Unashamed with the Robertson Family - Ep 393 | Why Jase Thinks Refrigerators and the Bible Are Related & Jay Stone’s Duck Fingers Recipe

Episode Date: December 8, 2021

Jay Stone joins the guys to recap the first split of duck season and to give out his special recipe for duck fingers. Jase and Jay discuss the time they loaded Si’s gun with baby powder. To the relief of Phil and Jase, Al rejoins the podcast. Jase learns he has acquired grammatical acuity from Miss Kay after he attempts to use the word “lambasted.” Phil and Al explain why you should not think of yourself more highly, but with sober judgment. And Jase makes the case for how he can relate refrigerators to the Bible. Read the first chapter of "Uncanceled" by Phil Robertson now: https://philrobertson.substack.com/p/uncanceled-chapter-one The ONLY place to get "Your Daily Phil" by Phil Robertson in time to start off your new year: https://talkshop.live/watch/QID3D1y77yHJ  - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am unashamed. What about you? So I am officially back from the Bahamas. I had an excellent vacation in the Bahamas. I heard I was thrown under the bus, of course. Of course, most of the feedback I was getting while y'all were doing the podcast was stuff like, what Jay said he couldn't understand why I would go to the Bahamas during duck season. Apparently, Jay's never been to the Bahamas.

No, I haven't. To which I would reply, that is true. So you don't know. You've been to Cancun, hadn't you? I did an event in Cancun. So it wasn't like I went to Cancun to hang out. I went there, did the event, and guess what I said to myself, I'll never be back. And if I am, bring your Bible and your wife.

You were telling the biggest fat lie in the world. Because you and Missy went with me and Lisa one time to Cancun. We played golf all week. We had a great time. Oh, there was an event. There was no, no, no, no, you went to the event. That was some other thing. You didn't have an event when you went with us.

You went to play golf and hang out. The older this crew gets, the less the memory is realized. I remember having a conversation. I said, I'm not going to Cancun. And Missy's like, they're paying you to go. Let's make a trip out of it. All right. So the audience will know the next time we have Missy on, we'll settle this one right up.

And I know exactly how this is going to turn out. There's nothing wrong with my memory. I'm taking privilege. I'm on top of it. The memory, I'm taking Omega XL. Me too. So is that. Does that help your memory?

I don't know, but it helps my joints. I'm sure they sell something out there that helps your memory. All right. So we got, so since we're back new and the first split ended yesterday, so for those of you unfamiliar, I don't know, is it like this in every state or just Louisiana? There's a split in the duck season. It's all different state by state. Okay.

So in Louisiana, we hunt for a couple of weeks. then there's a couple of week break and then we basically go the rest of the way through January. So we're in what's now called the first split, which is no hunting. So we had Stone he just happened to be passing through to clean some deer and I said, so I want to get a report

of what happened for the last two weeks because I don't know how much, I know we talked about some on the podcast, but I figured we're Stone here we could get some straight answers. I never know you and dad tended. It was like a bottle rock. The season, here's my analysis. It was like a bottle rock.

And then it just, it fizzled. The last day. It was like a cheap fireworks show. The last day, there was just three of us left. Me, barely, and filled. They just started dwindling. Because the first couple days, I mean, you just about had to offer money to get a seat. Oh, yeah.

I mean, there were people in every direction. Oh, we had to be hanging outside the blind on opening day. We were thinking about renting a bus just to get the people down there for opening a day. I was having this. We were sharing spots just to get out and shoot. But it was a lot of ducks the first few days. Opening day jitters. It's always there.

But overall, we did. We ate a lot of ducks in the last couple weeks. Oh, yeah. Well, that's been the best discovery. Tell us how you're making. Have you already done that? Well, you know, what was your line when you're a cereal duck killer? That's what I said.

You need to know how to cook them and eat them. That's right. Yeah, as good as possible. So I figure. out how to fry up duck without it tasting like duck that's right and that's the key it is the key because the duck is got like a livery so quickly three fangs that to prime them but pre yeah go through the process number one breast the duck number two tenderize the breast thoroughly number three put it put it in a salt water brine overnight but when do you cut them in strips after

after the first brine i see you you you have the breast you put them in a salt water brine Tenderize them first. Tenderize them first. Tenderize them. And tell them about that. Is there a, you have like a tool you use that. Yeah, it's a little, it's a lot of,

it's got a bunch of little sharp knives that come out. It looks like some form of torture. It's like a shredder. It's a shredder. You peel the feathers with the skin intact back. So nothing but brush and go down next to the middle, middle of the duct bone or chest bone. I learned a lesson with that utensil, by the way.

Don't, when I was trying to figure out how to put, don't make sure there's, There's no body part on either side. I learned the hard way. I did the same thing. I did pump blood just start pouring up. Yeah. My thumb.

