Unashamed with the Robertson Family - Ep 220 | Phil Finds Out Bees Can Sting at Night, the GameStop Saga, and Popeyes vs. Chick-fil-A

Episode Date: February 5, 2021

Phil doesn't want Bernie Sanders in his boat, even in meme form. The guys talk duck-season grub and how Popeyes stacks up to Chick-fil-A. Jase weighs in on the GameStop story, hedge-fund shorts, and what he thinks of timing the stock market. Phil explains how to rob a beehive and how he learned that "Ripley's Believe It or Not!" was wrong: Bees do indeed sting at night. He also tells his version of the story Si told on his "Duck Call Room" podcast about the 27 bees that left his butt in a world of hurt. -- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am unashamed. What about you? So we're barreling, we're barreling now to the end of duck season. When you get at this point, there's only like three days left. Yeah, three days. We've implemented the implementation of divide and conquer has now entered the it's the format which put two blinds with spread of deco. two blinds tend to be better than one blind because ducks are going over there and going over here.

Well, if you have guns on number one and number two, you have the odds are with you. Add another one to that. Three blinds with each have a spread of decoys. Three chances for duct to say, I don't like this over here, but over here. Plus you cover a wider range of territory. Let me be honest.

Then that provokes. competition Yeah. Which then everybody, you know, let's get the old dogs versus the young dog. Phil's called us

young dogs. The old dogs and say, well, strap it on the young bucks. Young doesn't mean what it used to. No.

But the young dogs are in their 50s now. That's right. This is an aging dog. I just looked around at the whole bunch of other day and everybody gray-headed. Mm-hmm.

Yeah. That's what happens. At this stage, I'm physically wared down just, cuts and bruises. It takes a little while to kind of recoup for y'all. I was watching the duck blood.

I had on my fingers and hands from picking up the dead ducks and passing them from the vehicle to the boat to the vehicle. And I was eating a chicken sandwich at the time. And I thought, oh, well, a little duck blood, you never know the difference. Yeah. Well, as I'm the one doing more work, and I'm like, is that my blood? Yeah, you start to wonder who it belongs to. So for our audience to know, so during duck season especially, I've been bringing out some, you know, we're all like Chick-fil-A, which is, you call it Jesus chicken, you know, because they're well-known Christians, but they make really good chicken biscuits, chicken sandwich.

So today we had to do a Popeye. I wanted you all to, you never tried the Popeye. That was the first time I... Because we like Popeyes, too. Popeyes is really good. It's a Louisiana company. So today I brought out the Popeye's spicy chicken sandwich. So what would, how would you...

I didn't really say because it's, you know, Popeyes tried to make this a thing. But the problem was Popeye's didn't quite have the apparatus set up to take on Chick-fil-A. So they kind of like shut down for months trying to get, you know, they just got swamped with people wanting to try the chicken sandwich. But I've tried, I've eaten one. I thought it was really good. It was good.

I thought it was right there with a chick-pullet. I thought it was eerily similar. It is. There's a little bit different how they spicy it. A little more egg wash on the... Which ones you do today? Popeyes was... Popeyes had a little more...

A little crunchier. A little more eggwash. Right. You put anything out of egg wash, including duck. I mean, you got something going there. Well, this year, we need to talk about that. We discovered all the years we've duck hunted, And we've eaten ducks, I thought any way you could eat them.

But we never really, I don't remember ever trying fried duck. We never came up with what we're calling duck fingers. Yep. You take the breast out on both sides of the center part. And you make about four slices about like a little half inch, maybe a little less fingers. And so you get eight fingers per duck. and salt and black pepper and you put saltwater brown on them for a night.

Which that takes all the gaminess out of it. You pull all that off. It takes the blood out, a little salt water, take all that out. Then you put them in buttermilk. Put a buttermilk in a plastic bag and let them sit there all night. So they soak up the buttermilk. It's a couple of days of prep. Take them out, egg wash, flour them, fry them fast in peanut oil,

then sprinkle whatever season you want on them. whether you like it's spicy or not. It has been... But even the women are like, you know, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. I mean, like coyotes on a dead deer carcass. I mean, the women got all fired up about that. That is duck.

