 I hope you all are having a wonderful, day, that scene. You'd be surprised how often that something similar to that scene in life actually happens. I will say this, I will say this, and anyone that's been in prison, can testify to this that even though there are a lot of horrible moments and there are a lot of horrible moments in prison, there are also some funny moments, there's some silly things, but there are some. And so that scene just kind of reminds me of some of the scenes that I'm going through. By the way, we trade a lot of food in prison. On Thanksgiving, depending upon the prison that you're at, that's one of the days where you tend to get more food than normal. Now, let me just say this, in case anybody is thinking about going to prison, in case anybody's contemplating, if you're looking for a vacation spot, let me be the first to tell you, like a tour guide, don't go there. It's not a good spot. The amenities aren't, they're a little bit below average. They're not quite four or five star quality. And the food leaves a lot to be desired. As a matter of fact, listen, Google or YouTube prison food, and it's pretty close to it. Now there are some spots, there's some spots where the food is okay. And in prison, okay is awesome. We'll tell someone what's the food like. If it's okay, we'll say that's really good. All men, the food is good. Food is good. Now, good food in prison is, yeah, you wouldn't really eat it here. You wouldn't pay for it if you went to the store. And if someone served it to you at home, you'd look at them, you might leave home if you did. So it's not the best. But there are some times where it's pretty decent. Thanksgiving, along with Christmas, are two of the holidays where you tend to get a little bit more portions. Now, when I was at Beaumont, the food was not very good at all. I ended up getting down and getting moved over to the prison in Fort Worth where the food there, the history of the food service there was actually pretty good. And so what they would do is they would allow you because you're not technically supposed to bring food out of food service back to the dorm, wherever you were. You're not supposed to bring food out of there. But on Thanksgiving, because everybody is coming and they're serving more food, they tend to allow you to just bring the food back. And so you take your bowls and everything and they just put it on there and they may have some pies, you may have some cake in there, some turkey or what have you. And so that's a good day when you can bring the food back and what ends up happening is you end up kind of trading with everybody. Let me get your cornbread for this chicken. It's a whole lot of that happens. There's a lot of that going on, trading your pies and so forth. And then they're going to give you a box lunch because you'll eat your Thanksgiving meal around 11, 12 o'clock. They'll probably start a little bit earlier because everybody in prison is going to eat. And then they'll give you a box lunch because you're going to eat that in the afternoon. You go back and sit back and watch football or some of the guys are going to gamble or what have you. They don't trade food for cigarettes anymore like that because they don't sell cigarettes in prison now. They do have cigarettes there, but that's from the cigarette man. They got the tobacco guy, the guy that's selling cigarettes, who's selling tobacco or who's selling weed or something else. And usually they're not taking food for that. Usually, no, you're going to get some money. You're going to have to send some money to that guy's books. Or they may take some stamps. Usually not a lot. Well, I guess it was a penis. In prison, stamps are typically the currency. Really take it back. Anything is currency. Let me just say anything and everything is currency. Stamps are currency and so a book of stamps, two books, five books, you can buy a pair of tennis shoes for 20 books. It depends on everything. You think inflation is something out here. Inflation is even more so in prison or it might be trading food, something that others don't typically get. And so that's a good day in prison. But before the day starts, in the middle of the day and after the day, there's going to be some sorrow on your heart in prison. It is and the reason is because you're not around anybody. You're around inmates. You're around guys that you have to rack up for count time and so forth. And by the way, you've got to get counted at least three times a day in prison. And so you're around them, but the people that you want to be around, you're not around them. You're not around your wife or your kids, your parents, your siblings. You're not even around the little the bums who said they were going to be your friends and stick with you through thick and thin. You're not around them because they left you. So those are the times where it gets a little bit heavy. Okay, I see somebody who was also in prison. He says, I hated the head count. You know, yeah, they've got to count you to make sure y'all seen in life where a hoppin Bob has his has his little his little pieces of rocks or whatever to count to make sure you're all there. That's the most important thing in prison. The most important thing is the count. If the count is bad, someone's not where they're supposed to be. Everything gets shut down just to make sure everybody's where they're supposed to be. But anyway, what did Congress say? No, you can't trade it. You know what? Maybe you can. Maybe you can't hear. I'll give you this. I'll give you that. Usually, no, usually it doesn't even take that. There's other reasons for putting a head out on somebody and use it because you just feel like it. Now, if it's somebody of a different gang, a different group, there's some politics to be thought out in some case. Sometimes it ends up happening. Sometimes if a person of another race fights a different person, sometimes it's in the heat of the battle. It just happens. It just happens. And so now the politics come in afterwards. But sometimes the politics take place first when you're thinking of when or should we go and get this person? They think about it and so forth. And then sometimes they'll talk to the persons who speaks for them. So let's say if you are in a particular gang, let's say you're in a particular Mexican gang, you got to go talk to the speaker for that group. And then see if it's okay. Maybe the guy got it coming. Who knows? But now you better make sure your numbers are right. Did y'all hear that? That was thunder. That was thunder. Do the Cowboys play here? So maybe that's happening out there at Cowboys Stadium, at AT&T Stadium. Who knows? Anyway, but while you are eating and you're contemplating how good the food is for this time, the problem is though you're not with the ones you want to be with. You get the habit though of doing this and this. And if you get this routine going on in prison. But at the end of the day, the routine is over with. On Thanksgiving, the routine is a little bit