Robin Risher: The Pastor, Storyteller, and Man Behind Brother Blink

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You lost Scott.
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>> All right. Hey, welcome to the All
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Things U podcast. We're so glad you
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joined us and do us a favor. If you're
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watching this live, go ahead and hit
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that that share button and we'll get it
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out there. But
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and feel free to call. Damon's got the
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number up there. 601-589-3540
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and you can call and and and talk to a
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We have a celebrity in the house today.
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>> A celebrity?
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>> A celebrity.
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>> Y'all hard up for celebrities.
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>> [laughter]
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>> The one and only Robin Richard. I I was
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just telling Robin I can't call him
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brother Blinky, but that's what you're
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known as now.
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>> Yeah.
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>> And that doesn't bother you either. I
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guess the blinking is part of the your
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medication you take for the Parkinson's.
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>> It's one of the symptoms, but
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I just say don't blink, you might miss
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something.
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>> [laughter]
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>> But you have embraced it. Rob, I can
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tell right before we went live, I can
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tell you spent a lot of time in church
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cuz our mic check, I told you to sing
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Victory in Jesus and you said him number
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475.
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And what what page was Come to the
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Fountain of Living
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>> 15.
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>> And Holy, Holy, Holy?
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>> One.
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>> And what was the old one?
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>> Amazing Grace, 336.
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>> Uh
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is is
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>> Well, let me tell you a quick little
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story.
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>> All right.
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>> Uh great grandmother, Big Mama we called
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her, Ari Henderson,
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uh used to rock babies to the tune of
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Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing.
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And she made up words to go in there.
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After she sang all three verses, she
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would sing,
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"Going fishing on the bayou with my
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baby, baby bayou.
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Got my P Road and my Zipco. Me and baby,
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baby bayou."
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>> [laughter]
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>> Now, was she Cajun talking about P Roads
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and Zipcos?
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>> Well, she just looking for old words
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that they knew.
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>> That's pretty cool and they had it off.
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Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing. What
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was the fifth verse when you said Zipco?
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Uh made me think when I was a kid and
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had that Zipco 404. That was my first
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rod. What was your
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>> 202 and a 404.
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>> What was your first one?
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>> Zipco 33.
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>> You
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>> Uh as uptown.
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>> Yeah, I was going to say.
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Cuz I think
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uh I was in high school before I could
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get a Zipco 33. That was for the
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high-class people.
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>> Yeah, that's confessional model.
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>> [laughter]
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>> Damien's robbing his microphone though.
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Does he need to move up closer?
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>> just a little bit closer.
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>> All right, I'll eat this thing up.
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>> But let me tell you something, man. I
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grew up on a Zebco Zebco 33 classic,
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man. That was like the best I First I
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had the 202, you know, the one that the
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personal strip out.
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>> Yeah.
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>> [laughter]
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>> But uh they they were good, man. I love
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those Zebcos.
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>> Well, I remember that 404 though.
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>> Oh, yeah.
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>> It was big old and it was
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>> You could put 20-lb test on them 404s.
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>> That thing was a monster.
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Uh
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Robin, we we're glad that you came back
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with us and and appreciate you. And
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look, I want to start this off. Uh tell
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us and and Damien's uh got a great
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video, but it's not ready, but when it's
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ready, it's going to go like wild
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things.
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>> to go nuts. Yeah, he's going to go nuts.
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>> Tell us your turtle story. That's a new
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one for for me anyway.
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>> Well, I got a good friend lives in
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Hazlehurst named Jimmy Whittington.
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And he's just a very accomplished
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outdoorsman. He ain't scared of nothing.
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He's tall, big old strong guy and
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he loves to run hooks on the big black
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in the Mississippi River and places like
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that.
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And he and I were
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running
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hooks for catfish. He we had caught a
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bunch of them. We came around the bend
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saw a limb jerking like
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you know, Troy Landry calls them a tree
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shaker.
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>> [laughter]
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>> And we saw one shaking a tree. I said,
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"Oh, Jimmy, it's a big one."
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And he he said, "Yeah, Robert."
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I got that thing and I I fought it,
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pulled it up
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and out of the water came this gigantic
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prehistoric looking Tyrannosaurus Rex,
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>> [laughter]
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>> vicious,
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hostile,
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belligerent
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>> [laughter]
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>> loggerhead snapping turtle.
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>> [laughter]
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>> And I went to hollering
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like a little girl.
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That thing key.
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I I noticed it had Civil War musket
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balls in it.
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>> [laughter]
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>> Indian arrowhead.
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And Jimmy went, "Let's catch him,
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Robert." I said, "No, we need to escape.
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>> [laughter]
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>> We need to get from him."
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And uh
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Jimmy wrestled that thing around and got
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it in the boat.
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And it started
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just like putting four low just turtle
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tracks and just coming towards me.
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>> [laughter]
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>> And
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eating chunks of aluminum out of my
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boat.
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He bit a machete in two. [laughter] I
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tried to
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He bit it into
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and I I got to holler he treated me on
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the back of that Tahota food.
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And I was hollering.
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>> [laughter]
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>> Was your voice getting higher every
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time?
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>> Yeah,
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every time every sequence it would jump
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up a octave.
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And Jimmy just
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>> [laughter]
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>> He got him put him out of the boat.
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We lived to hunt again but
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it was a scary deal for me.
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>> So you don't mind a snake but you don't
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want to fool with a turtle.
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>> a snake on me. I'll catch a snake. I'll
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sleep in a sleeping bag with a snake.
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I ain't too crazy about spiders but I
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don't want no big loggerhead.
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Thing look like a number 10 wash tub.
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>> [laughter]
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>> You ever eaten turtle?
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>> Yeah, I have. Uh
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They say there's seven different kind of
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meat but I can't taste one.
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>> [laughter]
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>> Yeah, that's always people say hey it
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tastes like chicken. I said well just
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give me the chicken then but uh
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when I was in high school my brother and
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them they were some adult beverages
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involved I never will forget they caught
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a turtle
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and decided to cook it in our house and
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what I remember the most is just that
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smell.
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>> Yeah.
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>> That turtle smell but so I've had it one
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time but I couldn't tell you a whole lot
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about it but so I was like I'd rather
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have chicken.
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Hey uh
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tell us about your father-in-law and the
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bear getting in his corn.
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>> [laughter]
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>> It it took a step
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of intensity cuz he said he came up on
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the carport
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and got in the dog food also.
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Cuz we had game cameras up. We never got
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any photographic evidence. [laughter]
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I never saw a bear track but there was a
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bunch of corn laid down.
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And I can't explain that so uh
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it's a running argument between me and
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we call him Grant, Larry Ladd is his
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name,
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who's another very accomplished
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outdoorsman,
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and he speaks with authority on outdoor
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subjects,
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but uh
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I believe him and D got out there in
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that side-by-side and run over the corn.
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>> So, the corn was laid down, and you
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think somebody got out there and ran
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over it, but he thinks he doesn't think
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he knows it was a bear.
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>> Yeah, he knows it was.
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He he said he was a bear authority.
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>> [laughter]
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>> Have y'all They live in the Shelby
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County?
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>> Yeah.
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>> Have you ever seen any bear in the
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Shelby County?
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>> He said he did, I never have. [laughter]
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>> And there's no photographic evidence?
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>> No, we had a game camera out there.
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We did get a nice picture of my
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mother-in-law,
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but she won't dare allow me to post.
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>> [laughter]
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>> Well,
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I better not ask any questions.
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>> That's probably the easiest way to go.
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>> Yeah, we uh
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and definitely don't want you in trouble
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with your with your mother-in-law.
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How did you meet Tracy? You being from
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Forest, and she's from the Shelby
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County. Y'all meet at East Central?
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>> Met at East Central. East Central's
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married a many of them.
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>> [laughter]
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>> My mama met my daddy there.
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>> Really?
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>> A lot of people meet their spouses at
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East Central.
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That was nearly 40 years ago.
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>> And where was your mom originally from?
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>> Ringgold.
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>> Where is Ringgold?
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>> Out from Forest, towards Steel.
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>> All right. Well, I knew your dad was
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from from Forest, and they met at East
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Central, and you and Tracy met at East
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Central.
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>> Yeah.
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>> For y'all who don't know, uh
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>> They did a a special thing at East
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Central about
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people who met there and got married.
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Little book. Bobby Johnson, I think, put
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it together.
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Shout out to Bobby. He He He wrote a
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book about my dad in the 1970
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championship. Bearcat Way, I think is
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the name of it. Bobby does a good job
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with it.
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>> Uh-huh. You got a copy of it? I'd like
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to have one.
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>> Yeah, I'll show it to you.
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>> I've never uh I mean that's how I met
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Bobby. His dad and I worked together for
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a couple years and if there was ever a
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character, it was your daddy. And uh
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>> Oh, he was. I miss him so much.
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>> I remember him uh
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we'd walk in the field house cuz all you
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know, he was retired and he was just
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coaching. All the rest of us had classes
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and duties and
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I'd walk in and you know, he's always
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the hyper and he'd say
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"78." And I'm like, "78?" And he
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had a fly swatter with him. He'd count
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how many flies he killed every day.
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>> [laughter]
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>> He was competitive about everything.
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>> Competitive Competitive about everything
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and uh and wait for us to get out there
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so we could do that and I
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we were coming back from a trip and we
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rode by Minado's. So I told my wife, I
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said
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just out of the blue one It was on a
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Saturday and your daddy called and said,
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"What are you doing today?" So I don't
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have anything but he called me and Keith
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Orndoff
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and we drove from Phil Campbell to
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Minado's.
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>> Just to eat lunch.
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>> And turn around and came back home but
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he said he and your mama would do that
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every now and then. Just
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>> Yeah.
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>> I like food but I don't like food that
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much but I enjoyed the the company of
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>> He He just went to talk.
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>> [laughter]
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>> He
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He had y'all hemmed up.
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>> He
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He wasn't talking.
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>> hours.
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>> I'll tell you all
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he loved the Bible.
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And when I think you know, like I said,
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I I think about your dad a lot but one
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time we were doing two-a-days. I don't
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know who thought of this but we did
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two-a-days at Camp Wesley Pines in
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Gallman.
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So we're driving and he'd he'd want me
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to read the Bible. I'm reading
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and I get ready to comment and he'd say,
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"Hush. shut up.
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Just want you to read I just want to
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hear the word. I don't want to hear what
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you think about it." So,
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So, we riding down the road, and I got
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my instructions. I'm not to say
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anything. I'm just supposed to read it.
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And I'm
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>> Everything had to be kind of his way.
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>> I'm reading whatever, and somebody
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pulled out in front of us,
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and almost had a wreck, and your dad
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lost his cool and lost his Christianity
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for a minute and ran in a rage and
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hollered and want to fight the guy and
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screaming, and we finally got calmed
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down and rode for about 15 seconds. He
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said, "Coach, use that VERSE SEVEN.
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READ."
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>> [laughter]
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>> SO, I JUST PICKED IT UP and started
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reading, but you told me you had thought
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about something about your dad the other
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day of story. You want to You want to
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tell us about
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>> Well, it it leads into a story
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where my dad is an illustration, but if
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y'all allow me,
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>> Yes, sir.
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>> I'll tell it uh
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I I kind of been trying to work this
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into a sermon, but
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You know, we we all so concerned about
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the wrong thing sometimes.
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Well, always these guys, these men, want
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to be tough. They want to be athletes
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and
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work out with weights and run and do all
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kind of foolish things.
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And I was just like that. I wanted to be
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tough. Uh
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I wanted to
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bench press the most and
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everything and
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uh my wife and I went up to see my son,
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who is a Marine,
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and he is tough. He's a combat
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instructor at Camp Lejeune.
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But, he's got one of these Olympic
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weight sets,
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things you see in health clubs, fitness
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clubs,
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with a bench rack, a squat rack, and
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things like that. You know, every locker
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room has them, every weight room.
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And he had a Olympic bar, which weighs
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about 50 lb,
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and two 25-lb plates on each side, which
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is basically 100 lb.
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Which ain't much.
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But I said, I'm just going to see if I I
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It's been 15 years since I've done a
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bench press. I have a battery
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in my chest hooked up to my brain. I
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might go crazy with it.
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>> [laughter]
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>> But I I've kind of shied away from doing
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bench press. I quit doing bench press.
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I said, I'm going to just see how I like
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that 100 lb is.
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In college, I
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benched somewhere around 250. I I did
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the two big plates and a little bit
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more.
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>> For y'all that don't know, Robin played
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college football. He essentially was a
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punt returner.
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Good athlete. So, go ahead. You
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>> So, anyway, I had
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I'd bench pressed four.
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But the 58-year-old Parkinson's patient
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got on that 100 lb.
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And my form
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on the descent was [laughter]
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impeccable.
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I had gravity working with me.
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>> [laughter]
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[snorts]
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>> And
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I said, don't let this thing beat you.
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>> [laughter]
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>> It should have just went right up, but
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it didn't.
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And I
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leaned over to one side, got that 25-lb
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plate on the ground,
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and wiggled out one of that thing. I
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ain't doing no more bench press.
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>> [laughter]
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>> I thought,
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I'm so insignificant.
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I am so
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don't amount to nothing.
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But, you know, somebody thought I was
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worth something.
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Cuz he sent his son to die for him.
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>> Amen.
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>> And
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it's not who I am or what I can do. It's
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who I belong to.
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>> That's it.
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>> And that leads me into a story about my
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dad.
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About that same time I could bench press
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250 260 lb.
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I had a CJ5
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Golden Eagle Jeep.
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Had 12-in wide
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rims on it. Had a 4-in lift kit.
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Had a 304 motor in it.
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>> Y'all can't see Aubrey all he's off
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camera but he's getting excited cuz he's
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a Jeep man.
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He knows everything you're talking
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about. I know nothing.
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>> This was
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the Levi package. Had Levi buttons in
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it.
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Uh it was
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it was a vehicle I love.
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But with that 304 is kind of hopped up.
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Had a cam in it.
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It was tough on universal joints
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and drive shafts.
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And one night I was back off in the
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somewhere I shouldn't have been.
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And I
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tore a U-joint out.
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And it was late then.
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And this was before cell phones.
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I know what you're thinking. Why didn't
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you call somebody? Cuz we didn't have a
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phone.
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And I uh
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remember seeing a house way back up the
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road. Time I got to this house it's 1:00
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in the morning.
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I hate to do it but
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I knocked on the door.
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And just like you'd think I heard, "Who
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is that out there?"
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"I'll kill you."
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"I got to go." I said, "Sir,
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if you just let me call my dad."
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"I ain't letting you in my house."
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"I'll shoot you."
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So I got out there and
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thinking what to do next. I
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really didn't have many options.
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>> [laughter]
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>> I just hung around there out in the
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driveway. Got a stick and was dragging
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on gravel hoping it'd
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wake him up.
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>> [laughter]
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>> And I'm a former competition owl hooter.
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>> [laughter]
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>> I started hooting at owls.
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I got them real owls stirred up that we
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was out there
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>> [laughter]
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>> I said, maybe he'll wake up and he'll
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holler, "I've been to shoot that owl."
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And um
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I come up on the porch again and said,
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"Sir, let me just let me give you the
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number and you call and talk to them."
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I well won't have to come in.
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And
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I gave my number number mom and dad.
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And I saw a hint of recognition on his
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face when I I told him that number like
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he he knew it.
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And
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he called my dad.
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And
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he called him by dad's nickname in high
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school, which only a very select few
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people got to do.
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It was a
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cardinal sin for football player to call
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him this. Some of them knew it, most of
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them didn't, but
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people who called him this knew him
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well.
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And it it was Cooter.
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>> [laughter]
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>> He said, "Cooter Rushing,
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what are you doing, boy?" And they had a
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10-minute conversation like we were
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talking about earlier. Dad just talked
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to anybody.
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And he said, "Your boy is out here broke
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down." Said, "Mama, get that boy a glass
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of tea. Come on in the house." And I
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said, "Ain't no use spending the night
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here if you don't want to get out this
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late."
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Dad said, "No, he'll come get me."
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But the man totally changed when he
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found out who I belonged to.
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Who was my daddy.
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And it's not
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who you are
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what you do, but it's who you belong to.
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I am nothing. I am worthless.
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But I got a savior who believed in me
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and who died for me.
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And I belong to him.
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And because of that
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when God sits on that white throne of
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judgment
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he's going to see his son instead of my
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sin.
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>> Mhm. Amen. You know, and what we cuz
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what who we deal with most of the time
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are people in recovery and addiction and
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incarceration
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and
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I'm not a psychologist but I bet you the
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number one
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underlying theme and you can help me on
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this Damon that you know, most of those
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guys they don't know who their identity
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is
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in Christ or what God's you know, what
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they can be. They just know themselves
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as a alcoholic or addict or ex-convict
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and Damon that's such a
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>> And Satan will remind you that
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>> all the time. You know, it says in
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Revelation he stands before God day and
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night accusing the brethren.
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But when we know who we are in Christ
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man, that's a game changer and I
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struggle with it you know,
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even as a believer and
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Damon you want to
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>> Well, I mean it all comes down to what
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your name is, right? He said he was a
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name, right? He Cooter Cooter Richard,
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you know what I mean? And that's that
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name and your name
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the word name literally means character
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or personality, right? And it says that
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Jesus gives us a new name and he gives
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us that new character and that new
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personality and along with that comes a
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new identity that's in Christ.
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>> And salvation.
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>> And salvation, yeah. I mean you're saved
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from all those old things. You are are
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saved to the point where you no longer
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have to live in the evil of the world
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but that you can you can walk worthy of
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the calling that you've been called, you
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know? And I mean it's just such a
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powerful thing to know who you were
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as opposed to who you are in Christ. You
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know what I mean? That identity matters.
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>> Well, well Robert there is a sermon on
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that because once he knew
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who your dad was to
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>> Complete change.
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>> Complete change but think about the
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access that you had. You could have came
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in and got tea. You could have came into
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his house. You could have spent the
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night there and because of who our
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father is, we have access to the the
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fullness of the kingdom of God. And so
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that that's a that's a great story.
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>> Super powerful.
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>> Great illustration.
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Uh you're good at taking those
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I guess parables and these stories and
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turn them to messages and and uh I want
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to give a shoutout. Let me let me
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You know
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>> Raymond does all that stuff on the
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computer, but when I put these glasses
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on, he can't make them disappear like
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>> I'll make them disappear, all right.
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>> It makes me look like an old man. Well,
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I am old man. But hey, Robin's number is
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601-757-5030.
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And the reason I'm telling you that is I
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know there's a lot of churches uh
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without pastors and Robin has been the
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pastor uh pretty much your whole
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whole adult life, 30 years. And uh
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he's done revivals for me and I've had
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him speak to you know football teams and
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different things. He's a great speaker,
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great uh gospel preacher.
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And uh he's available. In the in the
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Baptist world, they mean we we call it
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pulpit supply. I don't know what they
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call it in different denominations, but
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he is available to preach and has a uh
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desire to preach and he'll come in and I
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promise you he's going to be uh
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biblically solid. So y'all give him a uh
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shoutout. 601-757-5030.
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And he's good at uh telling these
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stories and tying them to the gospel.
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And Robin, what I what I like is that so
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many of our men that weren't raised in
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church,
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they understand you. They understand
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these hunting and fishing stories and
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how you tie it all in and uh and you do
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a great job doing that. Robin, uh
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>> I can tell you too, man, that uh I see a
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lot of times whenever people need
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someone [clears throat] to come in and
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and speak. Uh in fact, you guys you and
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Aubrey, y'all helped me out tremendously
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with my church sermons whenever you
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know, we were in betweens and and we
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needed help
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and Robin I will definitely see about
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getting you on that on that roster for
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sure, brother. We love to have you. We
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love to have you.
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>> I appreciate anything y'all can do.
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>> And cuz you have not had a full-time
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pastor in what a about a year?
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>> Uh October be a year.
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>> I know that's a lot of weight off your
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shoulders, but I know you probably miss
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the sermon preparation and all that.
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>> Yeah,
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you you miss the consistency.
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>> Mhm.
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>> You know, I knew my schedule was much
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more consistent.
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Now it's uh
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it's driven by grandchildren.
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>> Well, I understand that that's a
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blessing. Robin, you you uh
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cuz I know you come across a good old
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country boy and all that which you are,
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but you have a master's from New Orleans
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Baptist Seminary.
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>> Master of Divinity field.
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>> And uh and then tell us about
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your seminary. Tell us some highlights
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from seminary. What what's the main
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thing that God taught you during that
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time in in your life?
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>> Well, the main thing for me was to turn
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loose and just go do it.
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Uh I'm not a student. Uh
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My
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professors would probably
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saying amen to that [laughter]
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statement.
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And uh
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but
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I uh
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I'm not hyperactive. I wasn't
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hyperactive.
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I didn't have ADHD. I had A A A D D D A
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[laughter] D H D A D H D A D H D.
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I'm dyslexic. I I can't read.
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But God pulled me through and and God
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wanted me to turn loose of
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Mississippi and go to New Orleans.
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And it was
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it was just what I needed to do and
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I love New Orleans Seminary. I love the
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culture down there. I love some of my
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professors and
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uh they they helped me. They helped me
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understand.
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And they they help you apply.
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>> Mhm.
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>> So many people got a world of knowledge
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in their head, but they can't apply and
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can't tell you how to apply.
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And [clears throat]
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speak to Greek, but
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they they can't apply. And uh we got to
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get better at that.
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>> What what what's one class that really
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sticks out to you that helped you the
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most?
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>> Uh Survey of New Testament.
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Um
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you know
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the Dr. Simmons who who I I'm sure he's
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gone on to be with the Lord by now. He's
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an old man then. It's 30 years ago.
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But he um
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he told us
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about the Maccabean revolt and how
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people all spoke Greek in Jesus' time
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because Alexander the Great came through
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there and he said, "I'm going to kill
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you if you speak Greek." People learned
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Greek then.
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>> [laughter]
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>> And uh
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that's why the New Testament is largely
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written in Greek.
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And I didn't know any of that. I I
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I didn't know
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I I couldn't tell you what a Maccabean
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was.
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Sounded like a hamburger to me.
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Um but
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we learned all that. We went back to the
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beginning and
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we learned from people that didn't have
00:26:31.480 --> 00:26:33.030
an agenda
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who weren't trying to point at somebody
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in the pool from the pulpit in the
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congregation. They were just trying to
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gain knowledge and learn how to apply.
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>> Uh
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And And say God used that to get you out
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of Mississippi, cuz I guess you were
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just content to stay in Mississippi and
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hunt and fish and
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>> That's exactly what I do. And it's such
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a small thing now. It's such a
00:27:01.960 --> 00:27:05.670
uh minor thing. But that's what I was
00:27:05.680 --> 00:27:07.430
wanting to do. It drove my dad crazy.
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You talk about driving crazy.
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Cuz he had a plan for me in his mind.
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One for you, too, I think.
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And I would deviate from it, cuz I
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wanted All I cared about doing was
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turkey hunting.
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>> [laughter]
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>> Or sitting on a deer stand, or running a
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trot line, and
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and that was one I had to break away
00:27:29.920 --> 00:27:33.070
from it and give it became too much in
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my life, and God took it from me.
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And now I can go or not go.
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And I'm going to tell you the truth.
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Killing deer about dark is too much
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trouble now.
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>> [laughter]
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>> Got to fool with blooming thing.
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I usually let them all in the evening.
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And uh
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I don't climb trees with
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dangerous apparatuses anymore, and
00:28:00.040 --> 00:28:01.990
I stay on the ground. If I see them, I
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see them. If I kill them, I kill them.
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And other than that, I ain't worried
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about it.
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>> Yeah.
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It's funny how God gave us gives us
00:28:09.800 --> 00:28:11.350
things to for us to enjoy.