They said, well, I thought duck folks taste like liver, but this taste just as good. So... Phil's one of the few people that he needs like a sound meme. That's right. You know, everybody, they have the memes. That's right. where you can show a picture of somebody that expresses how you feel.

You probably are not familiar with this, Phil. The hot one now is Bernie Sanders. Have you seen it from the inauguration? Well, look, one of my close friends, listen to this out. It's weird you bring that up. One of my close friends sends me a picture, and it's in a boat. Me, Phil, I had no gray hair, so that should have told you right there. We may have a problem.

It was me, you, and Burley. but we all looked about 10 years younger and Bernie Sanders was in the middle wearing a mask and he said, when did y'all take Bernie Sanders hunt? Yeah, I had him photoshopped in there and I went, ha, and he put, no, really. I mean, I didn't respond, nor do I plan to

because I thought we were friends but I wanted to go, I wanted to put You May Go Now that's just real story well yes so bK yesterday was showing me all these ones apparently at the inaugurations Bernie Sanders had on some somebody had crocheted him some mittens

and so he's got all his warm stuff on and the way he's sitting just kind of like sitting there like you know doesn't give a crap about what's going on and that thing has you talk about going viral bK was showing me all the they got him in the classroom and all these different things I mean like it's become now this whole huge thing

So you could say, I'm hungry and send a sound meme, and it could be filled on. It's like coyotes on a deer. You're never going to see Bernie Sanders in my boat, ever. Yeah, it was all, it was only a dream. It was only a drink. Are you saying you don't take Marxist duck honey? Is that what you're saying? Here's my cooking DNA for the way we live.

So if you want to bake, you start off with a stick of butter. If you want to do any kind of grilling or things that come to wrapping with meat, you start off with bacon. If you want to fry, you start off with some eggs. Yep. You want egg wash. Egg wash. Everything else, you want the Trinity, which would be the, bell pepper, onion, and garlic.

Salary. And celery is another, it's not quite the Trinity, but it's in the... Okay, celery. It's like the Bible in the Trinity. I put celery as like kind of the, the extra book that wasn't discovered. It's like the... The apocrypha.

So anyway, I don't, look, I didn't read that somewhere. I had it prepared that. It just literally... came to the top of my head. You cook anything and onion, bell pepper, celery, garlic if you want, we usually do. You cook anything with that particular.

I'm going to say garlic, onion, bell pepper. I've got the choice optional as celery. Garlic bump celery, yeah. Do you agree? I go with celery. Instead of garlic? Salary and garlic. I go celery and I'm adding one to the trailer.

Okay. That's a man, my man. Made up cooking. We'll add celery in there. All right. So my buddy Matt Lida, who's going to be on the podcast next week, I think, or week after. So he sent me this text this morning, Jay. So I just thought about it.

He said, you have to ask Jay's about what's going on the market on the podcast. This is the hottest subject in the world right now is what he said. Thank you. So I didn't even know. I haven't watched it. You have many texts I've gotten in the last 24 hours and follow? calls over this what's going on in the stock market ridiculous look i have a small group of people that our family are really close friends that i help and we make money on the stock market

all of these people and a lot of people that i don't know real well i got i would say three this morning what are we going to do about game stop and Nokia and acm which is a movie theater So what's happening is, you know, it's a little complicated. Some people are like saying this company is going to go down. So they call it a short. Well, then a group of people say, I'll tell you what, let's just buy it and make it go up because we can do that. We get enough people buying it. So let me interject a question because I'm a novice, but I've heard stuff.

So I'm trying to wrap my head around. So when you talk about hedge fund people, they make money off the short, right? Is that the way it works? Yeah, I mean, just think a hedge is like, or contrarian, is like everything's going one way and you're getting something going the other way to make sure that you can stay in the middle or slightly up as you go along. I mean, the true pros in this are doing all these day trading options, selling calls and puts, which call is the positive, put is the negative.

You know, these people, I'm probably, I'm guessing here, but most of these people need counseling, and their heart rate is very high. I mean, you're talking about stressful. You're basically trying to predict all this. It kind of brings a crystal ball in that. Look, people have methods that work, and there's people making millions of dollars.

