M3 - Merge Ministry Mostly
A behind-the-scenes look at camp and ministry leadership, told with humor and heart. This podcast offers honest conversations about Christian leadership in student and children’s ministry—sharing real wins, mistakes, growth moments, and the everyday joys and challenges of serving. With plenty of laughs and genuine passion, it’s where Christian leadership meets youth camp chaos—real, relatable, and rooted in purpose.
M3 - Merge Ministry Mostly
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This week you can play along as we see how many common abbreviations we know. Below you will find the list of ones discussed so you can see how many you know. Don’t cheat! Send in the number of abbreviations you know to see if you are smarter than us. mergeministreis12@gmail.com
- NASA
- 3M
- CVS
- WWF
- AT&T
- ESPN
- EPCOT (disney)
- WD- 40
- LBJ
- JFK
- USPS
- UPS
- FEDEX
- FBI
- VHS
- ASAP
- RSVP
- FYI
TBD - NATO
- NERF
- PEZ
- Yahoo
- GEICO
- IKEA
- LASER
- TASER
- SEAL (navy seals)
- SCUBA
Welcome back to another week of M3 Merge Ministry Mostly Podcast. I'm Daniel. I'm Luke. And we are back in the merge podcast studio at the Way Church. Again, this will be our third week. We are live, and as you can tell, each week we have stepped our game up a little bit.
SPEAKER_01Just a little bit.
SPEAKER_00So we're still got some things that we're adding in. Luke got a desk.
SPEAKER_01We now have this lovely logo behind us, which I feel I feel old. You you and my sister have been getting on to me about calling you old. This is why I'm calling you old.
SPEAKER_00So when I look at that, I think, man, do I really look like that? Like nah, bro.
SPEAKER_01You don't look that old.
SPEAKER_00I don't I mean, one, I do. You do have the gray in there. Well, I think I have more gray than what is in there, but like the eyes, like, man, I need to get some. I should push your sunglasses on you too. Yeah, really. But we're getting there. Things are progressing. So thank you for joining. We have last I think last week, or maybe it was two weeks ago, we we pre-record these things, so I'm not real sure. We had our most viewers, listeners, then we've had. Also, we've had our most viewers are we're on YouTube now. Channel is merge ministries, I think is the name of the channel. So we've had the most views on there because it was the first time, so that gives us the most views on YouTube as well. So there's a lot of ways that you can listen and support. And also, email. We did get another email.
SPEAKER_01We got another email.
SPEAKER_00The email is merge ministries 12, the number 1212 at gmail.com. We started in 2012. So if you're ever trying to figure out what's the email, merge ministries 12. So this email, the person thought that I don't know why they thought that they didn't sign it because I said, I'm going to read this and I'm going to say your name. And he's like, You can't do that because I didn't sign it. Which is true, he did not sign it. But what he did not realize was that his email says his name. Says his name. But I know. So the email, I will read it, and then you probably can figure out who it's from through the through the email. Daniel Cook is not an athlete. His son Levi is more athletic and better.
SPEAKER_01This can't be from your son, Levi.
SPEAKER_00No, no, not at all. So we also were talking in the episode with this of the the player that got her running out on the field.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_00Also, it was Dre Greenlaw who got hurt running on the field. Love the podcast, guys. Keep up the good work, but never call Daniel an athlete again. Shout out Levi Cook.
SPEAKER_01Nice. So he kind of signed his name.
SPEAKER_00I don't know if you can shout out yourself.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I it would have made more sense if he said give me a shout out, but he did it. Right. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00He wrote it like Shout out Levi Cook. He tried to write it as if he was not himself, that somebody else was giving him a shout out. But yes, it was Levi Cook.
SPEAKER_01We know who it was.
SPEAKER_00Decided to hate on his father to tell me that I am not an athlete. But then again, it's you're surprisingly athletic, bro. Well, and if he thinks he's athletic, which he can play multiple sports, yeah. Where did where do you think he got it from?
SPEAKER_01Oh, he definitely got it from his mother.
SPEAKER_00Oh that went where you thought I was going, didn't you? I mean, I I agree too. She played softball and cheered, but you said cheer wasn't a sport. So she played softball. She also played tennis. Oh see. So two sports. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Two sports and an activity. Nice. Uh sorry, Abby.
SPEAKER_00So we are going to finish. We've been going past couple weeks of conversations that we have had, uh, conversation starters.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00And there's been two that we haven't purposefully not got to. It's just two left.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, two left.
SPEAKER_00One of these will be people will have strong opinions about just know don't hate us because of our opinion. The other one is, in my opinion, just dumb, but we'll talk about it anyway. So we'll jump into the first one that's gonna cause some problems because I will say I have a child who works at one of these establishments, and I have another child who was a server waitress in college. Yeah, so I've I I get it, but the question is tipping. Tipping has become a thing. It used to be tipping was 10%, was kind of the standard. Now it's 20%, and now there's some places that even go into like 30%. And having a large family, there's seven of us.
SPEAKER_01That's a lot of money, brother.
