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Ask a Pastor with JOBY MARTIN | October 2025 (Ep. 821)

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Ask a Pastor with JOBY MARTIN | October 2025 (Ep. 821)
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In this episode of Undaunted Life, Kyle Thompson and Joby Martin tackle tough questions about faith, culture, and the challenges Christians face today. They discuss everything from Halloween celebrations to the complexities of church discipline, all while emphasizing the importance of living authentically in a world filled with hypocrisy.
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0:00 "This is Undaunted Life, a Man's Podcast.
0:24 I'm your host Kyle Thompson.
0:26 Let's get into it."
0:27 "Joe, that was the best clap of the day because this is our third of five podcast recordings
0:31 that we're doing today.
0:32 Are you tired of me yet?"
0:33 "No, not at all."
0:34 "I'm tired of me.
0:35 But here's one thing.
0:36 You've changed like every time.
0:37 You've got like a whole team of people out here that it's like a pit crew, like they change
0:41 your hat, they change your shirt, they give you some deodorant."
0:43 "That's it.
0:44 There are perks to being a mega church pastor."
0:45 "Oh my gosh.
0:46 Yeah.
0:47 And oh gosh, I've been getting the mega church treatment in here.
0:49 You know what I mean?
0:50 I mean, the gold Rolls Royce that picked me up from the airport and all the things, right?
0:54 Because guys just give generously to the brethren.
0:57 That's what I would say.
0:58 It's just give generously.
0:59 But here we are.
1:00 We're doing ask a pastor.
1:01 We're in your digs.
1:02 You know the drill.
1:03 And you said beforehand, you might ask me some questions, but that ask a podcaster thing.
1:06 I don't know if we're going to do that again, right?
1:07 We are definitely doing ask a podcaster again.
1:09 I don't think anybody liked it.
1:10 I think everyone was like, "Why isn't Joby talking more?"
1:13 So...
1:14 "Leave your comments.
1:15 Ask a podcaster was the best thing that..."
1:17 "Leave the comments.
1:18 I won't read them.
1:19 I won't listen to them."
1:20 But first question, this one's from me.
1:21 Okay, so getting right into Bible stuff, Boogie Hebrews, who wrote it?
1:25 Don't know.
1:26 Okay, we don't know.
1:27 Then why is it in the Bible?
1:28 If we don't know the author?
1:29 That's a great question.
1:30 I don't know.
1:32 Because of the content was an alignment with all the other things that the scriptures say
1:37 and do.
1:38 There's something you can make a pretty dang decent argument that Paul wrote it.
1:45 Some do, but it doesn't explicitly say that.
1:47 So you can't say it.
1:48 Okay.
1:49 There you go.
1:50 That would be a curious one for me.
1:51 But the next one is from Mark...
1:52 Yeah, that's a good question.
1:53 I don't...
1:54 That would be one I need you to go do just a little bit more research on when the canon
1:58 came together.
1:59 Actually, she text your boy Wes Hough.
2:01 He could probably tell you time and date.
2:03 Well, you could text your boy John Piper and be like, "Hey, if you can take a pause from
2:06 your Asperger, so maybe can you figure out exactly what's going on here?
2:09 Maybe he knows."
2:10 I'm sure he knows more than I do.
2:11 All right.
2:12 Next question, this is from the largest of all forging tablers, Jank Winkler.
2:14 Okay.
2:15 If he was here, he would be like ogering over the microphone.
2:18 Love, Jank Winkler.
2:19 And so this is appropriate because this is coming out in October.
2:23 Should Christians celebrate Halloween?
2:25 And so a lot of Christians have talked to me and I haven't ran into too many people
2:29 that are very fervent.
2:30 And if they are fervent in their opinions, it's only that any type of Halloween celebration
2:34 is demonic and terrible and you shouldn't do it.
2:36 But how should Christians and Christian families think about Halloween?
2:40 All right.
2:42 This is not original to me.
2:43 I'm stealing this from somebody else, but there's three ways to look at sociological
2:47 things like this and some things you just outright reject.
2:51 So if things are leading you to sin or worship the devil, which is a sin, then you should
2:58 reject it.
2:59 Some things that you wholeheartedly receive.
3:01 And then there are other things that can be redeemed.
3:04 In my house, Halloween and dressing the kids up, that was in the redeemable category.
