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87 | Help Me Get One More · Sermons on the Side

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SPEAKER_00: Welcome to Sermons on the Side.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm Brad.
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SPEAKER_00: And I'm Richard.
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SPEAKER_00: And life can move pretty fast.
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SPEAKER_00: So we're here to slow down, dig deep, and find the story hidden in everyday moments.
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SPEAKER_02: 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_00: So whether you're brand new or you're back for more, we are so glad you are here.
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SPEAKER_02: So relax, listen in, and let's discover meaning together.
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SPEAKER_00: In the ordinary, the messy, and everything in between.
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SPEAKER_02: Sermons on the side, finding meaning in the everyday.
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SPEAKER_00: With it being fall sports, it brings fall weather.
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SPEAKER_00: And brother, can you can I just tell you that my spiritual love language right now is waking up and it being 60 degrees outside?
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SPEAKER_00: Brother.
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SPEAKER_02: All our listeners from different parts of the country, maybe you are, maybe you actually get four seasons.
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SPEAKER_02: Down here, we don't.
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SPEAKER_02: We don't.
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SPEAKER_02: It's just really hot and kind of cold.
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SPEAKER_02: Those are the only two things we get.
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SPEAKER_00: Grab a tea, pull up a chair, pull off to the side of the road, and enjoy the next 30 to 40 minutes.
1:43
SPEAKER_00: Welcome to another episode of Sermons on the Side.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm sitting across the table from the one, the only, the, Mr.
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SPEAKER_00: Richard Moore.
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SPEAKER_02: How are you, the man?
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SPEAKER_02: Dude, dude, I you could be my hype, man.
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SPEAKER_02: Can you follow me around all week?
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SPEAKER_00: He's gonna go drive around to all the corporate corporate chaplains of America locations.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna knock on the door.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna open it up and I'm gonna say, hear the, hear the entrance one Rico.
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SPEAKER_02: Oh man, you remind me of uh, hey, do you remember the movie, the old Heath Ledger movie called A Knight's Tale?
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SPEAKER_02: Have you ever seen that?
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SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah.
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SPEAKER_02: Okay, so one of his little crew was a herald.
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SPEAKER_02: And it was basically the hype man.
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SPEAKER_02: And it was Jeffrey Chaucer, supposedly.
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SPEAKER_02: And he was like, Sir Ulrich von Liechtenstein, you know.
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SPEAKER_02: Anyway, you you remind me of a of a herald.
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SPEAKER_02: Okay.
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SPEAKER_02: I mean, a hype man.
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SPEAKER_00: Man, herald, hype man, big red.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm getting all the nicknames.
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SPEAKER_00: I will say the nickname thing last week.
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SPEAKER_00: There was a little bit of controversy around it, to use a little English Premier League language.
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SPEAKER_00: So I so our dear friend and friend of the show, Evan Henson, got married a couple of months ago.
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SPEAKER_00: And of course, in the weeks and months leading up to his uh wedding, got to go on his bachelor party, meet several of his close friends as well in this new season of life for the first time.
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SPEAKER_00: I got a uh nickname that week.
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SPEAKER_00: Did you?
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SPEAKER_00: That weekend of that bachelor party.
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SPEAKER_00: Did it stick or stuck with a couple of them?
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SPEAKER_00: And I'll be honest with you, I kind of love it.
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SPEAKER_00: But I don't want, I kind of want it just to be those guys.
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SPEAKER_02: Okay, so you're so you're gonna tease it, but not tell us.
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SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna tell you.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna tell you, you know, but you know, the first guy that I meet, you know, he's looking up at me, he's like a big tall guy, you know.
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SPEAKER_00: He goes, dude, you are gigantor.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh my nickname for the rest of the weekend was Gigantor.
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SPEAKER_00: Gigantor.
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SPEAKER_00: And so there was probably about six or eight weeks in between the bachelor party and the actual wedding.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: And I didn't see this guy for a long time.
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SPEAKER_00: I we were texting you on the side, you know, just you know, Missy Brogan's see in a couple of weeks.
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SPEAKER_00: What's the first thing that this man sees?
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SPEAKER_00: This man sees me, he goes, Gigantor! What's up, dude?
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SPEAKER_00: So, anyways, last week when it came out that, you know, oh, is could Brad's new nickname be Big Red?
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SPEAKER_00: That bachelor party group chat fired back up and they said, uh, no, sir, your nickname is Gigantor.
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SPEAKER_02: So, anyways, oh, that's so good.
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SPEAKER_00: Rico and Gigantor.
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SPEAKER_02: Oh, I do love that.
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SPEAKER_02: I do love it.
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SPEAKER_02: Hey, how's uh how's your your sports month been?
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SPEAKER_02: You know, just as a fan and all this, I mean.
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SPEAKER_00: I just certainly can't complain.
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SPEAKER_00: The dogs, the uh the hairy dogs, no, no, they're you know silver bridges.
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SPEAKER_00: That's right.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh they're 4-0, uh three-o?
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SPEAKER_00: Four-no.
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SPEAKER_00: Four-no.
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SPEAKER_00: Four and oh, that's right.
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SPEAKER_00: But dude, speaking of dogs, your dogs.
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SPEAKER_00: Ring it, dude.
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SPEAKER_00: Kamari Taylor, he is the real deal.
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SPEAKER_00: I can't wait to see him play for Ohio State next year.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, tough.
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SPEAKER_02: You couldn't just couldn't let me enjoy one season.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he's gonna win the Heisman with Texas.
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SPEAKER_02: Man, this guy for real.
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SPEAKER_02: Camario is his name.
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SPEAKER_00: Camario Taylor, excuse me.
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SPEAKER_02: And and they call him Super Camario.
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SPEAKER_02: Oh! How about that?
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SPEAKER_00: I did not know that.
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SPEAKER_02: Some branding right there, but that's awesome.
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SPEAKER_00: But yeah, so you got the dogs, let's see, you got the Braves in the playoffs.
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SPEAKER_00: At the time of recording this, we haven't played the wild card series.
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SPEAKER_00: At the time of uh releasing this, we could have either already swept the Phillies, have been swept by the Phillies, heaven forbid, or be playing a decisive game three today on launch day.
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SPEAKER_00: And so, anyways, go braves, and uh go braves all always, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, but go braves, especially because I've got game four of the NLDS.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, next the second round, the second round, if the Braves were to advance, it would be the second game back in Atlanta uh the following week.
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SPEAKER_00: So that happens.
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SPEAKER_00: I hope it happens.
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SPEAKER_02: But I I I must tell you, something interesting happened for me last uh two weekends ago.
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SPEAKER_02: Okay.
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SPEAKER_02: All right, and this is uh and it it rarely happens, okay.
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SPEAKER_02: So all my teams, any any team that I was cheering for or cared about won.
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SPEAKER_02: Okay.
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SPEAKER_02: All in one weekend.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, wow.
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SPEAKER_02: And and here's how it played out, okay.
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SPEAKER_02: So uh Mississippi State won their game on Saturday, which it was game, I think, three at the time.
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SPEAKER_02: So they became three and oh wow, and uh and and then that same weekend the Braves clinched the division.
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SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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SPEAKER_02: So they had already solidified that they were going to be in the playoffs, but as the division champions, a little bit better of a situation, and the Braves clenched that weekend.
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SPEAKER_02: Then on Sunday, the cows, that Sunday, the Cowboys won.
