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Episode 16 - Rediscovering the Wise Men in Modern Times
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Ever been curious about the true journey of the Magi? Buckle up for an enlightening exploration as we unpack the historical and cultural significance of these wise men in the nativity story. Join us as we reflect on podcast milestones, including our memorable hurricane relief special and exciting plans for another live stream this January.
Fancy a laugh with our Facebook Marketplace game? We take a comedic stab at guessing the prices of quirky items like a complete Dragon Ball manga set and a vintage Honda Civic hatchback, complete with a random monkey photo for good measure. Looking ahead, get excited for our upcoming missionary month featuring interviews with individuals from Youth With A Mission Ministries, who will share their adventures in discipleship training and evangelism.
We journey through Christmas joy, emphasizing the beauty of intentional gift-giving and the heartwarming memories from past celebrations. Talking about video games like Age of Mythology Retold and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, we also tackle topics like the bird flu outbreak and the influence of government regulations on food safety. Engage with us on social media as we continue growing our vibrant community, sharing entertaining discussions that bring us back to the core of our faith. Thank you for being part of The Saints That Serve podcast family!
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Welcome to the Saints that Serve podcast, where each week, your hosts dive into the crossroads of faith, culture and the unknown.
Speaker 1:Christ is Lord and the kingdom is now. We are the Saints that Serve. Welcome to the Saints that Serve podcast with your hosts, johnny, and I'm Jairus.
Speaker 2:That's right, it's Jairus. That's right, it's Jairus. Anyways, we're here with episode 16, baby.
Speaker 1:That is 16 of the Saints that Serve podcast. Mm-hmm. Entertaining podcast about Jesus and love.
Speaker 2:And everything pop culture.
Speaker 1:And everything pop culture. Yep, thank you for saving me there. I was trying to think of something to add in there and you just came in with the facts, so I appreciate it and uh yeah, so we're here to entertain you, talking about entertainment in general and bringing it back to christ and dude.
Speaker 2:16 episodes 16 episode.
Speaker 1:I talked about it last. That wonderful interruption, you're welcome. I talked about it last week of how, like we are getting to the point already that people will bring up moments of past episodes.
Speaker 2:I'm like I don't remember that yeah, and they'll be talking about it. I won't be like wait a minute. Which episode was that?
Speaker 1:again right. And then I was looking at our uh, our list, our stats, and looking at our list of episodes and our bonus and I'm like that's right, we did do a hurricane relief episode.
Speaker 2:Yep, yep, yeah, that's right we did do a live stream. Yeah, we did do a live stream, which we're going to do another one pretty soon, so stay in the loop. Be one of our January episodes, so make sure you keep up with our up-to-dates. And you can keep up to date with us and our announcements by following us on Instagram, facebook, x Threads, all of it, and you can subscribe on any of the podcast apps that you're listening to this right now.
Speaker 1:That's right. And if you're listening to this episode and you haven't listened to episode 15, what are you doing first off? Yeah, stop what you're listening to this episode and you haven't listened to episode 15, what are you doing first off? Yeah, stop what you're doing and go back to 15, because we had an excellent guest with Taylor on that episode. Oh yeah, and I was telling Johnny that, as of this recording, that episode came out a couple of days ago, mm-hmm, and that took me the longest to edit over any episode we have ever edited and put out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but not because he was struggling to make it entertaining. The conversation was very entertaining.
Speaker 1:Like okay, so again, as always, I love pulling back the curtain. The conversation was fantastic, but it went over tremendously. Yeah, I think that our recording time ended up being about two hours and 20 minutes, really, yeah, and I got it down because I was very meticulous on this particular episode, because it is like usually I can maybe cut out some sentences, maybe some conversations that really don't add to anything. Yeah, it was all such great conversation that there was nothing I could cut out. So I then went in and cutting out silences and weird moments and stuff like that to just keep the pacing better. I got it down to an hour 45. Yeah, baby, you would be surprised how much is in there of like the awkward silences and the stutters, the things that y'all don't hear, that are part of the recording process. You would be surprised how much that really adds to it.
Speaker 2:And Taylor is excellent in speechcraft and he is I mean, I'm going to go and call him a veteran of the media industry. He just knows so much Like it's insane, All the stuff that he knows.
Speaker 1:I will say it wasn't Taylor, it was me. It was mostly my awkward silences and my ums and stuff of that nature. Yeah, and then a lot of uh, you know what? You my yep John likes to. John likes to breathe through his nose and he doesn't. He does it involuntarily, but so many times Right into the mic. That might just be a bonus episode one day. Just all his nostril flares and that's it.
Speaker 2:Anyways. So yeah, that's it. If you haven't listened to episode 15, please go back and listen to it. It was a great time. We talked about the nativity, we talked about Lord of the Rings, we talked about so much One Punch man, we talked about a lot, but yeah, so if you're not following us, please go follow us so you can stay up to date, like our episodes. Leave a review, if you can, that would be great. And comment, if you have the ability to comment, comment, comment, comment, comment. If you have the ability to comment, comment, comment, comment. We want to know you guys. We want to have an awesome community of people that are a part of the conversation, so if you give us ideas or if you comment on our stuff and give us feedback, we can bring that into the pod. I do want to do a shout out for Gene. He listened to our episode about the theme parks and he gave us I know you you may have watched it or not, but the um, the escape from escape from tomorrow.
Speaker 1:Yeah, did you watch?
Speaker 2:that. Have you watched that? I haven't had a chance to watch it, yet he said don't oh, okay he said let me save you from the nightmares, don't watch it. It's awful. And I was like thank you for that. So shout out to gene. Thank you for doing the legwork for everyone out there. This is just a broadcast everyone listening.
Speaker 1:Don't watch that movie I had heard about it. I loved the idea that somebody sneaking into the theme park to film a movie. Yeah, thank you for letting me know that it'd be a waste of my time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he was like he. He was like, yeah, I was cruising on, cruising on Netflix and I saw it. I was like, oh, that's pretty cool. Yeah, I watched it. And then just nights of lost sleep.
Speaker 1:He said it's like oh, it's probably one of those really just disturbing messes with your head nonsense, I think so.
Speaker 2:I think that, yeah, it just doesn't. I don't know Anyways. So, yeah, shout out to Gene for that. I appreciate it and I appreciate you listening, Gene, Thank you, gene, we love you.
Speaker 1:Let's give him a fake last name right now Gene Simmons. Simmons, you were quick, do you not?
Speaker 2:know who Gene Simmons is. I've heard the name. I couldn't sit here and tell you about him, but I know of gene simmons.
