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86 | Where Do You Run When You Score? · Sermons on the Side

• 0:01
  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to Sermons on the Side.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm Brad.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'm Richard.
• 0:06
  SPEAKER_01: And life can move pretty fast.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we're here to slow down, dig deep, and find the story hidden in everyday moments.
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  SPEAKER_04: 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.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_01: So whether you're brand new or you're back for more, we are so glad you are here.
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  SPEAKER_04: So relax, listen in, and let's discover meaning together.
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  SPEAKER_01: In the ordinary, the messy, and everything in between.
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  SPEAKER_04: Sermons on the side.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_04: Finding meaning in the everyday.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_01: The ball trickles out to about midfield, and I'm encouraged.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_01: Go back and go, kick it, kick it.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_01: She runs up to it right as six other girls convulge onto, you know, converge onto the ball.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_01: And she kicks it with all of her might and it squirts out.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_01: And it's, I mean, a beeline towards the goal.
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  SPEAKER_01: And she starts running and galloping with those beautiful long legs, and she's running after it.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_01: And she's the first one in the pack.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, go back up.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm on the other side of the field.
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  SPEAKER_01: And she kicks it and it goes in and she scores.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_03: Woo! Come on, back up.
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  SPEAKER_01: Dude, it was like a movie.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I was like Andy Dufresne escaping Shaw Shank.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was like, the rain comes back.
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  SPEAKER_01: I can get drop on my knee.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you, God.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_04: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls of all ages, you have just clicked into Sermons on the side.
• 2:05
  SPEAKER_04: That was just amazing.
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_04: I may have gotten a little too into that.
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_04: You talked out of inside of your middle.
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  SPEAKER_01: An old curly steps up to the plate.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_01: That was awesome.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_01: You lived through those days, did you not?
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_04: Well, you know.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_04: Back in my day when dinosaurs roamed the earth, and my name is Richard.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_04: His name is Brad, and you're at Sermons on the Side.
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to episode 86.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_01: Are you kidding?
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
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  SPEAKER_01: Richard, I realized something that we did not really address last week that we need to address.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_01: Oh dear.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_01: Do you recall what last week's episode was?
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_01: Well, it was episode 85.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, 85.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, you know, and we didn't say anything.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_01: We never said.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_01: We said nothing.
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  SPEAKER_01: We didn't say anything about the fact that we actually didn't have a guest.
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  SPEAKER_04: Which is a f every five episodes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Every five episodes we try to have a guest, certainly on these uh these little 85, 75, 65s, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_01: And can I tell you this?
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  SPEAKER_01: Please.
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  SPEAKER_01: We we had the guests lined up.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_01: We did.
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  SPEAKER_01: He was here.
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  SPEAKER_01: Richard was here.
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_01: I was not.
• 3:21
  SPEAKER_01: I called Richard in a panic.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_01: This was a couple of weeks ago.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_01: I thought my computer had gotten stolen.
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_01: We pulled up Life 360.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was pinging in North Georgia.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_01: See?
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  SPEAKER_01: So I started freaking out.
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  SPEAKER_01: We pulled the pen on the night.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_01: I'm looking all over.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_06: Understood.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_06: Yes, great.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_01: And our guests will come back, I promise you.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_01: But about 15 minutes later, I found my computer.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_01: It was underneath the couch.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_01: Right next to the book bag.
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  SPEAKER_01: It slid out of the book bag underneath the couch.
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  SPEAKER_01: This big chair that we've got right in the middle of the living room.
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  SPEAKER_01: Anyways, we tried to get everybody come back.
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  SPEAKER_01: We couldn't make it happen.
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  SPEAKER_04: Anyways, you can blame your boy.
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  SPEAKER_04: Well, but listen, for all your listener, all our listeners, um, you know that feeling you get when your podcast co-host says, My computer's been stolen.
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_04: I'm telling you, that was the most unique moment on a phone call.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_04: I'm just like, okay, well, that's a thing.
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_01: Rewind the clock's two years.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'll take things I never would have expected in my life for 200 hours.
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  SPEAKER_01: Bring, bring, bring.
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  SPEAKER_01: The daily double.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_04: But seriously.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_04: Hey, Brad, on another subject.
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  SPEAKER_04: Oh, well, to finish that one, our our guest was so understanding.
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  SPEAKER_04: He's gonna be back.
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  SPEAKER_04: We're gonna be able to do that at a future date in a future interview.
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  SPEAKER_01: Get back on the every five-episode horse in just a little bit.
• 4:59
  SPEAKER_01: And one of the benefits from it has been well, we got two or three more interviews lined up because of it.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
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  SPEAKER_01: We were scrambling.
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  SPEAKER_04: Hey, can you come in?
• 5:07
  SPEAKER_04: No, not now, but soon.
• 5:08
  SPEAKER_04: So we got it.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_04: We're gonna be on a roll.
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_04: Hey, is it true or is it not true that just within the last 24 hours of the as of this recording, that you got to spend time, quality time, with the original sermons on the side, super fan Mr.
• 5:26
  SPEAKER_04: Austin Scott.
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_01: That is a true statement.
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_01: Come on.
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_01: So Lisa and I got this awesome opportunity to lead worship at an event in Warm Springs, Georgia over the weekend on Sunday evening.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_01: A little north of Sunday.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh man, our awesome just super fan, Mr.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_01: Austin Scott.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's got some family out there that are some mutual friends of Lisa and I's.
• 5:48
  SPEAKER_01: He found out about the event and he said that he wanted to go and he surprised Lisa and I with his attendance.
• 5:56
  SPEAKER_01: It was awesome to see him.
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  SPEAKER_01: In fact, we got to have dinner with him beforehand because we went down to the little fellowship hall.
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_01: And what do you do in Baptist fellowship halls?
• 6:06
  SPEAKER_01: And all of Sermon Inside listeners said, eat.
• 6:10
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so we eat, we did.