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SPEAKER_02: They lost this past Sunday in a heartbreaking fashion.
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SPEAKER_02: But so Cowboys, everything, and both of my fantasy teams won on that Sunday.
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SPEAKER_02: This never happens, Brad.
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SPEAKER_02: This is a miracle weekend in my life.
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SPEAKER_00: I love that you're putting your fantasy teams right on that same bar as the Dallas Cowboys.
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SPEAKER_02: Absolutely, absolutely, because anyway, that's fantastic.
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SPEAKER_02: That was awesome, and it almost happened again this past weekend, but the Cowboys broke my heart, as they tend to do.
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SPEAKER_00: Hey, but it's not your Mississippi State Bulldogs.
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SPEAKER_00: The boys are flying.
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SPEAKER_02: They're 4-0.
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SPEAKER_02: We're ranked.
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SPEAKER_02: Uh, we got a decent ranking, and then this upcoming Saturday, Bama comes to town.
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SPEAKER_02: So, you know, back to reality for the dogs.
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SPEAKER_02: But hey, four wins, that's huge.
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SPEAKER_00: That's awesome.
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SPEAKER_00: Hey, that's awesome.
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SPEAKER_02: That is huge.
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SPEAKER_02: Thank you for letting me just talk about that.
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SPEAKER_02: Of course.
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SPEAKER_02: To all our listeners, especially those of you who are already weary of sports fans during the fall.
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SPEAKER_02: I apologize.
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SPEAKER_02: Not really.
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SPEAKER_02: Sorry, no, I'm not.
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SPEAKER_02: But thank you for enduring that because uh I just I couldn't wait to share that I had the greatest sports weekend of my life.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, think about it this way: with it being fall sports, yes, it brings fall weather.
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SPEAKER_00: And brother, can you can I just tell you that my spiritual love language right now is waking up and it being 60 degrees outside?
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SPEAKER_00: Brother.
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SPEAKER_02: All our listeners from different parts of the country, maybe you are you maybe you actually get four seasons.
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SPEAKER_02: Down here, we don't.
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SPEAKER_02: We don't.
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SPEAKER_02: It's just really hot and kind of cold.
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SPEAKER_02: That's the only two things we get.
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SPEAKER_00: And right now in the mornings, it's kind of cold.
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SPEAKER_00: By about two o'clock, it gets back to hot.
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SPEAKER_00: But oh man, it feels so good in the morning, it's true, brother.
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SPEAKER_02: It's so true.
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SPEAKER_02: The fall weather is uh ah chef's among us.
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SPEAKER_00: All right, dude.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, hey, that's awesome.
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SPEAKER_00: Lots of uh incredible things going on.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm looking at a notebook full of notes.
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SPEAKER_00: Are you bringing us the Sermon on the Side today?
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SPEAKER_02: I am.
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SPEAKER_02: I am indeed.
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SPEAKER_02: Hey, and you know what?
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SPEAKER_02: We're going back to the movies.
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SPEAKER_02: Oh you know, we do this frequently as the theme for our Sermon on the Side.
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SPEAKER_02: I do love it.
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SPEAKER_02: I love it.
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SPEAKER_02: That is the case today.
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SPEAKER_02: We are looking at a a film that was uh released, oh, probably about 10 years ago.
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SPEAKER_02: Okay, it's all right.
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SPEAKER_02: It's called Hacksaw Rich.
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SPEAKER_02: Familiar?
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SPEAKER_00: I am and dude, let me just say this.
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SPEAKER_00: Talk to me.
9:43
SPEAKER_00: Your um your taste in movies is way better than your taste on your taste buds.
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SPEAKER_00: For real.
9:52
SPEAKER_00: For real.
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SPEAKER_00: You got great taste in movies.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't know what happens to the taste buds.
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SPEAKER_00: Right.
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SPEAKER_00: But uh, fantastic movie.
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SPEAKER_02: Oh, it was it was really good.
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SPEAKER_02: It's so cool that uh it was a movie uh directed by Mel Gibson.
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SPEAKER_02: I don't know if people didn't know that.
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SPEAKER_02: So Braveheart directed this movie.
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SPEAKER_02: Okay, and so uh Freddie.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so uh but Mel Gibson Patriot, one might say.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_02: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: So good.
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SPEAKER_00: How many more gibbons?
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SPEAKER_02: I'm getting too old for this.
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SPEAKER_02: All right, see, that was a reference to the Lethal Weapon series.
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SPEAKER_02: Nobody caught that.
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SPEAKER_00: That's awesome.
10:32
SPEAKER_02: How how good is the reference if I have to explain it to you?
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SPEAKER_02: It was a deep cut.
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SPEAKER_02: Not very good.
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SPEAKER_02: It was a deep cut.
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SPEAKER_02: But anyway, so uh Mel Gibson directed this film, and uh the it's it's a story about a true story about a World War II hero for the United States Army, and that hero's name was Desmond Doss.
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SPEAKER_02: And so that that character was played by the actor Andrew Garfield.
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SPEAKER_02: Now I'm a big fan of this guy.
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SPEAKER_02: I do you're familiar with Andrew Garfield because he actually played Spider-Man for a few movies.
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SPEAKER_02: He did two or three movies, yeah.
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SPEAKER_02: And uh so Braveheart directs Spider-Man in a World War II movie.
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SPEAKER_02: It was awesome.
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SPEAKER_02: But uh speaking of uh Spider-Man, okay, we're gonna pause here because you know it's a journey, yeah, right?
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SPEAKER_02: Telling me, me telling a story is always a journey.
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SPEAKER_02: So uh there were there have been three Spider-Mans primarily in the live action films.
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SPEAKER_02: Toby uh Maguire was the first one, the original, then Andrew Garfield, and currently Tom Holland, who's your favorite.
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SPEAKER_02: Do you have a favorite Spider-Man, sir?
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SPEAKER_00: I do, but I I don't love them all.
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SPEAKER_00: I do I love I well, I say I love them all.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, Toby Maguire, OG.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm sorry.
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SPEAKER_00: He is just OG.
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SPEAKER_00: Absolutely, but can I just tell you that Tom Holland was born to be Spider-Man?
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SPEAKER_00: Bro, he just was well said.
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SPEAKER_00: I you know what I'm saying?
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SPEAKER_00: I'm with you.
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SPEAKER_00: I I don't think any one of them could have done their individual Spider-Man movies better than the original actor that played them.
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SPEAKER_00: Does that make sense?
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, like Garfield and Holland could not have done what Toby McGuire did.
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SPEAKER_02: Fair enough.
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SPEAKER_00: Neither one of them could have brought what Andrew Garfield brought to his little cameo.
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SPEAKER_00: Holland, ah, ain't nobody touching him, dude.
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SPEAKER_02: And hey, wasn't it amazing when they all three ended up?
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SPEAKER_00: It's a great movie.
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SPEAKER_02: I can't even remember which the name of No Way Home.
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SPEAKER_02: No way Home.
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SPEAKER_02: Oh gosh, the three of them together.
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SPEAKER_02: That you could actually just look up that scene and they have just this wonderful conversation.
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SPEAKER_00: So it's just choice.
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SPEAKER_00: This whole, we're gonna spoilers uh just galore this episode right here.
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SPEAKER_00: So hey, both the hey, first of all, Hacksaw Ridge has been out 10 years.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, No Way Home's been out like uh two, three years.
