Unashamed with the Robertson Family - Ep 382 | Jase Accidentally Kills Off a Local Service & How Phil Repels Black Widows

Episode Date: November 17, 2021

Jase inadvertently destroys a service that's been a fixture of his community for years, and now he has the Emergency Alert System in his crosshairs. "God’s Not Dead" director Harold Cronk joins the guys to talk about his new children's book, "The Beard Ballad." Phil shares the secret to his all-natural spider repellent. Al gets roasted for his love of vests, and he dishes it right back. And Jase and Al discuss the temple tax and what a fisherman would do if he found a coin in the mouth of a fish today. https://beardballad.com — Get this inspiring new kids' book about boys & their dads with a foreword by Phil Robertson! - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am unashamed. What about you? So, Jase, you got a gift. I want to start today with, we love gifts. We get a lot of stuff. You guys are awesome. Unashamed Nation. Well, hold on.

Before we talk about the gift, I thought, I wanted to talk about what we did. We've accomplished something on this show, this podcast. Really? Yeah. Usually you're the least aware of anything. thing we do of consequence. So you don't know what number we're on. You don't know what.

So you've intrigued me already. So here's what happened. I had a memory, a faint distant memory hit me on an earlier podcast. And it was that we used to call a bank to see what time it was or what temperature. This was before technology. took off. And so we talked about that. I actually called,

I dialed the number. Did y'all run that when I? So they evidently, because I've never watched one of these podcasts. Yeah. I've only heard about it. Well. And look,

I remember, just to bring the audience back up to speed. So I remarked when you remember the number and you, there's no way you've called this number at least in 15 to 20 years, at least. I would say I probably called it seven, eight, ten years ago. Oh, you are behind the time. I mean, cell phones have been around since then.

Well, hey, I stay at places. So Jase remembers the number to call and get the time and temperature, which used to be, which he's right. I mean, back in the day, that's how you knew what the temperature at the time was. And I told the story about I used to deviate on wherever I was going to find a bank so I could see. what time it was. So this kind of seems kind of silly now. So we said we, when we did it, we said people are going to now call this number because somebody has been sleeping for the last 15 years.

So are you ready for the reveal? So what happened? We shut it down. You can no longer call that number. The red phone went off. Somebody said, we've made it. contact. There's a human out there that is calling and the time of temperature. And they had a meeting and they no longer offer that service. So now here's what I'm excited about. What's next? What can

we do? What else can we destroy that's been around for 30 or 40 years? I would just say regarding time, Chicago was right. Not the city of Chicago, but the band. The singers. Does anybody really know what time it is? I would just simply say, if you count time like I do, mid-morning after dinner, about dark, about dark, just before daylight. Middle of the night.

Middle of the night. I just think it improves your mental health. You're not really tied down. to minutes. So do you remember the last time you called? I mean, I don't know. I've never heard of a man, which Jason, he would be that driving around and finding some bank losing time to see what time it is.

Can you really lose it then? No. Do you remember the last time you called the bank line to find out the time and temperature? Yeah. No. Well, I was just surprised that the power of unashamed nation rose up. And we just shut that day. So the question is, how many listeners?

Because I just had this in my mind when this went out that it was just too tempting to not call it to check it. Because we said the number on the air. And so I'm just wondering how many of you out there actually? So the number is still there. The number is still there because look. Well, now, though, you call it and it's, darn near, near. You have reached a number that has been disconnected. I'll tell you this.

I got an idea on what we can attack next. All right. What's next? Here's what's next. Because this morning, when I was checking, is that my phone? It's just beeping and bopping. When I was checking the status of the stocks this morning after morning prayers. So I got my priorities right.

That's right. Always pray before. All of a sudden, my TV starts flickering. And it went. And this thing popped up on the screen that I've seen pop up many times through the years. It said, this is only a test. This is the emergency broadcasting.

So you said, what's my point? That happened this morning. Whatever day it is today, it's sometime in November. That happened. So I'm like, I started thinking about every time I've had an emergency at my house, which has only been a couple times. But we had a hurricane come through. Hurricane force wins.

This is now time. for the emergency broadcast to function. And guess what? Power was out. TV was out. So why are we doing this test every three days when an actual emergency happens? And nothing at it.

We can't see it. So why are we interrupting the program to show what would happen in an emergency when every emergency that I've been through we didn't have the capability to do what you're testing. So let's shut that down next. So you want to shut down the emergency broadcast system? No, I want to shut down the testing of it every two days when the odds are in our favor

that we won't be able to see that because we have no power. You need it. It's not there. So let's do this. Let's test it once a year. It's living in a world with computers. Everybody trusts them. but there's constantly friction and they don't know how to go this and this.