SPEAKER_00Anytime we go out to eat, we would get hit as a large party, even though we were a family. This past week it this past week we went somewhere and there were only five of us. Well, they charged us automatic gratuity for five, which I used thought, okay, usually it's six. Yeah. Um, but the percentage was weird, it was 16%. So anyway, that's not the the debate. The question's the debate then. The question is do you tip at a place like Dutch Bros? So Dutch Bros, you order, there's somebody standing out there most of the time. They take your order, you drive around to the window, they hand you the drink you ordered, and then they ask for a they don't ask for a tip, but the option to give a tip is on there.
SPEAKER_01It doesn't, it kind of feels like they ask it. Now the lady who's or the guy, whatever, who's who's taking the order out in the drive-thru, they're not saying, would you like to tip, but they do like if you order from them, they do the whole like they hand you the phone kind of thing, hand you the iPad. Like, do you want to do you want to tip? And yeah, I I no, I don't. I don't. I don't Dutch Bros is the same as Chick-fil-A, McDonald's, any fast food kind of thing, Starbucks, like any of that. I ain't I'm not tipping. You're not tipping? If if I drive my car through it or if I gotta walk up to the window in order, I ain't doing it. So not that not that he knows us or cares anything about our podcast. Uh, but if you want some good insight on the tipping uh culture, as they call it, go check out John Chris's podcast. That joker, he he is hard. No. I'm not tipping up, yeah. They they say the tip culture has gotten out of hand. When you walk up to the to the um like counter to order, and when they turn that iPad around, he said, makes me want to slap it. Like, no, I'm not tipping you. I ordered, I came up here. Now, if you're a server, we had a sit-down restaurant, you come or take my drink order, you go get it, you take my food order, you go back and get it, bring it to me. If I ask for some ketchup or some butter or whatever, you bring it to me. Let me get a couple lemons and you bring it to me. Sure, you deserve it too.
SPEAKER_00Okay. Well, what about if you order takeout to like outback? No. Let's say you go to Outback, you drive up, somebody brings you your food, hands you your food.
SPEAKER_01There's no, it's no different than fast food at that point.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_01No, I ain't tipping them.
SPEAKER_00You ain't tipping in. Sorry. No, I ain't doing it. Where so another thing that uh I ain't gonna bite to you.
SPEAKER_01It's somewhat I somewhat feel bad if I do go to like a Dutch Bros and there's like your daughters there. I feel bad a little bit, but I I don't do it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I don't I don't tip at Dutch Bros. I mean, that's the same. What's the difference in them and McDonald's? You're driving through the drive-thru at McDonald's, and you're not gonna tip McDonald's. Did you just say McDrive-thru? Did I did I? I'll go back and listen and find out. Um so those Starbucks, like you're driving through, all they're doing is make they're making your drink and handing it to you. Uh so I don't feel the need as well. I don't feel the need to tip in those places. Sit-down restaurant, you're bringing me stuff.
SPEAKER_01They're charging us enough to pay their daggum employees. I don't run a business. I don't run a business, so it's easy for me to say that.
SPEAKER_00But well, and then the whole the whole tipping a percentage and that kind of thing, that's something that definitely will people because there are people that think 20% is the minimum, like that's where you are, and that's I mean, that's tough.
SPEAKER_01Who's setting these standards?
SPEAKER_00That's right. Because really, it used to be 10% was kind of it, and now it's 20%. And then where does it stop? Where did where do we draw the line and go? No, we're not tipping 50%.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, because I have a desire to be like a generous tipper, right? You know what I mean? Like, I'm if I'm gonna tip you, and if you did well, like I'm gonna give you a little bit more than what I would give you if you weren't good, right? You know, but if it's fast food, any of those kinds of places, if I'm ordering, was I'm walking up to order or driving up to order, you ain't getting it, brother.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah, I agree with that. If I have to go to the counter and I have to order, then even a lot of those counter places, they'll call you and you come and pick your food up. Yeah, yeah. And then you take it back, and it's like, are you gonna tip? No, I'm not.
SPEAKER_01That's right.
SPEAKER_00So that's the that's a tipping debate. We're we're not getting into the necessarily the percentage and should you tip 10 or 15 or 20 or 30 percent. But guess more of it.
SPEAKER_01You do what you need, what you feel like necessary.
SPEAKER_00I will say, I do tip, we do tip when we go out to eat because we get it, and I've had kids that do that, but there are some places, and that's the debate. It's not should you tip tip, it's where should you tip? Where should at what location? So don't hate on us and tell us that tips are what people live off of. We get all that, it's more the establishments that go to. Where do you tip? Where do you not? So the next conversation, and this is to me, is a dumb one.
SPEAKER_01It don't really matter, but this isn't most of the stuff we argued about a hot dog being a sandwich. He's saying this one's dumb, yeah, dumber than a hot dog in a sandwich.
SPEAKER_00This one is dumb.
SPEAKER_01If it is Sunday, oh gosh, this one has I'm I agree.
