138: No Bangs

0:00 She can keep in mind, everything's fine, you got all that you need, Curry and the Keeper. Yeah, Curry and the Keeper. Curry and the Keeper, June 18, 2025, episode 138. Curry and the Keeper. Well, hello my queen. I love you. i'm not doing any rhymes anymore i'm out of rhymes no i'm out of rhymes no more rhymes no more i got no rhymes i got no rhythm i got no rhyme all i got is my love and all my time there you go thank you hey you made another hello baby hi honey cheers everybody one two three wow okay tina is drinking something new sparkling rain water now that what brand is that it's in a bottle um it is richards enjoy the same rain you drink as a kid with your head back your tongue out acid rain the sky acid rain yeah it was on sale at the hebe i'm telling you we saw a commercial when we were in Austin. We'll get to that. We were watching TV and we were amazed about the amount of commercials. I'm telling you, there was a commercial for that product.

1:24 The Richard Sparkling Rainbow? Yes, and you saw it and you bought it. Advertising Works. I can't believe it. You got duped into this tap. I don't even remember. It's got bubbles. It's tap water. They carbonated. I'm just saying. Anyway, I am drinking. What are you drinking? I am drinking. You're drinking hooch. That's what you called it. I gave you my punchline. It's unbelievable. I know. I was setting it up. I had a whole lineup. And then the punchline was going to be, I'm drinking Sir Brian's hooch.

2:06 Yes. Well, you should have saved it for the show then. Instead of saying it to me, I didn't know you were going to use it. But you see, I like making you laugh anytime, anywhere. So, yes, this is the Curry and the Keeper Cabernier 2025. It's okay. I mean, I emptied the bottle. You've been drinking it for about three, four days. About four weeks. You're like, I'm trying to get this down. It tastes like vinegar. Thank God there's some food to wash it, to choke it down with. Yeah, no, Brian sent us two bottles of wine for our anniversary. That has a very nice Curry and the Keeper label on it. Yes. And so I don't know how he had that made. It's kind of cool.

2:47 It's a cute gift. Yes. You took pictures of it, right? I did. It was in the newsletter. Yeah, for the newsletter. Yes. Yeah. He thought for sure he was going to get a lot of followers, but alas, he didn't. Here we go. Talking about him again. Is he still texting you 18 times a day? Oh my gosh. He's driving me crazy. This guy's got problems. He's like, Mindy's following me now. I go, I will be sure to warn her. Speaking of the newsletter. Anyway. Oh, you haven't seen it? Yeah, I have seen it. Yeah, uh-huh. Oh, that's exactly the picture I thought you'd use. Very nice. Okay. Well, I put nothing in my show notes because I was just with you. I followed you. Everything has to do with you. You're in charge.

3:28 You control the ship. Full speed ahead, Captain. That's not true. Oh, okay. Turn your phone off. Yes. Where is that? That is so not true. This is our show, not Tina's show. If it was the Keeper show, you wouldn't be on here. I'd be behind the... What happened to... Behind the operation running everything my way. What happened? With a new jingle. Do you want a new jingle? You don't like the jingle anymore? No, I like the jingle. Talk to your buddy Jeff Smith. I'm sorry. What happened to you? You're just the producer. I mean, I'm sorry. I took that to heart. You're my, you are my employee. Oh, that's what I like, captain. I like, captain. All right, here we go. Yes, here we go. When we last left Tina and Adam on last Wednesday.

4:10 Yes, what did we do? I can't even remember that far back. We went out to dinner with Brandy and Chris. Oh, that's right. That's right. Was that Wednesday night? No, it was Friday night. Yeah, we went out. That was nice. And so she was grilling you about all her conspiracy theories and you were calming her down. Oh, my goodness. Not that she gets like crazy about them, but she's very, very curious, you know. Well, whenever someone starts with, I follow this person I really trust. I'm like, okay, where's this person? On Instagram? Like, okay. Yeah, yeah. So that was nice. It was really nice. I got a chance to catch up with Chris a little bit, you know, see how he's doing. We went out to Brian's on 290, which I don't know if we should, you know, because being there twice within the span of a week or 10 days, a little close together because, you know, the menu is just like, ah, I really wanted that, but I had that last time.

5:01 I'm going to have this now. But I did have, what did I have? You had the tenderloin. You liked it. The tenderloin is very good. And the crab cake was very good. And the crab cake was phenomenal. My braised short rib was okay. Like Brandy didn't, she didn't think the chicken was all that great. But it was, you know, it was nice. It was nice to kind of get out of Fredericksburg and go to Johnson City. It was. Yeah. So it was nice. It was nice to spend some time with them too. It was good. Yeah. So that was good. And then. Saturday. Saturday. We, it was the dueling piano show. And we divided and conquered. We did. Because Pastor Jimmy wanted you to go to the Patriot Academy with him to see a gentleman by the name of Victor Marks, who has made a huge impression in our lives now. If you have not seen the Sunday service, Victor Marks, the pulpit was turned over to Victor Marks.

5:48 You have to see. Yeah, and watch both services. They're both online. Or coincidentally, both available on Hello Fred and the Godcaster on the bridge. If you just want to listen to it while you're driving. Yeah. Just saying. Yeah. So we decided to divide and conquer. And so we had Pastor Jimmy and Annette here for dinner. And then you two went to Patriot Academy and Annette and I went to the Dueling Piano Show. How was it? It was fun. There was a lot of friends from church. Everybody was there, right? Yeah. Like the group, the new gang from church. There's a new gang? There's a new gang. What happened to the old gang? Did they just wither away? Well, no, they're still around, but you know, they're, they're aged like a fine wine.