It reminds me. I asked the computer guru. You almost said freak, but you almost said freak, but you pull short, I just want to thank you for that. Jersey Joe looked around, he found himself and his wife and children surrounded in New Jersey by a maniac world. and he basically looked at his wife and said, let's get out of here. So they packed their grip. And they came to Louisiana. And they came to Louisiana partly because of what they had heard us talking.

They said, that's the way I want to think. Yeah. So when it comes to time, he said, oh, look, I said, what's the problem when people have computers? You're a troubleshooter. They all call him. If you got trouble with computer, call this dude. He's sit there by our computer. all day and the phone, then the computer, they give him a buzz.

And he said, I said, what's the biggest problem with computers? Because all I need is on and off, turn the lights on, turn the lights. You don't, you don't know. And anyway, he said, he said, human error is the problem with all computer maladies. It's human error. But you realize. 99.9 is the way he put it. If people don't know how to run the machine, they're seated in front of,

and therefore he comes in to line them out he said they curse me curse me call me everything on the book when i'm telling him this no here's what you need to do what you did was you made a mistake when you clicked on the bye bye bye and he said they they cursed me they say i'm a no good filthy language he said everything in the computer the reason human error is the number one problem is everything in a computer a human put in there yeah and humans are good at making errors right so you're always going to have it. Well, I've made it my goal to make it through life computer free, as close as I can get. So so far if we're keeping up, number one, Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

That's Hebrew's 13-8. So that should take care of the time calling to see what time it is. That's good. I like that. Okay. Number two, we all make errors. Yeah. So God's grace is looking more appealing.

Okay. So what's your third point? Well, I have shades on today because I'm not trying to be cool. I thought you were trying to go, Dad. No. Dad wears shades inside. I'm actually, you know, I'm a fisherman. I was raised on the water.

Phil trained me how to fish. And I always had sinus problems as a kid, and I ever could figure out why. Until later on in life, I realized that I'm allergic to the slime that is produced off of a scaled fish. I can eat the fish, but if I touch the slime and get it near any kind of orifice, I'm in trouble for a couple days. That's good enough. So I was catching these huge crappie in a pond near me that will remain unnamed. I mean huge.

I'll have a picture maybe we can show that. Can we do that? I call, I mean, I caught just a giant. yesterday. So I catch the fish. I go over there. I clean them. But as I'm cleaning them, I realize there's a small hole in my glove. So I thought, I need to make a note of that and not rub my eyes later. So I wash my hands real good. I thought I had taken care of it. But at some point in there, I must have just got it near my eye or nose. Well, something gave me a runny nose and you notice my voice is.

I thought you were trying out for the Oak Ridge Boys or something. Yeah. But what happened was there was a sequence of events, which I haven't seen in so many years. This dates way back. I had never have a runny nose. Yeah, I measure mine by hours. All right. Every few hours.

I'm experiencing what you say you have a trouble with all the time. I actually have a runny nose and a lower voice. Yeah. It's moved into the voice box. You know what that means. Miss Kay. He caught it first. Winner is here.

She gave it to me, and I said, well, so I'm on about the third day. I'm feeling much better now. What am I going to do? And you're probably going to give it to us. So winter's here. But I live with it. And we're, what are we, couple weeks away from duck season? We're actually, duck season is this Saturday.

This Saturday. Yeah, this is. Once again, a few days. Remembers the bank number, but doesn't know what we can do. Chase, while you're watching the internet unfold this morning. Oh, here we go. Your dad was down there. scouting.

Putting diesel in a tractor that has a pungo pump on it, pumping water. That's pumping about 1,500 gallons a minute. Then I have another one that's been running around the clock. We have now transferred the flow instead of below the middle levee. We're backing it up into the privet hole. And the dog water is still running. So by day after tomorrow, the water regime,

the blind regime and the food regime. Those things, three things, which I sort of head up. You say those three things will be complete. Have it all come together. Well, be nice to me because one of our listeners sent me a gift. I guess we had talked about this before. Must have been early on the podcast. We used to build fires in the duck blind

and one of our members of our party, old macko, and he would fix biscuits every day of duck. season. And I guess we talked about that. And we'd have nestled in between the biscuits. We would furnish the jelly, mayhaw jelly, musketine, blackberries, dewberries. And I'm not sure who makes this, but they found one. This listener did. Who is this? I can't even read it. I think it's Brandon. You cook biscuits over an open fire. Brandon Nash said he listened to the podcast. He heard that, but he backed up. Instead of following along with the podcast, he went back. Which is funny because he heard this, I think, early on, he says he's on 170.

