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85 | Big Trust · Sermons on the Side

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  SPEAKER_02: Welcome to Sermons on the Side.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm Brad.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I'm Richard.
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  SPEAKER_02: And life can move pretty fast.
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  SPEAKER_02: So we're here to slow down, dig deep, and find the story hidden in everyday moments.
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  SPEAKER_01: With years spent in ministry, friendship, and navigating real life together, we're all about blending humor, honesty, and faith into conversations that meet you right where you are.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sermons on the side, finding meaning in the everyday.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I sat there and said, that's God being our big trust.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's what God is.
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  SPEAKER_01: Trust worthy.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Big trust.
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  SPEAKER_01: Whoop whoop.
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  SPEAKER_02: I don't know the theological ramifications of looking heavenly and going, what up, big trust?
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  SPEAKER_02: Big trust.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_02: Welcome back to your favorite Thursday podcast, Sermons on the Side.
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  SPEAKER_02: My name is Brad Williams, and I'm sitting across the table from the one, the only, Mr.
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  SPEAKER_02: Richard Moore.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the crowd always goes wild.
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  SPEAKER_01: How are you, sir?
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  SPEAKER_01: Brad, you are the host with the most.
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  SPEAKER_01: The podcast host with the most.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do you like that rhyme?
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  SPEAKER_02: Podcaster with the modcaster.
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  SPEAKER_02: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm just man.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hey, as always, I love sitting at the mics with you to do this, brother.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's right, man.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is awesome.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_02: It's another Thursday.
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  SPEAKER_02: We uh are so excited.
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  SPEAKER_02: And man, we are.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's great to be here.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_01: Come on.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hey, listen, I would just like to tell everyone we are going to reveal at this time the over-under poll that we took last week.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
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  SPEAKER_01: Remember that?
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  SPEAKER_02: Does everybody remember this?
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_02: We at the very end of our episode, we got off on a little tangent about how many total days this man sitting across from me has spent in Panama City.
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  SPEAKER_02: I mean, it's every other week, coach, that this man is.
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  SPEAKER_02: Oh, you know what I'm doing next weekend?
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_02: Let me guess.
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  SPEAKER_02: Go into the trailer to Panama City.
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  SPEAKER_02: So we put out a uh a little Instagram story that several, several of our wonderful listeners voted in.
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  SPEAKER_02: In fact, I think the results came in.
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  SPEAKER_02: They did.
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  SPEAKER_02: And it was what?
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, remember, we set the over-under at 29.5.
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  SPEAKER_01: So the basically the question was do you think Rico and Rhonda have been at the beach more than a month?
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  SPEAKER_01: All totaled.
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  SPEAKER_01: Or less than a month.
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  SPEAKER_02: And that's year to date, ladies and gentlemen.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's since January.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's not like over the course of their marriage.
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  SPEAKER_02: All right.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm talking about since January, dog.
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  SPEAKER_01: Of 2026.
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  SPEAKER_02: And for the record, I voted under.
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  SPEAKER_02: However, well the results are.
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  SPEAKER_01: So here's here were the poll results where 75% of our respondents said they thought it was over 29 days.
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  SPEAKER_01: And and then 25% said it was.
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  SPEAKER_02: I see you with the quick math.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna edit that so there's an even longer pause.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_02: It would be believable.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna make it a five second.
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  SPEAKER_01: And everybody would buy it.
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_01: They would say, checks out.
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  SPEAKER_01: So anyway, so the actual number is, and do you want a journal?
• 4:04
  SPEAKER_01: We don't need a journal.
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  SPEAKER_01: Here it is.
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  SPEAKER_01: 37 days.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my 37 days so far in this calendar year.
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  SPEAKER_02: I don't know if I've done anything for 37 days this year.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, can I tell you something?
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  SPEAKER_01: What's really weird about it?
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  SPEAKER_01: Is that we look like that's not weird enough?
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  SPEAKER_02: No, that's awesome.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: So uh, but we were going through the calendar and confirming the number of days.
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  SPEAKER_01: And do you realize that we didn't go down to the beach at all in January or February?
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  SPEAKER_03: So that's only March September.
