why are we whispering Because she's in the other room and I don't want her to think I'm disappointed in her. Do you think she's listening to this?
Speaker 3From the eavesdropping there's no. Okay, he's going to get pissed when he walks in and sees us drinking his Spindrift? Yes, he is, it'll be awesome actually, I know I'm kind of hoping he busts us.
Speaker 2I'm hoping he does too, but you know what I mean. Like if we would-.
Speaker 1We should take a selfie of all three of us holding one.
Speaker 2Yeah, I'll Venmo him Okay.
Speaker 3Well, it't that like you all can Venmo him too. We should get all of our.
Speaker 2We should give out his Venmo and get everybody who listens to this to Venmo him like 49 cents 49 cents and he'll be like what the crap?
Speaker 3What is all?
Speaker 2this we should. We'll put that in the show notes.
Speaker 1Yeah, okay, can I give up my Venmo? I?
Speaker 2don't know. I wish you would actually.
Speaker 1I mean put that into show notes.
Speaker 2Your.
Speaker 1Venmo. I'm wearing my dad's used clothes. I need to go shopping.
Speaker 3Oh my gosh, Wow so we don't ever put anything into show notes. There aren't any show notes. What are show notes? I will, I'll remember this time.
Speaker 1Oh, okay, for sure, sure, okay, that's absolutely false. You're not going to remember, don't lie to us 100% will not remember, I'll forget before this conversation is over.
Speaker 2You know what You're wearing? The same thing you wore last week. Yep, I don't even attempt.
Speaker 1That's how you roll. This is your black on black.
Speaker 3I was thinking I'm the worst producer of all time because I show up with a memory card. That's what you bring and I put it in the thing. I don't think about the show Half the time. I leave stuff in the show that should be out.
Speaker 2We do it at my house, we do it at your house on all your equipment.
Speaker 3That's why he stopped introducing me to the producer. Now I'm just a friend.
Speaker 1That's true. It makes more sense.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 1But you do do the whatever do you do. You do the computer whatever you do know. Yeah, I click a few buttons there. Yeah, man, jennifer, and you're not earning the big check that you're getting?
Speaker 3no, I do get what? Six eggs, eight eggs every time I come over, probably 12, is it 12 eggs?
Speaker 1yeah, I mean, do you bring two little cartons?
Speaker 3yeah, are they six each. I get 12 eggs.
Speaker 1I mean do you think you get four or six and one and two and another?
Speaker 3I thought it was four and four oh no, it's six and six.
Speaker 1You know what's funny is people think we make money on this. I've had a couple people say you make money doing that. We don't make money, it costs money On the podcast.
Speaker 3People think we make money doing the podcast. Oh, I thought you were talking about the eggs.
Speaker 1No People think we make money doing this podcast. A big waste of time. Nobody's making any money. It's costing money. Well, I get clients contact me. Okay so that's it. That's it. What if?
Speaker 2you guys learned that I was quietly monetizing it, you'd be like this bastard.
Speaker 3I was like, yeah, it's not making any money and I'm like got some kind of side thing going For real.
Speaker 1With all the so many listeners we have.
Speaker 3That's my business model Talking to people and doing a podcast and then quietly making side money. They're like this doesn't make anything. I'm like, yeah, there's shirts out there with gospel according to Jeremy, on them you stumble across one. Oh shit, I'm mad at it. You're like wait, where did you get that?
Speaker 2Drew Powell Enterprises actually or Ignite or what's your thing called.
Speaker 3You've got to read the fine print. Amplify.
Speaker 2Amplify, man, that sounds like a youth group name, though. Are you going to Amplify tonight? It does.
Speaker 1Some of them are so dumb.
Speaker 3Some of those names that they come up with.
Speaker 1Remember, inversion was such a weird one for the singles group at Fellowship?
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1It's probably still happening. No it's not, it's not, okay, good.
Speaker 3No.
Speaker 1That was a weird name Inversion.
Speaker 3Inversion.
Speaker 1Yeah, I never understood it.
Speaker 2Yeah, Stupid names Christians. We are so weird with our branding.
Speaker 1Somebody was telling me the name of the church they go to in Nashville is Zeal.
Speaker 2Zeal. Yeah, that sounds like an alcoholic drink. It sounds like Like Zima.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, get me another Zeal. Doesn't it sound like a drink?
Speaker 2A little.
Speaker 1Like a canned alcoholic drink. It's better than the Gate, yeah, the Gate.
Speaker 2We've got one down here called the Gate, which evidently is a great church, but it sounds like a freaking. We've got friends that go there.
Speaker 1We did it sounds like a cult.
Speaker 3It does sound cultish. The Gate.
Speaker 1I used to watch this show called the Path on HBO. Yeah, and it was it sounds like that is very culty, and that's what it was Churches and names.
Speaker 3What is that all about? Not a good look.
Speaker 2I don't know, did we have a?
Speaker 1topic for this week.
Speaker 2You know, here I was reading one of my clients was reading pagan Christianity. It came out like I don't know. I think we talked about this, but they talk about like churches, weren't that? It was hundreds of years before anyone ever had a church building. It was just people. Imagine that. Imagine that, Just people hanging out. Well, that's what Francis Chan wanted to do.
Speaker 1I wonder, if there was no building and stuff, if we would do it like personally, if we would go.
Speaker 2I bet we would.
Speaker 1I wonder. I mean, I don't know, when would we go, like if we were back then, if we lived back then and it was just people and we had to deal with people, you think we'd go?
Speaker 2Well, I mean, christianity was a sect of Judaism, so they went to the temple.
Speaker 1You, just you flippin' just said Right, no, no, that was early, early.
Speaker 2Remember, because Peter's like what should we do and Jesus is like well'll go to the temple and worship.
Speaker 1If we would have lived when there was nothing but people, we'd have gone.
Speaker 3Well, have you guys been to the Holy Land before? Surely you have no.
Speaker 1No, have you yeah.
Speaker 3This is great. It's great, it's amazing. Everyone should go.
Speaker 1Because, oh, you better get on it Because they're about to blow it up Because they.
Speaker 3Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1River to the sea it.
Speaker 3Well, I just made that into a verb River to the sea it.
