Pulpit to the Pew
This is a podcast where you can come relax and catch a break. We will be discussing life from the Christian’s perspective. From time to time we will be bringing in scriptures that grab our attention and will be trying to break them down so we can understand them better. But most of the time our conversation will just be surrounded in laughter. Thanks for tuning in!
Pulpit to the Pew
The Grump to Grin Special!
Shawn and Ryan welcome Ben to fill in for Jonathan as they share stories from their summer travel circuit and discuss the changing landscape of ministry connections post-COVID
• Recent travels through multiple states for youth camp and fellowship meetings in just two weeks
• COVID's impact on church visitor etiquette and how things are finally returning to normal
• Using Facebook Live and social media as ministry tools to reach shut-ins and new audiences
• Anatidophobia: the irrational fear of being watched by ducks
• Brother Jared's hilarious Waffle House advertisement
• Wild elephant visits grocery store in Thailand, feasts on eggs and sweet treats
• Sweet versus salty food preferences and the great Reese's cup debate
• The experience of meeting ministry "celebrities" and watching the next generation do the same
Email us at pulpittothepew@gmail.com with your comments and feedback.
welcome back to the podcast. I'm your host, brother sean brumfield, and I've got brother ryan brown with me today. Howdy howdy, and unfortunately brother jonathan wasn't able to make it, so we've got Ben Brown with us. Hey man, how you doing, ben? I'm doing good, doing good, making it, trying to Enjoying the summer days.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I wasn't a fan of being in two separate states in two weeks. Oh, oh really.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we kind of rushed your summer. This started summer, didn't we? Yeah, oh, really, yeah, we kind of rushed your summer, the start of summer didn't we?
Speaker 2:Yeah, starting off in Indiana, which it was fun, youth camp in Indiana this year, eastern Indiana, it was good, it was really good, that was awesome. And then we get back Saturday or Friday night late, friday night, saturday morning, saturday morning. And then staying home Saturday and then leaving after church Sunday morning for Oklahoma Well, technically Illinois. So I could say three states in two weeks, three states where you actually stopped and visited.
Speaker 1:Supposed to be four, but yeah, that one got cut short.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we had some things we had to take care of and we wasn't able to stop in the Tennessee like we wanted to. My kids got a good dose of what it's like to be on the road and be busy.
Speaker 1:Now they're thinking God Dad's a pastor, not an evangelist. Yeah, how was Bristow for you guys? It was awesome. Yeah, lots of fun.
Speaker 3:Yeah, got to see a lot of friends, got to make new friends, new acquaintances. It was a blast. Preaching was tremendous. Fellowship was tremendous. It was fun. Good Oklahoma weather, the thunderstorms, tornadoes and all that stuff rain.
Speaker 1:About to blow you out of the state.
Speaker 3:huh, yeah, one night got a little hairy there for a minute. Tornadoes and all that stuff, Rain About to blow you out of the state, huh yeah. Yeah, One night got a little hairy there for a minute, but it kind of come in and went out as fast as it came in. So that was all well and good. Oklahoma gets a little harder to leave. It's what I told those guys. I said every time we come to Oklahoma it gets a little harder to leave the state, but we got a leash here in Cincinnati that keeps us coming back. Our church there. We can't.
Speaker 1:You better come back.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we love our people, we love our church. We don't want to. That's what keeps bringing us back. I mean family and all that stuff too, but there's a church there. That just has got my heart. I've got to come back.
Speaker 4:Better you than me. Well, you can't go nowhere.
Speaker 3:Give me heart attacks when you're gone, of course as soon as you leave, every preacher in the nation has to stop by I'm loving it, though I'm loving it so many preachers are getting the word of the church and you know, because there for a while we wasn't getting any visitors unless we asked them right to come. So I really do like and covid 2020 kind of changed the mentality of that. You know, there was a, there was a time where we had we had visitors that wasn't nothing to have visitors come in and then covid hits. And then there was like a year after COVID where it was like preachers were asking do you mind if we just kind of pop in? I think, man, that's kind of a sad day that we live in, when preachers are out on the road and having to ask permission just to come by. But I get it.
Speaker 3:There was so many different people were looking at things so many different ways and it seems like now you're you're starting to see preachers, a whole, a whole different group of preachers starting to come out yeah and it's, it's wonderful to me to see that kind of happen and then starting to see them come back visit the church without you know, without the schedule, just hey, we felt, felt like coming by and all that stuff it was.
Speaker 1:It was pretty good yeah, covid changed the idea of courtesy church courtesy yeah, in a sense it did all I know is, uh, covid was a big setback for a lot of people.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was a time of I feel like it wasn't an attack of the enemy, but it was something that the devil used to separate churches from each other. Oh for sure.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it instilled a lot of fear. So when we had Sunday, the Sunday that we left, we left right at altar call because we went and seen Brother and Sister Ten and they're in Jonesboro Illinois and I had it down how long it would be and I played the hour because we gained an hour. We pulled in to their church a half hour before service started and we didn't stop and sit down to eat. That was driving through, that was, you know, only stopping for bare minimum gas and, and you know, bathroom breaks, because there's six people in a van and my kids aren't used to the road constant grind, you know. So we we go into that while we're there.