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  SPEAKER_01: March makes it even better.
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  SPEAKER_02: Cold months just stay up.
• 4:46
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, that's hilarious.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh my word, are you kidding me?
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  SPEAKER_02: What a gift that was fun.
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  SPEAKER_02: You have given us listeners a peek into the mind and experience and vacation habits of one Rico and Rhonda.
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  SPEAKER_02: Goodness gracious.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hey, one last thing I want to bring up.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, do you know it's I just want to brag on the Sermons on the Side community.
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  SPEAKER_02: So hey, if you are a loyal listener and you have listened to us since episode one, we welcome you back to another awesome episode.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh, we're so honored that each one of you would click play on this.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, we're all, all of us, we're all trying to find those hidden God moments in everyday life.
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  SPEAKER_02: And um, man, anyway, so thank you guys for being here.
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  SPEAKER_02: We have the greatest listeners.
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  SPEAKER_02: Don't we?
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  SPEAKER_02: Who's got it better than us?
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  SPEAKER_02: Nobody.
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  SPEAKER_01: Say Brad.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Are you ready for the summon on the side bus?
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  SPEAKER_02: I am.
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  SPEAKER_02: I am so ready.
• 6:21
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, it's it's inspired by the National Football League.
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  unknown: Oh.
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  SPEAKER_01: NFL.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, man.
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  SPEAKER_01: Started last week.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh, did you get to did you get to follow any of the games?
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_02: Dude, I did because we are in a fantasy league.
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_02: And by the way, for any of our uh listeners that are also in that fantasy league, you got your tails handed to you.
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, I think the second most points in the entire league in one week was me.
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, it was.
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  SPEAKER_01: Bravo.
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  SPEAKER_02: And the most by a long shot.
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  SPEAKER_02: Who could it be?
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  SPEAKER_02: Was you.
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  SPEAKER_02: So appreciate y'all's prayers.
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  SPEAKER_02: The Lord answered in mysterious ways with our fantasy teams.
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  SPEAKER_02: Anyways, the uh the short answer to your question is yes, I did watch some football this weekend.
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  SPEAKER_02: Oh my soul needed it.
• 7:11
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I tell you, I thought you were gonna uh lament the Falcons.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, I've been lamenting the Falcons since 28 to 3.
• 7:19
  SPEAKER_01: Because I'm lamenting the Cowboys.
• 7:22
  SPEAKER_01: Shout out to Uncle Dave, big Giants fan, and his dad, Lynn Ornstein.
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  SPEAKER_01: And yes, y'all's G-Men looked good.
• 7:30
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they did.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, but and the Cowboys looked bad.
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  SPEAKER_01: But anyway, NFL is back, and it reminded me of something really cool and funny that I remembered from many years ago in the NFL.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, and that's kind of the the inspiration for the Sermon on the Side this week.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we're gonna talk about one particular NFL superstar named Lamar Jackson.
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  SPEAKER_02: Oh, dude, he's uh he's my starting QB on my on my dynasty league.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay, there's I've had him for four seasons.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's just so good.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, back when he was in college at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, and he won the Heisman Trophy in his last year with Louisville, and then was drafted in his first year in the NFL was uh 2018.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, he was drafted in the first round as a Heisman Trophy winner should be.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right.
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  SPEAKER_01: But did you know that he was drafted as the last pick in the first round?
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  SPEAKER_02: I did not remember that.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm sure I knew that once upon a time.
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  SPEAKER_02: But wow.
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  SPEAKER_02: 30-second pick.
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  SPEAKER_01: Pick number 32.
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  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_01: What that means is for me, for you, for anybody who's listening, if you have a favorite NFL football team that is not the Baltimore Ravens, you blew it.
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  SPEAKER_01: You had a chance for Lamar, and we all said, I don't think so.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we'll pass.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then he hits the league in 2018, makes a pretty big splash his first year, and then in his second year, he lights up the NFL.
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  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, he was having such a good year, and he had just from start to finish a phenomenal year.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so it became apparent as the as the towards the end of that first year, he could win, he could be a candidate for the most valuable player.
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  SPEAKER_03: Oh, the MVP, that's right.