Speaker 1It's a verb now. Everything's a verb to.
Speaker 3Jennifer.
Speaker 2Let's river to the sea. This thing?
Perspective Shift on Biblical History
Speaker 3Well, I will say it does. It's a perspective shift because we put it through the filter of our lives here and it's nothing like this, like it's so tight quarter, like that's the thing. Like cars ruin church. Yeah, because now you drive to the church.
Speaker 1You have your preference.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah, you don't have a choice of where you went to church then, or it wasn't even a place you go. You're just where you're living, like it had been. Like hey, jeremy, like you, you're you're living right there, yeah, like where jesus would walk to the temple, especially around the Galilee area. It's like they were just small little communities.
Speaker 3It's just so tight and it's like, oh, over there is where the Beatitudes happened. And then over there is where, like you know, when you're in the Garden of Gethsemane, you see the gate that they were coming through out of Jerusalem to come get Jesus. Like Jesus would have saw the whole thing happen. It's right there, isn't? That wild and we picture like oh, they're coming to get him and he's in this garden.
Speaker 1It's like, no, it's all like in the. It's visible. How big would you say?
Speaker 3the garden would have been.
Speaker 1Like an acre? Was it like an olive grove or something?
Speaker 3Yeah, maybe half an acre, I'm thinking Half an acre.
Speaker 3Wow, because I picture like a valley between that and the gate that they were coming out of. You could stand where Jesus would have been with his disciples and you would look and be like well, there they're coming, I can see them. They just came out of the gate, now they're coming down. It was just all right there, wild. Yeah, you could walk from like where where david, the house david was, and where all that went down and where, like, the trial was happening with, like peter, all these, it's all walkable, it's all like so, like in our minds we're picturing oh well, that had been over here and over there. It's like so, like the whole. The way we do church and community is so different because our community is now based on do I vibe with these people? Are they cool? Are they my people? We wouldn't have had that option. It would have been whoever's living here and there and over there and there.
Speaker 1And you would have just dealt with it. They were like family, it was kind of like you didn't have a choice. If you didn't like them, you'd learn to like them.
Speaker 3And then the church was so disruptive because they had just this total different way of living. It was basically socialist.
Speaker 3I mean, it was like let's just put everything in a pot and take care of one another. And everyone was like, hey, I want in on that. That looks awesome, looks like it's working for you guys. And yeah, there's a really interesting book and I'm not gonna be able to remember the title of it, but a buddy of mine gave it to me. I started reading it and it was like oh right, and the government of the day was begging the christians to stop, like. It was almost like there was writings that was like hey, we don't want to have to do this, but you're so outside of the box that we're gonna have to like, crack down on you, on like from a government standpoint and they're just like.
Speaker 3no, this is the way that we feel like we're meant to live, but I don't even know how to get persecuted in Franklin. Oh my gosh, how would I go? When you talk about being a follower of Christ, you'll suffer persecution. How do I? It would be the opposite. How would you get persecuted for your faith?
Speaker 2A contractor with the Jesus fish in Franklin would get more work because of the Jesus fish.
Speaker 1For now. I mean, I think it's.
Speaker 3Well, we make our Christians famous in Franklin.
Speaker 1Don't you feel like, though about 20 years ago it was more so?
Speaker 2I don't know.
Speaker 1I do.
Speaker 2Not here.
Speaker 1I don't know about here, I don't know. I think you just made more money at it. I mean, I think there are places in our country where that's not true. You wouldn't want a Jesus fish if you live in the Bay Area.
Speaker 2Well, maybe that's true always, though.
Speaker 1Right, I'm just saying there are pockets where it's like, ooh, no. I don't know that you get persecuted, but you just wouldn't advertise it.
Speaker 2I feel like Jesus fish has always been a good thing.
Speaker 1I don't think In certain parts of the country.
Speaker 2Elaine, somebody stole Elaine's Jesus Fish Kramer.
Speaker 1No, no, no, it wasn't hers, it was Putty's Jesus Fish.
Speaker 2Oh, she told her, somebody stole my Jesus Fish.
Speaker 1I don't remember.
Speaker 3I've never gotten into that show George liked.
Speaker 2Christian music.
Speaker 1No, no, no Putty. Yes, he said Putty.
Speaker 2George said I like.
Speaker 1Christian rock. No, it was Putty. It was Elaine's boyfriend, putty, I know.
Speaker 2But there's a whole other episode about George didn't like.
Speaker 1Christian rock. We're going to have to find it because I think you're wrong.
Speaker 2No, I've twice, I think. Yeah, you know these, these ancillary writings like uh, you know, I know this is going to sound heretical to people, but it really is interesting to read these other writings that talk about the same people. In the bible I was reading, I was digging into nicodemus. You know the guy that came to jesus at night. He was there at the end. He helped with Jesus's body. Like he, he got it eventually. He's the whole one that said you got to be born again and he eventually changed his own mind and I love that stuff.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 2That's like so cool.
Speaker 3Here. This is a little off topic, but do you guys watch the Chosen?
Speaker 1No, I have not. We want to we. We want to. We want to. Should we? Is it good? Don't like it I can't get it.
Speaker 3My wife, jamie, will watch it and just cry. It's so beautiful for her. When we talk about period pieces, I think that's what it is. I just I can't. Oh, you guys are dumb, I can't get in, I just can't. I've tried and it's probably fine, but Jamie it. But Jamie is moving for her.
Speaker 1There are a lot of people like that. Very moving for her. I'm watching this is way off the topic I'm watching Palm Royale.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 1Well, I watched it all.
Speaker 3Is that moving for you?
Speaker 1It is. It actually kind of is because the set design is unreal. I mean it's really, it's good anyway, but the set design is so beautiful and so well done Anyway, but it's period piece, it's 60s, and he hates it, I don't mind the 60s oh, you'd watch that.
Speaker 2I mean, they have electricity and stuff.
Speaker 1I mean there's a lot of gang stuff in it.
Speaker 2I don't like pioneer stuff. Oh man, I don't like how we're romanticizing the pioneer period, because I don't think any of us would make it yeah, but if you watch, if you watch 1883, the yellowstone one, they do not romanticize it.
