Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign.
[00:00:08] Speaker B: Welcome to Life, Liberty and Equipped Podcast. I'm Greg Davis, founder of NeoMag and a firm believer that life is worth living boldly. Liberty should be used for good, and we all have a calling to be equipped to pursue it. Every week we explore what it means to live with intention and carry the tools and mindset that prepare us for whatever comes. We'll dive into the topics around freedoms we cherish, the gear we trust, and the skills that equip us. Some more of that podcast. It's a mission, Life, Whatever and equipped to pursue it.
[00:00:32] Speaker C: Life Biberty.
[00:00:36] Speaker B: We're coming to you live on the NeoMag, YouTube and Facebook. Well, not Facebook.
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[00:00:44] Speaker C: We got practice.
[00:00:45] Speaker B: We got kicked off the Internet, so we're doing this again. So we are live again.
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[00:01:29] Speaker C: What's up, Jack? Happy Bob.
[00:01:30] Speaker B: Welcome back.
[00:01:31] Speaker C: So, for those of you who don't know, we already did this once.
[00:01:36] Speaker B: Hold on. They'll know. They don't know who was talking. I gotta do your intro.
[00:01:39] Speaker C: I apologize. Intro first.
[00:01:41] Speaker B: In a world where comfort breeds complacency and challenges reveal character, two men step forward.
First, Nate, a leader forged in discipline, sharpened by service, and driven by a mission bigger than himself.
He brings clarity, conviction, and the kind of calm strength that steadies the room before he even speaks. And beside him, Tiberius. Relentless, calculated, a strategist with fire in his chest and purpose in his stride.
When others see obstacles, he sees opportunity. When others hesitate, he advances. Together, Nate and Tiberius form a force of grit, insight and unapologetic truth, ready to guide, challenge and ignite. Everyone listening.
[00:02:27] Speaker A: Dynamic Duo, over here.
[00:02:28] Speaker C: That's right.
So back to what I was saying.
[00:02:31] Speaker A: You're Robin, I'm Batman.
[00:02:34] Speaker C: Okay, that's fine.
[00:02:36] Speaker B: He just wants to wear tights.
[00:02:37] Speaker C: I love tights.
[00:02:39] Speaker A: I think they both wear tights.
[00:02:40] Speaker C: I have. I have a nice butt.
[00:02:42] Speaker B: Yeah, but Robin's. Robin's tights are a little more.
[00:02:45] Speaker C: Lighten his loafers a little extra. A little bit more something.
But we already had. We already did this once.
[00:02:53] Speaker B: Yeah, we did.
[00:02:54] Speaker C: You got practice doing that intro and, you know, we've heard this all before.
[00:02:59] Speaker B: I didn't really go whole. I thought maybe it'd go better the second time, but.
[00:03:02] Speaker C: Nope. You said biberty instead of liberty.
[00:03:06] Speaker B: I'm all blustered now.
[00:03:08] Speaker C: Blustered?
[00:03:09] Speaker B: I was gonna say flustered, but I'm going with the whole.
[00:03:12] Speaker A: Bleh.
[00:03:12] Speaker B: Blah.
[00:03:13] Speaker C: Yeah, it's just. It's. You know, the Internet kicked us off, which is like the billionth time in the last week and a half.
[00:03:18] Speaker B: Yeah, last couple weeks it's been so.
[00:03:20] Speaker C: That's fun.
[00:03:21] Speaker B: Thanks, Spectrum.
[00:03:22] Speaker A: I blame Zuckerberg. I don't know why, but I blame him.
[00:03:26] Speaker B: Well, we can blame him for our Instagram.
[00:03:28] Speaker C: Yep. He kicked us off Instagram.
[00:03:30] Speaker B: We're not allowed to do Instagram live for a year because we collabed with somebody else's post, which they ended up saying we're trying to sell something. What's bad. Yep. Which it wasn't. And it was actually even reviewed and still deemed incorrect bad. And so we got a slap on.
On the bum alongside them. So just all kinds of so fun.
[00:03:59] Speaker A: My. My two week YouTube suspension just ended this this weekend, so, hey, congrats. I can post on YouTube again. Yay.
[00:04:08] Speaker B: Yep. Yeah.
Penguin said he blames Ohio, so. Jk, love Ohio. Ohio's fine.
It's the.
[00:04:16] Speaker C: It's just the Internet.
[00:04:17] Speaker B: It's the Internet and it's.
It's big meta. Yeah, those are the. Those are the enemies.
[00:04:25] Speaker C: All right, we're gonna hit life segment.
[00:04:26] Speaker B: All right, let's do this.
[00:04:27] Speaker C: And we're gonna actually hear Tib talk about vacation.
[00:04:29] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:04:32] Speaker D: Life isn't just the big moments. It's the everyday joys worth protecting. Family, friends, and community. Let's talk about what makes life rich.
[00:04:43] Speaker B: Yeah. So we are finally in new territory. This is about as far as we got.
[00:04:46] Speaker C: Yeah. I mean, Tib continued to talk while we were rushing around trying to figure out what was going on. So, Tib, you want to reiterate what you said to everyone else?
[00:04:52] Speaker B: Yeah. How's it going?
[00:04:53] Speaker A: Sure, sure. Did you guys know I went on vacation last week? Oh, yeah.
[00:04:56] Speaker B: Welcome back.
Oh, hold on. First, we also.
We also did cover that we are missing one. Oh, yes, we are. Missing Michael.
[00:05:05] Speaker C: Missing Michael.
[00:05:06] Speaker B: If you're watching live, you'll notice there's only two of us here.
[00:05:08] Speaker C: Plus, Tib, prayers for Michael.
[00:05:10] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:05:10] Speaker C: Michael hurt his back.
[00:05:11] Speaker B: His back is in pretty bad shape.
[00:05:13] Speaker C: He can't sit for long. He can't stand for long. He can't walk for long. He's not feeling good. So pray for Michael. Hopefully we get him back next week. He's going to a bunch of doctor stuff, so we're hoping that he gets some respite soon.
[00:05:26] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:05:26] Speaker C: So pray for Michael.
[00:05:27] Speaker B: Yeah. All right. So tip now, Tib, now.
[00:05:30] Speaker A: Go.
[00:05:30] Speaker B: Go.
[00:05:32] Speaker A: Vacation last week was lovely. It was just perfect in every way.
It was just me and the wife, Kids stayed home. We went to a nice. Our favorite little tropical island with not a lot of people.
It was 85 and sunny every day, which is perfect for us.
Were you laughing at me?
[00:05:50] Speaker C: No. Did you not hear the sound effect that Greg just played?
[00:05:52] Speaker A: No, I didn't hear it. Go ahead.
[00:05:55] Speaker C: Oh, yes, the wonderful harps.
[00:05:57] Speaker A: That's exactly what it was.
[00:05:58] Speaker B: If I'd. Beach. I need beach sounds on here. I don't.
[00:06:01] Speaker C: I don't know.
[00:06:02] Speaker A: Crashing wave.
[00:06:06] Speaker C: Sounds more like a hurricane.
[00:06:08] Speaker B: No, stop.
[00:06:09] Speaker A: Like.
[00:06:09] Speaker B: Like the crashing waves. Oh, my.
[00:06:11] Speaker A: Gators in the ocean that I told you guys about.
[00:06:13] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:06:15] Speaker A: Giant wave came, hit me in the back of the head, and I grabbed my neomag hat instead of my gators, and that was a bad decision. I should have. I should have grabbed the gators instead.
[00:06:25] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:06:26] Speaker A: But priorities.
[00:06:27] Speaker C: Well, you know, I bet if you reach out to gators, they'll send you a new pair, though.
[00:06:31] Speaker A: I already have a pair on the way. Yeah.
[00:06:33] Speaker C: There you go.