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  SPEAKER_01: MVP, as the sports fans like to call it, and so people thought Lamar might do it.
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  SPEAKER_01: This guy that nobody thought enough of to draft him before number 32 the year before, is now reshaping the league.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so the Baltimore Ravens, his team, and he remains there, which is pretty cool, you know that he has stayed there this whole time.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so that year, again, we're back uh, you know, his second year in the league, they were uh just having a phenomenal year.
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  SPEAKER_01: They had a cool guy that was also a member of their team that had been drafted a few years prior to Mr.
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  SPEAKER_01: Lamar Jackson.
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  SPEAKER_01: He was a running back named Mark Ingram.
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  SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah, the old Alabama guy?
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  SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
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  SPEAKER_01: Did he also win the Heisman?
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  SPEAKER_01: He did.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so now all of a sudden, their their best running back and their quarterback were both Heisman trophy winners.
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  SPEAKER_01: Little known facts.
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  SPEAKER_01: Fun fact for uh as a you know a deep cut for NFL trivia, for that one year, they also had a backup quarterback for Lamar.
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  SPEAKER_01: His name was Robert Griffin.
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  SPEAKER_02: The third RG3 another Heisman winner.
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  SPEAKER_01: Three Heisman winners.
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_01: I forgot that.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my goodness.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_01: And they would occasionally, every every once in a while, they'd run a play where Lamar was under center, and to his right was uh Mark Ingram, and to his left was RG3, a special play.
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  SPEAKER_01: Three Heisman trophy winners on the field at the same time.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_01: But anyway, back to the main story.
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  SPEAKER_01: So Lamar is lighting everybody up, he's he's wowing the world as the quarterback of the Baltimore Ravens.
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  SPEAKER_01: And this running back, who's also a good friend of his now, Mark Ingram, his guy, his go-to guy, really he's this this Mark Ingram fella, he's quite a character.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_01: And he's he was always a fun interview, but he took it upon himself to become the hype man for Lamar Jackson.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you gotta hype up your starting QV, dude.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, indeed.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_01: So he would, before games, after games, during games, he was just talking to anybody who would put a microphone in front of his face and say, My man Lamar, he's gonna be the MVP, the most valuable player.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_01: He's gonna do it, he's gonna do it.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_01: And so it was always fun to watch what these guys were gonna say when they were being interviewed.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_01: So there was this one time near the end of Lamar's second year, really close to the end of the year, the start of the playoffs, all of that.
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  SPEAKER_01: And and Lamar was gonna come to the podium in a post-game press conference.
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  SPEAKER_01: But what Mark Ingram did, the running back guy, he comes in and says, I want to introduce my quarterback.
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  SPEAKER_01: So the press is all there, and he's in front of the mic, and he just goes off about in this introduction, and he talks about how we're actually gonna play a clip of it because it's so cool.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, that's awesome.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_01: And he talks about how he he Lamar is the leading candidate, he's the front runner for the MVP, and then he goes off saying, If you got something to say about that, if you think I'm wrong, come see me.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_02: That's right.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_01: He said, I'm in B More, which is Baltimore, in front of the bank.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_01: And because their stadium was called MT Bank Stadium, he says, Come see me.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_01: I'm in B-more in front of the bank, anyway.
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  SPEAKER_01: So he so we want you to listen to this clip, okay?
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  SPEAKER_01: This what is this 25, 30 second clip, something like that.
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  SPEAKER_01: And this is the actual recording of Mark Ingram hyping up his friend and quarterback Lamar Jackson.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Mark reveals what inside the the locker room among the teammates, they have a nickname for Lamar Jackson.
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_01: And the nickname they have for Lamar Jackson is what our Sermons on the Side is about this week.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right.
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  SPEAKER_01: So see, you guys listen to this.
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  SPEAKER_01: See if you can hear the nickname that Mark Ingram calls Lamar Jackson roll at.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now I would just like to introduce y'all to the man, the myth, the legend, the MVP front runner.
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  SPEAKER_00: If anybody else gotta say something different about that, then come see me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm right here in B More outside the bank.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_00: If you got an issue with that, come see me.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_00: About that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Big trust.