No, we've been on a couple of yachts with a couple guys. They did pretty well, haven't we, dad? So look, so one of the people I'm helping in my family, I, yesterday the market was way down. And so I, even though you don't try to time the market, it's best if you have a list and you see the stocks that you want, the companies that you've researched and invested in, that you're going to hold for three to five years or longer.

We're longtime investors. That's me. So I want to just illustrate what's going on with the person in my family that's help that's that's that's that I'm helping that knows very little about the stock market so I take her money and she's doing great I picked her like 20 stocks and 19 of them just took off like rockets and and it wasn't like I had a bunch of high gross socks we just got them at the right time I picked the right ones one of them went down we bought some more and then it finally got back to even and we sold it so we're all happy we got

19 performing stock. And so when we sold, I had that money to buy some more. I said next time the market falls, we'll buy something. So yesterday,

it got hammered. So I call her up. And so we're spending the money on stocks that I've picked. I think we added a couple because we didn't add to anything else that they're all just doing great. Well, we had like a thousand dollars

left over. and she wanted to buy one of these stocks that were discussing. No, but we need, I need more cash. I could make some quick cash. I said, we don't do quick cash. We spent your cash. So here's what you buy. I wanted her to buy Pinterest,

because she wanted some more high-growth style. It was down like $10 off. It's 52-week high, which doesn't mean anything, but I really like that company. And I bought Pinterest, at like 10 bucks. And I think it went to like 77 and it was 62 when I was telling her to buy it. That's just for you people that are falling in the stock.

I said, buy that. And so she didn't want to. And I said, if you do not buy Pinterest and you buy this company, I said, I resign from this arrangement that I'm doing for free and making you lots of money. Now, I tell you this story. Here's why. This is a clash of two stubborn people. I can tell you that.

Well, hang on. This was yesterday. Today, I didn't know you were going to ask me this. Today, first thing I did at 8.30, I looked up that stock she wanted to buy. It was down 42%. Do the math. There's $420 gone by by. And the rest of it is sitting up in the hole ready to leave.

And I just, and you know how many, you know how many texts I've got today? And by the way, Pinterest was up 5%, which doesn't mean anything in a one day window. But I just thought, where's the thank you? Where's the, I was wrong. What was I thinking? Stay in my lane. You know why I think that it hadn't happened? Because she hadn't looked.

Yeah, I'm never, I'm never entering your world just from that little short speech. I'm not in that world. Anyway, I didn't mean to chase a rabbit. But here's what I want to say. Godless with contentment is great gain. Do you want to take a break for us? Yeah, let's take a break. What I want to say is what I do is a long-term invest in companies that I research and spend a lot of time in.

I try to keep my emotions out of it. I buy little amounts at a time when the market's usually down. And if it goes down, I buy a little more. If it goes down, I buy a little more. But I believe in the company. When it goes back up, I don't trim for gains because I don't need the money that I have invested, which is the best way to be, in my opinion. So I trim the top, what they call tax lot, that I bought at first,

to get my cost basis down. And so I just do that over and over and I find, you know, companies that are, that I feel are great for the next 10, 15 years. And that's just kind of how I do it. I keep my emotions out of it. When it's all, when everybody's panicking,

the last thing I'm doing is panicking. Or to the world. Wall Street. So, Al. It dates his own show for that. I will say this. the best because now people are going to be curious and all the time they're like, give us stocks, give us stuff.

Look, you have to be diversified. You need at least 15 stocks, companies, and you need a couple of high growth stocks that in the macro world makes sense, big picture, and you can read a balance sheet, look at their revenue growth every time they report four times a year so you can see, oh, is this company growing? Yes, you can look at their gross profit margin

and say, oh, and not only are they growing. They're also maximizing. And some of them is just looking at innovation and stuff that's happening in the world, right? Yeah, I mean, you've got macro people and you have people. I think you ought to be a combination of both. But you need some of these companies are slow-moving dividend-type stocks. But I like to get the best in breed, as they say, in each. You know, it doesn't take a whole lot of sense to realize, you know, lows, the store lows.

if you can get that at a really low price, probably going to be a good thing. Johnson and Johnson, okay. Disney. Yeah. I mean, Disney, when the pandemic hit, it went way down. Guess what? I bought it.