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SPEAKER_00: Wow, good.
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SPEAKER_00: Sorry about it, not sorry about it, move on.
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SPEAKER_02: All right, so we're gonna get back to the actual Hacksaw Ridge reference.
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SPEAKER_02: Now, uh this movie is amazing, it's got a lot of Bible themes in it because this central character, Desmond Doss, Desmond T.
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SPEAKER_02: Doss, I don't I can't remember what the T stands for as his middle name, but he was a devout Christian.
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SPEAKER_02: I mean, he loved the Lord our God uh like like nobody's business, man.
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SPEAKER_02: And and it was amazing.
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SPEAKER_02: So it there's so much good stuff in there.
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SPEAKER_02: I do want to do a quick disclaimer for those who may not have seen the movie.
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SPEAKER_02: It is a modern war movie, yeah, and it's a tough watch.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's heavy.
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SPEAKER_02: The battle scenes and the uh death and destruction, it's really intense.
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SPEAKER_02: So uh parents uh screen this film before you you know you show it to your kids, but uh but it it was really something, and you know what's really cool?
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SPEAKER_02: I'm sorry, we are gonna get to the sermon on the side, I promise.
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SPEAKER_02: But there was something that happened.
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SPEAKER_02: See, my my three children all see Desmond Doss, the main character of this movie uh that is portrayed by Andrew Garfield, he was born and raised in Lynchburg, Virginia, and my three kids uh lived, and two of them still do live in Lynchburg, Virginia.
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SPEAKER_02: And they've all graduated from Liberty University, which is there in Lynchburg.
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SPEAKER_02: And many years ago, when I was visiting my kids, and uh I think they may have all still been in high school, or maybe Carly was in in college at the time, there's this road that leads to the house that they lived in in Lynchburg.
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SPEAKER_02: And it's this road, and and I I would I would travel that road every time I visited them.
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SPEAKER_02: And I remember noticing it was called this road was called the Desmond T.
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SPEAKER_02: Daws Medal of Honor Memorial Highway.
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SPEAKER_02: And you know, it's just this sign, and it's it's all crammed right in there.
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SPEAKER_02: In fact, it was private Desmond T.
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SPEAKER_02: Dawes.
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's just on this little sign on the Medal of Honor Memorial Highway Highway, right?
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SPEAKER_02: And I'm like, what?
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SPEAKER_02: So finally, one time I'm riding in the car with a kid.
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SPEAKER_02: Uh, we're putting around Lynchburg on one of my visits, and I said, Okay, right now somebody Google who is this guy.
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SPEAKER_02: This is years, it was probably 15 years ago that this company was.
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SPEAKER_02: Before the movie.
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SPEAKER_02: Oh, way before the movie.
15:30
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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SPEAKER_02: And I'm like, whoever it is, he won the Medal of Honor as a private and was still a private.
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SPEAKER_02: Like, in other words, he probably perished in battle, is what I'm thinking.
15:43
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_02: Because if you're a Medal of Honor winner, you're probably gonna be a higher rank or you're gonna stay in the military for years and years, you know, or whatever.
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SPEAKER_02: So they looked it up and they would and they and I'll just never forget it.
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SPEAKER_02: We're driving along.
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SPEAKER_02: They go, Oh, he was a medic.
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SPEAKER_02: He was not, he was not in, you know, he was not a high-ranking guy.
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SPEAKER_02: He was a private, he was a medic, and they started reading the bio of this guy, and they explained.
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SPEAKER_02: He was a pacifist, he was a conscientious objector, which means he was not a violent man, he didn't shoot weapons, he didn't want to kill anybody.
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SPEAKER_02: He was serving the US military as a medic, but he was a conscientious objector.
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SPEAKER_02: So he was out there trying to help people, and then as they read the bio, they saw, wow, he saved a bunch of guys at the Battle of Okinawa and all this stuff.
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SPEAKER_02: And so I remember thinking, that's amazing.
16:44
SPEAKER_00: So I you know I know.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, first of all, I I have been the recipient of how many times you have referenced both this movie and I'm sure this very powerful scene in this movie.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes, I had no idea that like before this movie, you had already become very there was an affinity for private Desmond Doss and the Battle of Okinawa.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's so cool.
17:10
SPEAKER_00: I did not know that.
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SPEAKER_00: It was a fun fact right now.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it is, and so then you fast forward to 2016, which was the year my daughter Carly graduated from Liberty University.
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SPEAKER_02: We go to the commencement ceremony at the Liberty University football stadium, and they have uh a former uh Liberty U player that went on to the NFL that was like the keynote speaker.
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SPEAKER_02: So I'm excited about hearing this guy.
17:38
SPEAKER_02: And then all of a sudden, the you know, the some of the faculty walk up and say, Hey, we've got a special surprise before our keynote.
17:47
SPEAKER_02: We've got some special guest speakers that are come gonna come speak to you.
17:51
SPEAKER_02: So they bring up this they say, Well, you might be familiar with him, uh, but uh he he just is finished uh directing a film about one of our local heroes, ladies and gentlemen, Mel Gibson.
18:06
SPEAKER_02: So Mel Gibson comes onto the stage at my daughter's graduation and tells the story of how he found out about Desmond Doss.
18:15
SPEAKER_02: And yeah, we've just uh wrapped filming on this uh on this movie.
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SPEAKER_02: It's gonna release later this year.
18:21
SPEAKER_02: And uh and Vince Vaughn, who's one of the actors in the movie, is there and uh they talk about the film.
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SPEAKER_02: And I'm like, all of those years ago, I'm talking to my kids in the car, and they tell me about this guy, and now he's a subject of a movie, right?
18:37
SPEAKER_00: It's like the Lord knew that this was gonna be a powerful movie for you.
18:41
SPEAKER_00: So there was multiple on-ramps.
18:43
SPEAKER_00: Just hey, about 10 years from now, there's gonna be a brilliant thing.
18:46
SPEAKER_00: Hey, real quick, just I know you're your daughter's graduation, but here's Mel Gibson just to kind of hype that movie up for you, big guy.
18:52
SPEAKER_02: Exactly.
18:52
SPEAKER_02: So, man, we just I could not wait for the thing to come out.
18:56
SPEAKER_02: I'm sure it comes out, it's a a huge hit.
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SPEAKER_02: It was a very successful film.
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SPEAKER_02: Both uh the director, uh Mel Gibson and Andrew Garfield, they are they were both nominated for Oscars.
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SPEAKER_02: They didn't win, but so anyway, it was just a a really well-received film, but the power of it, the story is so amazing.
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SPEAKER_02: It's this young, just backwoods kind of farmer dude from Lynchburg, Virginia, in in the 40s, raised as a Seventh-day Adventist, which is a Christian denomination that does their worship services on Saturday.
19:34
SPEAKER_02: Right because they could say that that's the seventh day of the week, that's the Sabbath, you know, all this.
19:39
SPEAKER_02: So it it showed him growing up in his close relationship with the Lord.
19:45
SPEAKER_02: You see that in the early scenes of this movie, and you see this young man growing up with a passion for God, so much so that one of the themes you see early in the movie is and it's so well portrayed by Andrew Garfield, and he's he just keeps talking about how he hears God speak to him.
20:04
SPEAKER_02: He just hears God speak to him.
20:06
SPEAKER_02: All the people around him, family, friends, they're kind of like, What?