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh anyways, it was great to see him.
• 6:14
  SPEAKER_01: It was a super awesome surprise.
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  SPEAKER_01: He got to meet Lisa for the very first time, which was awesome.
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  SPEAKER_01: So anyways, shout out to you, Austin.
• 6:21
  SPEAKER_01: You're the man.
• 6:21
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, and I gotta tell you this, I haven't told you this yet.
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_01: Come on.
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_01: So we're we're we're at dinner, and somebody at our table, I think it was uh, I think it was Adam, which is his uncle, which is our mutual friend.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_01: Anyways, he's telling us some life updates and oh man, some crazy things going on in their life.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_01: And anyways, the conversation kind of takes a different turn, and all of a sudden it's just me and Austin.
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_01: And I leaned over to Austin.
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_01: I promise you.
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_01: I said, All right, dude, I want you to put your sermons on the side hat on.
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_01: I promise.
• 6:51
  SPEAKER_01: I promise.
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_04: Wait, wait, you meant figuratively, because he actually has in fact he's the only human on the planet that has a sermons on the side hat.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_01: At this moment, it was figuratively.
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_01: And I said, let's think about where where do you see the sermon on the side in that story that we just heard?
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_01: Dude, without missing a beat.
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_01: He was like, you know, it kind of reminds me, because we're talking about we're talking about losses and just not like unexpected setbacks, you know.
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_01: And he goes, you know, it really reminds me of uh of Job in the Bible when Job lost everything, but at the end of the day, he said, the Lord has given and the Lord has taken away, but blessed be the name of the Lord.
• 7:30
  SPEAKER_01: Lost day! You better watch out.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_01: Richard about to be out of a job.
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  SPEAKER_01: Come on.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_01: Rico about to be out of a job.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_01: About to get a new co-host up in this.
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  SPEAKER_04: No, seriously, awesome.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_01: That's that's an awesome moment.
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  SPEAKER_01: I really enjoyed it.
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_01: Awesome.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_01: I gave you some, I dapped you up then.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm dapping you up over the airwaves right now.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_01: He goes, That's for you, big dog.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_04: Hey, listen, there's something that's cool that our sermons on the side listeners may not be aware of.
• 7:54
  SPEAKER_04: Okay.
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_04: And again, at the moment, at the time on the evening of this recording, the world is celebrating the birthday of one Brad Williams.
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_04: That's right.
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  SPEAKER_04: On his birthday, he's sitting behind the mics with me.
• 8:12
  SPEAKER_04: I know that seems messed up, but the family's been celebrating a little bit, gonna celebrate a little of this upcoming weekend.
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_04: That's right.
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  SPEAKER_04: So y'all just realize this could still work out.
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  SPEAKER_01: So thank you for sharing part of your birthday with your boy.
• 8:25
  SPEAKER_01: Of course.
• 8:25
  SPEAKER_01: And I told them, I said there's no place I'd rather be than at the mics with Richard doing sermons on the side.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_04: All right, so since it's your birthday, got a little surprise for you.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_04: Um I have an audio that we're gonna play.
• 8:40
  SPEAKER_04: And I I guess I'm just gonna hold my phone up to the mic.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_04: Is that how this works?
• 8:43
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we're we're professional enough for that.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_04: I didn't get, you know, again, I wanted this to be a surprise.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_04: Are you ready?
• 8:50
  SPEAKER_04: Okay, here we go.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_04: Here we go.
• 9:49
  SPEAKER_09: I like it so much.
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_07: What about you, Gracie?
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_07: What do you want to say?
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_07: Oh, he said, happy birthday, Daddy.
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_07: Hello, Gracie.
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  SPEAKER_07: Oh, we love you so much.
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_07: We're proud of you.
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_07: All right, everybody.
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_07: Bye bye, Dad.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_04: Oh my brother Man, that is uh we got, hey, uh, ladies and gentlemen, we got some tears.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_04: We have tears.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_04: Oh my goodness.
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, dude, what in the world?
• 10:31
  SPEAKER_01: That was so special.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
• 10:33
  SPEAKER_04: Had to had to had to do that.
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_04: And I want to shout out Lisa Williams for arranging that.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_04: That was amazing.
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_04: Because I I texted her and I'm like, I can't remember.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_04: Could we do a live call?
• 10:45
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, I'm sorry.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_04: There's a there's a phone call.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_04: I gotta I gotta take this.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_04: Hang on just one second.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_04: Don't don't worry about just we'll we'll edit this out if we need to.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_04: Hello.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_06: Rico!
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, hey, I'm doing good.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_04: You know, I'm sitting right here with Brad.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_04: You got anything to say to him?
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, I was hoping I could wish one Brad for the big Red Williams a happy birthday.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Heath.
• 11:13
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, that's awesome.
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_06: I figured if anybody understands the desperate need for a birthday blessing, it's someone who spent his formative years under the tutelage of one Rico Richard North.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_01: Under the tutelage indeed.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_01: That's awesome.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_06: Well, I thought it's a wonderful thing that you're you're turning a year older because you are a man on whom most of Richard's cultural references fall flat.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_06: So, you know.
• 11:43
  SPEAKER_06: So true.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_06: So true.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_01: Oh man.
• 11:47
  unknown: And you know, so happy birthday, man.
• 11:49
  unknown: Happy birthday to you.
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_01: I appreciate it, Heath.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_01: Thanks for calling in, dude.
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_06: Absolutely.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_04: Heath, you're the best, bro.
• 11:56
  SPEAKER_04: We love you and we'll talk to you soon.
• 11:58
  unknown: I know it, you know it.
• 11:59
  SPEAKER_06: Make sure you let Ellie Nancy know it.
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_06: That you're the best.
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_06: Right.
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_04: We will we will let Elliot know at your request.
• 12:09
  unknown: We all have a good night after recording.
• 12:11
  SPEAKER_04: Thank you, brother.