Because I thought at some point, Disney World is coming back. They also have a streaming service out there. So I bought it at like 90 bucks. It's, I think, today, 175. You know? Yeah. You see how that works?

So what I love about the Unashamed podcast is you never know what you're going to get. It could be a Bible study. It could be a stock rally. It could be a lot of different things. So whatever the reason that's happening now. Chase is as close as I've ever come to the stock market. Yeah. But I've never gone past it.

I just know easy. Well, you thought about giving me some money for me to invest for you. And that's as far as it went. But I took that as an accomplishment. Okay, moving on. All right. I want to talk about it. So Zach and I produce this podcast, and we also produce Sadie's podcast and also

in the Duck Call Room, which is a fairly new podcast that's kind of our company, I guess you call it our sister podcast because it's Cy and Stone and Godwin and Martin. And so a listener sent me in a question, Dad, and it says, I was telling the story of when Phil used to rob bees and beehives. their podcast. So they were like, I want to hear Phil's version. And it took me back to my youth when I saw the question because I remember that as a kid. But so what was the process?

I don't know what size said. Who knows? I'm sure he just made it. But what was the idea? Why did you do it? And how did you do it? Find the beehive in a hollow tree. Yep.

Move in on it. Get you some smoke going out the bottom of the tree. Yep. Take a chainsaw. Be careful. You get it open. When you get plenty of smoke, you get stung multiple times, no B-suit. So the smoke doesn't keep you from getting stung.

It just kind of clear some of them out. Kind of clear some of them out. I got you. And they're worried about it. Then get you, get your honey, cut you out, whatever honeycomb, put her down a, you know, wash tub, and some are better than others. Right. But you do that in the summer where they have time to build it back.

Right. So. So how did you, you discovered that just from hunting? Watching my uncles and my dad. and all of them. So it was a family. We're going to rob a bee tree today. They found a bee tree in the woods.

Yeah. That's where they got their hunting. The women put it in jars with the cone in it, you know. You've seen them. Oh, yeah. It's just robbing wild beehives. Now, the time, Si famously got stung, I think, 28 times in the rear end. That was a different sort of.

That was black bumblebee coming after under a rotted foot fence post. Well, he told me. He split his britches because we, I said, run, because they just started coming out. How old were you? Oh, we were boys? We were in high school. Okay. And I said, run, Cy, since I was the faster man, sigh, busted his bridges going under the barbed wire fence and shook the post.

Here comes the bumblebee. So now there's a white flag. There's a white flag going down through the woods, and they just die bombed out white flag. He would try to speed up with each sting. But it was like, I think he counted 27 times on the buttocks. Can you imagine because I was a noise maker anyway? I was picking the stingers out of him. Out of his rear end.

I hope you didn't see that. Here's how many times I got stung. That's zero for those. Sometimes speed is a good thing to have. I agree with that. Well, that's why I always used to say about we go and a high. We're running through the woods with the black-faced bumblebees after us. White-face, no problem.

Blackface, Stinger Man. We were hiking in Alaska with John and Paula Gobwin. I said, well, I feel safe because, you know, bears, they get the big grizzly bears. I said, I feel pretty good because as long as I'm with Gobbin, I'm faster than him. Oh, yeah. Wow, that's exactly. When we went to Montana, I just looked around because we were on these hiking trails. And it's a lot of people.

And I thought, I'm faster than most. That's right. That's right. Because they won't let you bring a gun. No. So, I mean, I had a knife. You wasn't supposed to have that, but I thought they had the sound. One time I read it and believe it or not, remember that?