Speaker 1:Gene simmons is the leader of kiss, like the lead singer for kiss. There we go. That's what it was.
Speaker 2:So, gene simmons you want to know why that name is familiar? Because of the movie role models. Because they list the different band members from kiss. Because the supporting character, or I guess he's a main character. I guess there's two main characters, but the one main character is like a huge Kiss fan.
Speaker 1:Gotcha, Because you watched it name another member of Kiss.
Speaker 2:I couldn't. I couldn't tell you any member of the band's name, but, if you like, the only reason I'm telling you the only reason Gene Simmons stood out is because of the role models movie Gotcha. So anyways, yeah, that's it. So if you need prayer for anything, we are praying on Fridays. We will obviously pray for you sooner if you reach out to us, but Pray For you Friday happens every Friday. So just send us a message on any of our platforms on social media, or you can do a direct text, sms messaging. At the bottom of the description for this episode, we also have an email that you can reach out to us with any kind of comments or info or prayer requests, and that is saints that serve at gmailcom. Again, that email is saints that serve at gmailcom and without further ado, mr Jairus, sir, we're going to do a Tyler transition into our first choppick.
Speaker 1:Which is not really a choppick, is it? No, it's a minigame. So we, in a bonus episode, played a little minigame, yep, and we loved it so much we're going to bring it back right now. We're going to do it again. Let me see if I got something for this. We need. I don't really have A theme song for this game. This isn't Get it, because it's pay, pay-dro, pay-dro, pay, pay-ing.
Speaker 2:Pay-ing. Yeah, yeah, all right. So this is our Facebook Marketplace game. What?
Speaker 1:did we call it last time? Do you remember Facebook Marketplace Madness, or something like that? Yeah, over time this will evolve and we'll have the right name for it, like we did the corner.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we need to actually just make a spreadsheet for all of our mini games.
Speaker 1:That we create. Oh, by the way, I came up with one. I'm not going to tell you exactly what it is now, but when we start our missionary month, which starts next week, next week, that's right. I think I'm going to throw it in there. I think it'll be a fun game to play, okay, so we'll see, all right. So hey, if that is intriguing to you guys, tune in next week with the start of missionary month.
Speaker 2:Yep, and we're going to be talking, we're going to be interviewing different people that have gone through the discipleship training program with Youth, with a Mission Ministries, and just getting their experiences and how it's affected their lives and kind of you know what they've done and what they're doing now. So it's really good. It'll be a good conversation, kind of just getting different perspectives about the same thing right. It'll be a good conversation kind of just getting different perspectives about the same thing right and just seeing how you don't have to have a seminary degree to go out and evangelize the nations.
Speaker 1:Because everybody's experience with it is going to be different, and that's what's incredible, right.
Speaker 2:Right, and people go to different schools in different parts of the world and every school is different. It has its own culture and community. So it'll be a good month, it'll be fun, we'll have fun. So, without that further to do, let's get into this Facebook Marketplace, madness. I'll go first.
Speaker 1:Facebook Marketplace Madness, fum, fum.
Speaker 2:Fum. Okay, my first thing Are you ready? This one? I think you're going to be able to ballpark it pretty good, but it is a Dragon Ball Complete Manga Box Set, volume 1 through 26.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's going to be about $150.
Speaker 2:Okay, it's $120. Really close, though. That's what I was saying. You were able to ballpark. It really good.
Speaker 1:You talk about manga. I will probably remember it. There you go.
Speaker 2:Uh, me and my wife buy a lot of manga, so and just for those out there who don't know what that is, go ahead and elaborate on what a manga is manga is a japanese form of entertainment.
Speaker 1:it's a book and it's like a comic book, but it's an anime style comic book. They read it from right to left. That's a fun fact about that, yeah. But the thing is, is anime is based off of manga, not the other way around. They will make a manga and if the manga does well, then they'll make an anime off of it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so Japanese visual book art. Mm-hmm, there you go. All right, you got one for me.
Speaker 1:You know what? I'm going to be completely transparent. When I reloaded my Facebook app, it cleared out everything I had. Oh, okay.
Speaker 2:I got another one.
Speaker 1:So I'm still searching, but I will find, oh you know what. So I'm going to do this one just because Okay. So on my side I want to show you the picture and you have to guess what the item is. Okay, so this is the preview picture for the item. So describe that to everybody.
Speaker 2:That is a monkey with its hands on its head, looking off to the side, and it's kind of a little blurry, but you can clearly see that it's a monkey.
Speaker 1:Okay, so the item is a 1991 Honda Civic DX hatchback. What Now? How much do you think the 1991 Honda Civic DX Hatchback 2D cost?
Speaker 2:I'm going to say that they've listed it for $3,000.
Speaker 1:You're pretty close. It's $4,200.
Speaker 2:$4,200.
Speaker 1:So I don't know. It's just so funny because there's 14 pictures. The rest of them are of the car, but the first one, but the first picture, is just a monkey, that's so weird.
Speaker 2:What if the monkey are of the car, but the first one, but the first picture is just a monkey. That's so weird. What if the monkey's in the car and that's why they're selling it?
Speaker 1:they don't want to open the car oh, it's like one of those underground selling rings, so it's like a. So they're not actually selling the car, they're selling the monkey the monkey is 4.
Speaker 2:A monkey is $4,200. But in the dark web lingo for monkey is a 1991 Honda Hatchback. All right, are you ready for this? I got Elvis collectible dolls. There's two of them.
Speaker 1:Elvis collectible dolls Two of them.
Speaker 2:It looks like. Basically it's like a Ken doll, but it's Elvis Presley. Okay, so just barbie dolls, but they're still in the authentic casing that they were sold in unboxed elvis ken dolls, 70 bucks a piece, so 140 dollars okay, okay 50 dollars for both.
Speaker 1:For both, yeah, all right. So okay, okay, awesome, awesome, awesome again. I'm gonna play this game. I'm gonna show you. This is. This is funny. The listing says custom hot wheels. It's just one. Okay, describe that to everybody for me.
Speaker 2:Okay, it is a pink low riding truck, early, probably late 80s, early 90s style body style and it has mother mary with pink roses decaled on it and it is a hot wheels still in its casing, or packaging.
Speaker 1:And now, how much do you think that costs? I'm gonna say 200 bucks you went over quite a bit there. Oh really, 75, 75, that's still a lot of money for a toy geez okay I will tell you now. I'm upset because mine before that I had pulled up was pretty much a tank. It was like a like a military all-terrain vehicle, armored yeah, and I can't read it, it's gone. But how much do you think this isn't my final one? But how much do you think the all-terrain armored military vehicle was on Facebook Marketplace?