3:09 And my kids wanted to dress up like zombies and stuff, you know?
3:14 And so we did and we worship Jesus and we talked about gifts and how you didn't do anything
3:20 to deserve this Halloween gift, except your neighbors are being neighborly.
3:24 And so there's, you know, anything that God creates, the devil tries to corrupt and just
3:30 don't be weird and don't march them down some kind of path of the demonic.
3:35 Don't sacrifice cats in your front yard while you're cutting up your jack-o-lanterns.
3:38 But the problem is, man, the person that you went to college with, it was just drunk.
3:44 That's the person that whose parents hid them under a bushel and didn't let them lead life
3:49 at all and navigate any decisions on how to make decisions on what was okay for them.
3:54 Yeah.
3:55 And I got a buddy that lives in my neighborhood and his family, he's not, you know, thumping
3:58 people for celebrating Halloween, but they don't give out candy.
4:01 They're their kids have never really done that.
4:03 They never never dressed up, but he's not like, oh, yeah, and you're going to hell because
4:06 you dress up your boys as Spider-Man and Iron Man, you know, for Halloween or whatever.
4:10 So it's kind of one of those things like if it's attacking your conscience that you shouldn't
4:14 do it for your family.
4:15 For sure.
4:16 Then don't do it.
4:17 Who cares?
4:18 So the difference between a legalist and that neighbor is a legalist is the person that
4:24 says what is healthy for me is a must for you.
4:29 That's the problem.
4:30 Yeah.
4:31 So when you just stop at, no, for me, as for me in my house, this is how I decide to lead
4:34 my house.
4:35 No problem.
4:36 That's what you should do.
4:37 My question is from a church 11, 22 or so he goes to church with you, Joey, that is
4:41 the proper vernacular.
4:42 And he's also a Dominion team, one guy.
4:44 So shout out to Will.
4:46 So it's kind of a longer question, but I think it's important.
4:49 So at what point should Christians consider boycotting the national football league and
4:53 sports in general on television?
4:55 It seems to me that all televised sports seems to me that all the televised sports,
4:59 but the NFL and college football, especially had transitioned at some point in the last
5:03 five years or so to where the game is no longer the product.
5:06 The fans are the product being sold to advertisers.
5:09 And what are the advertisers selling to us?
5:11 Cheap alcohol, horrible food, sex, especially gambling, and then prescription drugs to cure
5:16 all the ills created by the aforementioned things.
5:19 They constantly advertise ailments to us that no one knows they have to encourage us to
5:23 go to the doctor and ask for drugs.
5:25 If the excessive promotion of gambling isn't bad enough, the worst violations that come
5:29 to mind recently is that they are promoting and normalizing homosexual lifestyles to
5:34 us right in our living rooms, advertising aids, prevention drugs, and in doing so, intentionally
5:39 telling young people that the lie that the lifestyle is normal and free of guilt and
5:43 consequences.
5:44 Where do we draw the line and if not now, then when?
5:47 When the Jags win the Super Bowl.
5:48 We have to wait until then.
5:50 So never is kind of the idea.
5:52 Okay.
5:53 You never do.
5:54 I think you have to be wise enough to know how to eat the fish and spit out of the bones.
5:58 Okay.
5:59 We do not live in a Christian society.
6:00 The NFL is not trying to disciple people.
6:02 The enemy is trying to kill still and destroy in everything in everything.
6:07 Even whatever like made for family movie that you watch, it can be just as destructive.
6:12 So again, I'm telling you, you can go Amish, but the problem with that is they don't have
6:17 any impact on the society.
6:20 I'm moving closer to the NFL, not further away.
6:23 I'm leading Bible studies inside the NFL instead of saying I'm not watching this because of
6:27 the commercial and Steve allow on there.
6:30 Now again, this brother for the sake of his own conscious might need to never watch a
6:34 commercial again.
6:35 I'm not doubting him for that whatsoever.
6:37 If that's what the spirit of God leads him to do.
6:40 And so sometimes you have missionaries that move into the culture to try to make a difference.
6:44 This is what Jesus said about salt and light.
6:46 And then some people for the sake of God sanctifying work in their life, they need to avoid some
6:51 things because they got to put off some things that's tangling them up, even though watching
6:56 football in and of itself is not a sin.