Speaker 3It is horrible well, yeah I mean, maybe it's so good I just I can't get into it and I think there's a part of me that contrarian me, like when it comes to chosen, like I don't really want someone to like interpret it for, like give me an interpretation of how literal maybe, and I again, I, I'm like I need to probably watch it before I make judgments on it, because it's only. I've only seen it like the first, like few minutes, and then I fall asleep you know well, there it's getting a bad.
Speaker 1People are saying it's heretical. Now too, really worse everything that gets popular yeah, it's heretical.
Speaker 2Christians find a way to be against they do, they do.
Speaker 1It's so frustrating.
Speaker 3But for Jamie man, it really has brought some of these stories to life for her. She loves it. It's super cool.
Speaker 1Our pastor in California. He was that way. I mean he and his wife loved it.
Speaker 3Yeah, he wanted everybody to watch it.
Speaker 1They actually did watch parties at the church.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 1They loved it. You guys seen unsung hero, yet I don't know what it's about. Small bone family. Did you like it? Oh yeah, I. I have a hard time seeing these christian music ones really yeah, I feel like I'm gonna get hit from just the world. Like should I say that? Like a hard time with it. I didn't see it. I have not seen any of. I didn't see the mercy me one. I didn't see any of them jesus music you might like well, that's different I'm talking so much history
Speaker 3I'm talking the movies the jesus music thing is funny because they show these pictures of like all these people sitting down to talk to them, but they don't play the oh, they don't play their interview no oh weird like there's moments where they'll show like people sitting down and you're like, well, it didn't show, like almost like they meant it for it to be like an eight-part series, but they didn't get around to making an edit on it or something.
Speaker 1Did you see Unsung Heroes?
Speaker 3I did. We took the whole family to see it.
Speaker 1Oh wow, you didn't mess around.
Speaker 2It is about Smallbone family.
Speaker 3Yeah, it's about Smallbone family.
Speaker 1They're coming to America. It was made by. She's in it.
Speaker 2I heard some of the King and Country. They're going back and doing duets with Amy and Michael and they sound great. They do.
Speaker 3They do Place in the World. Place in this world is great. Yes, it sounds amazing.
Speaker 2And then they do, saved by Love, I think, or Lead Me On.
Speaker 1Man, they do Lead Me On. Okay, we talked in the last thing about Amy. That is the best Amy Grant record, yeah on is the best.
Speaker 3Yeah, it's great.
Speaker 2It was cool because a lot of amy grant content.
Speaker 3Well, we talked, I mean we should have her on.
Speaker 1Oh, don't even joke.
Speaker 3That would be so great. She would probably do it. That's the crazy part. I love her so much.
Speaker 1All right, when I saw the lead me on tour which I saw all of her, most of her tours, but oh my gosh, it was so well done your birthday's june 14th.
Speaker 2Let's can we figure?
Speaker 1out her birthday. I don't know that I would just sit here and stare at her.
Speaker 2Do you, can we figure out a way to get Amy on for Jennifer's birthday?
Speaker 1I mean Amy.
Speaker 2Grant has been mentioned at our house probably more than any other artist ever. She, we both love her, but Jennifer.
Speaker 1Oh well, she's the reason I want to be a singer. Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2You know how many people probably say that.
Speaker 1Oh, absolutely.
Speaker 2I feel like she single-handedly gave us our industry.
Speaker 1Oh, totally.
Speaker 2We, all of us, owe it to Amy Grant.
Speaker 1Absolutely.
Speaker 2She's great, michael too, but we owe it to Amy Grant. Well, amy, I mean yeah.
Speaker 1I mean there's a lot of other people too. Correct, but she made it pretty mainstream.
Speaker 2Yeah, she took some shrapnel for it too, didn't she? Oh she did yeah. Yeah, big time Shrapnel. That's a good word. Have you seen the app you can get where you? Basically it's like a vocabulary expander. It's supposed to be really good for you. Yes, and it gives you different words to say.
Speaker 1I want to do it, but it costs money, two bucks I.
Speaker 2I want to do it, but it costs money, two bucks, I don't know. Your drink is probably four bucks.
Speaker 1That one was free.
Speaker 2That was Hutch. Hutch bought that one. This one cost me 50 cents. I bought her other one. That one cost you 20 years of this one well, I'm out of this.
Speaker 1I need to get more tea.
Speaker 3Don't let me forget. That is a huge-.
Speaker 2You're going to be able to sleep Now. Let me finish. You've never wet the bed Ever.
Speaker 1Haven't I? I'm sure I did when I was a kid. You only have accidents when you're awake.
Speaker 3That's true.
Speaker 2You put her to sleep, she's not going to pee ever.
Speaker 1I peed my pants one time at school when I was still going to school. It was horrible.
Speaker 2You peed your pants when you were a kid, yeah.
Speaker 1At school, at school, one time From laughing oh man, you must have really got going. Man, that's the only times I've ever peed my pants Is when I'm laughing really hard.
Speaker 2Man, I could make my mom all pee her pants. I would hug her and pick her up, and it was just like and spin her around. It was like squeezing a sponge. She was like I'm gonna pee my pants.
Speaker 3Jeremy, you made me pee my pants. She sounded like she smoked first, so it wasn't like from laughter, it was literally a Well it was funny, she was laughing, but it was funny, but she peed her pants quite a bit.
Speaker 2What is that?
Speaker 1saying, oh, it's tracking.
Speaker 2I never so she can and this actually gives me panic to think about.
Speaker 1She can go to bed having to pee.
Speaker 3Oh, you just hold it through the night.
Speaker 1I mean, yeah, I don't want to get up well, I mean, if it were strong I'd have to get up. My mom calls it a p shelf. Remember she used to tell us yeah I have p on the shelf and it's rolling off.
Speaker 2I forget how she explains she lays down and then it.
Speaker 1Then she has to pee, yeah oh yeah, it's sitting on the shelf and then when you lay down, it rolls and you have pee.
Speaker 3I've had that conversation in my head before, though, Like do I want to get up?
Speaker 1versus can I make it?
Speaker 3But then I'm like but then what if it's three in the morning? Then I got to get up. That's worse.