6:28 This is new. This is for the young kids. Yeah. The young, the young. We can stay out late. Yes. Like nine 30. Yes. The youngins. We're by far the oldest ones there. So it was a lot of fun. And of course, you know, you're like, here, take some money. Cause you have to, you have to tip the dueling piano guys. Yes, you have to always. Yeah. Yeah. And so, so of course I tipped, um, 20 bucks for them to play. Come on, Eileen. Why would you have that song? Come on, Eileen. Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. You know the song. Not in your version. Who was the, who was the. Dexy Midnight, Dexy's Midnight Runners. Oh, please. I thought it was, I thought it was come on Irene. until I looked it up. Come on, Eileen. Up until this week, you thought it was Come on, Irene?

7:10 Yes. Wow. In China, it is. Come on, Irene. Racist. Yeah, I try. No, so I guess like three people had paid and requested that song. Really? Yes, yeah. People were dropping dollars. Is that like a floor filler party hit? Is that, because, you know, the thing is, you got to have like upbeat tunes, you know? That song is literally from like 1981. Yeah. Oh, I remember. And, you know, and I don't know. It was just like, I've heard that. Maybe it's because I've played that song so many times on the radio. I'm like.

7:50 I think it's fun. I haven't heard. I know. I'm sure. But you know, they play like O Caroline from Neil Diamond. Sweet Caroline. Oh, sweet Caroline. You're lucky to have me here as your employee. To set you straight. Sweet Caroline. Bum, bum, bum. There you go. So they had one side of the room. Give me some more of those song titles that you have wrong. I'm trying to think what else they had. I know. I'm liking it now. I'm so bad. So during that song, they had people say bum, bum, bum. And then I don't know what the other verse is. Of Sweet Caroline? So good. So good.

8:30 Yes, yes. So they had one side of the room do it. That's a guaranteed party song. It was a lot of fun, but it was a school night. We thought that you two might have been back early. And so we didn't stay that long. I mean, we stayed till maybe 830. School night meaning it's a show night for me. And of course, church the next day for Pastor Jimmy and Annette. They get there pretty early too. Super early. And he was playing in the worship team. Yes. He's back in the band. Yeah, he was. He's back in the band. They invited him back in. Worship team. worship team it's the team worship team they should have jerseys code word for band like you used to say that's right just christian for band yeah yeah so but it was it was fun there was you know there was a lot of people there a lot of people were having a good time so pastor jimmy so he actually they came out here and then you know the patriot academy is near them so he drove the two of us back there and it was for filming of the biblical citizenship course the pitch that the Patriot Academy is putting together.

9:30 Yes. And the green team is always a little last minute with things like, Hey, we need some people. We need some people to come. But, um, what had happened was, and I really didn't know about Victor Marks at all. No. Um, and, um, I think Jimmy, pastor Jimmy had just started watching some of his stuff. I don't, I, I wouldn't say there's any coincidence in the kingdom when it comes to that. Um, you know, prior, prior to Rick asking him if he could think so. I'm not sure. I thought it was kind of, Okay. I don't know. Or he had gotten his book or something. But anyway, I didn't know anything about him, but Pastor Jimmy said, hey, let's go. And actually, because I was kind of, when the request came in, I love how Pastor Jimmy and Damonette divide and conquer on these things.

10:15 I get a text, hey, brother, how about you and I go to Patriot Academy and the girls can go to the dueling pianos. And I'm like, I thought we were kind of all going to have a fun time, the four of us at the dueling piano. So I walk into the bedroom, you're doing your makeup or something. I say, and before I can even open my mouth, you said, yeah, Annette, I said this. I'm like, because in a weird way, I was kind of convinced that you wanted to have the four of us go to the dueling pianos. I don't know why I was so like, I think you need to do this. Because I've known you for, you know, a couple of years now. And I like, and I expected a different response. You're like, oh yeah, you should totally go do that.

10:56 I'm like, oh, okay. Because, you know, last thing I want is strife in the family. No strife. I mean, I wouldn't want to choose Pastor Jimmy over you. I mean, I'm glad you made that choice. I'm like, hey, what did I say? And it's so strange because I didn't know anything about Victor Marks either. Nothing. And so I don't know. It was, I would have to say it's the Holy Spirit who just. That's my point, basically. So I'm like, okay, cool. So we go Victor Marks. You can find him at victormarksmarx.com. and I heard them talk about on living up in a down world. So I knew a little bit about what he was doing, but in short, he's a former Marine. He later in life started a ministry, All Things Possible, and they go, I mean, it's releasing captives in the real world, people who are captive in their minds, all these different things.

11:48 Look at All Things Possible ministry website. But he has saved over 40,000 children and women from sex slavery, from, you know, all kinds of trafficking, bad people, kidnapped. He is a God, God-fearing man. Oh, he eats and breathes and spits God fires. Unbelievable. So he's kind of a rough guy. He's called The Dangerous Gentleman is the name of his book. And you look at him like, that's your typical, you know, Marine, Delta Force, Navy SEAL, fill in the blank. And what is it? Isn't he the fastest? He can disarm the... Yes, he's the fastest gun disarmer in the West or whatever.

12:30 But he's been on Sean Ryan's show and a number of podcasts. You can find him everywhere now that you're looking for. And his story, and he speaks for about two hours. At Patriot Academy. They really only need like 30 minutes. They're trying to get everything into this biblical citizenship course. But, of course, Rick Green just let him speak and speak and speak. And fascinating guy. I mean, just mind-blowing. A lot of what he said came back later the next day in both of the messages that he did at the church. And so at the end, and the whole point was Pastor Jimmy wanted to just say, Hey, I'm Pastor Jimmy. Nice to meet you. because, you know, this has all kind of been set up through people and getting stuff done.