[00:06:34] Speaker A: I wasn't all that upset about it. Gators is very good to me, but. No, it was great. We relaxed, did a lot of reading on the beach, drank a lot of rumors, tried out some new restaurants. Just a lovely, lovely week.
[00:06:48] Speaker B: That sounds wonderful.
[00:06:49] Speaker A: Yeah, it was good. It was very relaxing this past weekend. Also, the Knights of Columbus had a gift card fundraiser. A bunch of people bringing gift cards and cash donations to help people, local folks who are struggling to put a proper Thanksgiving meal together.
And so I'll help people in the church community, and then some of it will go to the local food pantry and just, you know, trying to spread the love and help people out a little extra during the holiday season.
[00:07:18] Speaker B: So.
[00:07:18] Speaker C: Nice.
[00:07:19] Speaker B: Awesome.
[00:07:19] Speaker A: Yeah, they had us. They had stacks of gift cards, so it went really well.
[00:07:24] Speaker C: How did you guys. Were you guys just standing there, like, accepting the gift cards? Were you coordinating things how did that work?
[00:07:30] Speaker A: Yeah, so what they'll do is they'll send. They'll put things in the bulletin and the church bulletin that goes out every week on the website.
The knights will announce it, a priest will post something, and then after all the masses, they'll. They'll collect the gift cards.
And like I said, some go to local families in the church and even somewhat outside of the church. And then the food pantries get whatever is left over. But as always, our church is very generous, which is great.
[00:07:59] Speaker C: That's cool.
[00:08:01] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, it's good.
And the last thing I had, I did.
So I have a neighbor who very strange. Interesting. Not strange, interesting fellow. I could tell you guys about him for like an hour, but he does a lot of CrossFit type workouts and we used to do them together all the time and stop for no. For no reason. So I joined him for one yesterday.
And he knows I've been going to the gym, but he also knows I haven't been doing any exercise like running or anything cardio related.
And it really showed the.
I was hurting.
It was cold too, so it was tough to breathe.
But his Exercise was a 50 burpee buy in.
[00:08:44] Speaker C: Nope.
[00:08:45] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm out right there.
And then fireman carry, where you have to put the person on your back. And we walked across the entire soccer field. Is a soccer field 100 yards.
[00:08:55] Speaker C: I think it's too far, so I don't know.
[00:09:00] Speaker A: It was far. Yeah. And I'm probably a good 20 pounds heavier than him. So he. Yeah, lucky. Anyway, you carry one person across the soccer field. You do 30 squats, air squats, 25 push ups. The other person picks up the other guy carries them back across the soccer field. 30 air squats, 25 push ups. You go back and forth for five sets. And then there was a 50 burpee buyout.
And he saw me like pretty much dying and he said, how about instead of the 50 burpees we just do a two minute plank?
I was like, yes, please.
[00:09:37] Speaker B: I don't know if that's a whole lot better, but.
Yeah, that's. That sounds like a good one.
[00:09:42] Speaker A: Yeah, I was struggling with the burpees. The last. The last 10 or 15. My cardio, especially in the cold, is not there. Shockingly, the fireman's carry was by far the easiest. That was the easiest part.
[00:09:53] Speaker B: Was your neighbor a tiny guy?
[00:09:56] Speaker A: He's probably. No, no. He's probably a buck 75.
[00:09:59] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:10:00] Speaker C: But a fireman's carry, really, I mean.
[00:10:01] Speaker B: If you do it right it's not.
[00:10:02] Speaker C: It's not bad. I mean, it's just. It's just a little bit of extra weight. Unless you're, like, sprinting, it's not bad.
Honestly, it's almost a break. Especially if you're doing burpees and that kind of stuff.
[00:10:12] Speaker B: It's.
[00:10:12] Speaker C: That's not a huge deal, at least to me. That. That one's the. That's the easiest thing of the things that you said.
[00:10:17] Speaker B: I'll.
[00:10:18] Speaker C: I'll do a firemen carry back and forth. In fact, I would be all firemen's. Carry you guys back and forth, and you guys do the exercises, and I'll just carry you. That'll be my. My part. My participation in the exercises.
[00:10:28] Speaker B: I agree.
[00:10:29] Speaker C: You get a break from the. Whatever you did, and I'll just carry you back and forth.
[00:10:32] Speaker B: I actually don't mind. I don't mind burpees that much. I did a wad last week, last Wednesday, where it's.
It's man makers, which is basically burpees, but for. But you have dumbbells, so you do a. You do a burpee, and then you basically do a.
With the dumbbells. Then you put your dumbbells up above your head, back down, burpee, dumbbells above your head.
Those are always.
Take it up a notch. Those are rough, too.
[00:10:59] Speaker C: I'm good.
I'm good.
[00:11:01] Speaker B: I like them. Nope.
[00:11:04] Speaker C: I feel like I'm enough of a man. I don't need to be made more. More of a man with burpees.
[00:11:10] Speaker A: Burpees are awful.
[00:11:12] Speaker C: Yep.
[00:11:12] Speaker B: I'm out.
Hard pass.
[00:11:15] Speaker C: I'll just carry men.
[00:11:16] Speaker B: It's fine. So you're gonna start doing this more often?
Yeah.
[00:11:21] Speaker A: So he does this type of workout like, five, six days a week.
So I want to start doing it twice a week because I go to the gym three times a week, and I want to keep that pace up.
But I do need to do more for cardio, and I've been struggling for consistency there. And after this workout yesterday, like, I was just telling Nate, my legs, my lats, my back, like, my traps, I feel it everywhere. I'm like, yeah, hurting. So, yeah, I need to do it. It'd be ideal if I could do it twice a week.
[00:11:50] Speaker B: Yeah, that's a good. For a while, I was doing. I was lifting Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and I used to still do some kind of cardio in there with that as well, jump rope or something. But then Tuesday, Thursday, I was doing some. Some sort of wad.
And before that, we. We as A team did for a little while. We're doing Wednesday wads together, and people's schedules and stuff like that just kind of got. Got thrown off. So, yeah, I started doing Tuesday, Thursday, and that's. That. That's a great mix of. Of.
Of just kind of everything. Yeah.
[00:12:21] Speaker A: Well, when I come in in three weeks or so, we'll. We'll make everybody do a group wad together except for Michael, because he's broken.
[00:12:30] Speaker B: He's broken.
I always enjoy doing with Nate because we kind of push each other, and it was good. I enjoyed it.
That's good. Well, I.
I've kind of rekindled a interest in deer hunting, so I've always loved hunting, but it's mostly just been waterfowl that I've always hunted, which I probably still do prefer.
But it's just been getting harder and harder to waterfowl hunt, especially in this part of Ohio. Just getting properties is getting so, so hard to do, and there's just not as many birds around as there used to be. And the other downside to it was I was just actually explaining to my wife the hard part with waterfowl hunting. In order to do it well, you kind of need to have a couple people.
[00:13:14] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:13:15] Speaker B: It just helps to have more people calling and more eyes in the sky and stuff like that.
And plus, we're usually in like a marsh and the marsh that we're usually in.
I have been out there by myself, but it makes me just a little bit nervous.
[00:13:31] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:13:31] Speaker B: Because it's far enough from civilization that nobody's gonna hear me yelling if I were to get tip over and get stuck. Because it is like if you get out of the boat, which every now and then you kind of have to. You get out of the boat and your waiters.
It. If you don't have something with you to like, you can get stuck. You can get stuck so easily. Yeah, I've been legit stuck. And. And. But it wasn't a big deal because my buddy's over the boat and he comes over and helps me get out. So I don't like to go there by myself. That said, so deer hunting, you go by yourself. And the one other wonderful thing is, you know, a lot of the deer in the spot that I have are moving in the evening so I can leave work a little bit early.
It's shooting time ends at 5. 35. 35 right now. So I'm. I can still get home. Home for dinner. So I've really. I've sat. I've only sat twice but it's been in the last week.