interrupted because it's a different holiday and you got football on. Everybody's inside and so forth. Everybody's around you. The hard part comes in. And this is the hardest part about prison sometimes isn't the violence. Sometimes it isn't the food. Sometimes it isn't the different headaches. The hardest part about prison is just being locked away, being away from the people that you want to be with. That's the hard part. And it begins wearing on. You begin squeezing on every facet of you. It begins squeezing on your emotion, your psyche, your mentality. It can wear on you physically because a lot of folks go to prison and kind of waste away some folks. Gain 1,000 pounds, some folks lose a lot. Now a lot of guys who go and work out and so forth, they may come out in better shape physically. But a lot, but most do not. And it can weigh on you spiritually. Matter of fact, what it's going to do is it is going to test you. And I don't know of too many former inmates who around Thanksgiving and some of you guys in the chat, if you don't mind saying so, if you happen to be a former inmate. I don't know of too many former inmates who around Thanksgiving and Christmas don't think about other men that are still there. You may have a home, you may have a homeboy, you may have a buddy that's still back in prison or you're thinking about what they're going through, what they're, what they're, you know, what's happening. Because now there are, listen, there are some places we call, you know, we might say it's a sweet spot. There's one particular camp that I ended up making myself my way down to the sweetest camp on earth. It was almost like I was in prison. And I was there for about a year or so. But even then though it's still, it's still prison because they'll come and let you know every now and then that you are still an inmate. Most inmates will remember, I still remember my number. I still remember my, my, my federal number. And it's ingrained there. Matter of fact, I could probably recite it all faster than I can my social security number. Yeah. And so they'll always, they'll always ask you, you know, if, hey, can you send me something? You know, you might want to put $20 on their books. $20, that's not, that's not even worth it, but $50, $100 because there are things that they may want to put. Why would you want to send an inmate something in prison? Well, first of all, the one thing you don't want to have happen is people who are frustrated and locked away to become more frustrated because in most cases they're getting out. How frustrated do you want them people getting out? How much do you want to do? Do you want to deal with a firecracker coming out of prison? Or do you want to deal with a full scale bomb coming out of prison? Some of these guys that are in prison and the other guys in prison can testify. They need to be in prison. There are some folks that are in there who definitely need to be. There are some folks who have learned their lesson. Some folks who've got too much time. There are some folks, we ain't got enough time on the plan to give these people. There are some people that are like that. And so you, and you have to deal with all of them. And I don't know of a person, any man who, when he takes his breath and just sits back and thinks about it while he's in prison, doesn't have, doesn't try to find a place. Doesn't try to find some sort of opportunity to get by himself and cry. That happens a lot. That happens a lot. And I know a lot of you all can't identify with prison where there's guards and there's bars and there's shackles and there's barbed wire and there's and there's guards with with shotguns. There's a perimeter patrol and so forth with guys riding around with shotguns and make sure no one gets out and so forth. You may not be able to identify with that, but you can identify with the suffering. And just cause it's a particular Thursday in November, doesn't mean the suffering and the pain goes away because some folks might not necessarily be in a physical prison, but you can still find yourself in a spiritual prison. And so I want to give something to all of us because I think this applies to every Christian. I want to go to Psalm 3418. I want to look at this one. I think this is applicable to every last one of us. Let's read it. He says, the Lord is near the broken hearted and saves the crushed spirit. There's not a person on the planet. If you live long enough who won't be at some point in time in your life, you will not be broken hearted that you won't have a crushed spirit and some things crush a person's spirit breaks a person's heart easier than the next person. This might upset or bother or frustrate or destroy or crush the spirit of somebody where it wouldn't bother you. But then something that doesn't bother them might crush and destroy you. There are all sorts of things that happen, but everybody falls in this category. But look what he says. After that 19, he says, many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all. That's actually good preaching right there. Many are the afflictions of the righteous. Now, first of all, it doesn't mean that there are no afflictions for the unrighteous. Everybody is going to be afflicted. Everybody's going to have something. I don't care who you are. Everybody's going to be afflicted. But he's speaking of the righteous. And what does he say that he'll do to the righteous who are afflicted? He says, the Lord will, the Lord delivers him out of them all. I think I need to get a message to all my demons later. I think I need to get a message to all the folks who want to cast out demons. I think all these people need to see this passage that the Lord, he is the true deliverer and whatever the afflictions are. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but whatever they are, the Lord will deliver them of them all. Let's keep continuing. Let's keep going. He says, now this is actually prophetic in terms of Jesus, but it can also apply to us, but this is also referencing Jesus. He keeps all his bones, not one of them is broken. Then he says, Affliction will slay the wicked and those who hate the righteous will be condemned. The Lord redeems the lives of his servants. None of those who take refuge in him will be condemned. Can I get amen? Can I get an amen? And so in other words, God sees that. God hears it. God feels it. God knows it. He's not oblivious to whatever it is. And a lot of times towards the end of the year, we start thinking and contemplating some things. And we even outside of prison, you can become heavy-hearted because things may not have gone your way. It's the end of the year. Maybe things didn't quite work out the right way. I don't have the money that I want at the job. Relationships, all these things make my health whatever it is. But God is still going to deliver you in some way, shape, or fashion. If he doesn't do it physically, well, I promise you, then the spiritual blessing will be that much more sweeter. How do I know? Well, what