WEBVTT 00:00:06.030 --> 00:00:10.310 I can feel my mother right here in my chest. 00:00:11.929 --> 00:00:14.490 And I know at any moment she's going to just 00:00:14.490 --> 00:00:17.989 regurgitate out of my mouth. And I've had to 00:00:17.989 --> 00:00:30.230 bite my tongue so hard that it has bled. This 00:00:30.230 --> 00:00:33.250 isn't a standard issue cigarette mom. This is 00:00:33.250 --> 00:00:44.509 a public service announcement. To the sheets. 00:00:46.270 --> 00:00:50.109 On State Route 19 off Exit 34 in Hurricane West, 00:00:50.170 --> 00:00:55.030 Virginia. There is no reason why it takes 31 00:00:55.030 --> 00:01:01.469 minutes in a town of 4 ,568 people. There's no 00:01:01.469 --> 00:01:04.590 reason why it takes 31 minutes to get an iced 00:01:04.590 --> 00:01:11.079 coffee and 9 -ounce iced... Vanilla latte. There's 00:01:11.079 --> 00:01:13.219 a big machine back there. You just have to hit 00:01:13.219 --> 00:01:15.760 which drink I ordered and it dumps it in a cup. 00:01:18.280 --> 00:01:20.280 As soon as I got off my Bible study, I was so 00:01:20.280 --> 00:01:22.140 happy. I sat there and went over things. I prayed 00:01:22.140 --> 00:01:25.579 with my husband, talked about how it went. And 00:01:25.579 --> 00:01:26.840 I said, I'm going to run and get me a pack of 00:01:26.840 --> 00:01:28.340 cigarettes because I smoked my last one earlier. 00:01:33.379 --> 00:01:40.439 Bought my cigarettes at 9 .14 p .m. At 9 .46, 00:01:40.739 --> 00:01:47.680 my coffee was ready. And the amount of time it 00:01:47.680 --> 00:01:49.659 would have taken me to order a pizza from Domino's, 00:01:49.739 --> 00:01:51.700 have it delivered, and then be eating the cheese 00:01:51.700 --> 00:01:54.680 sticks, it took them to make one nine -ounce 00:01:54.680 --> 00:02:00.780 iced coffee. And I watched the little dude making 00:02:00.780 --> 00:02:03.620 it. He literally was taking... Seven minutes 00:02:03.620 --> 00:02:05.780 per drink. I watch people walk out of there with 00:02:05.780 --> 00:02:09.460 bags of food. Ready -made, custom -grilled, made 00:02:09.460 --> 00:02:14.340 -to -order food. Hamburgers, cheeseburgers, hot 00:02:14.340 --> 00:02:16.639 dogs, and the like. They walked out with their 00:02:16.639 --> 00:02:20.879 hot food before I could get an iced coffee. If 00:02:20.879 --> 00:02:22.960 your employees don't understand the urgency of 00:02:22.960 --> 00:02:25.659 fast food, then they need to get the hell another 00:02:25.659 --> 00:02:34.360 job. I spend almost probably anywhere between 00:02:34.360 --> 00:02:36.780 $2 ,500 and $3 ,000 a month at a gas station. 00:02:40.020 --> 00:02:42.039 Because gas ain't cheap and we travel all the 00:02:42.039 --> 00:02:44.300 time. I also smoke cigarettes. My husband has 00:02:44.300 --> 00:02:45.939 a caffeine addiction. If there's L .A .s, I'm 00:02:45.939 --> 00:02:47.159 buying them too, but they won't carry them at 00:02:47.159 --> 00:02:48.659 the sheets even though I keep sending them emails 00:02:48.659 --> 00:02:50.400 and have contacted corporate several times. But 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:52.000 that's fine. I'll go across the line and give 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:54.360 Kentucky my money. Kentucky's gonna get my money 00:02:54.360 --> 00:02:55.919 from now on. I don't care if I have to crawl 00:02:55.919 --> 00:03:00.740 across glass. I won't be spending other diamond 00:03:00.740 --> 00:03:13.580 sheets. I am so very lonely in this town. I've 00:03:13.580 --> 00:03:20.340 been here for two years. And it's real hard to 00:03:20.340 --> 00:03:21.919 stay in a town that you ain't from, that you 00:03:21.919 --> 00:03:24.400 don't like, when people don't speak to you. When 00:03:24.400 --> 00:03:25.979 people don't talk to you, we invite people over 00:03:25.979 --> 00:03:27.280 to the house. When you invite people to go to 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:28.759 lunch, we invite people to go junk. When you 00:03:28.759 --> 00:03:31.199 make them supper, make them gumbo, make them 00:03:31.199 --> 00:03:32.639 peach copper, check on them when they're sick, 00:03:32.780 --> 00:03:34.800 take them eggs, take them milk when their baby's 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:38.780 out. But no, you know why I'm not accepted into 00:03:38.780 --> 00:03:40.759 the fold here of West by God, Virginia? Because 00:03:40.759 --> 00:03:45.199 of this right here. Because I'm a dyed -in -the 00:03:45.199 --> 00:03:48.520 -wool, bleed -blue Kentuckian. And I might as 00:03:48.520 --> 00:03:54.830 well be one of the damn McCoys. It doesn't matter 00:03:54.830 --> 00:03:57.050 how famous I get, how much influence I get, how 00:03:57.050 --> 00:03:58.889 much money I get, what kind of job I have, what 00:03:58.889 --> 00:04:00.669 kind of ministry I'm working, what kind of porches 00:04:00.669 --> 00:04:02.590 I decorate, what kind of walking I do, what kind 00:04:02.590 --> 00:04:06.030 of life I am living. They don't want me here. 00:04:07.810 --> 00:04:10.289 And wasn't it Jesus himself who said, shake the 00:04:10.289 --> 00:04:13.469 dust of your feet off of you from this town and 00:04:13.469 --> 00:04:19.490 move on. I love my porch. I love my husband more 00:04:19.490 --> 00:04:21.810 than life itself. I love them birds out there 00:04:21.810 --> 00:04:23.589 in the building. I love them dogs in there on 00:04:23.589 --> 00:04:25.509 the couch. I love this cat under my feet. But 00:04:25.509 --> 00:04:27.769 that's about as far as my loyalty to West by 00:04:27.769 --> 00:04:42.870 God Virginia goes. The only thing that gives 00:04:42.870 --> 00:04:47.319 me hope is that this world ain't my home. And 00:04:47.319 --> 00:04:49.639 this town sure as hell ain't my home. I might 00:04:49.639 --> 00:04:52.899 live here for right now. I might be paying a 00:04:52.899 --> 00:04:55.279 water bill to somebody who's lining their pockets, 00:04:55.500 --> 00:04:57.620 which, you know, if you're in a small town, you 00:04:57.620 --> 00:05:01.939 are. 31 minutes, just so I could get my husband 00:05:01.939 --> 00:05:06.040 a coffee. 