Probably gonna go right after the podcast today, too. Yeah. But I've. I've really been enjoying getting. Getting up in the tree.
I had a nice little six. Well, it actually been a small eight point.
[00:14:33] Speaker C: I think it was an eight point based on what we looked at in the video.
[00:14:35] Speaker B: Yeah, it was good size. Yes. Small points. But I don't think I sent you the one I saw that came. Came by me yesterday, but I was.
[00:14:44] Speaker A: Kind of share that in the story.
[00:14:47] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I did.
[00:14:49] Speaker A: Yeah, I saw that.
[00:14:50] Speaker B: Yeah, you did, yeah. And so he walked by. I kind of regret it a little bit, but I know there's a bigger one in the area. He was on my camera the day before. So. Anyway, that's been. That's been a lot of fun. I really enjoying that. And then, you know, we're deep in hockey season here. We have a team game tomorrow that.
I'm actually still looking for a fourth person because Nate can't go, so. But I've only been to one Monsters game this year. We're several months in to the season. I've only been to one that kind of start off the beginning of the season here.
[00:15:17] Speaker C: A little light, a little lighter than normal. I mean, I feel like we normally start the season hot and heavy.
[00:15:21] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:15:22] Speaker C: And we went.
I feel like we did a better job this year distributing ourselves, though, than we have in years past, because when the season comes out, we have to kind of select all of our tickets for the season before the season even really kicks off. And I feel like we normally do a lot of like, all right, we're gonna pack everything in the beginning, and then by the end, we're like, ugh, hockey.
[00:15:44] Speaker B: Yeah.
Our first season doing this. By the time we got towards the end of the season, nobody wanted to go. Yeah, we were like, I'm tired of going. Yeah. No one wanted to go drive up there. Not that Cleveland's a big city, but it's still.
[00:15:57] Speaker C: It's a city.
[00:15:57] Speaker B: It's a city, and it's still way more than what we're used to in our little town here. So going up there and dealing with all that. It's parking, parking, and, oh, that's a pain. So, yeah, going again tomorrow.
Looking forward to that. This should be fun.
[00:16:14] Speaker A: I'll come be the fourth.
[00:16:15] Speaker B: Greg, please fly out. Dude, I love that.
[00:16:19] Speaker A: Yeah, I'll drive out and bring the baby.
[00:16:21] Speaker C: I've been telling you to do that for three years.
[00:16:23] Speaker B: Stop teasing us.
[00:16:26] Speaker C: Literally for three years. Tib, I've Been telling you to drive out here with the baby.
[00:16:31] Speaker B: So how do you date? What's new?
[00:16:33] Speaker C: Bring your pirate dog.
Nothing really new. We did put our Christmas decorations up way early, which is fantastic. Not like us.
As much as I love Christmas, if you guys didn't know Christmas is my favorite time of year, I, generally speaking, don't do this kind of thing. But we put up our Christmas decorations Friday night last week simply because we didn't know when we'd be able to. If we didn't.
It was just one of those when we looked at the calendar and looked at schedules, and it was.
Well, we have an open evening, and we're not sure when we're gonna be able to do it. So we pulled stuff down out of the attic and got. Basically, pretty much everything's decorated. We still have to actually put the ornaments on one tree. So technically, we're not done yet, but the big things are all done and set up and, you know, decorated and everything. So we did that Friday.
Saturday, we actually had a cocktail class at a distillery in Cleveland. Well, technically, in Lakewood.
Excuse me. Called the Western Reserve Distillery. It was a lot of fun. We did.
They taught us three different cocktails.
[00:17:43] Speaker B: A.
[00:17:45] Speaker C: Caramel apple margarita, which was amazing.
A.
What was it? I can't remember now.
[00:17:56] Speaker B: Use different spirits for each one.
[00:17:57] Speaker C: Each one was different. It was a tequila, a rum, and a.
It wasn't a bourbon.
A gin. Those were the three. And I can't remember what the other two were. They were all good. The one was okay, just. It wasn't. If you liked what it was like.
I can't remember what it was.
Oh, Manhattan. It was a Manhattan. So Margarita Manhattan, which I do like Manhattan's. And then I can't remember what the last one was, but it doesn't matter.
So they taught us how to make it. And then you got to choose which one you wanted to make on your own. So the bartender that was teaching how to make the drink would come around, and she would give you all of the ingredients to make the drink and everything. So we got to make it and then.
Which was a lot of fun. So we sat there. Each got to make our own drink.
So that was a lot of fun. They gave us the recipes and all of the other stuff. The other thing that they actually gave us is the one drink, the rum was brown buttered rum. And they taught you how to make it. So it was a brown wash. Like a butter brown wash, I think, or how do. You can't remember exactly how to say it, but they taught you actually how to do that with a recipe and everything. So it's something that we can take home and do.
And then they had a little bit of tastings, like you could taste some of the spirits they make there and everything like that. So we were there for probably, I want to say probably four hours, because the class itself wasn't very long. I want to say it was maybe an hour, all said and done. After she talked through the history of each drink and the approach they did to it, the class was about an hour, but we ate and we sat and did the class and then hung out and had some other cocktails made by the actual bartenders there and everything, which is a lot of fun. So we were up there for a little while. And then there's a new speakeasy in Medina, which is another town over from us that we went to later that evening with the same group of folks, which is. Was. Is interesting. It's a neat little place.
[00:19:55] Speaker B: He didn't have enough to drink? Apparently not.
[00:19:58] Speaker C: I only had one at each location. Other people may have imbibed a little bit more, but the speakeasy was cool. It's a neat little place.
I have a hard time. There's a place in Wadsworth that kind of has set the bar for good cocktails and a good speakeasy, and I have yet to find one that quite meets that. It's called Crafted Cocktail in Wadsworth. If you're in the Wadsworth area and you like good cocktails, go to Crafted Cocktail in Wadsworth. They make, I would argue, some of the best cocktails I've ever had.
And the environment is super cool.
The Speakeasian Medina was great. They made good drinks. The environment was. I would go back, but it was not be like, super duper high on the list of places. Be. If you're in Medina and you had dinner and you want to go somewhere afterwards, I'd go there.
[00:20:48] Speaker B: Ever been to the Wolf Creek Tavern speakeasy? Yeah. That's like as legit of an experience as you get.
[00:20:54] Speaker C: It's a legit speakeasy.
[00:20:55] Speaker B: Legit speakeasy. Kind of creepy, dark and dingy.
[00:20:58] Speaker C: You're waiting to be bitten by a spider or a snake.
Because it's.
[00:21:03] Speaker B: It's. It is.
[00:21:04] Speaker C: It's actually legit.
[00:21:05] Speaker A: Is legit.
[00:21:06] Speaker B: Like, every time I go in there, I can never. I can't remember how to get to it. Yeah, there's just this door that doesn't look. Doesn't look. A door that's kind of without the whole thing. But I mean.
[00:21:14] Speaker C: But it was a legit speakeasy.
[00:21:15] Speaker B: Yeah, there's a big, big hole in the wall where they showed where the alcohol would be passed through, pass through and stuff like that. And the drinks are pretty good too. Yeah. But did you learn how to make the Michael Scott one of everything?
[00:21:27] Speaker C: No. No, I did not.
[00:21:29] Speaker B: I don't know why I started thinking outside. I looked up, looked up the recipe.
If you guys are interested in making the Michael Scott one of everything is equal parts scotch, absinthe, white rum, gin, sweet vermouth, triple sec, and two packs of Splenda. Yep.
[00:21:45] Speaker C: That'll knock you out.
[00:21:46] Speaker A: That sounds awful.
[00:21:47] Speaker C: That'll knock you right out.
I think you're really trying to not have a night if you're gonna drink the Michael Scott one of everything did not have that.
[00:21:57] Speaker A: Definitely not hard pass.
[00:22:00] Speaker B: I think Meredith was the only one.