does Paul say in Romans chapter 8, 18? Listen to what he says. He says, and I don't have it on the screen. I've got it on the screen, but I got the wrong one. There it is. He says, for I consider that the suffering of this present time. Whatever it is you're going through is not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. Whatever it is you're going through, whatever it is, there's something that you're going to receive that you're going to have in your possession that is far more, more exceedingly beneficial, more glorious than the pain that you might be going through. Paul goes on and calls us a light and momentary affliction. But he says, whatever it is, it's incomparable to what is waiting for us. Now we're not there yet. It's almost like you're working out and while you're working out, you're trying to get to a certain level of fitness goals, but you're not there. But you know that this working out is going to benefit something or while you're at the job and you're putting in time that you know that, hey, come pay day, you feel pretty good. More than that, more than anything that you can think of, more than any relief that you can think of, what we're going to get, it far exceeds what we're going through. It's like this. And I hate to use a sports analogy for someone who doesn't watch sports, but anytime we think of the greatest games, I don't get football, basketball, baseball, soccer, cricket, croquet, whatever. The greatest games, especially for the fan of that team is a game where that team was struggling. It didn't look good all the time. Maybe you were behind getting beat. The greatest games in history is where the team came back from behind. And where it looked like all is lost where things weren't going quite the way you wanted to the next, you know, you would. So how sweet of a victory is it when you look back and see what you came through, what you came from? That makes it sweeter when you know that you struggled and you labored for something and it wasn't easy, but you got to it. Think about that for a second. Think about some of your greatest possessions. Some of your greatest possessions, things that you value the most didn't come easy. It took some work to get there. As a matter of fact, maybe while you were working for it, working towards it, you knew that you couldn't even see it. And maybe you felt like this is just too much. But guess what? Like he says, whatever it is you're going through, even if you didn't bring about it on yourself, even if it just is what life happened. Cancer struck. Someone passed away. The bills became too burdensome. Whatever it is, whatever the afflictions are, he just says it's many. He just said that there are many. And these are many that come upon us and he will deliver us from them all. The true deliverer. And so I think that everyone ought to be thankful for not the things that you've got. It's easy to talk about, I'm thankful for this. I'm thankful for that, that I have. I'm thankful for that. You know what you ought to be thankful for? The things that you were delivered from. And we know that you can be delivered from them because think about all the things you have been delivered from. Think about all the stuff that you complain about, all the things that hurt you, all the problems in the past, where they in the past. And so we know that he can deliver you from because he's been to, he's always delivered you. It's what he better than FedEx, better than UPS, better than DHL, better than the postal. He has always delivered us from something. He's not going to stop now, is he? Amen? So that being said, I don't want it to be too somber. I think it ought to be a joyous occasion. Now I don't know what you guys are going to do today. Me, I am through with whatever I was supposed to do. I did a little bit of light straightening up. I was folding. I did some laundry last night. I was folding. By the way, who is the guy or gal, the woman who invented fitted sheets? Somebody tell me, who invented fitted sheets? Why am I asking this question? Because I did some laundry last night. I left it in the dry. I brought out this morning folding the stuff up. It's impossible. Bring a demon slayer to figure this out. How do you fold a fitted sheet? Now what I did was I kind of rolled it up, wrapped it in, it doesn't look like a square. Is anybody out there able to fold a fitted sheet? That person was evil. Whoever it was. That's evil. That's just me. I don't know. And then the fitted sheets never fit. They always come up. Yeah. That person has a demon. Whoever it is. You got a burrito. You know what Doug says? You got a burrito. I don't know how you do it. I don't know. It says YouTube it. It's been done. Well, you know what? That's what I'm going to do. I'm going to look it up. By the way, let me say this KL. I don't like your thumbnail now. I don't like your, what do you call it? Avatar. I don't like your new one. I like your old one. Go back to the old one. I don't know. I don't know what it is you're doing. I don't know who you're trying to impress, but that would know. We don't like it. Let's, we vote right now that you go back to it. We bind that icon or avatar that you have in the name of Jesus. Go back to the other one. I like the other one. Yeah. There you go. They're nightmares. I hate them. I absolutely hate them. Who just came in? That cat came in. Oh, I thought the cat came in. Yeah. That anyway. Look it. Look it. Look at you. Look at the straight A student. She says I can. Well, you know what? I would love since somebody sent me a video on how to do it. She said I can. I don't. There must be a way. There must be a way. And someone should wait a second. The game is not on yet. Is it? Okay. Yeah. Do you guys watch football? Hold on. Let me see what she says. She says you match the corners then when all the corners are together, you allow the elastic edges to fold over. Then you don't. Then you fold it small. Okay. You just confused me. Now, Susie Q, I want to ban you. I want to block you now. You made it more confusing. Dog going straight A student. And look, now you have now you have affected Mitch. She's saying the same thing for folding at the corner. It's not for me. I don't. I don't have a spiritual gift to do it. I don't have the patience to do it. I don't understand it. So consequently, you're going to find you go. There you go. There you go. Praise the Lord. I bought the fitted sheet up and call it a day. That's what I'm talking about. Smart Christian right there. That's pretty much what I did. That's pretty much Mona says she's right. Well, listen, I don't know how to do it. A fitted sheet machine folder. That's what we need. So consequently, what we have is we have a dearth of fitted sheets in the house. I don't have my wife. We don't have as many as we need. And so because of that, we got a whole bunch of those, the sheet to go over and we use those as the fitted sheet. That makes it a whole lot easier. If I can fold it, it can stay there and good morning to you