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Speaker 1: Houston Texans quarterback CJ. Stroud struggles with cursing and using profanity,

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Speaker 1: and he says he is trying to do better. He's

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three Rookie of the Year. He recently appeared

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Speaker 1: on the Sports Spectrum podcast to discuss his Christianity. DJ

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Speaker 1: knows that he is a high profile, influential athlete and

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Speaker 1: that Christians aren't perfect, but he is struggling with cursing

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Speaker 1: and wants to tame his tongue.

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Speaker 2: Take a listen.

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Speaker 3: I was like, hey, man, like, I'm struggling with cursing

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Speaker 3: right now. I'm trying to stop, Like I'm trying to

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Speaker 3: just hold back because not only am I trying to

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Speaker 3: do it for myself, but also like I can't proclaim

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Speaker 3: that I love God and have like a wild mouth

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Speaker 3: like that just doesn't make sense to me. His hypocritical Sure,

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Speaker 3: So I've been trying with that, and he was like, man,

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Speaker 3: read James three. So I read James three last night

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Speaker 3: and I went over the devotion on the way to

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Speaker 3: work this morning. So it's like stuff like that, Like

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Speaker 3: people are like just like send me stuff and I

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Speaker 3: ask questions, and I like, I'm a youth in this

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Speaker 3: walk and I want to learn more receive nine and

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Speaker 3: two and man, let me come.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we just hey, bro, I love the Lord too.

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Speaker 4: I'm a Christian, you know what I'm saying. And they've

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Speaker 4: told you right, there's no im perfect no not one.

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Speaker 4: What what you got to remember, though, is don't let

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Speaker 4: outside external forces cripple your walk because they're clamoring for perfection. Now,

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Speaker 4: if you want to do better, I understand that, then

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Speaker 4: go ahead and go ahead and make your efforts do better.

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Speaker 4: I have been trying to quit cussing, been probably now

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Speaker 4: all probably about sixty years now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I first started.

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Speaker 4: I should probably stop around seven because I started at four,

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Speaker 4: I became fluent at six. I thought i'd stop at seven.

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Speaker 4: I've been struggling with it for sixty years. And and

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Speaker 4: to be honest, I had to say, but I'm not.

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Speaker 2: I'm not. It's it's a flaw, but it I mean,

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Speaker 2: I like it.

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Speaker 4: I'm just not going to allow it's sometimes you could

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Speaker 4: be a little bit too hard on yourself.

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Speaker 2: Now, if you can stop, go ahead. I've tried.

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Speaker 4: And the one time I tried, I had stopped for

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Speaker 4: about four days and I developed had severe headaches and

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Speaker 4: my teeth is hurting, and I was constipated to get

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Speaker 4: you on in. It was just so much, man, I

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Speaker 4: was I was having migrains. You have ever had a

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Speaker 4: headache and constipated? It is?

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Speaker 2: I ain't nowhere to go.

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Speaker 4: And my wife asked me one time, She says, Steve,

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Speaker 4: what is wrong with you?

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Speaker 2: And then I said, yourself, the f don't know.

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Speaker 4: As soon as I said that, the headache went away.

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Speaker 4: I went right to the bathroom. And so that's what

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Speaker 4: I knew, me to me stopping hustle with locking me

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Speaker 4: up and creating so much stuff.

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Speaker 2: And so I've just dealt with it.

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Speaker 4: But you know, young brother, just you know, hey, man,

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Speaker 4: have your walk with Christ and going about your business,

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Speaker 4: because I'm gonna tell you something else.

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Speaker 2: If it ain't that, it's gonna be something else. And man,

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Speaker 2: don't you.

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Speaker 4: Let these little half feathered Christians fool you. They can

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Speaker 4: walk that walk like they staying on that white line

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Speaker 4: all they want. Ain't nobody on that tight rope like that. Man,

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Speaker 4: It's people doing all kinds of stuff. So just hey, man,

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Speaker 4: don't beat yourself up too bad about it. If you

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Speaker 4: can improve, go ahead.

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Speaker 2: And man, hold on.

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Speaker 4: We just had a good squad on Houston just got

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Speaker 4: a good squad, So he can't come in here not cussing,

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Speaker 4: and we an'll make the playoff if.

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Speaker 2: It takes custom to get to the playoffs.

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Speaker 4: You know, and you're not hullling that receive, ain't listening

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Speaker 4: to that route, and you got to straighten him out.

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Speaker 4: That's what I do. Look, I'm a Christian. I looded, lord,

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Speaker 4: but let me do. You can't get up in my

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Speaker 4: face too much. I got to bag you out. You

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Speaker 4: want me to do body, you.

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Speaker 2: Don't have to.

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Speaker 1: He's saying he doesn't want to use profanity and he

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Speaker 1: wants to do better.

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Speaker 4: I got in the NFL because Bible says do unto

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Speaker 4: others as you would have them do unto you.

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Speaker 2: So I figure, if you come up under like you

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Speaker 2: want to treat it, treat others as you want to

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Speaker 2: be treated.

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Speaker 4: So if you come up to me and you cuss

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Speaker 4: me out, I'm assuming that's how you won't be treated.

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Speaker 2: That's why I'm going with him. Yeah, but he in

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Speaker 2: the NFL.

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Speaker 1: He in NFL cussing team cussing ain't got naw job,

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Speaker 1: so I don't use see the rhyme you're doing great.

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Speaker 2: Okay, here doing great right?

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Speaker 1: Good luck. CJ's coming up next.

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Speaker 2: Is no lostin. Ain't the quarterback for the Houston issue you.

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Speaker 1: Pray phone call for today. Right after this, you're listening

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Speaker 1: hard Morning Show