Speaker 2:Probably like 60 grand.
Speaker 1:It was 45 grand 45 grand, mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:Okay, okay, I want to find a real banger. I had another one that was like it's okay, but I want a really good one. I want a really good one, I want a good one. Do you want to guess? Another manga? I've got another manga set. All right, berserk Deluxe Manga 1 through 6.
Speaker 1:Oh, I saw that one earlier. Isn't it like $60? No, it's $150. Oh, I didn't actually look at the price. No, it's $150. I did see that one earlier scrolling though.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't have any good ones dude.
Speaker 1:Alright, here we go. It is a handmade Lego mannequin of the Pink Power Ranger from the mighty morphin power rangers, and I can show you the picture oh, it's literally the torso of the pink power ranger, made out of Legos, life-sized, life-size.
Speaker 2:Uh, I'm gonna, I'm gonna go with four Bob.
Speaker 1:So let us know in the comments if you want to see the pink Power Ranger made out of Legos on the podcast set, because it's only $50.
Speaker 2:Whoa, I want to. Yeah, no, I don't want that here. Do you know what I do want here? This is my final one. Are you ready? Mm-hmm? Okay, it is a Star Wars life-size Yoda from the Phantom Menace Star Wars life-size Yoda, but it's like what the height Yoda would be, so it's like three feet tall. Sure, okay, but it is a life-size figurine of yoda. How much do you think it costs? Or how much do you think they're selling it for?
Speaker 1:what is it made out of?
Speaker 2:probably looks like cloth and silicone and okay, so fake hair?
Speaker 1:or real hair maybe, I don't know that'd be weird if it was real yoda's hair.
Speaker 2:It would be even weirder if it was real human hair that they put on it.
Speaker 1:So hold on, hold on. You're telling me that you would think it was weirder that it was human hair and not the actual Yoda's hair, that the human part is the weird part to you? What?
Speaker 2:Okay, so we're talking about a fictional character that has only ever, always been fictional.
Speaker 1:So that'd be really weird if that was actually his hair. Okay.
Speaker 2:I guess so.
Speaker 1:Oh golly, 90, bucks 90?
Speaker 2:90 bucks. Mm-hmm, you are nowhere near.
Speaker 1:Is it like a thousand something dollars? Yeah?
Speaker 2:It's 1,750. Jeez, I mean they went all out on it. I got one more. Jeez, I mean they went all out on it. I got one more Okay.
Speaker 1:I'm ready.
Speaker 2:I am prepared.
Speaker 1:All right, dolly Parton paper mache by Chris what? And then it says his last name, then 08. So Dolly Parton paper mache, it's a life-size paper mache. Sorry, I just looked at this picture. Dolly Parton paper mache, life-size Dolly Parton, it's hideous, that is by Chris, by Chris.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry, chris, but I just don't do that again, don't do that I'm going to say that they're trying to sell it for something they sure are. They're not giving it away, uh but I don't feel like it's a whole lot.
Speaker 1:So maybe like uh 150 you're under really, yeah, you're under, like way under, or I'll say you are not too terribly off, but you're, you got a ways to go.
Speaker 2:375 500 500 for a life-size paper mache of dolly parton. Now really, really out of proportion.
Speaker 1:Fingers like super long, bulky this thing is butt ugly, yeah well.
Speaker 2:But you know, if you think about it like, can you really make paper mache pretty?
Speaker 1:I mean they make wax figures pretty, so I couldn't like it's not on. Well, I'm just saying they can make statues of people look lifelike. I'm pretty sure that there is paper mache out there that exists. That looks good, fair, that's fair and, gene, if you want to correct me on that, let me know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, alright, are we ready to.
Speaker 1:So that was.
Speaker 2:That was. That was We'll have a better intro for Facebook Marketplace.
Speaker 1:It should just be.
Speaker 2:What's that? One song where they do that they got the.
Speaker 1:Are you talking about, like the Snoop Doggs? Yeah, I think it's. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:There we go, pop it like it's hot. Yeah, yeah, yeah, drop it like it's hot. Drop it like it's hot. Yeah, there we go, pop it like it's hot. Yeah, yeah, yeah, drop it like it's hot. Drop it like it's hot. Pop it like it's hot, drop it like it's hot.
Speaker 1:But yeah, instead of Snoop it's yeah yeah, we just voice edit over it. It's the beat, but it's our voices, so let's uh. Hey, tyler, this is your transition. We are now moving on to the next topic. That's right. So we didn't really say it at the beginning, but hey, this is the uh, the end of our joyful season this year. That's right.
Speaker 2:This is the last episode for joyful season for 2024, and we're talking about well, let me stop you there, sorry, go for, go for it.
Speaker 1:How was your Christmas?
Speaker 2:It was well, thank you. How was your Christmas?
Speaker 1:It went really well. Good, hey guys, listen at home, how was your Christmas?
Speaker 2:Yeah, what was your favorite thing that happened?
Speaker 1:What was your favorite memory?
Speaker 2:Favorite memory, favorite moment for Christmas.
Speaker 1:Leave a comment. My favorite memory of moment for christmas leave a comment. My favorite memory of your christmas was I was there. So, according to the camera I installed in your house, my favorite memory of your christmas was the time that you opened up that gift and it was just a bag of cat litter. They pranked you. Good Joe.
Speaker 2:No, we had a pretty good time, I will say, christmas morning. You know it was a lot of fun with the boys coming out and seeing their presents and opening them up and having a fun time. A lot of the gifts that we got the boys this year was secondhand, so it wasn't like trashy, old, junkety stuff, but it was just stuff that people were reselling because they were trying to get rid of it and it was in decent shape, good shape. But we went ahead and that's what we bought as gifts this year for the boys and they had just as much fun as they would have if it was brand new. So I say all that too. It takes a little bit more effort and intentionality to seek out things that are being resold and obtaining them than it is just doing the quick 30 minute Amazon shop, but the kids enjoyed it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And so it was good for me to be reminded like, hey, they're having fun, they were given things that they're enjoying and they're just having a good time, and it really brought back that perspective that we need to have as Christians for Christmas is it doesn't have to be new, it doesn't have to be shiny, it doesn't have to be the latest thing. It just has to remind you of the joy of receiving a gift Right, and so there's joy in receiving, and our ultimate gift is Christ, so receiving that gift, so before we started recording, you told me you was like, hey, the boys want to see you before they have to go to bed.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and immediately when we got up, there is Jairus look at this what I got, jairus, look at this what I got, jairus, look at this what I got. They wanted to show me everything they got. They were so excited to see me and just to show off all the great things they got. So it's just like, again, it's not about the things.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a lot of times it's like you said, it's about receiving something and it feels good to receive and it feels good to give. Yep, yeah, I had I. You know, I got some stuff for Christmas and I am super joyful that my wife and my in-laws and my family, they they were all thinking of me. But I had more joy watching my boys enjoy their gifts and like being just, they're just, they're happy. You know, they're not like sitting here like, oh, I didn't get the whatever, whatever, 3000.