Speaker 3:That was the time that we just that that we had a new couple visit for the first time. I don't know that they'd ever been to Sharonville. A new preacher couple come by that morning and I hated it because I'm like man, we were just in youth camp. I knew that we were going to have the young people testify and then I knew I was going out of town. So I'm like I have to preach. I'm not going to be there for a couple services. So I felt like Sunday mornings I tend to preach anyway as the pastor, but I knew going out of town I felt like if I didn't it, it was gonna.
Speaker 3:It could have been a little rough you know so, um, and they were already scheduled so I couldn't get them to come back that night. And then to find out that another missionary, uh, was in town and he wanted to come by the church so he could meet me, and I wasn't even there you know he was gone it's.
Speaker 1:It's funny how all that works out, but I I'm very thankful that the church is getting out there and, you know, being seen in a good light yeah, a lot of people are seeing our instagram and our facebook and some of the the reels and stuff that we put on, and the live itself is very important that a lot of people seem to gravitate towards and get to be in church without being in church or get to visit a church that's so far away.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that was the weird thing about Bristow this year to me, because we do the Facebook Live and we do that and and I know especially there for a while, facebook live, live video stuff like that that's something you kind of have to get used to and if, if you don't, if you don't want it I'm not one of those ones it's like man, I can't believe that you're not utilizing the tool and all that stuff. We started it because of of covid and then we I stopped it for a while and then we had some individuals about two years after maybe 2022, 2023, that were basically locked in.
Speaker 3:They couldn't go anywhere, those shut-ins, and so we started it back up and that's really why I did it. I did it to be able to reach out to the ones that wasn't able to make it to church service and we was able to give them the links and then we tied it into YouTube, which now we have the YouTube live that we do in the you know, but we put the link on Facebook. But it's just a. It's a tremendous tool that people's been able to see and that's like, uh, I met some people in bristow that I hadn't met or was introduced to me and stuff, and the one thing that I found that was pretty funny was they were like man, we seen you on instagram or we see on facebook and all that stuff, and it was all positive feedback and yeah if you know me, I'm not and I know I talk a lot on here and if you met me at the church or whatever, it's a.
Speaker 3:it's a whole different personality. But I would much rather be in the shadows. I don't have to have the limelight. So being on that it's kind of like it's out of my comfort zone, but the Lord's using it for a positive light. I'm very thankful for that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for the most part it's pretty successful, except for when Brother Jared comes up to me does a photo and gets a close-up on purpose.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's kind of like those funny news things where they're doing the traffic cams or whatever and there's a bird in the camera or a squirrel or something.
Speaker 1:Yeah, except ours is Bigfoot and he's in the center aisle. So we've been talking about Bigfoot here before. If you want to see him, you can see him on Facebook Live. Yeah, we spot him every so often, just because of the show man you know, you got to get that special appearance.
Speaker 4:Word of the day.
Speaker 3:Word of the day.
Speaker 2:Brother Jonathan's not here. Somebody's got to pick it up Got to have it in spirit. So I was again. I was going through the big dictionary that I was given and I found this word and let me pull it up. I had it and then time went on my phone. I ran out of time, so let's see here I'm probably going to butcher the pronunciation.
Speaker 3:That's all right, you're my kid. Welcome to the club, bud.
Speaker 2:Anatodaphobia. Anatodaphobia.
Speaker 1:Anatodaphobia. So it's a fear or something.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It's probably nothing like what it sounds like as far as a fear, Well, so arachnophobia is a fear of spiders, yeah, so this word is the irrational fear of being watched by ducks.
Speaker 3:Of being watched. Watched by ducks Of being watched.
Speaker 2:Watched by ducks, not Dutch.
Speaker 1:Not.
Speaker 4:Dutch duck walking Duck.
Speaker 1:Wait, not duck watching, but being watched by ducks being watched by ducks. Oh, my word dude.
Speaker 2:So it's not an actual phobia, it was. It was, uh, come up by a cartoonist by the name of gary larson in 1998 in his comic series of the far side, and he came up with this word with a comic reference, like a comic picture of someone, a man, sitting in his office and he looks out the window and there's a duck staring at him. And so people came up with anadophobia, or however you pronounce it, and that's now the fear of being watched by ducks.
Speaker 1:Is that his kryptonite?
Speaker 2:I'm not sure I haven't read the series. I just looked up what the origin of the word was. What a crazy word.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you know, what's hilarious about that is when he said that and he tells me the pronunciation, like I'm picturing some little old lady or old man sitting on a park bench throwing bread out to the ducks, and then one duck just sitting there and just awkwardly staring at them, and then you're staring back at the duck and it's staring at you and then all of a sudden that fear of what's getting ready to happen I can see.
Speaker 1:that Makes me think of the duck from Courage, the Cowardly Dog.
Speaker 3:I don't know anything about that one. I also started singing the duck song in my head. Oh Lord.
Speaker 2:And that is your word of the day.
Speaker 3:I can see that guy having what is it anatophobia? Anatidophobia. Anatidophobia.
Speaker 2:A-N-A-T-I-D-A-E-P-H-O-I-B-A.
