1 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:11,559 Speaker 1: Life Audio. Today, I'll talk about that, John makes sermon 2 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:16,280 Speaker 1: illustrations about soda and hosts SA Santa convention at the church. Meanwhile, 3 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:19,079 Speaker 1: I tell you the story of Elmo testifying before Congress 4 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:22,760 Speaker 1: and wonder if police dogs know that they're cops. Plus 5 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:25,599 Speaker 1: a conversation about mercy and sin and why our perspective 6 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:28,760 Speaker 1: of how God sees us is so important. Today's episode 7 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:31,600 Speaker 1: is not sponsored by Rainbows. We just escaped from prison. 8 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 1: But first a word from our actual sponsor, What's up 9 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:43,880 Speaker 1: out there podcast? 10 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 2: Listening world as John and Johnny not leaving you hang 11 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 2: him a coming back for another week, and talk about. 12 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:55,520 Speaker 1: That spring we're springing forward because it's we've already sprung forward. 13 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:58,160 Speaker 1: Well I'm saying we're oh, we're a part of it 14 00:00:58,200 --> 00:00:59,480 Speaker 1: because we're. 15 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:02,240 Speaker 2: Did you post your annual spring forward thing or have 16 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 2: you stop doing that? 17 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:05,440 Speaker 1: I haven't done it this year. I need to do 18 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:08,639 Speaker 1: it next time. Every Daylight Savings, whether it's spring or fall, 19 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:11,399 Speaker 1: I post the same old joke and it's a news 20 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:15,720 Speaker 1: story that I made up using some old photoshop program, 21 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:18,160 Speaker 1: where it's a man in a full body cast in 22 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:22,080 Speaker 1: the photo in a hospital bed. He's like intraction and 23 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:27,200 Speaker 1: it says Daylight savings, disaster man on trampoline, springs forward, 24 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:31,639 Speaker 1: falls back. That's one of my favorites, and I always 25 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:33,480 Speaker 1: post I'm going to post this every year until it 26 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:35,440 Speaker 1: gets the attention I feel it deserves. And then you 27 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:38,279 Speaker 1: just stopped and it never really fully got the attention 28 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:39,120 Speaker 1: I felt it deserves. 29 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:41,400 Speaker 2: But you got too big for the joke, Johnny, and 30 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:42,880 Speaker 2: I am here. 31 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:46,400 Speaker 1: To call it changed. I'm sorry. So if you hear 32 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:50,800 Speaker 1: any clatter behind us, clatter. The reason I used clatter, 33 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:53,800 Speaker 1: we sprang from our chairs to see what was the matter. 34 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:58,200 Speaker 1: The church. Our church is very unique, and I will 35 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:00,919 Speaker 1: say that about this church. I should give proper credit 36 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 1: to the culture of our church, because when I moved 37 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:08,919 Speaker 1: here in two thousand and six to take the job 38 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:11,960 Speaker 1: cleaning the church and possibly teaching Sunday School and finding 39 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:14,560 Speaker 1: my way in ministry, I was pretty lost. I had 40 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:17,120 Speaker 1: no idea what I was going to do. And like 41 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 1: a year and a half later, I was starting to 42 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:21,320 Speaker 1: do stand up and I was doing all these comedy 43 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 1: bits and our announcements and I was doing all this stuff. 44 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 1: Well a lot of that's the culture of this church 45 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:27,680 Speaker 1: is very just open to part of its Nashville in general, 46 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:31,000 Speaker 1: we're an entertainment town. But I do feel like Pastor 47 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:33,200 Speaker 1: Andrew the thing he built here was just there was 48 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 1: a lot of dreamers here and he was just so like, Oh, 49 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:37,480 Speaker 1: if you want to do that, do it here in 50 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 1: this service. And he would just give you like the 51 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 1: wind under your seals or under your sels he. 52 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:45,480 Speaker 2: Got he can really get under your sale. 53 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:49,680 Speaker 1: He really like Marilyn Monroe was holding my dress down. No, 54 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:52,640 Speaker 1: he was wind under my saals, But you are the 55 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 1: wind under my saih. But anyway, I give Pastor Andrew 56 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:00,440 Speaker 1: and this church a lot of credit for doing what 57 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 1: I'm doing. But having said that, we've attracted some interesting 58 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:08,720 Speaker 1: events over the years. We've done Christian Comedy Association conferences here. 59 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:11,240 Speaker 1: We're a bunch of like comedians who are faith based 60 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:15,600 Speaker 1: just descend on our church for three days and it's 61 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:19,079 Speaker 1: you know, two hundred comedians, which is not as fun 62 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 1: as you think it is. It's a lot of works, 63 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:23,679 Speaker 1: those guys. It's a lot of work. But I will 64 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:26,959 Speaker 1: say this one takes the cake now. Because Pastor and 65 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:29,360 Speaker 1: Her call me today and he said, where are you 66 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:31,080 Speaker 1: the next three days? I said, I actually leave him 67 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:32,359 Speaker 1: for my bus tour today. But I'm coming over to 68 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:35,040 Speaker 1: podcast with John here soon and he said, get here 69 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:37,440 Speaker 1: as soon as you can. He goes. The next three days, 70 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:43,320 Speaker 1: we have one hundred plus Santa's who have taken over 71 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:48,320 Speaker 1: the church for the Santa Summit, profession professional Santas. Our 72 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:53,880 Speaker 1: former children's pastor, Pastor Roy Stone, is a Santa half 73 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:59,240 Speaker 1: the year and he he lobbied for our church, even 74 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 1: though he lives in Florida, he lobbied for our church 75 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 1: to host this Santa Summit. And I mean it's everything 76 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:06,640 Speaker 1: you can imagine. It's what whatever you're picturing right now, 77 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:08,760 Speaker 1: it's it's that, it's a it's a lot of First 78 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:10,720 Speaker 1: of all, it's a lot of red cars in the 79 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 1: parking lot. It's fun at a lot of red sleighs, 80 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:16,799 Speaker 1: if you will. And then you get in there's booths 81 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:20,040 Speaker 1: that they're selling like belts and hats and you know, 82 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:25,320 Speaker 1: black boots and all kinds of Santa accoutra mall. I'm 83 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:27,279 Speaker 1: assuming there's gonna be sessions. What are you doing? John? 84 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:30,880 Speaker 1: Got it? I've got it. You're you're putting your your 85 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:34,000 Speaker 1: There's a lot of like, say, who are you a 86 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:36,080 Speaker 1: are you a Santa? Do you want to be a 87 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:38,839 Speaker 1: better Santa. What is being a Santa meme? Right? What 88 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:41,000 Speaker 1: is Santa mean? I don't know what the sessions are 89 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:42,560 Speaker 1: going to be. Yeah, is it like a lot of 90 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:43,080 Speaker 1: Ted talks. 91 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:45,720 Speaker 2: I don't forget Santa is really alive? 92 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:48,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, in your heart, that's true. Maybe the maybe the 93 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 1: real friends were the Santa that we met along the way. Anyway, 94 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 1: they are. 95 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:54,920 Speaker 2: The calls are coming from inside the sleigh. 