13:15 But Pastor Jimmy was, you know, he got, the Holy Spirit told him, yeah, right away, go. Victor Marks, for sure, for Father's Day, especially. And part of his story is about that as well. And so, you know, Pastor Jimmy, we're waiting patiently. Everyone wants to get, do ussies, selfies and ussies with him, you know, just waiting. And Pastor Jimmy meets him, hey, it's Jimmy Pruitt. And, oh, finally, great. and Pastor Jimmy said, oh, this is my friend Adam Curran. I said, hey, nice to meet you. And then he goes back, and they're talking. I'm just in the background. You know, it's like, this is not my gig. I'm just hanging back, listening. And then as we're about to go, he grabs my hand, and he looks in my eyes.

13:57 I felt like I can feel this gaze at the back of my skull. And he says, I like you, and I need to talk with you. And I'm like, I'm just taken aback. I'm like, does he recognize me? Does he know what I do? I wasn't sure. I said, well, I'll be at the service tomorrow morning, but I work on Sunday. So, you know, hopefully. He says, talk to my guy over there, Chaz. Make sure we get our numbers because I need to speak with you. Okay. And when you came home, you told me that story three times. So I knew. There was something going on I knew that it impacted you because you rarely repeat yourself like that But you told me three times I like this something up here Something up Something was going on And I just wasn't sure. I'm like, in a way I had a thought like, oh, you recognize me from Joe Rogan? You want to, you want to talk to Joe Rogan? That's unfortunately that that's my default with a lot of people because that does happen a lot. Like, Hey, I want to meet with you about something.

14:58 and then say, hey, can you mention to Joe what I'm doing? But that just went through my head. But it was more than that, clearly. Otherwise, I wouldn't have mentioned, brought it up so many times to you. So then Sunday, the service, which, I mean, people should just go watch it. He's so engaging. He's funny. It was impactful. Yes, very funny. He's engaging. He's inspiring and impactful, yes. And it was great for Father's Day. Just a great Father's Day message. Everyone's like, I got to call my dad. And so I guess, you know, so, and I didn't say anything to him there, you know, because we were, we were kicked back a row to our, you know, back seaters now.

15:42 Yeah. No longer in the backseat. The guests get all the front row seats. Yeah. Yeah. Get back there. Yeah. You, you're not important. No, we were gladly. Of course. Not a problem. Um, and so I guess they all went out to lunch and, and they had a nice lunch and then, um, the message came like, um, he really wants to see you tomorrow, Monday before he leaves. Yes. I'm like, and by the way, you immediately said, oh yeah, you should totally do that. When the, do you remember that? When the message came in? Yeah. Like, okay. 11 o'clock. You want to pick up the story from here since it kind of intertwines? Sure. So we had planned to head to Austin Monday to finally celebrate our anniversary and our marriage.

16:26 And we had talked in the morning and I said, okay, you're going at 11 o'clock. When will you be done? And you said, he only has an hour because they have to catch a flight. So I'll be done at noon. You said, I'll come home. I'm going to run to the bank. Then we'll take Phoebe to the vet and we'll be on the road by two o'clock. And I said, great, great. So the plan was set. You were on your way. And we were both like, I wonder what God's up to. I wonder what God's got you up to. with this. And so, um, I am getting ready, you know, I'm packing us, packing us up, getting everything ready to go. And I look at the clock and it's almost one o'clock and I'm like, where, what is going on? So I text you and I go, where are you? And I'm mad because now I'm thinking, here we go again. Tina gets put second place. Well, actually third place because first place is god jesus second place was victor marx and third place is tina like here we go again i get pushed and so i got angry and i said you're late we had a plan and you said i'm just leaving now and i said uh what did i say no what no let me let me step back i can tell you exactly why i don't have my phone with me well let me step back a little bit because i was trying to call you you were hitting me to voicemail. I mean, decline, decline, decline in a row. Anyway. So I was mad. So here's what happened. So it took a little bit for us to, to get up to a conference room. And so we're sitting

17:57 down and, and it's clear he doesn't know anything. I mean, MTV, he's like, I know MTV, but it doesn't, he doesn't really know anything. His son is there taking notes. I'm like, okay, that's interesting. And so I just tell him my story, telling my story about my background, you know, how I got saved, the things I realized. And he's listening to me and he says, son, you can leave now because I'm going to pray. That was to his son. And so it's just two of us in this conference room. And he says, look, this is what I do now. He says, besides going and, you know, what the ministry does, rescuing children and women, He says, I do this for, I just got back from Ford Bragg.

18:40 I do this for Delta Force guys, for CEOs, for presidents. This is what I do. And he calls it retooling prayer. But before that, though, he said that he saw you in the audience at Patriot Academy. Oh, thank you for reminding me. Yes. Yes. He said, when I saw you at the Patriot Academy, just in the audience, I kept looking at you. I didn't know if he, I didn't really realize he was looking at me directly. he said and the more the evening went on i just got tunnel vision and i just all i could see was your face and i heard the holy spirit say you've got to talk to him he says i don't know why the whole he said that the holy spirit he said i kept hearing you have to talk to him i said i don't know why um so i i tell him everything you know all the way up to godcaster and how that came about and then he he asked his son to leave and he says okay this is this is what i do and he goes through a a prayer with me and helps me visualize some things about spiritual warfare and and it's i mean this is intense stuff and he's just battling against the enemy he's just you know like show yourself and what what do you want what are you trying to do with adam and uh to make a very long story short, because this took 45 minutes at least, he says, oh, so the enemy really does not like what you're doing and wants to stop what you're doing at all costs.

20:07 And this is, I learned in a minute, related to Godcaster and podcasting in general. And through this process, so when this starts to happen and through this process, it comes out that this enemy is actually afraid of me. And as we're doing this, the entire Patriot Academy loses power. I mean, it's pitch dark. My eyes were closed. Anyway, it's pitch dark. His security detail just runs into the room. He's like, no, no, it's okay. It's okay. They go out, comes back on, and we finish up. And I said, did the power go off? He said, oh, yeah. He said, oh, yeah.