Speaker 2And then, after you've gone through all that, you're like just get the F up. It's the last. I need to get my chapstick. I got to get my and then pee and then get in bed.
Speaker 3I mean it's like Because you're always going to pee before you get in bed, always, it's like a triangle, no matter what?
Speaker 1Last night I was like, hey, are you going to? What did I ask you? Are you going to put your machine on Because you're your CPAP? I'm going to get up and peed After about two hours. I don't know, two hours later I was like you need to put your machine.
Speaker 2I got up and peed.
Speaker 1He finally got up and peed. That's how he sounds. Yes.
Speaker 2I hate my CPAP.
Speaker 3Really I hate it.
Speaker 2Hate wearing it. I do and I probably sleep better. I still do wear it.
Speaker 3But I hate it.
Speaker 1What do you hate about it? Because I'm getting ready to get one.
Speaker 2Well, it's the tube, the. I mean it's just the circle, the whole thing it's just like how do you turn over with one? You can do that like okay it's just a long tube yeah I mean, I like a spaceman well you do got to turn over towards it, which reminds me sorry what I said spaceman keep going about spaceman.
Speaker 1Did you guys watch the joe rogan?
Speaker 2no, are we doing this?
Speaker 1I'm sorry, we don't have to. I just that you ask me what and I'm answering you well, now you got to talk about it the guy talking about going to the moon, that's all how we didn't.
Speaker 3Yeah, it's conspiracy.
Speaker 1Uh, it's kind of a conspiracy the other way. We actually did go. That's more of a conspiracy the other way.
Speaker 3We actually did go.
Speaker 1That's more of a conspiracy that we did go. If you'd hear the yeah, if you'd hear this.
Speaker 3I thought that's the whole deal, is the conspiracy, is we didn't actually go.
Speaker 1Well, that's what I'm saying. There's so much evidence that we didn't go.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 1That the conspiracy is actually that we did go because we couldn't have gone.
Speaker 2Like it's impossible, there are also legit recordings of them filming what should be. And so what the astronaut says is we had to recreate these Like we had to, which?
Speaker 1they're coming out with a movie about that. Did you hear about this?
Speaker 2No.
Speaker 1It's Channing Tatum and Scarlett Johansson.
Speaker 3So these astronauts were in on it the whole time.
Speaker 1That's what they're saying and he shows videos of them like really struggling and kind of wanting to tell the truth and you can tell that they're lying. And I mean, if you'd see it you just need to watch it.
Speaker 2Are you saying, though, that okay if it's, if it's by percentages, and you leaning we didn't, or you're leaning we did?
Speaker 1I always said I think it's very odd that they say we can't go now because the technology. But we had the technology then that always felt off right. Yeah, there's no way our technology thought about this.
Speaker 3I've thought about it more right now than I have my entire life. I mean, I'm blown away by this right now.
Speaker 1I've never thought about it before in my life.
Speaker 2I just found out just now. We went and then didn't go. We went to the moon. That's the roller coaster I'm on right now.
Speaker 1Wait did we go or not? Wait a minute. Moon, what's the moon?
Speaker 3I never knew it was even up for debate.
Speaker 1Yeah, oh, you did Really.
Speaker 3No, the moon, I never knew it was even up for debate. Yeah, oh you did really.
Speaker 1No, I did. I knew there was some controversy around it, but well, that whole radiation belt thing.
Speaker 2Yeah, but that's the first time I heard of that because you haven't studied it.
Speaker 3Sorry, I didn't mean to yell at it, I'm just well, that guy has a lot I have almost no anxiety about things that are happening, that have happened in the world or around the world or what all my anxiety is very close to home you're just anxious about your kids and your marriage like I have.
Speaker 1My friend whether you're gonna fart in front of your wife on accident what are you gonna?
Speaker 3what fart, fart in front of your wife, one slips out 23 years in I think that you two need to get together light a candle and just fart. Why the candle?
Speaker 1Because it's like a little experience, like a little.
Speaker 3Oh, like, like a ceremony.
Speaker 1Not a seance. We're not conjuring anything.
Speaker 3Maybe. No, I'm good, I don't want to do that.
Speaker 1No, I know, I just send you stuff because I think it's funny.
Speaker 2When you guys go number two, do you light a match after and try to cover the smell up and stuff.
Speaker 1Nope, no, that's disgusting. Oh, so you don't worry about the smell. I hate the match smell. I think I'd rather have the other smell than the match smell.
Speaker 3Potpourri, too, is awful yeah all of that crap. It just smells like whatever flavor it is with poo.
Speaker 1Exactly, are toilet water now Poo-pourri?
Speaker 3No, that actually the pre-spray works.
Speaker 1Does that work yeah?
Speaker 3Poo-pourri, but who can ever remember to spray before you?
Speaker 1poo. Do you know what it is? It's an oil that sits on top of the water. I heard about this.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 3You spray it in the toilet before you go, and then it's just like it's awesome.
Speaker 1But it's a fake smell.
Speaker 3I can never remember to do it.
Speaker 2My pawpaw. He loved this story. He talked to an EMT one time that they did the match thing. So you poo and then light a match to cover up the smell and then put the match in the toilet. So my pawpaw talked to an EMT in Pennsylvania who had gone to a call. This guy had pooed.
Speaker 1Is it poo or poop?
Speaker 2Well, I don't know, he lit a match and poo just seems a little nicer.
Speaker 1Yeah, it feels more delicate. I think poo sounds worse.
Speaker 2My kids say poo, he had gone doo-doo, lit a match, threw it in the toilet. It blew him through the wall and when the EMT got there his head was in the drywall, he was stuck. Because his wife had emptied out a hairspray can into the toilet. He walked right in, pooed and it blew. And he was the EMT, said. He asked me is my weiner still there? It had blew him off the toilet. What luck Am I still?
Speaker 1intact.
Speaker 3My grandpa loved that story so much. I love that story. He just thought that was the funniest thing.
Speaker 2Oh, pawpaw, yeah and he'd start a story, my grandpa, when he was telling a story, he would say your name, five, six.
Speaker 1Jeremy.
Speaker 2And listen, jeremy, now.
Speaker 1Jeremy Now Jeremy, like Now.
