Welcome to the podcast.

Come be part of the conversations that happen around my kitchen table.

He's John Branion and he's been a stand-up comic for more than 30 years.

She's Amanda McKinney and she's been my daughter for her whole life. Our family believes

laughter is a gift from God. We often discover it while discussing culture, faith, and family.

So go ahead and pull up a chair, neighbor. Can I call you Carl? There's plenty of room here for you.

Welcome to the podcast, Carl. They can't, Carl can't even hear you until I bring it down a little more. That's what I'm trying to do. I'm always trying to get a word in before the music is completely down. Welcome to the podcast, Carl. Literally can't hear at all until I get it to about this level. What a great day.

Okay. What a great week. All right. So you can't, they couldn't hear me. They couldn't hear

anything until just now. Not when the music's all the way up. Really? Yeah. It's loud. Well,

welcome anyway. It's been a silas is standing here at the table. He's got yogurt. He's got granola bar. He's got a package of peanut butter crackers. There's no chili. And he's asking if he can eat that for his dinner. He's got to eat something. On the stove. I think it's gone. I think it is gone. All right. All right. Dad's letting you have a snack. That's what he wanted anyway.

So great. Well, how are you guys today? He asks like we just came together at the people. Like we just got here.

Like it hasn't been a solid eight hours. We haven't spent all day together. So how's everything going? Sunday fellowship. What's going on with you guys? Pretty normal day of church that you're not welcome to and things like that. We had a sendaway party. I'd almost forgotten. A sendaway party for somebody at the church. You weren't allowed to come to that. The fourth staff member.

I do appreciate you reminding me that I was kicked out of church because it keeps slipping my mind.

I keep forgetting that I'm not welcome.

Well, that's what we're here for.

Well, so it was a card thing for the.

Yeah, for Kirstie.

She was on the podcast a few what she was a couple months

ago yeah Kirsty and so we had a card party for her and said farewell she and garrett both because

i think she was on the podcast with her bum foot was it oh that's right she came because she was at her

house because her foot was broken.

She couldn't drive. And so she called me and said, hey, do you want to play tonight? We want to have a play date? And I said, sure. And she goes, can you come get me? At my house? I was like, all right. And then we can play. She goes, sorry, I can't drive.

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