20:10
SPEAKER_02: What are you talking about?
20:11
SPEAKER_02: You know, that's not a concept that was apparently talked about that much back in the uh late 30s and early 40s.
20:18
SPEAKER_02: And so he just tries to, he says, I can't explain it.
20:21
SPEAKER_02: I just know God is speaking to me.
20:24
SPEAKER_02: And that's just sort of a theme of this guy's life.
20:27
SPEAKER_02: He is so devoted to the Lord.
20:29
SPEAKER_02: And as part of the teachings of of the Seventh-day Adventist Church at the time, they were pacifists.
20:35
SPEAKER_02: You know, they didn't believe in owning guns and they didn't believe in violence, and they avoided involvement in wars and military matters.
20:45
SPEAKER_02: When World War II, when the U.S.
20:47
SPEAKER_02: entered World War II in late 1941, uh it became in in the movie, you see uh Desmond Dahl struggling because he as a as a as a pacifist, he still wanted to serve.
21:02
SPEAKER_02: He wanted to serve his country, he wanted to help people.
21:05
SPEAKER_02: And so he thought I will enlist as a conscientious objector, which is a thing where people can serve in military enroll within the military without being forced to violate their conscience and carry weapons or do actual battle.
21:25
SPEAKER_02: It's a it's a cool thing, and it does happen from time to time, with some frequency, in fact.
21:31
SPEAKER_02: But this particular situation was tough, and it plays it out in the movie that he he faced a lot of ridicule, but he was uh cleared to be able to serve as a medic, never carrying a weapon, never never having to engage in battle personally.
21:51
SPEAKER_02: So he he begins serving.
21:53
SPEAKER_02: It's a it's a cool movie, and a lot of funny stuff and and interesting stuff is portrayed.
21:58
SPEAKER_02: But the movie All it just it all culminates near the the end of the film with the depiction of the Battle of Okinawa, which was a very brutal and bloody battle.
22:13
SPEAKER_02: But his unit goes into this battle.
22:17
SPEAKER_02: They have to scale this really sharp cliff, you know, climbing the netted uh ladders.
22:23
SPEAKER_02: I'm sorry, the rope ladders that they that they put up.
22:26
SPEAKER_02: And uh and they they just fight a um a really tough battle against the Japanese army.
22:34
SPEAKER_02: And in the middle of that, you just start seeing the the weight and the the chaos and the despair of such a tough battlefield weighing heavily on Desmond Doss.
22:50
SPEAKER_02: He is doing what he does, he's helping people, he's coming to the aid of wounded soldiers, but the battle is not going well.
22:59
SPEAKER_02: And as the American troops kind of uh head back down, they leave the battlefield near the at uh right just before nightfall, and they all go down to safety and they just kind of try to gather themselves to fight again the next day.
23:17
SPEAKER_02: Uh, Doss decides to stay on the battlefield so that he can continue to help wounded soldiers.
23:25
SPEAKER_02: I mean, so he's up there alone.
23:27
SPEAKER_02: He's the only able-bodied uh American soldier up there, and he's just trying to help people.
23:35
SPEAKER_02: But at that moment, you can see as the way they film it and on the actor's face, he's just beginning to despair of all hope.
23:45
SPEAKER_02: The battle's been bloody and and and very difficult, and the night at night is falling, and he's all alone, and he begins to cry, and he's sitting there and he says to God, I can't hear you.
24:00
SPEAKER_02: So he says, I can't hear you.
24:04
SPEAKER_02: Meaning, I mean, that's the worst case scenario for him because that was so important to him.
24:09
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that was what that was his life, his life and his heartbeat was his closeness to God and in the chaos of battle and seeing what he had been seeing and being physically exhausted already at the end of that day as night was falling, he just it was just like, I'm done.
24:30
SPEAKER_02: I can't hear you, God.
24:32
SPEAKER_02: What do you want me to do?
24:35
SPEAKER_02: And and he's just weeping and defeated.
24:41
SPEAKER_02: And moments after he says the words, I can't hear you.
24:45
SPEAKER_02: What do you want?
24:47
SPEAKER_02: Tell talk to me, help me, show me.
24:51
SPEAKER_02: Moments after he says that, he hears off in the distance an American soldier, a wounded American soldier yelling for help.
25:00
SPEAKER_02: Help me, somebody help me.
25:03
SPEAKER_02: And then multiple voices crying out for help.
25:09
SPEAKER_02: And in that moment, they do this close-up on his face, and his face changes.
25:15
SPEAKER_02: And he kind of goes, and he just goes, All right.
25:21
SPEAKER_02: As if he is saying, Okay, Lord, now I hear you.
25:25
SPEAKER_02: Now I hear you in this devastating moment when I couldn't, when all hope was lost and despair was all I had because I couldn't hear you, but now I do hear you through the voices of people in need.
25:44
SPEAKER_02: And that is powerful to me, and that is some one of the takeaways that I've never forgotten from that film.
25:51
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, because there are times when we feel disconnected, stuck, maybe, maybe uh distant from God.
26:00
SPEAKER_02: Somehow, the noise of everything around us and the craziness and the drama or the trauma that we've gone through or are going through drowns out any voice of hope or the voice of the Lord, the words of God speaking to our spirit.
26:22
SPEAKER_02: And in that moment, we're just like, I don't know what to do.
26:25
SPEAKER_02: And sometimes we hear God's voice through the cries of other people, through the needs of the people around us.
26:37
SPEAKER_02: I mean, look, as followers of Christ, as people of faith, we are we are commanded.
26:47
SPEAKER_02: We are, it's in our DNA, it's in our spiritual DNA to not be inward-looking people.
26:54
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
26:54
SPEAKER_02: Not to not only be inward looking.
26:57
SPEAKER_02: That's right.
26:58
SPEAKER_02: That our eyes are always scanning the horizon for what's out there outside of us that might hold some purpose and some blessing that we can bring.
27:10
SPEAKER_00: Because oftentimes I've found in my own life that my healing has come through the helping of other people.
27:18
SPEAKER_00: Bro.
27:19
SPEAKER_00: That when the Lord allows me to see horizontally the needs of people around me and provides me the opportunity to be the hands and feet of Jesus to them, that is the very avenue by which God wants to save me, that He wants to heal me.
27:41
SPEAKER_00: You know, oftentimes I think, oh, I'm just in this pit of despair, and I need God to reach in and scoop me out.
27:50
SPEAKER_00: And time and time again, I have found in my life that God hands me a shovel and goes, Man, there's a guy right next to you that's in the same pit.
27:57
SPEAKER_00: Y'all start digging, start helping your brother out.
28:01
SPEAKER_02: Bro, that is so good.
28:02
SPEAKER_00: Isn't that amazing?
28:03
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
28:04
SPEAKER_00: And it would, it kind of seems upside down.
28:06
SPEAKER_00: It is upside down when we're thinking about ourselves.
28:10
SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
28:11
SPEAKER_00: But you said it best, man.
28:12
SPEAKER_00: We've been given a spirit that no longer thinks about ourselves first.
28:18
SPEAKER_02: Let me lay a verse on you that fits that.
28:20
SPEAKER_02: It's uh Philippians chapter two, verses three and four.
28:23
SPEAKER_02: Check this out.
28:24
SPEAKER_02: Instructions are don't be selfish, don't try to impress others, be humble.