Speaker 2Jeremy, I'm right here.
Speaker 3Yeah, I've loved you, jennifer. I love that.
Speaker 1Yeah, I forgot how we even got on that man the other night when I saw RFK, he got up and he apparently he does these comedy nights right, so he'd gotten up at another comedy place. I guess another person was doing a show. He got up at his show and he said he came out and there were 17,000 people there. And he gave a little spiel and he started to tell a joke and his wife came out and just pulled him off stage. She was like no.
Speaker 3Are you serious?
Speaker 1Yeah, and so whenever I saw him he was like but she's not here tonight, Did he tell it? He told this dirty joke.
Speaker 3He wanted you back over it with the dirty joke, oh man, but it was so cute.
Speaker 2Did he deliver it? I love him, he delivered it.
Speaker 1He did. He was great and it was like Irish accent the whole. Thing. It was really funny. That is funny.
Speaker 2I cannot wait for what comes of whatever happens with the presidential debates, because you could blow Biden over with a he just needs a gust. I just picture somebody with one of those things. You know how, if you have a fireplace, you can get one of those things that blows out some air.
Speaker 1You know what I'm talking about. You squeeze it. Yeah, I don't know about that A billow.
Speaker 2I mean, if you just went to biden, he would just be like I know all trump has to do is just show up and say hello and he'll fall over.
Speaker 1But he's not gonna. He's such, if he would just be nice well, not nice, if he would just trump's not gonna debate oh no, they're debating. Well, apparently they're debating I don't know I don't know I don't know.
Speaker 2you know it's gonna be rough. It's it's going to be rough, it's going to be hard to watch One thing, we haven't.
Speaker 1It's going to be awesome to watch.
Speaker 2What are you talking about? We're 31 episodes in and we have not talked politics on this show. Really, if you're Jennifer's finally, if you're listening, jennifer's making all crazy eyes.
Speaker 1Get my hat on.
Speaker 2Well, I mean on. Well, I mean I mentioned when I you know, her and I are both really interested in rfk and we have been. I mean she is, she's an og fan and on my newsletter I wrote about it one time and I got people people were mad. People were mad. Jeremy, this is not your thing. Last time I checked, you're not a licensed counselor. You shouldn't be giving advice on stuff like this and I was like so are a licensed counselor?
Speaker 1what that for real word? Do they give advice on stuff like this? And I was like so our license counselor.
Speaker 2What that for real word do they give? Advice on politics I don't know, but they're like I'm not anything but I talk about politics all the time you do. You're not nothing to me, you're not a big pile of nothing, wow that's a big nothing.
Speaker 3It's a brian. So how do you? Here's a question from a, the most non-political person in this room how, where do you go for um like? I was listening to smartless like that the other day and he they had did they have biden on that night? Biden. Oh, they had the, but they had obama and clinton because I just don't think he can make appearances by himself, like on that, like I don't think he can hold his own with those guys he can't even get through a 10 second clip without cuts.
Speaker 1I mean, if you watch a 10 second clip of him, yeah there are five cuts in it. They can't even get through it.
Speaker 3But I will say, as I was listening to this podcast, I got ready to turn it off. It's like it was. It was. I thought it'd be funny. Like I actually am curious to hear three presidents get together and chop it up on. Like I want to hear like the dumb stuff, like what? Like I'm not here for like a commercial for any one candidate?
Speaker 1Are they pooping their pants Exactly Like I want to?
Speaker 3know, I want to know the inside scoop about different stuff.
Speaker 1Biden is for sure pooping his pants, but anyway.
Speaker 3But it was very like it was kind of in the in the guys that were interviewing were very it was very, they were very political. It's very obvious it wasn't like they're trying to have like a fun interview, but anyways, as I was listening to it, I got caught up in some of the things they were saying and presenting as facts and I'm just like I don't know how to and this goes for both sides I don't know how to dispute these quote-unquote facts.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 3If someone's like. Well, the other side might say this, but we know for a fact that jobs are. There was more jobs than there's ever been in the economy. I'm like I don't know. I just know it cost me an arm and a leg to live and gas is high, but I'm not a political person.
Speaker 1I just know it costs more to live now than ever for me. Yeah, biden says that he came into office and inflation was at 9%. It's such a flat out lie.
Speaker 3So is that the thing Like without one side or the other? Are you just getting lied to? Yes, All right.
Speaker 1You're just getting lied to.
Speaker 2Are you just now arriving to this?
Speaker 3You're just getting lied to yeah, kind of so, are you?
Navigating Truth in a Polarized World
Speaker 2just now arriving to this. You're just getting lied to, yeah, kind of. So the question is where do you go for truth?
Speaker 3This is the most Enneagram 7 thing I've ever heard, right, that's why I don't say it because, I just figure, both sides are lying to me and I don't actually know where to go to get the right answer.
Speaker 1Oh right, no, I get that. Well, I mean, their big is because a lot of people don't even report to that agency anymore where they're getting their statistic Right.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1So it's not even real, but is that? True. Yes, that's true. Right, that's my point. How do you know the information you're getting is true that you make, that you're so locked in on, because you I know what if the people are lying to you about the stuff that you believe? Because I'm not getting it from a politician, I'm getting it from several sources who are not politicians and they don't. Oh, that door's open. Yeah, I don't know. It's just because it's, it's just can be traced, I don't know.
Speaker 2You know, I heard somebody say this about a year ago. I was listening, you know, just trying to get better at what I do, and I was listening to this talk about arguments and stuff, and this person said this thing and I was like, well, that doesn't seem right. And she said well, we know, facts don't win arguments. And I was like, well, they don't. But actually I've tried to pay attention and they don't. No, they don't. For most people facts don't win arguments.
Speaker 1What does win an argument? Well?
Speaker 2I don't know. But you know, if you and I argue, we argue about something and then the argument becomes about what we just said. Well, no, you didn't say that and I go. Well, I said this and you go. No, you didn't say that. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1And facts we need a stenographer.
Speaker 2You are a stenographer, I mean she we have an argument and she goes nope, that's not what you said. It went just like that. I said I don't need what I said. Read back to me, focus on the, the theme, the message right, the overall overarching point but this person is right, like in this, in this thing that I'm doing. So what do you do? I'm trying to.