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_04: Oh how cool is that, man.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_04: Dude.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_04: You just got you just got some birthday love, dude.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_04: I mean.
• 12:19
  SPEAKER_01: Oh.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_01: My heart is full right now.
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_01: That was so sweet.
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_04: I was hoping that that would be a birthday, you know, a good uh an enjoyable birthday moment.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_01: That was really sweet.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_01: The first 10 seconds of the kids singing, right?
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_01: I thought it was the Divine Miss B.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_01: I thought this was sweet.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_01: There was a little turn about halfway through.
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  SPEAKER_01: I said, man, I recognize those voices really.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_01: And then when they said, Happy birthday, Daddy.
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_04: I'm sorry.
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_04: I gotta take one more call.
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my goodness, man.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_01: Hello.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, man, what you doing?
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_04: I'm sitting here with one Brad Williams.
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, are y'all recording right now?
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_04: We absolutely are, but it's okay.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_04: It's not an interruption.
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_04: I think the timing's perfect.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_05: What's up, Elliot?
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_05: Hey, Brad.
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_05: How you doing, sir?
• 13:16
  SPEAKER_01: I'm doing great, man.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_05: I just figured Richard would be at the beach.
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_01: Well, he's 37 days in counting.
• 13:25
  SPEAKER_01: Actually, did we add more this past weekend?
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_04: We did.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_04: We added three.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_04: We're at 40.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_04: Nice round.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_05: That's good.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_05: So uh what's the over-under on the rest of the year?
• 13:35
  unknown: Are we gonna break 50?
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_01: Let's do it, man.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_01: Whatever the over-under said it, I'm taking the over.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_04: There's a chance.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_05: It feels like 50 is easy at this point.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_04: Indeed.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_04: But thank you for calling, bro.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_05: Hey, I didn't mean to uh interrupt.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_05: I I forgot it was recording night.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_05: Um, if you got a second, I had something like really important I'd talk to you about.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_04: I I think now's the time.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_04: Why not?
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_04: Right?
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_04: Of course.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_04: Let's roll with it.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_05: Uh somebody told me that um there's a significant event happening today.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_04: Uh there absolutely is.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_01: Significant subjective.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_05: Is it is it Mr.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_05: Brad Williams' birthday?
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_05: Is that what I heard?
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_01: It is.
• 14:22
  SPEAKER_05: What number birthday, Brad?
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_01: Well, there's a three in it, and then and then there's a five, and it's not 53.
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_05: So man, I knew you were a young buck, but I didn't know it was quite that young.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_05: That's uh 35.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_05: You're you're just now rounding up to 40.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_05: It's time.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_05: You have crossed the threshold from the round down to the round up.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_05: It leaves you five years before you have to start budgeting for medical expenses.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_01: Coach, coach, been there, done that.
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_01: Y'all go back to the cancer episode.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_04: Oh man, that's right.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, but this is not like life drama.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_05: It's just, you know, preventative maintenance.
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_05: Right.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_05: Regular preventative maintenance.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, man.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_05: So happy birthday.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, man, I appreciate it.
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_01: This has been already an episode full of surprises.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_01: And so I'm so appreciative of you calling in, and it's great to hear your voice.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_01: Hope you and the family are doing well, man.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_05: We're doing so good.
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_05: Hey, I do have uh one more surprise for you.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_01: Lay it on.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_05: Uh that is um today, in honor of your birthday, I will be bringing a segment for this episode.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, okay.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_04: Go for it.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_05: And uh I I was hoping that you could help me solve a conundrum.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_05: All right, you being a family man and all, I'm I'm hoping you could help me figure this out.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_05: I went through Chick-fil-A drive-through a couple of weeks ago.
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_04: And say that can you say that again?
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_04: We lost.
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_05: I went through the Chick-fil-A drive-thru.
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_05: And I I'm usually not a nugget guy.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_05: I'm normally a strip guy because you can get more sauce on the strip than you can on the nugget.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_05: So it's a more favorable sauce to chicken ratio.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_05: But I wanted some nuggets.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, okay.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_05: And I was feeling feeling frogging.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_05: So I I remembered they had changed the nugget count, but I couldn't remember what it was.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_05: So I asked the guy at the iPad with the iPad there at the drive-thru.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_05: I said, hey man, what what are what are the counts for nuggets?
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_05: And he said, five, eight, twelve, thirty, and one.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_05: To which I said, excuse me?
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_00: One nugget?
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_05: I said, yes, sir.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_05: Five.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_05: I said, yeah, five, got it, that makes sense.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_05: Eight, of course.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_05: That's probably what I'm gonna order.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_05: Twelve, maybe, you know, on a good day, sure.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_05: Thirty, having a party, is football season after all.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_01: Of course.
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_05: But I because I've sworn for the life of me, you said one nugget, one.
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_05: You're telling me I can get one nugget.
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_05: And the answer was yes, sir.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_05: I didn't know this.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_05: I didn't know this either.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_05: This uh this went into the category of things that bother me.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_05: Well, put me in that category too.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_05: It bothered me.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_05: So I did a little research.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_05: Uh the answer to your next question is uh 67 cents.
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, wow.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_05: One nugget costs six okay, which makes it 10% more expensive than any other bundle of nuggets.
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_02: So if you order the one nugget, they're charging you a premium nugget.
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_05: It's a premium nugget, but you don't know if you're actually going to get a premium nugget because not all nuggets are created equal.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_01: That is true.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_01: That's true.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_05: Wow.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_05: So my question to you, now that you have attained the wise old age of 35, can you give me a legitimate scenario where you would ever order a single nugget for the Chick-fil-A drive-thru?
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_01: Wow, that is a fantastic question.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_01: All right, so as you know, Elliot, we are here at Sermons on the Side, we are exploring the possibility of moving to a video-based podcast.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_04: It's the dream.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_04: Okay.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_04: Right.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_01: It's the goal.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_01: And with part of that, Richard and I have done a lot of dreaming up different games and skits and other different things that could turn into short form content.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I'm sure that you've seen different things out there of content creators that will do a blindfolded challenge of can you taste the difference in Coca-Cola's or French fries or whatever?