[00:22:02] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:22:02] Speaker C: She was excited about it actually, and she said this is awesome. And I think she then wanted another one.
[00:22:10] Speaker B: I love the two packs.
[00:22:11] Speaker C: Two packs of Splenda. Two packs of Splenda just to, you know, take down the bites, sweeten it up a little. But we did that and then. I don't remember, I had something else on here.
[00:22:19] Speaker B: Urban Air.
[00:22:20] Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
[00:22:20] Speaker B: And then trampolines.
[00:22:22] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:22:22] Speaker C: Then we took my son for. So for my kids birthdays we've been trying to do. We still buy them a few presents, but we've been trying to give them an experience of some sort. Now his birthday was about a month ago, actually a little bit over a month ago.
But again with busyness. This was the first weekend that we were going to make it, make something fit. So we told him we kind of gave him some options of things that we could do for his birthday.
And there's a place right around the corner called Urban Air and it's a trampoline park. And they had. They actually have this ball pit, American Ninja type of course in it. And they've got a ropes course and a zip line. They do have some climbing walls and some arcade type stuff, but that stuff is a little bit old for him. Definitely old for my daughter.
So we went there for probably two and a half, three hours on Sunday afternoon.
And I let the kids just bounce and play. And I mean, he spent probably the lion's share of his time in the ball pit of the American Ninja Warrior type, of course, which it's funny because they have it set up so that you could time yourself and like see how fast you could get across the course without falling. And I didn't.
[00:23:31] Speaker B: He doesn't care.
[00:23:32] Speaker C: I don't think. Well, it wasn't even him. I just. I don't think I saw a single kid, and there's plenty of teens and everything in there that actually tried to complete the course. Like, they didn't try and do the course. They were all just jumping into the pit, which Western at one point is like, hey, can you jump in the pit? I'm like, yeah, sure, why not? I jumped right in. And I understand why they want to be in there. It's a lot of fun.
As a, you know, six foot over 200 pound man. I sunk straight to the bottom. And then the balls, you're surprised, right? Like, these little balls which weigh nothing compress, by the way, and you get sucked into the bottom. You're like, I don't know if I'm gonna be able to get out of this. This ball pit. I'm kind of stuck in here. Uh, but it was a lot of fun. So. He had a blast. So that was. That was our weekend, and that's what we've been doing. And then it's just Black Friday, man.
[00:24:13] Speaker B: That's.
[00:24:14] Speaker C: That's it. Black Friday until we get through Thanksgiving next week, and then it's time for hunting. So.
[00:24:22] Speaker B: Yeah, that's all. I can't wait. I'm. I'm ready for. I'm ready. I've. I'm officially ready for the holidays.
I realized this, I think yesterday. I'm like, okay, I'm.
Maybe it's because I'm getting.
[00:24:32] Speaker C: Once I get hunting more, once I get through hunting season. Yeah, hunting season is my gateway. Once I'm done hunting, at least the first hunting season, then I'm ready for the holidays. Because that's usually my.
It's like the gateway for me. Like, I get through. Because Thanksgiving. Yeah, it's not that it's not a holiday, but I don't. I don't think about Thanksgiving much. It's just a thing. You know, we eat food with the family. It's nothing. It's not bad. I just don't. Don't really think about it much.
Then I go to hunt with my dad out in Pennsylvania for a few days, and then once I get back, it's like, okay, usually we're either almost in December or just hit December.
I can start playing Christmas music obnoxiously because that's my rule is that I don't obnoxiously play Christmas music towards other people until after December 1st. So I can start obnoxiously playing My Christmas music and everything's decorated and that's kind of the, the onus for okay, we're in the holidays. So I'm looking forward to that.
[00:25:28] Speaker B: Like starting off the Christmas season with killing something.
[00:25:31] Speaker C: Oh yeah, let's go.
[00:25:32] Speaker B: It's the best way to start.
[00:25:34] Speaker C: Blasted away with 308, 200 yards. Let's go. Game on.
[00:25:39] Speaker B: All right, well, let's get into today's Liberty segment.
[00:25:47] Speaker D: Liberty isn't about what we can get away with. It's about how we use our freedom to serve. Let's explore what that looks like today.
[00:25:56] Speaker B: So today's Liberty segment comes from.
I volunteered at my church on Monday. Our church does this every year. They do Operation Christmas Child. Been doing it for as long as I can remember me. And they were telling stories about how we remember as a kid saving a shoebox, going to the store. You know, like you would, you would pick what they would give you a card with like the age, sex interests of, of some kid. I think just so you kind of knew who you're shopping for.
And so you fill the shoebox and bring it to the church. So it's something I remember doing for a long time. So our church is one of the main drop off points I think in a pretty big area because we had people coming from pretty long way come and drop, drop stuff off. We box up almost a thousand shoeboxes just on Monday.
And she said that it's incredible. Yeah, it is. And she said that that was slow, that it's normally busier than that.
And so they're there every evening up until some, some point here.
And so it was, it was, it was pretty cool.
There was. Somebody came with a covered trailer. It was a small covered trailer, but a covered enclosed trailer. They had over 600 boxes themselves.
So that one person came with two thirds of what we boxed that night. But super cool thing to do.
She actually shared a story about there was a guy that, that came and spoke I think last year who a while ago was a recipient of one of these boxes and he threw again. He is like an, he had a much longer talk than this kind of explain a whole story. But he has a story of getting out of, of, of that of, of his homeland and coming over in the States and he now helps with what he works with Samaritan's Purse, which is what puts, who does Operation Christmas Child. So I kind of just wanted to bring light to this and just kind of let people know about it if you don't know about it. Just kind of like know about it.
There are almost guaranteed.
[00:28:06] Speaker C: There are locations near you.
[00:28:08] Speaker B: Yeah, there are places near you. And it's just a great way to, to give a child who has almost nothing a gift this Christmas. Now it is, it is. It's not funny. Funny. But as she said that they, by the time they get these, by the time they get they shipped over there, they go through customs, they make their.
[00:28:30] Speaker C: Way out until it ends up being all year round that they're, it's.
[00:28:33] Speaker B: She said it's like March or April or something like that. By the time they actually get them, they do it. Now for us Americans to think that we're doing a Christmas present, which these kids do not care when they get.
[00:28:45] Speaker C: No, they're getting a gift. It doesn't matter what it is or when it is, but they're getting a gift.
[00:28:49] Speaker B: So appreciate no matter what.
[00:28:51] Speaker C: Right.
[00:28:53] Speaker B: Are you familiar with this?
No, I've never heard of it.
Interesting.
So it's a project run by Samaritan's Purse and it's a international Christian relief evangelism organization.
So when they give, when they bring these, these gifts to them, they, you know, they present the gospel presentation. I think there's, I think it's actually what they're explaining. There's actually like a eight week long, probably closest thing that we could equate it to is like a VBS type of thing.
[00:29:27] Speaker C: Yeah, I think it's like a Bible camp. It's not just a here's this walk away and call it a day. They actually spend some time with the kids.
The families. The families and try to give them something more than just a gift.
Although the gift is significant.
[00:29:41] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
Beyond the gift itself, the program aims to share the Christian gospel message and engage children in a discipleship program called the Greatest Journey after they receive the shoebox. And there's. We have some pictures here, but if you hop on Google and you type us in, you can see some of the pictures of these kids getting these boxes. And it's been around since the early.
[00:30:03] Speaker C: 90S, let's say I, we were talking about it and I can remember doing this event.
It would have been as early as probably 2,099, 1999 or 2000.
And doing packing parties. It used to be when it first started anyways. Like you'd shave a. Save shave, save a shoebox. And you'd bring your saved shoeboxes to a packing location.
And the packing location that people would have donated toothbrushes and toothpaste and soap and socks and crayons and pencils and. Yeah, all sorts of textiles and things that a kid needs and wants.