Speaker 3:Anatid, anatidophobia, anatidophobia yeah, I would say, if the duck walked up to a lemonade stand and he's constantly asking for grapes.
Speaker 1:Got any grapes? He's making you mad. He's just giving the guy a death stare.
Speaker 3:Oh the quack. And he waddled away.
Speaker 2:Waddle, waddle Until the very next day, the ducks that they're afraid of don't waddle away. They just stare at them.
Speaker 1:Changed the song entirely, isn't it?
Speaker 3:funny though that when you look up those words of those phobias, they all say they're never irrational and they're never real phobias. Yeah, they're never, uh, I mean there are some like arachnophobia.
Speaker 1:There are people that's legitimately terrified yeah, but the phobia of very long words is a phobia that's not recognized.
Speaker 3:But all of them start with an irrational yeah. What causes the fear?
Speaker 1:So in that term irrational, does it mean that it's not?
Speaker 3:possible.
Speaker 1:It's not rational, well duh, so does it mean that it surpasses somebody being able to understand what it is? Is that what makes it irrational, or that it's unbelievable what they're?
Speaker 3:seeing is unbelievable. I think it's irrational in the fact that you don't have any reason to have that fear. You just have it. Like, for example, I legitimately have a fear of heights, uh-huh, but I have no reason to have the fear of heights because I've never been hurt by falling from a high altitude or I've never been there's, there's never been a fear, there's never been anything like, there's never been anything that has brought that fear on. I just have there's. There's a legitimate uneasiness yeah, there's no rationale to it whatsoever, but is the fear of heights?
Speaker 1:irrational, I but. But here's the thing I guess when I, when I think of a rational fear, is a fear that is something that is completely harmless. Ducks are, for the most part, very harmless. Heights are harmless, yeah, but I wouldn't say that that it's irrational. I would say that's a probable rational, always heart height, good lord it's like dude. It's the microphones, isn't it?
Speaker 2:it does it to you heights aren't always um uh harmless nobody's ever got hurt from heights.
Speaker 1:They've got hurt by the fall yeah, but if you fall from heights, fear of heights.
Speaker 3:If you fall from heights it hurts, okay, but falling in general hurts I don't, I don't think, okay, if I fall from a high spot and then I have a fear, it's a rational fear. No, yeah, it's rational.
Speaker 1:No, I don't think so. I think knowing that somebody has fell off of some height of some degree and has died is enough proof for me to say that fear of heights is a rational fear. How?
Speaker 2:high. Do you have to go to die from a fall? Well, I had an uncle.
Speaker 1:He fell off a roof at like 12 foot.
Speaker 3:It all depends on how you land. It's kind of like drowning you can drown in like an inch of water or what is it? Two inches or something? It doesn't have to be much.
Speaker 1:But to give you an idea, they say by like people that like commit suicide off of skyscrapers and stuff. They're dead before, before because of the fear yeah, that's their heart.
Speaker 3:They have a heart attack before they hit. The study says that they die of a heart attack. Their heart gives out. But then, at the same time, there's people that survive the fall off the golden gate bridge and stuff to that nature so it's a crazy little rabbit trail story here we're used to that.
Speaker 1:As we say, this is the podcast of add there was a man I want to say he's from new y, but I don't know how true that is or not, but he's a businessman. He was in a high. He owned this gigantic skyscraper and as a stunt he would run from his desk and he would hit the glass on the side of the skyscraper to show them just how strong the glass was that it would not break.
Speaker 1:Well, he did it so many times that he loosened the glue that held that piece of glass in. The glass didn't shatter, yeah, yeah, Shatter. He hit it and it came out of place. The pain came out it came out of place and it fell with him and he died. Yeah, that glass was like. Yeah.
Speaker 3:That's why you got to. There's always consequences to your actions. Yeah, but I don't I. I look at it like this so would that be an irrational fear I, if you, if you look at it in that aspect, then we should be afraid of everything no, no yeah, people's.
Speaker 1:People's died in car accidents, yet I don't have a fear of driving.
Speaker 3:I have a fear of people hitting me, people's, but I don't, because fear fear I. I have a respect. I look at it like that. There's respect. It's like this I work, or used to, and I and I still do. I am an electrician by trade. I've got into some pretty high voltages and I've done things not bragging because I look back at it now and for lack of a better term, it was absolutely stupid on my part. I mean, I've messed with like 540 live without even thinking, just flipping wires and all that stuff without even any thought to this might kill me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if I touch this, it will kill me.
Speaker 3:One bad thing is going to blow up in my face, you know, or kill me, because I had a respect. I've got a respect for the fact that the guy next to me could be wasted or not a very good thing. There's a nervousness, but to have a fear of something that has had absolutely nothing to harm me, I think is irrational. There's nothing, because I could be afraid of everything.
Speaker 1:I don't know. I think there's stuff that is 100% to be.
Speaker 5:If somebody has a fear or something.
Speaker 1:I don't think that it has to be a death-taking fear. I mean, everybody has a time in their life where they would get up to a high point and they're like, oh, if I fall I'm going to die.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you respect it though.
Speaker 1:Or you get caught under the water in a wave or something like an undercurrent or something.