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>> love to hunt though. I still love to
00:28:13.200 --> 00:28:15.070
fish, but
00:28:15.080 --> 00:28:16.470
>> Well, you God gives us these things for
00:28:16.480 --> 00:28:18.710
us to enjoy, but our I guess our sinful
00:28:18.720 --> 00:28:20.550
nature it seems like we tend to make
00:28:20.560 --> 00:28:22.590
those things an idol. You know, what I
00:28:22.600 --> 00:28:24.950
know I have with with my job or sports,
00:28:24.960 --> 00:28:26.950
or you know, whatever. And obviously,
00:28:26.960 --> 00:28:29.110
all good gifts come from God. But if
00:28:29.120 --> 00:28:30.830
you're not careful, that that becomes an
00:28:30.840 --> 00:28:32.470
idol, and uh
00:28:32.480 --> 00:28:34.630
he has a very unique way of removing
00:28:34.640 --> 00:28:36.070
those idols, doesn't he?
00:28:36.080 --> 00:28:38.790
>> Uh the story about a plow dirt. You can
00:28:38.800 --> 00:28:41.510
fight that yoke if you want to.
00:28:41.520 --> 00:28:43.230
When you yoke up with God, you got to
00:28:43.240 --> 00:28:44.070
submit to it.
00:28:44.080 --> 00:28:45.350
>> That's right.
00:28:45.360 --> 00:28:46.590
Hey, uh I was telling you about your
00:28:46.600 --> 00:28:49.190
daddy killing flies with his fly swatter
00:28:49.200 --> 00:28:50.590
and we was telling stories about your
00:28:50.600 --> 00:28:52.630
daddy. So, uh let's tell one more. Tell
00:28:52.640 --> 00:28:54.830
us about you killing flies with a
00:28:54.840 --> 00:28:58.390
hammer.
00:28:58.400 --> 00:29:01.510
>> I did a reel about this on Facebook with
00:29:01.520 --> 00:29:04.430
Daddy was going to go fishing and which
00:29:04.440 --> 00:29:06.110
meant he had a wonderful opportunity to
00:29:06.120 --> 00:29:07.750
talk to people cuz they were in a boat
00:29:07.760 --> 00:29:08.860
and couldn't get out.
00:29:08.870 --> 00:29:10.430
>> [laughter]
00:29:10.440 --> 00:29:13.990
>> And they as grown men they probably want
00:29:14.000 --> 00:29:16.110
to talk about things that a three or
00:29:16.120 --> 00:29:18.870
four-year-old didn't need to hear and
00:29:18.880 --> 00:29:20.510
and
00:29:20.520 --> 00:29:22.110
he told me I couldn't go fishing with
00:29:22.120 --> 00:29:23.550
him.
00:29:23.560 --> 00:29:25.510
And he had no
00:29:25.520 --> 00:29:30.150
blue Chevrolet '53 model pickup truck.
00:29:30.160 --> 00:29:32.310
And we called it the Blue Goose.
00:29:32.320 --> 00:29:34.750
And
00:29:34.760 --> 00:29:39.070
he sit me up in the back end of it and
00:29:39.080 --> 00:29:40.910
there was a hammer back there and mama
00:29:40.920 --> 00:29:44.190
heard pick pick pick.
00:29:44.200 --> 00:29:45.350
And went out there and I was killing
00:29:45.360 --> 00:29:47.190
flies or trying to kill flies on the
00:29:47.200 --> 00:29:49.310
back windshield of that old '53
00:29:49.320 --> 00:29:52.270
Chevrolet truck.
00:29:52.280 --> 00:29:54.030
I wasn't busting the glass all the way
00:29:54.040 --> 00:29:55.365
out but I was cracking it.
00:29:55.375 --> 00:29:58.310
>> [laughter]
00:29:58.320 --> 00:30:00.390
>> And
00:30:00.400 --> 00:30:02.150
daddy got his pound of flesh for that,
00:30:02.160 --> 00:30:04.310
I'll show you.
00:30:04.320 --> 00:30:05.310
>> So, you
00:30:05.320 --> 00:30:06.910
you were killing those flies with that
00:30:06.920 --> 00:30:08.350
hammer on that back windshield.
00:30:08.360 --> 00:30:08.870
>> Yeah.
00:30:08.880 --> 00:30:10.190
>> How many did you kill?
00:30:10.200 --> 00:30:11.085
>> None.
00:30:11.095 --> 00:30:12.870
>> [laughter]
00:30:12.880 --> 00:30:13.790
>> But
00:30:13.800 --> 00:30:18.230
I tried to the windshield wasn't
00:30:18.240 --> 00:30:19.990
>> And did you did your daddy take you
00:30:20.000 --> 00:30:22.030
fishing the next time?
00:30:22.040 --> 00:30:23.670
>> Probably so.
00:30:23.680 --> 00:30:25.510
I don't even remember.
00:30:25.520 --> 00:30:27.710
>> Now, what about you getting lost on a
00:30:27.720 --> 00:30:29.390
horse?
00:30:29.400 --> 00:30:32.510
>> Uh that was another one I did.
00:30:32.520 --> 00:30:34.910
My Uncle David who
00:30:34.920 --> 00:30:37.750
uh
00:30:37.760 --> 00:30:40.550
really admired and trying to he was he
00:30:40.560 --> 00:30:42.350
dealt with things through humor.
00:30:42.360 --> 00:30:43.350
My
00:30:43.360 --> 00:30:44.550
you're going to get the backstory on
00:30:44.560 --> 00:30:46.350
this.
00:30:46.360 --> 00:30:47.310
My
00:30:47.320 --> 00:30:49.790
dad and his brother
00:30:49.800 --> 00:30:51.950
Uncle David grew up in a pretty tough
00:30:51.960 --> 00:30:54.350
situation.
00:30:54.360 --> 00:30:56.790
And they uh
00:30:56.800 --> 00:30:58.150
they both uh
00:30:58.160 --> 00:30:59.830
dealt with their
00:30:59.840 --> 00:31:02.310
difficulties in different ways.
00:31:02.320 --> 00:31:04.390
Daddy dealt it with it by being tough
00:31:04.400 --> 00:31:05.830
and just
00:31:05.840 --> 00:31:08.510
fighting his way through it.
00:31:08.520 --> 00:31:10.150
Uncle David dealt with it through humor
00:31:10.160 --> 00:31:12.190
and he was a master story the best
00:31:12.200 --> 00:31:13.870
storyteller I ever heard
00:31:13.880 --> 00:31:16.550
heard of except for Jesus.
00:31:16.560 --> 00:31:21.110
And I thought a lot like Uncle David.
00:31:21.120 --> 00:31:23.350
But he
00:31:23.360 --> 00:31:26.070
and my dad and I all went on a horse
00:31:26.080 --> 00:31:28.230
ride on this big Bienville National
00:31:28.240 --> 00:31:30.230
Forest this trail called the Shackalo
00:31:30.240 --> 00:31:31.750
Trail.
00:31:31.760 --> 00:31:33.030
I'm not even sure if it's still in
00:31:33.040 --> 00:31:35.590
existence but there was a
00:31:35.600 --> 00:31:37.070
more or less a logging road through
00:31:37.080 --> 00:31:40.870
about 25 miles of national forest
00:31:40.880 --> 00:31:44.350
about 60 40 60,000 acres.
00:31:44.360 --> 00:31:46.670
And I was on a Tennessee Walking Horse
00:31:46.680 --> 00:31:48.870
and they were on quarter horses.
00:31:48.880 --> 00:31:51.270
And for them to
00:31:51.280 --> 00:31:53.710
walk beside my horse because they were
00:31:53.720 --> 00:31:55.470
gated different
00:31:55.480 --> 00:31:57.630
would would make
00:31:57.640 --> 00:31:59.710
the ride a little
00:31:59.720 --> 00:32:01.470
rougher for them. So they said, "Get on
00:32:01.480 --> 00:32:02.750
up there, boy."
00:32:02.760 --> 00:32:03.790
They probably don't want to talk about
00:32:03.800 --> 00:32:06.070
somebody I didn't even hear.
00:32:06.080 --> 00:32:08.710
And get out of our sight so our horses
00:32:08.720 --> 00:32:10.830
won't try to keep up with you.
00:32:10.840 --> 00:32:13.230
That's all I needed to hear.
00:32:13.240 --> 00:32:15.550
I let the big dog eat.
00:32:15.560 --> 00:32:17.510
I got around the corner got out of sight
00:32:17.520 --> 00:32:19.590
and then I got way out of sight.
00:32:19.600 --> 00:32:22.390
I got lost in that
00:32:22.400 --> 00:32:27.750
40,000 60,000 acre national forest.
00:32:27.760 --> 00:32:31.630
And my dad had to call my mom after
00:32:31.640 --> 00:32:34.270
searching for him for 5 hours
00:32:34.280 --> 00:32:38.470
and called a search party out find me.
00:32:38.480 --> 00:32:40.670
I can't imagine calling my wife and say,
00:32:40.680 --> 00:32:42.392
"Look, I lost the young 'un."
00:32:42.402 --> 00:32:43.670
>> [laughter]
00:32:43.680 --> 00:32:44.790
>> He's somewhere out here on this
00:32:44.800 --> 00:32:46.270
Weeminuche National Forest. We got in
00:32:46.280 --> 00:32:47.632
there down in there.
00:32:47.642 --> 00:32:50.190
>> [laughter]
00:32:50.200 --> 00:32:51.550
>> But he did
00:32:51.560 --> 00:32:53.750
My Uncle Mac found me.
00:32:53.760 --> 00:32:56.390
Another great influence in my life.
00:32:56.400 --> 00:32:58.910
But uh
00:32:58.920 --> 00:33:00.390
I didn't know the horse kept wanting to
00:33:00.400 --> 00:33:02.510
go one way and I reined him over there.
00:33:02.520 --> 00:33:03.710
I
00:33:03.720 --> 00:33:05.590
You let a horse go and he lost, he's
00:33:05.600 --> 00:33:06.990
going to get lost. He can go back to
00:33:07.000 --> 00:33:09.550
where his feed is.
00:33:09.560 --> 00:33:10.390
And I I
00:33:10.400 --> 00:33:12.710
I found that out
00:33:12.720 --> 00:33:14.487
later.
00:33:14.497 --> 00:33:16.870
>> [laughter]
00:33:16.880 --> 00:33:19.790
>> So, what's the moral of that story?
00:33:19.800 --> 00:33:22.347
>> Uh don't get lost.
00:33:22.357 --> 00:33:24.750
>> [laughter]
00:33:24.760 --> 00:33:26.430
>> Stay inside of the forest.
00:33:26.440 --> 00:33:28.710
>> Stay inside of the forest. That's good.
00:33:28.720 --> 00:33:30.630
That's good. I didn't know Did y'all
00:33:30.640 --> 00:33:32.590
grow up around horses? And was your dad
00:33:32.600 --> 00:33:33.630
a horse guy?
00:33:33.640 --> 00:33:34.750
>> No.
00:33:34.760 --> 00:33:35.950
>> He just
00:33:35.960 --> 00:33:39.270
>> He loved because a horse can see through
00:33:39.280 --> 00:33:40.630
you and a horse can see if you're
00:33:40.640 --> 00:33:41.950
scared.
00:33:41.960 --> 00:33:44.270
Can tell if you're scared. They smell
00:33:44.280 --> 00:33:45.990
fear on you.
00:33:46.000 --> 00:33:47.830
And he had made me get on this horse who
00:33:47.840 --> 00:33:50.513
was had a psychotic breakdown.
00:33:50.523 --> 00:33:51.110
>> [laughter]
00:33:51.120 --> 00:33:53.270
>> The horse was uh
00:33:53.280 --> 00:33:57.030
raving narcistic narcissistic
00:33:57.040 --> 00:33:58.373
lunatic
00:33:58.383 --> 00:33:59.310
>> [laughter]
00:33:59.320 --> 00:34:02.350
>> that needed to be put in an asylum.
00:34:02.360 --> 00:34:04.310
The horse was mean.
00:34:04.320 --> 00:34:06.190
But he would want me and that horse to
00:34:06.200 --> 00:34:07.710
battle and see who was going to come out
00:34:07.720 --> 00:34:09.869
on top that day.
00:34:09.879 --> 00:34:12.629
It's why he got a horse. But
00:34:12.639 --> 00:34:15.149
>> How'd it turn out?
00:34:15.159 --> 00:34:18.023
>> The horse is dead.
00:34:18.033 --> 00:34:20.869
>> [laughter]
00:34:20.879 --> 00:34:23.350
>> Well, we we we we we won't
00:34:23.360 --> 00:34:25.310
ask you more questions about that.
00:34:25.320 --> 00:34:27.193
>> No, the horse died of old age.
00:34:27.203 --> 00:34:29.590
>> [laughter]
00:34:29.600 --> 00:34:32.669
>> But every low limb
00:34:32.679 --> 00:34:36.350
every hole, every obstacle, everything
00:34:36.360 --> 00:34:41.830
that horse could use to hurt me, it did.
00:34:41.840 --> 00:34:43.389
>> Scott Scott started crying and she's
00:34:43.399 --> 00:34:46.869
like, "Well, we'll get another subject."
00:34:46.879 --> 00:34:49.310
>> I tell you, horse people are
00:34:49.320 --> 00:34:50.389
a different breed.
00:34:50.399 --> 00:34:51.669
>> Yes.
00:34:51.679 --> 00:34:54.350
>> They want to
00:34:54.360 --> 00:34:55.750
get up
00:34:55.760 --> 00:34:58.030
make themselves
00:34:58.040 --> 00:35:01.750
totally reliant on a 1,200 1,400 lb
00:35:01.760 --> 00:35:03.430
animal
00:35:03.440 --> 00:35:05.184
that doesn't like you.
00:35:05.194 --> 00:35:08.790
>> [laughter]
00:35:08.800 --> 00:35:11.350
>> And you can train them.
00:35:11.360 --> 00:35:13.070
You can break them, but
00:35:13.080 --> 00:35:15.310
that thing he still in his heart knows
00:35:15.320 --> 00:35:16.319
he don't like you.
00:35:16.329 --> 00:35:17.110
>> [laughter]
00:35:17.120 --> 00:35:19.190
>> I hate to break you horse people's
00:35:19.200 --> 00:35:21.559
heart, but that horse does not like you.
00:35:21.569 --> 00:35:22.230
>> [laughter]
00:35:22.240 --> 00:35:24.910
>> You feed him and he appreciates that.
00:35:24.920 --> 00:35:27.630
The horse does not like you. He does not
00:35:27.640 --> 00:35:29.710
love you. I know y'all hug on them, rub
00:35:29.720 --> 00:35:30.710
them,
00:35:30.720 --> 00:35:32.039
he doesn't like you.
00:35:32.049 --> 00:35:34.790
>> [laughter]
00:35:34.800 --> 00:35:36.950
>> I guess I guess you've always been a dog
00:35:36.960 --> 00:35:38.430
guy, ain't you?
00:35:38.440 --> 00:35:39.910
>> Uh
00:35:39.920 --> 00:35:42.519
after my attempt at horsemanship
00:35:42.529 --> 00:35:43.830
>> [laughter]
00:35:43.840 --> 00:35:45.590
>> was a glaring failure.
00:35:45.600 --> 00:35:48.230
>> And you got you got some dogs now?
00:35:48.240 --> 00:35:50.870
>> No, I'm between dogs now. I'm looking
00:35:50.880 --> 00:35:52.470
for a
00:35:52.480 --> 00:35:55.150
older dog kind of suit me. I don't want
00:35:55.160 --> 00:35:56.790
a puppy.
00:35:56.800 --> 00:35:58.550
Um
00:35:58.560 --> 00:36:01.230
they have too much energy.
00:36:01.240 --> 00:36:03.790
I want a dog with a personality at least
00:36:03.800 --> 00:36:05.430
of an old bloodhound to come in and lay
00:36:05.440 --> 00:36:06.830
down on the floor and let you rub his
00:36:06.840 --> 00:36:08.550
head
00:36:08.560 --> 00:36:09.870
and just be a companion.
00:36:09.880 --> 00:36:11.550
>> Mhm.
00:36:11.560 --> 00:36:13.310
Now, you're in between dogs. What was
00:36:13.320 --> 00:36:15.310
the last dog you had?
00:36:15.320 --> 00:36:19.870
>> My wife got a dog that was a half uh
00:36:19.880 --> 00:36:22.070
All these dogs you take care of sheep
00:36:22.080 --> 00:36:23.510
Pa- Polynesian
00:36:23.520 --> 00:36:26.310
Polynesian Polynesian dog and a
00:36:26.320 --> 00:36:29.110
half half that and half
00:36:29.120 --> 00:36:32.110
one of these poodle.
00:36:32.120 --> 00:36:34.270
And Kazi was what she called him cuz she
00:36:34.280 --> 00:36:36.590
works in Kosciusko.
00:36:36.600 --> 00:36:40.390
And the upstroke got Kazi one day coming
00:36:40.400 --> 00:36:42.470
down through there at about 110 miles an
00:36:42.480 --> 00:36:44.350
hour.
00:36:44.360 --> 00:36:46.750
And it hurt it so bad we just kind of
00:36:46.760 --> 00:36:48.990
being real picky about the next dog.
00:36:49.000 --> 00:36:50.350
>> All right, what's the best dog you ever
00:36:50.360 --> 00:36:51.030
had?
00:36:51.040 --> 00:36:52.910
>> Prince. Probably I had
00:36:52.920 --> 00:36:54.790
>> You didn't have to think about that.
00:36:54.800 --> 00:36:56.670
>> Yeah, he was the best dog. Second best I
00:36:56.680 --> 00:36:58.790
ever had was Ace.
00:36:58.800 --> 00:36:59.950
Ace
00:36:59.960 --> 00:37:01.870
when my oldest son went to basic
00:37:01.880 --> 00:37:03.310
training
00:37:03.320 --> 00:37:05.150
Ace went and got in his bed and covered
00:37:05.160 --> 00:37:07.230
up and looked just like a human cuz he
00:37:07.240 --> 00:37:08.630
missed that boy so bad.
00:37:08.640 --> 00:37:10.110
>> Yeah. Yeah.
00:37:10.120 --> 00:37:12.430
>> Uh they were exceptionally close and I
00:37:12.440 --> 00:37:14.590
was close to Prince
00:37:14.600 --> 00:37:16.190
who walked with me every step of the way
00:37:16.200 --> 00:37:18.310
when I got lost that time in Bienville
00:37:18.320 --> 00:37:19.150
National Forest.
00:37:19.160 --> 00:37:21.510
>> And what made Prince such a good dog?
00:37:21.520 --> 00:37:23.910
>> I just grew up with him and I had him
00:37:23.920 --> 00:37:25.830
for 10 years.
00:37:25.840 --> 00:37:27.870
Got him when I was about 4 years old and
00:37:27.880 --> 00:37:29.550
he just went through me.
00:37:29.560 --> 00:37:30.950
It's unconditional love.
00:37:30.960 --> 00:37:33.990
>> Mhm. Yeah, that's a fact.
00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:35.350
There's something about dogs, aren't
00:37:35.360 --> 00:37:37.910
there? Hey uh one more one more family
00:37:37.920 --> 00:37:39.950
story before we uh transition to
00:37:39.960 --> 00:37:41.710
something else, but tell us
00:37:41.720 --> 00:37:45.661
we want to hear a story about a toupee.
00:37:45.671 --> 00:37:46.830
>> [laughter]
00:37:46.840 --> 00:37:50.590
>> Poor Uncle Mac. Uncle Mac Greer
00:37:50.600 --> 00:37:52.550
Uh Mac's got a beautiful daughter named
00:37:52.560 --> 00:37:54.470
Angie and a beautiful wife named Aunt
00:37:54.480 --> 00:37:56.310
Doris.
00:37:56.320 --> 00:37:59.390
They were just good-looking people.
00:37:59.400 --> 00:38:01.430
And Mac had a toupee that nobody hardly
00:38:01.440 --> 00:38:03.110
knew about
00:38:03.120 --> 00:38:04.950
because it was fitted so well and so
00:38:04.960 --> 00:38:06.430
expensive. You know, you get different
00:38:06.440 --> 00:38:09.830
quality levels in toupees.
00:38:09.840 --> 00:38:12.510
And he was out there one day and I was a
00:38:12.520 --> 00:38:15.510
rambunctious child.
00:38:15.520 --> 00:38:17.270
I was only only person I was scared of
00:38:17.280 --> 00:38:19.990
in this world was my daddy.
00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:22.110
And
00:38:22.120 --> 00:38:25.230
Mac was out there in the yard.
00:38:25.240 --> 00:38:26.710
I They were sitting around talking. He
00:38:26.720 --> 00:38:29.150
was in a a lawn chair.
00:38:29.160 --> 00:38:31.070
I slipped up behind Mac and grabbed that
00:38:31.080 --> 00:38:33.270
toupee off his head.
00:38:33.280 --> 00:38:35.441
I throwed it like a Frisbee.
00:38:35.451 --> 00:38:37.230
>> [laughter]
00:38:37.240 --> 00:38:39.430
>> And Mac
00:38:39.440 --> 00:38:41.230
>> I guess this was like a family say you
00:38:41.240 --> 00:38:42.870
knew it was a toupee.
00:38:42.880 --> 00:38:43.710
>> Oh, yeah.
00:38:43.720 --> 00:38:44.350
>> And y'all Were y'all talking
00:38:44.360 --> 00:38:45.990
>> Cuz he going to be bald-headed.
00:38:46.000 --> 00:38:48.470
>> Okay. All right. So, you threw it at
00:38:48.480 --> 00:38:49.310
what position?
00:38:49.320 --> 00:38:51.161
>> wore it on Sundays.
00:38:51.171 --> 00:38:52.910
>> [laughter]
00:38:52.920 --> 00:38:54.150
>> He wore a hat the rest of the
00:38:54.160 --> 00:38:56.870
>> So, what what made you decide to
00:38:56.880 --> 00:38:58.270
>> Cuz I knew it meant something to him. I
00:38:58.280 --> 00:38:59.676
knew he'd chase me.
00:38:59.686 --> 00:39:00.990
>> [laughter]
00:39:01.000 --> 00:39:06.270
>> And I could hear him talk ugly.
00:39:06.280 --> 00:39:08.150
>> So, you threw it like a Frisbee.
00:39:08.160 --> 00:39:10.150
>> Yeah, well, right before he got to me, I
00:39:10.160 --> 00:39:12.122
thought that might save my life, but he
00:39:12.132 --> 00:39:12.830
>> [laughter]
00:39:12.840 --> 00:39:14.750
>> He was like a heat-seeking missile. He
00:39:14.760 --> 00:39:17.350
stayed on target.
00:39:17.360 --> 00:39:19.630
He whipped my tail, but Uncle Mac loved
00:39:19.640 --> 00:39:22.190
me to death. I loved Uncle Mac. Yeah.
00:39:22.200 --> 00:39:23.550
Yeah, this You see, you know, sometimes
00:39:23.560 --> 00:39:24.750
you can't go to your parents and you
00:39:24.760 --> 00:39:27.110
need adults to go to. He was my adult I
00:39:27.120 --> 00:39:29.630
went to cuz I knew he's going to be
00:39:29.640 --> 00:39:32.110
confidential. I knew he wouldn't tell
00:39:32.120 --> 00:39:34.830
unless he had to. And
00:39:34.840 --> 00:39:37.550
I really miss him. He I preached his
00:39:37.560 --> 00:39:39.030
funeral.
00:39:39.040 --> 00:39:40.910
It was after Dad had just been the last
00:39:40.920 --> 00:39:43.270
year and a half or so, and he he would
00:39:43.280 --> 00:39:46.430
have been 90 years old, I believe. And
00:39:46.440 --> 00:39:47.390
and
00:39:47.400 --> 00:39:48.390
uh
00:39:48.400 --> 00:39:50.710
I miss Uncle Mac, too.
