She Knows, Right?

Show open: the suspicious listener spike

A host reports an odd stats spike — 1,800 plays on Sunday and 3,000 on Monday for the back catalog before the new episode was published — which the hosts joke is bot traffic from 'the Chinese.' They riff on ad rates and then read the evening's docket, including a Twitter statement on communion brought in by a listener named on-air.

'Husbands, submit to your wives': the Ephesians 5 article

• What does Ephesians 5 require of husbands in mutual submission?

A host reads from an article arguing the 'wives submit to your husbands' discussion wrongly starts at Ephesians 5:22 and skips the mutual submission of verse 21. The hosts agree that people who wield submission as a misogynistic tool are 'not serious people,' and discuss the husband's parallel charge — know and study his wife, per 1 Peter — through long personal anecdotes about failing to guess what would delight their wives, the impossibility of 'winning' at gift-giving, and learning to date their wives.

Is AI good for the church? The Barna study

• Is AI good for the Christian church?

A host reads a Barna survey finding most Christians doubt AI is good for the church. The hosts share how they actually use it: building bibliographies and hunting down primary sources rather than trusting its facts, finding sermon-illustration stories they can't retain, and one host uses a false church-illustration-book claim about a literal 'eye of the needle' gate (debunked: Jesus' needle imagery is an illustration, Luke 18) to argue AI must be checked like any other resource.

AI is inevitable: training on your own sermons, bias, and morality

The conversation continues: a host who has preached for decades muses about training an AI only on his own sermons, the Hollywood writers' strike and training models on other people's scripts, and why AI can't replace growth or critical thinking. It lands on the hosts' core caution — AI can reveal patterns human bias hides, but it has no morality; bearing God's image in moral response is what stays uniquely human — with a comedic aside about not being able to log into the tools.

'Do not deny anyone communion ever': the hard question

• Is it true that no one should ever be denied communion?

A listener statement brought via a Twitter question argues communion is never to be denied ('Remember, Jesus fed Judas'). A host calls the framing a straw man — real restrictions aim to protect people from taking judgment on themselves, per 1 Corinthians 11. The hosts read 1 Corinthians 11:20–34 at length, debating what 'unworthy manner' means (demeaning the poor vs. failing to acknowledge the covenant), the church-history practice of inviting unbelievers to leave, Catholic practice, and whether a parent should withhold communion from children until they understand and are baptized — ending on 'communion is an acknowledgment of our sinfulness, and everybody needs to take it.'

Dear LFTP: bugs at my sister's house

• How do I tell my sister her house has bugs without hurting her feelings?

A listener staying at her sister's home wakes to crawling sensations and buzzing, with insects in her hair, and asks how to decline the next visit without hurting her sister's feelings. The hosts advise saying the reality out loud — she has bugs — identifying the insect before reacting, helping with the problem, and reading the Secular answer (level with her; she may need pest control).

Dear LFTP: widowed grandmother's grown grandsons and overnight guests

• Am I wrong to evict my grown grandsons for sneaking overnight guests into my house?

A widowed grandmother hosts two grandsons (42 and 39) and a great-grandson (24), none married; she bans overnight guests but at 3 a.m. hears one sneaking a second girl up from the downstairs bedroom. The hosts say kick them out — they were told the rule, they can afford a place together — and the Secular answer agrees: her house, her rules.

Dear LFTP: 'Big boys walk' — grandma and the disabled grandson

• How do I handle my mom shaming my disabled son with 'big boys walk'?

A mother of a five-year-old with a rare spinal cord injury (crawls, uses a wheelchair) says her own mother fixates on his disability during visits, telling him 'big boys walk, they don't crawl,' leaving him tearfully asking if he can still be a big boy. The hosts say confront her directly and firmly — she is hurting the child — give her one honest chance to change, teach the boy tools (humor, boundaries) for people who won't understand, and the Secular answer adds that she must choose: stop the shaming or lose access. Includes a digression where a host describes a split-second false memory of his own daughter's death.

Outro: complaint line, merch, and next week's music guest

A host reads the complaint-line number and plugs the show merch shop for the holidays, teases next week's in-studio guest Micah Smith and his new single, and closes with the standing benediction.