31 minutes when there's five Starbucks 00:05:06.040 --> 00:05:07.600 in this town, and I thought, I'm not going to 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:09.019 give my money to corporate greed. I'm going to 00:05:09.019 --> 00:05:10.980 give it to right here in West Virginia. I'm going 00:05:10.980 --> 00:05:13.220 to give it to right here at the end of the farm 00:05:13.220 --> 00:05:15.379 road and take three lights internally. I'm going 00:05:15.379 --> 00:05:17.019 to give it to the people that I see every single 00:05:17.019 --> 00:05:21.699 day. Now, I don't think this is a test, Missy. 00:05:21.699 --> 00:05:23.459 I think this is because I live in West Virginia, 00:05:23.500 --> 00:05:25.740 and no matter what I do with all my degrees and 00:05:25.740 --> 00:05:27.540 all my experience, I'm never going to fit in. 00:05:28.839 --> 00:05:31.790 I'm never going to fit in. I was born to stand 00:05:31.790 --> 00:05:33.649 out, and I don't want to fit in, really, but 00:05:33.649 --> 00:05:35.670 I would like to be acknowledged, respected, and 00:05:35.670 --> 00:05:38.389 or included. I kind of feel like Maleficent at 00:05:38.389 --> 00:05:42.750 the baby shower. Yes, I know I'm a hard pill 00:05:42.750 --> 00:05:44.250 to swallow, and some people say I'm hard to get 00:05:44.250 --> 00:05:46.170 along with, but what you see is what you get. 00:05:46.250 --> 00:05:48.709 I'm this way all the time. Sometimes we're going 00:05:48.709 --> 00:05:50.069 to talk about Jesus. Sometimes we're going to 00:05:50.069 --> 00:05:51.509 talk about my ex -husband. Sometimes we're going 00:05:51.509 --> 00:05:52.790 to talk about the one I got now. Sometimes we're 00:05:52.790 --> 00:05:53.850 going to talk about the three chickens that I 00:05:53.850 --> 00:05:57.439 had to bury this week. But for particular tonight, 00:05:57.660 --> 00:05:59.279 I'm talking about the fact that I'm disappointed 00:05:59.279 --> 00:06:01.740 in the fact that you can't find nobody to work 00:06:01.740 --> 00:06:03.399 in this town. And when you do find somebody to 00:06:03.399 --> 00:06:05.519 work, it takes a nine minutes per drink. So it 00:06:05.519 --> 00:06:07.720 takes you 31 minutes to get your iced coffee 00:06:07.720 --> 00:06:10.160 that you could have walked hands and knees, barefoot, 00:06:10.220 --> 00:06:14.759 naked through burning coals and got to the Charleston 00:06:14.759 --> 00:06:22.720 Starbucks and back before then. I know it sounds 00:06:22.720 --> 00:06:26.139 like a first world problem and maybe it is. You 00:06:26.139 --> 00:06:27.740 don't need iced coffee. Sarah, you got coffee 00:06:27.740 --> 00:06:29.060 at home. No, but I was trying to do something 00:06:29.060 --> 00:06:31.279 nice for my husband. Sarah, you don't need to 00:06:31.279 --> 00:06:32.980 be impatient. No, I don't, but I want to get 00:06:32.980 --> 00:06:34.600 home and eat my supper because I ain't got to 00:06:34.600 --> 00:06:37.339 eat all day. No, they can't help it because God 00:06:37.339 --> 00:06:38.939 didn't give them the sense to blow their nose. 00:06:40.160 --> 00:06:41.899 But somebody needs to hold them accountable. 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:49.449 We just had this Bible study. Work like the Lord 00:06:49.449 --> 00:06:51.870 himself is signing your paycheck. Because I can 00:06:51.870 --> 00:06:54.410 done tell you the Lord would not sign that paycheck. 00:06:54.670 --> 00:06:57.009 The Lord would probably have thrown that coffee 00:06:57.009 --> 00:06:59.149 in his face and flipped that table. But all I 00:06:59.149 --> 00:07:02.470 did in my best Tammy Terry voice as I stood there 00:07:02.470 --> 00:07:04.470 and watched five little boys, and I say little 00:07:04.470 --> 00:07:06.250 boys, they were in their late 20s and they were 00:07:06.250 --> 00:07:08.550 making really inappropriate remarks at every 00:07:08.550 --> 00:07:10.209 young thing that walked through the gas station 00:07:10.209 --> 00:07:12.230 to the point where I really wanted to call and 00:07:12.230 --> 00:07:13.889 report them all as sex offenders. That's how 00:07:13.889 --> 00:07:18.639 nasty the talk was. Out of sheets. On a Thursday. 00:07:21.759 --> 00:07:24.500 And there's five employees twiddling their thumbs, 00:07:24.540 --> 00:07:26.459 checking the phone, standing outside smoking. 00:07:27.139 --> 00:07:29.860 And there's one guy working on the drink station. 00:07:30.139 --> 00:07:32.579 The food's all been done. It's already been distributed 00:07:32.579 --> 00:07:34.139 and they've already ate their hamburgers. I'm 00:07:34.139 --> 00:07:42.759 still waiting on a nine ounce iced coffee. So 00:07:42.759 --> 00:07:44.439 the guy next to me, he said, you've been standing 00:07:44.439 --> 00:07:46.579 here longer than me. I said, mm -hmm. Been here 00:07:46.579 --> 00:07:50.420 since 9 -15. He goes, I ordered $60 worth of 00:07:50.420 --> 00:07:52.060 food and it's already done. I said, mm -hmm, 00:07:52.060 --> 00:07:53.879 because a different person was making it. And 00:07:53.879 --> 00:07:55.699 you're probably from here, aren't you? He goes, 00:07:55.740 --> 00:07:56.899 yeah, I went to high school with that guy. I 00:07:56.899 --> 00:08:02.620 was like, there you go. Nailed it. So when the 00:08:02.620 --> 00:08:04.980 manager finally come over and made this, and 00:08:04.980 --> 00:08:08.060 let me explain this. At Sheetz, there's this 00:08:08.060 --> 00:08:11.160 big, huge machine that says, which drink did 00:08:11.160 --> 00:08:12.920 they order? And you hit three buttons and it 00:08:12.920 --> 00:08:16.680 fills it up. It's not rocket science. A monkey 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:18.660 trained for more than two weeks could do this. 00:08:19.699 --> 00:08:22.000 I watched three different people attempt to make 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:26.720 an iced coffee with whipped cream and oat milk. 00:08:27.800 --> 00:08:30.500 I know. I was asking them to figure out the Big 00:08:30.500 --> 00:08:32.700 Bang Theory. I understand that this is my fault. 