He's on 170. So, Brandon, you're going to hear about this in about a year. Yeah. You're going to hear your name mentioned about it. That's why I said, what is the over-under on whether he catches up before the second coming to Jesus? That's right. But he sent us this biscuit maker. Yeah.

And so we'll use that this year in your honor because I love these things. But the timing could not have been better because he, it can. the week before duck season starts. The week before duck season. Which was incredible. Yeah, I want to do it. That was a nice gift because you can put that at a certain heat on these, these Cajun cookers we have.

They're the best. And just a low fire, you put a little butter in there and wash them in the butter a little bit. It's a can of biscuit. Put your canned biscuit, rat biscuits hit them, you know, and they poof. And you put them in there, then you just turn them over about every four or five minutes, let them brown on both sides. and they just I'm going to I'm going to reach out to Mac because I'll be I'm coming Saturday so I'm to reach out to Mac and find out if there was any little secrets because his are always perfect

well he had the right amount of time what I'm going to do is I'm going to bring this out at Christmas because you know at this point nobody knows what to get me and my family and so this now this is this is good yeah so this I'm going to use this as a Christmas present oh there you go yeah I'm going to tell me it's like look something like this. Yep. These are the gifts that keep on. So we have a little heat in the blind.

It does get cold in Louisiana, 20, 25. It's a little while. Be a little freeze in time of time. We're definitely glad. We have hot biscuits around the clock, so it's a pretty good deal. You can't beat it. Let's take our first break. So we've got a guest that has been patiently waiting listening.

I'm going to ask him what he thinks about, what he just heard, our leady. I don't think it was Earthshed, right? It wasn't like something to call home about it. I think us shutting down the time and temperature is a moment in the history of mankind where we've now moved into a new technological age where dinosaurs are dying all around us. And we help contribute to that, Phil. So Harold, Harold is with us. Harold is the author of the Beard Ballad, which we talked about. on last week, Carol, we mentioned this on the podcast.

And then Zach wound up getting you on today, which is great. So dad talks a little bit about that. So we'll talk about the book in just a minute. But so first of all, so you've been listening to this, what we call our cold open. What's your take on the opening montage of the Unashamed podcast? Is it the life-changing, earth-shattering beginning that you hope for? Well, let me tell you guys, today is a very special day. in Michigan. And I don't know what Zach was thinking, putting me on today, but today is the

opening day of firearm deer season at Michigan. So for some reason, I'm not in a blind. Oh. Where I should be with that biscuit maker right there, making some biscuits. Let's see. We like you already, Harold. No wonder. No wonder we were able to do this book with you. You're like me. So I was supposed to be in Texas speaking Saturday, which is opening day of duck season here. For the last five years, I've been somewhere on the road on opening day. And thank you. Thankfully, the Lord opened the door for a postmoment to next spring, so I'm going to be able to hunt. Well, I'll tell our man here, grunk, grunk, right? Crunk.

Crunk. He's been calling you grunk because we... I want to keep... I had the G. But Crunk, I'll give you this. Your book is made manifest on what you're seeing. What he was discussing in the book. It's what he is seeing because you have a father and two sons.

Correct. Bearded sons. And we seem to have the following the Jesus Christ way. We bonded. We just bonded. And it seems to have worked out because we're sitting here a little conversation about life itself and about duck blinds and all that. You say, but we're living proof that Quark was right on his book. That's right.

So, yeah, so let's talk about it, Harold. So tell me a little bit about kind of your, what was the idea behind the book? It's really interesting. It's a children's book. You know, Dad read it to a group at our church, and he actually, he told the story. One of the kids must have been from PETA or something because she was shot that dad was going to kill animals. She had not been trained by her father that the harvesting of animals is biblical.

And she fell back on the floor. She said, oh, no, I love animals and y'all are shooting them. And I said, but we love animals too, fried. Oh, boy. So she went, oh, no, no, no, no. She's probably going to be in a counselor in front of a counselor one day and it's going to go back to that moment. The reading of the Beard Ballard by Phil Roberts. So thank you, Harold, for putting this small child into therapy.

But tell us a little bit about kind of your idea behind the book, where did it come from and all that. Yeah, well, first, Phil, I'm so thankful that you're able to write the foreword for this thing. It's a project that kind of came about in a very honest way. I picked up my son one day and gave him a big nuzzle hug, and he pushed me away and said, Dad, your face is all pokey and rough. And I said, those are my ferocious facial follicles. And in that moment, kind of the idea was born. So I have this amazing coffee shop that I write in every day.