28:28
SPEAKER_02: There you go.
28:29
SPEAKER_02: Thinking of others as better than yourselves.
28:32
SPEAKER_02: And verse four, don't look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others also.
28:40
SPEAKER_02: And then it goes on to say, because that's that's the way Jesus played the game.
28:46
SPEAKER_02: So we are to model our game after his.
28:48
SPEAKER_04: Wow.
28:49
SPEAKER_02: You know, and and so I that, you know, this this final scene, the final scenes of this movie are so intense because of the battle that's depicted, but it is so meaningful, and there's so much truth in it because we can see how God can speak to us through the needs of others.
29:10
SPEAKER_02: There's this one, so so at any rate, when he says, okay, or he says literally, I think the line is all right, is like, okay, thank you, Lord.
29:19
SPEAKER_02: I hear you.
29:19
SPEAKER_02: Now I'm gonna go do my thing.
29:21
SPEAKER_02: And so that starts uh a string of events that last through through the entire night.
29:26
SPEAKER_02: Darkness falls on that battlefield, and instead of going to the clift and scaling back down the rope ladder, Desmond Doss, when he hears God's voice and the voice of those in need, he runs into the battlefield searching for soldiers.
29:44
SPEAKER_02: And it turns out that he rescues a ton of them.
29:48
SPEAKER_02: One of the guys that he finds, and and they show it in the movie, and then I've seen it in a documentary where they actually interview this guy that Desmond found.
29:56
SPEAKER_01: Oh, wow.
29:57
SPEAKER_02: And he had been wounded, and he had he had taken a uh some trauma to the side of his head, and so part of his face was kind of messed up.
30:08
SPEAKER_02: But he was also lying in the mud, he was covered in in muck and you know, and and just nastiness.
30:14
SPEAKER_02: And uh Desmond finds him, realizes he's alive, he says, Man, I'm here to get you.
30:20
SPEAKER_02: But this guy that Desmond is ready to carry to safety, he starts freaking out because he can't see.
30:30
SPEAKER_02: He thinks he's lost his sight because he's got pain on the side of his face and he can't see a thing.
30:35
SPEAKER_02: So Desmond Doss takes his canteen, pours water on his face, and washes his face off.
30:41
SPEAKER_02: And then the guy opens his eyes and goes, Oh, I thought I was blind.
30:45
SPEAKER_02: I thought I was blind.
30:47
SPEAKER_02: He was still wounded because one of his eyes didn't open all the way, but uh he was not blinded by that wound, but he thought he was.
30:56
SPEAKER_02: And all he needed was somebody with a with some water that could help wash him off.
31:04
SPEAKER_02: And when he did, he saw it different.
31:06
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and I thought, how is how much has that happened in my life?
31:10
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
31:10
SPEAKER_02: When I'm in in the midst of something, and all I can see is what I'm going through.
31:16
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and I am blinded by it.
31:17
SPEAKER_00: Oh, I'm blind.
31:18
SPEAKER_00: I can't see a thing, you know.
31:19
SPEAKER_02: And I'm thinking the worst.
31:20
SPEAKER_00: Sure.
31:21
SPEAKER_02: Assuming that it's never gonna get better.
31:25
SPEAKER_02: And I think back to those times in my life, and every time I could identify that a season like that, God sent somebody to me that helped me wash away some of the debris of the craziness I was currently going through.
31:42
SPEAKER_02: Helped me just kind of wash it off a little bit.
31:46
SPEAKER_00: I couldn't do it myself.
31:47
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and there's still there, there might be an injury, there might be trauma, there might be things that we need to address.
31:53
SPEAKER_00: But man, when God's people rally around broken people, bro, and we start washing the mud and the muck away from all of our eyes.
32:04
SPEAKER_00: Dude, oh my goodness, you are preaching right now, dude.
32:09
SPEAKER_02: Well, let me kind of as as we wind down to this part of our our sermon on the side today, um, I I'm gonna get to that that part of the movie that really, boy, if there's just one takeaway, this is the big takeaway for me from this movie.
32:26
SPEAKER_02: Now, you gotta realize that this one night that is shown in these final scenes of the movie, because Desmond heard the voice of God in the need in the voices and the of the needy around him, and he just kept going and going to try to find wounded soldiers.
32:47
SPEAKER_02: Do you know that he saved at least 75 wounded soldiers?
32:53
SPEAKER_02: Wow.
32:54
SPEAKER_02: And do you know what he did?
32:56
SPEAKER_02: One by one, he went and he found them, and whatever state they were in, he drugged them or carried them back to the edge of the battlefield where that cliff I told you about was with the big rope ladder.
33:10
SPEAKER_02: But these guys are incapacitated, yeah.
33:12
SPEAKER_02: They can't climb down that rope ladder on their on their own.
33:16
SPEAKER_02: So he had to figure out how to, with one of the huge ropes, he creates a harness type thing, attaches it to these wounded soldiers, and then lowers them down this cliff.
33:33
SPEAKER_02: This is all real.
33:34
SPEAKER_02: This is not Hollywood man.
33:36
SPEAKER_02: They didn't make it up.
33:37
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
33:38
SPEAKER_02: And so he's shimmying with this big rope, and just imagine the pain, the rope burns that he was experiencing on his hands and on his back and on his legs as he's lowering these guys.
33:50
SPEAKER_02: And he did it 75 times.
33:52
SPEAKER_02: It's interesting.
33:52
SPEAKER_02: They asked Desmond afterwards, because that, you know, when they're gonna give him the Medal of Honor, which they did, they said, How many people did you save?
34:00
SPEAKER_02: And he said, I don't know, maybe 50.
34:02
SPEAKER_02: But the people that were there, the other his his fellow soldiers, they're like, Oh, nope.
34:08
SPEAKER_02: It was at least 100.
34:10
unknown: Wow.
34:11
SPEAKER_02: So they had to settle on 75 and said, you know what, it's a compromise.
34:15
SPEAKER_02: We'll just it was at least 75 guys in one night that he went and found, drug or carried them to the cliff and lowered them down, and they survived.
34:29
SPEAKER_02: Wow.
34:29
SPEAKER_02: All of them.
34:31
SPEAKER_02: And so it is just the heroism of this guy and the beauty of knowing that in his heart, in his spirit, he had been revived by God breaking through in a very dark moment that empowered him to go and do this work, almost superhuman work.
34:53
SPEAKER_02: And there was a phrase that Desmond Doss told the interviewers all his life, you know, by the way, he lived to 87, to the age of 87, passed away in 2006.
35:06
SPEAKER_02: So he had, you know, they were able to document all this stuff, but he had this prayer that he prayed.
35:12
SPEAKER_02: Every time he lowered a guy to the bottom of that cliff.
35:17
SPEAKER_02: And bro, just one, one average American person that you would be under your own strength lowered by a rope down a cliff.
35:30
SPEAKER_02: How much energy do you have left after that?
35:32
SPEAKER_00: Zero.
35:33
SPEAKER_02: But you go back for at least 74 more.
35:37
SPEAKER_02: And he says he had a prayer that he prayed every time after he got one to the safely to the bottom.
35:43
SPEAKER_02: And there were some medics down there that were getting these guys and then ferrying them to the medical tent, the hospital tent.
35:52
SPEAKER_02: And he said, Every time I lowered a guy to the bottom, I prayed, Lord, help me get one more.