So anyways, tend to rise into the saltwater brine overnight. Take it out the next day. Rist them off. Cut them into strips. Put them back in a buttermilk, Brian. Just straight buttermilk. Straight buttermilk. Back in the fridge.

Overnight again. Like in a plastic bag. It's easy to put them in. Ziplat. Zip lock bags. Poor cup of milk in there. Yep. you know, buttermil.

Buttermilk. Okay. Buttermilk and just, you know, roll them around a bit and let them set. So this is a two-day process to get a way. This is a two and a half day. By the way, this is what you have to do. So what happens on day three? You take them out, put them in a strainer in the sink,

then take your fingers that are soaked in buttermilk, put them in a silver bowl, safety flour on them. I'm sorry. I missed a step. Yep. Take your sour cream. Uh-oh. On top, it's not egg wash.

Cower cream in there with the next strips. I would say a heaped up kitchen spoon. I'd say about three. It depends on how many, how many. You just want a good coat of sour cream on all your strips. Ah, so that's helping hold your flowers. So you don't use eggs. No eggs.

Oh, that's incredible. Oh, yeah. What happens if you trade the, the egg for, I mean, the sour cream for egg? It's not as crunchy. Yeah. Really? Yep. Yeah.

Who told you this? I learned that from John Gowan of all people. Ha! Yeah. Well, I mean, Godwin didn't get that size by another seven. So how do you fry? What do you fry? So you get your peanut oil hot, hot, I'd say 375 at least, hot peanut oil.

And then you sift your flour, put enough flour to get everybody dry. Roll them out. Roll them out. Drop them in the grease. Frile them, I'd say, minute and a half tops. They start floating. You get them out and then dust whatever seasoning you want on them while they're wet. Because there's no seasoning on them.

Right. So a little salt and black pepper I never heard anything. A little cage and seed. Little Cajon. How spicy you want them. There was no. Phil Robertson.

That's my favorite. But there was no, because I was shocked, you tried to get me to come down there for two or three days, but I was like, eh. I mean, I like the teal and wood ducks on the grill. Yeah. Everything else I give to people. Right.

For food. The twin cities. But when you came up on this, you were like, no, I'm telling this is good. And I have to admit, there was no. gaminess or livery flavor whatsoever. And you didn't just do teal and wood duck. What are some of the ducks?

There was some pentail in there. Those three pentail you got outside about. They were in there. It literally is a way to eat most of the ducks. That's right. Yeah. Which is really incredible. It was kind of what I would call a happy accident because you just discovered this last

year because we run out of meat. We had people coming. Jay's kind of scrambling around. He had some, you had some something in the fridge, brining. And so you thought, I'll try this. So if the audience is listening, what they're thinking is, so what would you call this, that ducks are brined in saltwater and buttermilk and then sour cream rolled together,

a lot of flour. You've got to have two whole canters, plenty of flour, so they'll all get coated. Do that. Basically, I would call them duck tenders, because tender is, tender, I'm accentuating tender. They're really tender. Well, the tender riser was the contributor.

So I think there's a couple of shows. We could say stones duck tenders or stones duck fries because they're kind of been wrong. Duck fingers. I felt like though when I ate them after I ate a dozen. After your first dozen. After the first dozen, I felt like it needed a salve to dip into it. I'm not a big salve. I make a duck salve to go with it.

This is mayonnaise, horseradish, wish to shire, and some seasoning. But you have way too much manate. When I saw that pound. But Jason won't eat mayonnaise. You had a pound of mayonnaise. I'm like, I'm out on that. I was thinking a different salve of sauce. I think it's a good little sauce.

Yeah, Bill likes it. Yeah, it's a good sauce. I don't like mayonnaise. You can't do anything about your idiosyncrasyncrasies. What was in that sauce again? Manase, horseradish, Worcestershire, and whatever seasoning. Dip you tenders over in there. And they'll literally melt in your mouth.

I mean, you're not chewing like. No, not at all. If you follow what he just said, you do that. It is a terrific way to eat ducks. But chew easily because you don't want to bite down on a pellet. And by the way, 90% of the ducks that I've cleaned this year had number sixes in them. And by the way, hey. 90%.

I ate all the fingers of this duck season. And I was like, J. When he said he ate 12, he was on the version. There's three fingers on each side, three fingers, three on the left breast, three on the right breath, the part of the duck. That gives you one duck. You can always, if you want to keep the rest of the duck and boil them for gumbos and stuff. They're just ducks without breasts, which we don't put in a gumbo anyway. We put the legs and the fat.

The legs and the thigh. So you still have that for gumbos, so you can save a lot of money. Yes. Well, we ate them. well y'all ate them every day. Yeah. But back to the point at hand. Now, who were the parties shooting number sixes?