I think even like rubber balls and bouncy balls, that kind of stuff. And you go through and you just grab some of all of it and fill this box full of all of that stuff.
Now they actually to a certain extent can provide a box so that it logistically makes more sense.
[00:31:06] Speaker B: But now they'll actually give you a box. And the nice thing about it really, so being on the end of collecting these boxes so there's a bigger box that they give you that you put 16 of these shoe boxes in.
If all those shoe boxes were different sizes, it would be a nightmare trying.
[00:31:19] Speaker C: To pack, which is what it used to be.
[00:31:20] Speaker B: Yeah. So now it's nice because they all, all fit. Fit nicely. Yeah.
So it, it's kind of a crazy Stat. Says since 1993, more than 232 million shoe boxes have been.
Have been handed out in more than 170 countries and territories.
It's just, it's crazy. It's huge.
It's just a really cool way to get back to, to at least to these. And I did not know about this, but you can actually go on the website and you can build a box online.
[00:31:57] Speaker C: Oh, I didn't know that.
[00:31:58] Speaker B: Yeah, so I'm not sure how it works. I didn't follow the link yet. But yeah, you can go online, you can build a box. You can also sponsor box like $10 per box. I guess it helps cover shipping and processing and oh cool. And stuff like that. So you know, it's, I think sometimes we like you hear these, just these overwhelming stats of how many people are in these third world countries that need help and you kind of feel helpless, like what can I, what can I do? But you know, one shoebox at a time can, you know, you know, can send hundreds of millions of boxes over there. So you know, you might just be helping one, one kid out, but that's one kid who didn't have anything before that.
[00:32:45] Speaker C: So it's a neat, it's, it's a really neat organization.
I do know that based on what you and I talked about the change. Like I said, I remember it as a box packing event where you kind of did it with a bunch of other people.
But you don't have to do that anymore. You can do it individually and go and fill the box on your own by just, you know, going to your Target or Walmart and buying the stuff on your own. Fill in the box and going and dropping it off at a pre coordinated Location. So you don't have to do that as a group thing or do it at a church. That's something you can coordinate and do on your own. So it's not something that you have to wait for somebody else to set up.
Which I didn't know about. The online thing, that's pretty cool.
[00:33:27] Speaker B: Yeah, it's pretty cool.
[00:33:29] Speaker C: But it is.
I think it's a pretty neat.
A neat thing to do for the.
It's always been a cool organization. The Samaritan's Purse organization has always been cool. And participating in Operation Christmas Child.
I can remember going as far. I don't know if you remember this, but the church that we grew up with did little plays and stuff back in the day. I don't know if you remember that we did an Operation Christmas Child play when I was a kid.
I was in it, but it was all about that. It was kind of trying to. It was almost like a church sponsored commercial, I guess. I don't know that we do this.
[00:34:11] Speaker A: Because I think we need to see it.
[00:34:13] Speaker C: You know, I actually wish that we had video of some of this stuff from way back in the day, because I did. I did several plays like this from. From way back. But I don't. I actually don't know if anyone ever videotaped any of this stuff, but guarantee.
[00:34:26] Speaker B: It'S on videotape somewhere. I mean, trying to find that vhs.
[00:34:29] Speaker C: Well, honestly, the person to ask would be. Debbie Herder would be the person to ask. She's the one that led all that stuff. She might have it somewhere. But anyways, we actually did a whole play about Operation Christmas Child.
But it's a really, really neat organization to support. It's a neat event to support. And it doesn't cost that much either. Like if you were to pack one box, honestly, you could pack multiple by buying like the multi packs of everything that they ask. Right? Like they're gonna ask. I think they give you a general list of what they want in the box. At least they used to. They'll give you a general list of what they want in the box. And most of it is gonna be stuff that you can buy in bulk packaging. So you can make four or five boxes based off of bulk buying four or five of the items pretty easily.
And it's like I said, it's a neat event.
[00:35:22] Speaker B: So one idea I had was, you know, we're all gonna be getting together with people for Thanksgiving coming up pretty soon here. And people are always asking, what should I bring?
You could say, you know, what food's covered. But if you could bring, you know, something, go look at the list of things that they need for this and say, you know, can you bring a pack of pencils and bouncy balls? Go to five below, go to the dollar store, whatever, get stuff, bring it, and then do a packing party. So we used to do like a. We used to do a packing party where everybody bring all the bulk stuff, and you'd kind of lay it out on the table, fly it out and lay it out. You grab a box, go down and kind of pick one of everything. But it'd be something you could sit around and do as a family this Thanksgiving, you know, instead of just shopping and buying stuff you don't need, you could actually be helping some kids and putting some stuff together, so. Or if you are online shopping, you can go to Samaritan's Purse and you could sponsor a box build online. So. Yeah.
Just reminded me of this, and I kind of want to bring it to light for people who don't know about it. If there's nothing in your area where you can volunteer and help or volunteer to drop up boxes again, you can go online and do it. And it's just. It's a really cool way to bring some happiness to some kids that don't have a lot. And some families, surely, you know, families are thankful. The parents are thankful to see their kids get the stuff as well.
[00:36:42] Speaker C: Yeah, for sure.
For sure.
[00:36:45] Speaker B: I was just playing around on the.
[00:36:47] Speaker A: On the website as you were talking about it, and the one thing I really liked, besides, you know, helping less fortunate, it says 85% of what they receive goes back into their ministry, which is fantastic. 8% is fundraising, and 7% is just general administrative stuff. So that 85% is fantastic.
[00:37:06] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:37:07] Speaker A: It's one of the first things I look for when I.
[00:37:09] Speaker B: Right.
[00:37:09] Speaker A: You know, you guys remember the. The Wounded Warrior when they were keeping 90 of it or whatever.
[00:37:15] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:37:16] Speaker A: Which is heartbreaking. So it's nice to see that.
[00:37:18] Speaker B: Yeah. I. I've donated to Samaritan's Purse for years and certain projects and stuff like that. And. And they always do a really good job. And that's one of the things I always look at, too, Tib, is, you know, how much of this money is actually going to actually help first, you know, give the guy at the top one.
[00:37:38] Speaker C: I know that they work off of a very large volunteer structure, the folks that are coordinating.
I mean, obviously there's some level that somebody's getting paid for something. You just have to at some point. But I do know that they have people in director level positions that are truly there at a volunteer basis. Like they've got a large volunteer network that are helping to coordinate and run this, this organization and coordinate for the pickup, drop off and shipping of all these boxes. So you can rest assured that your donations are being used wisely.
[00:38:19] Speaker B: Definitely.
Very good.
All right, let's move in. Equipped.
[00:38:27] Speaker D: The right tools, the right skills at the right time. This is where we get equipped to live boldly, to be ready for what comes next.
[00:38:38] Speaker B: So every week of the month of November, we are dropping new black Multicam products.
[00:38:44] Speaker C: Yes, we are.
[00:38:44] Speaker B: First week, what do we do?
[00:38:46] Speaker C: We dropped the black multicam gen 2 NeoMag and the black multicam EDC tech trap.
[00:38:52] Speaker B: And how many of those we have left?
[00:38:54] Speaker C: No, NeoMax gone. They're gone. I think we have two or three tech traps.
[00:39:00] Speaker B: Maybe.
[00:39:01] Speaker C: I'd have to check it's two or three, but they could be gone. Honestly, they could have sold today. I'm not positive. We don't have many of them left, if we have any.
[00:39:10] Speaker B: Cool.
[00:39:10] Speaker C: And then last week we dropped the black Multicam alias belt pre order.
So those will be on the website and available to order until December 1st at midnight or 11:59.
[00:39:25] Speaker B: 11:59 Pacific Standard.
[00:39:28] Speaker C: Right.
[00:39:28] Speaker B: So if you're on east coast, you.
[00:39:29] Speaker C: Even have an extra three hours, a few extra hours.