96 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 1: They are. They are in our church, a lot of them. 97 00:04:57,120 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 1: They're getting ready because it starts tonight and they are 98 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:02,320 Speaker 1: being a little bit rowdy. So if you hear a clatter, 99 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:05,719 Speaker 1: that's what's the matter. Yeah, it's a lot of Santa's 100 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:08,200 Speaker 1: out there, and I'm assuming they're giving beard grooming tips 101 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 1: right now. There's a lot going on. 102 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 2: You can see some Santas that go as Santa all 103 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 2: year and. 104 00:05:16,279 --> 00:05:18,040 Speaker 1: Then the ones who just put on the beard and 105 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:20,160 Speaker 1: it's a it's a it's a plate. It's a place 106 00:05:20,279 --> 00:05:22,640 Speaker 1: like I wore a red shirt today. Okay, I could 107 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:24,360 Speaker 1: walk out there, we're like hey, you know, like I'm 108 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:30,039 Speaker 1: I'm see you guys in November. Look at this nube. 109 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:33,880 Speaker 1: They started mocking you. Look at this guy. 110 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:37,680 Speaker 2: I member Roy, because Roy is when we say Roy's 111 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:41,320 Speaker 2: a professional Santa, like he's been featured on magazine covers. 112 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:45,560 Speaker 1: It's a character. It is wild, like if I we 113 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:47,479 Speaker 1: need to put a photo, I'm gonna have them drop 114 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:49,560 Speaker 1: a photo. If we clip this out, you need to 115 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:52,920 Speaker 1: see what Pastorally, it's almost like a throwback Santa. It's 116 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:55,320 Speaker 1: like a Father Christmas Nick. But it's got a little 117 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:57,839 Speaker 1: steampunk in it too. Yeah, where he's got a little 118 00:05:57,880 --> 00:06:01,240 Speaker 1: bit of the tiny spectacles him and it's it's got 119 00:06:01,279 --> 00:06:04,679 Speaker 1: a little bit of like a fun HG. Wells vibe 120 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 1: to it. 121 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:09,720 Speaker 2: Does pocket watchy Yeah, Yeah, it's very like there's texture 122 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:12,240 Speaker 2: in the vest and like there's a lot going on. 123 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:15,400 Speaker 1: I mean, you would not know. It's very well thought out. Yeah, 124 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:18,279 Speaker 1: it's not just like you know, generic, it's not just 125 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:20,040 Speaker 1: a Coca Cola bottle. All the people out there with 126 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:22,800 Speaker 1: your generic Santas. Listen, come on, man, you don't even 127 00:06:22,839 --> 00:06:24,559 Speaker 1: put some put something on it. He has a little 128 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 1: like wax at the end of the mustache sometimes where 129 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:29,160 Speaker 1: it's like it curls up. I've seen that before. That's 130 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:30,479 Speaker 1: a new thing. You know. If you thought about going 131 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:31,400 Speaker 1: out there and doing some comedy. 132 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:35,360 Speaker 2: I bet you can really slay them, Johnny. 133 00:06:35,839 --> 00:06:37,359 Speaker 1: I thought that's what Andrew was gonna call me to do. 134 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:38,920 Speaker 1: When he said we got the sands here. I thought 135 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:40,000 Speaker 1: he was gonna be like, and you got to come 136 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:42,040 Speaker 1: over here. He was actually saying, get over here and 137 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:45,000 Speaker 1: just roll tape. Just just bring a pad and pen 138 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:46,280 Speaker 1: and start riding down. 139 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:48,200 Speaker 2: And we walked when we pulled in the parking lot 140 00:06:48,279 --> 00:06:50,719 Speaker 2: and the guy was walking out and he had he 141 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:54,320 Speaker 2: had a red i think, long sleeve shirt on red 142 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:56,800 Speaker 2: shorts and a big white beard just walking through the 143 00:06:56,839 --> 00:07:00,520 Speaker 2: parking lot to his car slash sleigh. And I was like, 144 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:03,280 Speaker 2: I mean again, it's just I told the staff yesterday, 145 00:07:03,279 --> 00:07:06,080 Speaker 2: I was like, this is a little more indicative probably 146 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:09,680 Speaker 2: of what mine and your time together on staff was like, 147 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:12,239 Speaker 2: uh huh, because we were hosting these kinds of things 148 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:15,840 Speaker 2: all the time. But it's not on your ministry bingo card. 149 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:18,520 Speaker 2: It's not like you go, you know what, I want 150 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:22,280 Speaker 2: to go into pastoral ministry so that someday, right I 151 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:26,120 Speaker 2: could be surrounded by one hundred Santas walking outside of 152 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:28,520 Speaker 2: my office while I work, Like, I don't know, I mean, 153 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:30,600 Speaker 2: I think it's kind of cool. You think every other 154 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:32,960 Speaker 2: church has that. No, does it help the kingdom? 155 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:36,960 Speaker 1: Maybe not. Does it grow the church at all? Nope? 156 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:40,440 Speaker 1: Does it make us a lot of money? It didn't 157 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:42,160 Speaker 1: do that either. But no. 158 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:44,320 Speaker 2: I mean they're really nice guys and we're helping them 159 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:46,360 Speaker 2: host and it's Roy's guys, And it's. 160 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:48,920 Speaker 1: For the kids, John, it's for the kids who listen. 161 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:52,760 Speaker 1: The Wonder of Christmas very important. 162 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:56,440 Speaker 2: We're fans of it, right, I mean as a church, 163 00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:59,120 Speaker 2: we don't necessarily teach the Wonder of Christmas being about 164 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:03,120 Speaker 2: Santa particular, what with the whole Jesus story and everything. 165 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 1: But this has got a lot We're gonna get a 166 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:07,400 Speaker 1: lot of emails, John, how would you send an angry email? 167 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:10,760 Speaker 2: To send your angry email to hell outa Talk about 168 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:11,880 Speaker 2: that podcast dot com. 169 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 1: We will read it on the air and then you'll 170 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:14,960 Speaker 1: hear me crumpling it up and throw it in the 171 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:16,480 Speaker 1: waste basket. You know, why don't you send it straight 172 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:19,520 Speaker 1: to our trash folder. Yeah, that's at trash at talk 173 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:22,280 Speaker 1: about That podcast dot com. I need to make that 174 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:24,200 Speaker 1: an email for my website. I've always wanted to do that. 175 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:25,560 Speaker 1: If somebody says, like, how would I get in touch 176 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 1: with it. I'd be like trash at johnnyw dot com. 177 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:31,080 Speaker 1: Just have it be a real place. I like that. 178 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:32,640 Speaker 1: That would be fun. I need to do that. Oh, 179 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:38,080 Speaker 1: I did something kind of cool. We've not debriefed this, 180 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:40,080 Speaker 1: and I didn't know if I was going to actually 181 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:42,960 Speaker 1: share the story unless anything came of it. But it's 182 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:44,199 Speaker 1: one of those things like I want to share my 183 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 1: journey along the way. I was part of an audition 184 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:51,080 Speaker 1: Saturday at Zany's, my home club in Nashville for the 185 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:55,960 Speaker 1: tonight show for the producer of Books. I got invited 186 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:57,160 Speaker 1: to be a part of it, which is cool to 187 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:00,400 Speaker 1: do my five minutes with some other great comic who 188 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:01,800 Speaker 1: came in from all over the country. Some of them 189 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:03,400 Speaker 1: were Nashville natives, but some of them came from all 190 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:07,040 Speaker 1: over the country. And we got to the guy who's 191 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:10,160 Speaker 1: the guy who books the comedians on Jimmy Fallon was 192 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:12,800 Speaker 1: in the audience and it was a packed house and 193 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:14,520 Speaker 1: I had a good set. I mean, you never know 194 00:09:14,559 --> 00:09:16,000 Speaker 1: what's going to happen, so that's why I think I'll 195 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:18,000 Speaker 1: just tell everybody, Hey, we did a thing and it 196 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:20,760 Speaker 1: was fun, and now we see what happens. But it's 197 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:23,640 Speaker 1: cool sometimes you just do it and it's a thing 198 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:23,959 Speaker 1: you did. 199 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:25,440 Speaker 2: I mean, I don't want to have this conversation on 200 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:27,040 Speaker 2: the air if you don't want to Oh, I don't care. 201 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:29,240 Speaker 1: But like, when do you hear Oh, I don't know. 202 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:32,280 Speaker 1: I don't know if you do hear anything. It's I 203 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:33,679 Speaker 1: think I had a good set. That's all I can 204 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:36,040 Speaker 1: tell you. I mean, I don't you know, I don't 205 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:38,600 Speaker 1: really know what happens from here, because that's how showbiz 206 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:40,280 Speaker 1: works is you just kind of slide a hurry up 207 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:44,079 Speaker 1: and wait. But it was just fun. Honestly. The really 208 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:45,880 Speaker 1: cool thing about it was that I was asked to 209 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:47,600 Speaker 1: do it. Hey, would you want to do a set 210 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:50,280 Speaker 1: on this? It's during the Nashville Comedy Festival. There's fifty 211 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:53,200 Speaker 1: or sixty shows that happened this week, a million amazing shows, 212 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:56,080 Speaker 1: and this was one of the events. Was a showcase 213 00:09:57,040 --> 00:10:00,480 Speaker 1: for the booker of the night show. And I'm never home. 214 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:03,400 Speaker 1: I'm always gone on shows. And then I'm happening to 215 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:05,360 Speaker 1: be home a few days this past week and they 216 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:06,320 Speaker 1: were like, do you want to do this? And I 217 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:08,199 Speaker 1: was like one hundred percent. So we flew in early 218 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:09,679 Speaker 1: from my show in Detroit. 