Was there any 20 gauge this year? Oh, Sy shoots number fours, Phil shoots number threes. The nurseman, he's shooting number threes. And there's two men shooting number sixes, me and Jays. Oh, I didn't know that. And so you're saying 90% of the past, nine out of ten. Those of you watch in the podcast, just saw dad's eye roll of iros.

I mean, that could put Missy to shame the Iro. Who's the best shot always comes for somewhere? By the only the one who's cleaning it, right? Yeah, I don't know. For years, I was trying to figure out it's all about how many we killed. No, it ain't about that. That's about who killed what. So I's gone on record saying if we all had different colored shots,

which they actually make those. He said, boys, you don't want to do that. And I was like, well, I thought you were the one wanting to know. Oh, who kill what? He said, no, if we do that, they're going to come down here and put me under the jail. Back when we were shooting, I've seen Cy when we had like a lot of ducks on the table, we cleaned them. And Cy was telling them touting 16 gauge over 12 gauge, 16. And he would look at the duck.

He said, I'll let me give you an example. There's one. He'd look at it. He said, 16 gauge. 16 gauge. But he was just looking at the size. He had a gauge. What gauge?

What gauge? I look at that. What are you shooting? He said 16 gauge. This is also the same man that we put while he was asleep in the blind. We put three shells in his gun filled with baby powder, of which he discharged all of them. And then claim he went three for three.

You shot baby powder. They might have died from a heart attack, but every time I pulled the trigger, there was a white cloud. And they died. That's what size I always said. said, all I can say is, boy, which he's always standing next to dad through the years. All I can say is, boys, every time I pull the trigger something fell, and dad said it may have something to do with who you're standing next to you.

So I get hot about it. He does. But, you know, that's part of the fun and over the years. And we laugh about it now. But I've noticed nowadays, it's not about those ducks got away. We can't think that way anymore. the ones they got away. Now it's just, thank the Almighty that we're here, duck hunting.

It's turned into survival. Well, it is. And there's no doubt that the blind grows more geriatric every year. When they start putting in the oxygen bottles with them. I noticed two things. Wheelchairs and oxygen. They have made their appearance this year. I guess whenever the American disabilities act,

begins to apply to our dub lines but y'all have done well with old sigh because he's having and puffing you know the old lungs not what they were but y'all get him a chair ready and we just get him seated hey hats off to stone stone stone brought sigh back to life because after COVID he's about ready to go on to heaven but now he's enjoying life well maybe the almighty did be so it's happened before I was a guy named Lazarus he has had quite the resurrection Oh, he's doing great. So I guess in the last few seconds, J.L. mentioned because I used to call it our sister podcast, but since we're all males, I guess it's our brother podcast, is the duck call room.

And I know a lot of people watch both and think highly of both. So just as a plug for you guys to keep doing what you're doing in the duck car room, because it's a lot of fun. Who's on y'all's podcast? Well, Martin, Johnny D. Cy, they're the regulars. Me and Godwin and Macmillan rotate every third. Oh, really? Who does most of the talking? Who do you think?

I have no idea, Si. Cy and Martin. Well, because you know how, I mean, Sae is going to tell tales and Martin knows everything. Martin has the gift of gab. He does. He does.

And we had him on here, and he was great recently. I was so glad we had him kind of told his backstory to, I know. So we needed to have money. Has the subject of me and and Cy playing cars together come up?

Oh, yeah. What he said? He's in full-blown denial. You know. Somebody sent me word that, you know, I need to laugh more. And I said, well, if I find something to laugh about, I'll laugh out loud. But I haven't seen anything that funny out of this bunch. Phil needs a hug.

I've been laughing ever since I've been sitting in this chair. On your way out, give Phil a hug. No, I ain't do that way. Well, you know, my daughter gave him a hug one time, and he went, hey. I'm not the most levy-dovey man around. I'll admit it. Good old meal, sound too fuzzy. All right.

Thanks, Stone. All right. I'm going to go clean your deer for you. All right. So it's always good to have Stone on the podcast. He's, you know, Stone's funnier than he, he's always got a demeanor, kind of the old, you know, middle school coach demeanor. But he's got a pretty funny side. Last night, we had, Jason, we had a big oyster feed at my house and for Alex's his birthday.

Yeah, you know. messed out on that. It was charred grilled oysters. Gimber came over. Dad got some of the raw ones. They were delicious. Yeah. You know, in Louisiana, in November, December, is oyster time. That's when they're at their best. You usually get that good salt brine on them. Tastes really good. A couple of things I wanted to mention before we get into our Bible study today is that you guys have done awesome because you bought all of the daily fields. They're gone. We sold them all, Dad. But they're going to come out with some more next year, so you can be looking for some if you missed it. But you can still pre-order your copy of Dad's new book uncanceled. It's going to be out in

