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Actually can we do something for the podcast first?

Sure.

This is before we start the show guys.

Yeah.

I was talking to my nieces about not expecting, this will probably give me

in trouble not what I'm thinking about, I'm just going to say it, not expecting female emotions or reactions from men.

Like men are not going to respond the way a woman would typically.

Now it's a big broad brush right so that things that you're looking like

emote and things like that are not necessarily coming from a man but you have to be able to

determine what he's giving.

Yeah. You know what I mean?

And I gave the example that I was just as I talked about up at the memorial service and after I gave the

eulogy I just I couldn't function and I just like sat literally it was in a

pulpit on the on the chair and I was just almost

comatose but still sobbing and Joe who I don't talk about a lot

Joey Mr Joe that he did a lot of this youth ministry with me and I never, I never let guys in the youth group.

I had too many

they had too many too much trauma I just didn't and I took a lot of flack for that

guys who say hey I can help with the youth no no you can't and I was very very

very protective about that but Joe was a guy I trusted he could he just

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