00:08:33.340 --> 00:08:37.179 And after I sat there very quietly and watched 00:08:37.179 --> 00:08:38.840 people throw trash on the floor, watched these 00:08:38.840 --> 00:08:40.539 guys make inappropriate comments at the young 00:08:40.539 --> 00:08:41.980 ladies that were standing at the counter, watched 00:08:41.980 --> 00:08:43.740 that girl go out for a smoke break twice while 00:08:43.740 --> 00:08:47.690 I was there. And as I finally got my coffee and 00:08:47.690 --> 00:08:49.029 he said, I hope you have a good night. I said, 00:08:49.049 --> 00:08:52.110 oh no, you've ruined that. You've ruined that. 00:08:52.409 --> 00:08:55.330 You've made damn sure to ruin whatever hope I 00:08:55.330 --> 00:08:58.210 had for enjoying the rest of my night. Thank 00:08:58.210 --> 00:09:02.950 you, Satan. I recognize you. So as I got ready 00:09:02.950 --> 00:09:06.389 to leave, I yelled back into the store, 31 minutes. 00:09:08.950 --> 00:09:11.509 31 minutes it took me to get a nice coffee. Never 00:09:11.509 --> 00:09:14.210 expect me to spend another dime here. And if 00:09:14.210 --> 00:09:20.070 I were y 'all, I wouldn't either. 31 minutes 00:09:20.070 --> 00:09:24.629 is unacceptable. Unacceptable. 31 minutes at 00:09:24.629 --> 00:09:26.330 McDonald's, my mother would be throwing a coffee 00:09:26.330 --> 00:09:29.029 through the window. 31 minutes at Pizza Hut waiting 00:09:29.029 --> 00:09:30.990 on something that said it was ready in 15, my 00:09:30.990 --> 00:09:32.509 Aunt Beth would have slammed it up against the 00:09:32.509 --> 00:09:36.470 wall. 31 minutes for an iced coffee is unacceptable. 00:09:42.289 --> 00:09:44.570 How do we get the younger generation to understand 00:09:44.570 --> 00:09:46.909 that you have to work for a living? How do we 00:09:46.909 --> 00:09:48.809 get the younger generation to understand that 00:09:48.809 --> 00:09:50.549 you can't just go to mom and daddy every time 00:09:50.549 --> 00:09:52.289 the times get tough? How do we get the younger 00:09:52.289 --> 00:09:53.610 generation to understand that you have to put 00:09:53.610 --> 00:09:59.769 in the work? That just because you can play a 00:09:59.769 --> 00:10:01.629 recorder with your nose and you can play the 00:10:01.629 --> 00:10:04.509 1812 Overture does not make you equipped to deal 00:10:04.509 --> 00:10:33.480 with the world. Thank goodness I was out of cigarettes. 00:10:35.879 --> 00:10:37.960 Thank goodness that I was waiting for my coffee 00:10:37.960 --> 00:10:40.000 so I could have one for the first time in two 00:10:40.000 --> 00:10:43.919 and a half hours. Because that's really fun to 00:10:43.919 --> 00:10:45.779 put on a woman in perimenopause when she's had 00:10:45.779 --> 00:10:47.480 a long day and buried three chickens and had 00:10:47.480 --> 00:10:51.279 a headache that would split a rock in two. That's 00:10:51.279 --> 00:10:53.860 a really good time to make somebody wait 31 minutes 00:10:53.860 --> 00:11:01.559 for literally brown water and sugar. You know 00:11:01.559 --> 00:11:02.799 how to get him to watch your mouth, Vicki? Start 00:11:02.799 --> 00:11:06.700 popping him in the lip. Worked with me. I learned 00:11:06.700 --> 00:11:08.440 not to smart off and back talk near as much. 00:11:08.500 --> 00:11:10.559 I learned when to watch my P's and Q's. I learned 00:11:10.559 --> 00:11:15.000 that children should be seen and not heard. Pop 00:11:15.000 --> 00:11:18.799 him in the mouth. Raise a child in the way that 00:11:18.799 --> 00:11:20.379 he should go and he will not depart from it as 00:11:20.379 --> 00:11:25.399 he gets older. Smack him in the mouth. We stopped 00:11:25.399 --> 00:11:27.700 giving belt whoopings and started giving timeouts. 00:11:27.799 --> 00:11:30.950 If we had a Bible and a belt, 25 years ago, instead 00:11:30.950 --> 00:11:32.850 of participation trophies and inside voices, 00:11:32.909 --> 00:11:34.289 we wouldn't have the situation that we're in 00:11:34.289 --> 00:11:37.289 right now. We wouldn't have people thinking that 00:11:37.289 --> 00:11:38.549 they're born something different. We wouldn't 00:11:38.549 --> 00:11:40.009 have people thinking that they was born an animal. 00:11:40.049 --> 00:11:41.750 We wouldn't have men dressing as women trying 00:11:41.750 --> 00:11:50.830 to fight girls in high school sports. This isn't 00:11:50.830 --> 00:11:53.230 just about a 31 -minute iced coffee. This is 00:11:53.230 --> 00:11:55.110 about the lack of accountability and respect 00:11:55.110 --> 00:11:58.720 and responsibility that is... vehemently taken 00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:03.340 over the culture that we live in. No one is accountable. 00:12:03.639 --> 00:12:06.220 No one gives a damn. No one cares if you get 00:12:06.220 --> 00:12:08.919 your stuff or not. No one knows the golden rule. 00:12:15.789 --> 00:12:17.970 I'm trying my best, y 'all. I know we had a really 00:12:17.970 --> 00:12:19.470 good Bible study tonight, and I'm not gonna let 00:12:19.470 --> 00:12:21.309 this steal my joy, but I just felt like I should 00:12:21.309 --> 00:12:23.509 tell everybody else who might be in a hurry to 00:12:23.509 --> 00:12:24.730 get on with the rest of their life because all 00:12:24.730 --> 00:12:26.230 they wanted was just a little cup of coffee to 00:12:26.230 --> 00:12:27.570 give to their husband because he's working like 00:12:27.570 --> 00:12:32.210 a dog in there on the computer. I thought that 00:12:32.210 --> 00:12:38.090 was unacceptable. I'm talking to young people 00:12:38.090 --> 00:12:39.950 in public, too, Vicki. Smack them in the mouth! 00:12:43.870 --> 00:12:46.169 If their parents didn't raise them, You sure 00:12:46.169 --> 00:12:48.610 as hell can swap in. I'll hashtag in transparent. 00:12:48.730 --> 00:12:58.769 I'll identify as your mother. My mom was not 00:12:58.769 --> 00:13:01.610 my friend. My daddy sure as hell wasn't my friend. 00:13:03.129 --> 00:13:05.269 My daddy and I came to blow so bad when I was 00:13:05.269 --> 00:13:07.289 14 years old that I moved in with my granny for 00:13:07.289 --> 00:13:09.830 six months. Just because we could not get along. 