February. And the only place you can reserve a signed copy right now is Talk Shop Live. So the guys will drop a link in there for you to see where to go get that if you want to go ahead and get a pre-signed or a copy of the book, which would be great. Also, you can find that on Substack. I don't even know your own Substact until they tell me. It's called Phil Robertson.com. the deal with substact it's really interesting because it was started by a bunch of journalists who got tired of being censored for their content you know they do an online article somewhere and some big tech company just goes in and takes it out so they started this whole new platform called substact and it's uncensored it's one of the few places if you go through any of the other

ones and so now your newsletters on there your blogs all the stuff that you're putting out so it's free it's free if you subscribe so check it out phil roverson dot substack.com so i was impressed because you're right up there with all the that's all the big journalists the big boys yeah so who'd thought yeah here you go here you are so tell me what y'all i was gone and so zach was uh in my shoes for the last four podcasts so y'all did uh matthew correct jace i heard it was just to laugh a minute without me here i tried to tell a few funnies and but i realized that zach and phil are perhaps the hardest people in the world to make laugh on purpose. So I got off that.

And we, so for all the more serious listeners, I thought we had a pretty good talk about, what do we do? We did 20. So y'all did 20 and 21 and 22. Yeah, that's what we do. We did the try.

I think we did 21 and 22. Okay. Yeah, because we had done most of 24. So, and look, it wasn't. easy. These are these are chapters that I had not been deeply thoughtful about before right to this. So I learned a lot. It was it was great. Well, you know, the way I've kind of looked at the whole book and everybody outlines it differently, but I sort of outlined it from the standpoint of that he sort of had five major addresses that Matthew records. And then there's a lot of stuff going on

around each one. And when you get into this fifth one, whereas he's about to start today, and we're about to start today in Matthew 23, you really have to understand at this point the context of the book and what he's trying to convey, or you'll miss a lot of stuff, especially when we get into 23 and 24 and 25, because a lot of people, they'll mix and match, you know, with some of the language Jesus uses to have it, you know, applying to a lot of different things. And so that's why I think it's really crucial to remember that this whole thing has been about him saying, look, this is, this is the kingdom. This is new. This is different. I mean, this is the old ways were this, but I'm introducing something different. And so a lot of this

applies directly into that, but man, you get a lot of different, you know, people apply this all over the place. One point I would just like to make here. When you're dealing with the description of the God who became flesh. Now we say it, and it's just kind of like words, but in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, you get to John 1-1-1, and the beginning was the Word. Here's Jesus, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

This being, Jesus Christ, can eradicate, kill dead the entire population, birds, animals, reptiles, and humans, and the whole thing. It can disappear in a moment. And he has the power to slaughter the entire human race this quick. He's the one they're talking to. Well, if you think about it like that, in all these texts, they're basically saying, he is, do not mess with me. I love you. I want the best for you,

but you do not want to mess with me. That's what I'm reading when I read through Matthew and the events and the people he's dealing with. I'm going up there, I'm going to die, be buried, raised from the day, and they all go, ha-ha. It's a life. It's a joke.

He's a joke. He's come riding up on a donkey, and they said, look at this. And they're trying to figure out these ways to out-thinking. Well, if you're the creator of the cosmos, I mean, you hold the key. to life and death. Right.

And he's going to give both. Yeah. And he gives warning. And he said, this is the way the kingdom's going to be, find this, find me, and move forward. And you'll be okay. Right. So he's not asking for the moon here.

I think you're right. And remember the arch we're talking about. Remember we started this in Matthew chapter 5 with him saying, this is the way you're going to live in this new setup. You know, he's blessed or blessed or the peacemakers. So he talks, it starts out. It's pretty soft. That's right.

You know, this is what we're going to look like. And then when we get, now by the time we get to the end, this is his last discourse. He tends to be turning to. But this is almost like another sermon on the mount. It is. But it's geared toward the religious leaders and sex that, I mean, I was thinking about how to discuss this. Because he just land blasted him and basically said, go invite. the prostitutes.

It's lamb bastard, not lamb blasted. I mean, you want me to laugh. Ha-ha. See, there's a joke. There's a funny. I've been back. I'll laugh every time you butcher the English language. I will laugh a little bit.

Well, we were supposed to have a guest. Lamb blasted. Look, we were supposed to have a guest on today, which I think we're doing. She's going to be on. Yeah, later. Missy referred to our guest. She said, well, she's, because I, you know, I was doing my research, which means ask Missy because I don't watch TV.

But Missy knew her, didn't she? Oh, she knew her, big fan. And she said, are you going to say they had her? No, we can say, Kelly McInney, yeah. So she'll be on. She'll be on a couple of podcasts from now. Yeah. So Missy said she's very articulate.