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  SPEAKER_00: Woo-woo.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lamar Jackson in the flesh.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, sir.
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  SPEAKER_00: Big trust.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, isn't that great?
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  SPEAKER_02: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_01: I love it.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_02: Big truss.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_01: Big truss.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_01: And I thought he was saying trust.
• 14:09
  SPEAKER_01: And that's the way he was pronouncing it.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm like, why is he calling a uh a roof structure beam?
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_02: Why is that his name?
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_02: Solid piece of strength.
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_01: Is that not what it is?
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_01: No, no.
• 14:22
  SPEAKER_01: They went people that that video went viral.
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  SPEAKER_01: That short video all those years ago.
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  SPEAKER_01: And people are like, why are you calling big truss?
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_01: And he's like, it's because we trust him.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_01: We trust him.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_01: It was big trust.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_01: They took the word trust, and as a team, they they kind of changed it to kind of make it sound hip.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_01: I got you and make it sound uh different, and they and they call him big truss.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_01: And that what they're saying is we trust him.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_01: He's our quarterback.
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  SPEAKER_01: And doesn't matter what the situation is during the game on the field, how bad it might look, how worried we might be, we look over there, we see number eight, Lamar Jackson, and we say, Big trust.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_01: He is big truss, he's our guy.
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_01: We trust him.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_01: Isn't that funny?
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_02: I love that, dude.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna start calling him big trust on my fantasy team.
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_01: You totally should.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_01: I trust you, big dog.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, as it turns out, eventually, uh apparently Lamar has a tattoo somewhere on his arm or where in it of that says big truss.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_01: But that always struck me because uh I loved his that dynamic of their friendship.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_01: Sure.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_01: But I love the thought that among a group of men that are on mission to try to do great at their job, which is the NFL, and they they ended up making it to the playoffs, they weren't able to get all the way to Super Bowl, but they did have a very successful year.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_01: And show enough, Lamar did win the MVP that year.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_01: And his second year was 22 years old.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_02: Big trust indeed.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_01: Indeed.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_01: He he and then just a few years ago in 2023, he won his second MVP.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_01: So he's had a wonderful career.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_01: Mark Ingram has has long since retired, but is still close friends and a big hype man for Big Trust.
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_01: But when I heard that, just the thought that these guys who are who are on a team together, they gave him that name because they trust him.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_01: When they're in a tight spot, they want to see him on the field.
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_01: He is big trust.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_01: And I just thought that's cool.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_01: And I not long after I heard that video, I came across a verse of scripture that the way it's worded, it's it's Psalms 40, verse 4.
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, all right?
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_01: And it's talking about trusting God.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_01: Okay?
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_01: But check out the way they word this.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's worded this way in the ESV.
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  SPEAKER_01: It says, Blessed is the man who makes the Lord his trust.
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_01: He makes the Lord his trust.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_01: It's like the focus of my trust is God.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_01: And so I sat there and said, That's God being our big trust.
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_01: That's what God is.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_01: I trust God so much, that's literally who he is to me.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_01: Trustworthy.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_01: Big trust.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_01: Whoop whoop.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know the theological ramifications of looking heavenly and going, what up, big trust?
• 17:49
  unknown: Big trust.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_01: When he sang it with the sang, yes.
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_02: I'm down here.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_02: I'm on sermons on the side.
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_02: You can catch me outside.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_01: I'm my back.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_01: Come see me.
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_02: We've lost the plot.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_02: I love the way that that's phrased, though.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_02: Like, blessed is is is the man, blessed is the person who puts their trust in God.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_01: That's so awesome.
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_01: And and usually, in fact, in in other versions, in most versions, it says trust in the Lord.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_01: But for some reason in the ESV, as they looked at the language, it was as if the sentence was structured that we make the Lord my trust.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_01: It just carries something.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_01: And it reminds me of that funny little thing between Mark Ingram and Lamar Jackson.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_01: But to to me, it just animates this.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_01: That's my goal, to be honest with you.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_01: Is to be to find that place in my relationship with God where I'm I'm just looking at him and saying, you know what?