Yep. Believe it or not. Ripley's believe it or not. Well, believe it or not, I just happened to read that one day. And it said, bees and wasp will not sting at night. Believe it or not. I thought I have a wealth of information in that statement. I said, guys, my cousins and all, I said, boys, that beat,

tree y'all been wanting to rob. I said, we do it at night. So you believed, you believed it. That is correct. I thought believe it or not meant they won't sting yet night. So we go out there at night and one of them, one genius out of the bold bunts said when I walked up to the tree with a chainsaw to saw it down, he said, but if we're shining flashlights, will they think at stay time? I said, turn your flashlights off. So they turn. them off, I saw the tree down, and within about 30 seconds, we found out bees will sting at night. And because I started getting the honey out, they were not flying so much.

They're a little lot of crawling, but I'm getting the area ready where I know the honey is, and I began to work on that, and I hollered back. I said, some of these didn't get the memo. I said, believe it or not, don't believe it, boys. They're stinging me. It's a lie. They were hiding behind the bushes, you know, laughing. I said, I've come this far.

I'm going to get this, honey. So would you consider that? So I come out of there. I mean, I was stung a lot. Would you consider that a lie? Misinformation, whatever you want to call it. But I got news for you. If you want to rob a beetree, if you do it tonight, they will tear your tail up.

Let's take a break. So, but in Ripley's defense, He says, believe it or not. So it's up to you. Which means this is not new information. You don't have to believe it. Well, I didn't believe it until I went out there at night and they tore me up. But that's something that they should have.

Who? Going to call them. I like the LSU Fathers. The way it was put, believe it or not, bees and wards cannot sting at night. Well, I thought, well, believe it or not, I said, that would be really something. Well, it sounded like it should be true. I think people say, believe it or not, that's actually true. Yeah.

Yeah. Right. Isn't that the same? Yeah. But like I went to, there's a Ripley's, there's still a Believe it or Not museum in New York. I just took the kids to it last year. Oh, really? Yeah.

And so some of it is obviously they had the headhunters where they shrink their little, shrink the heads down. So they're like, believe it or not. So you're not sure. Is this real? Is it, you know, there's a lot of stuff like that. But, you know, that was back in the day. That all happened back in the early. early 1900s.

There was kind of a, what would you call it, a showman thing across America with stuff like that. Now I just buy honey from different people out of Texas. It's not worth getting stuff. They've got their bee boxes back there. Jeff and Jessica, they. But the wild honey was really good. They have bees galore and honey.

Yeah, they had it on their property. I mean, they were like. Well, they still do. First thing I went, when I went to Austin, she gave me a big jar and it had. had a piece of honeycomb in it. It was filled with honey. I mean, it was better grade of honey than I've ever eaten in a store.

Yeah. I read somewhere that, and I should do this because I'm the worst allergy person in the world, that if you eat local honey, you know, because bees pollinate, that it helps with your allergic reactions to stuff in the air, which made sense.

Believe it or not. I would believe that. But it made sense to me because they pollinate all these flowers and stuff. So maybe so. I mean, I'm seeing a theme here and we didn't even plant. This is kind of like the stock market because everything is, believe it or not, this company is great. Because look, I'm going to tell you, if you're getting your information from the talking heads on TV, you're probably going to lose. Well, because they say that.

Are there companies out there that would make it look like to you that they're doing great when reality is they're scrapping for everlasting? You know there's some of that. They're hanging by a threat. Could they cook the books and make it look like they're prosperous in order to get you to invest in their stock? The short answer is yes. However, in America, American stocks, it's less likely that that's happening because we put people in prison. There are laws. Now, in China, and you can buy Chinese stocks, I have zero, even though people are like, oh, this is hot.

but they don't have the same mechanism in place. So you can't believe what's coming out. Like one of the places where I get advice, they bought. What you're trying to say is they won't lie to you. They bought a Chinese coffee stop. I think it was called Luckin' Coffee. They said, this is the Chinese Starbucks. Get in.

I mean, he was telling me, get in. It was like 30 bucks, which is, it doesn't, reflect how much a company's worth by the stock price. But that's another, that's a story for another time. But anyway, it looks cheap because it's 30 bucks. So he buys it.

I was like, I don't buy China stocks because of what you just said. It wasn't a week. And some headline, big scandal, they had cooked the books and were worth like 10% of what they said. Yeah. That stock went from 30 to two.