219 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:12,080 Speaker 2: Oh And it's your home turf and all, and that's 220 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:12,520 Speaker 2: kind of cool. 221 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:14,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, it was really neat. And was it at the 222 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:17,120 Speaker 1: lab or is at the lab? Yeah, so it's really 223 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:20,320 Speaker 1: nice and intimate and which honestly, that's about how many 224 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:23,240 Speaker 1: people come to tonight show. What's funny about it is 225 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:25,800 Speaker 1: it's a very small studio. It looks big on TV, but. 226 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:27,520 Speaker 2: It's about when they go out of an audience, if 227 00:10:27,559 --> 00:10:29,959 Speaker 2: you Yeah, I noticed, like my wife and I laugh, 228 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:33,440 Speaker 2: she can't guesstimate the number of people. Yeah, when you're 229 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:35,760 Speaker 2: a pastor, you kind of used to like, Okay, there's 230 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:37,560 Speaker 2: like fifty people here, but it could be fifty or 231 00:10:37,559 --> 00:10:40,679 Speaker 2: five hundred, you know what her And which if you're 232 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:42,160 Speaker 2: in church, you always say it's five hundred. 233 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:43,280 Speaker 1: Absolutely that's what you do. 234 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:45,640 Speaker 2: But I mean you I noticed that when Jimmy Fallon 235 00:10:45,679 --> 00:10:47,360 Speaker 2: and them go up into the into the crowd, it's 236 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:49,400 Speaker 2: a lot fewer people than most people would think. 237 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:51,280 Speaker 1: But they lay them out nice, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, 238 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:54,079 Speaker 1: And it's all about miking them correctly and all that stuff. 239 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:56,200 Speaker 1: So anyway, we'll see what happens. But I just wanted 240 00:10:56,200 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 1: to share that that I got. I just think it's 241 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:00,120 Speaker 1: a cool little thing. It's just it's like the next 242 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:02,199 Speaker 1: thing you do, like, oh, I got a cool opportunity. 243 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:04,079 Speaker 1: I want to share it with the people who care 244 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:06,480 Speaker 1: about my career. But that's not to say like I'm 245 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:07,719 Speaker 1: going to be on this night show. It's just that 246 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:10,640 Speaker 1: I got the audition. But I mean that's the next step. 247 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:13,559 Speaker 1: That's a step towards. You can't be on there without auditioning. 248 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:16,400 Speaker 1: That's true. I mean that's true. They're not. Probably you 249 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:18,920 Speaker 1: can't win the lottery unless you play. So I encourge 250 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:20,360 Speaker 1: you guys to get out there and buy as many 251 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:24,559 Speaker 1: lottery tickets. That's right. So so far we've encouraged Santa Yeah, 252 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:29,440 Speaker 1: lottery tickets, yeah, and just in general chasing a dream yeah, John. 253 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:32,840 Speaker 1: You know what else? We like to chase money and 254 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:36,040 Speaker 1: we want to We want to thank our advertisers for 255 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:37,880 Speaker 1: helping us keep the lights on. We don't make a 256 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:39,520 Speaker 1: ton of money from the show, as you know if 257 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:42,280 Speaker 1: you listen, but we keep the lights on and that's 258 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:44,560 Speaker 1: because of our wonderful advertising. Let's take a minute here 259 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:46,520 Speaker 1: a few words from some of our find sponsors. 260 00:11:56,960 --> 00:12:01,640 Speaker 2: Well, I, for one, want you to know that if 261 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:03,000 Speaker 2: you don't make it on the tonight show. 262 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:05,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, you're not going to ever feel no differently about you. 263 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:09,400 Speaker 1: Oh that's nice. I feel the tonight show, I'll feel like, well, 264 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:14,040 Speaker 1: look they made the choice. Knows what he's doing over there. Listen. 265 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:15,960 Speaker 2: I want to actually, I want to say this, No 266 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:18,720 Speaker 2: boy and none over one thinks just because I'm Johnny's 267 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:21,240 Speaker 2: best friend or whatever. But I've been saying this since 268 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:24,400 Speaker 2: the beginning. I'm sorry, they'd be fools not to have 269 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:24,640 Speaker 2: you on. 270 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:25,880 Speaker 1: Come on, john. 271 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:28,640 Speaker 2: It's kind of like, I'm sorry. I'm a little still wounded. 272 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:33,080 Speaker 2: When we got to fly to California. Yeah, and I 273 00:12:33,160 --> 00:12:36,320 Speaker 2: watched you get four yes is on a g T 274 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:38,559 Speaker 2: and standing oh from two of them? 275 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:41,199 Speaker 1: Right, uh three three three The judges stood up and 276 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:43,200 Speaker 1: I got two standing ovation from the audience. Yeah. 277 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:46,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, And I mean, guys, Johnny Slade on the biggest 278 00:12:46,360 --> 00:12:47,200 Speaker 2: stage in America. 279 00:12:47,559 --> 00:12:50,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, and the producers like, you know what it's gonna go. 280 00:12:50,679 --> 00:12:53,680 Speaker 2: No, I don't like. I don't like what they did. 281 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:56,880 Speaker 2: And I have a little bit. I mean, someone's going 282 00:12:56,920 --> 00:12:57,760 Speaker 2: to stand up for Johnny. 283 00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:00,520 Speaker 1: It could still happen. I mean that was years ago, 284 00:13:00,559 --> 00:13:03,840 Speaker 1: almost three years ago. But it's done. We're going back. No. 285 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:06,319 Speaker 1: I mean, what's funny is a producer did reach out 286 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:08,959 Speaker 1: the next year, a different producer casting producer reached out, 287 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:11,240 Speaker 1: not knowing that I'd already auditioned the year before. They're like, 288 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:13,360 Speaker 1: we'd love to have you on season seventeen. They were 289 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:15,200 Speaker 1: gonna fly me in the whole thing again. Yeah, And 290 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:17,520 Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, just so you know, I've been 291 00:13:17,559 --> 00:13:19,520 Speaker 1: through this and this is what happened. And I told 292 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:21,400 Speaker 1: him the whole story, and they were like, oh, yeah, 293 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:23,760 Speaker 1: you probably want to wait another year before you audition again. 294 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:25,800 Speaker 1: And I was like, okay, but you weren't even on 295 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:31,400 Speaker 1: TV now. They showed me in the background of someone 296 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:33,880 Speaker 1: else's but no one saw your act, right, no one 297 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:35,880 Speaker 1: saw the act. Yeah. But I think it's just a 298 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:39,600 Speaker 1: thing of like if you go back again, it's like, oh, 299 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:41,559 Speaker 1: we saw this guy last year. You knowed they need 300 00:13:41,559 --> 00:13:43,160 Speaker 1: to forget you. I guess maybe I don't know. I 301 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:44,960 Speaker 1: kind of think you don't need that. I mean, honestly, 302 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:46,520 Speaker 1: I need to have a better story. I'm going to 303 00:13:46,559 --> 00:13:47,960 Speaker 1: have a man you wait to the story that I 304 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:49,360 Speaker 1: tell him. When I get I go on this time, 305 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:51,920 Speaker 1: it's going to be like, yeah, I lost my dog. 306 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:55,560 Speaker 1: I lost my house. We could make I mean I could. 