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_01: Trust it in something I do.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_01: Trust is a person.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_01: That's exactly right.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_02: It's God.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, trust isn't this thing that either I have or you have or I give it to somebody else.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_02: And if I'm doing the good Christian thing today, then yes, I'm giving my trust over to God.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_02: Trust is our relationship with the Lord.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_02: It is the Lord.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_02: It is Jesus.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_02: Jeremiah 17 refers to trust as being a tree planted near the running water.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_02: And so, man, when we when we have our trust just ingrained with what's that phrase again?
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_01: What is it?
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_01: Blessed is the man who makes the Lord his trust.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_02: When we make the Lord our trust, God, that's a fantastic phrase, by the way.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_02: When we make, when, when we allow that the Lord to be our trust, it is like we are being planted right near streams of living water.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_02: And man, when you think about a tree whose roots grow deep and rich and strong and full, that's how I want my relationship with the Lord described.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_02: That's how I want my relationship with the Lord to be played out in the world around me, is to be deep and rich and full and true and strong and sturdy.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_02: And by itself, the tree isn't doing anything.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_02: It's because we've made the Lord our trust.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_02: That is gross.
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_01: And I started thinking about it.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_01: I said, Well, I'm so glad you brought up that scripture because it's a what a powerful word picture that is.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_01: And because I found myself saying, What does it look like?
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_01: You know, what does it look like for a person to make the Lord their trust?
• 20:43
  SPEAKER_01: That's a good question.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_01: When God is big trust.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_01: And I I just want to throw a couple of thoughts out too.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, come on.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_01: That I think the the things that I'm gonna bring up are a part of what that deep-rooted tree life is that you just described.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_01: So I think the first part of trust or one of the first expressions of trust is surrender.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_01: They go hand in hand to say, if God is my trust, if God is my big trust, if that's who God is to me, there's gonna be points of letting go.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_01: There's gonna be points of not maybe always being able to understand.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_01: Uh and not able to answer the question, why or why now, or why not now?
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_01: You know, all the different things that letting go might might result in.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_01: You know, there's a there's a verse in 1 Peter and it's uh chapter 5, verse 7, that says, Give all your worries and cares to God because he cares for you.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_01: When some versions say, cast all your cares on him.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_01: So, in other words, what undermines trust is fear and worry and legitimate.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: Legitimate concerns about life that can really undermine the trust part of my relationship with God.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_01: And we are instructed to take those things that we're worried and afraid about and can't quite understand in our human reasonings and roll them over onto the Lord because He cares for us.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_01: Surrender is not optional, it is a non-negotiable part of making the Lord my trust.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_01: But from that kind of surrender comes confidence.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_02: That's exactly right.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_01: And I see confidence in that word picture from Jeremiah 17.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_02: I'm I'm taking it even back to the football field.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_02: And you know, sometimes maybe a running back or an offensive tackle or even a wide receiver is going, man, I was open.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_02: You should have thrown me the ball.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_02: I don't, I don't really know why you had to scramble up the field or, you know, whatever Lamar did that was flashy on the field or throw it to somewhere, you know, but I trust that you're seeing the entire field.
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_02: I trust that you're seeing the entire playbook.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_02: I trust that you're reading the defense more accurately than me.
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_02: And how, man, if we apply that to our own life, you know, God has given us all very specific routes, very specific jobs on our relationship with him.
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_02: And are we at a place in our life where we're gonna turn over the big picture to him?
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_02: And we're we're okay not seeing the full field, we're okay not reading the defense.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_02: We let we let big trust do that.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_01: Right?
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, that's so good.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_01: Check out this verse right here when you're talking about confidence that comes from surrender and trust.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_01: Isaiah 35, verse 4.
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_01: Say to those who are fearful in heart, be strong and do not fear, for your God will come and save you.
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_01: Be strong.
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, look, if you're afraid, I get it.
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_01: That's what that's what the prophet Isaiah is saying, or God is saying through him.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, I get it.
• 24:09
  SPEAKER_01: It's scary, it's confusing.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_01: We don't see it all.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_01: Plenty of reasons for questioning and struggling, but be strong and do not fear.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_01: Your God, your trust will come and save you.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_01: So, man, I'm telling you, surrender, confidence.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_01: Worship flows out of a heart that is trusting.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_01: A heart that has made the Lord his trust or her trust.