Speaker 1I'm trying to do this. What did obama say? Go ahead.
Speaker 3He said oh people don't on this podcast. He said people don't care In this thing that I'm doing. So what do you do? I'll tell you what Obama said I'm trying to do this thing. What did Obama say? Go ahead. He said people don't on this podcast. He said people don't care about the data, the facts. What they care about are stories. So if someone tells a compelling story about how their life was changed or how something or whatever, that people tend to believe someone's story. Because what is true like politically, whatever you can argue, but like you can't, what I just said, you can't argue with right the fact that it costs me more to live right that's my experience, that's your experience that's my story and that's you can argue all day.
Speaker 3That's true, like I can tell you. That's true for me. So the reason why that's true I may not know. You can debate that, but you can't debate the fact that the fact that it costs more to put gas in my car today than it used to.
Speaker 1Absolutely.
Speaker 3So people's stories matter.
Speaker 2Your personal experience is the truest thing about you and it's really what you have. This is the whole point. I'm so glad we got here. Oh good, I have just now after 32 episodes, realized that's what this, that's what the gospel, according to Jeremy, is the truest thing about me. You can argue the Bible, you can argue the traditions, but I go. Here's what the Lord did in my life Now.
Speaker 2Lived experience you can't, you can't like, right, I got sick and my life is better. Well, no, that was the enemy and I go. Well, look, here's all I got. This is what I got. What you're saying is it cost me a lot more to live. So give me all the facts you want.
Speaker 1Give me all the facts about how you came in at 9%. Now it's 3.4.
Speaker 2We moved on past that fact.
Speaker 1I'm saying that's a fact that is being quoted. It's just not true.
Speaker 2But it doesn't win or lose an argument.
Speaker 1And it's a lie.
Speaker 2Well, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1Well, it's because our lived experience goes. That's not true in my life.
Speaker 2Right.
Speaker 1That's what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 2Well, what about going to the moon? I mean, we could have people go. I was there.
Speaker 1Listen, this is something I'm passionate about. This is true.
Speaker 3I look at drew and he goes yep, I want to hear what you have to say because, I mean, I'm deeply invested in this go ahead.
Speaker 1What about the moon?
Speaker 2well, we have people that just go. There's no way. I mean, dusty sleigh thinks that spaceships are pointed so that they can dusty sleigh and I. He is my favorite.
Speaker 1I love Dusty Slay. Dusty Slay is a smart man but I think I want him.
Speaker 2I've asked him twice to be on this podcast. He is my favorite, but he has facts and he also thinks that rocket ships are pointed the way they are so that they can pierce through, or did Nate Bergetzi say that? I think they both said they agreed on it.
Speaker 1They thought I had to pierce through the atmosphere which, after hearing that guy, I'm like. Well, maybe that is true that's kind of what he said nobody's broken out of it yet makes sense it does, it does. Did you see the northern lights when they came here?
Speaker 3no, it's laying in bed. No one even told me well, what happened?
Speaker 1the northern? How about that? It's a bunch of BS.
Speaker 2What is?
Speaker 3It's not real, they were running experiments.
Speaker 1Oh my God, wow, what kind of experiments. I will send you the thing, oh my God, you got to send me the place where you're getting all the absolute truth from Listen.
Speaker 2I'm my source, because that's where I. Facts.
Speaker 3I need facts here.
Speaker 2They don't want arguments. What's the point? That's the name of your podcast. Facts no absolute truth with jennifer dibler yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3Here's the thing. I'm just going to form all my opinions based on the research you've done I love that, so that's all I want.
Speaker 1That's all I want is for somebody so what was the northern lights then? It was. It was that um we don't know this.
Speaker 3She does.
Speaker 1She's got an inside.
Speaker 3She's got some kind of secret channel.
Speaker 1It was a solar flare, it was not.
Speaker 2And the solar, they were covering it up. That's why all of our crap wasn't working right.
Speaker 1They were covering it up. It's a big cover up.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 3Well, for what? What were they covering?
Speaker 2How many facts would I have to bring to you to even get you to entertain the fact, to entertain the idea that you're wrong?
Speaker 1The fact you just said the fact that I'm wrong. I don't know how many would I have to bring you.
Speaker 2I mean To go against the mainstream narrative, but see, you've decided that the facts that are being presented are false.
Speaker 1I'm not because this is the thing I'm not saying it. I watched it, I filmed it.
Speaker 3I was excited about it Because you could only see it through your phone, right?
Speaker 1No, you could see it. Oh you could you?
Speaker 3could, but I mean, it looked better on your phone.
Speaker 1I missed it. Why do you just look exasper? I?
Speaker 3was laying in bed watching Cops.
Speaker 1Oh, I love Cops. That's on Cops.
Speaker 3No, I got to go back and get the reruns. Okay, oh man, I'll just chain smoke episodes of Cops, right on.
Speaker 1That's so odd. That's how I am with ridiculousness. You know why. You know why. That's what I want to know why? Because you're from Florida.
Speaker 2It's like what?
Speaker 1Why did I just purr?
Speaker 2Hey, can we clear something up real quick yeah?
Speaker 1What's that? That I'm the smartest person you know. No, no.
Speaker 2Somebody can write this. All right, dom. No, you don't need to write it, I'm just saying somebody can respond and tell us the truth about this.
Speaker 3Oh geez, the absolute truth.
Speaker 2But how do we say data?
Speaker 1Data or data.
Speaker 2And when you say the data suggests, or the data suggests like what is it plural?
Speaker 1A data.
Speaker 3I say data because data was the guy on Star Trek.
Speaker 2Okay, right Now if you're going to tell me about facts and you go, would you say. I've been looking at the data and the data is or are the data.
Speaker 1The data are showing.
Speaker 3The data is showing. Okay, so it's singular.
Speaker 1I think I've heard it both ways.
Speaker 2It's kind of like people are saying now, when they say media, they're going, the media are corrupt. I'm like the media are corrupt. The media is corrupt. I don't. The media are corrupt. The media is corrupt Like I don't understand it.
Speaker 1I don't know. We need Amanda.
Speaker 2Who's Amanda?