20:47 The enemy was definitely playing parlor tricks. So he basically brought you freedom from challenges that were holding you back on what God wants you to do. Amazing. Yes. Exactly what he did. And so now I'm just like, wow. And then I walk out and I had not met his wife, Eileen. And she knew about podcasting. And she says, so there's warfare about this. And I say, yeah. I mean, it was really amazing what we just went through. And she says, do you know who the prince of the airwaves is? And I said, no, it's Satan. It says Ephesians 2, 2, the prince of the air or the prince of the airwaves, that is what the enemy is.

21:28 And so he hates you for that because you are spreading the gospel through the airwaves and he feels that he is in charge of that. And then when you think about all the airwaves that we receive, don't just think over the air, but through the internet. Just think of who's really in charge of all the messaging that comes into our television sets, our phones, everything. I'm like, wow. And it's so debaucherous, yeah. Wow. So then, then I see your text. I'm like, okay, so I get in my car. And of course there's construction on 87. So I'm sitting there waiting and I'm like, I need to explain to you what happened. And you're just denying, denying, declining. I felt, I felt like I was pushed to the side again. And I'm thinking this is supposed to be a celebration of our marriage.

22:11 And this is how he's treating me. It's like he put in not, and I had no idea what was transpiring. and I had no, I thought maybe it was a business meeting. I had no clue. And here's the thing, at that moment, because of course, two lines of a text message from you, I know what's up. I'm like, oh, okay, enemy. So we defeat you here, but you're going to go attack my wife. This is exactly what you're doing. And I start praying. I'm like, get behind me, Satan. No way, you're not going to be in charge of this. This is not going to happen. And I keep trying to call you And then I do voice to text. I explain what happens. And then you say, well, okay, I'll be home at 2. So we'll make it fine.

22:52 I won't be able to go to the bank, but we'll drop Phoebe off. It'll all be okay. And I come home and I take Phoebe out for a quick walk. And then I'm just praying. I'm just praying, oh, Lord, Holy Spirit, please just help Tina understand what happened here. And then the door opens, you walk in, and you're like, I completely understand the enemy, what happened here. um well i was in the coffee shop so i'm like i'm taking myself to lunch like what like i'm out of here and i said i don't want to go i said i don't feel like going now because i didn't know and then you said so when i sat down at the coffee house at the cocky house as you like to call it house with my brownie which i rarely ever eat in my coffee like it's like complete sabotage um I got your texts. And so I'm reading it and I had to calm myself down. Like I got so wrapped up in being so angry and then I, I just, I folded my hands and I just started to pray. I started to pray and I prayed to Jesus and, and Jesus through his keeping my eyes on him, he got me through, he got me through that and I was able to calm myself down and um I don't want to go into a whole lot of detail but I was able to calm myself down and then I was like okay I'm gonna go home I'm gonna go home and then when I walked in the door I was completely I understood I could see it I could see it so clearly yeah yeah and then and and so for me it was just like oh man he's

24:24 attacking us he's attacking us like oh that attack vector doesn't work oh watch this watch me Watch me attack you through your wife. Watch me do this. Because I haven't been that angry in a long time. Like to decline your phone call. No, you've never done that. You called nine times and I just kept hitting decline, decline, decline. And to just be so, I can't remember the last time I was there. And to leave, I can't remember the last time that I used to. I mean, it's been years since I did that. But that was all the work of the enemy. Every single bit of it. And what I love is that you came home, we're like, oh, and then we hugged and we're like, okay, it was good.

25:08 And you, yes. And so you felt such freedom from these issues. Did you feel lighter? Oh, still. It's just, I'm still processing. It's just like, wow. I never thought about, yes, we talk about spiritual warfare, but now when it was kind of exposed to me, I'm like, wow, okay. And even on our meeting yesterday, our partner meeting, I said, this is what happened. And we have to be aware that there's spiritual warfare going on around this project specifically. So we, and you know, we, I mean, we pray before our meetings and everything. So we're, and we're doing it for God.

25:49 I mean, we're doing it for his glory. So it was good to just say, hey, we got to be aware of this because he's going to try and cause strife between us and all kinds of stuff. and that puts you in such a different head space. Yeah. I was like, oh, okay. Cause you know, you were also just trying to figure out some things. Like how do you discern when a thought you have is from God or when the enemy puts something in your head? Well, that, that leads into my, we'll talk about that. It's called an alley-oop. Yeah. But I'm not ready to go there yet. I'm not ready to go. You're not at the net. You're not at the hoop. Okay. I'm sorry. I'm not at the hoop. Yeah. Yeah. So it was pretty remarkable that we, that was probably the biggest test for us. Don't you think?

26:30 It was. Since we've come to Christ, since we've been saved. But it was phenomenal. We weathered that storm. Like, yeah. Yes, we did. But God. Yeah. Seriously. And then we hopped in the car, got the fevers in the back, dropped her off. She was like, oh, I'm going to go see Jill and Mike. And she's like, when I went back with her to her executive suite cage, she looks at me like, bro, bro, bro. Don't you love me? You psyched me out, man. This is not Jill and Mike's place. Where's the Longhorns? Where's Max and Bandit? Where's the cat? I'm in jail.

27:10 What did you do, bro? And then we went, bye, Feeb. And she was fine. Yeah. She was there less than 24 hours. Everybody there loves her. They take very good care of her. And, yeah, so we drove to Austin. We got to the hotel. And we, you know, everything was almost perfect. You know, not everything I wanted to arrange was there, but okay. Nothing was there. Pretty much nothing. But it was okay. I didn't care. But here's a half bottle of champagne in the mini bar. Yes. That'll cost you a hundred bucks. It's all right. And it was, you know, we were still talking about it. We just said, you know. We listened to the second service on the way to Austin.