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_01: Worship just flows out of that.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_01: Let me let me let me read you read you something from uh Psalm 30, verse 11 and 12.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_01: God, you have turned my morning into joyful dancing.
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_01: You have taken away my clothes of mourning and clothed me with joy, so I might sing your praises and not be silent.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_01: Oh Lord my God, I will give you thanks forever.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_01: I will give you thanks forever.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_01: That is a Bible phrase that means I just can't stop thanking you.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_01: And so that's the heart of a person that's trusting.
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_01: Whether they've seen the end result play out well, whether the touchdown gets scored, or whether we can even tell whether maybe we're not even sure if we're gonna win the game or not.
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_01: But I'm telling you, I'm never gonna stop thanking God.
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_01: Because He is my big trust, He has come through, He will rescue me.
• 25:35
  SPEAKER_02: And man, when you talk about singing to the Lord, you talk about worshiping, you know what song.
• 25:39
  SPEAKER_02: Come on, you know I trust in God.
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, that's it.
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_02: My Savior, the one who will never fail.
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_02: He will never fail.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_02: Oh I sought the Lord and he heard and he answered.
• 26:03
  SPEAKER_02: Oh man, bro, you got that's why I trust him.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_02: That's why I trust him.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_02: Bro, ain't nobody can do it like Brandon Lane does.
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_01: Gonna have some judge in here.
• 26:13
  SPEAKER_01: I tell you what, for real, y'all.
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_01: So look, there is only good that comes from making the Lord our trust.
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
• 26:23
  SPEAKER_01: Only good.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_01: And so let's let's just dive into it.
• 26:27
  SPEAKER_01: And let's so so think about that funny little video or audio clip we listened to of old Mark Ingram just going, big trust, whoop whoop, big trust.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, just he couldn't keep his mouth shut.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_02: I love it.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_01: About Lamar Jackson.
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_01: And here's here's the verse that goes along with that, that idea.
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_01: Psalm 107, verse 1 and 2.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_01: Give thanks to the Lord for he is good.
• 26:52
  SPEAKER_01: His love endures forever.
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_01: Has the Lord redeemed you?
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_01: Then say something.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_01: He doesn't say say something.
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_01: Then speak out.
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_01: Tell others he has redeemed you.
• 27:04
  SPEAKER_01: It's that verse that says, Let the redeemed of the Lord say so.
• 27:08
  SPEAKER_01: That's basically what that in this version I'm reading.
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_01: It says, Has God redeemed you?
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_01: Has God come through for you?
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_01: Has he been there for you in your darkest time?
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_01: Then say something.
• 27:20
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, there's some translations that say, go be Mark Ingram.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 27:25
  SPEAKER_01: Hype that.
• 27:26
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know if I'd read that anything, but I'm just saying it's a good translation for this moment.
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_02: Let's go.
• 27:32
  SPEAKER_02: Let's go tell others what God has done for us.
• 27:36
  SPEAKER_02: That is it.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_01: Make him our trust.
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_01: Come on.
• 27:42
  SPEAKER_01: Only good's gonna come from it, y'all.
• 27:44
  SPEAKER_01: Don't want to miss that.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_01: God is good.
• 27:47
  SPEAKER_01: He is our big trust.
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_02: Amen.
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_02: Golly.
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_02: All right.
• 27:51
  SPEAKER_02: Well, you gotta hit me with a uh with a segment here before.
• 27:53
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, got a segment, got a segment.
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I do, I, you know, it's been a while since we talked about going to the movies.
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, yeah.
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_01: The movie house.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, don't you call it the movie house.
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_02: The picture show.
• 28:05
  SPEAKER_02: That's what it was.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_01: But I was thinking about this.
• 28:10
  SPEAKER_01: You know what's crazy?
• 28:11
  SPEAKER_01: Talk to me.
• 28:12
  SPEAKER_02: Like a like a like a 16-year-old, okay, that's going to the movies on a Friday night or whatever.
• 28:20
  SPEAKER_02: Today, and nowadays, you know what they're doing?