6:59 You did this with baseball for a season in your life, right?
7:01 Because you got two into it.
7:03 Our family watches the Braves games all the time.
7:06 So currently the Lord is teaching us humility because we're terrible, awful, terrible.
7:11 How do you're so bad?
7:12 But it is a thing.
7:13 It's one of the few things that we all like to do together and it's the craziest thing.
7:19 So and yeah, they play all kind of goofy commercials about stuff we disagree with when
7:23 your kids are little, what a great opportunity at just the right age to point out the evils
7:29 of the world.
7:30 Rick Warren, when his boys were growing up or kids, I don't know.
7:33 I know he had some boys, but anyway, when his children were growing up, he had taught
7:37 them first, John to don't love the world or the things of this world for the only thing
7:42 this world can offer is less of the eyes, less of the flesh and the pride of life.
7:46 And when they when commercials would come on, if they could name which sin they were promoting,
7:50 whether it was stuff, sex or status, he would give them like a nickel or something like that.
7:55 That's a way that you take what the enemy intends for evil and God intends for good.
7:59 You can do that kind of thing.
8:00 But again, your previous answer about Holly about Halloween is the same answer I would
8:06 give.
8:07 Okay.
8:08 Very good.
8:09 Well, this next question is from me.
8:10 So I've talked a lot about gay surrogacy, gay adoption, things that are kind of funded
8:15 and created because the IVF process, all those types of things, but let's get practical as
8:20 a pastor here.
8:21 Yes.
8:22 Okay.
8:23 You have a couple that comes to 11 22.
8:24 Yes.
8:25 They are a gay couple that has adopted kids.
8:28 Correct.
8:29 They come here and a radical move of the Holy Spirit happens.
8:33 They get saved.
8:35 They realize this is bad.
8:38 We cannot be together.
8:39 We have children.
8:40 Yep.
8:41 This isn't we have a house.
8:42 So how are we going to split, you know, sell in the house?
8:45 Hey, who gets the dog?
8:46 Yep.
8:47 These are children.
8:48 That should have never been placed to them to begin with, but have been.
8:51 But here we are.
8:52 What in the world do you do bro?
8:53 The first thing you better do as a pastor is understand when you were over your head.
8:59 Okay.
9:00 So I don't know if you realize this, but there's not a verse in the Bible that says, and Paul
9:05 went into Ephesus and there were some lesbian girls with a baby in here, you know?
9:10 So the way you begin to untangle this web of sin is you start with what you know that
9:15 you know.
9:17 And so you can't have two women sleeping together because they're not married because marriage
9:21 is between a woman and a man.
9:22 So you at least began to take steps of obedience in what you know that you know.
9:27 Now it's going to get way more complicated, really, really quick.
9:31 And I would be the first one.
9:33 I would call honestly a bunch of my friends that you know and some people that have some
9:38 kind of maybe expertise in this and say, can y'all help me figure out how I shepherd these
9:45 people through the next steps of obedience to the good shepherd in their life?
9:48 That's what I would do.
9:50 So to even act like I know exactly what I would do right now would be a bit presumptuous.
9:55 And what's, what's, I don't know what you say, interesting is I know a gay couple who
10:00 has adopted, I think two boys, they're like friends of a friend and I love them very much
10:05 and share the gospel with them and I've always thought, oh boy, if God saves these folks,
10:11 what are we going to do?
10:12 But I'm not going to let what may or may not happen in the future prevent me from doing
10:16 the right thing, which is to share the gospel with these folks.
10:19 Well, let's, let's take the scenario, right?
10:21 So it's going to put you on spot a little bit more.
10:23 So a younger pastor that, you know, loves you and leans on you and all that.
10:27 So Josh Hougherton has someone at his church calls me.
10:30 This happens.
10:31 He calls you.
10:32 What do you say?
10:33 I'm getting some people together and saying, all right, what do we do here?
10:38 Help us.
10:39 Help this family.
10:40 I want it.
10:42 I'm going to do what the Bible says.
10:45 The Bible says sex is for married people marriage is for one man, one woman.
10:49 That's immediate.
10:50 When you start getting the who's raising these kids and all the, you know, theologically
10:55 what is right here, I would need some help unpacking and digging that thing and I know
11:00 your elders would be involved in that.