36:02
SPEAKER_02: Help me get one more.
36:05
SPEAKER_02: And then he somehow gathered his strength and went back into the battlefield, found the wounded guys, brought them back.
36:13
SPEAKER_02: And every time he's just praying, Lord, help me get one more.
36:18
SPEAKER_02: I can't even talk about, I can't even say that phrase without getting chills.
36:22
SPEAKER_02: Am I right?
36:23
SPEAKER_02: I'm like, dude, this is crazy.
36:26
SPEAKER_02: And I think about this this theme that we've been talking about, about the DNA in the spirit of a Christ follower, of a man or woman of faith, that that it is in us to look outward to the needs of others.
36:43
SPEAKER_02: And I just believe that that could be our prayer every day.
36:49
SPEAKER_02: It could be our prayer every day.
36:50
SPEAKER_02: We could say, Lord, today, send me to just at least one, just at least one person who needs a blessing today.
37:01
SPEAKER_02: Help me, send me into at least one room where I can bring some hope, where I can bring some light, where I could be a help to someone.
37:13
SPEAKER_02: Lord, could you do that for me today one time?
37:17
SPEAKER_02: And then whenever it happens, pray it again, just like Desmond.
37:22
SPEAKER_02: Send one more.
37:23
SPEAKER_02: Send me one more.
37:24
SPEAKER_02: Send me one.
37:25
SPEAKER_02: Because you know what?
37:25
SPEAKER_00: That's that's what Jesus did for us.
37:28
SPEAKER_00: Oh, brother.
37:30
SPEAKER_00: He he did not, Luke 15.
37:33
SPEAKER_00: He did not celebrate the 99.
37:37
SPEAKER_00: He left the 99 to go after the one.
37:40
unknown: Yes.
37:41
SPEAKER_00: And I think that's so moving about what Doss's whole perspective was.
37:46
SPEAKER_00: He didn't celebrate how many it was.
37:48
SPEAKER_00: He just he wanted one more.
37:50
SPEAKER_00: His eyes were always on one more.
37:52
SPEAKER_00: And this is a heavy moment.
37:54
SPEAKER_00: But I'm I'm feeling so stirred by have I gotten comfortable with the 99, you know, with I go to church, I sit in this little section, we have our Bible studies, we, you know, this is this is my little ecosystem that I do I have that Desmond, do I have Jesus' mindset?
38:20
SPEAKER_00: God send me one more.
38:21
SPEAKER_00: Who how can I listen and hear the words of God by opening my ears to the hurt of people around me?
38:32
SPEAKER_00: Because it's honestly, it's half of the battle is fulfilling that need for the people that are around me.
38:39
SPEAKER_00: The other half is God wants to do something inside of me.
38:43
SPEAKER_00: God wants to do something inside of you.
38:46
SPEAKER_00: Generous living, compassionate hearts, empathetic spirit.
38:53
SPEAKER_00: I mean, God wants to awaken and God wants to promote this inside of all of us.
39:00
SPEAKER_00: And so, man, I I wonder if we can just all just take a break from our coffee, from our tea, from pulling over off to the side of the road.
39:11
SPEAKER_00: And just Lord, who is it?
39:15
SPEAKER_00: Who is it in my life?
39:17
SPEAKER_00: And I would be willing to bet that there is a name that rises to the top of everyone's mind.
39:24
SPEAKER_00: That you know for a fact that that is who God has called you to love, to serve, to go after, to bring your canteen full of the living water.
39:37
SPEAKER_00: Let's wash the mud and the muck off of both of our eyes.
39:42
unknown: Yes.
39:43
SPEAKER_02: Oh, bro, I love that you brought it to the to the good shepherd who doesn't celebrate that he's got 99, he goes after the lost one.
39:53
SPEAKER_02: And and and that, you know, that that probably why this moves me so much.
40:01
SPEAKER_02: You know, we talk about we use this lingo, you and I, quite a bit.
40:05
SPEAKER_02: We we're a part of this recovery community, and and and so from time to time guys find out about us and they come to us for help, for community, support.
40:16
SPEAKER_02: And sometimes they're uh given our phone number, and they just text us and they say, Hey, you don't know me, but uh, I got your number and I heard what you guys do, and I'd like to talk.
40:30
SPEAKER_02: And and sometimes when I get text like that, I text you.
40:34
SPEAKER_02: I don't forward or copy or anything, but I just text you this phrase.
40:38
SPEAKER_02: I said, the Lord is sending us one more.
40:42
SPEAKER_02: And so it's a beautiful thing because the real reason that matters, and I think this matters for all of us who are listening, you and I here right now, but all our listeners, the real truth is that we were the one more.
41:03
SPEAKER_02: We have been that one out in the field crying for I was I was the guy hollering for help, and I didn't even know I was hollering for help.
41:13
SPEAKER_02: But somebody with the Jesus attitude, the Jesus mindset, the heart of the Lord, modeled to us in this movie by Desmond Dawes.
41:25
SPEAKER_02: A person came to me and held, I was that, I was the lost sheep, I was the one sheep.
41:31
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you too.
41:32
SPEAKER_02: I was the one more.
41:34
SPEAKER_02: We all were the one more.
41:35
SPEAKER_02: That's right.
41:37
SPEAKER_02: So we're an army of one more.
41:42
SPEAKER_02: And so let's let's do what you you just encouraged us to do.
41:46
SPEAKER_02: It's awesome.
41:46
SPEAKER_02: Let's just ask the Lord, send us, send us to him.
41:49
SPEAKER_02: Send us to one more.
41:50
SPEAKER_02: So thank y'all for for going there.
41:53
SPEAKER_02: Uh back to Okinawa.
41:54
SPEAKER_00: I tell you what, uh that movie will be on the queue sometime very, very soon.
41:59
SPEAKER_00: Popping popcorn and watching that.
42:01
SPEAKER_00: That's indeed.
42:02
SPEAKER_00: Oh, it's great.
42:03
SPEAKER_02: We are blessed.
42:03
SPEAKER_02: Thank you for your heart in that and for sharing all of that, man.
42:07
SPEAKER_00: Thank you, brother.
42:07
SPEAKER_00: All right.
42:08
SPEAKER_00: Well, it wouldn't be a sermon on the side without a segment.
42:11
SPEAKER_02: Come on, and it's gonna be a segment.
42:13
SPEAKER_02: There is a segment, and here it is.
42:15
SPEAKER_02: I look, we're circling back, we're circling back to the top of our episode.
42:20
SPEAKER_02: Okay, when we were talking about sports, okay, yeah, yeah.
42:24
SPEAKER_02: Bobble games, and we were talking about them Atlanta Braves quite a bit.
42:28
SPEAKER_02: The Braves.
42:28
SPEAKER_02: Well, this year, it had actually been like six or seven years since I've been to a Braves game in pub in public, in person.
42:36
SPEAKER_00: I've been to many Braves games in private, let me tell you.
42:40
SPEAKER_00: But in public.
42:42
SPEAKER_02: That's so funny.
42:42
SPEAKER_02: It's amazing.
42:43
SPEAKER_02: But um, this year got to go to two.
42:46
SPEAKER_02: Awesome.
42:47
SPEAKER_02: We lost both of them.
42:49
SPEAKER_00: Okay, well, you're not going to a playoff game.
42:52
SPEAKER_02: I'm not allowed.