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_01: So, my my proposal to your question is in a scenario where we were blind ranking the top nuggets from fast food restaurants and we only needed one.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_01: I'm going through the Chick-fil-A drive-thru and I'm taking 67 cents and I'm praying to the Chick-fil-A gods that I get a premium nugget.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_05: Brother, I gotta warn you because I've tested this.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_05: The the single nugget is not available at every Chick-fil-A.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_05: It seems to be a little Chick-fil-A.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, it seems to be up to the local Chick-fil-A whether or not they unlock the magical single nugget on their iPad or not.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_05: That's hilarious.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_03: Oh god.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_05: So I thought you were going a different rate.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_05: I thought you were going to blind test and see if you could identify the premium nugget as being 10% better than the other nuggets.
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_01: You buy the five, the eight, the twelve, thirty, and then the one.
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_05: Those are the cheaper nuggets because it's 10% more expensive.
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, that's hilarious.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_05: Also, as a follow-up, you cannot order a single strip.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_05: The minimum number of strips is two, which to me seems reasonable.
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_04: Well, there you go.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_04: Okay, but but they would not let you do just one strip.
• 20:30
  unknown: Wow.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_05: No, not you can only order the minimum is two strips, but for some reason that I have not been able to figure out, and I put a lot of thought into this.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_05: You can at some Chick-fil-A's order a single nugget.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_04: One nugget.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, sometimes that cop salad hits different if you got one extra nugget.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_04: Well, I will tell you this.
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_04: Go ahead, Elliot.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_04: Go ahead.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_05: Well, I was gonna say we can turn it over to the listeners.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_05: You know, look at us on social media, comment below.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_05: Yes.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_05: Give me a legitimate reason, not some fake, funny reason.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_05: Give me just one legitimate reason where you would ever order a single dog.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_05: There you go.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_01: Come on.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, there you go.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_01: All right, the goblet has been thrown by one Elliot.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_04: We are absolutely doing that.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_04: Uh-huh.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_04: Come on.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_04: Well, Elliot, once more, you have blown our minds, man.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_04: Not the first time, won't be the last.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_05: It was good old true Cathy, man.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_05: So he's been occupying my brain space for like three weeks now.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, make sure that you update your uh segment tracker with this one.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_05: So there you go.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_03: There you go.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_03: Noted.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_03: Noted.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I appreciate you, man.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for calling in.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_01: It was a pleasure.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_04: Hey, thanks again.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_04: Thank thank you, Elliot.
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_04: Appreciate you, brother.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, guys, have a great evening.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_04: Will do.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_04: Thanks.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_04: Okay, I promise.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_04: No, I have nobody, no, nobody else is talking about.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_01: I'm looking around under the table, behind the couch.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, what is going on?
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_04: So anyway, those are just some some cool birthday surprises.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_01: Dude, what what a gift.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you, man.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_01: That was awesome.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_01: First of all, just I'm gonna try not to get emotional, but that was really, really sweet.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_01: And uh I love that the listeners get a little peek into the into the wonderful chaos, which is our home when we can go from singing happy birthday to the top of our lungs to apparently Shep was praying.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I didn't know that it was a prayer.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_01: And brother, my life is a life of transitions right now.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_01: But uh and then, of course, just two incredible phone calls from two incredible people.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_01: And uh, you know, I it's it's so cool to think about the fact a little over 18 months ago when we started this podcast, I'd never met either one of them.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_01: Or Austin.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_01: Or Austin, right?
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_01: And uh man, 18 months ago, we we Shep had just you know just arrived.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_01: Gracie hadn't even been around yet.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_01: And the relationships, the the community, but ultimately the glory that is the Lord's, yeah, that we just constantly want to give back to him.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I'm just I'm I'm very grateful.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_01: And so so thank you, thank you, Lisa.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you to my wonderful kids.
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_01: That was a beautiful I can I want that audio recording.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_01: And thank you, Heath and Elliot, for calling in.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_01: I love that Heath got the Elliot jab, but then Elliot gets the segment bragging rights.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_04: And I wonder if we need to start, because did you notice Heath called you Big Red?
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_01: Big Red, that's right.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_01: I love it.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_01: So you're Rico and I'm Big Red.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_01: Is that it?
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_01: That's it, bro.
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_04: There's some boy, there's marketing, there's t-shirts that need to be made around that.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_04: But seriously, man, happy birthday.
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_04: Thank you for spending it recording and and letting us uh mess with with things a little bit and do some special shout-outs.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_01: All right, man.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_01: Well, uh well, I was planning on doing a sermon on the side.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_01: Are you are do we have time to do that?
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_01: Bro, we do.
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_01: I'm still game.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_01: I can make it, I can make it short just because, you know, but but come on.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_01: This was a really, really powerful moment that happened just a couple of weeks ago.
• 24:24
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 24:24
  SPEAKER_01: And when it first happened, I think I messaged you and was like, dude, I've got a sermon on the side.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you do.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_01: All right, so here's the deal.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_01: We are in the middle of soccer season.
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_01: Oh uh, you know, in the springtime, this past spring, we did T-ball with Becca and Shep.
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_01: Correct.
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_01: The ice creamers.
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_01: The name of the team.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it was awesome.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_01: Now we're doing soccer.
• 24:47
  SPEAKER_01: They're on two different teams: the mermaids for Becca, the Grasshoppers for Shep.
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, those team names are awesome.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_01: Isn't it incredible?
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_01: And uh, and I got voluntole to be the head coach of the mermaids.
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_04: Coach Williams.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_01: That's my name.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_01: Don't get it mistaken.
• 25:06
  SPEAKER_01: How big is your coaching staff?