She's brilliant. Yeah. I mean, she went to, she went to, what's the Oxford for a year? Yo. And then she went to, she graduated from Harvard, Los. school. So she is going to raise up the IQ of this group. I can tell you. Well, so what I was going say is, you know, in the redneck world, I mean, we're the, we're the only world left that people can make fun of. Because we're, we're unoffendable, you know. That's right. And the education,

I mean, most everyone in my family are highly educated. Yeah. Except me. And, but a lot of, a lot of, a lot of pattern for me as you're the leader of the whole outfit. I don't know what that word means. You want to explain that one? But what I was going to say is a lot of sophisticated words that I've come across. And I feel like I can represent the redneck culture in this. I heard that once a point in time, but I thought it's not worth using. So I'm not familiar with a lot of words, especially those with a lot of syllables.

And it's not that I haven't heard it before. I wasn't taught that. I just thought, I could say the same thing. Just using a more simple word. So if you don't use it, you mess them up, which is a common theme with Si, K, and we all laugh. Because they have just enough and me at times. To make it funny.

But, you know, to his point, I mean, Jesus went to great lengths. when you start talking about IQ, acumen, you know, the knowledge, when you're looking at God in flesh, and he's having to carry on a conversation with humans that's... He had to dumb it down. Oh, well, I'm just saying simplicity was the key to what he said. Well, and that's interesting. Let's take a break. That's interesting, Dad, because you're right.

And the biggest accusation against him was that this guy's from now. I mean, there's a bunch of idiots in Nazareth. I mean, that's what they were saying. I mean, what good thing can come? They were treating him for maybe one notch above a redneck. That's right. But you got to remember. Now, I was going to bring up with Kaylee, which maybe if y'all, I'll practice this on

y'all if we don't think we should go there because I don't know much about politics. But what I've noticed is when people try to get the redneck world vote, that's a struggle. Now, George Bush Jr., he got it. because he does what we do. He was like, you know, the strategery, well, people thought it's funny, you know, because even his words would, but to me, I thought, sounds right.

And you're right. The elites made fun of him, but the common man said, that's my kind of guy. He's come up with a new word. He's a real guy. Now look, what I found fascinating about Trump, I was going to ask you about this,

Because here's a guy from New York, I'm sure he's highly educated, but he is articulate. But he's trying to get the flyover state's vote. Right. So he just kept it real simple. Build the wall. Believe me. Just think about it. He had all these sayings that he just said over and over, and people like, yeah.

That's my kind of good. But somewhere back when Donald Trump, Trump was running the country and did an outstanding job, in my humble opinion. Agreed. I wrote down in my Bible, for some reason, the definition of Trump. And I put under there acumen, A-C-U-M-E-N. Keenness is the definition of acumen. Of the word Trump?

The word acumen. When you look at Donald Trump, to me, he was a guy who ran the country for four years. Acumen, he had a tremendous. acumen, keenness and quickness in understanding and dealing with a situation, shrewdness, mental acuteness. And I wrote that down under Donald Trump. If you go with his personality, you'd rip him to shreds with his personality now. But with his acumen, if you had stayed there and camped out there and looked at what he

accomplished, and especially his belief in God and his pro-life, pro-life, pro-go, gun, pro-god, and someone says, I wonder if he's the one we want. I'm like, oh, yeah, but his personality is kind of caustic, so I don't like him. So I hear these women say that. A lot of women say, well, you know, he just, he offended me because he was just too, he had a caustic personality, so they didn't vote for him, I guess, because of his, his, not policies, but because of his personality. So, Dad, when we, I overlooked any kind of, any kind of caustic speech.

We have Kay Leon because I read her book, and it's really a good book. I want you to ask her that same thing. I want you to read that and ask her because the year she was worked for him, she's on the phone with Trump and with him in person multiple times every day. So all the things about what people think about Trump, you hate him, you love him, you don't like this, you don't like that. This woman actually spent a lot of time with Trump. So I want you to ask her that question on the podcast. Well, I don't believe I'd ever heard that word acumen.

So what's it meaning? Didn't it want, didn't there a car? It's what it means is the definition is keenness and quickness in understanding and dealing with the situation. That's, that's the, that's Donald Trump. Yeah. I mean, no, that's a great definition. They tried everything.

I'm thinking of accurate. There's an accurate. In other words, he's not a plain language. Is that a form of acute, acuteness? And what was the other word you were using? Acoustic? Mental acuteness and the, and caustic is, you have a, you have a, personality that's that's

sandpaper yeah sandpaper it's great against people you spell that costic he was putting a little one-liners in on the computer but a lot of people didn't like that because he

he had a caustic meaning it's just hard to get along with well you know and sometimes sometimes I think bombastic a little bit sometimes I think he's joking

but they're just not getting yeah I mean it's just has a way about it he could have toned it down a little bit but I wasn't voting on it I wasn't backing him because of his personality. Here's what, here was my assessment since we're there now and then we'll get back where we were, is that when I first heard Trump, before I knew anything about him,

especially in how he was with other Republicans, I was like, man, somebody needs to like tone this guy down. And then it hit me. I was like, wait a minute, Donald Trump, I mean, dad is a biblical version of Donald Trump. It'd be like me telling you. Now, dad, when you're speaking, don't say this, that, and the other. I mean, I wouldn't even try to do that because you are who you are, When you approach the word of God, he's the same way, but about politics. Same way.