Speaker 1Amanda Steed.
Speaker 2Tell us, oh, my editor.
Speaker 1Tell us, tell us we need your help, amanda if you're listening.
Speaker 2I realized last week that I still owe you money for editing my book. She edited all four of my season's books.
Speaker 1We owe so many people money right now. Who else do we owe money? Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2Our tax lady.
Speaker 1Plus I mean yeah, I'll give you the list afterwards.
Speaker 2There's a list.
Speaker 1There's a list.
Speaker 2Oh God, dang you guys are in debt.
Speaker 1We need money. I'll give my Venmo and the show notes this show doesn't make money.
Speaker 2How many money do we need? I don't know.
Speaker 1The money are showing how many money do we need?
Speaker 2I don't know. Are we broke? Maybe I'm obese? Have either of us looked at the bank account lately.
Speaker 1I did. Today I looked at it today, at some point.
Speaker 3They shut it off. You have to stop spending stuff, or no yeah. Well, that's usually how we know we're out.
Speaker 1That's usually yeah.
Speaker 2One of us calls the other and goes hey, the card's not working, so much to go there and check.
Speaker 3God. I'm glad that Jamie does that stuff, because she finds stuff all the time.
Speaker 1I never look. I saw a meme the other day. It said there are two people in a marriage, one that does the money and one that's happy.
Speaker 3Yeah, I'm I'm oblivious, that's all. I'm just like, I'm just gonna go out make it and you just decide where it goes our.
Speaker 2Our life was our life was better when she did the money. Our life was better when she took care our life was better.
Speaker 1You were the fun.
Speaker 2You were the one that was happy at no I think the person who spends more money and that's that's not because she shops a lot, it's because she, like she knows who we owe money to I feel like that person should do the money don't you, but you make the money so well jamie is way more disciplined and conservative with spending than I do, so it's better for us to have her like cause I just don't.
Speaker 3Yeah, I'm not budget, it's very loose yeah.
Speaker 2That's yeah.
Speaker 1We need a budget. Yeah, you need to say that.
Speaker 3Dave Ramsey.
Speaker 1I say that, and then I don't want to do it.
Speaker 2We have a credit card. I know Dave Ramsey doesn't listen to this podcast we talked about him last week but we have a credit card he's somewhere, he's pissed well I think he just feels it. That's just his general disposition. Now, we knew him when he wasn't he wasn't always pissed?
Speaker 3no, I don't think so.
Speaker 2I think he's taken a beating and it's made him harden a little bit like he's always on a defensive.
Speaker 3I don't know. How do you know?
Speaker 1Do you watch him?
Speaker 2or listen to him.
Speaker 3I've listened to some of his stuff, some clips that pop up. We found ourselves at an event a couple of years ago, sitting next to one another and he wasn't the warmest, Really.
Speaker 1Well, yeah. He's always been kind of prickly, has he yeah?
Speaker 2We had a lot of fun. We played his Christmas party one year and he and I sat next to each other and we just dreamed and schemed the whole time. Matter of fact, his wife looked at Jennifer and said we lost them. They're dreaming and scheming Because he just has idea after idea after idea.
Speaker 3We probably would have hit it off then.
Speaker 2But I'm just a peon, you wouldn't't hit it off. You don't know enough information what is that?
Speaker 1Oh, about anything, about anything in the world.
Speaker 3He's like let's talk about something. I'm like listen, I don't know anything about anything.
Speaker 1He's like but did we go to the moon Drew?
Speaker 3And now I can say maybe I have no idea.
Speaker 1It's up in the air. Well, we did before this podcast started and now we did it, and now we don't know.
Speaker 2Listen, everybody. We're an hour in. I had I was going to do the cards this week.
Speaker 1We were going to talk about New York.
Speaker 2I have. Maybe I'll do this next week. We I have, you know, I have some clients, especially right now, that are going through some stuff, and I've heard this phrase probably more in the past two weeks. I'll say how do you feel about that? And they literally say, I don't know how I feel. And so I've got this little tool that I use with these cards, where I just lay words out for people and I'll see if they have like a body reaction to the words. And I was going to do that with you guys this week.
Speaker 1I asked you real early on if we had a topic and you just blew me off, totally ignored me.
Speaker 2Let's do the cards next week okay um. Is that how I sound?
Speaker 1uh, sometimes every time we're in a fight.
Speaker 2This is the voice I use. Okay, yeah, oh yeah, I make the money I'm gonna do the money that's not how he sounded earlier.
Speaker 3You have several different voices for him do, do I. Yeah, remember the one you made earlier of him, or did I make that up in my head? I don't know.
Speaker 2You've been doodling. Look at what this turned into.
Speaker 1You're not even with us. It's a very faceted jewel. It's cool isn't it?
Speaker 2That's your new tattoo.
Speaker 3Ooh, lower back.
Speaker 1Tramp stamp.
Speaker 2Oh, I could get this one around my navel. See, right there, those would be good around your nips. You know what you and I are around your naples? Drew and I are both. We haven't even talked about this. We're both trying to eat less food and lose weight.
Speaker 1You're doing better than I am.
Speaker 2We should get a tattoo and see how it shrinks.
Speaker 1Oh, please do not do that. That's a good idea. We should. That's brilliant.
Speaker 2I'm down. That would be your next one.
Speaker 1I don't even exist. I know you're not getting one. You're not fun, my next tattoo.
Speaker 3I don't have an idea on my next tattoo.
Speaker 2Post Malone.
Speaker 3Get some teardrops for every pound I lose.
Speaker 2If it's recovered, 100 teardrops. Are you trying 100? That would be fun If I could lose 100 pounds. I A hundred teardrops.
Speaker 3Are you trying a hundred? I have probably. I would be. That'd be fun If I could get, if I could lose a hundred pounds. I'm trying to do 50. I'd probably be Gumby ish If I lost a hundred, cause I'm tall, I can't imagine you a hundred pounds.
Speaker 1I can't imagine you either of you. That sounds ridiculous to me.
Speaker 2I may have said this on the podcast, but before I moved to California, my neurologist was like look man, if you gain five pounds a year, you're going to be 50 pounds overweight, and I didn't take it as a warning. It was almost like a challenge. Yeah, and I did it.