Speaker 3:You're like, oh boy, I better get up and out of this. Yeah, but that is a legitimate reason to have the fear because you're caught in something or you're pushing yourself past the limits. But for me, just to have a fear for no absolute, there's no. Nothing in my life has happened for me to have a fear of heights. I don't know.
Speaker 1:I think to say I'm not talking about like so irrational to me would mean that there's something that is unfathomable for that fear, right. That's kind of how I see it. Just because I have a fear of a height doesn't make it a phobia, though, right. A phobia would be that that it interrupts my daily activities, something that I think about too.
Speaker 3:I don't think so. I think it can. I don't think it's that deep. I think it is because I think a phobia is having that fear of that thing at all times, like yeah but.
Speaker 1:But that's what I'm saying is that it interrupts your daily activities, and I'm not talking about just having a rational fear when circumstances arise. I'm just talking like I think what they're saying as far as like irrational is, it is something that controls your daily life. When you're thinking about avoiding that.
Speaker 2:So a phobia, from what I've heard and from what I've seen, is basically like an extreme fear, like you're scared of this like paralyzing yeah, like if, like you say, you're scared of heights, there's someone who has a phobia of heights. It's like they can't go over a certain height or else they're gonna have a panic attack and possibly hurt themselves out of fear.
Speaker 1:So phobia itself is extreme or irrational fear. Phobia is the meaning of irrational fear. Yeah, irrational, not logical or reasonable. Right, there's no, there's no rhyme or reason, I think we are saying the same thing without saying the same thing.
Speaker 3:Look, my wife will tell me that I am stubborn.
Speaker 1:Oh, I know.
Speaker 3:And she also says that you just like to argue. And then when she says that I always respond with I don't like to argue, and she says you're literally arguing about arguing. So I have to say, say, but I'm not anyway. What was that? Word again anatodaphobia I just wanted you to do that, because I know I'm not always the one that messes up the words. He told me. Benjamin told me that on our chasing geese episode I called them gooses. You did you did.
Speaker 3:I think you did it on purpose as well yeah, I think you did, I think it was knowing me, it was probably just me talking normally and I didn't even think about it, because I do not remember calling them gooses you know what you would have called them.
Speaker 4:No, I would never have done that.
Speaker 3:I can see me saying real quickly Gooses instead of Geese. I really can.
Speaker 1:I mean, it is me Well, I'm saying, if you were going to say it intentionally, you would have said Goosen. I didn't notice it as a joke. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I didn't notice it until I was listening to it with volume all the way up and I was walking around. I don't know where I was. My mom pointed out did Jonathan just say gooses? So I rewanted it. I said no, that was dad.
Speaker 4:Don't claim him.
Speaker 1:I think it'd be more scary to say that she thought you were John.
Speaker 3:We'll have to have a talk about that one. I still don't think Jonathan and I sound anything alike.
Speaker 1:No, I don't think you do either. I don't know where that idea is coming from, Because when I edit I can clear it. Maybe it's because I sit with you guys every day, talking to you every day, but I don't know. I don't hear the difference.
Speaker 2:I'm like there's nothing there that suggests a closeness. I listen to him every day so I can tell the difference instantly.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he said that with a sigh, not just that, but when Jonathan says it, I can see the way he's saying it. When he says it, he's very, very expressive guys. We miss you, Jonathan.
Speaker 3:Can't wait for you to come back to the show. Quit being lazy.
Speaker 1:He had some family things he had to get to. They got double booked on us.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:But talk about bringing stuff back to the show. I may or may not have another advertisement for everybody from Brother Jared, so I think you guys will enjoy this. We haven't done one in a while and let us know what you think.
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Speaker 3:Man, I will say that is one multicultural Waffle House that they are interviewing there.
Speaker 1:That's just the Waffle House, man. Yeah, Anytime you go there it's going to be like that.
Speaker 3:I will say this it's spelled H-O-U-S-E. I've never called it Hoss, unless it's H-A-U-S, which is the German spelling for house, but anyway, it was a glorious ad Glorious.
Speaker 2:What made it so good in your opinion?
Speaker 1:It's just Waffle House. How do you think he got Jonathan to give it?
Speaker 3:I don't know. Like his idea of it, I don't know, but I think that they made that Grump to Grin special, just for him.
Speaker 4:Just for him Just for him.
Speaker 1:Cover and in ketchup.
Speaker 3:Brother Jonathan, you've got your own meal on the menu.
Speaker 2:Grump to grin, just A plate of hash browns with ketchup on top, with ketchup on top of it.
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Speaker 3:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think so much.
Speaker 1:I think we should dedicate that advertisement to Brother Pasquarello oh yeah, yeah. Yeah, I think so too.
Speaker 3:I think we've had some fun conversations with Brother Pasquarello.
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Speaker 1:And if you're not sure to what we're talking about, go back and listen to that episode listen to this interview one of the best interviews we've ever had that's funny.
Speaker 3:It's a great advertisement, dude.
Speaker 1:Oh, my word like I just getting jonathan in on that.
Speaker 4:It's just so funny I will tell you this. I'll tell you how he got it.