too. And Janelle, thank you so much. I appreciate that. I appreciate that. Thank you for the super chat. Look at your net. Look, Joan wants to get in. You're trying to embarrass me. Folding fitted sheets is very easy to fold square. See, here y'all go. You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to go to YouTube and find. I'm going to find a video and see if I can do one. I'll take them out of the closet. The ones that I have ball in you, they're easy to see. They're the ones that have balled up. I'll get those. I'm going to get it and then try it. If I can't do it, I'm going to go back and look at the chats. If I can't do it, I'm going to ban you three. Now, so I got to ask a question though. You know, before we go, what are you guys? What are your thoughts on the bears? What are my thoughts on the? I love the bears. I love the Chicago Bears. Anyone saying anything bad about the Chicago Bears? Listen, if we ever need a team that we need to play in Super Bowl to beat, it's the Chicago Bears. So I love the bears. What are you? What are you guys eating? What do you got? Did I see that? I see Ruslan's video with Pagani. I saw it. I saw it. I didn't have a whole lot of thoughts on it. I really didn't. I really didn't. It didn't really go all that in depth. And so he didn't really speak on all the stuff, which is fine. Which is fine. He gave a little bit. Looks like I got Lisa saying go bears. I got Seaway saying good bears. I got Angela saying good bears. Listen, go bears. Go bears. I love the bears. Our last Super Bowl was a byproduct of the bears. So I'm chicken pot pies. Okay. Proverbs eating pork. You're not a good Muslim proverb. You're not being a very good Muslim, which is good. You shouldn't be good Muslim. You're being a good Christian. You ate already? Yeah. You had chicken? Okay. What did Jesus eat? Well, they didn't have things given. So I don't know what he ate, whatever he wanted. Jesus ate whatever he wanted. Okay. What is this? She says chicken. I don't know what in the world is that? What is that? Is that something Jamaican or something? What dish is that? What is that? The Bible says that God will deliver them. Does that mean on this side of heaven? Sometimes it is. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes it is. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes it is, though. However, he delivers it. You're thankful for it. I think this, that what God takes us through, we can handle it. Now, it may even ultimately lead to our death. But the reward on the other side is sweeter. It's sweeter. And sometimes it seems to happen with a lot of people who just love the Lord. Like, Lord, why is this happening to that person? Of all people. Why could it happen to this person over here? Don't act like y'all don't do that. Why is this person who I think I know there's none good. But this person right here seems like a really sweet person. This is happening to this person. But this guy is a jerk. He just hit the lottery too. God knows what he's doing. What is this? I get it. I said, I slumped my leg. He says, I slumped my bacon. We are, I don't even know, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. This ain't that kind of channel, Carlos. Cow tongue. You clearly, one, you're not an American and you're not a Christian. Let me just say that. So we're going to pray for you. Cow tongue. Jerk turkey. So, okay, you guys, how come you guys don't eat regular Thanksgiving food? Yeah. Good old fashioned American Thanksgiving food. Even if you, even if you're in another country, you ought to be eating American Thanksgiving. By the way, do other countries serve? They don't. Yeah. People in other countries, I guess it's American holiday. So, but you suppose, listen, you suppose to have turkey, some kind of turkey, some kind of ham, right? Supposed to have something green like greens. As they say down here in the South, college greens. You got to have something orange, sweet potatoes. You got to have something yellow, which is going to be your macaroni cheese and your cornbread. Or your, okay, dinner rolls with cornbread. I like dinner rolls for Thanksgiving. You eat the Spanish food for Thanksgiving? Okay. You say work, work 25 years in corrections and Miami Dade County and four years as a police officer in the military contest. The meaning of the things that you said take. Yeah. Yeah. Are you saying that you were in, that you were in Beaumont? Agape Love? Were you at Beaumont? Jonas has bread. Wine. Okay. I don't drink your wine. My husband fries a turkey every year. He's a fireman. He hasn't. Yeah. You, because there are so many people who houses or who start a fire trying to fry these turkeys. I fried one once. Wait a second. Sacrilegious. Who eats fish on Thanksgiving, Jonah? That, you know what? I got that. I got that. I got that. Your name is Jonah and you're eating fish on Thanksgiving. I get. Okay. You should be the only one. Yeah. You're the only one. Thank you Tim for being here. This guy eats fish on Thanksgiving. You can get away with it because your name is Jonah. That's, that's, that's clever. That's good. But it is wrong to eat fish on Thanksgiving though. You are, you are officially sending Mona ribs. Okay. Ribs. Mona, are you in the South? Are you in the, are you in the South Mona? You got to be eating ribs on Thanksgiving. Um, let me throw on them. Oh, what? Fish and chips. Okay. There's somebody from Middle Earth or from England. I don't mean it. Okay. Uh, does Ezekiel 1821 through 32 disprove one saved always saved? No, it does not. Because he's speaking of what he's going to do with Israel. Israel's problem is that they are not right. And he says, if you're not going to be right as well, then guess what? There's punishment waiting for you. God understands it. And so later on he deals with their issue, which is their heart. Um, once you get past his equate team, he deals with what God solution is going to be, which is to give them a new heart in Ezekiel chapter 36. So no, it does not, it does not prove or disprove one saved always saved. Um, Cornishians. Yeah, that's fine. As a matter of fact, oftentimes we would get Cornishian in prison. Oh, you're eating all of that. You're eating all of that. Okay. Is there, is there anybody in the link from California? I would love, I've got a question for you, for you, California Christians. I have a question for you. Shreene, are you, are you, are you from the islands? Cause I'm wondering about the menu that you put up earlier. Is there anybody from California on here? I'd like to know, is there anybody out here on here from California? I've got, I've got a question for you. Now the main question, Cajun meal gumbo. Okay. Okay. I'd love to know I'm California. Okay. Not California adjacent. I want to know are you, are you, are you from California? Are you, I want to know, is there anyone in here from, okay. Yes. So my question is, I hit the right button. My question is, what do Californians eat for Thanksgiving? It seemed like you guys might