27:50 We listened to the whole second service. And then we got dressed. Yes. And then we went over to Jay Carver, which is where our friend Andrew, who was the maitre d' at True Lux, where a lot of our courtship took place. I think we talked about in the previous episode. Yeah. And he was there waiting for us. And they had a table, the only table with flowers and a nice card and a rose signed by everyone in the restaurant. Yeah, that's the picture you put in the newsletter. And then the waitress shows up with two glasses of champagne. Yes, they took such good care of us. They did. It was fantastic.

28:31 And it was busy in there for a Monday night. Apparently, it's even hard to get a reservation there, unless you know somebody, unless you're Adam Curry, podfather, or just happen to know the nature of it. Well, you had booked way in advance, though, too, so that was okay. But, yeah, so we had a lovely dinner, and then I was like, oh, we ordered dessert, which we barely touched because we were so full. Oh, it was so huge. It was like a sampler. Yes. And it was, yeah. Each sampler by itself would have been too much for the two of us. It was crazy. Yeah. So. But then I was like, let's walk, let's walk back to the hotel. Yes. And it was not far, maybe a half a mile. It wasn't far. And what is our biggest surprise walking back to the hotel? How many Waymos there were Unbelievable I could not believe it We must have seen 20 Explain what the Waymo is It the self car service Yes all these self cars And there must have been 20 of them And they're zipping around.

29:21 They're speedy Gonzalez. I'm like, this is disturbing almost. Yes. It's kind of disturbing. And I go, well, there goes the Uber business. Yeah, possibly. Didn't you say Tesla's going to launch a driverless car? Yeah, a couple of weeks in any driverless cars in Austin. Austin is a test market. That's why there's so many. Yeah. Austin is a good test market for that. We must have seen what? 20. No, 20. At least 20. Yeah. Amazing how many. And it's kind of odd. So I said to you, I go, if it's a driverless car, why do they have a steering wheel? Why do you need the steering wheel? That's a very good point. Why do you even need that? Yeah. That's a good point. Yeah. That's a good point. Why can't like the white? And then we, there was some other service that we saw another, like a van, a driverless van.

30:05 It's like, well, the future is here, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. I just like, I wouldn't invest in it because, you know, the minute it, I hate to say it, but the minute they have some horrible accident, you know, that everyone's going to start asking about it. It only takes one. You just need a computer glitch. Well, whatever. Yeah. Anything. Yeah. So that was fantastic. What's their safety record? Do you know? It's pretty good. Yeah. Thank you. Okay. And so then we go back to the hotel and we're like, well, let's watch some TV. and it was all sports and commercials basically. And we were just like, okay, junk food, junk food, junk food, pharma next, yeah, pharma next.

30:45 And that's when the commercial came on for that rainwater. I'm telling you. I don't even remember it. I remember it because I remember saying pharma commercial and then the rainwater came up like, oh, okay. Anyway. Yeah, and then we got up early and I'm like, let's go home. You're like, we'll go to the Swedish breakfast place. And you're like, well, why don't we just get coffee and go? And then we did wind up going to snooze. yeah which is okay yeah um but it was a lovely we had a very very nice dinner it was that was nice totally relaxing yeah and of course i promised myself no work on mondays and it wasn't no i was anything it was it ended up started off a crazy day it did it started off a crazy crazy day so and of course i came home like boom i hit the ground running i'm like brr i mean you even started to eat with i didn't know you were going to eat that night but you started to eat without me because i went why wouldn't i eat we had some sometimes you don't eat in the evening and yeah you know you know you were in a three-hour meeting i'm like well i guess i'm gonna cook the fillets myself hope i don't did you at any point think oh i'm number two again yeah kind of no you did a great job on the grill i did did a good job i did but we were driving home and i go i need a new hairstyle i think i'm gonna get bangs you're like no bangs no bangs no bang no bangs. And I said, yeah, like little curtain bangs. No, you said curtain bangs. I don't even know what that is. No bangs.

32:06 Women over 40 should not cut their hair short because you'll hate it. Some women don't, but in general. And no bangs. No woman of any age should have bangs. Just know the bangs. I know tears will come. Don't get bangs. You know tears will come. It's the law of the rule of the jungle. Newsflash. Hair grows. Yeah. Yeah. I've had bangs. And then, listen, I had to listen to the rim story for three years. Now I got to sit here and listen to my hair. I can't wait till my hair grows out because the bangs don't like my bangs. They look stupid. Do they look stupid? What do you think of these bangs? What if I do it like this? Oh, man, I should have never done the bangs.

32:47 I know the bang story. Okay. I like how you just told me what to do. No bangs. I never tell you. I'm putting my foot down. No bangs. Because I don't want to hear it. No bangs. Okay. You won't like, you look beautiful. Your hair is fantastic. Not like little curtain bangs? No curtain bangs. No. This is your show title. No bangs. No bangs. Oh, there are some people that could rock the bangs. Very few rock the bangs. Who? Who rocks the bangs? Tell me one person we know who rocks the bangs. Heidi Klum. Oh, please. Does she have bangs?

33:28 I think so. I don't know. I don't know. She must be very lonely. Yeah. No, I don't think she is. Bangs. No bangs. Yeah. Yeah. So. Yes. And then what? Yeah, that covered it. That covered it. That covered everything? I did go. I did. I had lunch with my friend Mindy today. And after lunch, I went over to the church because I wanted to see Annette before they're heading off on their work trip. They're going to California. Yeah, yeah. They're going to see Jack Hibbs on Sunday. At Jack Hibbs Church? Yeah. Oh, that's pretty cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so I wanted to talk to her about a couple of things and get her counsel. And I enjoy her counsel. I wanted to tell her what had happened on Monday because she didn't have the full story.