00:39:50.720 --> 00:39:53.110
>> Now, were these your your mom's brother?
00:39:53.120 --> 00:39:55.230
>> That was my mom's older brother.
00:39:55.240 --> 00:39:57.390
>> Okay.
00:39:57.400 --> 00:39:59.790
Uh what what was it like growing up in
00:39:59.800 --> 00:40:01.510
Forest with your dad being a coach and
00:40:01.520 --> 00:40:02.710
everybody know you couldn't get away
00:40:02.720 --> 00:40:05.070
with anything, could you?
00:40:05.080 --> 00:40:08.452
>> Uh well, I got away with some of them.
00:40:08.462 --> 00:40:09.350
>> [laughter]
00:40:09.360 --> 00:40:12.910
>> I'll tell you a story about that.
00:40:12.920 --> 00:40:16.590
Daddy was coaching during integration.
00:40:16.600 --> 00:40:18.950
And there there's a lot of It's kind of
00:40:18.960 --> 00:40:22.030
like the story about the Titans.
00:40:22.040 --> 00:40:23.390
Uh
00:40:23.400 --> 00:40:25.750
the black school integrated the white
00:40:25.760 --> 00:40:28.630
school and they just had one school.
00:40:28.640 --> 00:40:30.630
And there's a lot of tension.
00:40:30.640 --> 00:40:33.070
A lot of
00:40:33.080 --> 00:40:34.110
uh
00:40:34.120 --> 00:40:36.150
unrest and
00:40:36.160 --> 00:40:37.550
but
00:40:37.560 --> 00:40:39.270
one of the things that brought together
00:40:39.280 --> 00:40:41.710
was football.
00:40:41.720 --> 00:40:44.070
There was a man in my dad's life named
00:40:44.080 --> 00:40:47.230
Mr. Nub Hoskins.
00:40:47.240 --> 00:40:49.470
Who's gone on to be with the Lord.
00:40:49.480 --> 00:40:52.070
And he was kind of a father figure in my
00:40:52.080 --> 00:40:53.670
dad's life.
00:40:53.680 --> 00:40:56.510
And he hauled pulpwood for a living.
00:40:56.520 --> 00:40:57.990
And logs.
00:40:58.000 --> 00:40:58.910
And
00:40:58.920 --> 00:41:01.390
he had a helper named
00:41:01.400 --> 00:41:04.270
Glenn Otis.
00:41:04.280 --> 00:41:08.750
Or just Otis. I'm sorry.
00:41:08.760 --> 00:41:11.830
And Otis loved me. He we would swap
00:41:11.840 --> 00:41:14.390
watermelons and barbells and stuff like
00:41:14.400 --> 00:41:15.710
that.
00:41:15.720 --> 00:41:19.590
And the early 1970s
00:41:19.600 --> 00:41:22.350
for a young boy uh
00:41:22.360 --> 00:41:24.710
three or four-year-old boy to go run up
00:41:24.720 --> 00:41:26.590
in the arms of a
00:41:26.600 --> 00:41:30.350
gigantic stout
00:41:30.360 --> 00:41:34.390
log-hauling, pulpwood-hauling black man.
00:41:34.400 --> 00:41:36.230
Otis could have played tailback or
00:41:36.240 --> 00:41:38.750
strong safety for any NFL team. He was
00:41:38.760 --> 00:41:40.950
strong. His hands were callous. He's
00:41:40.960 --> 00:41:43.270
like you drape skin over rebar and
00:41:43.280 --> 00:41:45.790
barbed wire or something.
00:41:45.800 --> 00:41:48.190
And and for me to go run in his arms and
00:41:48.200 --> 00:41:49.990
be received and
00:41:50.000 --> 00:41:52.150
we didn't care about color.
00:41:52.160 --> 00:41:54.230
And
00:41:54.240 --> 00:41:55.630
that was
00:41:55.640 --> 00:41:57.350
that was growing up in Forest in the
00:41:57.360 --> 00:41:59.110
1970s.
00:41:59.120 --> 00:42:01.150
There's a lot of varied people there and
00:42:01.160 --> 00:42:02.390
uh
00:42:02.400 --> 00:42:06.550
they supported dad and it was a
00:42:06.560 --> 00:42:07.830
kind of Mayberry like.
00:42:07.840 --> 00:42:11.070
>> Mhm.
00:42:11.080 --> 00:42:13.710
Uh did did y'all
00:42:13.720 --> 00:42:15.550
the house that where your mom and dad
00:42:15.560 --> 00:42:16.910
when I knew them, is that where is that
00:42:16.920 --> 00:42:18.470
where you grew up out there?
00:42:18.480 --> 00:42:20.990
>> No, I grew up on Marion Boulevard in my
00:42:21.000 --> 00:42:23.430
house there, close to school and walking
00:42:23.440 --> 00:42:24.694
distance to school.
00:42:24.704 --> 00:42:25.470
>> [clears throat]
00:42:25.480 --> 00:42:26.910
>> Spent a lot of time on the football
00:42:26.920 --> 00:42:28.670
field and field house and
00:42:28.680 --> 00:42:29.990
>> Yeah, I
00:42:30.000 --> 00:42:33.310
grew up in the locker room.
00:42:33.320 --> 00:42:35.174
Learned a lot of things I shouldn't, but
00:42:35.184 --> 00:42:37.070
>> [laughter]
00:42:37.080 --> 00:42:38.190
>> Um,
00:42:38.200 --> 00:42:40.430
but
00:42:40.440 --> 00:42:43.310
I I had a good time.
00:42:43.320 --> 00:42:45.030
>> Uh, if you were going to say who were
00:42:45.040 --> 00:42:48.030
the five best athletes that came out of
00:42:48.040 --> 00:42:49.590
Forest that you remember, who would they
00:42:49.600 --> 00:42:50.870
be?
00:42:50.880 --> 00:42:52.630
>> Dave Marler,
00:42:52.640 --> 00:42:55.630
uh, Theodore Ely,
00:42:55.640 --> 00:42:57.910
and his brother Alexander Ely, they were
00:42:57.920 --> 00:43:00.630
both exceptional athletes.
00:43:00.640 --> 00:43:03.710
Uh, Perry Qualls,
00:43:03.720 --> 00:43:06.790
uh,
00:43:10.120 --> 00:43:12.630
nobody else jumps out at me right now.
00:43:12.640 --> 00:43:14.390
>> That that Dave Marler, he had a long
00:43:14.400 --> 00:43:16.190
career in the CFL. I don't think people
00:43:16.200 --> 00:43:17.910
realize he he played quarterback at
00:43:17.920 --> 00:43:19.590
State and uh,
00:43:19.600 --> 00:43:20.790
>> He called for him, too.
00:43:20.800 --> 00:43:23.470
>> And and played uh,
00:43:23.480 --> 00:43:25.950
uh, in the CFL for a long time and uh,
00:43:25.960 --> 00:43:27.830
Aubrey's off camera and Aubrey, my mind
00:43:27.840 --> 00:43:30.430
went blank, but his sister used to be
00:43:30.440 --> 00:43:32.310
really involved with helping us at
00:43:32.320 --> 00:43:33.990
Celebrate Recovery and I cannot think of
00:43:34.000 --> 00:43:36.270
her name. Is it Brenda?
00:43:36.280 --> 00:43:37.990
>> That doesn't sound right, but I ain't I
00:43:38.000 --> 00:43:39.510
don't know no John.
00:43:39.520 --> 00:43:41.150
>> That's what that was her brother that
00:43:41.160 --> 00:43:41.790
uh,
00:43:41.800 --> 00:43:43.710
played in Forest and uh, when I first
00:43:43.720 --> 00:43:45.790
started helping Aubrey, she would always
00:43:45.800 --> 00:43:48.030
feed us at CR and one day I asked her
00:43:48.040 --> 00:43:49.670
where she was from and she said Forest.
00:43:49.680 --> 00:43:51.630
I said, "You know Gary Risher?" Well,
00:43:51.640 --> 00:43:53.350
she know people that certain age,
00:43:53.360 --> 00:43:55.870
everybody and then we had that made that
00:43:55.880 --> 00:43:58.190
connection and she had just gone to see
00:43:58.200 --> 00:44:00.390
her brother. I can't remember where
00:44:00.400 --> 00:44:02.070
where he's living now and all, but
00:44:02.080 --> 00:44:04.070
>> AutoZone or something like that.
00:44:04.080 --> 00:44:04.510
>> So, uh,
00:44:04.520 --> 00:44:07.670
>> I'll tell you another good one was uh,
00:44:07.680 --> 00:44:08.990
Good gracious, it just slipped my mind.
00:44:09.000 --> 00:44:11.470
Sometimes it just kicking in.
00:44:11.480 --> 00:44:12.950
Um
00:44:12.960 --> 00:44:15.430
Good gracious, I'm sorry.
00:44:15.440 --> 00:44:17.670
They just left the quiz he came.
00:44:17.680 --> 00:44:18.830
>> Uh
00:44:18.840 --> 00:44:19.990
>> I think I'll think of it in a minute.
00:44:20.000 --> 00:44:21.390
>> Anytime you have a conversation like
00:44:21.400 --> 00:44:24.110
this, Avery Nobles is the historian of
00:44:24.120 --> 00:44:25.710
Scott County.
00:44:25.720 --> 00:44:27.430
I don't know Do you know Avery pretty
00:44:27.440 --> 00:44:28.230
well?
00:44:28.240 --> 00:44:29.430
>> No, I don't guess so.
00:44:29.440 --> 00:44:31.150
>> Avery is uh
00:44:31.160 --> 00:44:33.470
he's probably close to your age, maybe a
00:44:33.480 --> 00:44:36.350
little bit younger, but anyway, he he
00:44:36.360 --> 00:44:38.430
went to Morton and his dad had a used
00:44:38.440 --> 00:44:41.190
car lot there in Morton for a long time.
00:44:41.200 --> 00:44:42.070
Um
00:44:42.080 --> 00:44:43.630
Anyway, Avery, you can start talking
00:44:43.640 --> 00:44:44.990
about basketball, football, and
00:44:45.000 --> 00:44:47.230
baseball, and he's like a just a
00:44:47.240 --> 00:44:49.270
historian of Scott County and the
00:44:49.280 --> 00:44:51.830
athletes and uh uh who's the best
00:44:51.840 --> 00:44:53.950
basketball player was or best football
00:44:53.960 --> 00:44:56.110
player was and I I know she didn't
00:44:56.120 --> 00:44:57.750
include your name in that list of the
00:44:57.760 --> 00:44:59.390
top athletes that came through Forest.
00:44:59.400 --> 00:45:01.241
>> No, not hardly.
00:45:01.251 --> 00:45:02.150
>> [laughter]
00:45:02.160 --> 00:45:05.390
>> I I graduated from Morton.
00:45:05.400 --> 00:45:07.030
And they've had some
00:45:07.040 --> 00:45:09.390
Lately, they've had some come through
00:45:09.400 --> 00:45:10.270
there.
00:45:10.280 --> 00:45:12.310
Willie Willie Booie, that's who came to
00:45:12.320 --> 00:45:14.150
my mind.
00:45:14.160 --> 00:45:15.510
>> Uh
00:45:15.520 --> 00:45:16.710
Tell us a a a
00:45:16.720 --> 00:45:18.670
memory you have of playing high school
00:45:18.680 --> 00:45:20.790
football.
00:45:20.800 --> 00:45:23.511
>> Uh I didn't have that many good ones.
00:45:23.521 --> 00:45:24.550
>> [laughter]
00:45:24.560 --> 00:45:26.950
>> We weren't that that good, but
00:45:26.960 --> 00:45:29.110
my junior year
00:45:29.120 --> 00:45:31.150
I I had gone to basic training between
00:45:31.160 --> 00:45:33.790
my sophomore and junior year
00:45:33.800 --> 00:45:36.190
and I came back with a lot of confidence
00:45:36.200 --> 00:45:37.190
and
00:45:37.200 --> 00:45:39.230
we had a pretty good ball team and we
00:45:39.240 --> 00:45:42.070
won three games in a row, which Morton
00:45:42.080 --> 00:45:44.670
hadn't done in a long time. My sophomore
00:45:44.680 --> 00:45:46.590
year, we were one and nine, just done a
00:45:46.600 --> 00:45:48.390
lot of losing.
00:45:48.400 --> 00:45:50.350
And we kind of came together as a team
00:45:50.360 --> 00:45:51.550
and
00:45:51.560 --> 00:45:53.550
uh
00:45:53.560 --> 00:45:55.470
it was a lot more fun. Winning is a lot
00:45:55.480 --> 00:45:57.430
more fun.
00:45:57.440 --> 00:45:59.150
You learn a lot more from losing, but
00:45:59.160 --> 00:46:01.950
winning is a lot more fun.
00:46:01.960 --> 00:46:04.190
>> And how did how did your end up?
00:46:04.200 --> 00:46:06.110
>> I will start off three wins and
00:46:06.120 --> 00:46:09.350
>> Um we ended up getting beat by Forest
00:46:09.360 --> 00:46:12.270
and they went to playoffs and
00:46:12.280 --> 00:46:14.510
we ended up I think six and five. We
00:46:14.520 --> 00:46:16.310
went played a little bowl game of some
00:46:16.320 --> 00:46:18.230
description.
00:46:18.240 --> 00:46:19.830
But uh
00:46:19.840 --> 00:46:21.430
it started off better than it ended up.
00:46:21.440 --> 00:46:23.270
>> Well, still that's good. Six and five
00:46:23.280 --> 00:46:24.790
especially when you only won one game
00:46:24.800 --> 00:46:27.150
the year before. Do you stay in contact
00:46:27.160 --> 00:46:29.510
with any of those guys you played with?
00:46:29.520 --> 00:46:31.510
>> Yeah, I'm still in contact with Tim
00:46:31.520 --> 00:46:33.750
Crowell who uh
00:46:33.760 --> 00:46:36.430
who was a manager but he was a lot more
00:46:36.440 --> 00:46:39.350
important than most assistant coaches.
00:46:39.360 --> 00:46:41.230
Kevin Cooper
00:46:41.240 --> 00:46:44.630
uh
00:46:44.640 --> 00:46:46.990
>> We've had We've had Kevin on the podcast
00:46:47.000 --> 00:46:48.630
and I know he thinks the world of you
00:46:48.640 --> 00:46:50.070
that
00:46:50.080 --> 00:46:51.990
>> Well,
00:46:52.000 --> 00:46:53.247
thank you, Kevin.
00:46:53.257 --> 00:46:54.870
>> [laughter]
00:46:54.880 --> 00:46:57.430
>> So, you're you Are you a year older than
00:46:57.440 --> 00:46:58.350
Kevin in age?
00:46:58.360 --> 00:46:59.910
>> I'm a grade ahead of Kevin.
00:46:59.920 --> 00:47:01.310
>> And what about anybody else? Do you stay
00:47:01.320 --> 00:47:02.990
in touch with anybody else from that
00:47:03.000 --> 00:47:04.030
group?
00:47:04.040 --> 00:47:07.950
>> Uh I saw a couple people at at some
00:47:07.960 --> 00:47:10.630
funerals here along the way. Chris White
00:47:10.640 --> 00:47:12.990
and played with him at East Central and
00:47:13.000 --> 00:47:15.030
Alan Powell and
00:47:15.040 --> 00:47:17.270
talked to him about having a
00:47:17.280 --> 00:47:18.830
reunion.
00:47:18.840 --> 00:47:21.670
Um
00:47:21.680 --> 00:47:23.230
I
00:47:23.240 --> 00:47:25.110
I went turkey hunting with Donald Lanier
00:47:25.120 --> 00:47:26.030
Edwards.
00:47:26.040 --> 00:47:27.670
We played together and he killed I
00:47:27.680 --> 00:47:29.350
called a turkey for him and he killed
00:47:29.360 --> 00:47:31.030
it. So,
00:47:31.040 --> 00:47:34.070
uh but I tell you you know
00:47:34.080 --> 00:47:35.390
>> Now, would you uh
00:47:35.400 --> 00:47:36.950
I think it's
00:47:36.960 --> 00:47:39.630
unique when you talk about Kevin and Tim
00:47:39.640 --> 00:47:41.710
how all three of y'all, you know, you
00:47:41.720 --> 00:47:44.390
talk about being faithful in ministry
00:47:44.400 --> 00:47:47.310
for decades. When three three young guys
00:47:47.320 --> 00:47:49.150
that graduated from Morton High School
00:47:49.160 --> 00:47:50.950
and uh and y'all have all been in
00:47:50.960 --> 00:47:53.350
ministry and serving the Lord for, you
00:47:53.360 --> 00:47:54.750
know,
00:47:54.760 --> 00:47:55.990
30 years, I guess.
00:47:56.000 --> 00:47:57.190
>> Yeah.
00:47:57.200 --> 00:47:59.710
Um and we bounced a lot of things out
00:47:59.720 --> 00:48:02.390
with each other.
00:48:02.400 --> 00:48:04.830
Last time I was on
00:48:04.840 --> 00:48:06.430
we talked about you and I went through
00:48:06.440 --> 00:48:07.310
some
00:48:07.320 --> 00:48:11.230
dark times together and
00:48:11.240 --> 00:48:13.590
if the bottom fell out of this thing
00:48:13.600 --> 00:48:16.150
right now, if just some tragedy happened
00:48:16.160 --> 00:48:17.790
in my life
00:48:17.800 --> 00:48:19.270
Kim Crocker would be one of the ones I'd
00:48:19.280 --> 00:48:21.870
call.
00:48:21.880 --> 00:48:23.870
And you know, if high school football
00:48:23.880 --> 00:48:25.510
did that, then
00:48:25.520 --> 00:48:27.550
God bless high school football.
00:48:27.560 --> 00:48:29.510
>> Amen.
00:48:29.520 --> 00:48:31.910
Uh who who were some of the
00:48:31.920 --> 00:48:34.910
spiritual influences as a young man that
00:48:34.920 --> 00:48:36.430
you remember growing up? Does anybody
00:48:36.440 --> 00:48:38.830
really stand out to you that
00:48:38.840 --> 00:48:41.950
>> There was a missionary that came
00:48:41.960 --> 00:48:43.910
to Forest Baptist Church and stayed
00:48:43.920 --> 00:48:44.950
there
00:48:44.960 --> 00:48:47.390
after I graduated high school
00:48:47.400 --> 00:48:49.070
right in that time period, right after
00:48:49.080 --> 00:48:50.550
graduation
00:48:50.560 --> 00:48:53.310
Big Johnson.
00:48:53.320 --> 00:48:54.510
And
00:48:54.520 --> 00:48:56.990
that guy would
00:48:57.000 --> 00:48:59.030
he didn't see a snake he didn't catch.
00:48:59.040 --> 00:49:00.950
He would just talk and
00:49:00.960 --> 00:49:02.790
resourceful
00:49:02.800 --> 00:49:05.510
and he I I knew he learned all of it by
00:49:05.520 --> 00:49:08.150
being on the mission field.
00:49:08.160 --> 00:49:10.630
And he was a great hunter and
00:49:10.640 --> 00:49:13.190
he had a big influence on me.
00:49:13.200 --> 00:49:15.390
Glenn Smith who who's gone to be with
00:49:15.400 --> 00:49:16.790
the Lord.
00:49:16.800 --> 00:49:17.950
He was
00:49:17.960 --> 00:49:20.910
uh one of the youth ministry. He was uh
00:49:20.920 --> 00:49:23.510
a minister at First Baptist Morton.
00:49:23.520 --> 00:49:24.950
>> So he's big big tall guy.
00:49:24.960 --> 00:49:27.310
>> Yeah. He He's passed away, too.
00:49:27.320 --> 00:49:29.910
>> When I was at Line Creek
00:49:29.920 --> 00:49:33.070
we had him come do a revival for us.
00:49:33.080 --> 00:49:35.030
And Coach Rhodes
00:49:35.040 --> 00:49:37.310
came to that revival cuz he they they
00:49:37.320 --> 00:49:38.710
called him by a nickname. I can't
00:49:38.720 --> 00:49:39.710
remember what they called him.
00:49:39.720 --> 00:49:40.190
>> Goof.
00:49:42.000 --> 00:49:44.230
But I guess he had been so rambunctious
00:49:44.240 --> 00:49:45.590
in high school, Coach Rhodes couldn't
00:49:45.600 --> 00:49:47.150
believe that he was saved and preaching.
00:49:47.160 --> 00:49:48.670
And I remember that Coach Rhodes came to
00:49:48.680 --> 00:49:51.230
that revival, but me and Freda Jenkins
00:49:51.240 --> 00:49:52.750
was talking about him the other day and
00:49:52.760 --> 00:49:54.630
I can't remember what the context was.
00:49:54.640 --> 00:49:56.590
So, now what was it about him that had
00:49:56.600 --> 00:49:58.070
such influence on you?
00:49:58.080 --> 00:50:00.710
>> He like hunting and guns and stuff like
00:50:00.720 --> 00:50:03.030
that. I kind of gravitated to him
00:50:03.040 --> 00:50:05.870
because of that.
00:50:05.880 --> 00:50:07.110
>> And uh
00:50:07.120 --> 00:50:08.590
found out that he loved the Lord and had
00:50:08.600 --> 00:50:10.550
that influence on you.
00:50:10.560 --> 00:50:14.070
Uh Robin, I heard you uh give a
00:50:14.080 --> 00:50:16.110
a a biblical
00:50:16.120 --> 00:50:18.510
lesson uh study whatever you want to
00:50:18.520 --> 00:50:21.430
call it about the medicine you take and
00:50:21.440 --> 00:50:22.870
about uh
00:50:22.880 --> 00:50:27.790
you tie that into uh was it
00:50:27.800 --> 00:50:30.150
was it Luke chapter 18?
00:50:30.160 --> 00:50:34.750
>> Yeah, Luke chapter 18
00:50:34.760 --> 00:50:37.150
talks about um
00:50:37.160 --> 00:50:39.390
I'm stalling for time here and trying to
00:50:39.400 --> 00:50:41.830
visualize in my head but
00:50:41.840 --> 00:50:44.270
uh
00:50:44.280 --> 00:50:47.230
you got to take medicine
00:50:47.240 --> 00:50:49.790
persistently and
00:50:49.800 --> 00:50:52.830
and you got to take it
00:50:52.840 --> 00:50:55.110
correctly.
00:50:55.120 --> 00:50:57.870
And pull Luke 18 and help me out here.
00:50:57.880 --> 00:51:00.590
>> Yeah, I'm I'm looking at it right now.
00:51:00.600 --> 00:51:01.230
>> Uh
00:51:01.240 --> 00:51:02.310
>> But you got to take medicine
00:51:02.320 --> 00:51:04.270
consistently and correctly.
00:51:04.280 --> 00:51:07.590
>> And you got to be
00:51:07.600 --> 00:51:10.310
your prayer life seems like got to be
00:51:10.320 --> 00:51:11.950
consistent
00:51:11.960 --> 00:51:13.710
and correct.
00:51:13.720 --> 00:51:15.310
Uh
00:51:15.320 --> 00:51:16.630
>> Here we are.
00:51:16.640 --> 00:51:19.070
We got it here on the screen.
00:51:19.080 --> 00:51:21.590
The gold down to uh
00:51:21.600 --> 00:51:23.630
>> Oh, yeah. I I got I got it I got it
00:51:23.640 --> 00:51:24.510
right now.
00:51:24.520 --> 00:51:26.030
I tell you every now and then you hook
00:51:26.040 --> 00:51:27.040
one.
00:51:27.050 --> 00:51:28.390
>> [laughter]
00:51:28.400 --> 00:51:29.750
>> But uh
00:51:29.760 --> 00:51:31.470
it's talking about the unjust judge and
00:51:31.480 --> 00:51:33.430
the persistent widow.