just do something different. I don't know why. I don't know why that's in my head. It's not like it's not separate from the United States, although it is kind of separate from the United States, but I'm just wondering what do Californians eat for Thanksgiving? Yeah, but you're not a real California though. So you don't count. You know, I know you, you're kind of California. It doesn't really count. What do you eat for Thanksgiving though? Sir. What do you, what do you eat for Thanksgiving? Whatever they give you? Turkey in hand. Turkey in hand. Okay. Okay. That's, that's, that's good. All American food. Yeah. But California burger. Okay. Now we got to figure out before we leave, what do you guys eat? What are your desserts? Me? We have to have banana pudding. My wife's banana pudding is top flight. Her banana pudding is top flight. Turkey tacos. Are you finished with a turkey tacos? California is like the weirdest place. Why do people, I don't, I don't understand how people in California see how California's behave, how it's become and think, yeah, we need more of that. I just, I don't get that. Not the folks who, who vote against some of the foolishness out there, but the folks who keep voting for it's like, no, you don't count. You're not a real California. You're barely, you're barely a real American. Rodney. So no, you don't count. I'm picking, I know Rodney Person, guys. I'm picking on him. No, you don't count. You're not a real California. Peach cobbler. Man, listen, that's my, ah. Okay. Let me ask you guys a question. Serious question. American question. Do you guys eat when it comes to your, your cranberry sauce? And if you don't eat cranberry sauce, you not saved. That's just, that's right up there with almond milk. Now your cranberry sauce is like the homemade stuff, or do you like it out of the can? Me? I don't know what it is about me. I like the can. I like the can cranberry sauce better than when someone, is it just me? Is it just me? Even listen, even when I see like the women in my family, they're just, they're, they're, they're, they're making everything sometimes from scratch. But then over the side, they got that can of cranberry sauce. Like, so is it just me? Yeah. The can. That's what I'm talking. The can. Whoever came up with that, whoever came up with that was a genius. There you go. It's, it's, what, oh, what, what, what, what, what, what? We got, let's pray for her soul. I don't eat cranberry sauce. No, no, you need to get saved. You need to get delivered. You need to get delivered. By the way, my mother did something really bad. My mother was something else. What she did was she knew I liked cranberry sauce. So what she did was she wanted me to eat some beats. And so she said, she lied to me. She lied to me twice when it came to food. And I don't think I've ever forgiven her. She told me here, these, as she said it, she said it's, it's cranberry sauce. And I, I didn't say it was like, she said, I said it was just like cranberry sauce. No, you said it was cranberry sauce. I remember vividly that stuff was horrible. So it just threw me off from beats ever. And then she told me one time that the cornbread, you know, you make the cornbread and it's flat like a pancake. She says the pancake, you know, pancake mama. That's no, no. And so I put some syrup on it. Not the same. What moderator? Should we ban him? Should we, should we ban this guy? Should we ban cranberry sauce is horrible. Same as what? We got to figure out who's making your dressing. That's what we got to figure out. We need to figure that out. There you, there you go. There you go. Dutch. Tell him cranberry sauce with stuffing is fire. That's what you do. You take the cranberry sauce and you put it on that. Now when he says, blast me in there, that's blasphemy. That's blasphemy. Mark Ryder said ban him. Now this is how you know you can eat. You got to go. You got to go. I'm going to pray about you. He said I found that strawberry jelly is so much better than the cranberry sauce. Did y'all see that? How in no, yeah, yeah. Pray for you, bro. Praying. Now, because what you just said just destroyed the whole, look, let me see. It says my stream, my stream is down. Can I ask you a question? When y'all eat, do y'all eat? Can your food touch? Do you like it? Hey, listen. This is my buddy, y'all. Pastor Daryl Collins got down or over in Lubbock. The church that I went to in Lubbock. Daryl was an elder at the time. Now he's the pastor of the church. What's going on, brother? Let me ask you guys a question now. I need to know cheesecake. I didn't get a cheesecake this year. My wife is not cooking cheesecake this. She's doing all the cooking. I'm not doing anything. They're in there working. I'm not my treat to myself. I said I'm not doing a thing. I did take the trash out, though. I took that out and it's raining. So I had to wade through the water and the dogs go out and poop outside and somebody didn't get up and I stepped in some dog poop this morning. So happy Thanksgiving. But I used to, when I ate, I had to keep my stuff nice and neat and the food couldn't touch each other. The sweet potatoes, the juice sweet potatoes couldn't get over to the greens or the macaroni and cheese. The burnt, don't be making that macaroni and cheese out of the box. If you do, you're lazy and you're going to help. Just let you know. Now you got to have a little burn on top of the macaroni and cheese. Then my cornbread on my rolls, where we have, I would not let it touch. And then the cranberries separate, right? That was then. As I have matured, as I have grown in the Lord, you don't mind that stuff touching anymore. Do you just mix it up and let it just touch all over? You don't mind it all, do you? That's when you know you have matured in the Lord when you know how to mix stuff together. Yeah. That's when you know the Lord has delivered you from true deliverance. What? KL, you're a food racist. I keep my food segregated. You're not saved. You're not saved. Listen, a lot of folks have been saying that KL, you're not saved when you just, yeah. That's right. Listen, if you make it macaroni and cheese out of the box, yeah. You ain't saved. You going to hell? Clearly. Clearly. You cannot be saved making macaroni and cheese out of the box. Meanwhile, somebody's in the kitchen pouring it and saying, no, put some of that cheese out the refrigerator, put it on top of that bad boy, put it in the casserole dish and let some of that burnt cheese on top, get on top of that thing. Food segregation is here, too. Yeah. Now, let me ask you guys a question. We're getting close. Wait, you know what? Hold on. I have to address this. Greens out of the can. Let me tell you what happened when I was dating my wife. Now, I'm from Indianapolis. She's from Dallas. We met in Texas at Texas Tech. We went to Kentucky Fried Chicken and we're ordering. And while we were ordering, she heard me. We pulled up to the, what do you call it, the thing you order from the menu thing or whatever, the taker thing, the