11:02 That's 100%.
11:03 But again, I think one of the problems in today's churches is that the pastor, a lot
11:08 of them think they're the end all be all that they know everything about politics and
11:12 about sociology, right, right, right, right.
11:15 So, I mean, and I'm not trying to dodge the question.
11:18 You know what I mean?
11:19 I think the, I mean, God lead the ideal.
11:21 I don't know what, I don't know what a tough situation.
11:24 I think the age of the kids matters a ton.
11:27 You know, I think the lead foot is what is the best thing for the children.
11:32 I think that's the best way to think about it.
11:34 As I think about it for the first time in my life, I think that's the way to think about
11:37 it.
11:38 What is the best thing for the kids?
11:40 Not what is the best thing for the parents that, you know, have all kind of emotional
11:44 attachment for sure.
11:46 Who's your favorite forging tabular?
11:48 The horn.
11:49 Ryan horn.
11:50 This is a question from the forging tabular that Joe, Joe B loved.
11:55 What's your thoughts on agency?
11:57 How far does our agency extend before all become, before we all become automatons?
12:04 I typically use the phrase agency when people want to talk about free will and so I do think
12:11 God has given us agency and that is where the accountability is wrapped up.
12:17 You know, it's a hard thing.
12:20 You know, when, when, when John MacArthur passed away, there's a bunch of MacArthur clips all
12:24 over the place right now and I thought one of the best ones, I meant to send you, usually
12:29 you need to track this thing down, somebody was trying to have John MacArthur, they used
12:34 the word harmonize.
12:36 How do you harmonize the accountability of man to follow Jesus and the sovereignty of
12:44 God in salvation?
12:45 Yeah.
12:46 And then he just started quoting verses about the sovereignty of God and quoting verses
12:50 about accountability of man and he just said, these things are not to be harmonized.
12:54 Why are we trying to harmonize them?
12:56 I think that agency and, and the sovereignty of God thing are things both are true at the
13:02 same time.
13:04 And I think it's more like parallel tracks than things that need to harmonize in our own
13:08 mind.
13:09 Okay.
13:10 Very good.
13:11 Yeah.
13:12 Next one's from Isaac.
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14:00 Think about all the dumb things you spend money on.
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14:08 Be done with your money and give it to us.
14:09 That's what Joby's saying.
14:10 All right.
14:11 So let's get back to the, appreciate that, Joby.
14:12 In fact, this question from Isaac, I'm currently reading RC Sproul's Expositional commentary
14:17 on Romans.
14:18 In chapter four titled judicial abandonment, he talks about how God gives us over to our
14:22 sin because naturally we humans repress and suppress the truth of God that the truth that
14:28 God is God.
14:29 RC mentions church discipline and excommunication.
14:32 The reason for excommunication being impenetence.
14:35 What does church discipline mean to you as a pastor and should the church discipline, why
14:39 or why not?
14:40 Before you get into this, you know, I don't know that I've ever heard an example of church
14:44 discipline because let's say you're in Oklahoma, right?
14:47 So many churches, right?
14:48 So if faith Bible church, where I go starts to put someone under church discipline, they're
14:53 going to be like, okay, well, just go to the church across the street.
14:56 I'm not sitting here throughout this discipline process.
14:58 It's kind of like when you sue the place that fired you to get your job back, do you really
15:04 want that job back?
15:05 Like everyone's going to hate you.
15:07 You know what I mean?
15:08 Yeah.
15:09 That's my work.
15:10 Do y'all do church discipline?
15:11 Yeah, we just don't call it that because it's so freaking dangerous and I don't mean
15:14 we're scared of anything, but the context is so different.
15:18 Community was everything there.
15:19 And if you were not in the local fellowship, I mean, bro, you were ostracized and the idea.
15:25 So the thing you got to ask is, so what is the point of discipline?
15:29 The point of discipline is that somebody would repent, correct their ways and get back on
15:35 track.
15:36 Yeah.
15:37 If you just think it's punishment, then you're not thinking about it, right?
15:39 Punishment and discipline are not the same thing.
15:41 Punishment may be used to discipline somebody, but they are not one and the same.
15:45 Honestly, for the sake of people understanding that we are trying to confront with grace,
15:53 with a heart of reconciliation and repentance, we call it pastoral care.
