This is old lowest and you know I told you the last time that I wouldn't do these podcast regular But I would just do them, you know whenever I had something to tell you know That's going on down here and so I didn't know that I would be back so soon But they is something that has happened down here that I think you'd want to know about and so I'm gonna tell you about it today And it's about this preacher that come in down here and and he is a he's a real good man His name is David Dar and he is a he's a real good man the reason I got to know him So good was that when I was laid up here with that broke foot Well, he come in down here to see me, you know two or three I guess more than that but I said eight times He come down here to check on me and the first time that he come down here I was real suspicious of him, you know because I I'm kind of suspicious of Preachers anyway, maybe I ought not to be that way, but anyway, I told him first time he come in I said now Brother dar I said it's it's a I appreciate you coming to see me And and I think it's awful good of you to do it But I said you need to know up front that I ain't about to go to your church I said I just I just don't go to church. I said I Ain't got nothing again church and and I believe in supporting the church and he he broke in there And he said now did I say anything to you about going to church and I said well no you never and he said well I didn't come down here to get you to go to church He said I come down here to see about you. I want to make sure he said I'm a part of this community And I have to look after everybody. He said I don't care if their church members are not He said now I wish you would go to church But he said if you don't want to come he said that's your own business But he said I just come down here to make sure you was all right and to see if it was anything that I could do for you You know to have you in any way and so You know I appreciate that.
I really do It was awful good of him to come down here and and I told him I was sorry I'd next time he come by said brother dar I'm sorry I talked to you that way I said I should have known better than to do that and and I said that Probably I'm gonna come down to the church sometime Just that I don't know When but I said I'm probably gonna come down there and he said well if you did you would be welcome But he said but I don't want you to feel no pressure because I didn't come down here for that reason and I said well I know you didn't brother dar and I said I appreciate you checking on me, but anyway That just tells you what kind of a person that brother dar he is and he takes care of The community but he does more than that He's got some stuff that he believes in you're real strong and one thing that he believes in is a Recycling but one of his first rules is that he said if you don't use it you don't have to recycle it That's that was his first rule He said that's the first rule of recycling is that don't use it and then you won't have to figure out nothing to do with it And what that means is that if you can figure out some way to not Use something or not buy something then you don't have to worry about throwing it away And so he talked to these people down here about getting these Exposable sacks, you know that you taking a grocery store and what you do is you put you put you? Stuff in there, you know, you groceries You don't take the plastic bags or the paper sacks. You just bring your own sack and you Use it every time every time you go to the grocery store you bring your own sack Well, that wasn't nothing new to me because that's what we used to do when I was growing up that way We would if we wanted some cola or we'd take a jug to the store and they'd fill it up with cola or if we wanted Uh, some groceries would take a sack down there or a basket some some of the women had baskets And they would put their groceries in a basket and they would carry them that way So that wasn't nothing new to me But it was to a lot of these people down here because they was used to going in the stores and and getting these Plaskets bags and carrying the groceries in plastic bags and See them plastic bags and bad because they they wind up in in the creeks and in the rivers and in the oceans and They tell me that you can't That they don't What a deteriorate or whatever the word is they don't like like paper does, you know paper or gradually Deuterate and go back into the soil, but see this plastic it don't do that plask it just stays like it is So that's what he's that's what he's trying to get done He's trying to do something about some of the stuff that gets thrown away down here And so a lot of people you are doing that there carrying on bags to the grocery store and and So he's he's he's he kept out in a whole lot of ways and he has a lot of different things that he has suggested that people do in order to To keep from having to You know throw so much stuff away and you can you actually can tell a difference down here in this old dump You know people don't care as much stuff down there. They So he has had a you know good effect on the people down here in this community well See he come up with this these ideas and some of the people they say he's gone too far with some of the stuff that he has come up with Lately and one of them has to do with communion now.
I don't know I know that all of you probably know about communion and I don't know much about it But anyway, what they do is they have this a bread and grape juice up there and What it does, you know, it's a I guess it means something to the people I ain't saying nothing about that because I don't know enough to talk About it, but what brother dar was saying he's saying it's wasteful Because that you bow this bread and they go through this they do something where they they break the bread You know in the pieces or something and you go up there and you dip a piece of bread in the in the grape juice And he said that they was using a whole lot of bread and a lot of it was getting thowed out and He didn't have no He didn't like the fact that they was wasting Groceries when a lot of people in the world needed food You know There's a lot of people in the world that don't get near enough to eat and he said some of that money that they was spending on the grape juice and the bread he said they ought to quit spending it on that and And they ought to give it to the people that needed it that didn't have enough to eat well that That put a lot of the people in the church that put them In a you know again him because they didn't believe in that they thought communion was something well They said it was a sacred it's what they said and he said he ought not to be messing with communion But what he said he said what they ought to do was instead of having Grape juice that what they ought to do was have coolate and he said they could make up a jug of coolate and He said they could pour it in these bowls and they could dip their the bread in that coolate And he said coolate was a whole lot cheaper than grape juice which it is You know coolate is a lot cheaper than grape juice And he said what was left over that they could drink it for dinner that they would they always have a dinner down there at church Or what they call a potluck and everybody brings stuff down there And they all share it and so he said that they could have the coolate for dinner and they wouldn't waste none of it Well people you know some people was again that and some people wasn't but he That that kind of they kind of adopted that they said that they'd try that and see if if that worked And of course some of the people didn't like it and I didn't I didn't have no opinion on it one way or the other I just he was telling the truth about it saving money Well, then he got another idea and he said instead of buying Lows a bread that what they would do is let everybody bring a biscuit now That's what we eat down here is biscuit. We don't eat much light bread at all We just eat you know biscuits make them with flour and I don't know how to make biscuits But Emily does my girl and flossy butts and all the you know people down here They make their own biscuits and he said everybody could bring a biscuit to the church and that they could dip the biscuit in that Coolade and eat it and that would save them from buying all of that bread for the communion Well, everybody just had a fit about that. They didn't they didn't like that and so They was talking about getting rid of him and and I don't I don't get mixed up with the church much But I did talk to some of the people and I did say I said now listen I said that is a good man there Y'all got a good preacher But I said if you don't like something that he's done talk to him about it and see if you can't figure out some way That you can get together on it because he is a good man and I said I know him real good because he is He comes by here. We have talks.
He never has Done anything except good stuff and he always has a good word for everybody and he believes in helping people I said you can't get a better preacher than what you've got down there So I said whatever you do don't run the man off I said he's trying to do some good But I said if you don't like something that he is doing Well, what you need to do is talk to him and see if y'all can't get together on some kind of way that you can That you can satisfy each other I said, you know, you don't have to have it your way and he don't have to have it his way I said you might be able to come to some Decision that where you could all accept it So I think they listen to me and so they haven't been up there tomorrow And they're gonna they're gonna talk about you know Some of their disagreements and try to work them out and I think they can because he seems like a good man to me He really does so I'll keep you Informed about what they come up with but I sure hope they keep Brother dar because I don't think you can find a better man than what he is