00:13:11.370 --> 00:13:21.500 But I respected him. I'm just sad. I'm just sad 00:13:21.500 --> 00:13:23.139 that as much as I think I'm getting ahead in 00:13:23.139 --> 00:13:26.379 the world and doing the mission that God's put 00:13:26.379 --> 00:13:28.799 before me and actually making great strides for 00:13:28.799 --> 00:13:30.960 the kingdom, and then something happens like 00:13:30.960 --> 00:13:40.799 this to where I go... I understand now why Jesus 00:13:40.799 --> 00:13:43.860 told them to preach the message and save who 00:13:43.860 --> 00:13:50.629 they could and move on. I understand now why 00:13:50.629 --> 00:13:52.370 Jesus says that a prophet is never accepted in 00:13:52.370 --> 00:13:54.269 his own hometown. I understand now why you have 00:13:54.269 --> 00:13:56.190 to be in the world and not of it. I understand. 00:14:00.049 --> 00:14:11.029 I could have ordered an Uber Beats and had somebody's 00:14:11.029 --> 00:14:14.269 ass whooped in a shorter time than it took me 00:14:14.269 --> 00:14:19.690 to get an iced coffee. And I was just aggravated. 00:14:19.769 --> 00:14:26.830 And I just, I don't... It's not that I'm real 00:14:26.830 --> 00:14:30.370 picky. And it's not that I'm a Karen. It's that 00:14:30.370 --> 00:14:32.710 I was raised in a world that respected their 00:14:32.710 --> 00:14:34.629 elders. I was raised in a world where you did 00:14:34.629 --> 00:14:36.470 what you was told. I was raised in a world where 00:14:36.470 --> 00:14:38.610 you had common courtesy. I was raised in a world 00:14:38.610 --> 00:14:40.549 where you did your job if you wanted the paycheck. 00:14:43.529 --> 00:14:54.139 Damned if I do. If we're having problems making 00:14:54.139 --> 00:15:00.580 an iced coffee, well, we can't trust them with 00:15:00.580 --> 00:15:03.220 anything. We can't trust them with anything. 00:15:04.299 --> 00:15:16.600 With anything. Just in my experience with the 00:15:16.600 --> 00:15:20.990 people under 30 years old, One set off fireworks 00:15:20.990 --> 00:15:22.889 so dangerously close to my house that it burnt 00:15:22.889 --> 00:15:25.330 through my trailer. It burnt a hole in my roof. 00:15:25.470 --> 00:15:28.730 It burnt a hole in my coop. And I found about 00:15:28.730 --> 00:15:31.230 60 bottle rocket casings in my backyard after 00:15:31.230 --> 00:15:32.789 the 4th of July, even though we're less than 00:15:32.789 --> 00:15:34.750 a half a mile of where they let off the big fireworks 00:15:34.750 --> 00:15:39.690 in this town. How do you correct that? How do 00:15:39.690 --> 00:15:42.429 you re -break that bone and set it? You can't. 00:15:48.689 --> 00:15:50.309 How do you explain to your neighbors that it's 00:15:50.309 --> 00:15:51.909 not okay for their kids to come up on your porch 00:15:51.909 --> 00:15:53.389 and just steal whatever they can get their hands 00:15:53.389 --> 00:15:55.909 on and run back to their house? How do you explain 00:15:55.909 --> 00:15:58.429 that when the parents don't know any better? 00:15:58.730 --> 00:16:00.889 How do you explain that it doesn't take 31 minutes 00:16:00.889 --> 00:16:02.970 to put ice in a cup and hit the coffee button? 00:16:03.049 --> 00:16:04.549 How do you explain to people that you have to 00:16:04.549 --> 00:16:05.970 put your trash out if you want them to pick it 00:16:05.970 --> 00:16:09.330 up? How do you explain to people how to be common 00:16:09.330 --> 00:16:24.450 sense intelligent? April, what happened is that 00:16:24.450 --> 00:16:26.450 it took me 31 minutes to get an iced coffee at 00:16:26.450 --> 00:16:28.129 a gas station less than five minutes from my 00:16:28.129 --> 00:16:31.110 house. When there was only seven people in the 00:16:31.110 --> 00:16:33.649 entire gas station, including the four people 00:16:33.649 --> 00:16:39.629 working, five people working there. And let me 00:16:39.629 --> 00:16:41.350 be clear, I'm not mad about the coffee. I'm mad 00:16:41.350 --> 00:16:43.490 about the disrespect. I'm mad about the environment 00:16:43.490 --> 00:16:45.389 that I was standing in. And I'm mad that no one 00:16:45.389 --> 00:16:47.769 besides me said anything about, maybe you shouldn't 00:16:47.769 --> 00:17:08.069 be talking like that about young women. No. I 00:17:08.069 --> 00:17:09.609 also came to a realization today that there's 00:17:09.609 --> 00:17:12.250 347 ,000 children in the foster care system. 00:17:13.910 --> 00:17:16.569 There's 350 ,000 Protestant -based denomination 00:17:16.569 --> 00:17:20.069 churches in the United States. If every church 00:17:20.069 --> 00:17:22.490 had one family that would foster one child, we 00:17:22.490 --> 00:17:28.849 wouldn't need a foster program anymore. But we're 00:17:28.849 --> 00:17:35.359 too busy. We can't be doing that. For every one 00:17:35.359 --> 00:17:37.180 sex offender that they're investigating, there's 00:17:37.180 --> 00:17:47.240 15 more on your block. Something's bad wrong, 00:17:47.440 --> 00:17:54.119 and we're going to have to fix it. I think we 00:17:54.119 --> 00:18:06.569 start by preaching the truth. We have gotten 00:18:06.569 --> 00:18:09.990 so placated in pandering to people's emotions 00:18:09.990 --> 00:18:12.849 instead of logic, to people's feelings instead 00:18:12.849 --> 00:18:21.269 of fact. I don't pander. If I think something, 00:18:21.289 --> 00:18:23.069 I'm going to say it. If I see something, I'm 00:18:23.069 --> 00:18:24.750 going to say it. If I think it needs to be done 00:18:24.750 --> 00:18:26.250 better, if I think that I can do it better, if 00:18:26.250 --> 00:18:27.490 I think that you can do it better, I'm going 00:18:27.490 --> 00:18:37.190 to say it. But there was no reason. Why it took 00:18:37.190 --> 00:18:40.609 three people to figure out how to push one button 00:18:40.609 --> 00:18:45.230 at a gas station. There's no reason. Just pure 00:18:45.230 --> 00:18:46.930 old laziness and ignorance. That's all it is. 00:18:48.730 --> 00:18:50.950 So enjoy your $17 an hour that you're making 00:18:50.950 --> 00:18:53.109 because you earned every penny of it tonight. 00:18:54.150 --> 00:18:57.769 Got nine of it off of me for a coffee that cost 00:18:57.769 --> 00:19:10.900 me $2 .48. Leah, the generation born after the 00:19:10.900 --> 00:19:13.740 turn of Y2K. That's who we're dealing with right 00:19:13.740 --> 00:19:15.819 now. And how they have no accountability, no 00:19:15.819 --> 00:19:18.019 training, no responsibility, no accountability, 00:19:18.180 --> 00:19:20.579 no respect for anything. As long as they got 00:19:20.579 --> 00:19:21.859 their phone in their hand and their thumb up 00:19:21.859 --> 00:19:30.240 their ass, they're doing all right. 