307 00:13:55,760 --> 00:13:58,080 Speaker 1: I have lost a couple house. I've lost a couple 308 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:00,360 Speaker 1: of dogs since then. Yeah, we didn't even have to dogs. Now. 309 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:02,440 Speaker 1: It's so sad in my house. It's very quiet at 310 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:06,320 Speaker 1: my house. Yeah, we are. We're pondering because I'm curries 311 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:07,880 Speaker 1: home from the road because I'm doing some shows with 312 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:10,600 Speaker 1: Nate and some shows with John Christ in May. So 313 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:12,439 Speaker 1: she's basically off the road for like a month and 314 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:15,040 Speaker 1: a half. Oh, and she's like she's going to get 315 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:18,880 Speaker 1: a dog. She's thinking about fostering. Fostering is like hard 316 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:21,240 Speaker 1: to let go. Fostering is like you get a dog 317 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:23,520 Speaker 1: and then you have to decide do I take this 318 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:26,920 Speaker 1: dog back to the place that is the rescue and 319 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:29,280 Speaker 1: say like we're done fostering now, knowing that it's just 320 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:30,840 Speaker 1: back in harm's way again. 321 00:14:30,920 --> 00:14:32,880 Speaker 2: Why isn't not just adopting? Does anyone ever bring the 322 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:33,360 Speaker 2: dog back? 323 00:14:33,520 --> 00:14:35,280 Speaker 1: Oh? They do. I mean sometimes you foster a dog 324 00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:37,200 Speaker 1: and then you find them there forever home and then 325 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:39,360 Speaker 1: you get the next dog. Some people just foster all 326 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:41,840 Speaker 1: the time, just like people do foster kids like But 327 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:43,680 Speaker 1: a lot of times what happens is you foster the 328 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:45,320 Speaker 1: dog and you fall in love. You get a soul 329 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:48,680 Speaker 1: bond with this dog. Yeah, well that's what dogs do. 330 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:52,000 Speaker 1: I know, man, I'm afraid of that happening. But you 331 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:53,160 Speaker 1: ever said you ever had a dog? 332 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:55,600 Speaker 2: They didn't wag his tail when you walked up me 333 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:57,080 Speaker 2: except the ones attacking you. 334 00:14:57,160 --> 00:14:59,720 Speaker 1: Yeah. Even then, they really they seem to really like 335 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:00,800 Speaker 1: it into it. 336 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:02,760 Speaker 2: Wagon. 337 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:06,520 Speaker 1: That's like the guy said, like, do you think a 338 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:09,240 Speaker 1: cop dog knows that he's a cop? Like a canine dog, 339 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:12,960 Speaker 1: he just thinks like, well, this is fun. I got 340 00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:15,520 Speaker 1: to take a guy down and chew on his arm. 341 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:17,840 Speaker 1: Does he know that he's a cop? Right? You know? 342 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:19,600 Speaker 1: I don't think so. He just thinks like, I got 343 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:21,720 Speaker 1: some cheese after this. That was pretty cool. 344 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:24,640 Speaker 2: He's not thinking I got to do my duty in 345 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:26,400 Speaker 2: the line of danger. 346 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:28,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not right, or danger danger in the line 347 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:31,960 Speaker 1: of sorry, duty in the line of danger? Danger? Are 348 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:34,160 Speaker 1: you sure you want to be an author? If you 349 00:15:34,160 --> 00:15:35,800 Speaker 1: want to find out more about John's books, go to 350 00:15:35,920 --> 00:15:40,640 Speaker 1: Duty in the Line of Danger dot org dot com. 351 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:41,640 Speaker 2: Hey, Jonny's about that? 352 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:43,360 Speaker 1: Okay, that's my quarter of the week. 353 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:59,200 Speaker 2: The segment we call they talked about that. Richard Sibbs, 354 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:05,400 Speaker 2: which I've quoted multiple times before, Puritan English Puritan theologian 355 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:09,240 Speaker 2: born fifteen seventy seven. So this is gonna be interesting 356 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:12,880 Speaker 2: old school, yes, and people have like. 357 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:15,280 Speaker 1: First of all, what are these women doing not wearing hats? 358 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:16,760 Speaker 1: Is that part of the well, you. 359 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:19,080 Speaker 2: Know, growing up, Like I mean, when you read like 360 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:21,800 Speaker 2: Scarlet Letter and things like that, you think of Puritans 361 00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:24,480 Speaker 2: or even like Pilgrims, or you think of those early 362 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 2: as like I think very anti grace and truly I 363 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:34,560 Speaker 2: think some of the best there's a book called Gentle 364 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:38,600 Speaker 2: and Luwly by Dane Ortland that's one of the it's 365 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:42,080 Speaker 2: basically taking a lot of Puritan theology on grace and 366 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:44,560 Speaker 2: how God really feels about you, And I mean it's 367 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:47,000 Speaker 2: I think we're very backwards on what a lot of 368 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:49,600 Speaker 2: these guys actually were teaching and writing at that time, 369 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:52,880 Speaker 2: because some of I think the richest, deepest viewpoint of 370 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:57,400 Speaker 2: God's love is there. But this is interesting because so 371 00:16:57,520 --> 00:17:00,000 Speaker 2: this has actually came from I do one of these 372 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:03,480 Speaker 2: things a Christian quote email among my other many quote things, 373 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:06,080 Speaker 2: and usually those are pretty reliable, but now I always 374 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:08,040 Speaker 2: check everything because you've. 375 00:17:10,080 --> 00:17:17,280 Speaker 1: Outcry on the podcast we're platforming. Sorry about that, seriously. 376 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:21,520 Speaker 1: Ouries were very weird, but incoming. 377 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:23,520 Speaker 2: So I always check it, you know, And this one 378 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:25,400 Speaker 2: it says it's a modern rendition. 379 00:17:25,920 --> 00:17:27,040 Speaker 1: You can't find the original. 380 00:17:27,080 --> 00:17:29,680 Speaker 2: I checked all my normal sources because I'm gonna read 381 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:31,560 Speaker 2: the modern rendition, then I'll read the one that I 382 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:32,440 Speaker 2: think it came from. 383 00:17:33,119 --> 00:17:34,640 Speaker 1: I think they're both valid. 384 00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:37,440 Speaker 2: But so this is not probably how Richard SIPs actually 385 00:17:37,520 --> 00:17:41,720 Speaker 2: said this in Middle slash Old English in somewhere in 386 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:45,960 Speaker 2: the sixteen hundreds. But he said, or it's purported to 387 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:50,240 Speaker 2: have said, if we could send more than he could pardon, 388 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:54,280 Speaker 2: then we might have some reason to despair if we 389 00:17:54,280 --> 00:17:56,600 Speaker 2: could send more than he could pardon. 390 00:17:57,440 --> 00:17:58,399 Speaker 1: And I thought, well, that's great. 391 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:03,320 Speaker 2: The original quote that is actually verified is that there 392 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:07,600 Speaker 2: is more mercy in Christ than sin in us, more 393 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:10,880 Speaker 2: mercy in Christ than sin in us. I think I 394 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:12,560 Speaker 2: still I told the Church the other day. I mean, 395 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:15,720 Speaker 2: I don't know if it's humanity or if it's my 396 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:21,760 Speaker 2: enneagram sixisms, if it's my it's just general wiring and disposition, 397 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:26,520 Speaker 2: my sense of needing to self improve, or what of 398 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:30,040 Speaker 2: those things are. But again the hardest thing for me 399 00:18:30,119 --> 00:18:37,159 Speaker 2: to believe is that I'm beloved by God. And and 400 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:39,720 Speaker 2: it's not, you know, because I think again, it's not 401 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:45,160 Speaker 2: just like sins of commission, right, it's sins of omission. 402 00:18:45,160 --> 00:18:47,080 Speaker 2: All the things I should be doing that don't do well, 403 00:18:47,119 --> 00:18:49,040 Speaker 2: and then the things I shouldn't be doing that I do. 404 00:18:50,359 --> 00:18:52,280 Speaker 2: It's Roman seven, and. 405 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:55,359 Speaker 1: I mean just it. 406 00:18:56,080 --> 00:18:58,399 Speaker 2: I know this because I've been set free from this. 407 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:04,480 Speaker 2: But one does not remain free unless one remains near 408 00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:09,119 Speaker 2: the thing that sets you free the first time. So 409 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:12,119 Speaker 2: Jesus said, you're free indeed, meaning like it's real, like 410 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:16,040 Speaker 2: it's actually free from these things. But the only way again, 411 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:19,320 Speaker 2: I think you stay free indeed, is to stay near Jesus. 412 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:21,600 Speaker 1: So you have to return. 