34:11 And then I wanted to talk to her about what we discussed on Saturday. So we, and this kind of goes into my God shots. Oh, nice. You notice how? Wow, are you professional? You notice how I didn't even stop looking at you and that thing fired off. You got it. So anyway, so lots of times friendships hit a blip for whatever reason, you know, and, and, um, I felt like my friendship with Annette was, was changing and it was making me really sad. It was making me, you know, you've lived through it with me, made me sad and it made me anxious.

34:53 and on Saturday night, I finally, with the prompting of the Holy Spirit, said something to her about how it felt like our friendship was changing and it was really upsetting to me and she felt the same way. And we both were feeling the same way, but nobody said anything. And we were kind of stuck in our silos, you know, about what we were thinking and what I was thinking, she was thinking, what she was thinking, I was thinking, but yet there was no communication. We realized like- What we have here is a failure to communicate. Communicate. Yes. But it was interesting because I felt like God was trying to heal me from my rejection issues.

35:38 And I felt like he keeps presenting these trials and these challenges to me in order to heal me. She thought very differently. And she said, this is the enemy. She said, this is the enemy who doesn't want me to have a good girlfriend. So it was interesting. So I started focusing on, and I prayed about it this morning, like, how do I know that it's God's voice or it's the enemy? And so when I talked to her today, I asked her that question. I said, I'm looking for you to kind of guide me on that. And she said, she said that God only speaks about goodness and love. If there's anything negative, it doesn't come from God.

36:19 And I know that, I know that, but I think maybe I was trying to look for excuses because I felt like my friendship was changing and it was making me sad. So I was, so Annette actually almost quotes this scripture when we're talking. And that is my scripture in my God shot today. Oh, okay. All right. So it's 1 Peter 5, verse 8. Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary, the devil, walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. She basically recited that scripture. And so it was nice for her to confirm to me that, you know, the voice of God, he would never say anything negative that does not come from love.

37:11 And so in my notes, I have here that Jesus said that the thief has come to steal, kill, and destroy. Whenever you get a voice or a thought that is stealing your peace, which is what was happening, or attacking the promises of God, for you as God's child, you know that it is the enemy. The voice is usually a voice of fear, condemnation, self-hate, shame, doubt, jealousy, envy, hatred. So I'm like, oh, like that, because I was like, oh, I need better discernment. How do I know? And she just clarified that for me. Not only did we, did a huge relief come off of both of us. Oh, I know that. Yes, I know.

37:51 We just love each other so much. And she's such a, like such a precious friend that the thought of it, like going away was really hard on my heart. And it was for her too. And so to work through that and then for her to counsel me, like, this is how you know the difference. So now I know. Like the enemy again was really trying to get, get in the way of our friendship for different reasons to get, keep me stuck in my trauma of rejection and to keep her stuck in being fearful. So it was, it was so good to go through that. Not knowing any of this. And, uh, you know, there's this, uh, this cool, uh, radio station called the hello Fred.

38:32 Yes. And so I make promos for our show and for Wall Builders and for Matt Long and for Living Up in a Down World. And so they did their show last Thursday. I cut the promo. Unbeknownst to all of this, this promo was cut before any of this happened. Listen to the promo. This week on the Living Up in a Down World podcast. We all have these thoughts, these intrusive thoughts that come into our mind. I know I do a lot and that are negative. And those negative thoughts are never from God because God thinks only positive things about us.

39:13 He sees the end from the beginning. So when we have a negative thought about ourselves, let's just say about ourselves, not about someone else, but about ourselves, that's where we have to fight the enemy on that. And I think women probably have to more than men. I don't know. I can only speak for myself because I'm a woman. Right. Thank you for clarifying that. But we talk about it more to other people, whereas men keep it to themselves. I'll just say that. That's true. You usually don't have a conversation with a guy saying, you know, I have this thought about, you know, I've got these, you know. I've got love handles. I've got love handles. Exactly what it is. I've got love handles, bro. What about you? How are you? The women do. We talk like that.

39:54 Go to HelloFred.com. When was that recorded? Last Thursday. Oh. last thursday yeah she was battling it she was in the thick of it just like i was too and the big takeaway for me though pastor jimmy has love handles but how about that in a way you know so true so i the way i see it is god was trying to already communicate this to both of you and then i mean i i just needle drop for i listened to the whole show but like oh oh yeah i like this part and i'll just grab that because the punch line of course is i have love handles but all of that before that that's the holy spirit moving me to cut that and make it a promo now if only get the holy spirit make you listen to hello fred i mean i listen to hello fred but let me just let me wrap this up before you go into joke mode i'm sorry um i just thought it was so interesting how we were both coming at it from different different perspectives and then how she counseled me through it.

40:57 Yeah. And that I just have to remember that all these thoughts and suggestions, are they in line with God's word? Are they in line with God's character? You know, like that's, that is my go-to. And I just, I got, I kept thinking, it's so interesting. I kept thinking, I just got to keep being punished until I get healed. He's just going to keep presenting this to me until I finally figure it out. And that's not how it is at all, at all. and not only that it brought me such relief such relief both of us we felt like oh my gosh we was so heavy on on both of us and i said to her i said when you walked in the door i said i was waiting for you to hug me i said you didn't hug me she goes i was waiting for you to hug me you see what the enemy does yeah how messed up is that she's not texting me she's not texting me i'm not texting her i'm not texting her i'm waiting for this person we are yes mature women yes it's like this is ridiculous and so that's what the enemy does yeah once you and in a way i guess the rejection thing is also what when you didn't when i didn't come home on time yes it's the same that's my trauma where her trauma is fear and she'll tell you that that that's her trauma my trauma's rejection because it started at such a young age probably when i was in the womb hey go god man right this is a go god show yes i love it Now it's time to hear from the coke suckers.