Speaker 1:Jared text me one day. He's's like can you send me the Thanksgiving episode? I'm like why he goes? Oh, no reason, no reason whatsoever. So I sent him the edited version. So that's how he got that.
Speaker 3:Oh man, we can't win them all no.
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Speaker 1:Okay, talk about another funny thing before we get to your story. Did you hear about this guy? To get back at his, his ex, he put out flyers all across the city that had her number on it and they were like trying out for Chewbacca impressions. You know, leave it in our voicemail. And like this lady came on the news and she was like there's nothing but people going every, every single voicemail. Was somebody giving their best impression you want to talk about?
Speaker 3:payback, that would be. Hey, I wish I thought of something like that. I've never had that smart of an idea until afterwards when somebody else thinks about it.
Speaker 1:I'm like oh man, that would be great. Next time Becca makes you mad, make a fake Javaka post.
Speaker 3:I won't do that to my wife because, hey, I will tell you what she does. She starts researching stuff and she got to the point to where she didn't. Because everything today, if you look at anything online and you're just researching something, to get that little bit of info that you're looking for, you have to give a phone number. I don't know why. I do know why because they're tracking you down. But she never gave her phone number. I would get random, I'd get real estate agents, I was getting insurance people. I was getting home, uh, refinance people, and I'm like, yeah, so we were just calling you in response to your wanting more information. I'm like I didn't ask for more information. Next call Why'd you do that for Becca?
Speaker 1:I wanted a hamburger.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's the thing. I just looked it up but I couldn't get the information. They wanted a phone number, so I just gave them yours. So I was like I mean, one time I had some real estate agents like so what are you looking for in a house? I'm like I'm living in a house.
Speaker 1:What are you talking?
Speaker 3:about.
Speaker 1:The one I'm living in. That's what I want.
Speaker 3:So don't give your phone number away to random people. It's no fun. Or give away random people's phone numbers, okay, so anyway, funny news story Now that we're off of that goose trail, june 5th. This is off of I'm getting this off of uh upicom and it says this wild elephant wanders in into store in search of sweet treats. So a wild elephant wanders out of a national park in Thailand to visit a grocery store where the peckish pachyderm feasted on eggs and sweet treats. This elephant is well known to the locals. It's one that's known for kind of stepping out of the national park, but it's never made it all the way into the grocery store.
Speaker 4:Oh boy.
Speaker 3:So the 27-year-old elephant named Playbeing Lick is well known for his frequent treks out of the KOY National Park in search of snacks. Residents say that he can often be seen walking past a corner store a little over half a mile from the park entrance gate, but on Monday he made what is believed to be his first visit to the store's interior. Could you imagine what it would be like to just be sitting there and all of a sudden, this elephant comes walking inside your store?
Speaker 2:I would love it.
Speaker 1:Would you really? Yeah, I'd be freaking out. So the elephant feasted on it.
Speaker 2:That would bring more people in, because they'd want to see the elephant in the store probably.
Speaker 1:They might be buying treats.
Speaker 3:I don't know. Wild elephants are crazy. Sometimes you never know what they're going to do, and those things are huge.
Speaker 1:What's the name of the elephant?
Speaker 3:It's like Ply being Lick. Is it a boy or girl?
Speaker 2:elephant it doesn't say His.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so it's a boy.
Speaker 1:Yep, that's a hard. No Bull elephants are a no.
Speaker 3:So the elephant feasted on eggs, dried bananas, a sandwich and nine bags of sweet rice crackers before Park Rangers arrived.
Speaker 3:Eggs To usher him out of the business. Eggs, dried bananas, a sandwich it doesn't say what sandwich, but a sandwich I've never heard. I don't. Are they omnivores? I've never researched, I don't know if it's like regular eggs, eggs, if it's like sweet eggs, because they kept saying sweet treats. I want to know what the sandwich was. Yeah, and then sweet rice crackers. Um, before the park rangers arrived. Here's the funny thing members of the ko yay elephant lovers group donated about 25 to the store to pay for this elephant's snacks. So his bill got paid and he got a sweet treat.
Speaker 1:It would have to be eggs, sweet eggs, because they don't eat eggs.
Speaker 3:And just in case anybody was concerned that's listening to this story, the store owner said he was not angry at the elephant, as the animal must have been hungry must have been.
Speaker 2:Oh wow, I couldn't imagine why.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for real just busting down the doors and it must have been reese eggs, man, I'd be breaking into a grocery store with some reese eggs, yeah no what, I'm not a fan of reese's the best reese thing out there is the reese eggs or the I'd be breaking into a grocery store with some Reese eggs.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, what? I'm not a fan of Reese's. The best Reese thing out there is the Reese eggs or the Christmas trees, the. Christmas trees are good, I don't know. My mom got me a one pound Reese bunny. I ate that thing in one sitting dude.
Speaker 3:That guy was gone, yeah. So I'm not one that likes the real thick Reese's, but I love the eggs and I love the trees. But my favorite Reese's snack if I'm just getting something just for a little bit of the sweetness is the Thins. I love the Thins man. I could pop them things all day long.
Speaker 2:I will say I'll eat them. If I need or I just want a snack and they're the only thing there, I'll eat them. But it's kind of like Brother Jonathan and Waffle House. They're tolerable.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and edible, yeah. My favorite are the Reese's mini cups Like you find at Easter time. Those are the best.