SPEAKER_00If it is Sunday, and somebody says, I don't even know how because even phrasing it sounds dumb. Do you want to go to a cleanstones game this weekend and it is Sunday? Are they talking about the weekend you're currently in? Or are they talking about the weekend that is coming up?
SPEAKER_01The weekend that's coming up. If it's Sunday and they say this weekend, it's already Sunday. So if they're saying Sunday, do you want to go to Klingstones game this weekend? Let's say it's the first. Seven days later, the next Sunday, which would be this coming weekend, is when they're inviting you to go to the Klingstones game. Because otherwise, this the fact that we have this dadgum argument is just dumb to me. Because if it's Sunday and you invite me to a Klingstones game and you say this weekend, and you're talking about today, why would you not say today? Okay, I agree with that. If it's Saturday and you're inviting me to a Klingstones game this weekend and you're telling me it's on Sunday, then you should say tomorrow, not this weekend. This weekend implies that it's the weekend that's coming up. And if you said next weekend, that's 14 days.
SPEAKER_00That's what I was gonna ask you. So if it's Sunday and I say, Hey, do you want to go to a Cleanstones game next weekend? You're thinking two weeks out.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Man, why? Like, who thinks two weeks out? I already think the next day. Like, we got the That's what I'm wondering.
SPEAKER_01Let me know.
SPEAKER_00Ask me next week, and I'll let you know. So if it's Sunday and I want you to do something, like it's Sunday morning and I want you to do something Sunday night. If I said, Hey, do you want to go this weekend? You wouldn't think it was that No, no, no.
SPEAKER_01I would say, I would say, I would love to go. And then when you text me that evening, where are you at? I'd be like, I it's I'll be there this weekend, like when you asked me.
SPEAKER_00So what if it's Friday and I say, Hey, you want to go to the movies this weekend?
SPEAKER_01Then that's either Saturday or Sunday in the next two days.
SPEAKER_00So Friday is not part of the weekend.
SPEAKER_01No, Friday is kicking it off, but the weekend is Saturday, Sunday. So if you said Friday, you want to go to the movies this weekend, or hey, we got a meeting this weekend, then I'm gonna say, where at what time? And I'm gonna be there this weekend because that's then within the next two days. So Friday's the cutoff. No, yeah, Friday's cutoff. Friday's cutoff. When it's Saturday and you say this weekend, you're talking about in seven days.
SPEAKER_00So if it's Saturday and I say, Hey, you want to go to church this weekend, you're thinking I'm talking about seven days Sunday, not the next day Sunday. Yeah, why would you go this weekend? Why would you say this weekend? Why wouldn't you say?
SPEAKER_01Why why wouldn't you say tomorrow?
SPEAKER_00I don't know. Same day I didn't call yesterday, the day after the day before.
SPEAKER_01I would think, man, how kind of this guy. He's giving me seven days to prepare to get my heart right to go to church.
SPEAKER_00You need seven days to prepare to get your heart right.
SPEAKER_01This guy is so kind. And then I'm gonna I'm gonna show up the next week and you're gonna be like, I invited you last week. I'm like, no, you didn't. You invited me for this Sunday.
SPEAKER_00So we have established Luke. Friday's the cutoff to use this weekend for this weekend. That's right. Saturday, you should either say do something today or tomorrow. If it's Sunday, you should say, Hey, let's do something today if you're wanting to today. But if it's Saturday or Sunday, or you say this weekend, you're referring to six or seven days away. No doubt. All right. So if you feel strongly about that, as Luke does, because he apparently does, and I apparently don't. Let us finally. Yeah, I'm just like, so whenever I just look at you and say, You mean tomorrow, or do you mean next week?
SPEAKER_01See, that's probably what I'd do also. If I'd be honest, I'd be like, when you say this weekend, do you mean tomorrow? Or do you mean next weekend? Uh speaking of the why do you care? Uh last night, my nephew, or by the time you're watching this, it's not gonna be last night, but the other night. Uh my nephew had a um, they had a choir, uh, I don't know if it's called concert program, whatever it's called, at uh at Calvary. And so it was he's in what they call academy, which is fifth and sixth grade, and then they had the middle school and the high school all had like a performance.
SPEAKER_00They call their fifth and sixth grade academy.
SPEAKER_01Academy, yeah. Wow. Fifth and sixth is academy, then you got middle school, which is seventh and eighth grade, then you got high school, ninth through twelve. That's not the point of this, Daniel. That's weird.
SPEAKER_00I don't care. I'm just wondering.
SPEAKER_01I've never heard somebody call fifth and they don't have room in like the elementary school to have all of them. So them being separate, I guess they just came up with something cool like academy. So my point is not cool, but anyway, something cool like academy. My point is it's cool. Uh I mean again.
SPEAKER_00Keep going.
SPEAKER_01Why do you care? Who cares? Keep on. Uh, anyways, we're sitting there and we're we're waiting for the show to begin. And my brother-in-law asked his wife, is a hot dog a sandwich? And her response was technically, based on the buildup of what it is, technically it would be a sandwich. However, I'm not gonna call it a sandwich. And I'm sitting there thinking, you know, I'm I'm arguing hard, and then you said, you know, a truck, a car, a van is all a vehicle. Right. And I was like, man, I don't there's nothing for me to say against like to I can't I can't defeat that.