00:51:33.440 --> 00:51:35.950
And she kept coming to him and
00:51:35.960 --> 00:51:38.910
and even though he was unjust and even
00:51:38.920 --> 00:51:42.030
though he had no respect for people or
00:51:42.040 --> 00:51:44.910
the Lord he granted her justice. He
00:51:44.920 --> 00:51:46.790
granted her petition [clears throat]
00:51:46.800 --> 00:51:49.510
because she kept on going to him.
00:51:49.520 --> 00:51:53.190
And he said, "Though I do don't fear man
00:51:53.200 --> 00:51:56.190
or God, I'm going to grant you this."
00:51:56.200 --> 00:51:58.430
And it's not saying worry God to death.
00:51:58.440 --> 00:51:59.790
I say
00:51:59.800 --> 00:52:01.710
vain reputation, "God help me. God help
00:52:01.720 --> 00:52:03.110
me. God help me."
00:52:03.120 --> 00:52:05.270
I'm saying that when we come to God, we
00:52:05.280 --> 00:52:07.350
got to come consistently
00:52:07.360 --> 00:52:09.030
with persistence.
00:52:09.040 --> 00:52:10.750
And we got to come in the correct frame
00:52:10.760 --> 00:52:12.550
of mind.
00:52:12.560 --> 00:52:14.590
God has taught us how to pray
00:52:14.600 --> 00:52:16.430
in the Lord's Prayer.
00:52:16.440 --> 00:52:18.870
And it's a good model. And
00:52:18.880 --> 00:52:20.030
we uh
00:52:20.040 --> 00:52:21.470
I'm so sorry I couldn't remember what
00:52:21.480 --> 00:52:23.350
Luke 18 said. I guess it's one of God
00:52:23.360 --> 00:52:24.681
wrote it down so we could go back
00:52:24.691 --> 00:52:28.070
[laughter] and read it.
00:52:28.080 --> 00:52:29.921
Man, I was pulling hard trying to reel
00:52:29.931 --> 00:52:30.830
[laughter] it in.
00:52:30.840 --> 00:52:33.110
>> Well, I I figured when that uh if y'all
00:52:33.120 --> 00:52:34.790
don't realize
00:52:34.800 --> 00:52:35.870
uh
00:52:35.880 --> 00:52:36.870
uh we we uh
00:52:36.880 --> 00:52:37.830
>> We're off the cuff, maybe.
00:52:37.840 --> 00:52:38.830
>> Yeah, we're off the cuff.
00:52:38.840 --> 00:52:39.790
>> Yeah, we winging it.
00:52:39.800 --> 00:52:41.630
>> Yeah, we do it every When we first
00:52:41.640 --> 00:52:43.150
started this, I called Damien. We was
00:52:43.160 --> 00:52:44.710
asked about doing this and doing that
00:52:44.720 --> 00:52:45.990
and having all these questions. But the
00:52:46.000 --> 00:52:48.230
problem was we we got the medicine
00:52:48.240 --> 00:52:49.750
County Jail first thing on Tuesday
00:52:49.760 --> 00:52:51.470
morning. And
00:52:51.480 --> 00:52:53.790
and and sometimes that can be uh very
00:52:53.800 --> 00:52:56.230
interesting. But by time we got here,
00:52:56.240 --> 00:52:57.190
there was no time for all that
00:52:57.200 --> 00:52:59.190
preparation. So, we just went off the
00:52:59.200 --> 00:53:00.470
wing. And Damien said, "You know what?
00:53:00.480 --> 00:53:01.590
That's the best way to do it."
00:53:01.600 --> 00:53:02.190
>> best way, man.
00:53:02.200 --> 00:53:04.430
>> Just have a conversation. But I should
00:53:04.440 --> 00:53:06.390
have prepared you about Luke 18. That
00:53:06.400 --> 00:53:06.710
way you
00:53:06.720 --> 00:53:07.950
>> Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:53:07.960 --> 00:53:08.950
If we're going to talk about it, we
00:53:08.960 --> 00:53:09.876
better prepare for
00:53:09.886 --> 00:53:11.470
>> [laughter]
00:53:11.480 --> 00:53:14.870
>> But because I guess uh how many uh
00:53:14.880 --> 00:53:16.470
with your Parkinson's, how much medicine
00:53:16.480 --> 00:53:17.830
do you have to take every day?
00:53:17.840 --> 00:53:22.110
>> Lord, have mercy. I take about
00:53:22.120 --> 00:53:24.287
I'd say there's that little pink one.
00:53:24.297 --> 00:53:25.390
>> [laughter]
00:53:25.400 --> 00:53:26.350
>> And then
00:53:26.360 --> 00:53:29.790
I take one pill I take
00:53:29.800 --> 00:53:30.870
six
00:53:30.880 --> 00:53:33.070
six pills three times a day, which is
00:53:33.080 --> 00:53:34.750
two pills a piece.
00:53:34.760 --> 00:53:35.950
I take
00:53:35.960 --> 00:53:39.510
about eight of them one time a day.
00:53:39.520 --> 00:53:42.430
And I I know. I take a bunch.
00:53:42.440 --> 00:53:44.030
>> Well, you tied in that because if you
00:53:44.040 --> 00:53:45.830
don't take it, it definitely has a
00:53:45.840 --> 00:53:46.870
negative effect on you.
00:53:46.880 --> 00:53:49.230
>> you take too much of it.
00:53:49.240 --> 00:53:50.270
You know,
00:53:50.280 --> 00:53:52.030
Daddy thought
00:53:52.040 --> 00:53:53.710
if a little do a lot of good, just think
00:53:53.720 --> 00:53:55.072
what a lot will do.
00:53:55.082 --> 00:53:56.590
>> [laughter]
00:53:56.600 --> 00:53:58.070
>> And if he went to Greece something,
00:53:58.080 --> 00:54:00.910
that's what I was his motto.
00:54:00.920 --> 00:54:02.110
And
00:54:02.120 --> 00:54:03.870
medicinally, that's what he thought, but
00:54:03.880 --> 00:54:05.630
that ain't the way it is.
00:54:05.640 --> 00:54:07.350
Your system will only take so much of
00:54:07.360 --> 00:54:09.270
that stuff cuz what can help you can
00:54:09.280 --> 00:54:09.910
kill you.
00:54:09.920 --> 00:54:11.470
>> You got that right.
00:54:11.480 --> 00:54:14.470
>> And
00:54:14.480 --> 00:54:18.110
if I take it right, so and
00:54:18.120 --> 00:54:20.030
if I take it correctly, I do a lot
00:54:20.040 --> 00:54:21.790
better.
00:54:21.800 --> 00:54:25.270
>> Robin, have you And I know uh
00:54:25.280 --> 00:54:26.830
I know it's been a challenging thing for
00:54:26.840 --> 00:54:28.630
you cuz you've always been strong and
00:54:28.640 --> 00:54:31.430
healthy and worked and active and I
00:54:31.440 --> 00:54:32.550
remember you talking about your dad
00:54:32.560 --> 00:54:34.070
having plans for you. He wanted you to
00:54:34.080 --> 00:54:36.950
be at First Baptist Dallas and wear
00:54:36.960 --> 00:54:38.430
coat and tie. He'd tell me, "Son, man,
00:54:38.440 --> 00:54:39.590
Robin,
00:54:39.600 --> 00:54:41.630
he's out there delivering a calf for
00:54:41.640 --> 00:54:43.310
somebody in his church and helping them
00:54:43.320 --> 00:54:45.070
fix a barbed wire fence." And you know,
00:54:45.080 --> 00:54:46.950
he wanted you to be that coat and tie
00:54:46.960 --> 00:54:50.030
guy, but I know that Parkinson's
00:54:50.040 --> 00:54:53.430
has been a uh a huge
00:54:53.440 --> 00:54:54.670
hurdle.
00:54:54.680 --> 00:54:56.030
How can you
00:54:56.040 --> 00:54:56.790
uh
00:54:56.800 --> 00:54:58.110
and I know you're still walking through
00:54:58.120 --> 00:55:01.190
this journey, but have have you
00:55:01.200 --> 00:55:02.790
had some ways that you've been able to
00:55:02.800 --> 00:55:04.870
use that to minister to others or can
00:55:04.880 --> 00:55:07.310
you see Romans 8:28 coming out of this
00:55:07.320 --> 00:55:09.510
yet or you still walking through that
00:55:09.520 --> 00:55:11.270
valley?
00:55:11.280 --> 00:55:13.190
>> I'll tell you what,
00:55:13.200 --> 00:55:15.030
I understand a lot of things a lot
00:55:15.040 --> 00:55:16.430
better now.
00:55:16.440 --> 00:55:18.350
I understand
00:55:18.360 --> 00:55:19.990
I used to not have any understanding or
00:55:20.000 --> 00:55:21.790
any empathy
00:55:21.800 --> 00:55:24.350
for a dope head.
00:55:24.360 --> 00:55:26.710
But
00:55:26.720 --> 00:55:29.270
they
00:55:29.280 --> 00:55:31.990
very well most likely
00:55:32.000 --> 00:55:35.430
were born with a condition
00:55:35.440 --> 00:55:37.990
that that crave that.
00:55:38.000 --> 00:55:40.790
Uh
00:55:40.800 --> 00:55:43.390
I can't help this.
00:55:43.400 --> 00:55:46.390
You know, I can't help stumble around. I
00:55:46.400 --> 00:55:48.630
can't help it.
00:55:48.640 --> 00:55:50.990
A lot of these folks
00:55:51.000 --> 00:55:53.550
were incarcerated right now who who have
00:55:53.560 --> 00:55:55.390
been addicted
00:55:55.400 --> 00:55:57.630
really didn't have the same shot a lot
00:55:57.640 --> 00:55:59.590
of other people did.
00:55:59.600 --> 00:56:01.550
And they can't A lot of them can't help
00:56:01.560 --> 00:56:03.030
it.
00:56:03.040 --> 00:56:04.790
And they
00:56:04.800 --> 00:56:06.870
they don't deserve it.
00:56:06.880 --> 00:56:08.870
But we're called to love them.
00:56:08.880 --> 00:56:12.030
Just like y'all doing.
00:56:12.040 --> 00:56:14.030
>> What what's been the uh
00:56:14.040 --> 00:56:16.390
Have you had some moments where you just
00:56:16.400 --> 00:56:18.910
had to ask God why or have you
00:56:18.920 --> 00:56:19.828
>> Yeah.
00:56:19.838 --> 00:56:22.750
>> [laughter]
00:56:22.760 --> 00:56:23.990
>> I ain't telling him let's talk about it
00:56:24.000 --> 00:56:25.068
man to man with God.
00:56:25.078 --> 00:56:27.270
>> [laughter]
00:56:27.280 --> 00:56:28.870
>> Um
00:56:28.880 --> 00:56:30.590
Yeah, I've asked why cuz I don't know
00:56:30.600 --> 00:56:33.270
why cuz I hate it because it's
00:56:33.280 --> 00:56:35.830
it's so detrimental to my my
00:56:35.840 --> 00:56:38.670
my grandson who's Oak
00:56:38.680 --> 00:56:41.270
is his name, Oak Risher.
00:56:41.280 --> 00:56:43.710
He asked me this weekend
00:56:43.720 --> 00:56:45.110
"Paw Paw." That's what he call me, Paw
00:56:45.120 --> 00:56:46.310
Paw.
00:56:46.320 --> 00:56:48.990
That's off the market now. I'm on
00:56:49.000 --> 00:56:50.550
Um
00:56:50.560 --> 00:56:52.470
What do you call it? Copyright that.
00:56:52.480 --> 00:56:54.310
Copyright, yeah.
00:56:54.320 --> 00:56:55.710
He said, "Paw Paw, why do you walk so
00:56:55.720 --> 00:56:57.750
slow?"
00:56:57.760 --> 00:57:00.790
And I told him I used to didn't.
00:57:00.800 --> 00:57:03.790
And
00:57:03.800 --> 00:57:04.990
listen,
00:57:05.000 --> 00:57:07.430
I love living.
00:57:07.440 --> 00:57:11.510
I love living hopeful. I love living
00:57:11.520 --> 00:57:12.990
uh
00:57:13.000 --> 00:57:15.150
getting together and everything. I want
00:57:15.160 --> 00:57:16.750
to go to heaven.
00:57:16.760 --> 00:57:17.990
I don't ever want to miss that, but I
00:57:18.000 --> 00:57:20.270
love living here right now cuz life can
00:57:20.280 --> 00:57:21.790
be good
00:57:21.800 --> 00:57:22.830
when you know the one that
00:57:22.840 --> 00:57:24.430
overwhelmingly more than conquers
00:57:24.440 --> 00:57:25.350
through
00:57:25.360 --> 00:57:26.030
>> Yes.
00:57:26.040 --> 00:57:26.910
>> through his name.
00:57:26.920 --> 00:57:28.310
>> Amen.
00:57:28.320 --> 00:57:29.710
>> And
00:57:29.720 --> 00:57:31.390
Parkinson's makes you
00:57:31.400 --> 00:57:35.790
main symptom I have is fatigue.
00:57:35.800 --> 00:57:37.310
I can pull that handle on that easy
00:57:37.320 --> 00:57:40.750
chair and I can go to sleep.
00:57:40.760 --> 00:57:42.710
And I used to
00:57:42.720 --> 00:57:44.750
make it on three or four hours a night.
00:57:44.760 --> 00:57:45.350
>> Mhm.
00:57:45.360 --> 00:57:48.230
>> Now it's more like eight or 10.
00:57:48.240 --> 00:57:50.910
I miss so much of life.
00:57:50.920 --> 00:57:52.590
And
00:57:52.600 --> 00:57:54.270
but listen, don't feel sorry for me. I'm
00:57:54.280 --> 00:57:57.150
not after sympathy.
00:57:57.160 --> 00:57:59.190
Uh y'all pray for me. I covet your
00:57:59.200 --> 00:58:01.070
prayers, but
00:58:01.080 --> 00:58:02.590
uh
00:58:02.600 --> 00:58:04.510
God's blessed me.
00:58:04.520 --> 00:58:05.910
>> Have you been able to talk to other
00:58:05.920 --> 00:58:08.710
people that have Parkinson's or
00:58:08.720 --> 00:58:10.710
>> Yeah, Parkinson people have a real they
00:58:10.720 --> 00:58:13.630
they clannish. They come together.
00:58:13.640 --> 00:58:15.390
And then they get a lot of support from
00:58:15.400 --> 00:58:17.510
each other because
00:58:17.520 --> 00:58:18.990
if you don't have it, you just can't
00:58:19.000 --> 00:58:22.190
understand and uh
00:58:22.200 --> 00:58:24.830
how doggone tired it can make you.
00:58:24.840 --> 00:58:26.390
And
00:58:26.400 --> 00:58:28.990
um
00:58:29.000 --> 00:58:30.950
but yeah, I've I've had opportunities to
00:58:30.960 --> 00:58:33.390
help some people and
00:58:33.400 --> 00:58:35.350
uh
00:58:35.360 --> 00:58:39.190
but the biggest thing for me is
00:58:39.200 --> 00:58:41.830
I always thought
00:58:41.840 --> 00:58:44.430
if you just try hard enough
00:58:44.440 --> 00:58:45.870
you can overcome everything.
00:58:45.880 --> 00:58:46.870
>> Mhm.
00:58:46.880 --> 00:58:48.270
>> But you can't.
00:58:48.280 --> 00:58:52.030
You got to have some help.
00:58:52.040 --> 00:58:53.550
Now that's not to say effort's a bad
00:58:53.560 --> 00:58:55.670
thing.
00:58:55.680 --> 00:58:58.030
But uh
00:58:58.040 --> 00:59:02.070
unless the Lord does a miracle
00:59:02.080 --> 00:59:04.030
I'm going to die with Parkinson. Not
00:59:04.040 --> 00:59:06.950
because of, but with it.
00:59:06.960 --> 00:59:09.150
But
00:59:09.160 --> 00:59:10.630
I can't do nothing about it.
00:59:10.640 --> 00:59:11.470
>> Mhm.
00:59:11.480 --> 00:59:13.470
>> And I just got to live with it.
00:59:13.480 --> 00:59:15.670
>> I think sometimes we you know, obviously
00:59:15.680 --> 00:59:17.510
we
00:59:17.520 --> 00:59:18.310
you know,
00:59:18.320 --> 00:59:19.510
you you
00:59:19.520 --> 00:59:21.350
you make an effort, you work hard, you
00:59:21.360 --> 00:59:23.910
do all those things, but if if if
00:59:23.920 --> 00:59:25.990
I think sometimes we think that we're
00:59:26.000 --> 00:59:28.670
doing it and it's all God. If you work
00:59:28.680 --> 00:59:30.750
hard, it's cuz God's giving you the
00:59:30.760 --> 00:59:32.910
strength or the the work ethic or a
00:59:32.920 --> 00:59:34.670
parent that taught you how to work hard
00:59:34.680 --> 00:59:35.590
or
00:59:35.600 --> 00:59:37.430
a good heart and good limbs and all
00:59:37.440 --> 00:59:39.030
that. And I think it's so easy for us to
00:59:39.040 --> 00:59:40.150
forget that
00:59:40.160 --> 00:59:42.350
>> I wondered, Scott, how long it would be
00:59:42.360 --> 00:59:44.190
if God miraculously healed me, flew a
00:59:44.200 --> 00:59:45.390
lightning bolt through this trailer
00:59:45.400 --> 00:59:47.630
house, and hit me, and miraculously
00:59:47.640 --> 00:59:49.030
healed me. I wonder how long it'd take
00:59:49.040 --> 00:59:51.396
me before I said, "Look what I did."
00:59:51.406 --> 00:59:53.790
>> [laughter]
00:59:53.800 --> 00:59:55.590
>> Well, I know you heard the old
00:59:55.600 --> 00:59:57.710
the the preaching illustration about the
00:59:57.720 --> 00:59:59.710
the woodpeckers. Said they were pecking
00:59:59.720 --> 01:00:01.270
on the big old light pole and just
01:00:01.280 --> 01:00:04.150
getting after it in a lightning storm
01:00:04.160 --> 01:00:05.630
came over, and it hit that light pole
01:00:05.640 --> 01:00:06.830
and split it right in the middle. I
01:00:06.840 --> 01:00:08.350
said, "Those two woodpeckers went around
01:00:08.360 --> 01:00:10.710
all saying, 'Hey, come look what we did.
01:00:10.720 --> 01:00:13.270
Come look what we did.'" And
01:00:13.280 --> 01:00:14.790
you know, a lot of times God's not going
01:00:14.800 --> 01:00:16.630
to share his glory, is he?
01:00:16.640 --> 01:00:19.750
>> No, he he he he he deserves that, and he
01:00:19.760 --> 01:00:21.510
owns that.
01:00:21.520 --> 01:00:23.590
He ain't going to play second fiddle.
01:00:23.600 --> 01:00:25.550
>> Has there been a uh
01:00:25.560 --> 01:00:28.150
a specific
01:00:28.160 --> 01:00:29.510
section of scripture that's been a
01:00:29.520 --> 01:00:31.990
comfort to you during this time?
01:00:32.000 --> 01:00:33.790
>> Well, I know that one day I'm going to
01:00:33.800 --> 01:00:35.390
be all right.
01:00:35.400 --> 01:00:36.950
When I get up now, I'm not sure it's
01:00:36.960 --> 01:00:40.790
Parkinson's, but being 58 years old
01:00:40.800 --> 01:00:42.870
being rode hard and put up wet, but it
01:00:42.880 --> 01:00:45.107
sounds like Rice Krispies when I get up.
01:00:45.117 --> 01:00:45.470
>> [laughter]
01:00:45.480 --> 01:00:48.070
>> Snap, crackle, pop.
01:00:48.080 --> 01:00:50.310
One day I'm going to get a new body.
01:00:50.320 --> 01:00:52.910
I'm I've been assured of that. I believe
01:00:52.920 --> 01:00:54.390
that.
01:00:54.400 --> 01:00:57.870
Uh
01:00:57.880 --> 01:00:59.550
I just hope
01:00:59.560 --> 01:01:02.070
I get to hang around and
01:01:02.080 --> 01:01:03.870
you know, people ask me why I do this
01:01:03.880 --> 01:01:05.910
stuff.
01:01:05.920 --> 01:01:09.630
These podcasts and reels and things,
01:01:09.640 --> 01:01:11.590
they kept One of the good sides is they
01:01:11.600 --> 01:01:13.990
they use for all kind of bad. Don't
01:01:14.000 --> 01:01:15.510
think they ain't.
01:01:15.520 --> 01:01:18.670
One of the good points is they capture
01:01:18.680 --> 01:01:20.190
you
01:01:20.200 --> 01:01:23.350
and uh for a long time.
01:01:23.360 --> 01:01:25.390
And my grandchildren can go back and see
01:01:25.400 --> 01:01:26.630
>> Oh, absolutely.
01:01:26.640 --> 01:01:29.310
>> I was.
01:01:29.320 --> 01:01:31.430
I wish you I wish you they could see me
01:01:31.440 --> 01:01:33.110
playing high school football. I love to
01:01:33.120 --> 01:01:34.887
commentate while I was
01:01:34.897 --> 01:01:36.390
>> [laughter]
01:01:36.400 --> 01:01:38.790
>> There goes Richard on the gravy train
01:01:38.800 --> 01:01:39.910
with a biscuit wheel.
01:01:39.920 --> 01:01:40.782
>> You got
01:01:40.792 --> 01:01:42.990
>> [laughter]
01:01:43.000 --> 01:01:45.150
>> Well, look, you got the guy you get you
01:01:45.160 --> 01:01:47.150
get some old high school footage, Damon.
01:01:47.160 --> 01:01:49.630
I have you with flames coming off of you
01:01:49.640 --> 01:01:50.470
and
01:01:50.480 --> 01:01:53.630
uh looking like you bench press 550 and
01:01:53.640 --> 01:01:54.830
and all that. So
01:01:54.840 --> 01:01:56.710
>> Looking like you bench press 550.
01:01:56.720 --> 01:01:59.470
>> I'll tell you that's one thing that uh
01:01:59.480 --> 01:02:01.110
like doing this podcast. I went and
01:02:01.120 --> 01:02:02.630
spoke at a
01:02:02.640 --> 01:02:04.670
recovery group in Vicksburg and there
01:02:04.680 --> 01:02:07.190
were some ladies from a
01:02:07.200 --> 01:02:09.830
a rehab that they let come.
01:02:09.840 --> 01:02:11.990
And she said, "Hey, that's the guy the
01:02:12.000 --> 01:02:14.510
the podcast guy." And just I know
01:02:14.520 --> 01:02:16.310
Damon's so busy now, but when you were
01:02:16.320 --> 01:02:17.950
able have more time and make those
01:02:17.960 --> 01:02:19.950
little reels.
01:02:19.960 --> 01:02:21.830
>> Cuz he he he does that. Like he'll take
01:02:21.840 --> 01:02:24.790
a highlight from some of the podcast and
01:02:24.800 --> 01:02:26.390
I know
01:02:26.400 --> 01:02:28.030
you know, so many people have seen
01:02:28.040 --> 01:02:29.470
those. I remember Aubrey's really
01:02:29.480 --> 01:02:31.270
standing out the one you did for Danny
01:02:31.280 --> 01:02:33.190
Ivy. You know, people that just captures
01:02:33.200 --> 01:02:34.390
people.
01:02:34.400 --> 01:02:36.910
And and and I know you you get old like
01:02:36.920 --> 01:02:38.750
me. I'm not a technology guy. I know how
01:02:38.760 --> 01:02:41.070
to do Facebook.