413 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:25,040 Speaker 2: I don't mean you return because you lost salvation or 414 00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:30,480 Speaker 2: all those things. I mean the confidence that comes in 415 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:35,520 Speaker 2: humility before Christ, of his ultimate love for you. I 416 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:37,960 Speaker 2: don't think I've never met a person, and certainly I 417 00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:42,000 Speaker 2: myself am not a person that I just default to 418 00:19:42,040 --> 00:19:46,800 Speaker 2: that that there is a Again, what's the old analogy. 419 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:51,000 Speaker 2: We're walking up an escalator going down, right, So when 420 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:53,440 Speaker 2: i'm I have to be in motion towards the up 421 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:58,400 Speaker 2: or I will naturally be brought down and by brought down. 422 00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:01,520 Speaker 2: We would say into sin, into the yes. But I 423 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:04,280 Speaker 2: think I think the greatest sin that I live in 424 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:07,160 Speaker 2: is to not fully trust in the love of the Father. 425 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:10,080 Speaker 2: For me, I think that's where the sin really is, 426 00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:13,960 Speaker 2: because sin, by basic definition and scripture and the original languages, 427 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:16,640 Speaker 2: is to simply miss a mark or miss a target. 428 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:21,120 Speaker 2: I'm not downplaying and I'm uplaying it. The major mark 429 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:23,919 Speaker 2: that I miss, the mark that Adam and Eve missed, 430 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:27,280 Speaker 2: was that the enemy could convince them that God really 431 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:30,920 Speaker 2: didn't have their good in mind. Did he really say 432 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:33,280 Speaker 2: you shouldn't do this? He just knows that if you 433 00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:36,200 Speaker 2: eat that fruit, you're gonna know everything Like he does. 434 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:39,359 Speaker 2: He's keeping something from you that that will be better. 435 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:42,280 Speaker 2: If you don't go, you can't trust him, you should 436 00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:43,439 Speaker 2: go your own way, right. 437 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:44,240 Speaker 1: That's that's the. 438 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:47,879 Speaker 2: Original lie that led to the original sin that I 439 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:51,199 Speaker 2: think stills a lie that leads us to live in 440 00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:54,440 Speaker 2: this distance from God today. But if I really believe 441 00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:57,000 Speaker 2: what sib says that there's more mercy in Christ than 442 00:20:57,040 --> 00:21:00,720 Speaker 2: sin and me, it's a it's a challenging thing because 443 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:04,080 Speaker 2: I don't live naturally. I have to come to the 444 00:21:04,119 --> 00:21:07,600 Speaker 2: supernatural place, which is hard to do. I have to reflect, 445 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:11,400 Speaker 2: I have to sit, I have to be in contemplation, 446 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:14,040 Speaker 2: I have to be in confession. I have to be 447 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:16,400 Speaker 2: in silence or solitude or something. You know, if it's 448 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:20,560 Speaker 2: temporarily for five minutes. The thing that brings me back 449 00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:24,159 Speaker 2: that's the hardest for my soul to believe is also. 450 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:25,520 Speaker 1: The most important. And that's that. 451 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:30,159 Speaker 2: Like if I really believe the scriptures that before I 452 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:32,600 Speaker 2: ever woke up this morning, he was already singing over 453 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:34,040 Speaker 2: me right. 454 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:36,080 Speaker 1: That he's not like me. 455 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:38,560 Speaker 2: He doesn't get tired, he doesn't have to sleep, he 456 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:42,280 Speaker 2: doesn't run out of patience. He's not like me. But 457 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:45,880 Speaker 2: I'm judging his love for me as if he's like me, Yeah, 458 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:49,400 Speaker 2: then he's not. That's why I need him. I need 459 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:52,159 Speaker 2: to understand him more. And even I don't need to 460 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:54,200 Speaker 2: understand him more, I need to trust him more because 461 00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:57,400 Speaker 2: I won't understand. But and always I tell the church 462 00:21:57,400 --> 00:21:59,320 Speaker 2: all the time, of all the mysteries we could be 463 00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:04,440 Speaker 2: a part of chasing that Christian Christianity chases mysteries now 464 00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:07,080 Speaker 2: like it's a like it's a hobby. And I guess 465 00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:09,560 Speaker 2: we always have, Well, do we go to church on 466 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:11,480 Speaker 2: this day or this day, we're gonna live in that mystery? 467 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:12,640 Speaker 1: Do we do we? 468 00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:16,000 Speaker 2: Is there gonna be a literal rapture or is that figurative? 469 00:22:16,119 --> 00:22:17,359 Speaker 2: Is it gonna be a catching away? Is it going 470 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:19,640 Speaker 2: to be in the in the beginning of a seven 471 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:21,800 Speaker 2: year tribulation, in the middle of a seven year tribulation, 472 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:23,200 Speaker 2: or at the end of one. Is there gonna be 473 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:24,840 Speaker 2: a millennium? As a millennium already happened? 474 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:25,920 Speaker 1: Are we in the millennium? Now? 475 00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:29,280 Speaker 2: Like we're in all these mysteries That scripture doesn't come 476 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:31,879 Speaker 2: right out and say exactly what they're gonna be, But 477 00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:35,119 Speaker 2: there's so much about God's love for us that is 478 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:39,000 Speaker 2: not at all mysterious anymore. That Paul even says that, 479 00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:42,080 Speaker 2: like Jesus came to reveal the mystery, and so that 480 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:44,840 Speaker 2: mystery revealed is that if you wanted to know the 481 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:47,080 Speaker 2: nature of God, now that you've met Jesus, that's the 482 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:49,560 Speaker 2: nature of God towards you, and now you don't have 483 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:51,439 Speaker 2: to be mysterious about it. But we still find a 484 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:54,720 Speaker 2: way to make to chase the mysteries and ignore the 485 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:55,679 Speaker 2: stuff that's been answered. 486 00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:58,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, what's that great quote by staring Curekery guard about 487 00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:03,000 Speaker 1: like big God of Christian scholarship is basically to weasel 488 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:06,000 Speaker 1: your way out of doing what the Bible just says. Yeah, 489 00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:08,119 Speaker 1: it's to try to find a way to squeeze it 490 00:23:08,119 --> 00:23:12,080 Speaker 1: into your own ideology. Yeah, instead of just because there's 491 00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:13,760 Speaker 1: a part of that quote where he says, if you 492 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:18,200 Speaker 1: just take a vow to just do the first five 493 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:21,080 Speaker 1: verses of Corinthians, you'll be like, my God, my life 494 00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:23,560 Speaker 1: will be ruined. Yeah, you know what I'm saying, Like, 495 00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:26,720 Speaker 1: and so we're desperate not to ruin our lives, so 496 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:28,600 Speaker 1: we try to fit God in this box. But yeah, 497 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:30,320 Speaker 1: I think that there's something to be said for that 498 00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:33,359 Speaker 1: of like, yeah, just like what is our goal? What 499 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:35,639 Speaker 1: is our what is our use for the Bible? We 500 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:37,919 Speaker 1: are using it because I feel like it's become a 501 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:42,560 Speaker 1: real cudgel now of like almost like it's worshiped, Oh yeah, 502 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:46,959 Speaker 1: instead of this thing of like like Jesus is the message, 503 00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:50,960 Speaker 1: He is the fulfillment of it. And so I just think, yeah, 504 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:52,760 Speaker 1: there's there's a lot there that's good stuff. 505 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:55,040 Speaker 2: Though, Well, Sadie asked me the day like she was 506 00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:58,560 Speaker 2: she finally had this understanding. We're like when you know 507 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:03,840 Speaker 2: in fifty eight, twenty years after Jesus's ascension, roughly, they 508 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:06,480 Speaker 2: don't have a Bible. She's like, what you know, they 509 00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:10,400 Speaker 2: don't have a Bible, they have letters circulating. Because he's 510 00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:12,359 Speaker 2: asking me, she goes, did you know there were there 511 00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:14,120 Speaker 2: were books of the Bible that didn't get put into 512 00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:14,560 Speaker 2: the Bible. 