15:58 Now, a lot of times people use pastoral care to talk about like, you know, counseling and
16:03 stuff.
16:04 There are many times here where somebody in some kind of position of leadership or even
16:10 a covenant member is living a lifestyle out of bounds of actually what they have signed
16:16 up to allow us and invite us to hold them accountable.
16:22 And we step into that and help them take steps of repentance and reconciliation, first and
16:27 foremost to the Lord and whoever else they're sinning against.
16:30 Sometimes it's a strike firing and calling of the police.
16:33 So I guess that way.
16:34 I mean, there was a case just recently where somebody was sinning egregiously.
16:39 And so we, we, and they weren't on staff, but they were a volunteer.
16:44 And we said, you don't ever get to be a volunteer again and this family is pressing charges.
16:48 So that's straight up church discipline.
16:52 And so there are qualifications, you know, things about these questions is a just kind
16:55 of verbal process because, you know, it's not like I got to think about it very much.
16:59 And so, so sometimes there are just punishment, there are things that you were so like what
17:04 you did was illegal.
17:06 And the government has already decided what happens there.
17:08 And we are in compliance as far as the laws don't prevent us from doing something God
17:14 told us to do or try to make us do something God told us not to do, all right.
17:19 But when somebody is in immorality, then what there are many, many times we might remove
17:25 them from a position of service or leadership and then try to walk with them, try to do
17:29 the Matthew 18 thing.
17:30 Yeah.
17:31 Like you've seen, let me, you know, let's get some logs and specs out of everybody's
17:35 eyes so that you can get back in line.
17:38 The problem, man, when it gets overly formalized, this is how people get in trouble.
17:43 And the who does it matter so much?
17:45 I mean, if I had, I've had friends that had big multi-site churches and they've got like
17:50 a campus pastor that was really, really young, trying to do church discipline on a couple
17:54 that's, and it just gets wonky real quick, man, really, really quick.
17:59 So the heart of it is that we're trying the same thing when you're, when you're disciplining
18:05 your children, you just don't hit them for everything, right?
18:09 And even if you do believe in corporal punishment, which I do because the Bible does, the whole
18:13 point is to get them to stop going in the direction of death and head towards the direction
18:18 of life.
18:19 So for sure, we participate in that here.
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20:32 Okay.
20:33 So I got a couple more things, but we burned through my questions faster than I thought.
20:38 So I guess we do have some time for an ask a podcaster.
20:41 So if there are any ones you didn't get to last time, what did you answer this one?
20:46 Because you got pages and pages of questions.
20:48 I know, but I don't have them with me.
20:50 I don't have them with me right now.
20:51 If you were going to preach a sermon to the church that you attend right now and your pastor
20:57 said, all right, you've been attending here for however long and you've been in your Sunday
21:01 school class for however long and you know so many families here, what would be the topic
21:07 of a sermon that you would preach at your local church right now?
21:10 The godliness and manliness of Jesus.
21:12 Oh.
21:13 And so do you think that's because there's not a lot of godly manly people or do you just
21:19 think that's like always a good idea to talk about?
21:21 So if, so this is the Friday of saturated Phil Hopper is about to bring, bring the fire
21:27 this evening.
21:28 Love that, dude.
21:29 If Phil Hopper fell into a hole and couldn't get out and you and Britt came up to me and
21:33 you're like, Kyle, we need you.
21:36 We're pulling you out of the bullpen.
21:37 You got to go preach.
21:38 You got two hours.
21:40 Until it's game time.
21:42 That's already in there.
21:44 So that's, that's the topic.
21:46 Doesn't matter the setting.
21:47 Doesn't matter where.
21:48 So you're saying you're preaching out of the overflow of a message that God has put
21:52 in your heart.
21:53 Yeah.
21:54 And it's, and it's a message and there's a lot of different elements.
21:55 I'm going to talk about Nehemiah four.
21:57 I'm going to talk about Mark two.
21:58 I'm going to talk about a lot of those different things.
22:00 Okay.
22:01 Question one B. What do you think the message that your local church needs to hear the most?
22:09 You know what I mean?
22:10 Yeah.
22:11 So, I mean, you're there.
22:13 It's, it's, yeah, so Edmond, Oklahoma, there is an assumption because of who I am and because
22:20 of what I do that the church I attend reflects my preferences and actions, the same as if
22:31 I were running the show.