Speaker 2:You know, they were like oh wow, I got this nerf gun or or a scooter, I got this scooter, you know.
Speaker 1:So it's like When's the last time the whatever, whatever 3000 has even been in stock?
Speaker 2:I don't think it's ever been in stock. I think it keeps on getting promised and then it never comes out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all we have is the whatever, whatever 2000 right now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, the 3000 is just ever, never coming. Yes, whatever is just out of our reach.
Speaker 1:Whatever?
Speaker 2:Whatever, what was your favorite part of Christmas?
Speaker 1:You know I worked.
Speaker 2:My favorite part was being absent.
Speaker 1:No, that would be a bold-faced lie to say that my job took over my Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, which it did not.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I worked from like nine to two and my boss, being very generous, told me already, before he let me go at two, that he would let me go at three, 30, which is my typical off time is six o'clock, so I'm like that's great, that gives me enough time to get home, get ready and then go to my grandmother's house for Christmas Eve, which is what we do every year. We go to my grandmother's house for Christmas Eve and the majority of the family is there on my side, and then Christmas day we loaded up and drove the hour and a half to my in-laws and spent all day there Awesome, so just had a good time being there. Yeah, both places. Yeah, had a glorious time.
Speaker 2:Awesome.
Speaker 1:You know, got gifts, but you know the gifts don't matter.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Though I did get a video game and I played the heck out of it today.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Um same, we, we got a game. Um. Ironically though, both the games that we got are just revamped, remastered versions of older games that we played as kids.
Speaker 1:It's funny too, because the game that you got and you were playing sums up perfectly your gaming habits, and the same for me, yeah, so you got Age of Empires, remastered Age, so it's the official title of it is Age of Mythology Retold oh okay.
Speaker 2:Of it is age of mythology retold oh okay. But it is age of empires, right it is. It is by the same people who do age of empires, so it still plays the same, it's just it's has a couple of extra features to the game that kind of make it exciting and then I today was playing final fantasy 7, rebirth, which is a remake of Final Fantasy, the part two of the remake trilogy of Final Fantasy VII, heck yeah, baby.
Speaker 1:So I was playing that today and it made me late for the recording.
Speaker 2:And that's okay.
Speaker 1:So, but it's great, it's so much fun.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we have a lot of fun with it. And we also want to know, if you're a gamer, what's your favorite classic game, not like what's the most recent thing you're playing. What is your nostalgic?
Speaker 1:game. What is the best game that you played as a child and why is it kingdom hearts. The reason why final fantasy 7 is great in my heart is because Final Fantasy VII was made by the same guy who made Kingdom Hearts. Yeah, so really love that. And Cloud Strife, who is the main character that you play as in Final Fantasy VII, is in Kingdom Hearts. Oh, as that character, interesting as that character.
Speaker 2:Interesting Mm-hmm. So it's a crossover.
Speaker 1:He fights Cerberus in the Hercules Coliseum.
Speaker 2:Impressive.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm, he also fights Hades with you.
Speaker 2:Okay, okay, jared's just telling me all this.
Speaker 1:I've never played Kingdom Hearts king, I know, that's what I'm telling you is like I know, but I'm just letting everybody know.
Speaker 2:This is not scripted for you guys, this is actually for me. He's relaying information.
Speaker 1:We really need to sit down and do like a live stream us playing kingdom hearts and you playing it for the first time. His look on his face is like his face is like I don't wanna oh dad. No, I think our first I'm, I'm gonna say our first, I'm just saying, we should do it eventually.
Speaker 2:Okay, we can do it eventually, but my personal opinion, because we did not do it for the live stream during election our first live stream playthrough needs to be us playing munchkins on the table. Yep, and we need to have two other people yep, munchkins is great when you have four folks yep, so we're gonna commit to that. That's what we're gonna do what we need to do.
Speaker 1:I wish there was a way to do it, but I wish we would be able to do the digital version. It's just not as good. It's not, you're right, but it's cleaner and it'd be easier to keep up with. But you know what You're right? No we need to.
Speaker 1:People need to see the chaos of the card play so the thing, the problem, you're right, the problem with playing the digital version version is it's to a t the rules. Yeah, exactly, when we play, we allow ourselves to interpret well, but that's the thing is the instructions.
Speaker 2:They put that in there. They say you know, the game is designed for open interpretation and argument over the cards, but ultimately the owner of the game has the final say. So it's saying like, yes, it's open to interpretation, but there is a a ref, if you will.
Speaker 1:So so, like give an example, there is a card called brick wall yeah, and it's just very vague, as this card, if played, stops the fight.
Speaker 2:Yeah, is how it's worded. That's how it's worded.
Speaker 1:So an instance that we used it in is the fight that somebody else was having was going to allow that person to win the game. Yeah, so it could be interpreted that it's only your fight, but I interpreted it as any fight, yeah, and so I played it on that fight, stopping that fight, keeping that person from winning that battle, and it kept them from winning the game. Then it got to my turn and I was able to play a card fight and win them from winning the game. Then it got to my turn and I was able to play a card fight and win and I won the game.
Speaker 1:There's so many times that we played that game and it like caused a huge argument because it's like no, no, no, no, you can't do it that way because the rule you know, yeah, so it gets really messy with a lot of cards all over the place and so it gets really chaotic in that sense and it's sometimes hard to keep up with because you have all these different buffs and all this different stuff on your cards. Yeah, so when you're playing the digital version, it's a really cleaner version of the game that makes it easier to keep up with everything. Yeah, but it does take away that aspect of interpreting the cards a certain way, because it's like it's a digital version, it's like coded to be very specific rules, correct? Yep, yep, sorry to get off on off topic during our joyful season no, no, hey, we had fun here.
Speaker 2:So okay, tyler, now we're getting into it. So this is your transition out of what did we do christmas day to this week's main topic, main topic which is the wise man. I need to get an air horn. I just realized I don't have that um shoot.
Speaker 1:I have one. I like trains next best thing?
Speaker 2:uh, all right. So what do you know about the wise men jesus?
Speaker 1:uh, you hinted at it a little bit last week. They're named after characters from the mummy. No, no the magi.