513 00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:16,879 Speaker 1: You know, It's like, I do know that. Yeah, let 514 00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:17,679 Speaker 1: me talk to you about them. 515 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:19,280 Speaker 2: You know, like apparently there's one there was there was 516 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:20,960 Speaker 2: a Book of Mary and there was I was like, yeah, 517 00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:23,080 Speaker 2: you know, so let me talk about apocryphal books, and 518 00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:26,399 Speaker 2: let's talk about spurious you know, authorship, and let's talk 519 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:30,359 Speaker 2: about I mean we you know, but the strongest believers 520 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:33,879 Speaker 2: that ever walked the earth, who were willing to be 521 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:37,000 Speaker 2: thrown to the lions, did not have a bound Bible 522 00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:39,600 Speaker 2: of all sixty six books and what we do today. 523 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:42,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, they had the word, right, they had Yeah. 524 00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:45,200 Speaker 2: So I'm not anti Bible, Johnny, I'm. 525 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:47,320 Speaker 1: Just saying he had crave. Why would you say that 526 00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:50,800 Speaker 1: on record? Sorry, guys. Oh uh, let's close the show 527 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:52,520 Speaker 1: with my segment, Joan. Let's start with old jokes. We 528 00:24:52,600 --> 00:25:01,119 Speaker 1: call it joke about that John the Man stood before 529 00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:04,520 Speaker 1: the judge accused of killing and eating an endangered whooping crane. 530 00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:07,359 Speaker 1: The man argued he thought it was a common sandhill crane, 531 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:10,560 Speaker 1: not endangered, and convinced the judge. The judge dismissed the case. 532 00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:12,400 Speaker 1: As the man was leaving the court room, the judge, 533 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:15,440 Speaker 1: being an avid bird hunter himself, asked what the whooping 534 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:23,960 Speaker 1: crane tasted like. He said, it tastes like bald eagle. John. Yesterday, 535 00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:27,640 Speaker 1: one of my best friends told me I often violate 536 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:30,760 Speaker 1: his personal space. It was a very hurtful thing to say, 537 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:35,080 Speaker 1: and it completely ruined our bath. That's one of my 538 00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:39,320 Speaker 1: favorite kind of jokes. Yeah, it's totally normal until the 539 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:42,680 Speaker 1: very last word, completely absurd at the end. The very 540 00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:44,879 Speaker 1: last word makes it a joke. I think that's a 541 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:49,080 Speaker 1: perfect joke. Yeah, it completely ruined our bath. I ha's 542 00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:51,600 Speaker 1: so perfect. What a great joke. I never heard that 543 00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:53,919 Speaker 1: one before. So good, John, Let's do this week in history. 544 00:25:54,160 --> 00:26:01,840 Speaker 1: We call it talk about then this week. John. Nineteen 545 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:06,600 Speaker 1: ninety four, Michael Moore defeated Evander Holyfield for the title, 546 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:10,920 Speaker 1: making him the first left handed heavyweight boxing champ. Really 547 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,639 Speaker 1: did not know that. It took until ninety four. I 548 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:15,479 Speaker 1: would think I left, he would have an advantage, and 549 00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:17,800 Speaker 1: we came out. We came up in an era where 550 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:21,120 Speaker 1: if you were the heavyweight boxing champion of the world, 551 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:22,879 Speaker 1: it meant you were the baddest man on the planet. 552 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:25,200 Speaker 1: Now it's kind of splintered in its mma and it's 553 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:27,560 Speaker 1: all these other things, and it just doesn't mean what 554 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:29,280 Speaker 1: it meant when Mike Tyson was just roaming in the 555 00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:33,520 Speaker 1: countryside knocking out people, Evander Holyfield, Lennox Lewis, those guys. 556 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:36,159 Speaker 1: Even Muhammad Ali's era, you were the baddest man on 557 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:39,400 Speaker 1: the planet. Yeah, and this guy was the first left 558 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:41,800 Speaker 1: hander in ninety four in that wild Evidently you are 559 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:43,760 Speaker 1: at a big disadvantage or it's just very rare for 560 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,000 Speaker 1: left handers, or they teach you to throw right handed, 561 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:47,920 Speaker 1: maybe and you have a left but you're right is 562 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:50,200 Speaker 1: your strong hand man almost if you throw with both. 563 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:52,400 Speaker 1: But I'm saying like that's your strong Yeah, so where 564 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:53,760 Speaker 1: you throw the hook or whatever. 565 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:56,520 Speaker 2: I mean, I guess that they are they are protecting 566 00:26:56,520 --> 00:27:00,679 Speaker 2: themselves with their most dominant hand. Yeah, maybe that's what 567 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:03,040 Speaker 2: it is because they're right hands dominant and you're coming 568 00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:04,480 Speaker 2: in left, so they have more protection. 569 00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:06,560 Speaker 1: I don't know, but it seems like, like you said 570 00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:08,480 Speaker 1: that that would give you an advantage if you're used 571 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:10,320 Speaker 1: to defending a certain kind of boxer that a left 572 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:12,960 Speaker 1: handed would have stuck in there way before ninety four. Anyway, 573 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,359 Speaker 1: I thought it was fascinating. Yeah. I think Michael Moore 574 00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:19,520 Speaker 1: was defeated later that year by very elderly for boxing 575 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:23,240 Speaker 1: George Foreman, because he became the oldest champion. I think 576 00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:25,639 Speaker 1: he defeated Michael Moore in the mid nineties to become 577 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:27,919 Speaker 1: because he was like coming to the press conferences with 578 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:30,680 Speaker 1: big plates full of cheeseburgers and stuff, and he would 579 00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:32,359 Speaker 1: say like, I'm winning this, and everybody was rooting for 580 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:33,800 Speaker 1: him that was in their forties and they're like, go 581 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:37,399 Speaker 1: get them big George. Yeah, man, that's right before the 582 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:40,000 Speaker 1: grill apparently, Yeah, well it was it was mid I 583 00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:42,439 Speaker 1: was thinking that was mid grill era. That is, he 584 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:45,119 Speaker 1: was probably in the grill era. I we need to 585 00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:49,159 Speaker 1: confirm that with our producers that are not here. John. 586 00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:53,320 Speaker 1: The Beatles member John Lennon changed his middle name this 587 00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:56,800 Speaker 1: week in nineteen sixty nine, from Winston to I don't 588 00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:59,000 Speaker 1: know this one. I would never have guessed it if 589 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:02,440 Speaker 1: you give me a million guesses. Oh no, He took 590 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:06,520 Speaker 1: on Yoko's last name as his middle name. Wow, yeah, 591 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:11,160 Speaker 1: would you do that? You could be John Canada Driver. Yeah. 592 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:13,560 Speaker 2: Sure, that'd be like I think of being an upgrade 593 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:14,360 Speaker 2: from my middle name. 594 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:17,720 Speaker 1: What's wrong? What's wrong with Carl? There's nothing wrong. I'm 595 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:23,120 Speaker 1: just saying it's not a common John Canada Driver. Yeah, yeah, honey, 596 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:26,000 Speaker 1: do you just say the word John. This week two 597 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:29,600 Speaker 1: thousand and two, Elmo, the muppet character from television Sesame Street, 598 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:34,119 Speaker 1: testified before the House Appropriation Subcommittee on Labor, Health and 599 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:36,840 Speaker 1: Human Services, and Education to request two million dollars in 600 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:41,200 Speaker 1: federal funding for music education programs. We need more of this, Yeah, 601 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:42,520 Speaker 1: we need more characters. 602 00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:44,600 Speaker 2: Last week we had we need the Pooh go on 603 00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:46,240 Speaker 2: trial because we know Mo testified. 604 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:48,760 Speaker 1: Listen. Liz Winstead, the great comedy writer who wrote for 605 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:52,320 Speaker 1: The Daily Show back in the day. She said politics 606 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:55,040 Speaker 1: is just Hollywood for the ugly, and she's got a point. 