[00:39:31] Speaker B: If you want to order 2:59am in the morning.
[00:39:35] Speaker C: Yeah, you can, you can. But yeah. So the pre order will close December 1st for those. So you have an opportunity there. If you want a black Multicam alias belt, you get that. Honestly, if you just want an alias belt that is not in your typical size that we offer, this is a great opportunity because it goes from size 26 up to size 50.
[00:39:59] Speaker B: Too big.
[00:40:02] Speaker C: In both the low profile and the cobra buckle. So if you want a big belt or a small belt or anything in between, we've got you covered. On the pre order.
[00:40:10] Speaker B: You could get like two small bounce and link them together.
[00:40:13] Speaker C: You could. That is an option.
I don't know why you do that, but you could do that. There you go.
[00:40:19] Speaker B: If you plan on losing weight, you're like, I'm gonna go from a 50.
[00:40:22] Speaker C: To a 26 to a 26.
[00:40:24] Speaker B: So I'm gonna go ahead and buy.
[00:40:25] Speaker C: Two 26, two 26s, link them together.
[00:40:28] Speaker B: But eventually I'm going to get down to one of these.
[00:40:30] Speaker C: Yeah, that seems like an odd plan, but if you want to go for it, do that.
[00:40:33] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't think that's healthy.
[00:40:35] Speaker C: That seems like a.
A drastic loss of weight. Probably not wise. You're probably gonna have to have some skin cut off if you do that. But you know what? Go for it.
[00:40:43] Speaker B: I mean, you don't have to do it in a week. Do it a lot in a healthy plan.
[00:40:48] Speaker C: But anyways, anyways.
[00:40:50] Speaker B: Tip. Do you know what we're launching this week?
[00:40:54] Speaker A: An EDC tray and a watch stand.
[00:40:56] Speaker C: Yeah, we're actually launching two types of EDC trays. Large show notes and mini.
Plus the watch stand with the black multicam insert.
[00:41:08] Speaker B: Yeah. So we've done black multicam trays in the past, but this year is different. So this year we decided to go with a complete Cerakote. The entire tray.
[00:41:19] Speaker C: Yep.
[00:41:19] Speaker B: Cerakote, black multicam. They look great. We don't have any here to show you, but what we've seen. They look great. Yep. And.
And it's going to come with a clear pass cure. Good goodness. Clear plastic insert to go on the bottom to help.
[00:41:36] Speaker C: Words are hard for you.
[00:41:37] Speaker B: It is hard to go in the bottom of it. So if you want to, if you want to throw. If you decide you want to throw heavy, sharp things into your tray, you can do. So you can do that.
[00:41:46] Speaker C: It won't hurt the Cerakote.
[00:41:47] Speaker B: That will. And so it'll come with that. The watch stands, the insert. There's an insert in there that is black multicam.
[00:41:57] Speaker C: Yep.
[00:41:57] Speaker B: We did these last year. We did a handful last year. We'll only have. Do you know how many of those.
[00:42:01] Speaker C: Watch stands will have less than 10?
[00:42:03] Speaker B: Yeah, I want to say it was like 6.
[00:42:04] Speaker C: It's less than 10. So we've got 10 of each size of tray.
So total of 20 trays and less than 10 of the watch stand. So limited numbers.
[00:42:15] Speaker B: And you can choose between which base you want on the watch stand, right?
[00:42:18] Speaker C: Yep, yep. You'll be able to choose either the standalone base or the tray equipped. The tray base between the two.
[00:42:27] Speaker B: Yeah. So the tray base is really cool. It actually there's a couple set screws in it. It just sits on your tray. It'll work on either on the long side of the mini tray or on the back side of the large tray and the watch stand. If you don't. If you don't know, super cool. We CNC machine it out of aluminum. The. The. It holds two watches and it normally has a leather insert in there. These are going to be a. It's basically plastic with a Cordura black multicam attached to the top of it that your watch stand on. But you can also pop that out and a Apple watch charger will fit inside of both sides. If you have two Apple watches, you and your wife or his and hers husband. Yeah, whatever.
You can have two watch. Two Apple watches in there as well or keep the inserts in and set your watches on that.
[00:43:19] Speaker C: And if you have a non apple smartwatch, if it's a plug in the bottom style, you can actually route that cable up as well. Just because it's an open bottom. So if it's not a.
[00:43:31] Speaker B: If you have a Garmin or something like that, you should be able to. To still feed your. Your charger up through it.
[00:43:35] Speaker C: We also have wire routing built into it as well.
[00:43:37] Speaker B: Yep, Yep. There's. There's wire routing. So if you do have your charger in there, you can kind of. It's not going to just be dangling all over the place. So kind of route through it. And again, the EDC trays are also CNC machined out of a single plate of aluminum. Cerak coated. Lifetime warranty on all these things.
[00:43:55] Speaker C: Yep.
[00:43:55] Speaker B: So they are.
These are the kind of thing that you could buy and hand down to your heirloom items. Yeah.
[00:44:01] Speaker C: There is what I would call them.
[00:44:02] Speaker B: They.
The. As we said before, the trays could actually be used as a weapon, as a blunt object weapon if you really wanted to.
[00:44:09] Speaker C: I wouldn't want to get hit with.
[00:44:10] Speaker B: One a video somewhere throwing one into a like going through a piece of drywall somewhere. I don't know if I ever posted it.
What you looking for?
[00:44:22] Speaker C: They're not bulletproof though.
[00:44:23] Speaker B: No, there's. Yeah, there's one behind Nate.
[00:44:25] Speaker C: Right.
[00:44:26] Speaker B: Unless if you hit right in a thick part, it'll do a Pretty good.
[00:44:30] Speaker C: Job with 9 millimeter.
[00:44:32] Speaker B: 9 mil picture 3 is gonna blow right through it. But yeah. Do not use a tray.
[00:44:35] Speaker C: It's not bulletproof as armor. It does. It would hurt if you smacked someone with it. So keep that in mind.
[00:44:40] Speaker B: So those will be available this Friday.
[00:44:42] Speaker C: They will be launching at some point in time.
[00:44:46] Speaker B: The target date. Target time is around noon.
[00:44:48] Speaker C: But it would have launched on Friday.
[00:44:51] Speaker B: Depends on when we get these things.
[00:44:53] Speaker C: We'll get them tomorrow for pictures.
[00:44:55] Speaker B: So we should have more. Last time we turned around pictures we.
[00:44:59] Speaker C: Got them at 7:30 in the morning on Friday and we got them up on the website by like 1 noon, 1 o'. Clock. So.
[00:45:05] Speaker B: Yeah. So excited about these. And then we have one more surprise for you guys next Friday that we'll tell you about.
[00:45:12] Speaker C: Super unique that we've never.
[00:45:14] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:45:14] Speaker C: This ever done before. Legit literally never done before.
[00:45:18] Speaker B: Not a new product. New variation of a product we've never done before.
[00:45:21] Speaker C: Yep, the first time.
[00:45:22] Speaker A: 50 bucks. 50 bucks and I'll tell everybody what it is.
[00:45:25] Speaker C: Wow.
[00:45:25] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:45:26] Speaker C: You are cheap, man.
[00:45:27] Speaker A: Yeah. 50 bucks is all I need.
[00:45:31] Speaker C: $5. I'll do it.
[00:45:38] Speaker D: Faith anchors us. Fuel drives us. Let's open God's word and find the wisdom we need to live it out. Every.
[00:45:48] Speaker B: To answer Patriotic penguin. I don't even know that it would the thin part of the tray. I don't even know if I don't think it would stop with.22 long rifle.22 is still pretty wicked little.
[00:45:59] Speaker A: There's only one way to find out.
[00:46:00] Speaker B: I'm pretty sure it'll go through probably.
Anyway, this week for now, I want.
[00:46:06] Speaker C: To shoot it with a.22 long rifle.