22:32 Yeah.
22:33 It's not very accurate.
22:35 So I cannot say that there is a thriving men's ministry at my church.
22:41 The church man, we got some beautiful people at our church man.
22:45 Like gosh, these men and women, they are done up.
22:49 They look great.
22:51 If you know anything about Oklahoma, it is East Edmond, baby.
22:55 It's old money and new money trying to be old money and it's, oh man, everyone's very,
23:00 very squeaky clean and by God, there is so much depravity just like in any congregation,
23:07 right?
23:08 It's just behind a veneer of perfectly pressed dresses and women that make sourdough and
23:13 men that make a bunch of money and it's just, but we're depraved.
23:17 And so it's, I think it would be like, Hey, how much longer are we going to keep up the
23:22 charade?
23:24 How much longer are you going to keep coming to Sunday school?
23:26 Praise God, praise the name of Jesus and praise the Lord for the days given us.
23:31 And you can't wait to get home and polish off that bottle of Jack, right?
23:34 You can't wait to see your assistant again on Monday so you can keep your affair going.
23:38 You cannot wait to get back to the golf course so that you can escape from your wife that
23:42 you hate, whatever the situation is, and you just keep coming to church, praise his name,
23:46 praise his name.
23:47 And so I don't think I'm talking about faith Bible church in Edmond, Oklahoma, as much as
23:51 I'm talking about basically everywhere where people are pretending, yeah, and did not really
23:56 get after it.
23:57 I've warned against that here, you know, man, I mean, and from your house to your church,
24:02 it looks like Pleasantville.
24:04 It is.
24:05 It's like a lot.
24:06 It is.
24:07 Yeah.
24:08 Well, I think you should start writing the message.
24:09 You never know.
24:10 Oh, it's ready to go.
24:11 Is Phil here?
24:12 Because if he's in that hole and he can't get out like he's tall, there's going to be
24:15 a big hole.
24:16 He's going to have to dig himself out of.
24:18 That's all I got.
24:19 You got anything else?
24:20 So a couple of things.
24:21 Why did you leave forward?
24:22 Why?
24:23 Because I was going to steal your ending there.
24:25 Okay.
24:26 So what I want you to do, I want you to take a deep breath and then I want you to exhale
24:35 as much as you can exhale.
24:38 And then before you take any breath back in, I want you to scream as loud as you can.
24:42 Is that even possible?
24:43 Well, that's what we're going to find out.
24:44 We're going to do it to you.
24:45 I'll do it first.
24:46 Right.
24:47 I'll pass it out.
24:48 I'm old.
24:49 No, so you just, you exhale.
24:50 We're not going to do it together.
24:51 You get, you need to, because I don't want you to exhale a whole bunch and then take a
24:54 deep breath and then yell out.
24:55 Okay.
24:56 So you're going to exhale all your air out of your lungs.
24:57 I mean, we're emptying the lungs and then we're going to yell as loud as we can.
25:00 So.
25:01 Uh.
25:02 That's the thing.
25:03 That's the thing.
25:04 Whoo.
25:05 Landon, did you get that?
25:06 Did you get a close up?
25:07 I almost died there.
25:21 Landon's back there.
25:22 He says he got it.
25:23 So breathe it all out.
25:24 When you think it's all out, keep it excelling.
25:27 Keep exhaling.
25:28 Then as loud as we can.
25:31 I thought that was going to be hard to do it.
25:38 That's going to be great.
25:39 That's going to live in on the internet forever after all this.
25:43 One last thing though, whatever, uh, so you said something kind of concerning on a previous
25:50 ask a pastor episode, what I say.
25:53 So I was doing my normal thing at the end where I kind of say, you know, it's, you know,
25:58 it's kind of a funny or an interesting scenario and all those types of things.
26:02 And I said, Hey, Joby, you can only have one for the rest of your life and the others
26:07 away gone forever, right?
26:10 Never get to have it again.
26:11 I said grilled cheese or peanut butter and jelly.
26:14 Oh, yeah.
26:15 And what did you say?
26:16 I don't think you've ever eaten a peanut butter and jelly, right.
26:18 So you my knowledge or the testimony of my mother, right?
26:21 So you, you chose grilled cheese, which a lot of people would choose, right?