automated thing. And so we're ordering sides. And she said, I'm thinking it's macaroni and cheese and some and some mashed potatoes. She said greens and she says something. And I looked at her like this Negro is really a former slave. She just said, they don't sell greens at KFC to my surprise. She said, the lady said, okay, you want to meet them at large. What? I said, what? They started. They were selling greens there. Now, here's what that is called. I'm sorry. I'm gonna drive through. I just, I ain't been out too long. What I call that the announcement, taker thing. Listen, it takes a while for prison to rub off of you. I can promise you that anybody been to prison. Tell me I ain't lying. It takes a long time. So, so I'm thinking, wait a second. They sell greens. And she's the ladies like, yeah, I'm talking to the lady. They said, what? So now they don't know they didn't have it up north at the time. So now, so we're having this conversation. We're having this conversation. And so we're talking about eating some greens. And she says that they also have greens in the can. What? Who puts greens in a can? I don't know if y'all have it everywhere. I don't know. My wife introduced me to this company called Glory Greens. Y'all, can I, can I get a man from the audience if you've heard of Glory Greens? I don't know who these people are. I don't know if they're Americans. I don't know if they're Christian. If not, they're going to have it anyway. Glory Greens are awesome. My wife, man, Glory Greens are it. I don't know what they do to it. I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure these Glory Greens is probably got a chemical in it. It's probably got something that's going to kill us all. But if you haven't had Glory Greens, get you some Glory Greens. Now, it's not a substitute for actual greens going, you know, but you can't do wrong with Glory Greens. Yeah. So that's the one. You take canned Glory Greens and you can take some can. What's the purple things called? My mind is going cranberry sauce. But don't do box mashed macaroni cheese. You could probably even, you could probably even get away with some box stuffing, some stove top stuffing. You can get away with that. Yeah. Yeah. You just add some turkey and bacon to it. By the way, do you all put put pork or some kind of meat in your greens? Yeah. Listen, today's the day that you that you that you look out for your health. There. Yeah. This ain't the day. I know if you vegan, if you, what's the other one? Vegetarian. If you gluten free, that's of the devil. Ain't nobody ever been gluten free up until up until the last 10, 15 years. Get delivered from that. That's what you get delivered from. Yeah. Some green greens, some fat bags, ham hot, all that stuff. That's what I'm convinced. That's what God made the pig for. That's what he made the pig for to make your greens and the rest of your food tastes good. Now, if you want to use southern folks that like to suck on pig feet, you know, in between, in between commercials, that's on you. I don't, I don't get that. I don't do that. There are certain parts of the pig that are made for eating certain parts of the pig made for throwing away. Yeah. You know what? Hawke jowls as far as, yeah, that, yeah, that works. That's work. Pork belly is a great carpet. Yeah. Okay. We're going to pray for you after this. Yeah. So, but I got to ask you guys this question as we get ready to leave. What is your go to your go to dessert? I'm just, I'm, I'm having fun. My wife was looking at me and I said, I'm in a good mood. You listen, you could slap me. You can call me. I'm in a good, I really do love this time of the year, especially if you've been taken away from, from your family. Now for me, it's because my own stupidity, but when you have, when you away from your family and when Thanksgiving and Christmas comes. Yeah. You, you, you, you, he reminds you of the things that you, that in my case almost threw away. So yeah. What? You don't eat. Okay. Lisa. How do you not eat? I eat. I eat. Now, as I say, you can't eat everybody's children because everybody don't clean for a while. You couldn't eat our children because we were letting our, our kids help to clean and they wouldn't. No, you don't. Never forget. There was one batch of, of the chitlins that we were, you know, you got to clean it. You got to tear this apart. And I forgot who informed us that that batch that was thrown in that pot wasn't cleaned all the way. And that batch got eaten quickly. So we ate some dirty chitlins, but we survived. Got to eat chitlins, put some hot sauce on that bad boy. Yeah. Cheesecake, sweet potato pie, peach cobbler, pecan pie, banana pudding. The deal is I like it all. What is a buttermilk? I've heard, what is a buttermilk pie? Okay, Anthony. I'm just good. What is a buttermilk pie? What in the world? It's a pie. So I, I, I would eat it because it's a pie. Yeah. If you don't eat like chitlins, you are a Pharisee. Yeah. I'm praying for you. A pumpkin cake. Never had it, but I certainly eat it. I would, I will certainly apple pie and cut. Okay. That's good. Apple and cherry pies. Any pie. Any pie. I would even eat. Listen, a carrot cake is good. I would even eat. I would even eat. Listen to me guys. Y'all brace yourself. I would even eat an almond milk pie. Yep. Cause it's a pie. Yeah. Sam is one of the other guys that are, that's in prison. Sam is one of the guys who when I left, he was on fire from the Lord. He, he was growing. And so it's been a long time. So he should, um, again, prison is horrible prison. I'll never forget there was one year. Um, we were getting ready to go to Chow to get, this was, this was at Beaumont. We were getting ready to go to Chow to eat. And, uh, you know, everybody's lineup at the door to leave. Everybody's trying to get out there. And on our way out, they, they held us back. They stopped it. Why? Cause one guy killed himself on Thanksgiving. Uh, it can, listen, it's, it's, it's, it gets rough. It gets rough. Rice pudding. That's what I don't like Carlos. I don't like, right? Carlos, that's, that's strike two for you. Carlos, by the way, I'm keeping count. That's strike two. No, you found the one, you found the one dessert. I ain't eating rice pudding bread pudding. I don't even get it. I'm not Southern, but I'm kind of Southern. And yeah, I can testify that Southern folk will eat just about anything. Do you all know? Yes, you can testify to this that in, at this prison in Fort Worth, there are the one, the unit I was in, there was three units that was San Antonio, Houston and Austin unit up top. Austin was two stories up at the very top. These guys were catching squirrels and pigeons, skinning them and putting them in the microwave and cooking. Southern folk will eat just about anything. Southern folk will eat just about anything. And if you don't feed them long enough, they'll eat you. They'll cut you and eat you. So do I like meatloaf? I'm American. I like meat, whatever comes after that. So chicken, hamburger, all