I'm obviously a film director and I write screenplay. So I came to write that next morning and this book just poured out of me. And, you know, I recently lost my dad to Alzheimer's, I guess, you know, going on two years ago now. And I just started recalling all of the things that my dad taught me growing up in Northern Michigan, all the wonderful things that he shared with me. And I thought, man, I think I took for granted what an amazing man he was and all this wonderful knowledge that he passed on. And so I wanted to do something for kids where, you know, look,

I've wanted to read to my son at night, but it's difficult to find books that aren't affirming and aren't manly and things that I want to teach my son. So I thought, why not just write it? And so this is what happened. Yeah, I love it. And in fact, I thank Carol that it's one of the missing ingredients in our culture right now is just, you know, good,

God-affirming masculinity. And, you know, because of so many other things, whether it's gender bending to, you know, not knowing who your dad is and being raised by your grandmother. I mean, there's so many different, you know, cultures within cultures that don't have this. And so I think as many tools as possible that help people understand that the better, right? Absolutely. And so, like I said, I'm in a coffee shop. So somebody apparently is getting a latte right now. Oh, you're in a coffee.

He's in a coffee. God. Why? I was looking around. I think he's got a bearing loose on the rear end. No, that's all right, because we're literally right next door, right outside our door, is where we keep all our hunting equipment. I sound like that, and we say, call Jimmy Red.

Call Jimmy Red. We got to, somebody got a bearing list. So, so here's the deal, Harold. So I didn't, when I saw your name on the book, I was like, that name sounds so for me. So I did what anybody except for dad would do. I googled your name. And I realized that not only you are an author of books, but as you just said a minute ago, you are a maker of movies, really good movies.

Our audience is going to be aware of that before I was that you did, God's Not Dead and the sequel to that as well, right? And that involved some of our family. So what was it like? So you worked with Willie and Corey and Sadie? Yeah, yeah, Willie and Corey on God's Not Dead one and then Sadie on God's Not Dead two. and it was kind of interesting. God's and I did one.

I meet me, me, boy for the first time. I'm like, hey, man, I just want you to know that in your honor, I started growing my facial hair out for the shoot

because I didn't want to be embarrassed and show up clean, shaven, the first time we met. And he looked at me, and I had about two days worth of peach fuss, and he says, man,

that's pathetic. I thought we're going to get along, just great. That's right. Welcome to the Robertson. but yeah great great experience working with william coria and god's not dead one and then sadie was just fantastic and guys not dead too she was a natural um without a lot of training as far as acting goes she really brought a wonderful authenticity to to that role and to that film so i'm

very thankful and blessed to have had her as part of the cast for that movie well we just want to say thank you for making great moves you also did uh path to redemption unbroken path to resemption. And that was really interesting to me because I had loved the first film Unbroken about Louis Zamperini. But you took the next step by showing, you know, his spiritual awakening that, of course, wasn't in the first movie. And so I thought it was really interesting. My old pal Will Graham got to play his grandpa, Billy Graham, in the movie, which was a really cool twist because that's what led him to accept Christ was that a Billy Graham Crusade back of the day. So how was that experience in that movie? You know, that was an incredible experience

and getting to meet Will and getting to know Will. Such a great guy, you know, just a wonderful man. And we actually just exchanged text a couple days ago. He's still waiting for me to buy a motorcycle so I can go on a road trip with him. But I don't know if my mom's going to let me do that. Yeah. Because she doesn't like motorcycles. That's pretty much. which was our rule growing up too. Dad was like, no motorcycles, boys, ever. Somebody said, why? And I said, it'll fall over.

Not enough tires. Not enough wheels. Not enough wheels. It'll fall over. Don't get on it, but. Unbroken was, it was a great experience. Louis Zamperi had this amazing life journey. And people always ask me, what's the difference between, you know, Angelina's Unbroken and

then the second one. And for me, it's, uh, the first film was about Louis' struggle for a first. survival. But the second film was about Louis struggle for his soul and battling the demons of PTSD and alcoholism. And man, for me, there's not a better illustration that no matter where you're at in your life, if you make that turn to the light, if you turn to the Lord and you accept your sins and you confess your sins, there's always hope for you no matter where you're at. That's great. And you're right. I mean, as amazing as a story, it was overcoming being in a, you know, being a P-O-W camp, the idea is what next? Because we know a lot of

guys that survive a lot of difficult things. But if you don't have something bigger than that, then you're going to wind up in a place that's probably going to be very dark. And so, I mean, unfortunately, it happens all the time with a lot of our vets. And so that's why it's so important to, you know, for anybody to understand how powerful Christ is. Let's, uh, so how do folks get the book, Harold? So tell them where to go. Beardbellad.com. And it's also available on Amazon. Excellent. I have an idea for your next book.