Speaker 2:They're named after the mummy characters. I did, david. I did dive into that a little bit, though, so I've got some clarification for that perfect uh, they are three kings okay I'm trying to remember the stupid song lyrics. The song's not stupid we three kings of orient are.
Speaker 1:Thank you yep bearing gifts, we travel so far it was loaded, we exploded.
Speaker 2:That was a little mockery of it of the song yeah, so they were.
Speaker 1:they are three kings, yep, who brought gifts to jesus. That's right, but, fun fact, if I'm not mistaken, and you'll probably get into this, it was not on the day he was born, it was quite a while afterwards, correct.
Speaker 2:It was after Christ's birth.
Speaker 1:It took him a long time to find him right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, kind of it's not clear how old.
Speaker 1:Christ was, but he was not lying in a manger at this point.
Speaker 2:Correct. Yeah, it was not lying in a manger at this point.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was not the night of his birth that they. So we see all the nativity scenery, decorations, imagery, and they're there. The three kings are at the manger. It didn't happen that way.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're just an integral part of the nativity story, so it gets included in yeah, yeah, the little figures that people have at christmas, but it did happen much later than the night of the birth, so I was under the impression it was a couple of years, but it is.
Speaker 1:Oh, it did perfect. Yeah, I thought it was like I thought you're about to tell me it was like. It was like three weeks, no, no, it was.
Speaker 2:I think. I don't want to, I don't want to misspeak, but I want to say some people assume that it's like two years after the birth. But we're going to go ahead and read that portion of the story. So if you've got a Bible and you want to whip it out, if you want to pause this real quick and go to Matthew, chapter 2, we're going to be reading verses 1 through 12. And that kind of gives a highlight of it.
Speaker 1:We need some sort of sound effect to when you're going to start reading the bible as well, something like just like a bible time all right, I'm gonna go ahead and read it.
Speaker 2:So here we go, matthew, chapter 2. Now, when jesus was born in bethlehem of Judea, in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem saying when is he that is born king of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the east and are come to worship him. When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. And when he had gathered all the chief priests and the scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where the Christ should be born. And they said unto him In Bethlehem of Judea, for thus it is written by the prophet and thou, bethlehem, in the land of Judah, art not the least among the princes of Judah, for out of these shall come a governor that shall rule my people, israel.
Speaker 2:Then Herod, when he had privately called the wise men, inquired of them diligently what time the star appeared. And he sent them to Bethlehem and said Go and search diligently for the young child, and when ye have found him, bring me word again that I may come and worship him. Also, when they had heard the king, they departed and lo, the star which they saw in the east, went before them till it came and stood over where the young child was. When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy. And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and fell down and worshipped him. And when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts gold and frankincense and myrrh and being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way. So there you go. If you keep reading, you can read about the flight to Egypt that Mary and Joseph do. So yeah, that's what it says in the Bible.
Speaker 1:So why is it that in some parts they're wise men, in some parts they're kings?
Speaker 2:Well, the original translation is I need to pull it up, sorry the word is magos, is the Greek magos or magos, and that's where we get the magi term, and it is. It has to do with wise men or sort, like it's a title for a specific people's or rank of peoples in babylonian, in the chaldean babylon area. So babylon was the city in mesopotamia and it was populated by the caldeans, if you will. So that was the people group, the caldeans, and they had different ranks of people, and so the magi were like you could interpret it as like the chief soothsayers or chief wise men, like the top dogs when it comes to council and authoritative figures, right? So not quite like the ruling king, but people of authority who gave influence and insight to the king and did have some sort of you know, like territorial power. So yeah, the magi is we get it from the greek term for this these people that come from kind of the mesopotamian area, that they were people that practiced just everything that had to do with wisdom, astrology, soothsaying.
Speaker 2:Sometimes you could interpret it as sorcery, interpreter of dreams. You know the book daniel, prophet daniel in the old testament. So there's a lot of people that are brought before the king in that book to try. And he's like he tells all of his soothsayers and dream interpreters and prophets and everything's like you've got to interpret this dream. Like, tell us the dream. He's like, no, you've got to interpret it and if you can't interpret it without me telling it to you, I'm going to kill you all. And so, and you know, by the grace of god, daniel steps in and does the interpretation for the king and all this stuff. But that crowd of people inside it would be who we're calling the magi or the wise men so they're not really kings at all.
Speaker 2:They're like the kings of knowledge they're like a you could use a term like princes, you know how like they're leaders or lords, but they're underneath another king. They are the deans of the college.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're like a minor king or a lesser king. If you would, you could look at it that way. What I found interesting is the Eastern interpretation of this puts the number of kings at 12 kings. The Roman Catholic or Western interpretations of this puts it at three kings. So we in the West haven't have seen that there were three kings that came, but the Eastern churches puts it at 12 kings. Why is that? I don't know. Just that's their tradition, just like our tradition is that there's three. Because the actual text doesn't give a number. It doesn't say how many kings or magi, it just says that there's magi and it says that they bring gifts. They bring three gifts, three types of gifts. It doesn't say how many, how much gold or how much frankincense or how much myrrh.
Speaker 1:It just says that they bring gold, frankincense and myrrh. Wise men, number seven brought gold and number 10 brought myrrh and they divvied it out. That's really interesting because I never thought about it like that. That it doesn't specify we three kings.
Speaker 2:Exactly, that was just a church. Tradition for the West was that it was three magi, and then the Eastern have interpreted it as 12. And there's significance to both and I think that's the importance is it's ambiguous because it doesn't really matter how many there were, but it does give creed to you know. Three is the number of God, right. 12 is the number of the people of God. Okay, and then the three gifts right. Three is the number of God. But then the three types of gifts. They depict his different roles, right. The gold, frankincense and myrrh. It's kind of there's. I can't remember the exact interpretations right now, but you can interpret different things about Christ by the gifts that are given to him and they relay a message about his life and what's going to happen. Right?
Speaker 1:So imagine you know you're what's going to happen, right? Imagine you're at home with your family, right? You gave birth to the savior of all mankind, yeah? And you're just chilling at home and then a bunch of 12 dudes show up with a bunch of stuff for you, yeah, hey, we heard about your son. He's going to save us all. Here's some gold.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what I find impressive is the star right about your son. He's going to save us all. Here's some gold. Yeah, what I find impressive is the star right Because it says that the star leads them. It's not like it's a stationary point and they just keep on navigating towards it. The way it's worded is it almost comes across as they're following this moving star and it's moving at the pace for them to follow, and they're following it to Christ, right, right, and then it stops over Christ and and, and that's how they know to go into that place.