[00:46:08] Speaker B: Yeah, we can do that this week for faith and fuel.
Again, this verse came to mind as I was planning the Liberty segment. It's one of my favorite scriptures. I actually have a tattoo on the top of my left arm that is based on this scripture. It says, do not be deceived, my beloved brothers. For every gift, every good gift and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of Lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
I love this verse.
We can kind of dissect a little bit here, but what's your. Guys, what's your first thoughts? What's your thoughts on the scripture?
[00:46:49] Speaker A: Ladies? Fresh, Nate.
[00:46:51] Speaker C: I'm thinking it's interesting. So I think I've said this before, but Tuesday nights.
Well, now I just don't want to speak when you play crickets. Then I'm just gonna stop talking.
[00:47:04] Speaker B: I was trying to get in your pause, but I missed it.
[00:47:08] Speaker C: So I meet on Tuesday nights with a friend of mine to discuss a book. Actually, a book that I just suggested to Tib to buy. I told him to supersede all the other books that he's waiting to read to read this book.
[00:47:20] Speaker B: What is the book you need to tell me about?
[00:47:23] Speaker C: Is the Greatest Story Ever Told written by. That's what it's called.
It's not a statement about the book. That's the title of the book.
[00:47:31] Speaker B: Yeah, Did I read that?
[00:47:33] Speaker C: It's Bear Gryll's book. It just came out, so I don't think so.
I mean, you could have, but with a similar title. I mean, there's other books with that title before, but anyways.
But we end up talking about a whole bunch of stuff and then end up realizing that we need to Talk about the book in the last, like, 35 minutes of the time that we meet.
But we were discussing last night.
This is the kind of thing we end up discussing. We talk about predestination versus free will. It's a wonderful, wonderful conversation.
And we're talking about being written in the book of life versus not and all of that.
And how if that's a real thing or not, it doesn't matter because it's a gift to us regardless.
[00:48:16] Speaker B: Right.
[00:48:18] Speaker C: And I think through that, as we read this scripture, every good gift and every perfect gift is from above.
What is better than that?
We've been given a perfect gift. We've been given the best gift, which is salvation, and it came from one place, and that's from above. That is the best gift that has ever been given to us. All we have to do is reach out and take it.
How many people don't ever reach out and take it? But it's been given to us. It's literally right there. It's sitting, wrapped, ready for you to take a hold of, unwrap and take home.
And it's from one place.
[00:49:03] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:49:05] Speaker C: Yeah, that's it.
[00:49:07] Speaker B: Like that. How about you, too?
When I was reading it earlier, I.
[00:49:15] Speaker A: Was thinking, God is always good. Only good comes. Only things from God are good.
His good gift, perfect gift, no variation or shadow due to his change.
So he's consistent. He's good.
Yeah.
I didn't.
I didn't have time to do a deep dive this morning before like I normally do.
[00:49:42] Speaker B: So I put some notes down here again, it's one of my favorites. So I've. I've. Over the years, I've put a lot of. A lot of thought into this. So I kind of want to.
I like to kind of dissect scripture. So I think we should take scripture as large chunks, as whole. Like, if I were to send you a letter, you wouldn't go into the letter and just take one sentence out. Right? You would read the entire letter. So when we read scripture, we want to read the entire thing. But then I think. I think it's also good for us to dissect and really go into the meat of these verses. So that's kind of what I want to do now. So it says, do not be deceived, my beloved brothers. So he's clearly writing to people who are being deceived. So he's telling them, do not be deceived. And they're probably being deceived because they are taking credit for what they have. And I think we Especially us as Americans. We, we just got all kind of wrapped around the axle because our wifi went out, right.
But we also just talked about kids that have nothing and we're trying to send a shoebox too, right?
[00:50:51] Speaker C: So.
[00:50:54] Speaker B: There'S things that we just kind of have this expectation that good things happen to us. We have an expectation that water comes out of the faucet. Why not turn it on? We have expectation that WI fi should be flowing freely. We have expectation of all these things.
And we don't really stop to give credit to the good that we have because we just expect these things to happen.
And we kind of deceive ourselves in thinking that we deserve these things and that these good things should just happen. Like, we get upset when bad things happen to us because we expect good things to happen to us. We expect, we expect raises every year because that should be normal. We expect, we expect ourselves to be healthy because I was healthy yesterday, I should be healthy today, right? So when we get sick, we get upset. When we get well, if we, if we get a bill that we didn't, we didn't expect, we get upset, right? Like there's just, there's an expectation that we have of good things just to always happen to us.
And so I think there's, I think we need to be careful in not letting ourselves just expect these things all the time, but when we do get them to be thankful to the One who gave them to us. And so I think that's kind of the warning here. He starts his verse out now this is verse 16.
So he doesn't start this whole, this letter with a warning, but he puts a warning in here of do not be deceived. What's your guys thoughts feedback on that?
Did you have any?
[00:52:36] Speaker C: I mean, I think you, I think you nailed it.
[00:52:38] Speaker B: Okay, I did. The way you were looking at me, I thought maybe you had some thoughts on that.
[00:52:42] Speaker C: Nope, nailed it.
[00:52:45] Speaker B: So then, all right, so the next part here, every good gift and perfect gift is from above. And Tibby said it and you know, basically what I had written here, if it's not good, it's not from God. And I kind of talked about this a little bit last week of, of, of recognizing how, how, how this year I feel like through God's spirit, he's really helped me recognize my emotions and, and, and what is of God and what is not. Right. Like last week we talked about how God gave us a spirit not of fear, but of hope and peace. And so when I find myself wrapped up in fear, I realize that is not of God. God did not give me a spirit of fear. So this kind of goes along with that. I feel like so.
And I actually just heard.
I've heard this line before, but I just heard it again yesterday from a pastor I was listening to. He said, if it's not good, God's not done yet.
And I think that's just a cool thing to consider is when we're going through tough times, when we're going through things where it just doesn't seem good.
That's because God's still working and God is the great redeemer and he will turn everything good for his good.
There's something else I kind of want to throw out. There is like, sometimes our.
Our definition of good and a good gift and perfect gift is going to be different than God's definition of that too.
[00:54:22] Speaker C: Right.
[00:54:25] Speaker B: What we expect to be good is nonstop flowing WI fi and food to be in the fridge.
His definition of good is more related to our heart. And if our camera just died, the screen, I don't know. The screen went black on the camera. Oh, no.
[00:54:41] Speaker C: It's been that way for a little while.
[00:54:42] Speaker B: We're fine. Sorry.
Yeah. So if what you're going through, you can't see the good and yet keep looking because God is still working.
And if it's not good, God's not done yet. So that was a line that I liked a lot.
My last note I put here for this section is. It's kind of a question to us. How does recognizing God as a source of all good things change us?
[00:55:12] Speaker C: Well, it's interesting. So there was a.
One of my instructors back in one of my military schools, he was not a believer, so this is not coming from a theological perspective, but he had a habit that he wanted us to get into called Hunt the good stuff.
And every week, I can't remember if it was Friday or if it was Sunday. I can't remember if we had to end the week, start the week with this. I can't remember exactly how he wanted to do it, but what he wanted us to do is reflect on the previous week. That's why I said, I can't remember if it was ending the week reflecting on the previous week or starting the next week reflecting on the previous week. He wanted us to write three things and submit, literally send it to him. Three good things that happened in the week.
Now, from his perspective, what he was actually trying to do was protect mental health and everything. Right? He was trying to be like, hey, guys, I know that you're stuck at this school for, you know, eight months without your families, without this other stuff. And that's hard. So I want you guys to look back every week, find something that's good so that you can reflect and say, well, it's not all bad. You're not lonely. Or you're not only lonely, you're not. All this other stuff, that was his perspective. But if you take that same idea of hunt the good stuff, but hunt the good stuff from the perspective of that good stuff is coming from God, how does that change your perspective?