31 minutes 00:19:30.240 --> 00:19:32.559 for an iced coffee in a town of 4 ,000 people. 00:19:34.920 --> 00:19:40.549 Nashville's faster. New York is faster. Irving's 00:19:40.549 --> 00:19:45.210 faster, and that's saying something. Church don't 00:19:45.210 --> 00:19:46.809 do the job of being brother's keeper. Are you 00:19:46.809 --> 00:19:48.750 kidding? That might offend the biggest tither 00:19:48.750 --> 00:19:50.430 in church, and we can't be turning the lights 00:19:50.430 --> 00:19:53.809 off. How early on us, Sue? Are you new here? 00:19:55.309 --> 00:20:01.009 Now, you know better than that. If we start preaching 00:20:01.009 --> 00:20:02.950 the truth and calling people out on their actions 00:20:02.950 --> 00:20:04.490 and making them accountable for what they have 00:20:04.490 --> 00:20:06.950 done, then who's gonna pay for the preacher's 00:20:06.950 --> 00:20:12.869 new Lexus? Have you lost your mind? If we run 00:20:12.869 --> 00:20:14.730 off Deborah and Johnetta, who's gonna make the 00:20:14.730 --> 00:20:18.049 casseroles for Sainspiration? If we run off Tammy 00:20:18.049 --> 00:20:19.730 and Beth, who's gonna clean the church after 00:20:19.730 --> 00:20:22.089 baptism? If we run off Amelina, who's gonna decorate 00:20:22.089 --> 00:20:40.569 the Christmas tree? Think. I would have, Susan. 00:20:42.170 --> 00:20:47.049 The cerebeth of six months ago would have been 00:20:47.049 --> 00:20:48.829 flipping a lot more than tables. They'd have 00:20:48.829 --> 00:20:54.490 to call the law on me. But instead, I sat there 00:20:54.490 --> 00:20:55.990 and thought, what is the Lord trying to teach 00:20:55.990 --> 00:20:57.829 me right now? He's not trying to teach me patience. 00:20:58.069 --> 00:20:59.789 He's trying to teach me discernment. He's trying 00:20:59.789 --> 00:21:01.470 to teach me to stand up. He's trying to teach 00:21:01.470 --> 00:21:09.230 me to be courageous. So that's what I'm trying 00:21:09.230 --> 00:21:12.769 to be. I'm really not worried about what people 00:21:12.769 --> 00:21:14.609 think about me because they already don't like 00:21:14.609 --> 00:21:18.289 me. I ain't worried about it. I ain't worried 00:21:18.289 --> 00:21:19.890 about it at all. And I'll tell you why I ain't 00:21:19.890 --> 00:21:22.009 worried about it at all. Because of Mark right 00:21:22.009 --> 00:21:31.109 here. What it says in Mark. That said, really 00:21:31.109 --> 00:21:40.720 embrace your life. And what he says right here 00:21:40.720 --> 00:21:42.720 in Mark 13, and this wasn't even part of the 00:21:42.720 --> 00:21:44.359 Bible study, but it's in my heart right now. 00:21:44.420 --> 00:21:48.240 He says in verse 11 in Mark 13, when they bring 00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:49.900 you betrayed into court, don't worry about what 00:21:49.900 --> 00:21:52.400 you'll say. The time comes and say what's on 00:21:52.400 --> 00:21:54.200 your heart. The Holy Spirit will guide you. It's 00:21:54.200 --> 00:21:56.279 going to be brother killing brother, father killing 00:21:56.279 --> 00:21:58.599 child, children killing parents. There's no telling 00:21:58.599 --> 00:22:03.740 who will hate you because of me. Stay with it 00:22:03.740 --> 00:22:05.380 because that's what was required. Stay with it 00:22:05.380 --> 00:22:07.400 to the end and you won't be sorry because you'll 00:22:07.400 --> 00:22:11.890 be saved. But that gets to me every single time. 00:22:12.390 --> 00:22:14.950 There's no telling who's gonna hate you because 00:22:14.950 --> 00:22:20.250 of me. And it ain't just the people watching 00:22:20.250 --> 00:22:23.789 my Bible studies, friends. It's the ones that 00:22:23.789 --> 00:22:26.230 the devil's stirring them up. It's the ones that 00:22:26.230 --> 00:22:28.089 are trying to get to me through the cracks. It's 00:22:28.089 --> 00:22:30.410 the ones that are waiting 30 minutes to get to 00:22:30.410 --> 00:22:32.670 my coffee. It's the ones that are trying to stumble 00:22:32.670 --> 00:22:35.309 me up on my path. It's the blocks in my way when 00:22:35.309 --> 00:22:40.720 I'm saying, Satan, not today. I don't care if 00:22:40.720 --> 00:22:42.920 they hate me or not. I'm still gonna tell the 00:22:42.920 --> 00:22:45.240 truth. I'm still gonna say my piece. I'm still 00:22:45.240 --> 00:22:46.720 gonna do what I was put on earth here to do. 00:22:49.420 --> 00:22:51.099 It just would be nice to have somebody to have 00:22:51.099 --> 00:22:52.740 coffee with every now and again without getting 00:22:52.740 --> 00:22:55.000 snide remarks about me being from Kentucky or 00:22:55.000 --> 00:22:58.160 getting cross -eyed because I'm from a college 00:22:58.160 --> 00:23:08.900 that you can't spell. Reminds me of what my buddy 00:23:08.900 --> 00:23:10.500 said one time in Bible school. He said, kind 00:23:10.500 --> 00:23:12.039 of reminds you of the church in Ephesia, doesn't 00:23:12.039 --> 00:23:13.779 it? And I was like, that's not the name of the 00:23:13.779 --> 00:23:17.099 town. What's going on with Ephesia? And I was 00:23:17.099 --> 00:23:25.119 like, well, it's Ephesus. One. Two. It's one 00:23:25.119 --> 00:23:27.079 of the reasons we have, mostly the reason we 00:23:27.079 --> 00:23:30.059 have the porch. It's always come to Jesus on 00:23:30.059 --> 00:23:33.279 the porch. You said things on the porch you couldn't 00:23:33.279 --> 00:23:34.950 say around the dinner table. You called people 00:23:34.950 --> 00:23:36.309 out to the porch when you couldn't say it in 00:23:36.309 --> 00:23:37.549 front of the kids. You called people out to the 00:23:37.549 --> 00:23:38.930 porch to have a come of Jesus when you couldn't 00:23:38.930 --> 00:23:41.730 say it in front of granny. The porch is where 00:23:41.730 --> 00:23:48.210 we sort stuff out. And I still have plenty of 00:23:48.210 --> 00:23:50.509 joy deep down in my heart, but I also have discernment 00:23:50.509 --> 00:23:52.470 and I also have disappointment in the generation 00:23:52.470 --> 00:23:54.789 that's following me because what is there for 00:23:54.789 --> 00:23:56.750 me to pass down if they're not standing there 00:23:56.750 --> 00:23:58.910 holding the rope? What am I doing all this for 00:23:58.910 --> 00:24:00.670 if there's not somebody ready to hold the next 00:24:00.670 --> 00:24:02.869 lantern on the Olympic run? What am I doing this 00:24:02.869 --> 00:24:08.980 for? Because I know where I stand with God. And 00:24:08.980 --> 00:24:21.960 I know what my mission is with God. Aggravating. 