that. Chili cheese fries because it's got some chili on it. Yeah. So where's he at? He said, no, we won't. Yes, you will. Yes, Southern's will eat it. Yes, you will. Maybe not you, but listen, your Southern neighbors will anyway. Anybody drink eggnog? So I got to get me some eggnog. Banana pudding. That's heavy. I don't know if we have any ice cream. I think red and ham and turkey. I think some sort of dressing. Greens. By the way, the best part about thinking up is waking up, not with folders in your cup, but waking up to that smell. Don't know what's cooking, but something's cooking. I don't know what's in eggnog. I have no idea. It might not even be egg in there. I don't know. I don't know what nog is, but whatever it is, I used to think that it was only for adults and you could only use it to drink. Again, you know, I didn't grow up in church. And so my mommers, they would have eggnog and a little something, something inside that bad boy and whatever it was, they felt good after they drank it. I was told that that wasn't for adults. I mean, I would forgive those ones for adults. Okay. Could not wait to get older to drink some eggnog. Okay, Brianna. We behind you in the name of Jesus. Mark Rogers telling, it's good. I love eggnog. Eggnog is the devil. No, it's not. But that's okay though. Okay. You know what? Send it to me. Send it to me. I like to see that. I like to see that. Listen, this is what we almost did. This is what we almost did. We almost just ordered food. We were so, we were so tired. Because you know what? Nobody wants to clean the kitchen afterwards. Nobody wants to take the trash and nobody wants to do all that stuff. And so we know what? Let's just order it. Let's let somebody then. No. Can't do it. Can't do it. Plus the fact that he is. It's expensive. Now they're going to visit somebody today. I ain't going nowhere. I'm staying here. So anyway, guys, I just wanted just to have just a moment. What Puerto Rican eggnog. Okay. I don't, I don't, I might not even be allowed to drink. You know, like Puerto Rican eggnog. Okay. Alrighty. Plantain. Oh, those, those are the, um, aren't those like the, the, the things that look like bananas? Plantains that those are the things that look like bananas? Yeah. Stop hating on eggnoggy people. You're supposed to be smart Christians. Stop. Stop hating on eggnog. Listen, I just wanted really just to have an opportunity guys just to think about nothing but nothing. Okay. Okay. All right. Listen, uh, I know Mofongo is something real, but can you, can you stop poisoning away with, with, with, uh, your, your blasphemous food choices? Can you stop that Anthony? Mofongo wasn't Mofongo. Listen, wasn't Mofongo on, uh, good times when Thelma was dating the guy from Africa, the guy with, with all the different wives and they were eating Mofongo. Wasn't that on there? I think that was. I think Mofongo was on there. Or was, or was that Sanford son? That wasn't one of those. Did I get arrested? Did I? Listen, I got arrested in, in, in outstanding fashion. You should, if you go and never be arrested, you should dream of being arrested like I was. That is without them firing a shot. Yeah. Um, when I got arrested, when I got arrested, um, Mofongo, I got, I got, I got to look up that, uh, what they call Mofo. He called, oh no, you're right. You're right. You're right. It is Spanish. It's when Fred went out with, uh, Julio, um, and Lamont and made Mofongo. That's what it was. I knew it was someplace. I knew it was on one of those shows. But when I got arrested, they came. No, no, no. Listen, no, I didn't, I did not resist arrest. Uh, I couldn't resist it. They came in. It was like 20, maybe 30 guys with their guns. We're in the office building. Everybody's got on suit and ties and so forth. Ain't no weapon to be found. They all came in with their, yeah. What was I going to do? They came in and I mean quickly. These guys, they were tactical. They were, they were like Navy SEALs with suits on. They came in and yeah, that's how I got arrested. That's my testimony. You ain't been arrested until 30 guys with, uh, with automatic weapons pointed at your face. Like, look, y'all do realize this isn't a drug operation. This is, this is, this is an investment firm. There is no, there is no body here with what, but hey, that's how they do it. So in the jail near me lockdown is every day 1040, this thing out the way, 1045, uh, AM to three PM, then five PM to seven PM. And honestly a lot of the times they'll just add more hours to that is torture. It's everyday mandatory. Yeah. Well, in the federal prison, you have what's called a mandatory four o'clock, a four PM count. Uh, and the reason for that is because the reason for the four PM count and it has to be stand up is one to make sure that you're there, but also that's got, it's got to be a stand up count because one guy got, uh, beaten up and killed. And, uh, at the count, they just kind of just let him lean up against, uh, the post in his room. And so because of that, because of that, now they make it mandatory that everyone's in the, in the guards didn't go and check in on the guy. The guy was dead for several hours before someone finally said, Hey, this guy's dead. You need to come get him. His roommate finally told him, why, why, why did you wait several hours? Was it anyone in my room? Uh, then you have a, a 10 PM stand up count. Now those can be, um, can fluctuate a little bit between three and four. Some places do it early as three, three 30, but it has to be done by four o'clock. That's the national mandatory, um, federal time. And then there's a 10 PM to make because people were walking off only at the camps. They weren't walking off at the lows or the, the, the mediums or the highs, but now everyone has a 10 PM stand up count. When I got there, we didn't have a 10 PM standard count at night. And then there's an early morning count that I think is dependent on where you are five AM, maybe six depending on where you are. If there's a fog out, then there's a fog count. If there's the weekend or holiday, you got a 10 AM, a 10 AM count. So they're always counting. They're always doing, that's their main thing. Um, custody, control and care are the three C's for the bureau of prison. So some prisons are pretty light and easy. Um, some prisons are rocking and they're fighting. They're, they're all this going on. Uh, consequently there's a lot of guys that are always trying to leave prison as well. Obviously. Uh, no, these weren't, these weren't, no, these weren't IRS agents. Um, but, uh, um, um, in prison is homosexuality rampant. A guy said, I'm not gay. My boyfriend is, is homo. Yeah, it is. It is. Um, there's a whole lot of violations going on. There's a whole lot of guys being, um, forced into it. Um, there's some that go willingly. So, but the thing is though, uh, and there's, there's some, there's some, there's some violence. There's some violence. There's some vile stuff. And there's some, there's some silly things that happen too as well. So, um, yeah, now