Speaker 2:Like Christmas and stuff. The ones that I liked it was it had like gooey chocolate in it, and the ones that I liked it had like gooey chocolate in it, and that was the one that I liked.
Speaker 3:Did you see that they had a peanut butter and jelly Reese's?
Speaker 1:No, I don't think I'd like it Ew.
Speaker 3:Oh, I wanted to try it. So bad. But I can't find no place that sells it. And the one place that I did find that sold it was sold out. One had grape jelly, one had strawberry jelly and it was peanut butter and chocolate.
Speaker 1:I love peanut butter and chocolate. I I love peanut butter and jelly, but I don't think I like peanut butter.
Speaker 2:I don't know how I feel about with chocolate.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't think I could do that I could eat peanut butter and jelly all day oh, I would try it in a heartbeat, just to do.
Speaker 1:I would try it as a try it, but I don't think that I would. I would not try it and be happy with it. I wouldn't.
Speaker 3:That makes sense they're doing a ton of stuff with reese, though my favorite Reese's is. I believe I'm looking at it right now.
Speaker 1:Don't say pieces, because those are the worst Reese's, oh I love Reese's pieces, but they're not.
Speaker 3:They're not delicious.
Speaker 2:I'll tell you that he was so disappointed he had to look at the wall.
Speaker 3:You have to eat them you have to eat them by the handful. I love Reese's pieces, but to me, reese's Pieces is one of those things when I'm driving and I have like I just want to chew on something. I could buy a bag of them and I can just hammer them down like M&M's.
Speaker 1:If I'm going to do that, I'm going to get M&M's or Skittles.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I get Skittles 75% of the time.
Speaker 3:Yeah, skittles, I eat the whole bag at once. And then I've got this big glob of something that I'm chewing on.
Speaker 1:Reese's outrageous what is that? The bar?
Speaker 3:it's a bar, the wafer bar no, it's not a wafer bar, it is the nougat, because you know they have the fast break, which is really good. Yeah, so it's it's not nougat, but it's the reese's, it's the like a twix it's like the peanut the peanut butter. It's got Reese's Pieces scattered through it, so you get the crunch of the shell of the Reese's Pieces.
Speaker 2:That's disgusting. He had to look at the wall again and caramel Dude.
Speaker 3:It is amazing though. Oh yeah, it is amazing.
Speaker 1:I just don't like Reese's Pieces man.
Speaker 3:That's just not good. Yeah, peanut butter. I don't want crunch in my peanut butter I don't get.
Speaker 1:It's like crunchy peanut butter?
Speaker 3:no, no, it's not not when you're eating it in a candy bar. Yeah, it kind of is no I don't like crunchy peanut butter.
Speaker 1:I just don't.
Speaker 3:I just rather have it smooth. You ever, did you ever get the reese's cup with the potato chips in it? What, what? Yeah, you didn't. You guys haven't seen that either.
Speaker 1:When was that that Not too long ago? I don't know that you can still buy them. I think I would like that.
Speaker 3:Awesome. They also made them with the pretzel, and that's not to take five. There's a difference. But they made the peanut butter cups with the pretzel in it or with the potato chips in it.
Speaker 1:I didn't care for the pretzel one, but the potato chips one was I will say this growing up, mom would like leave the brownie butter out and we would dip our potato chips in that yeah, that's good, so good.
Speaker 3:I'm not a sweet salty person, but but for whatever reason that stuff is.
Speaker 1:I like that I, I like it a lot like that. That. I like the sweet, I like the salty, like dipping your fry in a frosty. Oh, oh, I love that too.
Speaker 3:Used to. I used to love the old school Wendy's fries and Frosties. They were made for it. They was like potato spoons for the chocolate Frosty. But the new fries are horrible.
Speaker 2:I like their new fries because they're more salty.
Speaker 3:Their new fries are good to eat by themselves, but they're horrible to dip in Frosties.
Speaker 2:See, I never got into that. So I didn't like the Rolls-Royce.
Speaker 3:Yeah, because that was way back before your time, that was before me and your mom was married Still.
Speaker 4:It's been a long time ago. It's been around since like the 50s, though, Ben.
Speaker 1:People dipping their fries in ice cream.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean I've done it before, I just never caught onto it. It's never been that interesting to me.
Speaker 3:I also have a hard time with the hot and cold contrast at the same time. Really yeah.
Speaker 1:See, I'm the opposite, Like if I'm going to get some sweet tea and it's nice and fresh. I like getting that on the bottom, where it's like that lukewarm. You get kind of cold, a little bit of warm at the same time Hot.
Speaker 3:I like it hot or I like it cold.
Speaker 2:See, I think if it's cold it doesn't have as much flavor it does. Oh, it definitely does. Some of the ones that I've had, they didn't have as much flavor when they were cold to hot. It depends on where you get it and who makes it. Well, it's when my grandma made it.
Speaker 1:Oh Well, I think Really and get it to the way I want it to taste.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't like overly sweet tea.
Speaker 1:I like McDonald's sweet tea At one time, that's overly sweet tea.