00:24:22.299 --> 00:24:24.119 That's all it is. It's just plain old aggravating. 00:24:24.539 --> 00:24:26.440 And I know I'm perimenopause. I know I haven't 00:24:26.440 --> 00:24:27.740 eaten all day. I'm a little hungry. I probably 00:24:27.740 --> 00:24:29.220 got a little bit of sun poisoning. And I slept 00:24:29.220 --> 00:24:30.859 too long this afternoon during my afternoon nap. 00:24:31.000 --> 00:24:32.880 It doesn't change the fact that it does not take 00:24:32.880 --> 00:24:35.519 31 of God's given minutes on this God green earth. 00:24:36.220 --> 00:24:38.539 to fix a cup of coffee. Was y 'all waiting for 00:24:38.539 --> 00:24:40.759 Juan Valdez to roll in on the donkey with the 00:24:40.759 --> 00:24:47.099 beans? What's going on? I don't even drink coffee. 00:24:49.640 --> 00:24:51.680 Mostly because for the last 20 years in Nashville, 00:24:51.720 --> 00:24:53.460 because I was the only female in the company, 00:24:53.539 --> 00:24:55.359 I must have been real good at finding the filters. 00:24:56.980 --> 00:25:00.099 So no, I don't make coffee anymore. If you want 00:25:00.099 --> 00:25:02.339 coffee, you can make it yourself. The only person 00:25:02.339 --> 00:25:04.940 that I break that rule for is my husband. But 00:25:04.940 --> 00:25:06.779 after tonight, he knows not to ask me to go unless 00:25:06.779 --> 00:25:11.960 it's in a drive -thru and it's expedient. No 00:25:11.960 --> 00:25:22.460 good deed goes unpunished. So anyway, I just 00:25:22.460 --> 00:25:25.579 got my heart broke. And there was no reason for 00:25:25.579 --> 00:25:33.039 it other than the fact that I had faith in mankind 00:25:33.039 --> 00:25:41.940 instead of God. That's where I messed up. That's 00:25:41.940 --> 00:25:44.480 the lesson, isn't it, Lord? I had faith in man 00:25:44.480 --> 00:25:50.799 instead of faith in God. Man, talk about smacking 00:25:50.799 --> 00:25:57.500 you in the mouth. So, I'm going to do like the 00:25:57.500 --> 00:26:00.960 Bible and Eleanor Roosevelt said, be the change 00:26:00.960 --> 00:26:04.099 that you want to see in the world. Thank you. 00:26:04.140 --> 00:26:10.529 I got these at CATA. I could have door dashed 00:26:10.529 --> 00:26:13.849 an order from Sheetz and got it quicker. I could 00:26:13.849 --> 00:26:16.430 have double dashed and got it quicker. I could 00:26:16.430 --> 00:26:19.109 have walked there and back and made the coffee 00:26:19.109 --> 00:26:23.789 myself quicker. And it's just a lack of respect 00:26:23.789 --> 00:26:26.130 and accountability. That's all it is. It's a 00:26:26.130 --> 00:26:28.789 matter of, well, we have to hire them, even though 00:26:28.789 --> 00:26:30.130 we don't know if they're a boy or a girl, and 00:26:30.130 --> 00:26:31.369 they won't give us their real name, and they 00:26:31.369 --> 00:26:33.049 wear kitty cat ears, and they wear gloves every 00:26:33.049 --> 00:26:34.670 time that they work. But that's okay, right? 00:26:34.769 --> 00:26:39.819 They're handling food. In order to crack a barrel, 00:26:39.859 --> 00:26:41.380 I wasn't even allowed to wear short -sleeved 00:26:41.380 --> 00:26:45.579 shirts. When I was the manager of a hotel, I 00:26:45.579 --> 00:26:47.660 had to wear long sleeves every day because of 00:26:47.660 --> 00:26:49.579 my tattoos. I had to go through six weeks of 00:26:49.579 --> 00:26:51.200 training before I was allowed to talk to a guest. 00:26:51.279 --> 00:26:54.559 I had to watch them stupid videos with Conrad 00:26:54.559 --> 00:26:56.420 Hilton telling about how much money he's made 00:26:56.420 --> 00:27:00.579 so he can give it out of pairs. Is that just 00:27:00.579 --> 00:27:02.599 gone? Like, we don't have training anymore? We're 00:27:02.599 --> 00:27:03.720 like, oh, thank God you're here and you have 00:27:03.720 --> 00:27:06.019 a pulse. Clock in. What do I do? You'll figure 00:27:06.019 --> 00:27:09.930 it out. The Lord might be looking for your unqualified 00:27:09.930 --> 00:27:15.369 yes, but the sheets ain't. You have to know what 00:27:15.369 --> 00:27:20.170 you're doing. This is why I drink sweet tea, 00:27:20.230 --> 00:27:21.529 and this is why I drink sweet tea that I make 00:27:21.529 --> 00:27:24.470 myself, because this is slop. And it was really 00:27:24.470 --> 00:27:26.609 good when I had it full of ice. I had it chock 00:27:26.609 --> 00:27:28.170 full of ice and just had a little bit of tea 00:27:28.170 --> 00:27:30.130 in it. That's how long it took. It melted every 00:27:30.130 --> 00:27:32.509 bit of it, and now it's just watered down, nasty 00:27:32.509 --> 00:27:41.140 iced tea. That's alright. It's 10 .30 at night. 00:27:41.299 --> 00:27:42.619 I'm gonna go in there and eat me a tomato sandwich 00:27:42.619 --> 00:27:44.220 that I picked right out of my garden for the 00:27:44.220 --> 00:27:45.680 third night in a row because I don't feel like 00:27:45.680 --> 00:27:52.700 cooking. I have absolutely no appetite. I might 00:27:52.700 --> 00:27:54.680 strip down naked and go skinny dip in my kiddie 00:27:54.680 --> 00:27:59.460 pool at 11 o 'clock at night. I don't know. Just... 00:28:04.079 --> 00:28:06.059 I'm trying not to be as discouraged as I feel. 00:28:06.180 --> 00:28:07.859 I'm trying to keep my head up. I'm trying to 00:28:07.859 --> 00:28:09.740 figure out if I'm doing the right thing or if 00:28:09.740 --> 00:28:12.519 this is just par for the course. That many will 00:28:12.519 --> 00:28:17.819 hate you because of Jesus. Like the girl that 00:28:17.819 --> 00:28:19.019 called me up tonight and said, I don't understand 00:28:19.019 --> 00:28:21.000 you. You're talking about Jesus, but you talk 00:28:21.000 --> 00:28:22.539 like a sailor and you smoke. And I said, what's 00:28:22.539 --> 00:28:25.279 your point? You know who else talked like a sailor? 