Speaker 1:Would it be assumed, then, that they did travel for that amount of time, like the two years? Like cause, the was the star there when Jesus was born.
Speaker 2:I think that this this is my personal opinion I think the star appeared in the sky when Christ was born and I think the amount of time it took from when the star came to when the magi showed up was them seeing the star, seeing that it's constant, looking for the interpretation, interpreting it, gathering the stuff to travel, setting their affairs in order, traveling, you know, doing the whole thing with Herod, and then traveling to where? From Herod to Bethlehem and appearing to Christ. So you know how long it took. Who knows? But I mean, really they would have been coming from the Mesopotamian area, so kind of like modern day Iraq, now Iraq slash Syria maybe. So it really would have taken a couple of months, maybe a couple of weeks to a month with Roman roads, probably a couple of weeks. You know journey distance.
Speaker 2:But you know, you, you got to include all the other stuff the preparation, the finding of the star, seeking its interpretation, finding its interpretation, and then the travel and then all that stuff. So there's a lot goes into it. But you know, for us, today we celebrate with you know, if you're, if you practice it right, we celebrate Wiseman, the Wiseman Day, or Epiphany, on January 6th, which is the 12th day of Christmas. So the last day of Christmas is when we commemorate the wise men appearing to worship Christ.
Speaker 1:So is that also why we commemorate the storming of the Capitol? No, I'm kidding, I'm kidding.
Speaker 2:Oh man, no, no, no. That has nothing to do with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. That is 100% a joke. Yeah, man, no, no, no. That has nothing to do with our Lord and Savior Jesus.
Speaker 1:Christ, that is 100% a joke. Yeah, yeah. So the wise men are summoned by Herod. He says go find this child. Yep, I want him dead.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but he doesn't tell them that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but he wants him dead. And so they go, they find him, and then they say, yeah, we ain't telling Herod about this kid, and they just they take off.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so backstory on Herod. So whenever the monarchy for Israel fell is when the exile from Israel to Babylon happened, okay, from Israel to Babylon happened, okay. And then you know, the Babylonians are taken over by the Persians and the Persians hold authority over Israel at that time and there's no king right, they allow people to return, they allow the rebuilding of the temple all that stuff.
Speaker 2:So israel is set up to be their own people, but they don't have a king anymore. They're they're ruled by governors that are under the persian authority. And then alexander the great comes and conquers the known, you know, world right, defeats the, and when he dies, his empire is broken up into four parts by his four main generals. And so this area, where Israel's in, is constantly being fought over and changing hands, and inside, that is the people of Israel who are, you know, being lorded over by the Greeks until the Maccabees are able to revolt and successfully beat off whoever the authority is at the time for, like I think it's like a year or two, like not a long time at all. So Israel only has its independence for a short amount of time before the Romans come into play and conquer that area and control it.
Speaker 2:I might be leaving some, some stuff out. I'm not a super history buff, so there might be some stuff missing Could have fooled me. My, what I'm trying to, what I'm building up to, is, when Herod comes into play, he works out a deal with the Romans to be the king over Israel or over the Jewish area of the world. Right, but he is in direct submission to Rome. So Rome's in charge. He's a territorial leader, you know, ethnically for these people, but he submits to Rome and what keeps him in power is order and peace and rest. And so you know this whole idea of Christ coming to the world and the coming king, it does two things. One, it threatens his authority to rule or to be in power, so that's the biggest thing. But on the second hand, it also threatens the idea of Rome coming in and shutting down what he's got going on, what Herod's got going on, because people might start revolting and saying our king has come to liberate us from Rome. We're going to revolt and fight Rome. And so Rome's like, no, you're not, and we'll come in and lights out. So that's it.
Speaker 2:It's like he wants to get rid of this guy. He wants to get rid of this baby, this prophesied king, to keep the Romans at bay and to hold on to his power that he's got for that area, and so that's why he wants to kill him. And then the Magi are warned in a dream don't go back to Herod. So they leave by a different way and go back home or, you know, back east. And then Herod goes and slaughters every child under two in Bethlehem, child under two in Bethlehem, and Christ is delivered from that by his parents being born in a dream, and they flee to Egypt for a time and then, after Herod dies, joseph finds out about it, and so they come back from Egypt and go to Galilee, and that's where Jesus grows up is in Galilee, and then he starts his ministry at the age of 30.
Speaker 1:So and does that for how many years? Three. That's incredible how much Jesus got done in three years.
Speaker 2:And that in in the gospel of John he makes the point to say that everything that Jesus did in his earthly ministry could not be written down in all the books that we have in the world, but what is written down is for you to know who he is. I'm paraphrasing it, but that's how John words it. Christ did so much when he was here that there's just no way to really account for all of it. But we are making clear who he is and so we have these four canonized gospels that have withstood the test of time, that talk about who Christ is. Right, they don't give elaborate details on every little thing that he did, because there's just no way to do that. But yeah, so, yeah, that's pretty much the Magi, or the Wisemen, or the Kings, the Deans of the College, the Deans of the College, yeah, yeah. So correction for last week when I made the point Magi and Magi from the mummy Bible M-A-G-I Magi and the mummy Magi, m-e-d-j-a-y Magi, which are real. They're a real people group, the Magi. So it's not made up for the mummy, not made up for the mummy movie.
Speaker 2:They were kind of like a nomadic tribe of herdsmen and warriors who were in the kind of Egyptian Sudan area and they moved around and eventually were taken on as like kind of a bodyguard class for the pharaohs. They would use them as bodyguards um, just because of their military prowess, I guess, is what you say. So, yeah, so the magi are. The magi are a real deal, but they're south of bethlehem. The magi are a real deal, but they're south of Bethlehem. The Magi are a real thing and they are north of Bethlehem. So two totally different things from two totally different cultures, but they've got similar names.
Speaker 1:The only thing similar is that the word starts with the letter M. Flip it upside down, yeah M. I thought it was W. What which starts with W? Which starts with W? You?
Speaker 2:said what, oh, what Gotcha? Okay, I'm picking up with you. I'm on my silliness today. Whoop-a-dee-doo. I ate a big bowl of fruit loops before I came here, so I'm a little loopy, yeah, so that's what I've got for the Magi, but I do want to like.