26:25 You said you had never had a peanut butter and jelly, correct.
26:28 And so I knew that that wasn't an equity in your life.
26:31 That was an injustice that was thrusted upon you that that was just something that could
26:36 not be stood for.
26:38 So if you're just listening to this, uh, this is the quintessential, uh, but also basic
26:54 traditional peanut butter and jelly.
26:57 So I'm going to go ahead and describe it.
26:58 Landon, can we get a close up?
27:00 No, Landon's back there.
27:02 What is, what is Landon doing?
27:04 So white bread, uh, wonder bread.
27:06 All right.
27:07 We're just keeping it simple.
27:08 This is what your mom should have fed you.
27:09 It's not technically food, but it is wonder bread.
27:13 Everyone get fancy with the jelly.
27:14 Oh, we got this, like organic jelly.
27:16 We got whatever.
27:17 Welch is great.
27:18 Okay.
27:19 We're keeping it simple, but the best peanut butter of all time.
27:22 The goat, a peanut butter is the Michael Jordan of peanut butters.
27:25 It is Peter Pan, honey roasted, creamy peanut butter because if you go chunky, it could
27:31 be a risk.
27:32 Okay.
27:33 And so I was supposed to make two of these, but this is actually, I think our fourth recording
27:36 today.
27:37 It was in between the last two recordings I ran into a dark room and made this for you.
27:41 I was going to, we were going to share a peanut butter and jelly together, but I only had
27:44 time to get one done, but, and again, you got a peanut butter, both sides.
27:48 Some people are like jelly on one side, peanut butter on the, no peanut butter on both sides.
27:51 And jelly in the middle squish, I almost made you a triple decker, but.
27:57 So because I'm 52 years old and I've never had one, I am going to give this to you.
28:03 No, you're not going to do it.
28:04 Because at this point in my life, Joby, we just need a bite, we just need a bite.
28:08 I don't think I'm going to people at home.
28:11 They, I have been planning this.
28:13 Do you know how a number of this point get to say I've never had one?
28:17 How dumb of a thing to have, what a dumb feather to have in your cat that you've never, wait,
28:22 well, here's the thing here, I'll, I'll level with you.
28:24 Yeah.
28:25 Okay.
28:26 If you have a bite, you still haven't had a peanut butter and jelly, you've had a bite
28:30 of a peanut butter and jelly.
28:31 I'm on a pass, but I appreciate it.
28:34 It looks good.
28:35 You should eat it.
28:36 You need to pray.
28:37 You know what we're going to do, wait, how much do you wait?
28:41 This is one of the, don't change the subject.
28:42 This is one of the most disappointing things I think in the history of this podcast.
28:46 It's the story of my ministry right there.
28:47 I don't do what people want me to do, but there's only one thing that I think can remedy
28:51 the situation.
28:52 What's that?
28:53 Hey, Landon, we're going to need you to come out here and take a big bite.
28:56 That's how we're going to end.
28:57 That's how we're going to end this.
28:59 Landon comes out from behind the Wizard of Oz curtain and you are going to take a bite
29:03 of this peanut butter and jelly and then you're doing the sign off.
29:06 Get in here.
29:07 I hear movement.
29:08 Get in here, Landon.
29:09 This is Landon's favorite thing.
29:10 I was with Landon one time.
29:13 The first time he ever did karaoke.
29:16 Now his first podcast appearance and then you have to do the sign off.
29:20 All right.
29:21 So some sort of a sign off Landon Robertson, everybody.
29:23 Okay.
29:24 Oh, look at that.
29:26 That was a good bite.
29:27 Beautiful bite.
29:28 All right.
29:29 For the people at home, give them a sign off.
29:31 Thank you for listening.
29:32 I don't know.
29:33 Do you want to sell something from one of my sponsors?
29:36 Oh, yeah.
29:37 Thank you to Jocko fuel.
29:38 Yeah, it's it.
29:39 Thank you.
29:40 Jocko fuel.
29:41 I'm wearing origin boots and everything.
29:42 So you got to stay here.
29:43 Guys, you're so thankful.
29:44 Hey, Joby, is there anything else you want to get off your chest?
29:47 No, sir.
29:48 I'm good.
29:49 All right.
29:50 Until next time.
29:51 Peace.
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