607 00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:58,719 Speaker 1: It is Hollywood for ugly people. And I'm sick of 608 00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:00,960 Speaker 1: c span. I'm sick of all the games. Let's have 609 00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:03,480 Speaker 1: Almo on. Yeah, let's listen. If you're trying to raise 610 00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:06,800 Speaker 1: money for education for children. Calv Elmo. Don't see somebody 611 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:10,920 Speaker 1: yell at Elmo. Yeah, you know, Deny tried denying Elmo 612 00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:18,000 Speaker 1: funds and see what happens. May make Almo cry. I'm 613 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:22,480 Speaker 1: your the rest of my time to the distinct risk 614 00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:29,160 Speaker 1: senator from Loreenciana. Oh, Elmo, you get a little misty 615 00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:32,120 Speaker 1: when you think about it, that's okay, John. This week 616 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:37,040 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty five, Coca Cola announced it's changing it's ninety 617 00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:39,479 Speaker 1: nine year old formula, introducing what's to become known as 618 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:42,560 Speaker 1: new Coke. Less than three months later, due to public 619 00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:44,920 Speaker 1: outcry and poor sales, they brought back the old formula 620 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:49,120 Speaker 1: under the name co Classic Coca Cola Classic. Uh were you? 621 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:50,600 Speaker 1: Did you drink new Coke? What were you have been? 622 00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:53,480 Speaker 1: Eighty five? You would have been so do you think 623 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:55,520 Speaker 1: you ever tried a new cocine? We're like, ugh, yeah, 624 00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:58,240 Speaker 1: do you remember there being outcry? I remember the outcry? 625 00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:00,360 Speaker 1: I don't remember Minnesota family. For first of all, a 626 00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:02,400 Speaker 1: lot of families aren't soda families. We would get coked. 627 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:04,720 Speaker 1: We were soda family. Bro I mean my mom, I 628 00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:07,400 Speaker 1: mean I drink a lot of soda. Yeah. Well, I 629 00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:09,520 Speaker 1: mean I'm working on some kidney stones over here. But 630 00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:13,640 Speaker 1: my mom would drink a coke every day and so coke. 631 00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:15,200 Speaker 1: That was a big treat in our house too. We 632 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:17,440 Speaker 1: weren't like rich people, but we had soda. We didn't 633 00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:19,640 Speaker 1: have soda in the bottles, but I remember going like, 634 00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:21,480 Speaker 1: walk down to the gas station, get a soada out 635 00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:24,480 Speaker 1: of the out of the soda machine, and it was 636 00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:26,520 Speaker 1: a big deal. Like, Mom gave me a dollar, Let's 637 00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:28,680 Speaker 1: go get a coke. You know why they did this, right, 638 00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:31,120 Speaker 1: You think this is one of the conspiracies you believed 639 00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:32,920 Speaker 1: to drum up sales to spike sales. 640 00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:36,120 Speaker 2: I've watched the documentary. Oh okay, well I've watched Food 641 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:39,000 Speaker 2: the Belts America, which is a documentary. Okay, So it 642 00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:42,360 Speaker 2: was the first time in history that pepsi overtook coke, right, 643 00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:45,680 Speaker 2: and so Coke panicked yea and tried to make a sweeter. 644 00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:46,360 Speaker 1: Version like pepsi. 645 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:49,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, because in taste tests, that's where they got the 646 00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:51,920 Speaker 2: Remember theyre doing blaying on the commercials and. 647 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:55,600 Speaker 1: Some of all I hear, what makes you different? You're 648 00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:57,000 Speaker 1: trying to come become like them? 649 00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:58,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, just because someone sold moret weight. 650 00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:03,360 Speaker 1: That's a work about to about to make yourself a some. 651 00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:05,280 Speaker 2: Of y'all been blind in your taste tests, and you 652 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:07,440 Speaker 2: need to take off the blindness. And so anyway, they 653 00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:09,200 Speaker 2: would do the blind taste test and they'd pick pepsi 654 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:11,800 Speaker 2: every time. Yeah, and so well where they would every time. 655 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:13,480 Speaker 2: That's what the ad is, the Pepsi Challenge, and it 656 00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:15,640 Speaker 2: got people going. They went and bought pepsi more. 657 00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:18,360 Speaker 1: Do you know what you probably saw the documentary, but 658 00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:21,760 Speaker 1: I've seen like further like articles about the Pepsi Challenge 659 00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:25,560 Speaker 1: is that pepsi tastes better by the drink. So if 660 00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:27,520 Speaker 1: you sip a pepsi and sip a coke, yes, you're 661 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:28,440 Speaker 1: more likely to choose it. 662 00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:29,480 Speaker 2: You won't finish the pepsi. 663 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:31,040 Speaker 1: If you won't finish the pepsi, it's too sweet, guys. 664 00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:33,520 Speaker 1: Isn't that If you want somebody to drink the whole can, 665 00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:36,080 Speaker 1: it's to be savored. That's a coke. Coke every time? 666 00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:37,160 Speaker 1: Coke is the best? 667 00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:37,560 Speaker 2: Guys? 668 00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:39,120 Speaker 1: Isn't that just I mean some of y'all, some of 669 00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:40,920 Speaker 1: y'all out here just trying to be sipped and you 670 00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:44,560 Speaker 1: need to be savored. Well, that's not exactly where are 671 00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:46,920 Speaker 1: you going? Well, I was thinking like sin tastes good 672 00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:48,760 Speaker 1: for one. So I see you know what I'm saying. 673 00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:49,360 Speaker 1: But you won't finish. 674 00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:51,640 Speaker 2: You don't want to finish the whole can of sin. No, 675 00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:54,440 Speaker 2: I mean I used to drink a six pack of 676 00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:55,160 Speaker 2: cin every night. 677 00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:00,680 Speaker 1: John's testimony is a wild out here, John, it was 678 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:05,840 Speaker 1: sin classic. John born this week nineteen thirty two. Sadly 679 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:07,520 Speaker 1: died in nineteen eighty four, which is why he makes 680 00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:10,479 Speaker 1: the list. Jim Fixed James Fuller Fixed. You know who 681 00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:14,920 Speaker 1: Jim Fix was. He was an American author. He authored 682 00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:17,520 Speaker 1: the book The Complete Book of Running in nineteen seventy seven, 683 00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:21,560 Speaker 1: which launched a running craze. He basically engineered the jogging 684 00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:24,960 Speaker 1: craze of the seventies, and he died of a heart 685 00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:27,720 Speaker 1: attack while jogging. Oh. His book The Complete Book of 686 00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:31,280 Speaker 1: Running launched a nationwide running craze, and he started running 687 00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:33,720 Speaker 1: and quit smoking at age thirty five, when he weighed 688 00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:36,240 Speaker 1: two hundred and fourteen pounds. Now, listen back then, that 689 00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:39,880 Speaker 1: was I don't like it when somebody's I gotta get 690 00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:43,080 Speaker 1: my life together. Weight is my current weight, and it's 691 00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:44,960 Speaker 1: kind of my goal weight. I'm like, I can't believe 692 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:46,680 Speaker 1: I'm not I was over. I was three hundred and 693 00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:49,240 Speaker 1: twenty pounds almost, and here I am down to like 694 00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:51,520 Speaker 1: two fifteen. I'm like, I'm doing good man, And then 695 00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:53,640 Speaker 1: they go, this guy got it. I gotta this guy 696 00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:55,840 Speaker 1: got two more. He's like, I gotta stop smoking. I 697 00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:58,920 Speaker 1: gotta start running. I gotta do something. Yeah, well, but 698 00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:01,600 Speaker 1: you're six foot two. That's true. We don't know this guy. 699 00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:04,120 Speaker 1: Who knows what he was. He smoked two packs of cigarettes 700 00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:05,960 Speaker 1: a day. Ten years later, when his book, The Complete 701 00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:08,200 Speaker 1: Book of Running was published, he was sixty pounds lighter, 702 00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:11,760 Speaker 1: and the book sold over a million copies. It is 703 00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:14,040 Speaker 1: believed he may have suffered a congenital heart defect, as 704 00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:15,800 Speaker 1: his father died of a heart attack at age forty three. 705 00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:18,440 Speaker 1: So this is probably not uncompletely. But you know, the 706 00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:20,320 Speaker 1: people that wanted you to stay couch potales were like, 707 00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:23,000 Speaker 1: this is what happens. I get out there and start running. 