Speaker 2:What I want to bring home and this was this is beautiful is the night of christ's birth. He is visited by the shepherds in bethlehem, so these very jewish people who are considered kind of on the lower end of the class system at the time because they're shepherds, they're around dirty animals all day long, but they are Jews, okay. And then later on, the upper echelon, these magi, these kings, these wise men come to pay homage to Christ, but they're Gentiles, they are not Jews. So we see, from the lowest Jew to the highest Gentile, all come before Christ as an infant and bow and worship him and acknowledge his divinity and his authority to be king. And so that's what I wanted to bring home with this is that Christ's birth reveals that he is the savior of all mankind, from the lowest shepherd in To the highest wise man of Mesopotamia.
Speaker 2:Christ came for all, to redeem all. So you are not too far for Christ to redeem you. You have not dabbled in the occult too much, you have not gotten dirty in the gangs too long, you have not shot up too many substances, you have not looked at too many inappropriate things online, you have not said too many evil things in your heart or in your vocabulary. You are still redeemable by Christ because he has come to redeem. All and all will bow before him, just as all types of people bowed before him when he was born. When he comes again, every knee will bow is what the Bible says. Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that he is Lord. We're in a time right now, a great time, where Christ is offering redemption to all mankind and no matter what you have done or where you are at in life, you can be redeemed. You can receive that grace that is only found in Jesus Christ. Simply believe and repent, and Christ will keep you and will hold you.
Speaker 1:Because he will come quick, that's right and he won't see it coming just like this. I like trains.
Speaker 1:There you go Way to start and end with it, but yeah, so that's what I've got for you guys, I want to say this real quick, something that I find humorous to a degree, but you were talking about the shepherds, um, but yeah, so that that's what I've got for you guys. I want to say this real quick, something that I find humorous to a degree, but you were talking about the shepherds, and you know, the angels appears to them and tells them, you know, be not afraid. Why would an angel tell them not to be afraid? Unless and I love this, I've heard this it's a biblically accurate angel. Yeah, if you know what a biblically accurate angel looks like, it's crazy looking. Yeah, multiple eyes, circular, a bunch of wings.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the seraphim, mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so to say, be not afraid. It's like if something shows up in front of you and you see it, that thing, and it's telling you, don't be afraid. It must be something pretty creepy looking, yeah, and that's what?
Speaker 2:okay, that's what gives so much credence to the, like cryptid community? Right, because angel comes from the greek word anguilos, which just means messenger. It's a title of a. It's a title, it's not an actual identifier. So, like, what these messengers look like could be very different depending on the scenario. But, yeah, it is crazy, like I mean, even if they did look human, like just simply like hovering above, you know, I mean, if you saw a person in the sky, if you saw a levitating person in the sky, like speaking down to you, like hey, don't be afraid, and then, right after they say all that, like thousands of these people hovering in the sky start singing in the sky. Yeah, it's crazy. Okay, so that's what I've got for that. Are you, do you want to move? Do you want to move, do you?
Speaker 1:want to move on. But you know you don't need to tell me that we're moving on, you just need to tell Tyler, tyler, we are transitioning into the corner.
Speaker 2:So I don't really have anything great, the only thing I have and I'm not saying that this is a conspiracy, so calm down, all right. Right now the H5 bird flu or influenza is going around.
Speaker 1:I know you're prepared, I'm prepared, but you want to talk about something instead that has wings, and we were just talking about the seraphim. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't, I'm not prepared for that. You're not prepared?
Speaker 1:Okay, I'm not prepared for that, okay.
Speaker 2:I will be prepared for that, though I promise that we will talk about that. Okay, we'll talk about seraphim pretty soon, because some people have, like, posted videos of something that oddly looks very similar to what the Bible describes as a seraphim in the skies. So it goes. It goes hand in hand with, like the UFO video stuff, the drones in the sky. No, no, separate from that Gotcha Um, but anyways, yeah.
Speaker 2:So the the bird flu is going around and it's concerning because it can be transmitted to humans this time around, so we are not totally immune from it. So it's going around and there has been human exposure, so humans have been exposed to it and they have caught it. You know people have been hospitalized and stuff. It's not fun, as you know, most influenza, be it human or bird. But I would like to acknowledge that they have been tracking this since March of 2024. And so far as of December 23rd of 2024, there has been 65 confirmed total human cases in the United States. So a very, very small number of humans have caught influenza this year. This bird flu, most of it has to do with exposure to dairy herds or poultry farms, and culling operations is the way it's titled how I get a chicken having the bird flu, yeah, but how the cow?
Speaker 1:how's the cow? Cows getting the bird flu and spreading it, I'm assuming, through the distribution of milk. Well, it doesn't.
Speaker 2:It doesn't explicitly say it's from the milk, okay, um, but basically wild birds can transmit it. They've got a diagram saying that it could be transmitted from wild birds to chickens, cows and two cats.
Speaker 1:Uh-oh, not Tom, yeah, I know.
Speaker 2:And then, as far as transmission, cows can transmit it to cats and poultry and humans, poultry can transmit it to humans. So it's really cows and poultry, it seems, are the ones that can transmit. So far it seems that it could be transmitted to humans, but all the cases are coming out of mass operations like large operations like dairy herds or dairy farms and poultry and culling operations for for poultry birds. So really big things. Where there's a lot, there's a lot of birds or a lot of cows, right, not so much and it could. I could be wrong, but not so much from the small mom and pop farms that have like two cows, uh, or 20 chickens or you know whatever it is. But they do point out and this is why I'm talking about it in the cryptic corner to reduce your chances of getting it, they say don't ingest any kind of raw dairy products because then the disease could be transmitted. You want to get the pasteurized dairy If you're going to consume dairy, because of the chances of you getting, in fact get getting infected from raw dairy. But I would like to make the, I'd like to point it out again. All these cases are popping up from people that are working on the animals or working with the animals in large environments where there's a lot of the animals, right, you know, and we've all heard the horror stories coming out of these mass dairy farms where all the milk's pasteurized anyways, and the large poultry farms where they're shooting them up with, you know, growth hormones and antibody antibiotics and all this crazy stuff, right? So it's like I get it that there can be some side effects of raw dairy. However, when you start looking into all the crunchy stuff, it's's like there's a lot of benefit to raw dairy. I get it like if it's mass-produced raw dairy it can be dangerous, but the same can be said about mass-produced pasteurized dairy. So I don't know. To me it that was, that was my. I guess what I'm getting at in the corner is I find it very convenient that we're about to get into.
Speaker 2:Allegedly, a lot of people are saying that this next presidential term, as far as health goes and food goes, american food's about to get cracked down on pretty hard, cracked down on pretty hard. And so I find it convenient that they're using the bird flu as a way to say like, hey, don't, don't do raw dairy because allegedly you could get sick from it, even though your raw dairy is probably coming from a local farm in your area, where they would know if their animals had been infected or not been infected or not. All the same, don't do raw dairy because you could get sick from it, even though there's a bunch of health benefits and it makes you more autonomous from big corporations and the government. Don't do it. So that's my, that's where I'm going to fall in it Cause I'm a big conspiracy.