I met a kid at an event the other night, and I said, when you grow up, are you going to have a beard like this? Because he was just staring at it. And he's like, well, that's why I have the mullet now. Because he did. He had a full-blown mullet. And he said, my mom hates it. But I told her, I can't have the beard.

so the next best thing is a mullet i said i don't know but you could have mullet memoirs there you go okay and that could be a now you'll start a whole series yeah i'll write the forward and we'll do something we'll capture some of the most manly mullets in the history of man there's the title right there just manly mullet manly mullet so look it just happened on unashamed nation here we're going to old jace to it he is offered to write the forward if you write that book so we'll have to see if that works out awesome hey man thank you for being with us uh and everything you do you're doing great work for the kingdom we appreciate it and uh man you just just keep growing that beard and keep uh

raising your boy sounds good thanks guys hey and i do have can you guys see me yep yeah i got one thing to show you i'm a proud uncle this is uh this is my nephew's buck that he got Uh-huh. That doesn't look real. Oh, my goodness. We don't have deer that size down in here. We can't swamp deer down here, Harold. So you guys should come to Michigan.

And, Jace, the other thing is, in Michigan, we have wonderful trout that don't have slime. Oh, really? No, that's not true. But I want you to come up fishing. Sounds like a road trip. There's always a pair of gloves. Just make sure they don't have a hole. That's right.

All right. Thank you, Harold. Appreciate you being with you, buddy. Appreciate you guys. All right. Take care. All right, let's take another break. Well, that was fun.

Harold's, he seems like a good guy. And I didn't realize he was such a hunter. But that's impressive. In Michigan, there's like 700,000 deer hunters that go after their deer on the opening day. 700,000. Plus, they just grow bigons. That one evening out there is huge. I mean, they are some, they're up in big woods.

You know what's amazing is, I mean, there's people writing books on bees. years and we talk about them and they're just they're doing what they do on their own yeah you don't have to just kind of let it go right wasn't an idea this is happening but somebody at some point in the history of mankind said look we need to be a civilized society and that means you need to shave this hair growing off your face well you probably don't remember this jace but back in the day when we were putting out so much stuff when the show was going on we actually did a children's book

Mom did one something about a duck like duck starts with D maybe or something and then then we did one called Everything's Better with Beards Yeah I remember that And it had pictures of

Like the Statue of Liberty With a beard and blah blah Well I'll give you the list Just in case you've lost it somewhere You It keeps your face warm Which in the wintertime Awesome.

It is a deterrent for, it's basically, it acts like a windshield. Correct. Limbs, bugs. If you're in an open ATV or in a boat, you can tell the difference with a beard. I've had black widow spiders on my body. Plural? Looking for somebody to steam. Were you in a cave?

It's a terrible. And look, and I feel them moving. And I've looked down. be a black wooder. He's on my whiskers. He wants to get through to the skin, but he has a layer of whiskers to get through. Slap him a couple of times.

Did your heart rate go up during this encounter? It did. Because you see that little red hourglass. I had something yesterday that crawled out of my beard. I'd been in the woods, and I'd been over, and I was in a thicket. How many people lead with that state? And I was getting mud out of a thicket and putting it down on the beaver down. to keep my water from leaking.

And when I got home, not realizing that I had carried this, I don't know what you call this thing. Look, one was, there was two of them. To the audience, he's holding here about a four-eat-blunk. One was tied to the other one, a smaller one, and then a big one. And this thing was about roughly that long. I would say how to kind of a grasshopper look about him, but not a grasshopper. I don't know what this thing was, but he was some kind of insect that came out of

those weeds and I felt something and I tried to knock on my case and what are you doing? I said because she was standing in front of me. I said, I said something was crawling on me and I looked on my sleeve like that and he was just like that with with another one riding piggyback on him. Well they made him maybe? I looked down I said I said come here let me show you something. She said what was it? I said come over here let me show you.

When she walked up and saw that thing, she said, good night. She said, don't let him bite you. I mean, he was. I knocked him down on the floor, stomped him. Here's what I think. Well, I don't guess it matters since it resulted in. Do him in a trash can. Yeah, in death.

Now, whether he could have stung me or whatever, it wasn't a grasshopper. It was some kind of, I don't know what it would. I never had seen a barma like that. Something new. I think him and his lady. out of my whiskers. Him and his lady friend mistakenly thought your beer was a nice bed. Yeah, a nice soft Spanish moss bed.

