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Fine, um, we're waiting and impending blizzard. Yes, so we're recording this early so we can get home

We'll see if that works. Yeah, I not I mean, it's 10-21 a.m. This is an extraordinarily early moment for me to be on mic. I hate it

but my one of my best friends in the whole world is driving out from Lovall

And her friend Lauren and we're gonna be in the city all weekend and hopefully they

Make it after the blizzard and good luck with that. Well, they're from Kentucky. They're not as his new onset driving in the snow as we are so so but anyway

Let's start this week by talking about Greg Locke the pastor out of Tennessee

He runs this circus tent, Paloza in a city called Mount Juliet

Global vision bat Bible church. I feel like he's one of the there's like four dudes like that

Then I get mixed up like him the purpose driven life guy like oh really? Yeah, sort of like

Lowkey trash bags that like Rick Warren's relatively fine compared to this sort of thing

But there are a handful of like these well, he's not even new independent fundamentalist Baptist types

Yeah, he's just one of those I run a church and people listen to me

And if I talk confidently and loudly I can say anything I want in these fools will believe me now

Let me spread lies about COVID let me do whatever and I'll just insert the word Jesus every few sentences and we'll call it a church

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