01:02:41.080 --> 01:02:42.390
I put a lot of stuff on there, but man,
01:02:42.400 --> 01:02:43.670
all this other stuff is over my head,
01:02:43.680 --> 01:02:45.510
but this is what kids
01:02:45.520 --> 01:02:45.870
>> Yeah.
01:02:45.880 --> 01:02:49.030
>> their Tik Tok and Facebook and podcast.
01:02:49.040 --> 01:02:50.190
They'd rather do all that
01:02:50.200 --> 01:02:51.990
>> One thing about YouTube, man, is YouTube
01:02:52.000 --> 01:02:54.150
is forever. And and and that's going to
01:02:54.160 --> 01:02:55.270
be as
01:02:55.280 --> 01:02:57.150
all of the foreseeable future. There's
01:02:57.160 --> 01:03:00.270
there's not another platform that even
01:03:00.280 --> 01:03:03.430
gives you YouTube a a contest. They
01:03:03.440 --> 01:03:04.710
thought, you know, "Oh, man, that's the
01:03:04.720 --> 01:03:06.230
end of YouTube." No.
01:03:06.240 --> 01:03:08.990
YouTube absolutely still dominates. And
01:03:09.000 --> 01:03:11.070
the beautiful thing about YouTube is
01:03:11.080 --> 01:03:12.830
I've got stuff on there from way back
01:03:12.840 --> 01:03:15.550
when I was in my mess early 2000s. Like
01:03:15.560 --> 01:03:17.870
whenever when YouTube first started out
01:03:17.880 --> 01:03:20.550
and I can still go look those up and see
01:03:20.560 --> 01:03:23.470
it. You know, they never go away.
01:03:23.480 --> 01:03:24.190
>> Uh
01:03:24.200 --> 01:03:25.630
and so, you know, the the beautiful
01:03:25.640 --> 01:03:27.110
thing about this is hopefully somebody
01:03:27.120 --> 01:03:29.030
will stumble across it and have a hard
01:03:29.040 --> 01:03:30.590
time and you bring some joy to their
01:03:30.600 --> 01:03:32.710
life and hear about how important God is
01:03:32.720 --> 01:03:34.350
and how you could make it without God
01:03:34.360 --> 01:03:35.830
and all Well, Robert, how many
01:03:35.840 --> 01:03:37.190
grandchildren do you have?
01:03:37.200 --> 01:03:37.830
>> Eight.
01:03:37.840 --> 01:03:40.990
>> Eight. Good gracious. And And what if
01:03:41.000 --> 01:03:42.790
uh 20 years from now when they're
01:03:42.800 --> 01:03:44.150
watching this and listen to their
01:03:44.160 --> 01:03:45.830
grandpa tell all these stories, what
01:03:45.840 --> 01:03:47.950
what's a lesson that you want your
01:03:47.960 --> 01:03:50.990
grandchildren to to learn and uh a truth
01:03:51.000 --> 01:03:52.590
that you want them to
01:03:52.600 --> 01:03:54.030
to know?
01:03:54.040 --> 01:03:56.230
>> Uh I want them to see how good athlete I
01:03:56.240 --> 01:03:59.150
was. I'm just kidding. [laughter]
01:03:59.160 --> 01:04:01.390
I'm just joking about that.
01:04:01.400 --> 01:04:05.110
I hope they can see that
01:04:05.120 --> 01:04:06.910
it ain't easy, but it's worth it.
01:04:06.920 --> 01:04:08.110
>> Amen.
01:04:08.120 --> 01:04:09.790
>> Right.
01:04:09.800 --> 01:04:11.790
And uh
01:04:11.800 --> 01:04:15.510
I hope they can see somebody that
01:04:15.520 --> 01:04:18.630
that
01:04:18.640 --> 01:04:20.030
was
01:04:20.040 --> 01:04:23.310
in the process of trying to arrive at
01:04:23.320 --> 01:04:25.150
Christianity.
01:04:25.160 --> 01:04:27.190
And somebody else's love.
01:04:27.200 --> 01:04:28.270
>> Mhm.
01:04:28.280 --> 01:04:29.590
We give out
01:04:29.600 --> 01:04:31.070
these bracelets. I don't have cuz I
01:04:31.080 --> 01:04:32.510
think I gave my last one away, but it
01:04:32.520 --> 01:04:34.870
says trust the process. We give it to
01:04:34.880 --> 01:04:37.430
them, but you got to trust the process.
01:04:37.440 --> 01:04:39.870
We uh Christian King, if you're watching
01:04:39.880 --> 01:04:41.950
this, man, you did a phenomenal job last
01:04:41.960 --> 01:04:43.310
night. She shared her testimony at
01:04:43.320 --> 01:04:45.830
Celebrate Recovery. But one of the
01:04:45.840 --> 01:04:48.670
things she kept going back to is how God
01:04:48.680 --> 01:04:51.510
had changed her life radically, and how
01:04:51.520 --> 01:04:54.270
much she's loved, and how God has saved
01:04:54.280 --> 01:04:57.110
her and blessed her. But
01:04:57.120 --> 01:04:59.110
she still has tough times. And she still
01:04:59.120 --> 01:05:00.310
goes through uh
01:05:00.320 --> 01:05:03.270
>> Yeah, God didn't say I'm going to remove
01:05:03.280 --> 01:05:04.990
all difficulties
01:05:05.000 --> 01:05:06.910
when you come to him.
01:05:06.920 --> 01:05:08.550
As a matter of fact,
01:05:08.560 --> 01:05:11.430
look out cuz Satan's going to present
01:05:11.440 --> 01:05:14.870
some difficulties.
01:05:14.880 --> 01:05:16.030
>> And uh
01:05:16.040 --> 01:05:17.390
you're saying y'all can keep talking,
01:05:17.400 --> 01:05:18.830
Robert, cuz I'm trying to find a verse
01:05:18.840 --> 01:05:20.790
of scripture real quick that
01:05:20.800 --> 01:05:22.150
>> Well, that's uh
01:05:22.160 --> 01:05:23.485
one in it.
01:05:23.495 --> 01:05:23.830
>> [laughter]
01:05:23.840 --> 01:05:27.230
>> And you started talking on live there
01:05:27.240 --> 01:05:29.350
about something you didn't know was
01:05:29.360 --> 01:05:29.830
coming.
01:05:29.840 --> 01:05:31.630
>> Yeah, well, you said [laughter] it
01:05:31.640 --> 01:05:33.910
we talking about guys not going to spare
01:05:33.920 --> 01:05:36.230
you from all the troubles, but
01:05:36.240 --> 01:05:36.750
>> All right.
01:05:36.760 --> 01:05:38.190
>> I think a lot of times I have a hard
01:05:38.200 --> 01:05:40.310
time with the stuff I prepare. It's like
01:05:40.320 --> 01:05:41.830
I'll prepare and prepare and prepare and
01:05:41.840 --> 01:05:44.110
then and then all of a sudden I will not
01:05:44.120 --> 01:05:46.310
remember a word of what I was supposed
01:05:46.320 --> 01:05:47.590
to talk about.
01:05:47.600 --> 01:05:50.390
>> Well, here's the the scripture that God
01:05:50.400 --> 01:05:51.510
put on my heart while we was talking
01:05:51.520 --> 01:05:53.190
about this. This is in
01:05:53.200 --> 01:05:54.510
you're the Bible scholar, is it
01:05:54.520 --> 01:05:55.990
Habakkuk?
01:05:56.000 --> 01:05:56.630
>> Habakkuk.
01:05:56.640 --> 01:05:57.990
>> Is that how you pronounce it, Greg?
01:05:58.000 --> 01:05:58.950
>> Habakkuk.
01:05:58.960 --> 01:06:01.310
>> Habakkuk, which I know most people won't
01:06:01.320 --> 01:06:02.430
read, but
01:06:02.440 --> 01:06:05.070
the uh Habakkuk 3 and it starts in verse
01:06:05.080 --> 01:06:07.190
17.
01:06:07.200 --> 01:06:08.710
It says, "Although the fig tree shall
01:06:08.720 --> 01:06:10.230
not blossom,
01:06:10.240 --> 01:06:12.350
neither shall fruit be in the vines, the
01:06:12.360 --> 01:06:14.270
labor of the olive shall fail, and the
01:06:14.280 --> 01:06:16.830
field shall yield no meat. The flock
01:06:16.840 --> 01:06:18.310
shall be cut off from the fold, and
01:06:18.320 --> 01:06:21.350
there shall be no herd in the stalls.
01:06:21.360 --> 01:06:22.670
Yet,
01:06:22.680 --> 01:06:25.430
I will rejoice in the Lord.
01:06:25.440 --> 01:06:28.070
I will joy in the God of my salvation.
01:06:28.080 --> 01:06:29.910
The Lord God is my strength, and he will
01:06:29.920 --> 01:06:32.150
make my feet like hinds' feet. He will
01:06:32.160 --> 01:06:35.830
make me walk upon my hind places." And
01:06:35.840 --> 01:06:38.550
in my Bible, I've got that word yet with
01:06:38.560 --> 01:06:40.750
a big old circle around it, cuz all this
01:06:40.760 --> 01:06:43.270
stuff uh for lack of better theological
01:06:43.280 --> 01:06:44.630
terms, the
01:06:44.640 --> 01:06:47.750
the uh the mess has hit the fan,
01:06:47.760 --> 01:06:49.590
and he's given all these descriptions of
01:06:49.600 --> 01:06:51.110
everything that's wrong, but he says,
01:06:51.120 --> 01:06:53.910
"Yet, I still will rejoice in the Lord."
01:06:53.920 --> 01:06:55.630
And I think that
01:06:55.640 --> 01:06:57.350
we may even in Philippians 4, where it
01:06:57.360 --> 01:06:59.230
says rejoice in the Lord always, again I
01:06:59.240 --> 01:07:01.510
say rejoice. We don't rejoice in our
01:07:01.520 --> 01:07:04.270
circumstances or our health or our ble-
01:07:04.280 --> 01:07:05.550
you know, our
01:07:05.560 --> 01:07:07.950
physical things. We rejoice in the Lord
01:07:07.960 --> 01:07:08.630
and
01:07:08.640 --> 01:07:10.390
we rejoice in anything other than that
01:07:10.400 --> 01:07:12.270
is is going to disappoint us and
01:07:12.280 --> 01:07:13.230
>> futile
01:07:13.240 --> 01:07:15.390
>> That That right here says, "I will
01:07:15.400 --> 01:07:18.710
rejoice in the Lord." And
01:07:18.720 --> 01:07:20.550
so when those hard times come because
01:07:20.560 --> 01:07:23.230
God didn't promise us
01:07:23.240 --> 01:07:24.910
that we wouldn't go through hardships.
01:07:24.920 --> 01:07:26.430
He just promised us that he would be
01:07:26.440 --> 01:07:28.750
with us during those hardships.
01:07:28.760 --> 01:07:30.750
>> In fact, he promised us more that we
01:07:30.760 --> 01:07:32.510
would go through it.
01:07:32.520 --> 01:07:35.270
Jesus repeats that repeatedly in the in
01:07:35.280 --> 01:07:35.950
in you know in the new
01:07:35.960 --> 01:07:37.390
>> world you'll have troubles.
01:07:37.400 --> 01:07:37.870
>> Yeah.
01:07:37.880 --> 01:07:39.430
>> But be of good cheer. I have overcome
01:07:39.440 --> 01:07:39.990
the world.
01:07:40.000 --> 01:07:41.390
>> They They have hated me then they shall
01:07:41.400 --> 01:07:43.990
hate you also. I mean, it's not
01:07:44.000 --> 01:07:45.390
you know, there's never anywhere in
01:07:45.400 --> 01:07:46.470
there where we're we're going to be
01:07:46.480 --> 01:07:49.270
richer or or anything like that. That's
01:07:49.280 --> 01:07:51.030
for sure. I'll tell you something funny
01:07:51.040 --> 01:07:53.070
man would have a cook
01:07:53.080 --> 01:07:55.830
at FOA you have to say your books. You
01:07:55.840 --> 01:07:57.750
say your books every morning.
01:07:57.760 --> 01:08:00.150
And when you get to to 28 days or 4
01:08:00.160 --> 01:08:02.430
weeks, you're eligible to go out to work
01:08:02.440 --> 01:08:05.510
if you can say your books. So these
01:08:05.520 --> 01:08:07.550
guys, they buckle down and say those
01:08:07.560 --> 01:08:08.830
books cuz they want to be able to go on
01:08:08.840 --> 01:08:11.070
pass. They want to And I can't tell you
01:08:11.080 --> 01:08:12.390
how many people when they get to have a
01:08:12.400 --> 01:08:14.442
good say tobacco.
01:08:14.452 --> 01:08:16.110
>> [laughter]
01:08:16.120 --> 01:08:17.070
>> And job
01:08:17.080 --> 01:08:20.269
>> Yeah, man. Oh man, it's crazy, man.
01:08:20.279 --> 01:08:21.349
>> And look at all the Pentecostal
01:08:21.359 --> 01:08:22.302
comedians.
01:08:22.312 --> 01:08:24.030
>> [laughter]
01:08:24.040 --> 01:08:26.990
>> Yeah. Well, first opinion.
01:08:27.000 --> 01:08:28.030
That's it.
01:08:28.040 --> 01:08:30.162
A lot of Baptist Bibles.
01:08:30.172 --> 01:08:30.349
>> [laughter]
01:08:30.359 --> 01:08:34.470
>> First opinions.
01:08:34.480 --> 01:08:35.990
>> That's right.
01:08:36.000 --> 01:08:36.590
>> Uh
01:08:36.600 --> 01:08:37.269
>> That's good.
01:08:37.279 --> 01:08:39.430
>> Bible worse than things that have helped
01:08:39.440 --> 01:08:40.550
you
01:08:40.560 --> 01:08:43.269
in your just personal walk with the Lord
01:08:43.279 --> 01:08:44.590
that you could share with other people
01:08:44.600 --> 01:08:46.990
that might help you.
01:08:47.000 --> 01:08:48.430
>> I'd tell you
01:08:48.440 --> 01:08:49.349
um
01:08:49.359 --> 01:08:51.150
get you some good friends. Get you some
01:08:51.160 --> 01:08:54.349
people you can count on. You know, God
01:08:54.359 --> 01:08:56.190
made us as a
01:08:56.200 --> 01:08:58.510
a social being.
01:08:58.520 --> 01:09:01.670
What do they do to the most hardened
01:09:01.680 --> 01:09:05.430
criminal they used to punish him?
01:09:05.440 --> 01:09:06.630
They put him in solitary.
01:09:06.640 --> 01:09:08.230
>> That's right.
01:09:08.240 --> 01:09:11.309
>> We're not designed to be solitary.
01:09:11.319 --> 01:09:12.990
It's important to God that we love each
01:09:13.000 --> 01:09:15.670
other, we serve each other.
01:09:15.680 --> 01:09:17.030
And
01:09:17.040 --> 01:09:18.030
people say, "Well, I don't have no
01:09:18.040 --> 01:09:19.990
friends." Well, be a friend, you'll get
01:09:20.000 --> 01:09:21.630
some. Start serving people.
01:09:21.640 --> 01:09:23.309
>> That's a fact. Well, you said something
01:09:23.319 --> 01:09:24.910
right there, Robin. You ain't got no
01:09:24.920 --> 01:09:26.309
friends, well, be a friend and you'll
01:09:26.319 --> 01:09:26.910
get some.
01:09:26.920 --> 01:09:28.829
>> Yeah, that's it it says it in Proverbs
01:09:28.839 --> 01:09:30.870
that he who shows himself friendly shall
01:09:30.880 --> 01:09:32.309
have friends. I'm I'm know I'm
01:09:32.319 --> 01:09:34.309
paraphrasing that. That may be New King
01:09:34.319 --> 01:09:38.230
James, The Passion, NIV, ESV, all, but
01:09:38.240 --> 01:09:40.190
uh y'all look that up in Proverbs. He
01:09:40.200 --> 01:09:42.309
who has friends, you know, he who shows
01:09:42.319 --> 01:09:44.430
himself to be friendly will have
01:09:44.440 --> 01:09:45.670
friends.
01:09:45.680 --> 01:09:46.749
Uh
01:09:46.759 --> 01:09:48.430
And what what about your Bible reading?
01:09:48.440 --> 01:09:50.550
What do you do as far as a devotion? You
01:09:50.560 --> 01:09:52.190
reading devotion books or you just
01:09:52.200 --> 01:09:53.390
digging the word? You got a plan?
01:09:53.400 --> 01:09:55.550
>> Not right now, I'm not doing any
01:09:55.560 --> 01:09:58.310
devotion. And I tell you,
01:09:58.320 --> 01:10:00.350
and this ain't right,
01:10:00.360 --> 01:10:02.470
most of the time I'm
01:10:02.480 --> 01:10:04.710
looking for a connection between some
01:10:04.720 --> 01:10:06.510
story I got
01:10:06.520 --> 01:10:09.510
and the scripture. I'm just
01:10:09.520 --> 01:10:12.030
and I can go too far with that. I can
01:10:12.040 --> 01:10:14.350
kind of be in
01:10:14.360 --> 01:10:15.630
I don't need to be in the scripture
01:10:15.640 --> 01:10:18.030
here, but sometimes I want to.
01:10:18.040 --> 01:10:21.430
And
01:10:21.440 --> 01:10:23.790
devotion is much different than sermon
01:10:23.800 --> 01:10:24.670
preparation.
01:10:24.680 --> 01:10:26.230
>> Yes.
01:10:26.240 --> 01:10:28.510
>> But just jump in that word and be
01:10:28.520 --> 01:10:30.990
consistent with it.
01:10:31.000 --> 01:10:33.390
And you can just have little plans like
01:10:33.400 --> 01:10:36.470
read a chapter John, Psalms, and
01:10:36.480 --> 01:10:37.830
Proverbs.
01:10:37.840 --> 01:10:38.670
>> Mhm.
01:10:38.680 --> 01:10:41.830
>> Or just
01:10:41.840 --> 01:10:43.550
you know, you read Proverbs and and it
01:10:43.560 --> 01:10:46.670
goes through it's kind of cyclic.
01:10:46.680 --> 01:10:48.310
They'll be up on the mountaintop. I
01:10:48.320 --> 01:10:51.270
praise God who all blessings flow. I
01:10:51.280 --> 01:10:52.790
praise God and then he says, "Lord, be
01:10:52.800 --> 01:10:54.790
with me. I am a man undone."
01:10:54.800 --> 01:10:55.750
>> Mhm.
01:10:55.760 --> 01:10:59.110
>> He got got go through cycles. Mhm.
01:10:59.120 --> 01:11:02.910
And read it from 30,000 ft,
01:11:02.920 --> 01:11:05.230
you know, taking overview of it, and
01:11:05.240 --> 01:11:06.950
then get specific with it.
01:11:06.960 --> 01:11:07.750
>> Yes.
01:11:07.760 --> 01:11:09.110
>> Zoomed in on it.
01:11:09.120 --> 01:11:09.550
>> Mhm.
01:11:09.560 --> 01:11:10.670
>> Yeah.
01:11:10.680 --> 01:11:13.110
>> I know we tell our guys at at the jail
01:11:13.120 --> 01:11:13.870
uh
01:11:13.880 --> 01:11:16.830
like today's the 7th, read Proverbs
01:11:16.840 --> 01:11:18.870
chapter 7. Tomorrow read Proverbs
01:11:18.880 --> 01:11:21.230
chapter 8. If somebody's never you know
01:11:21.240 --> 01:11:23.190
been in church or exposed to the word,
01:11:23.200 --> 01:11:24.590
that's a good starting point. And I
01:11:24.600 --> 01:11:25.830
don't think you can go wrong reading
01:11:25.840 --> 01:11:27.470
John. We tell John like
01:11:27.480 --> 01:11:28.710
>> Exactly. I was going to say John.
01:11:28.720 --> 01:11:29.870
>> Robert, I think you should write a
01:11:29.880 --> 01:11:32.150
devotional, man. I think you ought to,
01:11:32.160 --> 01:11:33.910
man. I think you I think the way that
01:11:33.920 --> 01:11:36.110
you tie those stories together with the
01:11:36.120 --> 01:11:38.150
Bible, I think that'd be a a great
01:11:38.160 --> 01:11:40.030
thing. And it not and I'm not going to
01:11:40.040 --> 01:11:41.350
jump and say, "Oh, you make a whole lot
01:11:41.360 --> 01:11:42.750
of money." But what I will say is that
01:11:42.760 --> 01:11:44.390
there'd be a lot of people encouraged
01:11:44.400 --> 01:11:46.790
with the humor that's in there and the
01:11:46.800 --> 01:11:49.030
biblical understanding that that's
01:11:49.040 --> 01:11:50.670
behind it. I I think that'd be a great
01:11:50.680 --> 01:11:51.790
idea for you, man.
01:11:51.800 --> 01:11:53.070
>> Let me tell you a story real quick. I
01:11:53.080 --> 01:11:54.390
was talking to a guy on the way down
01:11:54.400 --> 01:11:56.310
here named Opie Opie Thomas.
01:11:56.320 --> 01:11:56.990
>> Opie?
01:11:57.000 --> 01:11:58.750
>> Opie. Opie Thomas. That's not his real
01:11:58.760 --> 01:11:59.790
name. He just looks like Opie on The
01:11:59.800 --> 01:12:00.750
Andy Griffith Show.
01:12:00.760 --> 01:12:01.670
Yeah.
01:12:01.680 --> 01:12:05.004
>> Oh, the curse of my childhood returns.
01:12:05.014 --> 01:12:05.550
>> [laughter]
01:12:05.560 --> 01:12:10.390
>> Uh he he uh directed Hope Outdoors.
01:12:10.400 --> 01:12:13.230
And uh they took sick children hunting
01:12:13.240 --> 01:12:15.510
and they take sick children hunting.
01:12:15.520 --> 01:12:17.590
And he's on staff now up in Tupelo
01:12:17.600 --> 01:12:19.030
somewhere, but
01:12:19.040 --> 01:12:20.710
we were talking about he he he was big
01:12:20.720 --> 01:12:23.150
into this podcasting and
01:12:23.160 --> 01:12:25.790
YouTube and Facebook and TikTok and all
01:12:25.800 --> 01:12:28.150
of it. He's talking about
01:12:28.160 --> 01:12:30.710
some of the um
01:12:30.720 --> 01:12:32.830
things we put out there online, some of
01:12:32.840 --> 01:12:35.030
the posts we make, some of the reels we
01:12:35.040 --> 01:12:37.750
make, some of the videos we make.
01:12:37.760 --> 01:12:40.270
And it's real easy to judge your worth
01:12:40.280 --> 01:12:42.470
by the number of views you get. I'm on
01:12:42.480 --> 01:12:43.990
top of the world. Now I got a million
01:12:44.000 --> 01:12:46.790
views. I got 100,000 views.
01:12:46.800 --> 01:12:48.110
I'm better
01:12:48.120 --> 01:12:49.830
than the man that got
01:12:49.840 --> 01:12:51.670
>> three views, yeah.
01:12:51.680 --> 01:12:54.070
>> But it ain't reaching the world too that
01:12:54.080 --> 01:12:56.350
I need to be concerned about. It's that
01:12:56.360 --> 01:12:57.230
one out there.
01:12:57.240 --> 01:12:58.510
>> That's right.
01:12:58.520 --> 01:12:59.710
>> That one out there I might have
01:12:59.720 --> 01:13:02.510
something to say to or I might have some
01:13:02.520 --> 01:13:04.430
something in common with, something to
01:13:04.440 --> 01:13:06.790
relate to him.
01:13:06.800 --> 01:13:08.830
And as
01:13:08.840 --> 01:13:10.350
you say that and you
01:13:10.360 --> 01:13:12.390
sounds easy.
01:13:12.400 --> 01:13:14.150
But you can tie your worth to what how
01:13:14.160 --> 01:13:15.990
many views you get really.