SPEAKER_00Is he gonna say it?
SPEAKER_01So I'm gonna say is he gonna say it, a hot dog is indeed a sandwich. Wow. However, uh by like by the technical definition, I will uh I concede a hot dog is a sandwich. Wow. But until I hold to until like Subway and Firehouse and Sandwich Shops, Jersey Mike's, uh Jimmy Johns, I'm trying to think of any other sandwich. Firehouse when they start serving hot dogs, I'll say, hey man, let me get a sandwich, and then you say what kind, and then I'll say hot dog, hot dog. That's that's how that'll go. I'll take it. But until then, I'll take it, I'm just gonna stick with calling it a hot dog.
SPEAKER_00I mean, you can call it what you want as long as you know what it is. Uh I'm with you.
SPEAKER_01I I I can see.
SPEAKER_00So before we get to the second part of the podcast, we're talking about controversial things. I had a pastor one time say that so in the church world you deal with people that pass away, and that's part of the ministry and part of the job, I guess you could say. Is it correct to say, and this was his words, that I'll just make up a name. Susie Davis expired last night.
SPEAKER_01I I think I I understand where they're trying, like where they're coming from, trying to say it in a I no, but I don't think you can say expire.
SPEAKER_00Like this comment was made from the pulpit one time.
SPEAKER_01Even worse, so and so expired last night. Can we just say passed away? Like went to be with Jesus?
SPEAKER_00Their date, their date coming gone. So, like when something hits that date, it expires. Their date was when their date was, and they're no longer here. Yeah, I'm out. They expired.
SPEAKER_01I don't think I'm gonna, I don't think I'm gonna use that one. Good for you, bro. Um speaking of that, this is another question that I don't know how we hadn't thought of this one. Uh expiration dates on food. Imagine that, me bringing up something about some food. Do you like hold to the expiration date or are you gonna eat it, drink it, whatever, even after expiration date?
SPEAKER_00Ah, that's tough because it depends on what it is. That that's my answer too.
SPEAKER_01Like milk. I'm a I'm I'm a hard stop on the dates. If it smells good and still tastes good, I'll drink some milk. My wife informed me the other day that um the the manufacturers put those on there to for people like Luke, that they see the date and they'll pour it out and go buy more. Because the FDA don't even make them put put the dates on on the stuff, really on the like milk in particular, but there's a lot of food that manufacturers put on there so that you'll buy more and not not it's not harmful for you, right? Yeah, it does. Because like if you drink sour milk, it ain't it ain't gonna hurt you, right? Like the point of the FDA putting stuff on there would be that oh, this is gonna be harmful to you, right? Like it's it's not so I I I'm kind of changing a little bit. Like, well, like I drank some sour milk one time and it like it got me, and I was like, I'll never do that again again.
SPEAKER_00With chocolate, they say as long as it's not gray, because we have a snack bar at church, and sometimes some candy bars sit there, but they say as long as it's not gray, but when it tur starts turning gray, you gotta get those. But like chips, like chips can get past the expiration. We found some fine.
SPEAKER_01Uh I can't remember where we were. We were we were cleaning out, oh, I never remember. We were cleaning out one of the Sunday school rooms, and there was a bag of chips that was seven years expired. Not like like there was no date on there of like, hey, this is the sale by. Right. You know, like it was expiration date. So they opened the chips and they're like, Who's gonna eat them? Who's gonna eat them? And I'm like, I'll eat them. It's a chip. So I took a bite of it and it was incredibly stale. But it was nothing wrong with it. And I'm still here. Yes, it just depends. Depends on the food. I should have pushed that a little further to get some money out of that.
SPEAKER_00You should have. Yeah, it depends. This depends on the food. If it smells, obviously not. If it's stuff that has probably dairy or things like that in it. Probably be a little more cautious, but for the most part, I don't know, just depends. So we're going to the other day we were at a top 10 banquet for Colby made the top 10% at Central.
SPEAKER_01Um top 10, top 10%, a little different now.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, top 105 people. And on the little form, I don't know what we're talking about because it wasn't on the form because we were already there. We started asking if we knew what RSVP stood for.
SPEAKER_01We got to talking about some of the empty tables. And the question was, didn't we had the RSVP? How do we not how do they not know how many like people to set up for? And so with that, a young lady at our table asked, What does RSVP stand for?
SPEAKER_00And we all just kind of looked at each other.
SPEAKER_01There was only one person at the table that knew what it meant to be your wife.
SPEAKER_00That would be Abby. Uh she knew the uh last three for sure. And you took French.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, responde si vous play.
SPEAKER_00Respondé, I don't think it's day in is D E Z. Yeah. Is that how you say it? Day.
SPEAKER_01Responde.
SPEAKER_00I say dead.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that's that's that would how that's how we would say it, but that is not correct. Responde si vous play. My French accent was terrible, and I got in trouble for that a lot. But uh I did take some French. Responde si vous play.