42:53
SPEAKER_02: I'm banned from the playoffs.
42:57
SPEAKER_00: Do not let any man or woman named Richard Moore into the stadium.
43:04
SPEAKER_02: So, but I I got to go and I was reminded, see, I was reminded how I cheer differently for my team if I'm watching the game in person than I do in my living room.
43:19
SPEAKER_02: Right?
43:19
SPEAKER_00: Now, listen, the living public versus private cheering dynamic.
43:24
SPEAKER_00: It's gonna be different.
43:25
SPEAKER_02: Now in the living room, I'm not saying I am into it, buddy.
43:28
SPEAKER_02: I'm pacing if I get real nervous, I'm looking for the sweet spot.
43:32
SPEAKER_02: If I'm if I'm standing in one place and my team does good, I stay there.
43:36
SPEAKER_00: Right.
43:37
SPEAKER_02: You know, um find the spot.
43:38
SPEAKER_02: If I'm in the spot, oh there's hits in this chair.
43:54
SPEAKER_02: Hey, and just for the record, when I'm watching them uh Mr.
43:58
SPEAKER_02: State Bulldog, yeah.
44:00
SPEAKER_02: I have a cowbell.
44:01
SPEAKER_02: And yes, I ring it in the house every time we score.
44:07
SPEAKER_00: You do not.
44:09
SPEAKER_02: I do.
44:10
SPEAKER_02: I'm telling you, call Rhonda right now.
44:13
SPEAKER_00: I'm not calling Rhonda.
44:14
SPEAKER_00: I'm moving her to the top of the prayer list.
44:17
SPEAKER_00: Because what are you talking about?
44:20
SPEAKER_00: You bro, we live in Columbus, Georgia.
44:25
SPEAKER_00: That ain't a cow.
44:26
SPEAKER_02: I got a fever.
44:28
SPEAKER_00: Oh boy.
44:29
SPEAKER_02: And the only prescription is more cow bell.
44:33
SPEAKER_00: Anyway.
44:34
SPEAKER_00: If I'm nothing, if not a sanctified Christian, because I'm growing only OGs know the moment we just had.
44:44
SPEAKER_00: Episode one, dude.
44:45
SPEAKER_02: Oh my goodness.
44:46
SPEAKER_02: So anyway, here's the here's the deal.
44:48
SPEAKER_02: So I do get the clouds.
44:49
SPEAKER_02: What is this dynamic?
44:50
SPEAKER_02: Okay, come on.
44:51
SPEAKER_02: I do get loud.
44:52
SPEAKER_02: I do get cheer, but I don't.
44:54
SPEAKER_02: When I'm outside or if I'm in that that Georgia dome.
44:58
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
44:59
SPEAKER_00: Georgia Dome?
45:00
SPEAKER_00: Oh shoot.
45:01
SPEAKER_02: What are you doing?
45:02
SPEAKER_02: The Mercedes Benz.
45:04
SPEAKER_02: Been around since 2012.
45:06
SPEAKER_02: The Georgia Dome.
45:08
SPEAKER_02: I saw Emmett and you go to Fulton County afterwards?
45:11
SPEAKER_02: Did you get you go over to come on?
45:15
SPEAKER_02: Look, I saw Emmett and Troy and the Cowboys play the Falcons in the Georgia Dome Monday night.
45:21
SPEAKER_02: That's legit.
45:22
SPEAKER_02: It was anyway.
45:23
SPEAKER_02: So so whether I'm in the Dome, the Benz, the Mercedes Benz, or outdoor stadium, like the Braves play in, the volume level.
45:32
SPEAKER_02: Dude, I am hollering.
45:34
SPEAKER_02: Oh.
45:35
SPEAKER_02: I'm not allowed.
45:37
SPEAKER_02: No, I will I'll go.
45:39
SPEAKER_02: I'll give a I'll give I'll I'll explain, you know, I'll woohoo, we got touched down, that's it.
45:44
SPEAKER_02: Shake the cowbell, whatever.
45:45
SPEAKER_02: But in the stadium, I'm chirping the whole time.
45:50
SPEAKER_02: Something comes over me.
45:52
SPEAKER_00: Now I've been to a Falcons game with you and a cat, and I don't remember the chirp.
45:56
SPEAKER_02: Well, because Dak Prescott pulled his hamstring in the first quarter, and the Cowboys tanked the whole game.
46:03
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
46:04
SPEAKER_02: So that's why I was depressed.
46:06
SPEAKER_02: Okay, I got you.
46:07
SPEAKER_02: I was in despair.
46:08
SPEAKER_02: But look, I'm telling I'm at the Braves game.
46:10
SPEAKER_02: Now, the first of the two Braves games I went to, I was there with uh me, Rhonda, Thomas, Kendall, Divine Miss B, and Bennett.
46:20
SPEAKER_02: We were all there.
46:21
SPEAKER_00: Amazing.
46:22
SPEAKER_02: It was great.
46:23
SPEAKER_02: Having a great time.
46:24
SPEAKER_02: But I'm telling you, every batter, almost every pitch, I'm like, there you go, Matt A.
46:30
SPEAKER_02: Matt Olson, first baseman for the race.
46:32
SPEAKER_02: Come on, Matt A! It's a good eye, Matt A! I mean, you know, I'm not waiting for him to hit it or strike out.
46:40
SPEAKER_02: I'm I'm hollering something at every pitch.
46:42
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
46:43
SPEAKER_02: And I thought, how sad it is for my family and the people sitting around me.
46:47
SPEAKER_00: Indeed.
46:48
SPEAKER_02: Because I'm just chirping the whole time.
46:50
SPEAKER_02: Now, funny story about, and the second game I went to also, I that's when I noticed it.
46:58
SPEAKER_02: I didn't notice it the first game, but that second game, I'm up there and I'm just like, come on, let's do it, you know.
47:04
SPEAKER_02: And I was like, it just hit me.
47:06
SPEAKER_02: Who am I?
47:07
SPEAKER_02: I'm that obnoxious guy.
47:08
SPEAKER_02: I'm the obnoxious fan that you don't want to sit around.
47:11
SPEAKER_00: No, yeah, you're exactly right.
47:13
SPEAKER_02: I how did this happen?
47:14
SPEAKER_02: When did I become this person?
47:15
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
47:16
SPEAKER_02: It's a sad story.
47:17
SPEAKER_00: When's the last time you went to a Braves game before this?
47:19
SPEAKER_00: Six years ago?
47:20
SPEAKER_00: You got old.
47:22
SPEAKER_02: That's it.
47:22
SPEAKER_02: I'm old and cranky.
47:23
SPEAKER_02: But listen, there's this one thing I gotta tell you.
47:26
SPEAKER_02: So I have this thing that I say.
47:28
SPEAKER_02: Now, umpiring is totally different now because if an umpire makes a bad call, they can do a video review.
47:36
SPEAKER_02: A batter can tap his helmet to challenge the strike or ball call.
47:41
SPEAKER_02: So all of that's you know, it's it's fine.
47:43
SPEAKER_02: It's a good thing.
47:44
SPEAKER_02: I'm I'm I'm good with it.
47:46
SPEAKER_02: But there's a thing that I have, a phrase that I say, and I've been saying it all my life.
47:51
SPEAKER_02: And I I so I did it that time when Divine Ms.
47:55
SPEAKER_02: B and Bennett are with us.