01:13:16.000 --> 01:13:18.510
>> easily, man. I remember there was a time
01:13:18.520 --> 01:13:20.110
when I first really really started
01:13:20.120 --> 01:13:22.710
YouTube, man, where that was my whole
01:13:22.720 --> 01:13:25.910
existence was YouTube. And I remember
01:13:25.920 --> 01:13:28.310
leaving my my screen up on that that
01:13:28.320 --> 01:13:29.990
there's a analytics page where you can
01:13:30.000 --> 01:13:33.430
see little blue bars that show up. And
01:13:33.440 --> 01:13:34.870
however high they are, that's how many
01:13:34.880 --> 01:13:37.350
people are watching at that moment. And
01:13:37.360 --> 01:13:38.750
I remember sitting there and just
01:13:38.760 --> 01:13:40.190
watching that thing and watching that
01:13:40.200 --> 01:13:41.470
thing and watching that thing and
01:13:41.480 --> 01:13:43.870
watching that thing and then, you know,
01:13:43.880 --> 01:13:45.510
finally I had to come to a point, man,
01:13:45.520 --> 01:13:46.910
where I just turned that whole thing
01:13:46.920 --> 01:13:48.750
off. I don't even check them anymore.
01:13:48.760 --> 01:13:50.590
Now nowadays, man, I post something and
01:13:50.600 --> 01:13:52.270
I don't I don't even care about it. And
01:13:52.280 --> 01:13:53.830
it it'll blow my mind because I'll start
01:13:53.840 --> 01:13:55.230
getting these notifications that it's
01:13:55.240 --> 01:13:56.830
basically going viral, you know, it's
01:13:56.840 --> 01:13:58.790
nuts and all. It doesn't even bother me
01:13:58.800 --> 01:14:00.310
anymore, but you're absolutely right.
01:14:00.320 --> 01:14:02.550
There was a time where even though my
01:14:02.560 --> 01:14:04.150
content that I was making at that time
01:14:04.160 --> 01:14:06.790
was all Christ-based, every bit of it.
01:14:06.800 --> 01:14:09.630
But there was a time that my God had
01:14:09.640 --> 01:14:11.590
became the views I was getting from what
01:14:11.600 --> 01:14:14.270
I had made about Jesus. You know what I
01:14:14.280 --> 01:14:16.350
mean?
01:14:16.360 --> 01:14:19.310
>> We talk about the ancient Greeks and
01:14:19.320 --> 01:14:20.710
things. They were so stupid having
01:14:20.720 --> 01:14:22.630
Mercury and Venus and
01:14:22.640 --> 01:14:25.750
and all these gods and Neptune and Zeus
01:14:25.760 --> 01:14:27.670
and all. But you know who the god is
01:14:27.680 --> 01:14:29.710
today?
01:14:29.720 --> 01:14:31.510
>> Yeah. Absolutely.
01:14:31.520 --> 01:14:32.510
>> Self.
01:14:32.520 --> 01:14:34.230
We ain't got the decency to go out here
01:14:34.240 --> 01:14:37.621
and find some giant superhero
01:14:37.631 --> 01:14:38.390
>> [laughter]
01:14:38.400 --> 01:14:40.110
>> to put our faith in. We just put our
01:14:40.120 --> 01:14:42.230
faith in self. And look, I can't bench
01:14:42.240 --> 01:14:44.150
press 100.
01:14:44.160 --> 01:14:46.390
I can't do nothing anymore.
01:14:46.400 --> 01:14:48.590
Listen, if I walk in a
01:14:48.600 --> 01:14:51.430
I used to walk in a Quick Stop at night
01:14:51.440 --> 01:14:53.590
and kind of weigh everybody and go,
01:14:53.600 --> 01:14:55.470
"I can take him. I can take him. He
01:14:55.480 --> 01:14:56.616
might be in trouble."
01:14:56.626 --> 01:14:57.030
>> [laughter]
01:14:57.040 --> 01:14:58.630
>> Now, I walk in and I'll be able to talk
01:14:58.640 --> 01:15:00.390
my way out of it.
01:15:00.400 --> 01:15:02.190
The girl behind the counter could whip
01:15:02.200 --> 01:15:03.167
me.
01:15:03.177 --> 01:15:05.110
>> [laughter]
01:15:05.120 --> 01:15:06.950
>> But, that has caused you to depend on
01:15:06.960 --> 01:15:07.870
the Lord more.
01:15:07.880 --> 01:15:09.870
>> Yeah.
01:15:09.880 --> 01:15:10.750
>> So.
01:15:10.760 --> 01:15:12.710
Uh I I feel sorry for our young people.
01:15:12.720 --> 01:15:14.030
We're talking about the lights and the
01:15:14.040 --> 01:15:16.150
jukebox. That's that's their world.
01:15:16.160 --> 01:15:17.590
That's their whole world
01:15:17.600 --> 01:15:19.270
and and all that. And I think about
01:15:19.280 --> 01:15:21.870
sometimes and
01:15:21.880 --> 01:15:23.270
cuz you know, like when we put stuff,
01:15:23.280 --> 01:15:25.790
you know, we put we go on vacation or
01:15:25.800 --> 01:15:27.950
you know, your family's all together,
01:15:27.960 --> 01:15:29.870
but you know, like
01:15:29.880 --> 01:15:31.630
Chassy took me to a Braves game for my
01:15:31.640 --> 01:15:33.550
birthday. Man, we had a
01:15:33.560 --> 01:15:36.270
flat on the way home.
01:15:36.280 --> 01:15:37.590
And
01:15:37.600 --> 01:15:39.750
the jack in her car is about like that.
01:15:39.760 --> 01:15:40.790
>> Oh, you still have that?
01:15:40.800 --> 01:15:43.550
>> the And the Anyway, so I finally and I
01:15:43.560 --> 01:15:46.990
busted my shin and it's 120°.
01:15:47.000 --> 01:15:48.910
So, we called roadside assistance.
01:15:48.920 --> 01:15:49.510
>> terrible, man.
01:15:49.520 --> 01:15:51.950
>> Uh 2 hours later he comes. It's already,
01:15:51.960 --> 01:15:53.550
you know, humiliating you got to call
01:15:53.560 --> 01:15:56.710
roadside assistance. So, we go to a
01:15:56.720 --> 01:15:58.110
a a a
01:15:58.120 --> 01:15:59.830
Sam's.
01:15:59.840 --> 01:16:01.590
They don't have the tire I need.
01:16:01.600 --> 01:16:02.430
>> not. Why would they?
01:16:02.440 --> 01:16:03.190
>> I'm like, well
01:16:03.200 --> 01:16:04.470
>> You need a round one.
01:16:04.480 --> 01:16:06.230
>> I said, well
01:16:06.240 --> 01:16:09.150
can I buy I I get home, can I buy new
01:16:09.160 --> 01:16:11.590
tires? We don't carry that kind. So, I'm
01:16:11.600 --> 01:16:13.990
like, okay. So, anyway,
01:16:14.000 --> 01:16:14.630
but we don't
01:16:14.640 --> 01:16:16.670
>> Sam's didn't carry your tire?
01:16:16.680 --> 01:16:18.710
>> And they recommended us to a tire shop.
01:16:18.720 --> 01:16:20.230
I went in and told the guy, he said,
01:16:20.240 --> 01:16:22.150
"So, Sam's is giving us their business?"
01:16:22.160 --> 01:16:24.030
I said, "I guess so."
01:16:24.040 --> 01:16:26.190
Well, 4 hours later we get a tire, but I
01:16:26.200 --> 01:16:27.790
got thinking,
01:16:27.800 --> 01:16:29.390
we don't post stuff like that, but
01:16:29.400 --> 01:16:30.350
that's
01:16:30.360 --> 01:16:32.630
that's our life every day. You You get
01:16:32.640 --> 01:16:34.790
sick, you have a flat tire.
01:16:34.800 --> 01:16:36.270
>> want people to see that. We want to see
01:16:36.280 --> 01:16:38.750
it we we got everything in control.
01:16:38.760 --> 01:16:39.510
>> So, that's right.
01:16:39.520 --> 01:16:41.670
>> My grandchildren never disobey.
01:16:41.680 --> 01:16:43.630
>> Yeah, I hear you. But but I think
01:16:43.640 --> 01:16:46.150
sometimes because we choose just to
01:16:46.160 --> 01:16:47.790
accentuate the positive that people
01:16:47.800 --> 01:16:49.270
don't realize that you know
01:16:49.280 --> 01:16:50.390
>> And life is really life.
01:16:50.400 --> 01:16:51.550
>> Life life and bubble
01:16:51.560 --> 01:16:53.510
>> Life is life and somebody said it last
01:16:53.520 --> 01:16:56.110
week and and all we can tell you
01:16:56.120 --> 01:16:57.750
men ministry is tough, it's
01:16:57.760 --> 01:17:00.430
discouraging, people let you down and we
01:17:00.440 --> 01:17:01.590
don't
01:17:01.600 --> 01:17:03.750
we don't post that stuff but believe me
01:17:03.760 --> 01:17:05.350
it it happens every day.
01:17:05.360 --> 01:17:05.950
>> Yeah.
01:17:05.960 --> 01:17:07.510
>> You know the movie Lonesome Dove?
01:17:07.520 --> 01:17:08.470
>> Yes.
01:17:08.480 --> 01:17:09.390
>> That's
01:17:09.400 --> 01:17:10.870
behind the Bible, that's the greatest
01:17:10.880 --> 01:17:11.630
communication [laughter]
01:17:11.640 --> 01:17:13.430
ever.
01:17:13.440 --> 01:17:13.670
But
01:17:13.680 --> 01:17:15.150
>> Look, I agree with you on that.
01:17:15.160 --> 01:17:17.350
>> Augustus said Laurie darling, life in
01:17:17.360 --> 01:17:19.230
San Francisco still just life.
01:17:19.240 --> 01:17:20.063
>> That's right.
01:17:20.073 --> 01:17:21.030
>> [laughter]
01:17:21.040 --> 01:17:22.390
>> And you can go anywhere you want to on
01:17:22.400 --> 01:17:23.670
this world and it's just going to be
01:17:23.680 --> 01:17:24.430
life.
01:17:24.440 --> 01:17:25.070
>> That's right.
01:17:25.080 --> 01:17:26.550
>> You remember what he told her? You got
01:17:26.560 --> 01:17:28.270
to learn to enjoy the simple things in
01:17:28.280 --> 01:17:28.310
life.
01:17:28.320 --> 01:17:30.150
>> Every every little day thing.
01:17:30.160 --> 01:17:31.230
>> Yep.
01:17:31.240 --> 01:17:34.030
Glass of buttermilk.
01:17:34.040 --> 01:17:35.128
That's right.
01:17:35.138 --> 01:17:36.070
>> [laughter]
01:17:36.080 --> 01:17:36.470
>> Did you just say
01:17:36.480 --> 01:17:38.190
>> Bang bang I'm talking about what we do
01:17:38.200 --> 01:17:38.950
with living.
01:17:38.960 --> 01:17:40.270
>> Yeah, I'm not a buttermilk But that's
01:17:40.280 --> 01:17:41.670
what he tells Laurie, he says you got to
01:17:41.680 --> 01:17:43.270
learn to enjoy the little things like a
01:17:43.280 --> 01:17:44.950
good glass of buttermilk and all.
01:17:44.960 --> 01:17:47.573
>> For a fine young gentleman like myself.
01:17:47.583 --> 01:17:48.150
>> [laughter]
01:17:48.160 --> 01:17:52.158
>> Which ain't scriptural.
01:17:52.168 --> 01:17:52.630
>> [clears throat]
01:17:52.640 --> 01:17:53.950
>> But
01:17:53.960 --> 01:17:58.030
you know we and we think we on a
01:17:58.040 --> 01:18:01.070
willing rewards program. We willing to
01:18:01.080 --> 01:18:02.830
do good things, God's going to bless us.
01:18:02.840 --> 01:18:04.550
>> And he will.
01:18:04.560 --> 01:18:06.470
>> He's with us, he's going to bless us but
01:18:06.480 --> 01:18:08.230
he listen, he already blesses a good
01:18:08.240 --> 01:18:08.710
bit.
01:18:08.720 --> 01:18:09.470
>> You got that right.
01:18:09.480 --> 01:18:12.870
>> With the giving his son as a lamb led to
01:18:12.880 --> 01:18:15.030
slaughter to be crucified, hung up
01:18:15.040 --> 01:18:19.310
between heaven and earth suspended
01:18:19.320 --> 01:18:21.910
with dying a painful gruesome death.
01:18:21.920 --> 01:18:22.830
That
01:18:22.840 --> 01:18:24.150
That's a pretty righteous part of
01:18:24.160 --> 01:18:25.150
blessing right there.
01:18:25.160 --> 01:18:26.550
>> Mhm.
01:18:26.560 --> 01:18:28.510
>> And don't forget about that but we think
01:18:28.520 --> 01:18:30.550
we deserve blessing cuz we doing a good
01:18:30.560 --> 01:18:32.470
thing.
01:18:32.480 --> 01:18:36.190
I know a couple that adopted a baby.
01:18:36.200 --> 01:18:38.510
A crack baby.
01:18:38.520 --> 01:18:41.790
Legitimately.
01:18:41.800 --> 01:18:45.950
And they did a great thing.
01:18:45.960 --> 01:18:48.190
But that joker
01:18:48.200 --> 01:18:49.990
is
01:18:50.000 --> 01:18:51.764
mean
01:18:51.774 --> 01:18:52.510
>> [laughter]
01:18:52.520 --> 01:18:54.950
>> to find
01:18:54.960 --> 01:18:56.550
but
01:18:56.560 --> 01:18:58.070
you still got to keep on loving him.
01:18:58.080 --> 01:18:59.790
That's the only shot he's got.
01:18:59.800 --> 01:19:00.030
>> That's all right.
01:19:00.040 --> 01:19:01.350
>> I wish I could say, "Listen,
01:19:01.360 --> 01:19:02.990
everything's going to line out just
01:19:03.000 --> 01:19:04.350
right. You're going to get two zeros
01:19:04.360 --> 01:19:06.870
added to your checking account. Your
01:19:06.880 --> 01:19:08.470
feet ain't going to stink no more and
01:19:08.480 --> 01:19:11.870
you ain't going to change your armpit."
01:19:11.880 --> 01:19:13.070
I wish I could tell you everything's
01:19:13.080 --> 01:19:14.590
going to be peaches and cream, but it
01:19:14.600 --> 01:19:15.030
ain't.
01:19:15.040 --> 01:19:16.350
>> It's not.
01:19:16.360 --> 01:19:17.830
But yay, though I walk through the
01:19:17.840 --> 01:19:19.230
valley of the shadow of death, I will
01:19:19.240 --> 01:19:21.270
fear no evil for thou art with me. And
01:19:21.280 --> 01:19:22.790
then I think about that because
01:19:22.800 --> 01:19:26.350
obviously we're blessed but our culture
01:19:26.360 --> 01:19:28.510
we associate things with blessings, but
01:19:28.520 --> 01:19:31.030
God has blessed us with his presence and
01:19:31.040 --> 01:19:32.870
his son Jesus Christ.
01:19:32.880 --> 01:19:34.590
>> us with every spiritual blessing in the
01:19:34.600 --> 01:19:36.510
heavenly places. And that you know, that
01:19:36.520 --> 01:19:38.990
clause right there is in the past
01:19:39.000 --> 01:19:40.390
continual.
01:19:40.400 --> 01:19:43.150
Right? Past continual means has blessed.
01:19:43.160 --> 01:19:45.190
It means continues to bless us with
01:19:45.200 --> 01:19:46.830
every spiritual blessing in the heavenly
01:19:46.840 --> 01:19:52.390
places. And if you look at Paul or Peter
01:19:52.400 --> 01:19:55.430
or James or John, if you saw the life
01:19:55.440 --> 01:19:58.070
that they lived then our our lives are
01:19:58.080 --> 01:20:00.430
like kings in comparison to what they
01:20:00.440 --> 01:20:02.350
went through. And for some reason we
01:20:02.360 --> 01:20:04.470
seem to think that if we stop and give
01:20:04.480 --> 01:20:06.430
that guy on the side of the road there a
01:20:06.440 --> 01:20:07.790
ride down the road, the Lord's supposed
01:20:07.800 --> 01:20:10.150
to bless us with with riches, you know?
01:20:10.160 --> 01:20:12.430
And and it's just not that way, man. You
01:20:12.440 --> 01:20:13.630
know, it's just not that way.
01:20:13.640 --> 01:20:15.550
>> tell y'all a story. I didn't check with
01:20:15.560 --> 01:20:16.830
them and
01:20:16.840 --> 01:20:19.510
I hope I don't get in trouble.
01:20:19.520 --> 01:20:21.990
But do y'all know who Clint Pressley is?
01:20:22.000 --> 01:20:23.470
>> Mhm.
01:20:23.480 --> 01:20:26.710
>> Clint is the one that's stepping down as
01:20:26.720 --> 01:20:28.030
president of the Southern Baptist
01:20:28.040 --> 01:20:28.870
Convention right now.
01:20:28.880 --> 01:20:30.430
>> Oh, yeah, I heard about that. I heard
01:20:30.440 --> 01:20:32.110
something about that.
01:20:32.120 --> 01:20:35.790
>> And y'all know who Chip Stevens is?
01:20:35.800 --> 01:20:37.790
He's a pastor at First Baptist Jackson.
01:20:37.800 --> 01:20:39.350
>> Okay.
01:20:39.360 --> 01:20:40.830
>> Well, Clint
01:20:40.840 --> 01:20:44.230
Chip and I went to
01:20:44.240 --> 01:20:45.990
seminary together. We were all seminary
01:20:46.000 --> 01:20:48.230
We were big buddies.
01:20:48.240 --> 01:20:50.230
And one day we came a flood down there
01:20:50.240 --> 01:20:51.430
and it
01:20:51.440 --> 01:20:54.670
flooded out Chip's car.
01:20:54.680 --> 01:20:56.870
That's one yellow rope.
01:20:56.880 --> 01:20:58.830
Yellow nylon rope. So, we'll pull that
01:20:58.840 --> 01:21:00.830
thing on back to Jackson.
01:21:00.840 --> 01:21:03.910
Had a Ford truck.
01:21:03.920 --> 01:21:06.041
That was another whole story.
01:21:06.051 --> 01:21:08.310
>> [laughter]
01:21:08.320 --> 01:21:10.110
>> But, um
01:21:10.120 --> 01:21:13.030
we got on the road
01:21:13.040 --> 01:21:16.510
with a nylon rope, with truck and a car.
01:21:16.520 --> 01:21:18.486
And of course we broke down.
01:21:18.496 --> 01:21:19.750
>> [laughter]
01:21:19.760 --> 01:21:22.110
>> Imagine that.
01:21:22.120 --> 01:21:24.510
And
01:21:24.520 --> 01:21:26.030
I look at the difficulties and hard
01:21:26.040 --> 01:21:27.430
times and I
01:21:27.440 --> 01:21:28.750
You know, part of me thinks, "God, why
01:21:28.760 --> 01:21:30.070
can't we just made it all the
01:21:30.080 --> 01:21:30.790
>> Wait.
01:21:30.800 --> 01:21:32.630
>> You spoke it all into existence. I know
01:21:32.640 --> 01:21:34.390
you could have spoke to that tire and
01:21:34.400 --> 01:21:36.430
not let it go flat."
01:21:36.440 --> 01:21:38.750
But, what God was doing was changing and
01:21:38.760 --> 01:21:41.390
maneuvering and manipulating Not
01:21:41.400 --> 01:21:45.390
manipulating, but just forming them
01:21:45.400 --> 01:21:46.990
to deal with things like Southern
01:21:47.000 --> 01:21:49.150
Baptist Convention, like First Baptist
01:21:49.160 --> 01:21:50.550
Jackson,
01:21:50.560 --> 01:21:53.030
like me delivering a calf for a church
01:21:53.040 --> 01:21:54.550
member.
01:21:54.560 --> 01:21:55.790
They were called to what they were
01:21:55.800 --> 01:21:57.390
called to. I was called what I was
01:21:57.400 --> 01:21:59.190
called to, but
01:21:59.200 --> 01:22:00.510
there nobody
01:22:00.520 --> 01:22:02.710
deserves any more
01:22:02.720 --> 01:22:05.390
or gets any more blessings.
01:22:05.400 --> 01:22:07.430
It's God blessing us all.
01:22:07.440 --> 01:22:07.910
>> That's right.
01:22:07.920 --> 01:22:09.270
>> Well, I I
01:22:09.280 --> 01:22:10.910
And I have thought about this so much. I
01:22:10.920 --> 01:22:12.710
read the other day that the United
01:22:12.720 --> 01:22:15.470
States is the most medicated society in
01:22:15.480 --> 01:22:17.350
the history of the world as far as
01:22:17.360 --> 01:22:20.670
antidepressants and anti-anxiety.
01:22:20.680 --> 01:22:22.430
And not just I mean, the
01:22:22.440 --> 01:22:23.710
take all the countries that's ever
01:22:23.720 --> 01:22:25.150
existed, all the times that's ever
01:22:25.160 --> 01:22:27.510
existed, we're number one. And then
01:22:27.520 --> 01:22:28.710
you think, "Well, why are we so
01:22:28.720 --> 01:22:30.430
depressed? Is it cuz we don't have food
01:22:30.440 --> 01:22:32.990
to eat? Is it cuz we don't have a
01:22:33.000 --> 01:22:35.110
opportunity to be educated? Is it
01:22:35.120 --> 01:22:36.110
because, you know,
01:22:36.120 --> 01:22:37.670
>> know how to deal with hard times.
01:22:37.680 --> 01:22:39.230
>> I think
01:22:39.240 --> 01:22:41.750
I mean, that's because these other
01:22:41.760 --> 01:22:43.390
And I think in
01:22:43.400 --> 01:22:45.070
>> Afghanistan, you had to go out and kill
01:22:45.080 --> 01:22:46.630
somebody to get some meat.
01:22:46.640 --> 01:22:47.710
>> Or if you're a Christian, you're going
01:22:47.720 --> 01:22:48.550
to die, and you know it.
01:22:48.560 --> 01:22:49.270
>> Yeah.
01:22:49.280 --> 01:22:52.070
>> Baptize me. I'm willing to die, so
01:22:52.080 --> 01:22:53.790
Uh I think psychologists call it a
01:22:53.800 --> 01:22:55.550
poverty of affluence. That we've been
01:22:55.560 --> 01:22:57.390
blessed so much that we think we've been
01:22:57.400 --> 01:22:59.190
gypped because I don't have a brand new
01:22:59.200 --> 01:23:02.150
truck. I'm riding a used truck, so
01:23:02.160 --> 01:23:04.190
>> Well, too, man. I mean, in America
01:23:04.200 --> 01:23:06.670
today, there's such a prevalence in
01:23:06.680 --> 01:23:09.150
victimhood. Like, we are everyone wants
01:23:09.160 --> 01:23:10.990
to be a victim. I mean, what what did
01:23:11.000 --> 01:23:13.270
you think they did back in the days when
01:23:13.280 --> 01:23:14.950
Lonesome Dove would have been actually
01:23:14.960 --> 01:23:17.070
taking place if everybody was just
01:23:17.080 --> 01:23:18.430
sitting around crying about their
01:23:18.440 --> 01:23:19.910
anxiety? You know what I mean? They
01:23:19.920 --> 01:23:21.790
didn't have time to cry about anxiety,
01:23:21.800 --> 01:23:22.670
son. They had to get back to
01:23:22.680 --> 01:23:24.790
>> you a 38 anxiety. [laughter]
01:23:24.800 --> 01:23:25.630
>> You get some anxiety.