Speaker 3Congratulations If I lose 100 pounds and you lose 50, can we do a swimsuit calendar?
Speaker 2Yes, because that would be awesome, me, you and Jennifer, all right, well, because that would be awesome Me, you and Jennifer.
Speaker 3All right, so we each get four months down.
Speaker 1I need to lose weight, then You're good. No, I got to lose 10 pounds.
Speaker 2I don't even remember the last time I saw you on a swimsuit.
Speaker 1I don't ever wear a swimsuit.
Speaker 2You're not old enough to do the skirt. Don't do the swimsuit with the skirt on the bottom.
Speaker 1No, no, no, no, stop skirting it up. We're not doing it. Skirt Summer 2024.
Speaker 2If you do swimsuit with a skirt, I'm out. You're leaving me the big D.
Speaker 3And you don't mean Dallas.
Speaker 2You are too pretty to do the swimsuit with the skirt.
Speaker 3You're thinking about the skirt.
Speaker 1I've worn the skirt for a year. What are you talking about?
Speaker 2That was sexy, though you can't do the mom swimsuit that comes from here. That goes almost to the knees. No, 2024.
Speaker 1No, baby, just skirt it up. No way hey listen, I'm out of this one. He's threatening to leave me over this.
Speaker 3He's passionate about this. This is his deal breaker.
Speaker 1If I do skirt, you're doing speedo how does that work? That is that like you're a threat, that's a good threat.
Speaker 2I don't want you to wear speedo I don't want you to see that no, you can do the the, you can do the brief, whatever just, you cannot do the skirt or wearing briefs. You know what I mean, though the, the swimsuit with a lot of coverage, or whatever.
Speaker 1The briefs. What are you talking about?
Speaker 3Just not the boxer. You can't wear the, you can draw it, look here's the deal.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2This is what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1Okay, what are those?
Speaker 2These are straps, the arms come out here. Wow, this is the head's up here.
Speaker 1Oh, you're drawing it upside down. Yeah, for you to see. Oh, okay, okay, wow, I have a big forehead. That's true to life.
Speaker 2The skirt.
Speaker 1Thing is like You're drawing this to scale. Oh my God, here's my forehead.
Speaker 2We're not doing this.
Speaker 1My gosh, that's like a Pentecostal woman in a normal outfit.
Speaker 2That's what they look like at the beach. That's a sundress.
Speaker 3That's a one piece with the skirt they do that.
Speaker 2Well, it might have a little cinching right here, you know. But then there's this Honey, what is that? That does not look flat what I'm saying for you. I don't care if you do this thing. You know, here's the. You know the boobs and then the big. You know some girls.
Speaker 1Oh, like a bikini skirt.
Speaker 2Yeah, no, no, no, you know what I'm talking about, though you normally wear the this. What is happening?
Speaker 1That's a bikini. You normally wear the bikini. That's a face.
Speaker 2No, the body goes through there.
Speaker 1That's a tongue, and those are eyes.
Speaker 3That looks like a mustache with a dude, wait a minute, that's getting. I wish our people that were listening could see the masterful. Are you serious?
Speaker 2No, they can't. Nobody can see it. Here's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1This one is painful.
Speaker 2Well, there's just a string in the back.
Speaker 1God, that looks horrible, painful. So that one's okay.
Speaker 2That one's fine.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, you think until you actually see that happen.
Speaker 2That's Wonder.
Speaker 1Woman. And then you're like, oh God, skirt, cover the, get the skirt on, babe. Yeah, I didn't notice all those dimples.
Speaker 2We're not doing the skirt.
Speaker 1Listen, I need something to cover up all the cellulite.
Speaker 2No, you don't.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2No.
Speaker 1Something about two years ago and I became orange peel.
Speaker 2Is that the vitamin you're taking? Cellulite?
Speaker 1Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2It looks like it I'm staying out of this one. I'm staying out of this one. Have you heard the people that they're coming up with names, that if they weren't negative, they would name their babies?
Speaker 3Yes, that's pretty funny.
Speaker 2Like cellulite or not. That.
Speaker 3There's a few. I saw that. That's really cute.
Speaker 2Alright, everybody, but there's a few. I saw that. That's really cute. Yeah, it's really cute, All right everybody Like subscribe Before you unsubscribe.
Speaker 1Maybe one day we'll talk about my trip to New York. Probably not, though.
Speaker 2They went to New York. They got to go on stage at Hamilton. It was fun. Wow, there you have it. Do you want to talk more about it?
Speaker 1No, it wasn't that basically it.
Speaker 2Wow, sure, well, give us. You're the one that wanted to talk about it. I don't care, I did, but we got sidetracked with so many other things.
Speaker 3Okay, we covered a lot of ground in this episode. I feel all right, so high quality next week we'll.
Speaker 2We'll do the new york city recap no, I don't care about it we'll do maybe the cards.
Speaker 1We'll do the cards if City recap no, I don't care about it.
Speaker 2We'll do, maybe, the cards. We'll do the cards. And what did we say? If we lose, between us, 150 pounds, we're doing a swimsuit calendar.
Speaker 1I'm not doing this.
Speaker 2I have to do 150. Pre-order we're going to put Hutch's Venmo up.
Speaker 1Don't give him the money for the calendar.
Speaker 3Send some money to Hutch. We should do a Kickstarter campaign.
Speaker 2Just put in the notes of the Venmo notes just put swimsuit calendar.
Speaker 1Okay, no, don't Send him the money for the soda.
Speaker 3Okay, yeah, send Hutch 48 cents For the spin drift. Yes, so he can go and get more spin drift.
Speaker 1Okay, that is hilarious, all right, let me, how do we?
Speaker 3Well, it's at hutch-dibler or something like that I'm sure Are you playing them.
Speaker 2How do you know?
Speaker 3No, I don't know, I'm just guessing.
Speaker 1I think it's just at hutch-dibler, but I'm not sure, I bet it is. I'd have to look, but my phone's being used.
Speaker 2Alright. So If we had a producer, they would put it in the show notes. They might put a QR code in the show notes or something it's too much work.
Speaker 1Okay, bye everybody. We don't get paid enough.