I mean, you can't. Well, Phil came out of a rough background, and so he didn't tend to sugarcoat things. Right. So the first few times he spoke. Hey, so did Trump. That's right. I know. But I was going to make the point.

You're the one of the few speakers that I've ever heard that early on, there would be a notable gas from the audience at different times. They were like, oh, caustic. Costic. You've toned it down. That's it. You've gotten a little softer. Well, good. I'm glad I mispronounce that word so we could have a moment of clarity.

And, uh, all right. So I was, but lamb-baseded, I could see lamb-blasted. Yeah, lamb-blasted. What did I say? You said lamb-baseded is the word. But by adding that L, you, what you have done, Jason, if you've taken another, you made a new word because lamb-blasted works, but it's just not the right. You know what? I think I like lamb-blasted better.

this is how words evolve. You're right. You can get away with it because they understand. We're in charge the rednet world of taking common words and putting different spins on them.

And what look you brought out another thing that most people would not realize looking at dad. We talk about dad. He has a minor in English. You taught English. You were my English teacher

in middle school. And so it's not like you don't have a strong... He didn't pass that gene down. What he did to me. I just, what happened is I got the second helping you got nothing jesus but what i was going to say is we don't care the redneck world does not you're

right you if people they mispronounce words every day in my inner circle it's a constant abuse of the english language of the queen's english we choose not to assimilate into that world because using perfect english and i studied it in college it comes across like you're a sissy and I want to be more blunt than a sissy. It just seems sissy like you're using flawless English. I thought you were going to say millennial or yuppie? I wasn't expecting sissy. I don't even know what that means.

Well, you think about it a while. It'll come to you. All right. So let's take a break. All right. So let's get back to Matthew. I don't know. That was a wide turn right.

Well, here's what I was going to say is. I don't know. You started with Jesus lamb bastard. Lambasted, lamb blasted, whichever one you prefer. And the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, and then it kind of culminates into this speech, which is quite heated. Well, he's got seven words.

And they're portraying themselves out as sinless. Right. That's the portrayal they're trying to get at him out, the one who's fixing to die for their sins. So I wanted to get you to take, though, on the first two, three verses because I find this fascinating. And when I went back and was preparing for today, what chapter? 23, Matthew 23. Jesus said to the crowds and to the disciples.

Now, he's aiming at a certain memory. Everybody's there. The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses seat. So he establishes their right to do what they're doing and be who they are. In other words, he's saying, they're right. representatives of Moses and the law. And this thing has been guiding them for 1,500 years. That's right.

So he says, so you must obey them and do everything they tell you. So I like that he establishes that I put them there. Well, you know, it's what we know. What they represent is good. Right. I think it goes back to when he says, I didn't come to abolish the law, came to fulfill it. I think these principles that were in place were good things.

That's right. But they should lead you to a law giver, an actual person and the being. So he does start off, be careful when he starts off bragging on just a little bit, because then it's just followed. The key, it's a setup because the key word, by the way, anytime you see this word in the Bible, it should give you pause to then think about what went before it. Because he says that, and they say, okay, that's pretty good.

but, when you see the word, but he's fixing to give you some more. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach. So he establishes the whole speech by saying, they're there because God put them there. They're representative of something good. So listen to what they say, but don't do what they do. They tie up heavy loads and put them on men's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift. a finger to move them. Right, which is the key point.

And if you look at modern day religion, even under the grace of God through Jesus, his death for us, his burial, his burial, resurrect. If you look at the things that we have bound people with, Jace, let's tell you about it, he visits a lot of places. So do I. How you look at it, they put heavy loads on you, heavy loads. Don't do this. Everything is a rule, rule, rude, rude, creeds.

Well, there's no compassion. The difference here between them, and Jesus, there's no compassion. They have the rules, but there's no path, and they look at their people as hopeless. Because it says they're not helping them. They're not willing to

lift a finger to move them. Right. They're not doing anything other than walking around, and you see the next verse 5. Everything they do is done for men to see. They make their

phallactories, which you know i wouldn't have known what that was had or not research but basically a box they wore on their head with scriptures did you ever see any of that in israel i wonder if they still do that to this day i mean i can't recall i mean i've seen the curly hair and like the prayer tassels but i want to do they still wear the flack they had the look as being very religious well if you're going around with a box on your head full of prayers yeah i mean that's well and some and some of it was like scriptures or laws or whatever it contained. And it's like, hey, look at me.

Look how much I have on top of my head. Look how big my box. Well, you can see what Jesus represented. He's all about the heart, which is not the pumping heart, but the soul of a man and how you make your decisions. And they're like, oh, look how many pieces of paper I have on my head in this box. Right. And it says they love to have men call them rabbi.