SPEAKER_00Respondez si vous play. Uh, so that's what that means. So it made me think what are some abbreviations that are out there that we say all the time, and do we know what they mean?
SPEAKER_01I have no clue what they mean.
SPEAKER_00So we made a list, and I'm gonna put some of these in the description so you can be honest. Don't go look it up, but you can look to see, did you know what these mean?
SPEAKER_01The first one after after that, and we kind of had this conversation, like, well, we'll do that on the podcast. Daniel asked me, like, what does NASA mean? And my dumb self started out with not an auticle.
SPEAKER_00After I said it, I was like, I think it's got something to do with water or boats. So NASA. And I I added some at the very end or in the middle, just so I would know some. I do not know very many of these.
SPEAKER_01Me either. I do not know.
SPEAKER_00NASA. I do not know what NASA stands for.
SPEAKER_01Me either. Wow. Have you looked it up?
SPEAKER_00I mean, I got a computer in front of me. Uh let's see, NASA. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
SPEAKER_01I think I said Nautical, Aeronautic. Uh I don't remember what the rest was. But I got I got I got the aeronautics that we say.
SPEAKER_00Aeronautics. And I'm probably gonna mispronounce a lot of these, but it's okay. So 3M, the the little sticker things, I guess that's what that is. 3M.
SPEAKER_01I remember um someone asking me that, and I was like, I ain't got a clue. I just thought 3M sounded cool. They were like, obviously it sounds stands for something. So the only thing I remember from that conversate conversation is Minnesota is in there somewhere. Really?
SPEAKER_00So I was wondering if it has something to do that with what it sticks to.
SPEAKER_02I don't know.
SPEAKER_00Um metal mesh. No. Interesting. Minnesota mining and manufacturing company has nothing to do. Ain't these any the stickers? Yeah, the things you hang stuff with.
SPEAKER_01I mean, they have more than just that. Like they make they make all kinds of stuff.
SPEAKER_00Um mining manufacturing company.
SPEAKER_01I would not think I wouldn't think it would be mining, right? I wouldn't think I think they probably shifted to the manufacturing part because they're getting out of the mining business. They have like masks, they have gloves, they got all kinds of stuff. 3M does.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I had no idea.
SPEAKER_01I think they got like medical equipment, like it's all kinds of stuff.
SPEAKER_00I definitely would have thought it had something to do with the way things are hung or things that they stick on. BMW. British Motorworks.
SPEAKER_01Sounds good to me.
SPEAKER_00We probably really should know some of these. Um BMW stands for. I don't really know because nobody wants to tell me. What does BMW stand for? Ooh. Bayershire.
SPEAKER_02I never would have guessed that.
SPEAKER_00Probably not saying that right. Motorin work.
SPEAKER_01So that is not American.
SPEAKER_00It's German for Bavarian Motorworks. Oh, well, it's two different ones. I don't know why they give us two two things there. So are you looking at the the list here? Yeah. See one that you know, and you said you know CVS. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Consumer Value Store.
SPEAKER_00Really?
SPEAKER_01It really is. Consumer Value Store. And now it's called CVS CareMark. CareMark is another company that merged with them. Yeah. But I literally, when I I worked at CVS for a little while, one of my buddies in high school, his dad is a um, he was a store manager. I don't know what he does now. He may still be a store manager, but I think what he does is go uh to different stores and kind of revitalize them. But, anyways, uh in order in order to work there, you go through the training or whatever, and then you take a test. And the only question on the test that you like that has to be correct, it's you got to have a certain percentage, you know. But everybody has to get the first question correct, which is what does CVS stand for? And as she's going through all this stuff, bro, I'm sitting there like I'm creating all kinds of C words that are not right. I got value store. I'm like customer, I am care. So what is it? Consumer value store.
SPEAKER_00See, I would have thought it had something to do with care because when I think CVS, that's where we used to get our medicine. Yeah. So I would think it has to do with care vascular system or cardiovascular system.
SPEAKER_01Hey, yeah, and then the next one, WWF, I know what that stands for. World Wrestling Federation.
SPEAKER_00Uh World Wildlife Federation. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01So I remember when I was alive when they changed from WWF to WWE, right? And I didn't understand the why. Like I was I was young enough to not understand what the like lawsuit meant and none of that stuff. But as I was like typing some of these out, I'm like, I know WWF sued WWF, right? Because they had the same acronym and now it's WWE, and obviously the other WWF one, but I was like, I don't even know what that stands for.
SPEAKER_00Yes. World Wildlife Federation, you say World Wildlife Federation. Interesting. They do something with Panda Bears. Probably do something with more, but I think there was a big deal with Panda Bell Panda Bears or Pendle Bear Bears. Or Panda Bears were is their mascot, maybe? But I vaguely remember that. Yeah. One that I should know, probably we'll fumble through. ESPN Sports Network. I don't know, Eternal Sports Network.
SPEAKER_01See, I thought entertainment.
SPEAKER_00Entertainment.