42:21 That's right. We got to hear from those coke suckers now. Yeah. What did you say? What did you say? Now it's time to hear from the coke suckers. Yeah, value for value is the name of the game. We love hearing back from you guys anyway, from all of Vineyard Nation, any way that you feel like it. We have our PO box. I've never seen the PO box got cobwebs, man. Yeah. Nothing going on at the PO box. We love getting stuff in the PO box. We love the emails, anything. And of course, as a value for value, we love it when you return some value to us. Please consider doing that with a modern podcast app.

43:02 We are still on the fountain hosting system, which is working very well. It goes incredibly fast, actually. You know, I post the show and I can do five more minutes of stuff before you wonder if the show has been posted. How about that? It's like, I was in here to do some more stuff. And so we accept satoshis of the Bitcoin through a boost on Fountain, but you can also send us anything through a credit card on the Fountain app. You can, if you go to our show, you can hit on that and you can subscribe and do all kinds of different ways of supporting us or PayPal. Curryandthekeeper.com is our website.

43:42 You can learn all about us. please subscribe to the newsletter. It's great. I read it every single time usually during the show but I read it every single time and it funny and it gets you pumped you pumped up and ready for what happening you get a million emails so i not going to give you crap hey kicking it off i know i mean i blown away by this this is our og salmon yay michael anastasio who kicks up with 400 dollars on the paypal i was like when it came through i I said, Adam, I know. Adam, read his note. A bit of value for value. Keep up the good work. P.S. Adam, grab yourself a great bottle of wine and know that Vineyard Nation misses Tipsy Tina.

44:26 We all miss Tipsy Tina, Michael. She'll be back. It's just, Michael, I drank a lot on Monday and then I had a lot of rosé last weekend. So I'm like. Next week, next week, maybe, maybe. Okay, next. And we'll grab a good bottle of wine. Thank you, Sir Brian with an eye for the hooch. Yeah, for the hooch. That's just, you know, just to sort of. But thank you, Michael. That is so, you are so, so good to us. Thank you so much. And then blowing right in with 77,777 for the Striper Boost is Pastor Jimmy Pruitt. And he says, oh, everybody understands basket trauma, the title of our last show. It's a real thing. We love you guys. We'll miss you while we're in SoCal, but looking forward to catching up ASAP when we get back.

45:11 Great show as usual. KYOB and KTLD. It's from Pastor Jimmy and Damonette. Thank you very much, guys. We love you, too. And coming in with a mini striper boost, 77.77, it is Sir Brian with an I. I don't understand why Adam and Tina don't just get separate laundry baskets. have one for socks and hoodies and then she can put her stuff in the other one. I love the courage and I hate when they fight. Aww. Not really fighting. I'm just a problem solver offering solutions to this family feud. Thanks, Brian. Oh, okay, problem solver.

45:51 In the evening, y'all. In the evening! Michael Hall checks in with $7 in the PayPal. Thank you very much, Michael. And then 4,786 Satoshis from Redna. First time donation. so Redna gets a decanting. First time donation. Just want you both to know your show is appreciated. Aw, thank you. Thank you. That's all we really want to know. Your marriage and path to God are all offset a year behind my wife and I. Aw. It's exciting to hear so many echoes in the journey you share. You are blessed. It's exciting to see how true it is that the spirit goes where he wills. God bless from Redna. Aw, I love that. Thank you, Redna. I'd love to know where you're from, Redna.

46:32 Awesome. Hey, 4738 Satoshi's from Comic Strip Blogger. CSB. Howdy, lovebirds, Tina and Adam. I'd like to recommend a very good podcast, www.unrelenting.show. Oh. It's a podcast by Darren and Gene. Oh. Gene is a Jewish-Russian-American, so he has interesting insights that complement nicely the half-Irish, half-Polish-American Darren. I also like bigly their health issue talks. yo csb wow there you go um oh coming in with one two three four it's dreb scott dreb scott who is of course uh he uh no longer is doing the chapters for the curry and the keeper podcast as we have the ai doing that now i know he's kind of like oh ai took his job well they're setting it up so that he can go in and he can edit them and add images because there's no images and if anything the images that dreb adds is always great yes um and he says matthew 11 28 to 30 oh oh we have to look that one up can you can you do that yeah matthew 11 28 30 perfect god shot for my morning i needed this thank you i think he actually i think he texted me this honestly because we had a back and forth about this the other day.

47:52 Matthew 11. 11, 28. You got it? Yes. Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. Oh, yeah, we talked about that. A fan favorite. I love that one. Yeah. I think that, wasn't that my God shot from last week? I think it was. Was it? I think it was. And he boosts in again with one, two, three, four. He says, walking. Walking feels so good. I'm on day 59 of consecutive days hitting at least 10,000 steps or five miles a day. On my morning walk as I boost right now.

48:35 That should be illegal in some states, walking and boosting at the same time. I'm on a journey to lose 50 pounds. So far, I've lost 16. My knees have stopped hurting. And Mrs. Dreb says, I've even stopped snoring. Yay! Hashtag go walking, he says. Beautiful. Yeah, you know what? Add a weighted vest. You'll watch the weight just drip off of you. And now Pastor Combsy checks in. And I have to say, I didn't read this previously. So let me just check in real quick on our fountain dashboard. Because Pastor Combsy says, subscribe via Fountain on May 29th.

49:15 Have you seen it? Well, hold on one second, Pastor Combsy. Let me just make sure that we saw that. Okay, I'm logging in. I'm getting into the dashboard. It's all very exciting here right now. And would it be under Pastor Combsy? I'm hoping it would be. And May 29th. Let me see. I apologize. I should have done all this early. I see Steve Weiss. oh steve weiss coming in oh with a subscription where is pastor combsy um you have to let me know what it's called administrative work during the show it is pastor combsy please let me know what uh what email address you use because it may be in here uh but it's all by email address so uh and thank you steve weiss thank you yeah coming in with 25 bucks there very nice oh wow Oh, thank you.