And they love the place of honor. I'm a big dog. But you know, they love the honor. They love the place of honor banquets, the important seats. They love to be greeted in the marketplace. They wanted to be called special names that showed that they were as godlike. I mean rabbi. But don't you, but hadn't you ever?

But hadn't you seen that today? because I'll go speak somewhere and look, because I worked for years for a church, you know, preaching. So they'll ask me, though, I'll say, well, when we introduce you, what title do we use? Yeah. You know, because it's, again, this thing is carried forward. And so I always, my joke is always I say, so, well, I prefer your excellency. And I say it's serious. And they look at me like, really?

And I was like, yeah, I said, I prefer that. And I said, but you can just call me out. I mean, the thing is. I think it would have been good to say, how about sinner? There you go. Sinner saved by grace. Because of these texts we're reading, to this day, if they say you're a preacher, and I'm like, no, no, I'm not a bona fide certified preach.

I'm just not one. And yet, you do a lot of preaching. Well, I point people to Jesus, but I won't care that the weight of, well, he's a preacher, therefore he's got this. Because of this context. I won't say it. Well, and look, you try to this. You'd notice that out.

Yeah, and you trained us in that day. You told us, since I was a boy, I remember you saying, boys, let me tell you something, don't tell people how great you are. If someone thinks you're great, that's fine, because you're that. But don't tell, you don't tell them. And that stuck with me all these years. Where's the verses? There's a band shouldn't think of himself more highly than you know.

Romans 12. Yeah, Romans 12. Romance 12, about verse 10 or so. I'm at Romans 12, and I don't see it. in verse four, verse three, do not think, for the grace given to me, I say on every one of you, do not think of yourselves more highly than you ought, but rather of yourself with sober judgment in accordance with the measure of faith. I think that's the way we should be. Now look, here's what's funny to me. And all that coming from a guy who, when he like in Jess gave his

titles, Paul, I mean, he listed his whole thing. He had more titles than you can buy as we have. But he was like, none of that matters. That's right. But to me, hang on, Jess. Let's take her last break. People in our world do the same thing. When they then get to verse 9, it says, don't call him one on earth, father. Or you have one father and he is in heaven.

So they're like, people, they'll throw the Catholics onto the bus because they call father. They're like, I mean, that's what it says. But other denominations do the same thing, even using the pastor. Or preacher or brother. They can even take brother to another. Because if you're brother Jace, that means you're not just Jace. Don't become a Pharisee in trying to defend what you're doing when Jesus was land vasting.

You actually. I like blasted better. You actually, and we've proven that. You actually, Al, you don't need the title. You don't need the title. No. Which is his point. Just let it go.

Because if you love the title more than you love what you're doing, you'll become like these guys. And you bring all kinds of unregulated patty on the back. I mean, if they said, well, that's a brother, so that's a preacher. Well, we call our earthly father's father because some people get technical. And they say, well, we can't do that because of this verse. But I think it's a legalistic way. His point was these people have elevated themselves and not the lawgiver. they're thinking the powers in and of themselves.

I mean, to me, I thought about this long and hard how to explain this. Because this, to me, is a difficult chapter to go in. A lot of people think, because he just says the same thing over and over about they want to look a certain way, but they're not, they're hypocrites. That's what we, the modern day word for it is hypocrites. Well, he's going to call them that quite often. I mean, calls them snakes. So I got to think of how to describe them. they came up with, Young Tim, if I'm right or wrong.

The Pharisees and the teacher of the law that he's addressing, to me, stay with me on this, remind me of refrigerator salesman. Refrigerator salesman. Now, just think about this. I'm thinking about it. I'm thinking about the last refrigerator salesman. Let's think about this. Go with me on this, and then when you read Matthew 23, it'll be like when you open the door

to a refrigerator, what happens? Light comes on. Like comes on. Well, the refrigerator is only as good as it's plugged in. Which ours is unplugged because it's so loud. Yeah. This is where I got the idea. So the power source that provides the power to the refrigerator,

that is ultimately the greatest part. Because if you unplug it, it doesn't work. And you leave your food in it, guess what? You've got a picture of the Pharisees. It looks great on the outside, but you open it. They're not plugged into the power. Nothing there. Nothing there.

But here's why. Except rotten, stinking food. Yeah. Now, that would be a good illustration. But then I got to thinking further. If you go try to, here's what you get into, and I think this is why he's doing this in different ways. So next time you're in town, Phil, which may be 2025, if you stop at a place that sells

refrigerators, you know what I found interesting? they'll have one you go to the salesman do this because it's really a lot of fun and say look i'm thinking about buying a refrigerator well you'll go over there and look they'll have a hundred to choose from one of them will be you know seventeen hundred dollars one of them twelve hundred and so you're like you just ask the question what's the difference and then they come to this one keeps keeps everything cold so you open the next one you're like what about this one keeps everything cold. You know, what about this?