The weeds were as thick as my whiskers. So between the two of them, I came out with his farm, and he went all the way home with me. That's been safe. I drove a mile with him in the pickup. He'd back there, but he had just appeared. I'm sitting on the chair. He was obviously distracted with his young lady friends. Imagine his surprise when he was transparent.

40 it five miles away. But the whiskers got in the way of his travels. So, beers are. So to your point, it is an insect and apparently spider shield. Well, and it's great camouflage.

It is a all kind of criminal behavior deterrent for happening to you. Because people, other people with not so nice intentions when they see a person like Phil, the last thing they want to do is have any kind of confrontation with him whatsoever. Yeah, well, you know, the Warm Springs who filmed us at one time, remember Warm Springs, they're doing that, they're doing that Mountain Man thing now, but if you notice,

all those guys are up there, I mean, they're trappers, hunters, but you notice every one of them has Ritzkos because when they're talking to you, their, their beard is solid ice. Yeah. I mean, just solid ice. It's 20 below zero. Where is that at in Montana or someplace? Where do they feel? Most of it, Montana, the mountain in Alaska.

When I hunt in Kansas and I'm on. Those guys, you say, you ask them about whisker, and they'd say, what are you talking about? You've got to have them. Yeah. I mean, 25 degrees below zero, and they're just on a snowmobile with their traps, you know. They catch in a lot of armaments.

But I mean, but it's a rough, rough lab. They got whiskers for a reason. It wasn't your idea. Yeah. No. One of our listeners, Dad, said that we needed to have one of those guys on. I think, and I looked him up. He's retired now.

I don't think he's on the show anymore, but they were like, I just want to hear a conversation. I wish I had his name, between this man and Phil Robertson. Yep. They were like. Well, just about anything. Apparently, this guy is just, you know, like dad, born 100 years too late kind of guy.

The last thing I'll say is it also is a time and money saver because you basically do nothing. And you spend nothing. I think it's as simple. It's as simple as this. For some reason, our culture, with all their sexual sins and all, but one of the ways they try to punish and thwart manhood is via the whiskers. To them, this says manhood.

They don't like that at all. They're effeminate. I think people equate it with insanity too. You know, when you see somebody with unkept, they'll call it unkept facial hair. They'll think, oh, he's probably crazy. I'm not sure where, why. They just tagged it that way. Well, because sometimes in our culture, y'all would know this,

but people that just sort of let themselves go may be a little crazy. So maybe that's where they're going to play. Let's take another break. I'll take that as a compliment. But duck hunting, if you didn't have whiskers during duck season, when that north wind is hitting in the face, and it's sleeting or raining or snowing, trust me when I tell you that whiskers help a lot. Well, we're down here on what we would call the balmy end of the 48. That is correct. You go up where Kronka is from.

You get up in Michigan and all that. We're talking about rivers that freeze over for like months. You are correct. So it's a pretty rough. It's like we're going to climb mountains for, You know, we're going to show you we can climb to the top of a mountain, snow covered hills, but you notice every one of them that do that, they have big beards.

That's exactly right. To protect it. So yesterday, Jay, as you missed my sermon because you were at the movies or whatever you did. I did, but the church I went, they had at the movies. And they take, which they don't have many to choose from, but they'll take movies with a spiritual theme and they kind of do a thing. They do it every other. I bet they've done one of Harold's movies before.

or because maybe so i don't know well this the one they did was wonder and which it was i was a wreck after that because it goes along with what happened in my daughter's life because the kid in the movie wonder which if you haven't seen it you need to watch that it was uh you know had cranio cranio facial issues i think he had had 25 or 27 surgeries or whatever but they kind of looked at Hollywood kind of looked at it from how he looked and the fitting in when he was about in junior high, which is the toughest time for that with a kid. But there's so much more of that story, the day-to-day workings of trying to get your kid with this condition to breathe better, eat better, just have a more comfortable life in dealing with this problem with all the surgeries.

So, yeah, it was tough. but it was good, but I hate I missed your sermon. Well, so what I was going to say was that, so I dealt with Matthew 17 and 18, which is where we're at in our text. I did both those chapters in one sermon, which was interesting to get that done. But in the open, Jays,

you would have liked this. So I feel like I need to give it to you because you would have appreciated it had you been there. I had tuned in the week before to watch Dad on the live stream because I was in Austin. So I'm listening to our live stream host. It was Rucker. and Chris Howard, Corey's mom.