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_01: Well, actually, I've had two incredible dads step up to the plate and have helped me.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_01: So, shout out to Mike, shout out to Vishnu.
• 25:17
  SPEAKER_01: You guys are awesome.
• 25:17
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you so much.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_01: Wouldn't have been able to do without it.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_04: They're part of the Williams coaching tree.
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, there you go.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I got my own tree now.
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_01: I like that.
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_01: Anyways, we had our very first game a couple of Saturdays ago, and that is where our sermon on the side comes from.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_01: So for a couple of weeks, we have been practicing in the heat.
• 25:39
  SPEAKER_01: It's at the end of the day, of course, but six o'clock.
• 25:41
  SPEAKER_01: It is still, it is bright, it is sunny, and so those girls are sweating.
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_01: We're taking lots of water breaks.
• 25:48
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but just so you get the lay of the land on what a game day is like, okay.
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_01: This is you imagine girls, okay?
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_01: Six and under girls, six and under girls, three on three, but you play two fields simultaneously.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_01: So on one field, you've got three mermaids versus three opponents, and on the other field, right next to it, you've got three mermaids playing three opponents.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_01: So I can't beat both places at both times.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_01: You don't play goalkeepers, you don't really play rules.
• 26:20
  SPEAKER_01: It's just throw the ball in the middle of the field, go get it, score.
• 26:23
  SPEAKER_04: Kick, run kick.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_01: Everybody have fun, film your babies.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_01: It's amazing.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm on the field with Becca and several other mermaids, and the other coach dads are on the other field with their daughters and a couple of other mermaids.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_01: And um, it's our very first game, and we're we're having a blast, and this this day is jam-packed.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 26:51
  SPEAKER_01: Not only was that the same day that we were celebrating Becca's birthday, oh wow, but that morning we went to the Piedmont.
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_01: They did this event where it's called um the teddy bear.
• 27:03
  SPEAKER_04: You talk about the hospital Piedmont cloud?
• 27:04
  SPEAKER_01: The hospital uh Piedmont did this teddy bear clinic where kids from the community can come bring their teddy bear and like pretend to go to the hospital.
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_01: Becca loves it.
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_01: We do the teddy bear clinic.
• 27:15
  SPEAKER_01: We sprint home, we change into soccer clothes, we go play soccer.
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_01: I'll come back to soccer in just a second.
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_01: We sprint home, we change out of all of our clothes, we go to Becca's birthday party, we swim until the sun goes down, we come back home.
• 27:29
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, by the way, football's on TV.
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_01: What's football?
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_01: I haven't watched a second of that all season.
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_01: Thanks.
• 27:34
  SPEAKER_01: Anyways, so that's that's the schedule we're staring at in the face.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_01: In the middle, or actually, towards actually, no, no, in the middle of the soccer game, what happens?
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_01: Um you know, oh no, does it start raining?
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_01: You remember that a couple of weeks ago?
• 27:51
  SPEAKER_01: Bro, it started pouring rain.
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_01: Now, here's the only caveat not an ounce of thunder and lightning.
• 27:59
  SPEAKER_01: So we never had to stop the game.
• 28:01
  unknown: Okay.
• 28:01
  unknown: Yeah.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_01: And quite frankly, it was kind of nice to have the cloud cover and the and the cool rain.
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_01: So the rain comes, it pours, and we're like 80% soaking wet.
• 28:13
  SPEAKER_01: The rain goes, we keep playing.
• 28:16
  SPEAKER_01: The sun actually comes out for a half a second.
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_01: We're almost at the end of the game.
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_01: Well, it starts raining again, and this time it was like the fl any ounce of you that was dry before, coach, it got soaked.
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_01: So, so here's the scene.
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_01: We're soaking wet.
• 28:33
  SPEAKER_01: We're wet on top of wet.
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_01: We're we're jam-packed schedule.
• 28:39
  SPEAKER_01: Poor Becca has played her tail off all day.
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_01: She hasn't gotten a goal yet, which I can tell she's excited when maybe some of her friends score a goal, but she's she was trying and she missed one or two.
• 28:52
  SPEAKER_01: And anyway, she but we're we're we're winding down.
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_01: It's that last quarter.
• 28:57
  SPEAKER_01: It is it is pouring rain, and of course you see it coming, right?
• 29:02
  SPEAKER_01: You know where I'm going right here.
• 29:03
  SPEAKER_01: Come on now.
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_01: The ball trickles out to about midfield, and I'm encouraged.
• 29:08
  SPEAKER_01: Go back and go, kick it, kick it.
• 29:10
  SPEAKER_01: She runs up to it right as six other girls convulge onto, you know, converge onto the ball.
• 29:17
  SPEAKER_01: And she kicks it with all of her might and it squirts out, and it's, I mean, a beeline towards the goal.
• 29:24
  SPEAKER_01: And she starts running and galloping with those beautiful long legs, and she's running after it, and she's the first one in the pack.
• 29:31
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, go back.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_01: I'm on the other side of the field.
• 29:34
  SPEAKER_01: And she kicks it and it goes in and she scores.
• 29:39
  SPEAKER_03: Woo!
• 29:42
  SPEAKER_01: Dude, it was like a movie.
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I was like Andy Dufresne escaping shop shake.
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, Oh, like drop on my knee.
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you, God.
• 29:58
  SPEAKER_01: I just didn't want to go the rest of today and her not have scored a goal.
• 30:01
  SPEAKER_01: But as I'm celebrating that moment, I quickly obviously turn my attentions to Becca, who in that moment, she's she she kicks, she scores, she's right next to the goal.
• 30:13
  SPEAKER_01: She turns.
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_01: Her eyes immediately lock onto mine.
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_01: Come on, and she runs after me.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_01: I get down on her knees, on my knees, open my arms up, and she almost tackles me.
• 30:26
  SPEAKER_01: She just ran full speed.
• 30:28
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, dude, pouring rain.
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_01: We just embrace.