Well, if all of those good things are coming from God and your perspective of even if it's only three things every week that you're taking the perspective of, what are the three good things that God gave me this week?
There's always going to be something, even in horrible circumstances.
Maybe it's just that the sun was shining on this particular moment when I walked outside and I got to see a nice sunrise.
Maybe that is your hunt the good stuff today.
Maybe that's the only good thing that happened that day. But you got to see that. And that was the gift that you got from God today. But that is God's gift to you. Today is the sunrise.
[00:57:11] Speaker B: Or.
[00:57:12] Speaker C: I don't know, you know, name your small, simple thing. Because there are dark times. That is a real thing. People do face dark things, and that's hard and frustrating. But if you can sit there and find three good things, recognizing that those three good things are gifts from God, that will change your mindset, that, yeah, God is. In these circumstances. Even now, when I'm facing something that's difficult and hard and emotional and tear jerking, I can still find something good, even if it's not the circumstance that I'm facing, but something else is good.
[00:57:50] Speaker B: Any thoughts on it, too?
Nothing.
[00:57:53] Speaker A: Nothing for that sentence, but kind of what patriotic Penguin there just said how our trouble should bring us closer to him.
So realizing that if something bad happens, it's not, you know, God directly, but those, those. We've all been through those situations, those struggles, maybe a death in the family, a sickness, whatever struggle you have.
Looking back, how many times do those situations bring us closer to him or strengthen our faith or just make us a more resilient person in general. So recognize that if something bad's happened, it's not God doing something to you bad. But at the same time, there's lessons to be learned in the struggles.
[00:58:36] Speaker B: Yeah, the times of my life, which I did reply to him, I said, I'm thankful for the hard times in my life because that's when God's worked on me the most and brought me closer to Him.
And that's been.
Man, it's been so true in so many different things I've gone through my life where I've learned or when these. When these trying times happen, I rely on him more and I need him more. And so I lean more into scripture and more into prayer, which brings me closer to Him.
And then those.
Even if the bed, even if the circumstances haven't necessarily got better might.
My outlook on life, my attitude, my mood, how I treat people, all that stuff changes when I'm not just wrapped up in my own little world. Of your bubble. Yeah, my own little pain bubble. I'm not worried about that so much.
Once I'm able to start thinking of outside of that, then it makes going through that trial so much easier.
So the last part of the scripture here says coming down from the Father of Lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. And the note I put here is, we don't have to worry about the rules changing. God has always been the same. His love, his promises, his goodness never change or run out. I find a lot of comfort in that. How about you guys?
[00:59:52] Speaker C: Oh, I mean, for sure. And it goes back to what I said at the beginning. The gift hasn't changed either. Like, outside of anything else, we talk about all the good coming from him, but the ultimate gift that he gave us has never changed.
One of the things we talked about last night was God created this world perfect. When he originally created this world, he gave us one rule. The rule was broken, but he already had a plan in place.
That plan came to fruition 2,000 years later, and that's never changed. And that plan is still the plan, and it still provides salvation. And that hasn't changed.
And it's never going to change.
We might change.
We might change the rules, our stuff may change. But he is constant. His love is constant. His salvation is constant. His desire to have relationship with us is constant. None of that's going to change.
Everything else in this world is fleeting. He is not.
And there is immense comfort in that.
[01:00:58] Speaker B: I think making sure that we realize that our foundation is a firm foundation. It's not going to change. It's not going to shift to your point. Just the means to our salvation is never going to change.
The gift is always there, but he's not going to change what it takes.
[01:01:17] Speaker C: To get it, to hold it, to achieve it.
[01:01:20] Speaker B: It's always the same.
And there's I find just so much comfort in that. And so actually the challenge I was going to have for everybody is pretty similar to what you shared, Nate. So I started doing this probably two and a half years ago. I found this book. It's called Daily Kairos. I highly recommend it.
Basically it's like a quiet time journal. It's a Bible time. When you sit down and do your scripture reading and stuff like that, it guides you through it. There's different sections. There's like a.
And I used that book for two years and I kind of just shifted to just like a moleskin now because I did that for two years. I have it down pretty good now.
But one of the parts of that book is, was write down three things you're thankful for.
And to do that every single day. Like three things a day that you're thankful for it.
Eventually I started looking around the room and going, I'm thankful for this rug. You know?
[01:02:21] Speaker C: Sure.
[01:02:21] Speaker B: You know, because I was. Because I kind of. I was trying not to repeat things. Even though there's. I'm thankful for. I'm thankful for my family every day. I could put my family every day. I was trying to. I was trying to, you know, I'd covered my family. I covered my church and the food and my job and stuff like that. Like, you know, I covered all those things. So eventually I'm starting to look around and. But it changed it. It started to really change my perspective.
[01:02:44] Speaker C: That things that would have otherwise been insignificant become significant.
[01:02:47] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm thankful for that rug. It is keeping my feet warm right now.
I'm thankful for the warmth in my house. Just all these things that we.
Again, just kind of go back to what I started the segment kind of talking about is being thankful, giving credit to God for all of the things that we normally just expect to happen to us. We just expect good.
Because that's how life is. Because life is supposed to be fair and because.
Yeah, whoever said the life is supposed to be fair and whoever said that life is supposed to be my daughter. Easy and good, right?
[01:03:20] Speaker C: Yeah, all the time.
[01:03:21] Speaker B: A three year old will tell you that life is supposed to be fair.
[01:03:23] Speaker C: All the time.
[01:03:24] Speaker B: All the time.
[01:03:25] Speaker A: Not fair.
[01:03:26] Speaker B: And one of the biggest things that we teach our kids is life is not fair.
The sooner you learn that, the better. So the. But the flip side of that coin should be life is not fair. However, God always is.
And the good that you will experience in life is from our Creator who does not change, who loves us so much and who sent his son to die for us and who is offering salvation and offering something so much bigger than what this life and this world and even the people around us can offer. And I think that's pretty cool. That's why the design on the top part of my arm is all about this. I have a big sun tattooed on the back of my arm. And then I actually have. Each of my kids has a has their own tattoo and so. And then it kind of trickles down into other things and it. But the base of all of it is.
Is that all these things are. All these good things are are gifts from God. And it's just. It's a reminder to me every day when I see it that that that all good and perfect gifts are from the Father above.
So one of my favorites. I felt like it kind of fit with the with the theme of of today. Boom.
There we go. Well, I appreciate especially for those of you who came back for after technical difficulty episode 19 again part 2 again try to and technically I'm still not sure I've been watching the tip. I don't know how it looks on your your screen but it's very yeah it's been. It's not been a very high res look. It looks good on Nate's computer but that's a direct feed off of the off the camera. The actual YouTube feed is looks like it's been filmed on a potato.
[01:05:11] Speaker C: Well that's sad.
[01:05:12] Speaker B: It has not been filmed a potato.
It is actually a pretty expensive can.
[01:05:17] Speaker C: Canon camera well which we've had issues with Boo.
[01:05:22] Speaker B: But notice that it did not freeze today. I think I did fix that.
[01:05:25] Speaker C: Hallelujah. Between progress between the software and the firmware, hopefully we fix the bugs.
[01:05:33] Speaker B: I fixed all the things that I can fix. Yeah no, the WI fi that rains down from the heavens is not there's.
[01:05:39] Speaker C: Something outside of Yep, that's a whole.
[01:05:41] Speaker B: Different thing outside of my Ohio has.
[01:05:43] Speaker A: The worst WI fi.
[01:05:44] Speaker B: I hear that's the word spectrum has not been on my Nope.
[01:05:50] Speaker C: They're not our friends.
[01:05:52] Speaker B: Not been on top of my list. They've been fine for years. We never haven't ever really had problems.
[01:05:56] Speaker C: Until not regularly not like this but.
[01:06:02] Speaker B: Well you guys ready to wrap this up?
[01:06:05] Speaker C: Let's go.
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