They were the live stream host. We have a host every Sunday. They talk, you know, they interact with people and kind of tell what we're doing that day. So the subject of my vest that I, because I kind of, that's my look. I mean, I call it my man girdle. And what, what is the deal with the vest? I don't know. I just started wearing them because.

We need an intervention on this. I just started wearing them because it kind of helps, you know, hold in everything. And so I like them. So anyway, they brought it up, you know, and Rucker was, you know, give me a little jazz about the vest. So Chris Ann, who's a dear old friend, she's my next door neighbor, we've known each other for, you know, 40 years. And she said, well, he could, because Rucker said he needs to wear an alligator vest.

And she said, well, he can't wear an alligator vest because he needs them expandable, you know, talking about my girth. Did they make vests out of alligators? I don't think so. But, you know, Rucker, what does he know? But what does that mean an alligator? Well, he was like he needs to do something. He needs to bling.

it up a little bit. He was like he's too dull with his vet. So, so, so Chris made a little tap at my weight, you know, which is funny. But Chris Howard weighs about 80 pounds and has her whole life. She's the skinniest person I know. So I was like, okay, well, I think they've opened a door for me to, you know, comment because since they brought up my girth, I'll bring up her lack of girth. So at the start of my sermon days, I said, I'm not offended. I'm really not because I talk about, you know, needing to expand the best. I said, but I never take vest expansion advice from a person who once almost choked on a tick-tack, which is a true story.

I mean, a tic-tac. I said, that's one skinny esophagus when you can't take down a tick-tac because somebody starts laughing. Then I said, this woman has never seen her own shadow. That's how skinny she is. She doesn't cast a shadow. She weighs 80 pounds. she wants a housekeeper made up a bed with her in it because she thought it was a wrinkle in the sheets.

That's how skinny this woman is. And then my last, of course, everybody's laughing. Last one I said was when she goes to the grocery store, she has to wait for someone to walk up to activate the glass door. In other words, it won't pick her up. And then I looked at Perky and I said, Perky, did you get that? That was a joke within a joke because what would she be doing at the grocery store? Of course, everybody just roared. So that was my little Chris and roast days at the beginning of my sermon.

Then I told them, you know, I loved it. It was all done and fun. So that's what you missed at the beginning. Well, that's pretty funny off the top of your head. So I looked up alligator vests. If there is one, I might go for it. Well, the number one search for that is what do you call an alligator in a vest? I don't know.

An investigator. That reminds me of the Saturday light, the Saturday Night Live. That reminds me of a Saturday Night Live skit when the guy said he was Jesse Jackson. He was talking about Jesse Jackson. Jesse Jackson said, not only do I deny the allegations, I deny the alligator. Yeah. That's funny. Speaking of that, there's one water, water is down.

in a section over there. And I saw on the bank one lying there on the ground. And I'd say 10 footer, maybe 11, wide, wide. I mean, this thing is up on our property? Yeah. He is a bull. And I thought to myself, you know, all these weeds and thickets I go out in there cutting that brush, I wouldn't want to run up on this thing.

And, you know, we always say, you know, no big deal. But let's take our last break. We always, because, you know, they're pretty docile. You rarely see them attack somebody. But I was watching. I was watching a video the other day of some guy in Brazil. I don't know if it was one of our allegations or a crocodile, but look, he's just swimming out there.

And all of a sudden, you see that thing look like a torpedo. And, I mean, he took a big chunk out of his arm. And I thought, well, it does happen because I actually saw it on video. I just thought about my Labrador retrievers. Well, the dogs. That's exactly right. I mean, you know, you got ducks lying around for. the gators and you got your dog going after your duck.

I mean, it could not end well. That's exactly right. So anyway, that was the lead-in to my sermon. But my sermon was actually about this text. And we only have a few minutes left. But Jason, I thought we would revisit kind of where we left off last time, which was the end of Matthew 17, about the temple tax. Because I had made the point at the end of my sermon that Jesus is really the ultimate point

of that whole thing was that he's greater than the temple and all that. He was making a point that, you know, the sun is greater than whatever you're trying to do. But the way he went about getting the money for the tax, which I thought was funny. Of course, I had some... What I do as a treasure hunter, it was awesome. Right. Because you can sense the excitement of that process of finding some lost coins, which I got one of these, when I was in Greece, I was looking for some of these drop my coins. Yep.

and they said they're real cheap. And so I'm like, so I had the missionary there. He's like, wow, I'll take care of you. I said, well, I want the four drachma because of this story here. Did he actually get one? Well, he said, next time I'm in the U.S. So I made the point. There's a law about, you know, taking money out.