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_02: They're setting up like a Google meet, and they're all watching like a shared Netflix thing.
• 28:28
  SPEAKER_02: Back in your day, y'all were driving in a car to a field and you were watching some pop-ups.
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_01: That's it, brother.
• 28:37
  SPEAKER_01: We're backing in, raising the uh raising the tailgate on the minivan and uh watching uh watching some drive in.
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_01: But uh, you know, it occurred to me recently when Rhonda and I and some some friends we were watching uh a movie, and I realized so so this particular segment has to fall under the it bothers people.
• 29:03
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, things that Rico does that bothers people.
• 29:07
  SPEAKER_01: Can you tell where I'm going if we're watching a movie and I realize there's something that I always do that bothers people?
• 29:15
  SPEAKER_01: Do you can you guess what it is?
• 29:17
  SPEAKER_02: If you talk during movies, bro, it it's it's that.
• 29:21
  SPEAKER_01: Are are you saying this is where the relationship is going to take down?
• 29:24
  SPEAKER_02: I'm telling you, man, there was it was already thin.
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_02: Because this might be it.
• 29:30
  SPEAKER_02: This is a good run.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_01: The sound you hear in the background is a door slamming on mine and Brad's friendship.
• 29:39
  SPEAKER_02: No, uh, not actually.
• 29:42
  SPEAKER_01: But we won't watch movies together, you would.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_01: Well, sort.
• 29:48
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, the answer is yes, but it's a particular kind of talking.
• 29:51
  SPEAKER_01: So, in other words, I don't, I'm not the guy that says, Oh, he's the bad guy.
• 29:56
  SPEAKER_01: He he's gonna die in the end, or I know he did it, or or whatever.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not that guy.
• 30:01
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, okay.
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_02: Does that make you feel better that you're not a psychopath?
• 30:04
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, I'm it does make me feel better.
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_01: Because here's anytime I talk during the movie, it always starts with the following phrase.
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_02: Hey, did you know?
• 30:16
  SPEAKER_01: It's like, you know.
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my god.
• 30:19
  SPEAKER_02: No.
• 30:19
  SPEAKER_01: I lean over to Rhonda and I say, you know, Rhonda.
• 30:24
  SPEAKER_01: But and what am I saying?
• 30:26
  SPEAKER_01: I'm pointing to a guy and I'm going, Did you know that he's the guy in that show or that movie?
• 30:32
  SPEAKER_01: I'm making connections.
• 30:34
  SPEAKER_01: I'm pulling people out of the of the movie experience and trying to get them to connect dots.
• 30:41
  SPEAKER_01: You know, he's actually married to the lady in the movie we watched the other night.
• 30:47
  SPEAKER_01: Do you know?
• 30:48
  SPEAKER_01: His dad.
• 30:49
  SPEAKER_01: What on earth?
• 30:51
  SPEAKER_01: Why do you think we want to know?
• 30:53
  SPEAKER_02: Here's the deal.
• 30:54
  SPEAKER_02: If we ever important to everyone else, I'm not saying it's not important to you.
• 31:01
  SPEAKER_02: What all I'm saying, you're a journaler, right?
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_02: I'm getting you pen and paper for when we watch a movie.
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_02: Brother, write it down.
• 31:10
  SPEAKER_02: I'll talk to you at the end of the movie.
• 31:12
  SPEAKER_02: Write it down.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_02: Tell me the scene, tell me the actor.
• 31:16
  SPEAKER_02: Richard, I want to know.
• 31:18
  SPEAKER_02: But brother, I don't want to know before the credits.
• 31:21
  SPEAKER_02: I want the end scene after the I want the lights to be coming back on, and then you bust out your little movie journal.
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_01: I think, Brad, no lie.
• 31:30
  SPEAKER_01: I think you just solved the problem.
• 31:32
  unknown: There you go.
• 31:33
  SPEAKER_01: A movie journal at my side.
• 31:35
  SPEAKER_02: Is it a problem for Rhonda?
• 31:37
  SPEAKER_01: Is it she is very gracious.
• 31:39
  SPEAKER_01: I think it is a problem.
• 31:41
  SPEAKER_01: I just don't think she tells me it is.