708 00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:25,960 Speaker 1: I'm better. Often they keep smoking, they're chugging away at whatever. 709 00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:30,480 Speaker 1: They're drinking their six pack of sin, Diet Sin by 710 00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:34,400 Speaker 1: the seventies, Diet Sin John. Finally, this week in nineteen eighty, 711 00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:38,600 Speaker 1: the Pennsylvania lottery scandal happened. It was known as the 712 00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:42,040 Speaker 1: triple six fix. Oh, and I've got several little factoid 713 00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:43,479 Speaker 1: about it because I looked it up. I looked up 714 00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:46,840 Speaker 1: further information about it. It was a rigged drawing on 715 00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:50,680 Speaker 1: April twenty fourth, nineteen eighty, where conspirators weighted ping pong 716 00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:54,239 Speaker 1: balls to guarantee the number six sixty six. Basically, they 717 00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:57,080 Speaker 1: weighed down the sixes and the fours and some of 718 00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:01,000 Speaker 1: the zeros, and then they gave tips out to people 719 00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:02,920 Speaker 1: that were These were anchors. These were some people who 720 00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:04,760 Speaker 1: loked at the new station that ran the lottery, so 721 00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:07,959 Speaker 1: they were involved like longtime employees of the station. The 722 00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:12,399 Speaker 1: conspiras included WTAE staff host Nick Perry, stage hand Fred Luhman, 723 00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:15,000 Speaker 1: and our director Joseph Block. They replaced the officiery lottery 724 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:17,560 Speaker 1: balls with weighted ones, ensuring only six could appear in 725 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:19,719 Speaker 1: each of the three positions. Actually I read that it 726 00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:21,920 Speaker 1: was sixes and fours because they, you know, to make 727 00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:26,000 Speaker 1: it a little bit more so. The suspicious betting activity 728 00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:30,040 Speaker 1: was the reason they got exposed because the sixty sixty 729 00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:31,880 Speaker 1: six was what was drawn, which is crazy. Sixty six 730 00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:33,520 Speaker 1: to six is what came up, so that I'd have 731 00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:36,200 Speaker 1: spooked everybody out should right away. 732 00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:37,800 Speaker 2: Somebody won too picked that number. 733 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:40,400 Speaker 1: It resulted in three and a half million, or roughly 734 00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:44,160 Speaker 1: thirteen point six eight million in twenty twenty five jackpot. 735 00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:48,640 Speaker 1: The suspicious betting activity, specifically massive bets on combinations of four, 736 00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:51,640 Speaker 1: six and zero in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, triggered investigations. So 737 00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:54,680 Speaker 1: it's probably like mobbed up people, to be honest, I mean, okay, 738 00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:57,360 Speaker 1: So then covered that one point one eight million of 739 00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:02,120 Speaker 1: the winnings were linked to the plotters. Nick Perry and 740 00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:05,799 Speaker 1: other conspiracs were convicted and served jail time for the rigging. Sure, yeah, 741 00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:08,520 Speaker 1: that's a major fraud. But uh, there's a movie about it. 742 00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:11,360 Speaker 1: Lucky Numbers in two thousand John Travolta and Lisa Kudro 743 00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:13,920 Speaker 1: is loosely based on the scandal. I've not seen that movie, 744 00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:15,640 Speaker 1: and I want to watch it. Interesting, but do you 745 00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:20,880 Speaker 1: know how they rigged the balls syringes full of paint 746 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:24,160 Speaker 1: latex paint, so the balls are white. They put white 747 00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:26,600 Speaker 1: latex paint so you couldn't see it see it in 748 00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:29,120 Speaker 1: the ball wow, And you couldn't see the pinhole where 749 00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:31,439 Speaker 1: the syringe had gone in, and so the balls would 750 00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:33,480 Speaker 1: blow around a little bit but they were more, they 751 00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:36,480 Speaker 1: would drop quicker into the little slots. Wow, and six 752 00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:39,480 Speaker 1: sixty six is what came up, which is exactly that's 753 00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:41,920 Speaker 1: ominous in itself that they should have known we're getting 754 00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:43,600 Speaker 1: buried to get in a lot of trouble. We should 755 00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:47,560 Speaker 1: have made four to four four. Yeah, that would have anyway, 756 00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,080 Speaker 1: Don't play the lot What I guess I'm saying is 757 00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:51,960 Speaker 1: forget what I said earlier about playing the lottery. Now 758 00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:53,280 Speaker 1: again you're asking for trouble. 759 00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:55,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean people are going to rig it. 760 00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:58,520 Speaker 1: Don't rig the lottery. Yeah. If there's one. 761 00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:04,080 Speaker 2: Takeaway yeah from the last four hundred episodes, Yeah, it's this, 762 00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:05,680 Speaker 2: don't try to rig the lottery. 763 00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:07,520 Speaker 1: Stop trying to rig the lottery. Yeah. 764 00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:09,120 Speaker 2: We've said a lot of things, but this may be 765 00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:12,480 Speaker 2: the most important sort of PSA that we can give. 766 00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:15,480 Speaker 1: Yeah. So I mean we're all about serving the public. Yeah, 767 00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:17,239 Speaker 1: it's fron Jones speaking of serving the public. Where would 768 00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:19,040 Speaker 1: you find all of our archived episodes? You got to 769 00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:21,799 Speaker 1: talk about that podcast dot com. So many archives, over 770 00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:24,280 Speaker 1: four hundred episodes, and we'd love, you know, just binge 771 00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:26,800 Speaker 1: watch those while you're on your merry way this week. 772 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:29,279 Speaker 1: And I'm on my merry way on the Live and 773 00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:34,120 Speaker 1: Laughing Tour. Yeah, we're going to We're going to Magnolia, Arkansas. 774 00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:37,400 Speaker 1: We're going to Jonesboro, Arkansas. I'm going to a suburb 775 00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:43,360 Speaker 1: of Dallas called Dallas Holkansas, Cleeburn, Texas for Worth Area, 776 00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:46,760 Speaker 1: and I'm going to Crosby, Texas Saturday. So this weekend 777 00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:49,400 Speaker 1: you have a few chances to see me and my friends. 778 00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:51,920 Speaker 1: Adam Bush is coming with me and my friend Christian McCartney. 779 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,239 Speaker 1: These are great shows, and this is one of the 780 00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:55,920 Speaker 1: last weekends of the Spring tour. We have one more 781 00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:58,719 Speaker 1: weekend of the Spring tour left before the bus tour 782 00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:02,319 Speaker 1: wraps up and then we hopefully retool for the fall. 783 00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:04,080 Speaker 1: We got a bunch of fall dates coming out. But yeah, 784 00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:06,120 Speaker 1: come see me. Johnny W dot com where you get 785 00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:06,600 Speaker 1: those tickets. 786 00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:09,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a fun show, guys. He's he's the best, 787 00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:11,759 Speaker 2: and I don't know about all that. That's what I 788 00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:14,239 Speaker 2: told the guy I'm starting out live. Sorry, That's what 789 00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:16,320 Speaker 2: I told the guy from Jimmy Fallon when he called, 790 00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:19,200 Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, you're like, whoa you hate I've 791 00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:20,560 Speaker 2: auditioned to you for SURN Live. 792 00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:22,840 Speaker 1: So good luck. If this all falls through. I'm just 793 00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:26,879 Speaker 1: gonna become a Santa. Hey, there's apparently if you want 794 00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:28,680 Speaker 1: to learn more about being the Santa, this is where 795 00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:31,600 Speaker 1: you go. This is where you Santa Summit dot com. Oh, 796 00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:33,440 Speaker 1: we don't know if that's I bet that's is. I 797 00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:34,840 Speaker 1: bet it is. Anyway. 798 00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:36,839 Speaker 2: Anyway, guys, thanks for the time you gave us today. 799 00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:38,439 Speaker 1: It meant a lot. Let's do it again next week. 800 00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:46,880 Speaker 1: You're on talk about that 801 00:37:56,400 --> 00:38:10,960 Speaker 2: The land bowed at in