Welcome once again to the hashtag SDRS podcast, and I hope it's once again.

Maybe this is your first time.

Welcome for the first time.

We're going to start with a question, Greg, from Eric.

All righty.

What would be an appropriate response to an LGBTQ person saying, quote, I feel good about who I am?

Yeah, I'm pausing because I'm thinking.

And I'm trying to put myself right in that circumstance because this is where you want

to be gentle but shrewd or innocent but shrewd, as Jesus put it. And while you're thinking, I just want to point out, when you find yourself in this

situation, you're going to do exactly what Greg just did.

You're going to have to take a second to think about it.

So this is why it's good to think about these things ahead of time.

Yeah, yeah.

But don't think that we always know exactly what to say right when it happens.

Well, of course, when I give the tactics talk, the last thing I say is, if you don't remember anything else about this whole presentation, remember this.

Take a tip from Lieutenant Colombo when you find yourself in a tough

spot and always ask questions. So the first tactical question is, what do you mean by that?

And so this might be appropriate, because that first question will buy you some time.

And, I mean, I'm a little bit knocking my head here, like,

you're the guy who wrote the book. Why didn't you just say that right out of the gate,

you know, just now? So instead of going, oh, but that just shows it's, it's sometimes challenging

when you're talking with people and you don't always think of the right thing right away.

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