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_01: I say, I'm so proud of you.
• 30:33
  SPEAKER_01: I look at mommy on the side, I say, go give mommy a big hug.
• 30:36
  SPEAKER_01: And Becca runs over to mommy, gives her a big hug.
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_01: Dude, it was.
• 30:40
  SPEAKER_01: I'm talking about when when I talked to you about this for the very first time after this moment happened, I was describing it and then I paused.
• 30:50
  SPEAKER_01: I got emotional then.
• 30:51
  SPEAKER_01: I'm especially getting emotional now.
• 30:53
  unknown: Yeah.
• 30:54
  SPEAKER_01: It's one of those moments that even as it was happening in real time, I knew I would remember this moment for the rest of my life.
• 31:03
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_01: If the Lord allows me to live a long life, I promise you, I'll be an 85-year-old man and I will remember that moment.
• 31:12
  unknown: You're right, that's right.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, that's how that's how etched into my soul it was.
• 31:17
  SPEAKER_01: And it was happening in real time.
• 31:20
  SPEAKER_01: And we we we we go home, we change out of our clothes, we we go to the party, we, you know, it's a it's a full and it's a long day.
• 31:30
  SPEAKER_01: We get all the way home, way past everybody's bedtime, putting Becca to sleep, sitting by her bed, stroking her hair, kissing her cheek, telling her goodnight, telling her happy birthday.
• 31:44
  SPEAKER_01: And that was just me and her right before we were leaving her room.
• 31:48
  SPEAKER_01: And I remember asking her, hey, what was your favorite part of the day?
• 31:52
  SPEAKER_01: Was it was it going to the teddy bear clinic and and getting Mr.
• 31:56
  SPEAKER_01: Fox fixed up?
• 31:57
  SPEAKER_01: You know, or was it your birthday party and all of these gifts that you got?
• 32:01
  SPEAKER_01: Was it your very first goal that you scored?
• 32:04
  SPEAKER_01: You know, was it and I'm trying to sort of filling in all these gaps.
• 32:07
  SPEAKER_01: And she said, she said, you know, daddy, my favorite part was spending time with family.
• 32:14
  SPEAKER_01: And dude, like for a six-year-old to say that, first of all, is just really powerful.
• 32:20
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 32:21
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's really encouraging of my heart and as chaotic as our own is at times.
• 32:26
  SPEAKER_01: It's moments like that where I go, man, God's got this little girl.
• 32:30
  SPEAKER_01: He really does.
• 32:31
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm thankful for that.
• 32:33
  SPEAKER_01: But that night, when I was just kind of living in that moment that my daughter blessed me with by saying, Of all of these things today, I, you know, it was my family.
• 32:44
  SPEAKER_01: That that intersected with how she reacted when she scored the goal.
• 32:51
  unknown: Yeah.
• 32:51
  SPEAKER_01: You know, and time and time again, when I would see girls both on our team, maybe the other team, whatever it was, they'd score, they would jump up, they would they would score, they'd, you know, woo-hoo, you know.
• 32:59
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, everybody does it.
• 33:00
  SPEAKER_01: There's little sweet six-year-old girls, whatever.
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_01: Becca's first thought, her first step, her first action was to run to her daddy and to celebrate with him.
• 33:15
  SPEAKER_01: And then it was to go celebrate with her mommy, and then her brother, who's also the sideline, and her sister who's over there.
• 33:24
  SPEAKER_01: I'm trying not to get choked up.
• 33:27
  SPEAKER_01: You know, we talk a lot about the losses.
• 33:31
  SPEAKER_01: We talk a lot about the ties in our life, I feel like sometimes, but the truth is we experience some wins too.
• 33:39
  SPEAKER_01: And in that moment, Becca showed me the most appropriate way to react when we win.
• 33:47
  SPEAKER_01: When we score a goal, who is it that you're running to?
• 33:51
  SPEAKER_01: That's where the sermon on the side is.
• 33:53
  SPEAKER_01: The sermon on the side is a question, it's an encouragement.
• 33:57
  SPEAKER_01: It's a, hey, this little six-year-old girl has ministered to my heart over these last couple of weeks as I've as I as I've contemplated that day, it's it's and that moment, I've just really thought that's the sermon on the side.
• 34:13
  SPEAKER_01: When we score in life, who do we celebrate with?
• 34:17
  SPEAKER_01: Where do we run?
• 34:19
  SPEAKER_01: Are we quick?
• 34:20
  SPEAKER_01: Because listen, there's times in my life where I'm quick to go, look at me, look at what I did, look at what I was able to achieve.
• 34:26
  SPEAKER_01: Or maybe the first per per people that I run to are are my peers and and other people to to get either their approval or their, oh, hey, look at, you know, look at what I did, you know.
• 34:37
  SPEAKER_01: But what that little girl showed me that day is that it doesn't matter what the situation is, if we score, we we should our first step should be to celebrate with the father.
• 34:48
  SPEAKER_01: Does that make sense?
• 34:50
  SPEAKER_01: Does this make sense where I'm going?
• 34:51
  SPEAKER_04: It does, man.
• 34:52
  SPEAKER_04: And it's uh it's very moving to me hearing you talk about it because what a moment.
• 34:58
  SPEAKER_04: And I think it shows what's important to her.
• 35:04
  SPEAKER_04: It's like what she values.
• 35:08
  SPEAKER_04: Like, what's the most valuable stuff in her life?
• 35:12
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, she's a girl, she's got she's got the toys, you know, she's got the stuff.
• 35:16
  SPEAKER_04: Speaking of which, uh did did everything go well at the clinic?
• 35:20
  SPEAKER_04: Was the feddy bear okay?
• 35:22
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, Fox made a full recovery.
• 35:24
  SPEAKER_01: Fox was good?
• 35:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, Fox was good.
• 35:25
  SPEAKER_04: Okay, we'll see.
• 35:25
  SPEAKER_04: There you go.