And those poor people left with the two, they don't realize that that's two more dollars that there could lose. Well, but it's not like anything else. It's not like with the government. When you started talking about billions of dollars, I mean, you're going to have corruption, you're going to have everything that goes with it.

There's no, it's too much money. Of course, dad and I were sitting on a $150 million, a $150 million yacht. and the guy that owns it, he has two of them. He has the little one and the big one, he says. I'm not sure which one, $150 million. This thing was like a skyscraper building turned on its side. I mean, this was amazing.

Yeah. So we're eating filet mignon, you know. You know, they were really great people. And we were talking about this. Dad looked over at him and he says, you know, I've noticed something. Just being around here for the last few hours. And everybody at the table is listening. You know, there's like 10 people at the table.

Dad said, there's a big difference between millions and billions. Yeah. And so it was like a little pause and everybody looked to see what the, what the billionaire with how he's going to write. He started laughing and he said, well, I'm glad you noticed that. The reason. This guy has billions of dollars. The reason they make so much money.

And there was a big difference, right? There was a big difference. The reason it compound so much is because the more money you have in a particular company their stock, the more you're obviously going to make. So it's like, you can, if you have a lot of money, you can really make a lot of money. We've been talking about in the book of Acts, because you look at Acts 2 and Acts 4, and I've heard these passages used by, I guess you'd call them liberal theologians, that this is an, see, this is why communism works. Look at it right here in the early church. Right. Look, when that 432, we didn't read that last time, but it said all

the believers were one in heart and mine. I mean, they had just had this big miracle. They had been put in jail, and they kept preaching, and they told everybody what was going on. And then all of a sudden, you just see, they rallied together. No one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they had with great power. The apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. They had the big picture, and much grace was upon them all. I mean, how could anything negative happen here? There were no needy persons among them. That's why I brought up that analogy,

because they were taking care of them. In whatever way, wisdom was leading them through the spirit. Look, we've all had conversations where there's a guy on our couch, and we're like, you have to make an assessment, can this person work? And once you deem that, yeah, he can work, he's just lazy. And so what do you tell this needy person? I tell him he needs to get a job.

Quit being lazy. That's correct. But to me, the church is handling that. Just as much as I, there's a guy here who's unable to work or something has happened. And I thought, okay, I mean, you're using discernment, prayer, wisdom, encouragement to handle. The bottom line is you're in their life and you're figuring it out. That's what I mean by it's not. just, oh, I'm going to go take all the rich people's money who worked hard for

and just give it to him. You'll have a system like that where I don't have to worry about it. But think about what you just said. So you took the choice out of the hands of the person who made the money and put it into some arbiter that decides. That's where our system is. So it's like because look, we talk about all the time. We give way a lot of money and we do it because we love people.

And we feel like it's our responsibility as Christians to help people. We do it all the time. But that's our choice. It's not the government saying, no, we're going to take your money, you know, 50, 60 percent, whatever we deem. We're wiser than you. That's exactly right. And I wanted to read this next part because it says there were no needy persons among them from time to time. Those who owned lands or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales and put it at the puzzle's feet.

And it was distributed to anyone as he had need. So they were really helping the downtrodden, the lame, the cripple, maybe the mentally challenged, those who had circumstances not in their control. But I also know when you read First Timothy, I also know that some of the strongest language in the Bible is geared toward people who will not provide for their families. That's right. That's true. I mean, they're like, if you don't work, you should. didn't eat. You know, 1, 75, I think, says that a person that does not provide for his immediate family has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Yeah. So I'm saying there's a two-way street to this, and this model was based, like all other successful models, it was based on Jesus and who he is and what he's done. And you're right. As sort of the early church started evolving, you know, people started, their weaknesses come out. So when you get along to the Thessalonians, when Paul's talking to them, they had the idea. They thought, well, he's fixing to come back just any time. And so a bunch of them just dragged up and said, you know, we're just going to basically, you know, quit working. And he'll be here soon. And but Paul chastised him. He said, no, no, no, no, no. You have to, that's the, your favorite version about work with your hands, mind your own business.