Speaker 2:At one time McDonald's put so much sugar in their tea that you could chew it. I remember that because I got it one time.
Speaker 1:I got a large and I couldn't go to remember that night too, like daffy duck dude, I, I love, I want it so sweet you can pour it over your, your pancakes. You're not mark lowry, I know, but he made the best description for that nah, that's too much, man, but that's only if you run out of syrup.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I mean I like it nice and sweet. I I don't know, I just don't like. Now, if I'm having it hot, I don't want it sweet. I'll put honey in it to help. But like as far as like putting sugar in there. I don't like putting sugar in mine.
Speaker 3:So are you a chamomile tea person?
Speaker 1:No, I like black tea. That's the only tea I'll drink. Yeah, green tea makes me use the bathroom too much, gotta stick with the black.
Speaker 3:I drink black tea. Earl Grey is one of my favorite ones.
Speaker 1:I'm too. I don't know enough about it to deep dive into what kind of teas.
Speaker 2:I just know I like sweet tea.
Speaker 1:Yeah, give me that sweet tea, put six pounds of sugar in it, mix that puppy up. I can't do it About two ounces of water.
Speaker 2:I'd rather have unsweetened tea, but I have got now, See the unsweetened tea is usually too bitter for me, but the one that we had at Bristow, that wasn't bad.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, he thought he was getting sweet tea and it was unsweetened.
Speaker 2:It was unsweetened, but I couldn't tell a difference until like day two.
Speaker 3:It didn't taste bad, it was good, it was really good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the food there was really good too.
Speaker 3:My favorite thing that I've started drinking here lately is lime water.
Speaker 2:Lime water?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've never tried a lime in my life.
Speaker 3:I've never ate a lime, but I've drank lime water, lime and lemon in your water. Put me a glass of water and put half a lime in it.
Speaker 2:It's really good so is that why they were just? That was just a random bag of limes.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, this boy, here we get our groceries yesterday and uh he asked me to take out the trash. I was like hey, take out the trash and help bring, because we got.
Speaker 2:What about this random bag of limes?
Speaker 3:yeah, ben's like. So we bring our groceries in and we buy a whole bunch of fruit, you know lime, lemon, bananas, apples, oranges all that, I don't know why we buy bananas and because they eat it for breakfast they're weird and um so I tell benjamin. I'm like, okay, I'm gonna start putting groceries away. You start taking out the trash. You got to get that stuff done. And he goes do we just? Is this bag of limes trash? It's an unopened, we just got Just brought it in with the groceries bag of limes.
Speaker 2:I'm not used to seeing limes in our house, so I was confused. Fair enough.
Speaker 1:We don't have, we get limes if we're doing Mexican.
Speaker 3:I just put it in the water.
Speaker 1:You just squeeze it and put it all over your tacos.
Speaker 2:See, I don't eat tacos like that. If I eat tacos, it's either homemade or Taco Bell.
Speaker 3:That's not a real taco. That's dog meat encased in hard shells.
Speaker 2:I don't get hard shells From home, oh man.
Speaker 3:So this episode today had absolutely no rhyme or reason.
Speaker 1:No, no, it really didn't.
Speaker 3:I hope everybody enjoys just sitting here listening to us babble about absolutely nothing. Yep, it really has. It's went all over the place. I don't mind it though. No, no, no, you're truly getting a sense of what it's like to sit at the table between me and John most of the time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, pretty much yeah, this is how it goes.
Speaker 2:Usually, if I'm sitting with them, I don't talk as much yeah.
Speaker 1:That's true too. I think this is the most you've talked in any episodes, probably.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think Brother Birdsong did it to him yeah.
Speaker 1:How was it meeting Brother Birdsong Ben?
Speaker 2:I didn't know how to take it honestly.
Speaker 4:Hey, I'm going to be honest with you. Did you fangirl?
Speaker 3:No, I wish you could have seen him because he was like the first night, monday night was the youth service. If you're listening, brother Birdsong, I didn't get a chance to tell you this, but I thought it was hilarious. So the first night everybody's kind of talking to each other, it's Monday night. You told him, I pointed him out to you, I was like, hey, there's Brother Birdsong.
Speaker 2:You told him what I did.
Speaker 3:Oh, did I.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I can't remember On the phone. Yeah, I'm old.
Speaker 3:It wasn't on the phone. No, I talked to him Tuesday.
Speaker 1:No, no, he told me on the phone, he told you on the phone, but he told Brother.
Speaker 2:Devin.
Speaker 3:So it was hilarious, because you're kind of saying your hellos and everything like that, and people were talking to Brother. So I kind of just pointed him out to Benjamin. I was like hey, ben, there's Brother Birdsong. He's like really.
Speaker 3:And I was like, yeah, he goes, are you going to go talk to him? It looks like he's got a lot of people. He'll be here in the morning. We'll probably talk to him in the morning. Like we're sitting in line at the fellowship hall Monday night and Brother Birdsong comes in after us and Benjamin's like, hey look, I spotted.
Speaker 1:We're walking New York City and there's a random celebrity. It's Trump Dad. Yeah, it was hilarious, it's the.