• 31:43
  SPEAKER_01: I think she doesn't want to hurt my feelings.
• 31:46
  SPEAKER_02: I should not be asking you because somebody call her right now.
• 31:48
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we need to bring it in.
• 31:49
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not going to be in the room right now.
• 31:51
  SPEAKER_01: Seriously, though.
• 31:52
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so but I believe that you have come up with a workable solution.
• 31:57
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 31:57
  SPEAKER_01: I really do.
• 31:58
  SPEAKER_02: So there you go, folks.
• 31:59
  SPEAKER_02: Uh listen, it sounds like Rico is in need of a movie journal.
• 32:03
  SPEAKER_02: So if anybody knows of any, or if you would like to send Rico a movie journal, he is he is in need of one.
• 32:12
  SPEAKER_02: And you know, more than he is in need, it sounds like Rhonda is in need of him having a movie journal.
• 32:17
  SPEAKER_01: Amen to that.
• 32:18
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, this was a fun sermons on the Sabbath.
• 32:21
  SPEAKER_01: That was awesome, man.
• 32:22
  SPEAKER_02: This was great.
• 32:23
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, good stuff.
• 32:24
  SPEAKER_01: Good stuff.
• 32:24
  SPEAKER_02: To make Jesus to make him our trust.
• 32:28
  SPEAKER_02: Wow.
• 32:29
  SPEAKER_02: That's great stuff.
• 32:30
  SPEAKER_02: And uh, I tell you what, that's awesome.
• 32:32
  SPEAKER_01: I can't stop saying whoop whoops.
• 32:33
  SPEAKER_02: It's okay.
• 32:34
  SPEAKER_02: You whoop it up, dude.
• 32:36
  SPEAKER_02: Just whoop it into the weekend.
• 32:37
  SPEAKER_02: We're just I don't know.
• 32:39
  SPEAKER_02: This could be another explicit episode.
• 32:41
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know what I just said.
• 32:43
  SPEAKER_02: We're having to mark E next to this.
• 32:45
  SPEAKER_02: You guys have an awesome weekend.
• 32:47
  SPEAKER_02: I hope all of your fantasy teams win, unless you're playing Rico or myself in any of your fantasy leagues.
• 32:53
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, and we will see you again next week on another episode of Sermons on the Side.
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_02: You know, I do the C thing.
• 33:16
  SPEAKER_02: I see you again.
• 33:17
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
• 33:18
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 33:19
  SPEAKER_01: Do our do you think our listeners ever go, guys, you know we can't see you, right?
• 33:24
  SPEAKER_02: There's a bunch of people that think that you're the redheaded tall guy.
• 33:30
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, how does that make you feel?
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_01: So upside down.
• 33:33
  SPEAKER_01: I want to let them keep thinking that.
• 33:36
  SPEAKER_01: I'll tell you why.
• 33:37
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I would love to feel?
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I would love?
• 33:39
  SPEAKER_02: I would love to.
• 33:40
  SPEAKER_02: Talk to me.
• 33:41
  SPEAKER_02: One day we meet somebody that we don't know that listens to Sermons on the side, and I'm Richard and your friend.
• 33:49
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, dude, we have to do that.
• 33:50
  SPEAKER_02: They're gonna side eye to me and be like, you're the one that talks in movies.
• 33:55
  SPEAKER_01: Why don't you like carrot cake?
• 33:59
  SPEAKER_01: You're weird.
• 34:00
  SPEAKER_01: And I'll be over here going, I know, right?
• 34:03
  SPEAKER_02: I'll say, at least I finished first in my fantasy week.
• 34:07
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, dude, that would be one day when we have a video podcast, we should dress up as each other and do the whole episode as well.
• 34:15
  SPEAKER_01: Do the the reverse thing.
• 34:17
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, we're coming up with ideas.
• 34:18
  SPEAKER_02: Reverse roles.
• 34:19
  SPEAKER_02: We're coming up with ideas.
• 34:21
  SPEAKER_01: The content we're gonna be putting out.
• 34:23
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my word.
• 34:23
  SPEAKER_02: Y'all have a great heaven help us.
• 34:26
  SPEAKER_01: Good stuff.