00:28:25.819 --> 00:28:28.680 The four sailors that Jesus recruited to be disciples. 00:28:28.940 --> 00:28:31.400 You know who else talked like me? The men that 00:28:31.400 --> 00:28:34.079 went to prison preaching Jesus' gospel. You know 00:28:34.079 --> 00:28:36.779 who else was like me? Jesus, flipping tables 00:28:36.779 --> 00:28:38.319 and saying, this ain't how you do it. You're 00:28:38.319 --> 00:28:44.859 way off base. So, my role models might look a 00:28:44.859 --> 00:28:47.500 little different than yours. Mine have a record. 00:28:48.619 --> 00:28:51.460 I thank God for Jesus that records wipe clean, 00:28:51.539 --> 00:29:01.259 but they do have one. Vicky, I would can tomatoes, 00:29:01.319 --> 00:29:10.599 but I'm terrified of botulism. I didn't know 00:29:10.599 --> 00:29:12.940 I charged that today. I just hit it like it owed 00:29:12.940 --> 00:29:22.339 me money. I'm all about holding each other accountable 00:29:22.339 --> 00:29:26.180 and lifting each other up. I'm not about being 00:29:26.180 --> 00:29:30.039 hateful just for the sake of being hateful. I'm 00:29:30.039 --> 00:29:31.539 not about judging just to make yourself feel 00:29:31.539 --> 00:29:34.420 better. I'm not about you calling out the plank 00:29:34.420 --> 00:29:36.579 in my eye when you've got a telephone pole in 00:29:36.579 --> 00:29:50.519 yours. I'm not about that. I'm going to have 00:29:50.519 --> 00:29:52.839 to have a Jesus perspective from now on. Isn't 00:29:52.839 --> 00:29:56.759 that what we just learned? I have to look at 00:29:56.759 --> 00:29:58.259 it from the perspective as maybe this is their 00:29:58.259 --> 00:29:59.940 only source of income. This is the only place 00:29:59.940 --> 00:30:01.519 that would hire them because of their experience 00:30:01.519 --> 00:30:03.920 and their education. Maybe this is the only place 00:30:03.920 --> 00:30:05.619 that would let them walk to work because they 00:30:05.619 --> 00:30:07.539 don't have a car. Maybe this is the only time 00:30:07.539 --> 00:30:10.279 that they have a moment to themselves with five 00:30:10.279 --> 00:30:12.079 kids and a screaming wife at home. Maybe this 00:30:12.079 --> 00:30:18.880 is something I don't understand. But I don't 00:30:18.880 --> 00:30:20.680 think patience is the key here. I think that 00:30:20.680 --> 00:30:28.660 discernment is. I think discernment's gonna be 00:30:28.660 --> 00:30:31.619 a big part of my mission going forward. I feel 00:30:31.619 --> 00:30:34.220 like I'm gonna walk into rooms and be like, hell 00:30:34.220 --> 00:30:35.859 with you, hell with you, you're cool, hell with 00:30:35.859 --> 00:30:41.660 you, hell with you. I'm okay. I'll be alright. 00:30:41.839 --> 00:30:44.440 I always am. Lord's got this. I'm gonna let Him 00:30:44.440 --> 00:31:08.319 call it. But in the meantime... I've been stuck 00:31:08.319 --> 00:31:13.940 in Jeremiah for about three days now. And I feel 00:31:13.940 --> 00:31:16.019 a lot like Jeremiah. He's literally screaming 00:31:16.019 --> 00:31:18.839 at the people going, do you not get it yet? The 00:31:18.839 --> 00:31:20.599 Lord is going to come down hard and swift on 00:31:20.599 --> 00:31:30.019 you because you just don't get it. And yet they 00:31:30.019 --> 00:31:37.130 still didn't get it. Vicky management was there, 00:31:37.190 --> 00:31:38.450 and they still couldn't figure out how to make 00:31:38.450 --> 00:31:41.369 the coffee. I'm gonna have to call Mr. Sheets 00:31:41.369 --> 00:31:47.309 himself. That's one thing about me, friends, 00:31:47.349 --> 00:31:49.990 is I cannot hide my emotions. You see my face, 00:31:50.049 --> 00:31:51.690 you know exactly what I'm thinking. We'll be 00:31:51.690 --> 00:31:53.190 somewhere, and somebody else starts singing off 00:31:53.190 --> 00:31:56.069 -key, and I'll go... And my husband will go, 00:31:56.109 --> 00:32:08.380 fix your face. And I'm like... Can't help it. 00:32:10.720 --> 00:32:12.799 You might look at me and say, does this outfit 00:32:12.799 --> 00:32:14.339 look good? And my mouth might go, yeah, that 00:32:14.339 --> 00:32:19.619 looks great. And my eyes are going, did they 00:32:19.619 --> 00:32:35.680 not have a bigger size? You know the definition 00:32:35.680 --> 00:32:37.779 of insanity is doing the same thing over and 00:32:37.779 --> 00:32:39.640 over and over again, expecting different results. 00:32:45.680 --> 00:32:48.059 I keep seeing this girl walk up and down my road, 00:32:48.140 --> 00:32:49.819 and I know who she's going to visit, and I know 00:32:49.819 --> 00:32:51.539 who his wife is, and I don't think that's going 00:32:51.539 --> 00:32:55.559 to work out real good for her. That's the definition 00:32:55.559 --> 00:32:57.619 of insanity. It's not the definition of adultery 00:32:57.619 --> 00:32:59.039 table. We'll get into that at some other time. 00:33:05.159 --> 00:33:06.779 What's really sad is that I'm friends with one 00:33:06.779 --> 00:33:08.839 of the managers there. She wasn't there tonight. 00:33:09.880 --> 00:33:11.759 And Lord knows she's got enough of a cross to 00:33:11.759 --> 00:33:17.299 bear at home without me adding to it. So... I 00:33:17.299 --> 00:33:19.579 think that what I can just do is save my money 00:33:19.579 --> 00:33:24.279 and make my own coffee. Because words won't stick 00:33:24.279 --> 00:33:30.680 to this generation. But lack of money will. Remember 00:33:30.680 --> 00:33:34.549 the boycotts? We boycotted Walden Books. We boycotted 00:33:34.549 --> 00:33:36.630 Disney there for a while. We boycotted the Simpsons 00:33:36.630 --> 00:33:40.789 there for a while. It's time for a boycott. And 00:33:40.789 --> 00:33:44.089 when Sheetz wonders why I'm not spending half 00:33:44.089 --> 00:33:48.170 of my take -home income on gas and coffee here 00:33:48.170 --> 00:33:51.049 in a month, and why other people in the neighborhood 00:33:51.049 --> 00:33:52.630 are not shopping there anymore, they're going 00:33:52.630 --> 00:33:54.650 to be like, maybe we should reevaluate how we're 00:33:54.650 --> 00:33:56.170 doing things because we seem to be running people 00:33:56.170 --> 00:34:01.930 off. Wishing one hand and shitting the other, 00:34:01.970 --> 00:34:05.569 Sarah. Isn't that the way it goes? I don't know. 00:34:05.650 --> 00:34:07.569 I'll be fine. I'll be fine once I can figure 00:34:07.569 --> 00:34:09.449 out my hair's doing curly crazy things because 00:34:09.449 --> 00:34:16.809 the humidity's up. I'll be fine. I'm thankful 00:34:16.809 --> 00:34:19.889 for y 'all. Y 'all are literally my only link 00:34:19.889 --> 00:34:22.710 to the outside civilized world. Because Lord 00:34:22.710 --> 00:34:26.010 knows it ain't here. We might as well have horse 00:34:26.010 --> 00:34:31.969 and buggy. So. We're boycotting sheets. The gas 00:34:31.969 --> 00:34:34.250 station that took 31 minutes to make a nice coffee 00:34:34.250 --> 00:34:36.070 with only five employees there and three people 00:34:36.070 --> 00:34:37.829 in the store. I didn't understand why that took 00:34:37.829 --> 00:34:40.530 so long. Could have probably had some flown in 00:34:40.530 --> 00:34:42.409 from Starbucks in Washington by the time it took 00:34:42.409 --> 00:34:43.789 them to figure out which button to push on the 00:34:43.789 --> 00:34:51.449 big machine back there that says, push me. It'll 00:34:51.449 --> 00:34:56.150 be all right. Bear up. Nothing that little Jesus 00:34:56.150 --> 00:35:04.159 and little weed can't fix. I really love y 'all. 00:35:04.699 --> 00:35:10.860 You're what keep me going. You and Jesus. I'll 00:35:10.860 --> 00:35:12.719 be feeling really bad about something. Lord will 00:35:12.719 --> 00:35:14.039 say, why don't you go talk to your friends? And 00:35:14.039 --> 00:35:20.619 I'm like, okay, I'll go to the porch. And y 'all 00:35:20.619 --> 00:35:24.260 always come and visit me on the porch. There's 00:35:24.260 --> 00:35:26.639 always... Somebody on the porch. It's like I 00:35:26.639 --> 00:35:27.900 told my friend Leah the other day. I said, you 00:35:27.900 --> 00:35:29.719 don't matter what time of day it is. Don't matter 00:35:29.719 --> 00:35:31.360 what time of night. There's always somebody on 00:35:31.360 --> 00:35:33.260 the porch that's willing to talk about it. That's 00:35:33.260 --> 00:35:34.500 why I encourage you all to make friends with 00:35:34.500 --> 00:35:35.739 each other. That's why I encourage you to have 00:35:35.739 --> 00:35:37.059 your own porches. That's why I encourage you 00:35:37.059 --> 00:35:38.719 to have your own Bible studies. That's why I 00:35:38.719 --> 00:35:42.039 encourage you all to commune together, to congregate 00:35:42.039 --> 00:35:44.760 together, to fellowship together. Because there's 00:35:44.760 --> 00:35:55.940 always somebody on the porch. Well, friends, 00:35:56.000 --> 00:36:00.179 that's all I have to say about that. I just got 00:36:00.179 --> 00:36:05.199 my feelings hurt. But I love you guys very much, 00:36:05.300 --> 00:36:09.739 and I'm very thankful for you. And I'm going 00:36:09.739 --> 00:36:12.360 to take my own advice and give it to God. Let 00:36:12.360 --> 00:36:16.579 Him call the shot. Make the call. Pray that I 00:36:16.579 --> 00:36:19.500 can find some kind of peace in my perimenopause. 00:36:19.639 --> 00:36:22.139 Not even peace, just a rhythm that I'm comfortable 00:36:22.139 --> 00:36:32.090 with. Because I tell you, between the three hours 00:36:32.090 --> 00:36:34.010 of sleep, me working like a dog in the backyard, 00:36:34.110 --> 00:36:36.030 me burying chickens every other day because it's 00:36:36.030 --> 00:36:40.650 been so hot, they're all getting sick. Between 00:36:40.650 --> 00:36:44.110 me fighting people over my self -worth, people 00:36:44.110 --> 00:36:50.409 fighting... I think my new favorite thing is 00:36:50.409 --> 00:36:51.989 when people call me and ask me to do a gig and 00:36:51.989 --> 00:36:53.909 then they try to nickel and dime me down to like 00:36:53.909 --> 00:36:55.530 20 bucks to come play. And I'm like, you realize 00:36:55.530 --> 00:36:57.429 that gas is $5 a gallon, right? And that you 00:36:57.429 --> 00:36:59.829 live 400 miles away. I'm not being a jerk, but 00:36:59.829 --> 00:37:06.730 I have to pay to get there. It's my job. I mean, 00:37:06.750 --> 00:37:08.389 I'm not gonna have my mechanic come over and 00:37:08.389 --> 00:37:10.210 change my tires and change my oil and be like, 00:37:10.289 --> 00:37:12.030 would you go do this for a couple dozen eggs? 00:37:12.110 --> 00:37:13.309 Because I don't really feel like paying for it. 00:37:13.989 --> 00:37:22.909 No. That's all I know. Thanks for listening to 00:37:22.909 --> 00:37:40.030 me. Keep your bubbles up and then you pat her 00:37:40.030 --> 00:37:41.989 down your head on a swivel. Because people are 00:37:41.989 --> 00:37:43.610 not only crazy, but they're stupid and ignorant. 00:37:44.269 --> 00:37:51.130 Which are two different things. Try to be nice 00:37:51.130 --> 00:37:57.590 and kind. I'm trying. And considering the options 00:37:57.590 --> 00:37:59.449 that were available to me for that particular 00:37:59.449 --> 00:38:03.469 circumstance, I was as kind as could be expected. 00:38:09.899 --> 00:38:13.400 I love you, and I mean that. I appreciate you 00:38:13.400 --> 00:38:17.860 being here. And, uh, I will see you guys soon. 00:38:17.980 --> 00:38:19.280 If you haven't got your tickets for shows, we've 00:38:19.280 --> 00:38:20.559 got one tomorrow night in Hurricane, one tomorrow, 00:38:20.719 --> 00:38:22.460 uh, Saturday night in Huntington, West Virginia, 00:38:22.659 --> 00:38:24.119 next weekend's in Campton, Kentucky, and then 00:38:24.119 --> 00:38:26.780 we're in Inez, Kentucky. So, a lot of Appalachian 00:38:26.780 --> 00:38:28.260 shows coming up here lately, but if you want 00:38:28.260 --> 00:38:29.320 us in your neck of the woods, then get on my 00:38:29.320 --> 00:38:31.280 website and let me know where to come, and then 00:38:31.280 --> 00:38:37.900 we'll make it work. So, that's all I know. In 00:38:37.900 --> 00:38:41.789 the meantime, friends, I will see you again tomorrow. 00:38:43.510 --> 00:38:53.050 And until then, remember, I'm Sarah Beth Terry. 00:38:53.590 --> 00:38:54.469 You're not.