SPEAKER_01Well, I have no idea what SVP would stand for.
SPEAKER_00Um program ports. Ports. Oh, the SP is together together.
SPEAKER_01Like the SVP and RSVP. SVP just stands for CVU play.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_01So it's like R uh SVP.
SPEAKER_00Nah. This makes more sense. What is it? Entertainment and sports programming network.
SPEAKER_01I said program. But network wouldn't didn't make sense to me saying program, so I'd yeah, programming was programming network. Whatever.
SPEAKER_00Entertainment and sports programming network. Oh, that says it originally stood for when it was launched in 1985.
SPEAKER_01What does it stand for now?
SPEAKER_00I don't know.
SPEAKER_01They shift that a little bit?
SPEAKER_00I don't think so. I think they just now, instead of saying maybe when they first started, they were the entertainment and sports programming network. And then they just went to Espen. Um Espen.
SPEAKER_01So what does ATT stand for?
SPEAKER_00Um, something telecommunications.
SPEAKER_01I'm pretty sure one of them T's is Telegraph.
SPEAKER_00Telegraph? Telegraph. Telegraph. I'm pretty sure. I don't know about Telegraph.
SPEAKER_01I'm pretty sure, bro. They've been around that long. That's why they only call it ATT now. They've been around that long.
SPEAKER_00I think so. No way. Oh. See? Oh. Am I right? Yes.
SPEAKER_01Is it the first one or the second one?
SPEAKER_00The second one. So what's the first T stand for?
SPEAKER_01I'm just gonna guess telephone.
SPEAKER_00Telephone. So the A? I mean, this is an easy one. Oh, American. American, yes. American Telephone and Telegraph Company. See, I knew that was telegraph in there. When did they start?
SPEAKER_01That's a good question. Look that up. ATT starting. There's a there's a lot of these things that you know stand for something.
SPEAKER_00Holy cow. No wonder. 1885.
SPEAKER_01Goo.
SPEAKER_00The ATT company was formally incorporated on March 3rd, 1885, as a subsidiary. Subsided of American Bell Telephone Company. Dang, that's pretty good.
SPEAKER_01That's that's awesome. I mean, there's a lot of these things that you know stand for something that you know what the acronym or abbreviation means. So you don't really like you don't care, right? You know what I mean? Like you know what the company is, CVS. Like, who cares what CVS stands for? If I need to get my master, go get my master. Yeah, that's it. So if I have something on my telephone, I call ATT. There's some of these that I had no clue they even stood for something, like Epcot. I'm not a big Disney guy, like I'm not a I'm not against Disney. I'm just like, I think I went when I was in like eighth grade. See, Epcot, there's something, it's something of tomorrow. See, I thought Epcot was just this word. I didn't know what it meant.
SPEAKER_00No, because I I like it does because they were trying to build like the lifestyle of tomorrow was supposed to be the whole Epcot bubble that everyone's personal city of tomorrow. Yeah, see, I knew that I knew the function. Now that I think about it, I remember reading about that's not it. I just made that up. Is it uh I forgot to say I thought you I thought you knew what you were talking about.
SPEAKER_01We gotta look that up.
SPEAKER_00Epcot meaning it's something of oh, community of tomorrow, experimental, oh prototype community of tomorrow.
SPEAKER_01That's scary, yeah.
SPEAKER_00So he was wanting to build like the obviously the community of tomorrow, and it was all supposed to be housed in the bubble and all that kind of stuff. So that's what Epcot stands for.
SPEAKER_01What about WD 40?
SPEAKER_00Um we've talked about your lack of handyman skills. Correct.
SPEAKER_01Do you know what WD 40 is used for?
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah, you put it on squeaky stuff. There you go, and then it stops squeaking. So stop squeaking. Uh, I didn't know WD figured it stood for something and something probably it's got what they're gonna say is 40 different uses or is made up of 40 different somethings.
SPEAKER_01See, that's good thinking, but it not is not no, it is water displacement 40th attempt. Oh, so dang, it took them 40 tries to figure out something that would remove the rust and displace the water because that's what's causing the squeaking. I did look that one up beforehand when I was I typed in uh WD-40 on accident.
SPEAKER_00Look at them trial and error, you messed up. It took them 40 times, but on the 40th time, they got it, and now they are bajillionaires.
SPEAKER_01And you know, there's there's some uh spiritual emphasis on that, you know. Sometimes we we try and and we give up, and God still has has stuff for us to do. That's fair. This uh this week in our Bible study, we're talking about Joshua, and uh in chapter 13, it kind of shifts from the battles to like now they're kind of dispersing the land, and it starts with I think it's funny that the Bible does this. It says, Joshua was old and advanced in years, and God said to him, You are old and advanced in years. Kind of like my picture. You look at it and go, Daniel, you are old, you're old, advanced in years. And and the the point that I'm attempting to make is that he then tells him, like, you're not done. Right, I'm not done with you. There's there's still more land to to be secured, if you will. But before we get into the rest of that, hey, this is how y'all need to split this up. But I I bring that up with the WD-40 just because it's uh it's easy for us as humans to just kind of quit when things get difficult. And it took them 40 tries.