Well, for $200 more, you can keep everything cold. So then you're like, well, why should I have that? Well, he'll open the door and he'll say, but look here, you have a little place for butter. And you say, what you do there is you put your butter. and they'll have little egg holders. Y'all have seen a fridge. I am. I'm like, why are they all different?

It's just a ploy. It's all a way to get you to spend your money. But guess what? It's just, you're spinning your money. Bottom line, they're all the same. I mean, big and small, okay. But other than that, what else is there? Well, you got the ones in the door that you can get the water and the ice on the outside of the refrigerator.

that's a little something. Yeah, okay. I'll give you 100 bucks for that. I mean, you're looking, you're like, you're talking about a scam. Yeah. You got 100 different prices on refrigerator with one goal? The power cellar still is hooked onto the wall where you plug it in. Yeah, that's right.

And that's when you make this thing complex, that's where you get off. Right. And I think that's what they did. They should have been thinking, who, wrote this? What was his point? What was his point? Not my point. You don't go into the marketplace to be noticed. You go in the marketplace, so hopefully people will notice Jesus in some way. This gets into what we represent. The power is greater. Now, he makes an interesting point because the law was written down on stone tablets and passed down to them, and the thing was jumping up and down

and fire coming out of it. He said, just take it easy. They all said, don't have him speak anymore, all die. If he opened his mouth, we're all dead. That's right. And Moses said, no, he's just doing that to keep you from sinning. Well, he had the tablets with him, and they didn't write them. He did. But they ended up being

this way that Jesus addresses, not good. No. And they were written, by the way, by some sort of... There was no mercy involved in that. It was keep it or die. And they were written by some sort of divine fire because Moses wasn't chisling on the stone.

That's right. This was the divine chisling on the stone. So fire and brimstone, fire and brimstone is taken down to the people through the law. But then when Jesus shows up, it's grace and mercy. He's saying to them, I'm the one that can save you. You haven't kept these statues. You've butchered them, but you're acting like you're 100% perfect. You're not.

the way, that's why he had to come here and become one of us. That's why he canceled this code. Right. Because when he did that, remember we did the before when he bends down and he touches somebody? I mean, you couldn't touch the mountain. You couldn't get near it. You thought if you even saw what was happening, you were going to die. All was fearful. The idea of just... You know, earlier, when he's with his disciples, are going to pick up a few grains and he, what are you doing? You know, you heal somebody, a great deed. they're sitting there nitpicking it saying, what are you doing on the Sabbath?

I mean, you're supposed to be where he can't work. And they just were twisting on every little bitty thing. Man, what a way to live, Al. It'd be terrible. And that's the beauty of what he's trying to describe. And I'll read this last two. We'll get into the woes next time. But says, the greatest among you, verse 11,

will be your servant, which he includes, by the way, himself. Because he said, I came here to serve, not to be served. for whoever exalts himself will be humbled and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. And that was the whole concept. You want the name. You want the position. You want everybody to think you're so great. You want to sit up front instead of in the back.

But none of that matters. That's right. I mean, what matters is that people are pointed to him. Some of this stuff is still here to this day. It is. It's terrible. And it's one of the things that gives us a bad man. A lot of people, it does, you know, like shut the door in their,

faith, you know, and you keep people from entering the kingdom. Because when they look around, once they get there, they got all these rules and regulations and this and that and the other, and they're like, you know, give me a break. Right. You know, but that plate is always, you know, they make sure that plate goes around. The prosperity gospel. That's why we don't even pass the plate. Well, I was going to read first, I mean, on 2 Corinthians 4 or 5, it says, we don't preach

ourselves, but Jesus Christ is Lord, which is the exact opposite of what they were doing. And ourselves, as his servants for God, said, let light, should. shine out of darkness, made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of knowledge of the glory of God. We have this treasure in Georgia Clay to show that this all surpassing power, which goes back to plugging in to the wall as a refrigerator, is from God and not from us. And remember this. I'll bring it up again because we did it earlier.

If you turn back two pages from Matthew 23, and he's talking to. to him here. Just remember, Al, we're going up to Jerusalem. He told his disciples, and the son of man will be betrayed. You say, into whose hands? To the chief priests and the teachers of the law, they will condemn him to death and will turn him over to the Gentiles to be mocked, flogged, and crucified on the third day he'd be raised from the dead. So when you're reading chapter two pages later, he's already said that about four times. By the time you get to him talking to them, he's not cutting them any slack here. He knows, he said, the same people I'm talking to that are paying the big dog with me,

they're going to kill me. That's right. But I'm going to still die for the sins of the world, and I'll resurrect him on the last day. And he's still going to speak truth to power. You bet. Which is important. All right. Well, we'll pick up with the woes next time.

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