So I made the point, Jay, is that Jesus, I mean, he's the creator. We've already seen that he can take bread and fish and multiply. a small amount to feed thousands of people so he can create matter. So I said he could have just said when Peter asked him about the tax, he could have just reached in his pocket in his robe and pulled out the four drop macorn, right? Or he could have, I said, he could have done the old reach behind your ear like the magician. I said, oh look, Peter, here's a four dropma that was hiding behind your ear. So I said, he could have done all that. Instead, he instructed him to go down and catch a fish and in the mouth of the fish would be the coin.

So why did he do that is the question? I think it's just because it's just like when you're sitting around and you're like, it's like with your buddies, I just think back when I was younger and we'd be like, I believe these doves will be on this field. And they're like, there ain't going to be anything there. And you're like, I'm telling you, trust me, there's a trust that you come up.

with an idea. Well, this is so, it's kind of I feel like they're sitting around. He's like, go down and catch the first fish and it'll have our tax coin in there. I mean, it's like, are you going to trust him enough to go do it? As crazy as this story sounds,

would you be willing to go do that? I brought up the illustration on some of the hunting ideas I've had about guys sitting around and things that seem. I mean, I mean, probably back in the day when I'd have these ideas about going frog hunting on a golf course, you know, always had somebody with me. Somebody said, as crazy as this is, I mean, they're putting us under the jail if we get caught. I mean, these fancy, fancy types.

That's right. So my question is you, Jay, so Peter's a fisherman, right? So the first fish he catches is just what Jesus told him. He opens his mouth and there's the four drop McCoyne. Being a fisherman, did he then cast again to see if he would catch another fish that had another corn in his mouth? Probably? He had to. I mean, who wouldn't try it?

Or maybe then the third fish because, like, somebody's fishing that hole trying to find that out. I mean, some people, you know, the scholars, they say, well, he just probably was using this as an illustration or an embellish. but I don't think so either. I think you run down there and caught a fish. I mean, I was trying to relate. I mean, the difference would be if a guy, we go frog hunting on a golf course and then throw in, it's like the third frog we catch will have a half dollar in his mouth that's rare

and we can sell it and pay our taxes with. Now then that's when people would say, no way to manage it. You have to remember the context and all these things. You have Jesus on top of a hill, and he's brought two individuals that have been supposedly dead or gone for 2,000 years right at it. You're like, they just appear with him. And you say, so you read a text that says, now he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages. That's when Jesus just showed up 2,000 years ago, born of a virgin.

For all at the, he's appeared for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself. So he's saying we're already in the end of these ages this time frame when Jesus showed up. Just as man is destined to die once. and after that to face judgment, so Christ was sacrificed once to do away with sins of many people. And he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, not the next time, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.

So there's two appearances. Granted, he appeared to Apostle Paul. He made an appearance there, but that wasn't the context of what he's saying here is he came once to remove the sin of the earth if they would but trust him he's got two guys with him that's supposed to be dead or gone bringing them back in our glorified state like he says we'll all have well they're sitting there in the glorified state talking with jesus on the top of a hill you're like whoa well both of them there was a little bit of a little consternation about, you know, Moses, God buried him.

You say, well, he, so he just showing you the power at which he rolls. You just look at it and you say, it's a lot to digest any way you want to slice it. I think that's why they didn't get it when he died because even in our world now, You see, people believe in the unseen world, whether they're believers in Jesus or not, to some degree. I mean, there's a reason we have haunted houses. Hold it right there. I think I heard a noise. Yeah, here's the point.

It was all about their trust and their faith in him as far as the resurrection goes and all. Correct. But you have to remember, after his first appearance, the world within three to four hundred years later, began to count. time by this individual. Correct. Time. That's why the first time he appeared was to do away with the sins of the world. Well, it wouldn't be, it makes it easier for me to believe.

I'm like, wait a minute here. He's coming back, but why is it we're all counting time by him? It's 2,021 years since he showed up. I'm just saying it's not as hard for me to believe. How in the world did the world end up counting time? by him if he wasn't here and if he didn't do what the what the prophet said he was going to do and matthew mont luca john that's why i quoted hebrews 13 8 it's a it's a you'll spend the rest of your life grasping that which is interesting because people do really get caught up in what we call

eschatogers coming back and they say well that's that's unbelievable i can't believe but you said well why is it you're counting time by him the countdown and you're the ones you're looking at your calendar, so are we. That's why I was being sarcastic earlier when I said having a beard saves you time. Actually doesn't save you. That's right. But we, that's the way we look at it. You know, look at everything, the ticking watch.

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