SPEAKER_00How I wonder how long it took to get those 40 tries because they're mixing the stuff up, they're spraying it, it's not working, gotta wait to see if it works, didn't work, come back again, try it again. So that's interesting. WD 40.
SPEAKER_01So I added some on here that I I knew USPS, United States Postal Service, UPS. United Parcel Service. Is that it? I don't know. I think it sounds right. I think it's I know it's parcel service, but I don't know if United is correct. That's not the one I want to.
SPEAKER_00That's not that one talked about the uh power supply. United Parcel Service is correct. I thought it was FedEx. And I don't know if I'm assuming FedEx has a meaning. Because surely somebody like it's gotta be something express. Federal exchange. All right, FedEx stands for federal express. Oh so FedEx is one I said exchange.
SPEAKER_01I was wrong. FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation FDR.
SPEAKER_00What? What JFK FDR.
SPEAKER_01It can't stand for FDR, John F. Kennedy.
SPEAKER_00LBJ?
SPEAKER_01Linda B. Johnson?
SPEAKER_00Yep. See, look at there. Oh, here's one.
SPEAKER_01VHS. What the heck does that mean?
SPEAKER_00I have no idea. Uh video homing housing store. Handling system.
SPEAKER_01Sounds better than mine.
SPEAKER_00What'd you say?
SPEAKER_01Video housing something.
SPEAKER_00Video home system.
SPEAKER_01That's it.
SPEAKER_00Video home system. VHS. Supposedly, and I put it on here, I didn't look it up, but Nerf supposedly stands for something. Like a nerf.
SPEAKER_01Oh, I I I saw that uh on like a video or something. Yeah, Nerf does stand for something. Uh something about the plastic and how it goes back to its form.
SPEAKER_00It goes back to its form?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, like if you squeeze a nerf ball, it it goes back to its original form. It ain't it don't like you can't crush it.
SPEAKER_00Does Nerf stand maybe it don't stand for it don't stand for something like the N, the E, the R. I thought it did.
SPEAKER_01I mean there was a video I synced that did that.
SPEAKER_00Well, so far in my study, see we didn't want to there's only there's no way to really to do this without not looking at them. So if you're like wow, y'all really were not prepared, it's because we now non expanding recreational foam. Really?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. See, I've expanded I've seen a video on that one. Interesting. Non-expanding recreational foam. This is not for pro use. This is all for rec stuff.
SPEAKER_00Pez. I'll let you uh look up pez. Oh wait. So in Spanish, Pez means alive fish. But the name is derived from a German word for peppermint, actually.
SPEAKER_01Really? Were the original pez is peppermint?
SPEAKER_00I I reckon.
SPEAKER_01Interesting.
SPEAKER_00PEF peffer peppermint P F, however you say this in German. P F E F F E R M I N Z.
SPEAKER_01A couple of these that you added, uh like you you mentioned we want to have some on here that we do know. All right. ASAP as soon as possible. As soon as possible. FYI for your information. Right. TBD to be determined. I I thought NATO, and I was like, I'm not putting that on there because I shouldn't know what it means, but I don't know what it means.
SPEAKER_00National organization, national something, treaty organization, national alliance and treaty organization. Is that right?
SPEAKER_01Probably. And oh you didn't look it up. Oh, yeah, I'll look it up. And then I'm looking at some of these and I'm like, here's the other problem is I don't even know what these things do. Like, I don't know what this is, these are for.
SPEAKER_00Oh uh, it was not National Alliance, it was North Atlantic, um North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
SPEAKER_01But it makes me feel a little bit better that you didn't fully know what that was.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I know uh I knew SCUBA stood for something, underwater barometric something maybe.
SPEAKER_01Um so these these are the ones I put on here. Things you didn't know were acronyms, right? So like Yahoo. Obviously, I looked these up, but I don't remember what a lot of them are. But I I think I remember that one. Let me see if I can find it again.
SPEAKER_00So why are you looking for that? Scuba, I knew scuba stood for something. Self-contained underwater breathing apparatus.
SPEAKER_01So Yahoo is yet another hierarchy, is that hierarchical? Oh uh operational, uh official. Oh, okay. Yet another hierarchical hierarchical official oracle. I still don't know what that means. What does that mean? H I E R A C R I C A L. Hierarchical. I know. So I'm thinking like they just yahoo! I just thought that'd be fun.
SPEAKER_02Like, yeah, that sounds good.
SPEAKER_01And then Geico is another one, insurance. So I thought general insurance company organization. This blew my mind. It's government employee insurance, insurance company.
SPEAKER_00Oh well. I guess they decided to it is no longer that. No longer a government employee.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but that that one kind of blew my mind. I had no idea that it was meant anything, nor did I know um that the SEALs, like Navy SEALs, stood for something. I don't remember what that end is either, but I just thought like SEAL, they're the they're the water guys, like or maybe like seals or stealth or something. Like I just thought that's what it meant, but apparently it means something too. Let's see.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I didn't think they called them that because they swim in water. Um sea, air, and land. Navy SEALs, they're trained on in the sea, air, and land.