you, and when you drive by and you'll see the little signs on the highway, please don't pick up hitchhikers. There's a prison close by. Please don't pick up hitchhikers because it happens. It happens. So anyway, there's anything violent wicked that you can think of happening in the world happens in a prison times 10, including sorrow. But y'all be, you all will be pleased to hear this. Some of the most committed Christians that I have ever met, I found and I've seen in prison. Some of the most committed Christians that I've ever met, I've seen in Christian, I mean in prison. You know how we have these discussions about eternal security and salvation, so forth, about tongues and so forth, about all these different things. Well, we have those conversations in prison, but we have it amongst people that we know who are Christian. That's why I said, I've got buddies who are as apostolic as they can get. And those who are as presbyterians, they can get and love each other. And their goal is still that people will preach Christ and that people would receive Christ as their sake. I've seen that because what we don't do oftentimes is there's a way that you can fight with Christians, that you can have a debate or argument or what have you with Christians, but we still treat them like Christian. Then there are those who aren't Christian, who claim to be whatever. Well, in prison, you'll find out because you're in a fishbowl. You're doing things in prison. Everybody sees it. And what they won't do, especially in certain places, if you claim to be a Christian and you're not, somebody's going to violate you. Somebody's going to take care of you. Because, oh, all that, all that stuff you hiding behind the church and now somebody's going to come deal with you. And so a lot of guys, now there are some guys that fake at it because I've seen, don't get me wrong, there are fake Christians there too. But there are a lot of people in prison who take it seriously, who love the Lord. When you have been broken down as low as you can go and there's no one left. I'm fully convinced that what God was doing and where He had me to go, that was all Him. Being broken down like that, no. When you're flat on your back, who can you look up to but God? And so sometimes this being in prison helps a lot of people. Sometimes the pain, the pressure, the hurt, the heart, all that you feel like is beating you down, it's not beating you down, it's just molding you. It's just getting you ready to receive Him. It's like everything is being dumped on top of you. Maybe you are getting ready to get a blessing. Maybe God is trying to get you to a point where you can handle some things where He's going to take you through. Maybe what you're going through is just training camp. There's Rashad, hey brother. And so maybe you ought to look at what you're going through for the right reason. Maybe you ought to look at it how God looks at it. That He's doing something for you. That is, that is, that is if you are His. Because He says many are the afflictions. Well, first of all, everybody, but He's speaking of the righteous and He will deliver you. Listen, I am still, y'all do realize that if I were to serve out the rest of my sentence, I'd still be in prison right now. So when someone says, I don't believe in the move of the spirit. I don't believe in God. Who are you talking to? Who are you talking to? Listen, I got to the point to where God will say, yeah, that guy, that fellow right there, Corey, he trusts me wholeheartedly implicitly without question. I got issues going on right now. And I'm not bothered, not fazed. Hey, God is going to take care of some things. God's going to fix some things. God's going to arrange some things. Things are going to, I just, I believe that. He showed me nothing but the fact that He will take care of His own. And I trust Him. And what doesn't get done to my, and that's the issue, what's not done to my satisfaction doesn't matter. As long as I'm riding with Him, I'm good. We're in the boat and the boat's being tossed back and forth. The wind waves look pretty bad. If I look back, there's Jesus. I'm good. I'm good. You hear with me? Then we're good. We are good. You want to get in the fire with me? I don't, hey, I'd rather be in the fire with the Lord than safe, what seems to be safe without Him. Yeah, so that's just me. And so when someone says it, Corey, because someone asked the other day, do you believe in the power of the Holy Spirit? I wanted to say something different. I wanted to say something. Do you believe in the power of the Holy Spirit? I am a testimony of what the power, what the move of the Holy Spirit looks like. And how He's kept things, how He's kept things as I've gotten back. Yeah. So I look at my wife, power of the Holy Spirit. Look at my, my kids don't realize this because they're still young. But to think about how this woman kind of kept stuff together, woman of the year, mother of the year, mother of the decade. Yeah. So ask me again. I don't have, I love talking about what He's done. How He's delivered me. That's true delivery because where the Spirit of the Lord is, there's liberty. Captives have been set free because of that. People who do the capturing, captors have been set free to turn around and set the captives free because of the Spirit of the Lord. Yeah. I am affirmed. And so when I see someone giving me a counterfeit version of it, I got to speak up against it. I said, listen, I think you all are giving this counterfeit version because you don't understand what the real looks like and how it moves. Yeah. Let me, let me, let me give you my testimony. Let me share with you. And I've had plenty of opportunities to listen because God has given me example after example, after example, after example, being homeless and then deliver me from that. Example after example, being shot at example, at being on the run. Example after example, being ran out of our city. Example after example, drug infested neighborhood, but also drug infested house. Example after example, after example, almost dying but that was born because of drugs. Example after example. So that's the Holy Spirit moving my life. Amen. Let me know when you got some more time, I can tell you about it because he has. Now, all that being said, I'm not as thankful for what I've got. I'm thankful more so for what he's brought me through. I hope that you all as well. I hope that you can reflect back and look at what he's done for you. The Bible is full of him delivering someone out of something, not for their benefit or for their glory, but for him. So make sure that you, in this time, that you give God praise, that you give him glory, that you thank him for what he's done, even if he hadn't done it to our own liking and specification. You didn't do this. You did this guy but you didn't do that. No, no, no, no, no, no. Be thankful for the fact that you're here and be thankful that he's still yet trying to use you. Amen. Amen. Y'all have a very wonderful Thanksgiving.