Speaker 3:Trump of podcasts. I think it's funny. So now you know where you sit. Brother Birdsong with my boy. He definitely looks at you like a celebrity. So, I did tell him that you listen to his podcast nonstop.
Speaker 1:So, Ben, I've not met Brother Birdsong, but he's Uh-oh, you were.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, I have Never mind, I take that back.
Speaker 1:I lied, I'm sorry, I told you I lied, you did. I'm a big liar, okay, I met him before the podcast at Men of Faith. But we didn't. That's before we even. Yeah, so before we started the podcast, and uh, like he called me one day and I didn't recognize the number, so I hung up and then I looked at, I listened to the voicemail and he goes hey brother Sean, this is brother David Bird song. I didn't even listen to the rest of the voicemail.
Speaker 4:I was like call this guy back.
Speaker 1:I call him back and, uh, he picked up the phone. He was so cool and he's like hey brother sean, how you doing? I was like, well, I was doing a lot better, knowing like before I knew I hung up on a celebrity. He was like, no, no, no, he is. He is one of the most cool, down-to-earth guys that I think I've ever met as far as like being up there, like it's like one of my like top guys to like aspire to be for sure, for sure but you know, that's what it's all about.
Speaker 1:Man get a gal out, meet some new people and all that yeah, it was.
Speaker 3:It was kind of cool.
Speaker 3:But he was also pointing out big, big name preachers brother Enix knows one of Benjamin's favorites, so he was like top three there's brother enoch snow and uh, I've been talking to brother enoch snow and uh, working on getting him to come to the church for revival and and all that stuff. So he's like he was like pointing out, so I was, he's following me along and I was introducing him. He got to talk to brother randy webb. That was a that was a big deal. You know and remember those days.
Speaker 3:I remember those days as a young kid and seeing preachers that I knew growing up and I would like look at them like man. These guys are like celebrities. These are the big-name preachers. You know, my sister and my dad told Brother Randy Webb this, which was absolutely hilarious we were at I believe it was at Strawberry Plains Brother Ingram's church and he was having camp meeting and Brother Randy Webb was preaching it and they were in a hotel and Brother Randy Webb was staying, was in the hotel with my grandma where my grandma and grandpa were staying, or however it worked out. But my mom and dad picked up my sister from my grandparents and she ended up in the elevator with Brother Randy Webb and she was little at this time and she was like petrified because Brother Randy Webb is in the elevator with him.
Speaker 3:And she come out like starstruck. When she come out she said dad, I rode in the elevator with brother Randy Webb and he talked to me too, like it just absolutely made her day. I remember those days. So it was.
Speaker 1:It was kind of cool being able to introduce Benjamin to some of those people and and meet new people myself it is kind of neat to go from the experience of like whether it's a minister or a musician or a singer or something like in the movement, or you know somebody who does a podcast that you listen to and you get to like work with them and be with them and like kind of be like how in the world did I get here?
Speaker 1:You know you look back like I was thinking about, you know, going to youth camp and stuff, and then, like last week, I was like man, I'm playing guitar with these guys. As much as I wanted to do that as a young person. I'm really doing it now. Or when you go to preach a camp meeting or a youth rally or something, you're like man. I remember when this pastor used to come and preach stuff for us when we were young. Now I'm preaching for them. It's just so crazy to watch that transition, like as you get older and it is.
Speaker 3:It is really cool, it's. It's neat. The relationships that you forge and me being able to recall how it was for me as a kid and now being able to to kind of push that with my children was it's. It's just a neat experience. But it's also neat to see the differences, because there's individuals that I held at a high regard that obviously aren't around anymore. Yeah, and so then you're seeing a whole new generation come up, well, our, our age, my age and and you know, and you're seeing those individuals now traveling the field full-time and all this stuff. And I'm watching my child look at those individuals. It's like man, I can't believe that I get to meet these people so it is a really neat experience.
Speaker 2:I didn't know how to take it at first when I I talked to some people that I wouldn't say I grew up with. But I talked to a brother, cody Whitaker, who was a mentor to me when I was first learning how to play drums and that was pretty mentor to me when I was first learning how to play drums and that was pretty big to me. Talked to Brother Casey West, brother Randy Webb, brother Devin, brother Timothy Lurito.
Speaker 1:There were some more, but it was a neat experience getting to meet a bunch of the big names, as we would say yeah, it's a good thing to be building up relationships and watching the way how they grow and perform, but you know we couldn't do this without building a relationship with our listeners. So I want to appreciate everybody who has been tuning in and following us today's kind of scattered, you know, but hopefully you got some good little laughs and some entertainment here.
Speaker 3:I think they've come to expect the scattered yeah.
Speaker 1:We should have called it the ADHD show we should have. That definitely would probably be more fun yeah. Probably people here pull up to the pew and they're like, oh, these guys are just going to be serious and preach the whole time. Nope, oh yeah. So anyways, thanks for tuning in.
Speaker 3:We're sitting on the Pew side of it.
Speaker 1:But thanks for tuning in and being consistent with us. We really do appreciate that and let us know what you think about this episode. Give us a like, leave us a comment and email us at poopatodepew at gmailcom. Thanks guys.
Speaker 2:See you.