47:57
SPEAKER_02: And anytime the ump makes a call I don't like, I yell, get in the ball game, blue! All right, so see, yeah, see, umpires used to always wear dark blues, and sometimes they still do.
48:11
SPEAKER_02: And so I'm yelling at them, blue, get in the game, blue.
48:16
SPEAKER_02: What are you watching?
48:17
SPEAKER_02: You know, I'm watching the same pitch I just saw, you know, and I'm just getting the game, blue.
48:22
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you're chirping, yeah.
48:23
SPEAKER_02: I'm chirping.
48:25
SPEAKER_02: Later in the game, I'm I'm sitting next to Bennett.
48:28
SPEAKER_02: You know, we kind of rotate the seat so we can and and Bennett goes, uh, is is blue in the game yet, Poppy?
48:36
SPEAKER_02: You don't know who I'm talking about, you don't know who blue is.
48:39
SPEAKER_02: Blue's a player.
48:40
SPEAKER_02: He says, Is that blue?
48:41
SPEAKER_02: No, that's Ozzy.
48:43
SPEAKER_02: That's our second baseman.
48:45
SPEAKER_00: Who is blue and why is he not in the game?
48:47
SPEAKER_02: Is blue gonna get in the game, Poppy?
48:50
SPEAKER_02: Well, it remains to be seen, Bennett.
48:52
SPEAKER_02: Anyway, so I just so my question for you before we close are you pretty loud at the ball game?
49:00
SPEAKER_02: Like, like we just talked about, you may be able, you may be going to a Georgia Bulldog game very soon.
49:06
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
49:07
SPEAKER_02: Will you be horse?
49:09
SPEAKER_02: No.
49:09
SPEAKER_02: I mean, it's a Saturday, you gotta lead worship on Sunday.
49:12
SPEAKER_02: No, how does this work?
49:14
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's a good question.
49:15
SPEAKER_00: So I so I'm I was with you.
49:16
SPEAKER_00: I will also pace and I will stand, I'll find the spot which pillow has the hits or the you know touchdowns in it.
49:25
SPEAKER_00: Um but I am not a vocal cheerer at I'm not a negative vocal cheer.
49:33
SPEAKER_02: Oh, gotcha.
49:34
SPEAKER_00: I will dead face, deadpan, not move a muscle if something bad happens.
49:39
SPEAKER_00: Okay, gotcha.
49:40
SPEAKER_00: Because I'm mainly I'm very upset, but I'm watching just how devastated I am.
49:46
SPEAKER_02: Incredible restraint, by the way.
49:48
SPEAKER_00: But if something good happens, I love come on, let's go! Yeah, you know, good little clap.
49:53
SPEAKER_00: And the kids love when that happens.
49:56
SPEAKER_00: They kind of freak out for a second.
49:57
SPEAKER_00: They're like, or is that happy or that's good, that's good.
50:00
SPEAKER_00: Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
50:00
SPEAKER_00: Go dogs.
50:01
SPEAKER_00: Woo-hoo.
50:03
SPEAKER_04: That's good.
50:04
SPEAKER_00: But if we're out in public, I promise you, it has to be a meaningful game.
50:09
SPEAKER_00: Oh, and what I mean by that is like it has to be a close, meaningful game for me to start yelling.
50:16
SPEAKER_02: Really?
50:16
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
50:17
SPEAKER_02: Wow, that's what's that like?
50:19
SPEAKER_00: I wish I could be you.
50:20
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
50:20
SPEAKER_02: I want to be like you when I grow up as a fan.
50:24
SPEAKER_00: Oh well, I appreciate that.
50:25
SPEAKER_02: Anyway, I would love to hear from some of our listeners.
50:28
SPEAKER_02: Are you a loud fan?
50:29
SPEAKER_02: Are you uh do you keep it contained?
50:31
SPEAKER_00: Do you just burst so that way when we go to future Klingstones game, all the loud ones can go with Richard and all you quiet folks that like to hang out and chill.
50:39
SPEAKER_00: Y'all can go with me.
50:40
SPEAKER_00: You guys are awesome.
50:41
SPEAKER_00: I hope you have a wonderful weekend.
50:44
SPEAKER_00: I hope you enjoy some of this fall weather.
50:46
SPEAKER_00: And dude, listen, get the kids to bed, pop you some popcorn, watch Hacksaw Ridge, and have yourself a time with Jesus afterwards.
50:55
SPEAKER_00: Praying, Lord, send me one more.
51:00
SPEAKER_00: That's awesome, Richard.
51:02
SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much.
51:03
SPEAKER_00: We will see you guys again next week on another episode of Sermons on the Side.
51:23
SPEAKER_00: In the game blue.
51:25
SPEAKER_00: That's a gr that that's a great.
51:27
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
51:28
SPEAKER_00: You need some glasses?
51:31
SPEAKER_00: I tell you, bro.
51:33
SPEAKER_00: Oh, so when I was younger though, I yelled a lot.
51:36
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
51:36
SPEAKER_00: I got kicked out of a high school basketball game because I yelled so much.
51:40
SPEAKER_00: Dude.
51:41
SPEAKER_00: Serious.
51:41
SPEAKER_00: Indeed.
51:42
SPEAKER_00: Right?
51:42
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I did.
51:43
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
51:44
SPEAKER_02: Well, you know what?
51:45
SPEAKER_02: There's some.
51:45
SPEAKER_00: Shout out to Dr.
51:46
SPEAKER_00: Crumbs.
51:47
SPEAKER_00: It wasn't me that yelled that, but you know, I was guilty by association.
51:53
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
51:53
SPEAKER_02: I see.
51:54
SPEAKER_02: Well, you know what?
51:54
SPEAKER_02: There's some part of me that respects you for that.
51:58
SPEAKER_02: That's right.
51:58
SPEAKER_02: That you were causing good trouble.
52:00
SPEAKER_00: My brother in Christ, if you were at that game, you would not be saying that.
52:04
SPEAKER_00: If you knew me in high school, you would not be saying that.
52:08
SPEAKER_00: But I will receive your compliments.
52:12
SPEAKER_00: Oh my god.
52:13
SPEAKER_00: Stow it away.
52:14
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, there you go.
52:15
SPEAKER_02: But yeah, man, that's that's good stuff.
52:18
SPEAKER_02: And and like you said, we're either uh prepping for round two of the playoffs right now, as as people listen to this, or we're uh nervous about game three, or we're licking our wounds that have been inflicted upon us again by the dread.
52:39
SPEAKER_00: Have we told the people about your superpower as it relates to baseball?
52:44
SPEAKER_02: You know, I don't think we have.
52:46
SPEAKER_02: I don't think we have.
52:47
SPEAKER_02: Oh my goodness.
52:48
SPEAKER_00: We will have to bring that up on a future episode.
52:50
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
52:51
SPEAKER_00: Oh man.
52:52
SPEAKER_00: It is a I mean, it's a superpower.
52:55
SPEAKER_00: I mean, I know I jokingly talk to you about like us being a psychopath, but dude, this is evidence number one.
53:01
SPEAKER_00: You've got it in you, brother.
53:03
SPEAKER_00: It is unbelievable.
53:04
SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay.
53:05
SPEAKER_02: We'll reveal that.
53:06
SPEAKER_02: We'll do it.
53:06
SPEAKER_02: We'll do it.
53:07
SPEAKER_02: That would be cool.