50:11 Oh, man. Love it. I love you guys. Love Vineyard Nation. We love hearing from you. We especially love the notes that you send along with your boosts and with your PayPal and now with your Stripe donations. Thank you all very much. Yes, thank you so much. Curryandthekeeper.com is where you can find out all the information you need. Wow, we're perfectly on time today. We are. We can watch more Ted Lasso. Yay. Yeah. know what it's time for the question all right everybody it's time question of the week tina has the question i don't so this is where tina asked me a question and i go uh depends on what you mean i know like well who am i talking to okay can you share a funny story from school when you were in school a funny story or a good story most of my stories were traumatic because you know people would do something to the teacher's coffee and i'd get blamed um a funny i don't think i have a single funny story from school oh gosh here we go i mean how about a traumatic one i can't even repeat the traumatic ones i mean i got beat up i got you did look at you now i know I know it wasn't until, okay.

51:34 Well, the funny story is, wasn't it the girl in the bathroom? Remember? Well, that's not a funny story from school. I'll tell that story. Although it's kind of sad. So at school we had, there were these girls and, and they had on the cool, um, ski jackets, Elessa, E L L E S. And you know, E L L E S E. It was like the brand to have very expensive. And they would walk. And of course they were beautiful. And there was, and I'm like, oh, there goes the Alessa gang. And, uh, and they would prance around and they, they like, they would spit on me. Who are you? The ugly, ugly person.

52:16 And then years and years later, and I think I'm already on MTV and I'm back visiting Europe and I'm at some bar for some reunion and I go into the bathroom and she is literally the toilet lady standing there with the dish with tips. yes yeah and i was like oh hey that was a horrible story i feel even worse now that i that i said it you were nice to her though right of course i was did she recognize you right away i'm like here's 20 bucks please uh so no i i did not have a good uh a good you don't have many Any stories you want to share?

52:58 No, there's nothing that was ever any good in school other than, I mean, here's an example of my childhood at school. So we have been on vacation, and during that vacation, somewhere in the southern part of Holland, and the wild one was on, Marlon Brando, black and white movie, Marlon Brando. he's on him he has a motorcycle game wild Monday wild the wild the wild one and I mean and he has this leather jacket on which is just the most awesome thing so for at least a year and a half I'm like I want a leather jacket I want a leather jacket it's very expensive I want a leather now I can't have a leather jacket so like after a year of moaning and groaning about this I got a leather jacket for my birthday or for Christmas. You know the story? But I could only wear it to school and they gave me a chain with a padlock and I had to chain and padlock my leather jacket to the coat rack at school. So nobody could take it. So nobody could steal it. And of course I diligently did it and people would look at me like, what is wrong with you? That's the kid who chains his leather jacket to the coat rack.

54:18 How old were you? 15, 14. That's funny. Did it ever get stolen? No, of course not. It was chained. It was padlocked. No, there was no way it could ever get stolen. So you would wear it to school and then you'd have to hang it up. I'd have to padlock it through the sleeves. You couldn't wear it through the school? No, I wore it to school. But I mean, during the day. Well, I'd have to un-padlock it and put it back on. No, I mean, wear it. In the school? Yeah. No, no, no. It was a heavy leather jacket. You couldn't, you know. So did you have the chain when you were walking to school where the chains, no, like mittens only chains, that idea of, no, I left the chain, the padlock at school and kids go, they'd be ripping the chain around.

55:00 Cause it was, it was still connected to the coat rack. The wood was all worn away from kids. Did anybody else do that? No, of course not. I also had mittens with a string as a kid. now that I think about it. And I'll be like, what's wrong with you? Like, well, my mom is afraid I'm going to lose my mittens. Like, are you a moron? I'll say, no, but my mom wants me to do this. So this all leads back to the see-through body shirt trauma. I need a session. I need a session. Trauma. How about you, babe? Any funny stories? Well, I mean, yeah, I get, well, I don't know if I told this story or not, But when I was in third grade and I had just, my mom forced me to start wearing a bra.

55:48 Do you know this story? Maybe. So my mom for, and I was like, oh, I was starting to develop at a young age because I was a big girl when I was little. And I, oh, I hated this bra because I would constantly pull it down. And then before we were going out for recess, I took it off because I couldn't stand it. and I put it in my coat pocket and we were playing jump rope. Oh. And then everybody goes, Tina. And they're pointing and there's my bra on the playground. Oh. And I was like, oh, oh, I was so embarrassed. Oh. At least you didn't have to chain padlock it to the coat rack. Yeah, but my bra was laying on the, the, was so embarrassing.

56:29 I hated that. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sorry, babe. And then there was a time when I was in middle school when I thought it was so cool. It was the 70s. It was the mid 70s. And I bought a pair of patchwork platform shoes. Now I was already five, seven in middle school. I was tall. Yes. And so, and I bought a, a denim, um, like jumper dress and I wore my jumper dress and these platform shoes. I was like five, 10 walking down the hallway in seventh grade. I was like Frankenstein. Fantastic. Yeah. But I didn't have a great school experience. No. I wish I wouldn't have let it just slip through my hands like I did.

57:09 I had a boyfriend. My boyfriend just took up all my time. But you picked it up later and you put yourself through college. Yeah, I know. But gosh, I mean, I didn't get involved in sports. I didn't get involved. I didn't like really have a whole lot of friends. I mean, some friends, but because I had a boyfriend, he just, boring. Yeah. Anyway. Anyway, but look at where I'm standing now. Look at where we are now, baby. It's never too late to have a fantastic love affair. Exactly. All right, everybody. That's going to do it for Curry and the Keeper, episode 138. We will be back next week. I love you, Tina Marie. I love you, Adam Curry. And we'll see you all then. Bye-bye.

57:56 In your nation. In the evening. Curry and the Keeper. Yeah, Curry and the Keeper. Curry and the Keeper.