01:23:25.640 --> 01:23:27.110
>> 44 anxiety.
01:23:27.120 --> 01:23:29.510
>> Well, think about that the greatest
01:23:29.520 --> 01:23:31.430
generation came back from World War II,
01:23:31.440 --> 01:23:32.910
and man, they uh
01:23:32.920 --> 01:23:34.590
>> You think about those guys, though.
01:23:34.600 --> 01:23:36.190
>> And they dealt with it, and
01:23:36.200 --> 01:23:37.630
>> Let me tell you a story about my
01:23:37.640 --> 01:23:40.790
great-uncle Garland.
01:23:40.800 --> 01:23:43.790
He was behind enemy lines
01:23:43.800 --> 01:23:45.190
and got captured,
01:23:45.200 --> 01:23:47.630
which for enlisted men, that was certain
01:23:47.640 --> 01:23:48.750
death.
01:23:48.760 --> 01:23:49.950
They might
01:23:49.960 --> 01:23:51.350
They might make a
01:23:51.360 --> 01:23:52.870
show out of killing you to have more
01:23:52.880 --> 01:23:54.990
psychological
01:23:55.000 --> 01:23:57.630
damaging effects for other people. But
01:23:57.640 --> 01:23:58.630
you're going to get killed if you're
01:23:58.640 --> 01:24:02.430
enlisted as a prisoner of war.
01:24:02.440 --> 01:24:03.830
He
01:24:03.840 --> 01:24:05.590
blew a whistle to the guard that he had
01:24:05.600 --> 01:24:07.150
over there to him, said he had to wanted
01:24:07.160 --> 01:24:09.230
him to light a cigarette. He killed him.
01:24:09.240 --> 01:24:12.190
Bare-handed killed him.
01:24:12.200 --> 01:24:13.830
He took his weapon away and just running
01:24:13.840 --> 01:24:15.990
crazy behind enemy lines. Was there
01:24:16.000 --> 01:24:18.150
about 2 and 1/2 weeks
01:24:18.160 --> 01:24:21.070
eating roots and leaves and drinking
01:24:21.080 --> 01:24:23.950
water out sleeping in a hollow.
01:24:23.960 --> 01:24:26.710
Drinking water out of ditch.
01:24:26.720 --> 01:24:28.830
And finally he came up on
01:24:28.840 --> 01:24:31.470
encampment of Americans.
01:24:31.480 --> 01:24:32.910
And
01:24:32.920 --> 01:24:34.830
sentry on duty, the guard on duty said,
01:24:34.840 --> 01:24:36.470
"Stop, I kill
01:24:36.480 --> 01:24:37.830
What's the password?" He said, "Man, I
01:24:37.840 --> 01:24:40.390
don't know no password."
01:24:40.400 --> 01:24:42.310
And he said, "I kill you." It was the
01:24:42.320 --> 01:24:44.590
night time.
01:24:44.600 --> 01:24:46.230
He said, "I kill you."
01:24:46.240 --> 01:24:47.430
And he would have killed him cuz he was
01:24:47.440 --> 01:24:49.750
scared. That was his job, stop people
01:24:49.760 --> 01:24:51.350
from coming in the garrison, the
01:24:51.360 --> 01:24:54.190
encampment of Americans.
01:24:54.200 --> 01:24:57.230
And he went and got his sergeant.
01:24:57.240 --> 01:24:59.350
"Well, give us the password. We can't."
01:24:59.360 --> 01:25:00.550
I
01:25:00.560 --> 01:25:02.630
I I I'm just a soldier. He told him the
01:25:02.640 --> 01:25:05.110
story, you know, what had happened.
01:25:05.120 --> 01:25:06.470
He ended up getting the commander of the
01:25:06.480 --> 01:25:08.550
camp down there.
01:25:08.560 --> 01:25:10.510
And after a bunch of arguing and fussing
01:25:10.520 --> 01:25:12.270
and fighting,
01:25:12.280 --> 01:25:14.910
he the commander said, "Look,
01:25:14.920 --> 01:25:17.030
you stay out there till daylight. You
01:25:17.040 --> 01:25:18.550
might be who you saying you are, but you
01:25:18.560 --> 01:25:20.790
might be a spy. We can't take that
01:25:20.800 --> 01:25:21.430
chance."
01:25:21.440 --> 01:25:22.150
>> That's right.
01:25:22.160 --> 01:25:23.950
>> Stay out there till daylight.
01:25:23.960 --> 01:25:25.710
I'm going to go and say, "Okay.
01:25:25.720 --> 01:25:27.910
Tell that cook to chunk me some of that
01:25:27.920 --> 01:25:29.354
cornbread out here.
01:25:29.364 --> 01:25:29.950
>> [laughter]
01:25:29.960 --> 01:25:31.710
>> I'm about starved to death." And the
01:25:31.720 --> 01:25:36.559
captain said, "Come on in, son."
01:25:36.569 --> 01:25:38.830
>> [laughter]
01:25:38.840 --> 01:25:40.430
>> But they
01:25:40.440 --> 01:25:42.310
You think about the uh
01:25:42.320 --> 01:25:44.790
I don't want to say adventure, but the
01:25:44.800 --> 01:25:47.430
the stimulant of killing a guy with your
01:25:47.440 --> 01:25:49.670
bare hands to escape and
01:25:49.680 --> 01:25:51.990
running wild behind enemy lines. How
01:25:52.000 --> 01:25:53.830
scared you must have been. How How do
01:25:53.840 --> 01:25:56.190
you deal with fear? People don't know
01:25:56.200 --> 01:25:58.070
Fear turns people inside out. It's
01:25:58.080 --> 01:25:59.030
designed to.
01:25:59.040 --> 01:26:01.150
>> That's right. That's right.
01:26:01.160 --> 01:26:02.550
>> We got to learn to deal with fear. We
01:26:02.560 --> 01:26:04.350
got to learn to deal with difficulty.
01:26:04.360 --> 01:26:07.350
People going to get sick.
01:26:07.360 --> 01:26:10.270
People going to pass away.
01:26:10.280 --> 01:26:11.990
Remember them and go Living keep on
01:26:12.000 --> 01:26:12.670
living.
01:26:12.680 --> 01:26:13.470
>> Mhm.
01:26:13.480 --> 01:26:16.950
>> They said that a bunch of times.
01:26:16.960 --> 01:26:18.790
He said, "Don't Don't sit here and moan
01:26:18.800 --> 01:26:20.390
and groan in this hospital. Live and go
01:26:20.400 --> 01:26:21.750
live."
01:26:21.760 --> 01:26:23.630
Now, I think he was wrong about that. I
01:26:23.640 --> 01:26:26.150
think you take care of your loved ones.
01:26:26.160 --> 01:26:28.110
He Daddy wanted me to take him out to
01:26:28.120 --> 01:26:29.750
the Big Bend National Park and just turn
01:26:29.760 --> 01:26:30.924
him out.
01:26:30.934 --> 01:26:31.390
>> [laughter]
01:26:31.400 --> 01:26:32.870
>> I said, "Daddy, I'm sure there are legal
01:26:32.880 --> 01:26:37.150
ramifications for that."
01:26:37.160 --> 01:26:38.470
He said, "Come on, son. Take me out
01:26:38.480 --> 01:26:39.870
there."
01:26:39.880 --> 01:26:41.030
>> Well, you you know, you're talking about
01:26:41.040 --> 01:26:43.190
that story about uh
01:26:43.200 --> 01:26:44.710
That's cool. You went to seminary with
01:26:44.720 --> 01:26:46.030
the president of the Southern Baptist
01:26:46.040 --> 01:26:47.670
Convention, pastor of First Baptist
01:26:47.680 --> 01:26:49.270
Jackson. But you're telling that story
01:26:49.280 --> 01:26:52.230
cuz I I've seen this in my life. I can
01:26:52.240 --> 01:26:54.990
call Brian Edwards or or Bobo Phillips
01:26:55.000 --> 01:26:56.590
in and you know, different guys we've
01:26:56.600 --> 01:26:58.350
been on mission trips. And the stories
01:26:58.360 --> 01:27:01.590
we tell and when we laugh the most
01:27:01.600 --> 01:27:03.830
at the time were the worst. Having a a
01:27:03.840 --> 01:27:06.310
blowout there in the ice storm or or you
01:27:06.320 --> 01:27:09.270
know, getting this or getting that. So,
01:27:09.280 --> 01:27:11.790
it's that adversity that kind of brings
01:27:11.800 --> 01:27:13.550
us together where you see the simple
01:27:13.560 --> 01:27:16.070
things in life. But we shy away from
01:27:16.080 --> 01:27:17.630
anything hard. If it's hard, we don't
01:27:17.640 --> 01:27:19.830
want to do it. We want to quit. And uh
01:27:19.840 --> 01:27:21.150
that's where the blessings come is
01:27:21.160 --> 01:27:23.230
showing up and and sticking it out
01:27:23.240 --> 01:27:24.710
through the hard times. That's right.
01:27:24.720 --> 01:27:26.310
>> That's another thing about the society
01:27:26.320 --> 01:27:28.150
that we live in today, man. It's like it
01:27:28.160 --> 01:27:30.350
and and it's the same the same thing
01:27:30.360 --> 01:27:31.590
that goes all the way back to the
01:27:31.600 --> 01:27:32.990
garden, man.
01:27:33.000 --> 01:27:35.910
Remember what the snake said? He said,
01:27:35.920 --> 01:27:38.150
"Has God really said that you can't have
01:27:38.160 --> 01:27:39.670
any of these trees?" And she said, "Oh,
01:27:39.680 --> 01:27:41.750
no, no, no. We can have all the trees
01:27:41.760 --> 01:27:43.150
except for that one."
01:27:43.160 --> 01:27:44.910
You know, except for that one. And I
01:27:44.920 --> 01:27:47.790
think in the society that we have today,
01:27:47.800 --> 01:27:50.430
everyone is so in tune to being a
01:27:50.440 --> 01:27:52.950
victim, to being upset, or or whatever
01:27:52.960 --> 01:27:55.430
the case may be that they look at the
01:27:55.440 --> 01:27:58.350
few little things that they can't have
01:27:58.360 --> 01:28:00.590
and miss all the abundant blessings that
01:28:00.600 --> 01:28:01.990
have already been poured out on them,
01:28:02.000 --> 01:28:02.390
right?
01:28:02.400 --> 01:28:04.190
>> every tree in the world but one.
01:28:04.200 --> 01:28:04.630
>> Right.
01:28:04.640 --> 01:28:05.870
>> But it's my you know, their eyes are on
01:28:05.880 --> 01:28:06.350
that one tree.
01:28:06.360 --> 01:28:07.590
>> I've got to worry about is that one
01:28:07.600 --> 01:28:09.030
right there. And you know what, man?
01:28:09.040 --> 01:28:11.270
That is a miserable life to live. So,
01:28:11.280 --> 01:28:13.350
they don't ever find happiness.
01:28:13.360 --> 01:28:15.350
>> You won't find happiness in things of
01:28:15.360 --> 01:28:16.110
this world.
01:28:16.120 --> 01:28:17.030
>> That's exactly right.
01:28:17.040 --> 01:28:18.790
>> You can find
01:28:18.800 --> 01:28:20.910
Well, I say you won't find joy.
01:28:20.920 --> 01:28:22.030
Why ago we talked about the difference
01:28:22.040 --> 01:28:23.110
between joy and happiness?
01:28:23.120 --> 01:28:23.630
>> Mhm.
01:28:23.640 --> 01:28:26.470
>> Joy is not affected by circumstance.
01:28:26.480 --> 01:28:28.750
Happiness is.
01:28:28.760 --> 01:28:30.470
>> And
01:28:30.480 --> 01:28:32.950
I don't have to have everything my way
01:28:32.960 --> 01:28:34.710
to have joy.
01:28:34.720 --> 01:28:36.590
I find joy in the Lord. Rejoice in the
01:28:36.600 --> 01:28:37.470
Lord always.
01:28:37.480 --> 01:28:38.310
>> Always.
01:28:38.320 --> 01:28:40.990
>> I can find joy in I'm nothing. I don't
01:28:41.000 --> 01:28:43.470
deserve it. But God said, "Here, I want
01:28:43.480 --> 01:28:45.990
you to belong to me. I picked you. I
01:28:46.000 --> 01:28:48.910
gave you my son for you."
01:28:48.920 --> 01:28:50.550
>> Well, Robert, I'm I'm going to segway
01:28:50.560 --> 01:28:52.630
back what Damon said earlier about you
01:28:52.640 --> 01:28:55.430
writing a book. I've seen this and it's
01:28:55.440 --> 01:28:56.430
always
01:28:56.440 --> 01:28:58.030
intrigued me. I said, "Great idea. The
01:28:58.040 --> 01:28:59.390
first one you've had in a while."
01:28:59.400 --> 01:29:00.910
>> It's amazing.
01:29:00.920 --> 01:29:02.870
I'm proud of me.
01:29:02.880 --> 01:29:04.990
>> I'm one of these guys in the in you
01:29:05.000 --> 01:29:08.990
know, with the jail ministry we do and
01:29:09.000 --> 01:29:11.230
they're reading books of people that
01:29:11.240 --> 01:29:13.230
have like they've met. There's something
01:29:13.240 --> 01:29:14.550
about They may not be readers, but
01:29:14.560 --> 01:29:16.830
because they met Ronald Williams.
01:29:16.840 --> 01:29:18.510
They'll read that book because they met
01:29:18.520 --> 01:29:21.150
him and then I've noticed people that
01:29:21.160 --> 01:29:23.830
aren't readers uh
01:29:23.840 --> 01:29:27.870
like my son, Micah, he just never was
01:29:27.880 --> 01:29:30.070
academic.
01:29:30.080 --> 01:29:32.350
He wasn't excellent in academics and he
01:29:32.360 --> 01:29:34.750
and I guess we failed cuz my older kids
01:29:34.760 --> 01:29:35.790
we
01:29:35.800 --> 01:29:37.190
brought them to the library and reading
01:29:37.200 --> 01:29:39.390
was a big thing. The only book he's ever
01:29:39.400 --> 01:29:41.230
read in his life was that Tim Tebow
01:29:41.240 --> 01:29:42.230
book.
01:29:42.240 --> 01:29:44.910
Cuz he he likes football and Tim Tebow,
01:29:44.920 --> 01:29:46.790
so he read that.
01:29:46.800 --> 01:29:49.310
But guys that hunt and fish and these
01:29:49.320 --> 01:29:50.030
outdoors men
01:29:50.040 --> 01:29:51.230
>> Yeah.
01:29:51.240 --> 01:29:52.950
>> You know, God loves Bubba just like he
01:29:52.960 --> 01:29:54.470
loves
01:29:54.480 --> 01:29:56.550
everybody else, but they would read
01:29:56.560 --> 01:29:57.510
something
01:29:57.520 --> 01:29:58.910
>> to some of us.
01:29:58.920 --> 01:29:59.630
>> Yeah.
01:29:59.640 --> 01:30:00.270
>> They would [clears throat] read
01:30:00.280 --> 01:30:02.710
something that you wrote and uh
01:30:02.720 --> 01:30:03.950
like you know, I don't know anything
01:30:03.960 --> 01:30:06.270
about turkey hunting, but people I know
01:30:06.280 --> 01:30:07.910
this that people who are turkey hunters
01:30:07.920 --> 01:30:09.550
are passionate about turkey hunting.
01:30:09.560 --> 01:30:11.662
>> You know, they'll lose the crop.
01:30:11.672 --> 01:30:14.030
>> [laughter]
01:30:14.040 --> 01:30:15.950
>> So, you hear somebody talking about
01:30:15.960 --> 01:30:17.470
turkey hunter. I told you, you know,
01:30:17.480 --> 01:30:18.870
Chris Knight stopped me that day and
01:30:18.880 --> 01:30:19.830
Pete Latch he asked me, "Do you know
01:30:19.840 --> 01:30:21.590
Robin Rixher and uh
01:30:21.600 --> 01:30:22.510
um
01:30:22.520 --> 01:30:24.990
So, you can reach
01:30:25.000 --> 01:30:27.870
that demographic where, you know, uh
01:30:27.880 --> 01:30:29.590
the guy at First Baptist Jackson can.
01:30:29.600 --> 01:30:31.870
So, I really want you to think about
01:30:31.880 --> 01:30:33.470
writing that book and getting that and
01:30:33.480 --> 01:30:34.590
then I
01:30:34.600 --> 01:30:36.470
it's so much easier than it was 30 years
01:30:36.480 --> 01:30:38.230
ago with the publishing stuff and all
01:30:38.240 --> 01:30:38.430
that.
01:30:38.440 --> 01:30:40.590
>> Let's say this, uh Jesus told told
01:30:40.600 --> 01:30:42.750
parables about sheep
01:30:42.760 --> 01:30:44.990
and about and about wheat
01:30:45.000 --> 01:30:46.630
and about all those things because
01:30:46.640 --> 01:30:48.590
that's what the people were doing.
01:30:48.600 --> 01:30:50.190
>> That's what people knew about.
01:30:50.200 --> 01:30:51.910
>> They knew about it, right.
01:30:51.920 --> 01:30:53.550
>> Every time Jesus was asked a question,
01:30:53.560 --> 01:30:55.910
he did one or two things. He either told
01:30:55.920 --> 01:30:57.790
a story or asked another question.
01:30:57.800 --> 01:30:59.950
>> That's right. That's exactly right.
01:30:59.960 --> 01:31:01.070
>> And
01:31:01.080 --> 01:31:03.830
he he said stuff that they knew about.
01:31:03.840 --> 01:31:06.110
He said, "Yoke up with me." And he knew
01:31:06.120 --> 01:31:07.750
what a yoke was cuz they'd seen picture
01:31:07.760 --> 01:31:09.390
that day.
01:31:09.400 --> 01:31:09.950
>> Yep.
01:31:09.960 --> 01:31:13.070
>> It was it was main place in
01:31:13.080 --> 01:31:13.750
>> Exactly.
01:31:13.760 --> 01:31:14.870
>> in society.
01:31:14.880 --> 01:31:16.470
>> So, I mean, whenever you can tell
01:31:16.480 --> 01:31:19.150
stories that have that biblical overtone
01:31:19.160 --> 01:31:20.910
and and those connections are made in
01:31:20.920 --> 01:31:22.430
the synopsis of this just say it that
01:31:22.440 --> 01:31:24.030
way, when the brain makes that
01:31:24.040 --> 01:31:26.030
connection to what's being said in that
01:31:26.040 --> 01:31:28.630
story and the the spiritual biblical
01:31:28.640 --> 01:31:31.230
truth that's behind it, it it draws them
01:31:31.240 --> 01:31:32.710
in, man. I mean, because it gives them
01:31:32.720 --> 01:31:34.910
an understanding gives you that aha, you
01:31:34.920 --> 01:31:36.070
know, and I don't think there's I don't
01:31:36.080 --> 01:31:38.030
think there's anyone in this world on
01:31:38.040 --> 01:31:39.950
this planet that does not love to get
01:31:39.960 --> 01:31:42.430
that aha moment. I know I do. Whenever
01:31:42.440 --> 01:31:43.950
something finally clicks to me, man, I'm
01:31:43.960 --> 01:31:46.310
like, "Oh, that makes sense." And I
01:31:46.320 --> 01:31:48.030
think Robin, man, that
01:31:48.040 --> 01:31:49.950
there'd be a a many a many a many of
01:31:49.960 --> 01:31:52.510
people who would who would get those aha
01:31:52.520 --> 01:31:54.950
moments from the stories you tell.
01:31:54.960 --> 01:32:00.310
>> And hey, y'all uh 601-757-5030.
01:32:00.320 --> 01:32:01.510
>> Scott, why didn't you tell me that put
01:32:01.520 --> 01:32:03.310
that on the screen whenever I was not
01:32:03.320 --> 01:32:05.030
even doing anything a little while ago?
01:32:05.040 --> 01:32:07.190
>> Cuz you you've been doing something.
01:32:07.200 --> 01:32:12.550
You're a busy man. Uh 601-757-5030.
01:32:12.560 --> 01:32:13.910
That's Brother Robin's number. And
01:32:13.920 --> 01:32:15.870
again, hey uh I know it's going to get
01:32:15.880 --> 01:32:17.150
to be uh
01:32:17.160 --> 01:32:18.830
hunting season before long. And I know a
01:32:18.840 --> 01:32:20.550
lot of churches do the you know wild
01:32:20.560 --> 01:32:22.230
game suppers. Robin would be good at
01:32:22.240 --> 01:32:23.790
that. If you want somebody to come in
01:32:23.800 --> 01:32:26.270
and tell some uh humor stories. But like
01:32:26.280 --> 01:32:28.150
I said, if you just want the gospel
01:32:28.160 --> 01:32:30.350
preached, I've heard Robin preach. I've
01:32:30.360 --> 01:32:31.710
had him preach at my churches and
01:32:31.720 --> 01:32:33.630
revivals. So, if you're just looking for
01:32:33.640 --> 01:32:34.590
a
01:32:34.600 --> 01:32:37.630
solid biblical preacher, you give Robin
01:32:37.640 --> 01:32:40.910
a call. And um Robin you uh um
01:32:40.920 --> 01:32:42.910
Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday
01:32:42.920 --> 01:32:44.550
night, you're you're you're
01:32:44.560 --> 01:32:46.244
>> I'm available.
01:32:46.254 --> 01:32:48.270
>> [laughter]
01:32:48.280 --> 01:32:49.630
>> I know we're going to run out of time.
01:32:49.640 --> 01:32:50.990
Tell us your favorite turkey hunting
01:32:51.000 --> 01:32:52.790
story.
01:32:52.800 --> 01:32:53.430
>> Um
01:32:53.440 --> 01:32:54.510
>> We ain't going to run out of time yet. I
01:32:54.520 --> 01:32:56.069
got to get this number on this phone.
01:32:56.079 --> 01:32:57.110
>> [laughter]
01:32:57.120 --> 01:32:59.230
>> My son, Jake,
01:32:59.240 --> 01:33:01.670
he's 7 years old.
01:33:01.680 --> 01:33:03.190
And I'll tell you what he's breaking his
01:33:03.200 --> 01:33:04.910
neck just out there just
01:33:04.920 --> 01:33:06.990
just this goblin.
01:33:07.000 --> 01:33:09.510
And he flew down.
01:33:09.520 --> 01:33:11.150
And we we were
01:33:11.160 --> 01:33:13.030
in a different state.
01:33:13.040 --> 01:33:14.470
New York, I think it was, or
01:33:14.480 --> 01:33:16.790
Pennsylvania, somewhere.
01:33:16.800 --> 01:33:19.830
And we were up on a giant boulder.
01:33:19.840 --> 01:33:21.670
And it had leaves on it. It had trees
01:33:21.680 --> 01:33:23.630
going up through the boulder.
01:33:23.640 --> 01:33:26.870
But it had a sharp drop-off. The turkey
01:33:26.880 --> 01:33:28.910
flew He flew it close enough to kill,
01:33:28.920 --> 01:33:30.910
but we couldn't see him because of the
01:33:30.920 --> 01:33:32.470
line of sight. We didn't have a line of
01:33:32.480 --> 01:33:34.110
sight because of the drop-off in the
01:33:34.120 --> 01:33:35.230
boulder.
01:33:35.240 --> 01:33:37.070
And we sit there and waited and waited
01:33:37.080 --> 01:33:38.350
and waited. Finally, he walked up there
01:33:38.360 --> 01:33:40.230
and Jake killed him.
01:33:40.240 --> 01:33:42.230
And
01:33:42.240 --> 01:33:44.070
just the the sheer joy of
01:33:44.080 --> 01:33:46.670
accomplishment.
01:33:46.680 --> 01:33:49.230
It was a It was a good hunt.