• 35:26
  SPEAKER_04: You gotta win.
• 35:27
  SPEAKER_04: Seriously though.
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_04: Um just what she values, man, in that moment.
• 35:33
  SPEAKER_04: And you know, we uh Jesus had this one quote he said, and he was talking about kind of how we as adults think in terms of our possessions and our money.
• 35:46
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, and he says, where your treasure is, that is where your heart is.
• 35:50
  SPEAKER_04: Yes, but that shows in this stage of her life, I mean, that just shows you where her heart's at, that her value is on dad and mom and sister and brother.
• 36:06
  SPEAKER_04: And I that's a that's a treasure.
• 36:09
  SPEAKER_04: That those are her treasures.
• 36:11
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 36:12
  SPEAKER_01: The verse that I was really sort of centering around was James 1:17.
• 36:19
  SPEAKER_01: Every good and perfect gift comes from above.
• 36:23
  SPEAKER_01: And that was a gift.
• 36:24
  SPEAKER_01: End of the game, you know, the ball didn't have to bounce her way, her foot connected with it perfectly.
• 36:28
  SPEAKER_01: The Lord gave us a gift, scored a goal on her birthday.
• 36:33
  SPEAKER_01: And man, if we were honest with ourselves, the Lord gives us gifts every day.
• 36:37
  SPEAKER_01: We do.
• 36:38
  SPEAKER_01: Every breath that we are given by him is a gift.
• 36:41
  unknown: Yes, sir.
• 36:42
  SPEAKER_01: And every good and perfect gift comes from the Father.
• 36:46
  SPEAKER_01: And so, man, I just I wonder if if we took a quick inventory of our own life and we just said, hey, when I get when I score a goal, whether it's the most important goal of my life or it's pouring down rain on a U6 soccer field, and it doesn't really matter.
• 37:02
  SPEAKER_01: Where is my heart's posture?
• 37:05
  SPEAKER_01: Who am I celebrating and why?
• 37:08
  SPEAKER_04: Oh bro, that is so good.
• 37:10
  SPEAKER_04: And I that that hits, and I think all of us can can engage that thought and answer that question and consider that question, even in the week ahead, in the weeks ahead, when a W comes our way, where where's our where's our heart?
• 37:28
  SPEAKER_04: Where's our treasure?
• 37:29
  SPEAKER_04: Hey, can I end with giving you the lyrics of a song?
• 37:31
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, please.
• 37:32
  SPEAKER_04: All right, now this is from years ago, early 90s, from a band called Jars of Clay.
• 37:38
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, dude.
• 37:39
  SPEAKER_01: Familiar?
• 37:40
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yes.
• 37:41
  SPEAKER_04: In their very first album release, they had a song called Love Song for a Savior.
• 37:47
  SPEAKER_04: Have you ever heard this song?
• 37:49
  SPEAKER_04: And I don't know the reason I uh the youth group I was leading at the time that Heath Goodson was a part of.
• 37:56
  SPEAKER_04: I just realized, yes, Heath is with me.
• 37:59
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, we wore out the Georgia Clay City, yeah.
• 38:03
  SPEAKER_04: We were just wearing it over and over again.
• 38:06
  SPEAKER_04: And but there was this one song, and I loved it because it reminded me Carly was maybe one or two years old at the time.
• 38:16
  SPEAKER_04: And I remember thinking about this song, and in my mind it's Carly's song.
• 38:23
  SPEAKER_04: Because it it talks about it talks about a little girl who is playing in a field and is enamored and loving the flowers and the clouds and pretending she can fly and all this different stuff.
• 38:37
  SPEAKER_04: And then it said, and and how she thanks Jesus for all these things, you know, flowers and clouds or whatever.
• 38:45
  SPEAKER_04: And and then it says, and then it talks about the prayers that one day when she's older.
• 38:51
  SPEAKER_04: Well, let me just read.
• 38:53
  SPEAKER_04: Can I read these letters to you?
• 38:54
  SPEAKER_04: Okay.
• 38:58
  SPEAKER_04: In open fields of wildflowers, she breathes in deep and flies away.
• 39:04
  SPEAKER_04: She thanks her Jesus for the daisies and the roses in her simple language.
• 39:11
  SPEAKER_04: And here's the good part.
• 39:12
  SPEAKER_04: Someday she'll understand the meaning of it all.
• 39:16
  SPEAKER_04: That he, Jesus, is more than the laughter or the stars in the heaven.
• 39:22
  SPEAKER_04: He's as close as a heartbeat, her song on her lips.
• 39:26
  SPEAKER_04: And here's the prayer.
• 39:29
  SPEAKER_04: Someday she'll trust him and learn how to see him.
• 39:34
  SPEAKER_04: Someday he'll call her and she will come running.
• 39:39
  SPEAKER_04: She'll fall in his arms, the tears will fall down, and she'll pray.
• 39:45
  SPEAKER_04: I want to fall in love with you, Jesus.
• 39:49
  SPEAKER_04: Bro.
• 39:52
  SPEAKER_04: I'm telling you, when I heard that that story, I was thinking about that lyric.
• 39:58
  SPEAKER_04: And how important it is right now in her life that you were there for her to run to.
• 40:07
  SPEAKER_04: And the real truth is that just like with my my own daughter, Carly, who's an adult now.
• 40:14
  SPEAKER_04: But uh, and the truth, but the truth is for her, for Becca, for Gracie, for Shep, that one day they're gonna run into the arms of the Lord.
• 40:25
  SPEAKER_04: The exact same way that they run into your arms now.
• 40:29
  SPEAKER_04: And that's a cool thing.
• 40:31
  SPEAKER_01: So be encouraged, brother.
• 40:32
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you, man.
• 40:33
  SPEAKER_01: Be blessed.
• 40:34
  SPEAKER_01: I just I appreciate that.