He's telling these guys, look, you can't just shut it down because we don't know when he's coming back. But their point was because they, you know, they so he's coming back. They were thinking just any minute. And so they thought, well, why should we work? But they missed the concept, you know, which is throughout. This is the, there's, I guess, I don't know much about the lotteries, but apparently there's two big national ones.

Well, they got, both of them got up to about a billion dollars. One of them was $850 million, and the other was $9.75. Just the numbers weren't hitting. So I'm hearing about it on the radio. I'm hearing that they keep talking about, oh, the mega, whatever, and this one. And so I noticed every time,

because I travel quite a bit, every time I would stop at a convenience store, I was having to wait forever because there was a line of people. Oh, buying tickets. Buying lottery tickets, buying the thing. And so I was watching the fervor.

I was listening to them to talk about it because imagine this up, you could be a billionaire you know not really because they'd take half of it so it created this craze but i forgot what the odds were it was it's just almost insane out of what the odds are that you're going to do that but i was watching these folks and i thought because i i never buy one and leases like we can't win if you don't buy one i said yeah but it's just i mean it just feels like to me i just why don't just put it in the little jar at the thing because it's you know so some person one person in I think it was Pennsylvania.

Boy, are you going to do with it anyway? Look, I'm saying that money's not going to make you happy. You know, the Bible's filled with... You said it earlier, contentment. It's like, you know, what's the camel going through the eye of a needle? It's a root of all evils. To Dad's point, you know, we grew up down here on the river. We tell a lot of stories about our childhood, and we did today about robbing beads,

you know, honey bees. And, you know, I love my raisin, and we didn't have anything. thing money wise. And the reason dad and mom never knew anything about investments is that you don't have any money. Jay started out by saying some money I didn't need. Did that ever happen in the first 35 years we were doing? And we

needed every penny to make it. Look, I said that I could have found something to do with it. But you just have to make a commitment if you're going to put money in the stock market. Right. And look, I think it's wise because it's a way to have some money at the end. You know, if you get to the point

where you can't earn money like you used to, I mean, there's a when Jesus did the parables, I mean, he was basically doing a parable about the stock market. He told the guy, it was like, you could have at least invested the money where you didn't, you know, just buried in the ground. You know, what's funny is, you know, some of mine people who are actually, I'm talking about suit and tie investors that I know from church, who worked for investment. Right. Well, they came to me and said, what are you doing? You don't need to do it.

We strongly, I mean, they were doing it in a loving Christ's way. They were just looking at me saying, don't do this. This is dumb. But surprisingly, when one of them was saying that my wife, who knows nothing about the stock market, she spoke up because I was like, yeah, I appreciate it. You know, and she's like, no, I don't think you understand. He's going to figure it out. But she was kind of taken up for me. She had faith in you.

Well, she knows how I am. But if you make wise, good choices and you stay away from the two edges of fear and greed, you look up one day and it's like a snowball that you created that's going down a hill and it becomes a money-making machine. Whether you think your money, if you have some money, say, I might go get into that. I'm just going to put it in the bank. I'm going to put it in a CD or I'm going to buy more insurance. Guess what the bank and the insurance company and guess what they're all doing with your money

that's sitting there investing the stock market? So whether you think you're investing in stop market or not, if you just say, I'm a whole my money, but they're using it. They're giving you a small dividend of us. And look, the reason I don't give a lot of advice or pick stocks, I mentioned a few, everybody's life is different. This is the only thing I agree with the investment brokerages about, because they're like, if you go ask them a direct question, they're never going to give you an answer.

Because, number one, they don't want to be, you know, if you say, what about that stock? And they're like, oh, I love it. It's awesome. Then it drops 30%. You're like, hey, I thought you'd. said it was also. I'm suing you. So they always say, well, it's according to your needs and wants and everyone's different and where your age is and they come up with all this. But in a way, they're right. Yeah. People are different and my goal is not to make a bunch of money. I told you,

I like the system of it all. Now the money that I'm going to make, I'm going to try to do something good with it. I mean, okay. So next time we come back, if you want to read it, a little bit. We've got a really interesting story in Acts 4, where we just were today, starting in 36 and through Chapter 5 about line to the Holy Spirit. And it involves money, which is really interesting. I would say

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