01:33:49.240 --> 01:33:50.990
>> You'd rather now you'd rather take
01:33:51.000 --> 01:33:52.350
somebody hunting than you would go to
01:33:52.360 --> 01:33:53.910
>> I don't want to take a gun. That thing's
01:33:53.920 --> 01:33:56.630
heavy.
01:33:56.640 --> 01:33:58.470
>> I know Aubrey's told me I know Aubrey
01:33:58.480 --> 01:34:00.070
has told me several times he gets as
01:34:00.080 --> 01:34:02.830
much joy especially a young person
01:34:02.840 --> 01:34:05.150
taking them hunting than he does about
01:34:05.160 --> 01:34:08.670
killing anything now, so.
01:34:08.680 --> 01:34:11.550
Yeah, I've never been turkey hunting.
01:34:11.560 --> 01:34:14.150
You know why? Cuz they told me uh
01:34:14.160 --> 01:34:16.790
you had to be still and quiet. Why am I
01:34:16.800 --> 01:34:18.310
getting up and with the whole being
01:34:18.320 --> 01:34:20.870
still and quiet and
01:34:20.880 --> 01:34:22.270
I tell you I'm not a big hunter, but the
01:34:22.280 --> 01:34:24.630
most fun I've had hunting
01:34:24.640 --> 01:34:26.950
is me and Ryan Merchant and Ted Bricker.
01:34:26.960 --> 01:34:29.150
Ted had some squirrel dogs.
01:34:29.160 --> 01:34:30.430
>> That is a lot of fun.
01:34:30.440 --> 01:34:32.630
>> And we could talk and cut up
01:34:32.640 --> 01:34:33.270
>> Carry on.
01:34:33.280 --> 01:34:34.190
>> and carry on.
01:34:34.200 --> 01:34:37.190
>> We used to Ricky Purvis and some of us I
01:34:37.200 --> 01:34:39.150
went to high school with. We stand in
01:34:39.160 --> 01:34:41.390
line and you pass your gun down and you
01:34:41.400 --> 01:34:43.030
got whatever gun somebody else was
01:34:43.040 --> 01:34:45.150
shooting and you was running used to gun
01:34:45.160 --> 01:34:46.590
and didn't have no shells but we was
01:34:46.600 --> 01:34:47.870
squirrel hunting with a good squirrel
01:34:47.880 --> 01:34:48.950
dog.
01:34:48.960 --> 01:34:51.630
And and just had
01:34:51.640 --> 01:34:53.190
had a good time. We weren't worried
01:34:53.200 --> 01:34:55.430
about if we killed a squirrel or not.
01:34:55.440 --> 01:34:57.710
>> That's the most fun I've had uh
01:34:57.720 --> 01:34:59.550
the last time well I say that I went
01:34:59.560 --> 01:35:01.350
this year with my buddy Ronald Eason,
01:35:01.360 --> 01:35:02.990
but the time before I ended up with
01:35:03.000 --> 01:35:04.990
Aubrey down in a gully in Port Gibson
01:35:05.000 --> 01:35:07.750
about having a cardiac arrest and
01:35:07.760 --> 01:35:09.790
the people that had the deer hooked up
01:35:09.800 --> 01:35:12.190
to the four-wheeler Aubrey was saying go
01:35:12.200 --> 01:35:14.110
and they thought he was saying whoa. I
01:35:14.120 --> 01:35:16.270
thought we you got a story similar to
01:35:16.280 --> 01:35:16.550
that now.
01:35:16.560 --> 01:35:18.206
>> got I got one backwards to that. My
01:35:18.216 --> 01:35:19.510
[laughter] wife said
01:35:19.520 --> 01:35:21.230
I said whoa whoa whoa she thought I was
01:35:21.240 --> 01:35:24.030
saying go go go.
01:35:24.040 --> 01:35:25.550
>> Yeah, we uh
01:35:25.560 --> 01:35:27.870
So that was uh uh
01:35:27.880 --> 01:35:30.230
>> Yeah, right.
01:35:30.240 --> 01:35:31.230
bigfoot story
01:35:31.240 --> 01:35:35.236
>> You got any bigfoot stories?
01:35:35.246 --> 01:35:35.590
>> [laughter]
01:35:35.600 --> 01:35:40.230
>> Not that don't involve alcohol.
01:35:40.240 --> 01:35:42.310
>> But but can you clean it up enough to
01:35:42.320 --> 01:35:43.670
tell us a bigfoot story?
01:35:43.680 --> 01:35:45.670
>> Well I'll tell you this.
01:35:45.680 --> 01:35:47.710
Someone near and dear to my heart, my
01:35:47.720 --> 01:35:50.150
mentor in hunting and fishing
01:35:50.160 --> 01:35:51.950
didn't see bigfoot. He saw a little tin
01:35:51.960 --> 01:35:56.230
man run across the driveway.
01:35:56.240 --> 01:35:57.510
>> A tin man?
01:35:57.520 --> 01:36:00.470
>> A little tin man.
01:36:00.480 --> 01:36:03.401
>> That sounds like mushrooms, not alcohol.
01:36:03.411 --> 01:36:08.430
>> [laughter]
01:36:08.440 --> 01:36:09.750
>> Oh, well.
01:36:09.760 --> 01:36:11.630
I know we're deviating off course, but
01:36:11.640 --> 01:36:13.950
my my buddy uh
01:36:13.960 --> 01:36:16.390
I won't say his name, but uh I got a
01:36:16.400 --> 01:36:18.310
buddy that's from Houma, Louisiana, and
01:36:18.320 --> 01:36:19.950
a dear friend of mine, but he was doing
01:36:19.960 --> 01:36:24.030
some bad drugs. You remember Lita Ford?
01:36:24.040 --> 01:36:24.390
>> No, I don't.
01:36:24.400 --> 01:36:26.630
>> She was probably She's a very attractive
01:36:26.640 --> 01:36:28.830
She's a rock, kind of like Pat Benatar,
01:36:28.840 --> 01:36:31.110
but he thought Lita Ford was running
01:36:31.120 --> 01:36:32.830
around with him in Phil Campbell Hatchie
01:36:32.840 --> 01:36:35.230
for a weekend. And he was introducing
01:36:35.240 --> 01:36:37.230
everybody You remember Lita Ford? If you
01:36:37.240 --> 01:36:38.310
Google it, you'll see her.
01:36:38.320 --> 01:36:39.070
>> I remember the name.
01:36:39.080 --> 01:36:41.870
>> Anyway, then it went from Lita Ford
01:36:41.880 --> 01:36:43.110
running with him, and he was going down
01:36:43.120 --> 01:36:45.470
Highway 43. And if you remember when we
01:36:45.480 --> 01:36:48.070
were kids at Rudolph, the animated
01:36:48.080 --> 01:36:48.710
Rudolph,
01:36:48.720 --> 01:36:49.190
>> Yeah.
01:36:49.200 --> 01:36:50.870
>> the Abominable Snowman?
01:36:50.880 --> 01:36:51.470
>> Yeah.
01:36:51.480 --> 01:36:53.630
>> The Abominable Snowman was on Highway 43
01:36:53.640 --> 01:36:55.146
stopping him.
01:36:55.156 --> 01:36:56.310
>> [laughter]
01:36:56.320 --> 01:36:57.750
>> That's really the Mississippi Highway
01:36:57.760 --> 01:36:58.310
Patrol.
01:36:58.320 --> 01:37:00.550
>> And that's where he
01:37:00.560 --> 01:37:02.750
That's when he uh got off that
01:37:02.760 --> 01:37:05.790
particular drug, but it's funny.
01:37:05.800 --> 01:37:08.070
I see pictures of that Abominable I
01:37:08.080 --> 01:37:10.710
hadn't thought about that snowman years,
01:37:10.720 --> 01:37:12.830
but now I see a
01:37:12.840 --> 01:37:14.910
>> What did he call him over there? They
01:37:14.920 --> 01:37:16.910
said
01:37:16.920 --> 01:37:20.830
Oh, French guy called him cuz he bowed.
01:37:20.840 --> 01:37:22.990
He knocked out the Abominable Snowman
01:37:23.000 --> 01:37:24.622
off a mountain, and he bowed.
01:37:24.632 --> 01:37:25.150
>> [laughter]
01:37:25.160 --> 01:37:31.270
>> I may be on them same drugs.
01:37:31.280 --> 01:37:33.137
Bungles or something like that.
01:37:33.147 --> 01:37:33.790
>> [laughter]
01:37:33.800 --> 01:37:38.390
>> Bungle bowed.
01:37:38.400 --> 01:37:40.470
>> But now uh
01:37:40.480 --> 01:37:42.750
And we got this little running joke out
01:37:42.760 --> 01:37:44.030
Somebody said, "What are you taking a
01:37:44.040 --> 01:37:45.510
picture of that for?" And I said, "I I
01:37:45.520 --> 01:37:46.830
tell you, but
01:37:46.840 --> 01:37:47.390
uh
01:37:47.400 --> 01:37:48.990
but you can call I could call him right
01:37:49.000 --> 01:37:50.670
now. He said, "Man, that thing scared
01:37:50.680 --> 01:37:53.110
the the mess out of me and
01:37:53.120 --> 01:37:56.190
on highway 43." So So Damon's got
01:37:56.200 --> 01:37:57.990
Robin's number up there. Y'all call him
01:37:58.000 --> 01:38:00.190
for pulpit supply for preaching or
01:38:00.200 --> 01:38:03.070
anything you need as far as
01:38:03.080 --> 01:38:06.510
speaking about Jesus again men's groups.
01:38:06.520 --> 01:38:08.590
A lot of churches kind of shy away from
01:38:08.600 --> 01:38:11.070
those wild game suppers.
01:38:11.080 --> 01:38:13.092
And I know they used to all do that.
01:38:13.102 --> 01:38:13.590
>> [laughter]
01:38:13.600 --> 01:38:14.750
>> Yeah.
01:38:14.760 --> 01:38:16.830
>> Or you going to be jealous? Robin was so
01:38:16.840 --> 01:38:19.030
desperate. You know, I'm not a hunt
01:38:19.040 --> 01:38:21.990
outdoorsman, but he had me come speak at
01:38:22.000 --> 01:38:23.990
one of his
01:38:24.000 --> 01:38:26.870
a wild game supper. I was a speaker, but
01:38:26.880 --> 01:38:29.310
I weren't one of a high-dollar turkey
01:38:29.320 --> 01:38:31.230
call and I gave it away to a guy in my
01:38:31.240 --> 01:38:32.550
church and
01:38:32.560 --> 01:38:34.950
you had more stuff to give away, but I
01:38:34.960 --> 01:38:36.110
think you didn't have as many
01:38:36.120 --> 01:38:38.670
outdoorsmen as you had like just people
01:38:38.680 --> 01:38:39.350
in the church.
01:38:39.360 --> 01:38:41.870
>> Listen, Vans would dove me up on stuff
01:38:41.880 --> 01:38:43.990
and shout out to Van's Sporting Goods
01:38:44.000 --> 01:38:45.150
for that.
01:38:45.160 --> 01:38:47.750
But one thing I did
01:38:47.760 --> 01:38:49.910
it's a pretty good idea. But Scott
01:38:49.920 --> 01:38:52.393
called me a fair carny for doing this.
01:38:52.403 --> 01:38:52.870
>> [laughter]
01:38:52.880 --> 01:38:54.590
>> I had everybody stand up and gave me a
01:38:54.600 --> 01:38:57.070
dollar. $1.
01:38:57.080 --> 01:38:59.510
I had a rifle scope.
01:38:59.520 --> 01:39:01.350
And the name of the game is last man
01:39:01.360 --> 01:39:02.750
standing.
01:39:02.760 --> 01:39:03.990
I got a dollar from everybody and I
01:39:04.000 --> 01:39:05.430
said, "You going to last standing, give
01:39:05.440 --> 01:39:06.950
me $2."
01:39:06.960 --> 01:39:09.870
About four five sit down. I got $2 from
01:39:09.880 --> 01:39:11.110
everybody.
01:39:11.120 --> 01:39:12.510
"You going to last standing, give me
01:39:12.520 --> 01:39:15.110
$3." It went like that until the last
01:39:15.120 --> 01:39:16.790
man standing.
01:39:16.800 --> 01:39:19.070
And once you get invested in that thing
01:39:19.080 --> 01:39:20.190
>> You don't want to give it up.
01:39:20.200 --> 01:39:22.070
>> want to give it up. You get two people
01:39:22.080 --> 01:39:23.950
competing against each other. You can
01:39:23.960 --> 01:39:25.143
make some money.
01:39:25.153 --> 01:39:26.430
>> [laughter]
01:39:26.440 --> 01:39:28.310
>> All right, that might be our auction
01:39:28.320 --> 01:39:30.430
thing. Yeah, I can't remember it, but it
01:39:30.440 --> 01:39:34.230
was a handmade was it Pitman Preston Pit
01:39:34.240 --> 01:39:36.630
Anyway, but uh
01:39:36.640 --> 01:39:38.790
I I was telling somebody I was at went
01:39:38.800 --> 01:39:40.030
to
01:39:40.040 --> 01:39:41.830
I was at Antioch. I went I was telling
01:39:41.840 --> 01:39:42.990
him I said, "Yeah, man, I want this."
01:39:43.000 --> 01:39:44.710
And he just went, "Oh, man, that's a
01:39:44.720 --> 01:39:46.230
such and such." I said, "Well, let me
01:39:46.240 --> 01:39:48.310
just bless you with it." So, I I I was
01:39:48.320 --> 01:39:50.590
able to bless that guy with it that
01:39:50.600 --> 01:39:51.990
turkey call.
01:39:52.000 --> 01:39:54.270
So, I guess you
01:39:54.280 --> 01:39:57.550
What's your favorite turkey call?
01:39:57.560 --> 01:39:59.590
>> Uh slate call in his way the one you
01:39:59.600 --> 01:40:00.630
told me about.
01:40:00.640 --> 01:40:02.270
>> That's the best guy?
01:40:02.280 --> 01:40:03.390
>> Well,
01:40:03.400 --> 01:40:06.190
it sounds most like a turkey.
01:40:06.200 --> 01:40:07.030
>> That's the goal.
01:40:07.040 --> 01:40:08.710
>> But, it it's a
01:40:08.720 --> 01:40:11.670
it involves your hands, which can be
01:40:11.680 --> 01:40:13.790
a disadvantage because you can use a
01:40:13.800 --> 01:40:15.750
mouth call and leave leave your hands
01:40:15.760 --> 01:40:16.310
free.
01:40:16.320 --> 01:40:17.870
>> Got you.
01:40:17.880 --> 01:40:19.630
Now, I know we're going to run out of
01:40:19.640 --> 01:40:22.550
time, but talking uh
01:40:22.560 --> 01:40:24.350
And I don't remember the details, so I
01:40:24.360 --> 01:40:26.430
hope your mind's fresh, but
01:40:26.440 --> 01:40:26.950
>> Got him.
01:40:26.960 --> 01:40:28.750
>> I heard you tell the story about trying
01:40:28.760 --> 01:40:30.830
to call up a turkey, and you called up
01:40:30.840 --> 01:40:33.350
You spent all day, and you called up a
01:40:33.360 --> 01:40:34.750
uh
01:40:34.760 --> 01:40:36.790
different kind of animal.
01:40:36.800 --> 01:40:38.150
You remember that story?
01:40:38.160 --> 01:40:39.990
>> I don't remember [laughter] Nobody
01:40:40.000 --> 01:40:42.430
remembers it.
01:40:42.440 --> 01:40:44.070
>> Cuz you went on about how hard you
01:40:44.080 --> 01:40:45.590
worked, and I don't remember what kind
01:40:45.600 --> 01:40:46.990
of bird you called, but it wasn't a
01:40:47.000 --> 01:40:48.430
turkey, but you did spend all
01:40:48.440 --> 01:40:51.604
>> Oh, no, I snuck up on some buzzards.
01:40:51.614 --> 01:40:53.670
>> [laughter]
01:40:53.680 --> 01:40:55.430
>> Man, the bell's ringing now.
01:40:55.440 --> 01:40:57.830
>> Yeah, I didn't call them up, though.
01:40:57.840 --> 01:40:59.630
But, [laughter] they were in a field,
01:40:59.640 --> 01:41:00.470
and
01:41:00.480 --> 01:41:03.350
I swear one blowed up strutting. Most
01:41:03.360 --> 01:41:05.590
heavy on that some point in time snuck
01:41:05.600 --> 01:41:07.470
up on some buzzards.
01:41:07.480 --> 01:41:09.070
And I snuck up crawling through the
01:41:09.080 --> 01:41:10.510
grass, and it was I'm going to get him.
01:41:10.520 --> 01:41:11.870
I'm going to get him.
01:41:11.880 --> 01:41:13.875
That's a ugly old buzzard.
01:41:13.885 --> 01:41:15.070
>> [laughter]
01:41:15.080 --> 01:41:16.750
>> How much time did you spend?
01:41:16.760 --> 01:41:20.470
>> About 4 hours.
01:41:20.480 --> 01:41:22.350
>> Well, we won't ask you if you shot the
01:41:22.360 --> 01:41:25.030
buzzard or not cuz that might be a crime
01:41:25.040 --> 01:41:27.390
involved in it. Hey, Rob, before we go,
01:41:27.400 --> 01:41:29.990
you got any anything you want to end
01:41:30.000 --> 01:41:31.950
with on this that you want out here in
01:41:31.960 --> 01:41:32.870
the
01:41:32.880 --> 01:41:36.310
internet world for all of the uh
01:41:36.320 --> 01:41:38.190
time on this earth.
01:41:38.200 --> 01:41:39.430
>> Jesus saves.
01:41:41.080 --> 01:41:42.590
>> That's a good thing.
01:41:42.600 --> 01:41:44.910
Damon, you got anything?
01:41:44.920 --> 01:41:46.870
>> No, just we we really appreciate you
01:41:46.880 --> 01:41:49.150
guys, man, for tuning in with us, man,
01:41:49.160 --> 01:41:50.790
and just love having brother Blinky
01:41:50.800 --> 01:41:52.910
here, man. Thank Rob Rob, man, thank you
01:41:52.920 --> 01:41:54.430
so much for being here, man.
01:41:54.440 --> 01:41:55.190
>> Glad to be here.
01:41:55.200 --> 01:41:56.910
>> I was really excited when they told me
01:41:56.920 --> 01:41:58.950
that you were coming back on and
01:41:58.960 --> 01:41:59.830
and
01:41:59.840 --> 01:42:01.910
I hope that hope hope we have you more
01:42:01.920 --> 01:42:04.350
often and I love having you here.
01:42:04.360 --> 01:42:05.110
>> And
01:42:05.120 --> 01:42:06.950
uh
01:42:06.960 --> 01:42:08.590
Did you have a good time cuz you Yeah,
01:42:08.600 --> 01:42:10.390
he called me and said, "Hey, can I can
01:42:10.400 --> 01:42:12.950
come Can I come back on?" I said,
01:42:12.960 --> 01:42:14.510
"Absolutely. We don't let everybody come
01:42:14.520 --> 01:42:16.590
back on, but we'll we let you."
01:42:16.600 --> 01:42:18.390
>> You and Scott You You and Aubrey are the
01:42:18.400 --> 01:42:21.230
only two that's ever been back twice.
01:42:21.240 --> 01:42:22.590
>> And Aubrey and Stephen King.
01:42:22.600 --> 01:42:24.070
>> Oh, and Stephen King. Yeah, and Stephen
01:42:24.080 --> 01:42:25.790
King did too. Yep. Yep.
01:42:25.800 --> 01:42:27.550
>> Hey, just
01:42:27.560 --> 01:42:28.270
uh
01:42:28.280 --> 01:42:30.390
Coming up, we got some
01:42:30.400 --> 01:42:32.590
Trey White coming July 21st. We got a
01:42:32.600 --> 01:42:34.870
mystery guest next week, Amanda Message
01:42:34.880 --> 01:42:38.510
July 28th, Dean Sykes August 11th, Eddie
01:42:38.520 --> 01:42:39.990
Poe's going to be with us September the
01:42:40.000 --> 01:42:42.030
15th and
01:42:42.040 --> 01:42:43.390
obviously we're going to do this every
01:42:43.400 --> 01:42:45.030
Tuesday, but those are our confirmed
01:42:45.040 --> 01:42:47.830
guests and y'all check us out on live
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Kick and you can also catch us on
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search for All Things New Podcast.
01:43:07.800 --> 01:43:09.030
>> And then if y'all give Damon a little
01:43:09.040 --> 01:43:11.710
bit of time, he has it on all the other
01:43:11.720 --> 01:43:13.510
uh podcast platforms.
01:43:13.520 --> 01:43:15.190
>> really bad on that. I need to take care
01:43:15.200 --> 01:43:17.270
of a bunch of those at this point.
01:43:17.280 --> 01:43:19.470
>> But anyway, y'all y'all call Rob and we
01:43:19.480 --> 01:43:22.630
want to get him out where he's
01:43:22.640 --> 01:43:24.110
preaching every Sunday and declaring
01:43:24.120 --> 01:43:27.510
God's word and y'all like this, comment,
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we do a a good job getting people
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information about I hate saying
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information but stuff about Jesus, you
01:43:37.880 --> 01:43:38.990
know, tools for you to
01:43:39.000 --> 01:43:42.110
>> so much the the the information is that
01:43:42.120 --> 01:43:43.590
and and just to return to what we're
01:43:43.600 --> 01:43:45.030
already talking about. The thing that
01:43:45.040 --> 01:43:47.590
makes All Things New podcast, I think so
01:43:47.600 --> 01:43:51.030
powerful of a show is that it's people's
01:43:51.040 --> 01:43:53.670
stories and people can identify with
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your story, man. They they they connect
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to it and and whenever they get connect
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to it and they can see that change in my
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know, it it gives them hope that they
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man. Like, subscribe, share, leave
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comments, man. Those comments set these
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things on fire, man, cuz you never know
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when you share what someone else who's
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going over your feed is going through
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that day and you never know if something
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that's said on this very show right here
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may absolutely help them in what they
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are going through, man, and turn them to
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the Lord and let them see that the Lord
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is the answer. So we ask you
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like, share, subscribe, but primarily
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share. Tell a friend.
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>> So help us out and y'all at the end of
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the day, you know,
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we're grateful for everything but it's
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not about All Things New, it's about
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about the podcast, it's not about
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Robin's speaking engagements. It's what
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Robin said, Jesus saves.
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>> It's about Jesus.
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>> Uh you'll you'll never meet anybody that
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says if I had to go back and do it
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again, I would have never sold out
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Jesus. You'll hear people regret
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everything else. So if you are listening
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this, you know, the Bible makes it
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really clear that if you confess with
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your mouth and believe in your heart
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that Jesus is risen from dead, you shall
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be saved and then, man, it's it's a an
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amazing journey uh when
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after that and you've heard us talk,
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it's not promising you uh
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no problems or riches but man, you'll
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never regret it and it's the the best
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life you'll ever live is walking with
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Jesus. So, we encourage you to to reach
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out to a pastor or to one of us if if
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you've never had that experience, call
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Robin, call me or Aubrey or Damien and
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we'd love to talk to you some more about
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the gospel. But, y'all y'all do help us
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out. Y'all
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share this and get it out for us and it
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it'll be a blessing to us.
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Robin, you want to close us in a a word
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of prayer?
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>> Let's pray.
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Father God, thank you for today and
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thank you for good friends and
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most of all, we come to you right now
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thanking you for giving your son to save
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us. That's afforded us an opportunity to
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come live with you for an eternity.
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God, thank you for loving me that much.
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Help us to grow in our love and real
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knowledge and
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and our dedication to serving you. In
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Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
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>> Amen.
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>> God bless.
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>> God bless you guys. Thank y'all for
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watching until we see y'all next week.
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Stay prayed up.