• 40:36
  SPEAKER_01: I appreciate you, and I just want all of us to, hey, let's let's let's not just run to the father when life knocks us down.
• 40:43
  SPEAKER_01: Let's let's run to the father when we score a goal, too.
• 40:46
  SPEAKER_04: So it's so good, man.
• 40:47
  SPEAKER_04: Bless you, bro.
• 40:49
  SPEAKER_04: That is awesome.
• 40:50
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I don't know, dude.
• 40:51
  SPEAKER_01: I feel like we've already done the the the segment at beforehand, so we might be done.
• 40:55
  SPEAKER_01: Are we done?
• 40:55
  SPEAKER_04: I think we're done.
• 40:56
  SPEAKER_04: Because how can you top the one nugget segment?
• 40:59
  SPEAKER_01: I we can't.
• 41:00
  SPEAKER_01: First of all, we're not even gonna try, we're not even gonna touch it, but we do need some feedback on why there's is there a business case?
• 41:07
  SPEAKER_01: Is there an appetite for the one nugget crowd?
• 41:12
  SPEAKER_01: Where's the one nugget crowd at?
• 41:13
  SPEAKER_04: So, as of this the drop of this episode, we're gonna have we're gonna on our social platforms, uh Insta and Facebook.
• 41:21
  SPEAKER_04: You go there and you cast your vote.
• 41:24
  SPEAKER_04: You let us know.
• 41:25
  SPEAKER_04: Because we're stumped.
• 41:27
  SPEAKER_04: We don't know.
• 41:29
  SPEAKER_04: Iliad needs to know, and yeah, we all do.
• 41:31
  SPEAKER_01: Anyways, hey, first of all, thank you so much.
• 41:34
  SPEAKER_01: Those were some incredible surprises.
• 41:36
  SPEAKER_01: I'll be honest with you.
• 41:37
  SPEAKER_01: That was really, really sweet.
• 41:39
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, appreciate all of the incredible listeners of Sermons on the Side.
• 41:43
  SPEAKER_01: Shout out to 35 more years on this beautiful earth.
• 41:47
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, indeed, brother.
• 41:48
  SPEAKER_04: Hey, and thank you for bringing that powerful story because that's gonna stick with us, and the Lord's gonna keep speaking to us through it.
• 41:57
  SPEAKER_04: So, Becca Joy, happy birthday a few weeks late.
• 42:01
  SPEAKER_04: Congrats on scoring that goal.
• 42:03
  SPEAKER_04: You're awesome.
• 42:04
  SPEAKER_01: That's awesome.
• 42:05
  SPEAKER_01: Well, you guys are awesome too.
• 42:06
  SPEAKER_01: I hope you have a great week, and we will see you again next week on another episode of Sermons on the Side.
• 42:29
  SPEAKER_01: I cannot believe that you got Heath and Elliot to call in real time.
• 42:37
  SPEAKER_04: Well, that's what I thought.
• 42:38
  SPEAKER_04: I said, look, if it's too much, because I told him, I said, you know, I think it's gonna be about this this time.
• 42:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 42:44
  SPEAKER_04: And then I said, no, we're starting later.
• 42:46
  SPEAKER_04: And then you and I had a problem with the needle.
• 42:51
  SPEAKER_04: You just like uh uh still not ready.
• 42:54
  SPEAKER_04: Still not ready.
• 42:55
  SPEAKER_04: Because that's it, you know what I told him?
• 42:56
  SPEAKER_04: I said, you'll get a text from me, and it'll be the word now.
• 43:00
  SPEAKER_04: And I need you to call me.
• 43:02
  SPEAKER_04: And that's what I did.
• 43:03
  SPEAKER_04: I and so Amazing.
• 43:05
  SPEAKER_01: Here I am pouring my heart out.
• 43:07
  SPEAKER_01: I thought you were just texting away.
• 43:09
  SPEAKER_01: Like, normally I'm dealing with teenagers that are texting.
• 43:12
  SPEAKER_01: I'm a 63-year-old.
• 43:15
  SPEAKER_01: I should have I'm 61.
• 43:17
  SPEAKER_04: I'll I'll be 62 in November.
• 43:21
  SPEAKER_04: Noah.
• 43:22
  SPEAKER_01: I'll be 62 of my next birthday.
• 43:24
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know why it's added two years to your left.
• 43:26
  SPEAKER_04: Man, I need that year back.
• 43:29
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, go to the years are flying by for me.
• 43:32
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know where they're but anyway, that was it.
• 43:35
  SPEAKER_01: It should have been alerted that you were texting and not taught to text him.
• 43:38
  SPEAKER_01: Because that's the only way.
• 43:40
  SPEAKER_01: Can you imagine how now it sends like meow?
• 43:45
  SPEAKER_04: So at what point, like when I answered the first call, at what did you think I was uh did did you think what did you think?
• 43:55
  SPEAKER_04: Because I we played the video, uh I mean the audio of your kids.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_04: Right.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_04: And then as you as you were chuckling about it, I went, I'm texting, looking at you, going, now.
• 44:07
  SPEAKER_04: And then, you know.
• 44:08
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and then when you answered the phone, I thought we were just taking a break.
• 44:11
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, oh, I thought you would.
• 44:12
  SPEAKER_01: That's what I was shooting, hoping for.
• 44:14
  SPEAKER_01: I thought we were just editing all that out.
• 44:15
  SPEAKER_04: But by the time the second call came, you knew the gig would be.
• 44:24
  SPEAKER_01: Anyways, you guys are awesome.
• 44:26
  SPEAKER_01: And for I'm sure anybody that reaches out after we release this episode, appreciate you guys so much.
• 44:32
  SPEAKER_01: Indeed.
• 44:32
  SPEAKER_01: And uh good stuff, man.
• 44:35
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you, bro.
• 44:36
  SPEAKER_01: This is awesome.
• 44:36
  SPEAKER_01: Have a great week.
• 44:37
  SPEAKER_04: All right.