SPEAKER_01I feel like I should have known that, but I didn't.
SPEAKER_00That's funny. Well, then there's I mean, there's a few more, and we're getting close to the end. Laser, Taser, IKEA. There ain't even no telling what IKEA stands for.
SPEAKER_01See, I thought Ikea was like a uh just a different name. Yeah, like a it's what is it? Sweden, I thought that was a Swedish like name or something. Apparently that's not.
SPEAKER_00I do gotta see what IKEA because people people be hating on IKEA. Uh, and we've been shopped at IKEA before, and they talk about their their quality of stuff. Oh, wow. Acronym for the founder's initials and the location of his childhood home in Sweden.
SPEAKER_01Avgar Ing Ingvar Cam Brad, Cam Brad, El Trad, Ardengrad.
SPEAKER_00Everything is with Rad. Rad, rad, rad. So that is IKEA.
SPEAKER_01So Taser is Thomas A. Swift's electric rifle.
SPEAKER_00No way.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah. What was the other Azer on there?
SPEAKER_00Laser light amplification by stimulated emissions of radiation.
SPEAKER_01See, uh none of this stuff.
SPEAKER_00I thought they was just made up more shit for it. When what was the taser?
SPEAKER_01What'd you say the taser was? Uh Thomas A. Swift's electric rifle.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, they shouldn't do that. They should they shouldn't use it as taser. They should say, if you don't stop, I'm gonna Tom Swift and electric rifle you. Stop, or you'll be Tom Swift with his electric rifle. I agree. That's fantastic. Because they do when they test you, they say Taser, Taser, Taser. Well, they said Tom Swift and his electric rifle. Tom Swift and his electric rifle. By then you're like, just shoot me already.
SPEAKER_01Get it over with. All right. Speaking of acronyms, I'm gonna I'm gonna give you a situation. Then I'm gonna give you the response to said situation as the just the abbreviation of the first letter of each word. You gotta tell me what your mom would say, okay? Oh boy. So you ask your mom, think of you being a kid, uh, you ask your mom if you can get McDonald's. And she says W D G M M. W D G M M.
SPEAKER_00W D G M M. Yeah. So I say, Mom, can I get some McDonald's? And her sentence is W D G M M.
SPEAKER_01Your mom might not have said it quite like this. She might not have been.
SPEAKER_00G M M got got mo money.
SPEAKER_01You're close. Got McDonald's money. We ain't got McDonald's money. Yeah, we don't got it. We don't got McDonald's money. All right, so similar situation. Right. You're asking her if you can eat out tonight anywhere. Like, can we go out to eat tonight? And she says W G F A H. W G F A H. If you need to type that, help me. W G F.
SPEAKER_00Let me be able to see that. A-H. W-G-F-H-H. A-H. Like Apple. We done got at home. We done eight at home. W D W D G A H.
SPEAKER_01W G F A H. You got the A-H right.
SPEAKER_00W D W D F. W G F. Dang. We got food at home. We got food at home. I think if I have the right letters, it makes more sense.
SPEAKER_01All right. Last one. I can think of no other ones. I'm sure there's videos about this, but I didn't want to look at none of those. All right. You're standing in front of someone watching TV. This happened.
SPEAKER_00You ain't made a glass. Your dad's not a glassmaker. Why'd your dad a glass maker? I was thinking another one you go. Uh I brought you into this world and I'll take you out of this world. Well, that's all the time we have for today.
SPEAKER_01You're right. Uh so you raised in a bar.
SPEAKER_00So if you have if you knew more than we did, please tell us that you were smarter than us and you knew them and we did not. I will list these in the description so you can look at them ahead of time. But if you're listening to them by now, you have we've already heard the answer.
SPEAKER_01There was a few we didn't go over. We'll put in the description and you tell me if you tell us if you know what they are.
SPEAKER_00Right. So you can always email us merge ministries12 at gmail.com. Website is merge-ministries.com. You can check out stuff about camp, find ways to give. Um, but it if you need to take away from the day, you think, wow, I just listened to those guys. WD40 took 40 times to get it right, but on the 40th time, they got it right, and now it works. And in life, sometimes we have to make mistakes. We fail. God's always there to pick us up. As long as we what they say, it's not failure until you quit.
SPEAKER_01Not failure until you quit, man.
SPEAKER_00So WD 40 got it right eventually. Um, whatever is going on in your life, hang in there. You if it's the first time, you only have 30 more, 39 more times. 39 more, maybe. Hopefully, you're like WD2 and not WD 40. But if it takes 40 times, it takes 40 times. So uh we hope you enjoy your week. We will post again next Tuesday. Check us out on YouTube as well. If you want to know what we really look like, which if you look, if you're on podcast or if you're on Spotify, you can go to YouTube and really see what we look like and then see what this horrific picture makes me look like. It makes me like I'm like 60. So we hope you have a good week, and we will catch you next week. As Luke always says, see goodbye.