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Hopefully you're not this way, but a lot of people are that are really just gollable.

And it's apparent because you can go online and people share news stories that are fake.

And it happens a lot to

Christians honestly I see this story that story I'm like that actually didn't happen it's not true

you guys are making us kind of look bad especially when the fake news stories come with panic

so it's like you know hysteria and this story's not even true yeah Yeah. Look it up. Look it up. And that would be like for you, make sure you own it. If you're going to post it, it'd be a really good idea. Look it up. You can check Christianity today, for instance. I've heard it recommended. There's other news sources that you can check that you can be like, well, the mainstream media is not paying attention

to this. Okay, but check some Christian news sources that you would regard and find out if it's

actually happening. And if it hasn't, if it's not true, because there's a couple stories going on

right now that aren't true, and they're about religious liberties. Like there's a story about a pastor

being arrested because of his stance on marriage. It didn't happen. The problem is there are real, obviously,

real religious liberty issues and real free speech issues and that's sort of stuff that happen in

life and they won't be paid attention to if you're circulating stuff that's not true. So check it out.

And then if it's wrong, do's not true. So check it out.

And then if it's wrong, do something really crazy and actually retract it.

Say, hey, everybody, sorry about that.

Now, not everybody's going to see your retraction, but still, it's just an honest thing to do.

I've had to do it.

It was jokey stuff that I sent, but I found out it.

That goat wasn't really the one screaming.

Sorry, guys.

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