Speaker 2:I mean, we all know I'm a big conspiracy guy, but when it comes to our food, I really do think that, like, the government is just the medium that the big corporations use to pass whatever they need to pass to make big bucks.
Speaker 2:Right, cause, if you make food that makes people sick and then they come to you for the medicine as well, or they, it makes them addicted to your food and so they keep buying your food, that's what you're going to do, cause that's how you make more money, right? Whereas if people are aware of, like, hey, healthy eating is eating in less quantity amounts, it's eating these all natural, organic things that are easy to obtain, right, like you don't. To be healthy, you don't have to get cacao from this certain plant in South America. You don't have to get this certain agave from wherever you know what I mean. Like you don't have to get this certain agave from wherever you know what I mean. Like you don't have to get these custom ingredients that are only produced in certain parts of the world. Like you can eat healthy by having your own chickens.
Speaker 1:You can eat healthy. By eating your own ear of corn, you can.
Speaker 2:Correct. You can grow a non-modified, healthy version of wheat to make your own bread and you can ferment it and do a sourdough and then it's got probiotics and it's good for you and you know it's all these different things and it's all like obtainable. It's something that you could. If you wanted to be autonomous, you could do it Right. You could do it right, but our food industry pushes hard against being self-reliant and making it all about.
Speaker 2:You have to get this from us. It has to be approved by the government. It has to approve it for it to be consumable for humans and the only way for that to happen is for it to come through our privately owned whatever shops or slaughterhouses or whatever. So I think that I think that these, these big corporations and companies are in cahoots with the government, and I think that the areas where the bird flu has affected the animals and humans the most have been in these big corporation poultry houses and dairy farms, not in the little mom and pop ones. So it's like, hey, we're screwing up and our the way that we're doing it is causing things to get affected and they're infecting humans now, but don't you dare buy from the local. Small people Like you still need to buy from us. So that's my thought.
Speaker 2:But anyways, those numbers came from the CDC website. You can actually go to cdcgov and just look up the bird flu H5 bird flu and they've got some stats on as far as it's spreading. Like what does it look like? They try to keep it up to date. It'll be up to date. By the time this episode comes out It'll have updated.
Speaker 1:And if you don't have the internet and you live near us, you can just drive to Atlanta and just knock on their door and get the information in person.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, you could do that. Or you could just Google search it. If you don't have your own phone or computer or the internet, you can go to a library and look it up on the computer. There you go, there you go. Or you can go to the Apple Store and right after you're done looking it up in one of their phones, you can pull up on the podcast app on that phone or tablet Saints that Serve and subscribe and then leave it open on that spot.
Speaker 1:So the next person, and then go back every day and listen, or every week and listen to the new episode. That's right.
Speaker 2:So, anyways, that's mine. Don't trust the government and be autonomous when it comes to your food. That's right. That's what I have for the corner.
Speaker 1:I don't know if I mean I know you have, I have, but I'm more addressing the people at home. I don't know if you've ever gone out and pulled off any form of food straight off the plant and ate it. It is so much better just in that moment than anything you could ever buy from the store.
Speaker 2:I will say yes for most plants, but it also has to be like organically grown right, like given any kind of pesticide, sprays on the plants or anything like that makes never do that. Yeah, but yeah, if you're right, if it's organic and it's raw and it's in your backyard, depending on what it is, yeah, just ripping it off and eating it, me being at the farm pulling off a blackberry off the vine.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh yeah Berries.
Speaker 2:Heck yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, blueberries, blackberries. Just pulling it right off the vine and you plop that bad boy in your mouth. Yeah, a thousand times better than anything you could ever get from the store. That's right, that's right, yeah. And that's not like conspiracy, that's not speculation, that is a fact that you getting it fresh from the tree is going to taste better than anything you could get processed.
Speaker 2:Yep, yeah, and you know the time frame is going to be shorter for berries and things like that, because they do spoil a lot quicker. But keep in consideration for eggs. Let's just talk about eggs, okay, but keep in consideration for eggs. Let's just talk about eggs, okay. When it comes to whether it's organic or whether it is free-range chicken eggs or whether it's just the standard white from a mass poultry egg farm, by the time that you're putting it in your fridge, you go to the store, you buy it today, you get home, you put it in your fridge. The average time is about six weeks from the time that it came from the chicken to the time that it got in your fridge. It's been, it's a six week old egg. So, compared to if you have your own chickens like for us, because we've got chickens right Shout out, humble brag. Like for us, because we've got chickens right.
Speaker 1:Shout out humble brag which I've had, your eggs, and they are way better than anything that's stored. Back to my point.
Speaker 2:And we yeah, we get them from the chicken that day and we either eat them that day or the following day and, yeah, they're great. And there is a difference. Like if I was to go buy store-bought eggs and then cooked two separate frying pans of store-bought eggs and my eggs, like I could tell a difference and it's just freshness. I mean, whether or not it's high-end supernatural crunchy eggs you get from the store or what I get from my chickens, there's a difference.
Speaker 1:We should do that. We should Anybody who's skeptical, come on down that we should. Anybody who's skeptical, come on, come on down. We'll get a store-bought egg and we'll get a fresh egg and just cook them up, put them in front of them, blind taste tests and see which one they think is better. Come on down, we will do that for you.
Speaker 2:Let's do it, because a hundred percent the coke pepsi challenge coke pepsi challenge of eggs, but for eggs, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm all about it.
Speaker 1:But yeah, that can be a merch shirt. It's just like because, uh, store-bought eggs are always pretty perfect white and then a lot of times, like natural eggs are going to be a different, more like brownish ish color. Yeah, and that's just how it is. Why are they white? Is it just like this, like the breed of chicken?
Speaker 2:because you can get. Yeah, I mean, we've had chickens that have laid all white eggs before, but they're just mass producing a certain breed of chicken and they all lay the white egg.
Speaker 1:Gotcha. So we need just two eggs side by side. They're both white, brown. Whatever Just underneath it says, can you tell a difference that?
Speaker 2:would be a good shirt. I like that. I like that. But yeah, bring the background to your berries. That's really what it is. If you take the heartache and the time to mature a berry vine or bush, and it starts yielding fruit, you go and you pick it day of compared to what's been in the grocery store Night and day difference, like fresh berries so good compared to the been in a packaging for a couple of days or a couple of weeks berries.
Speaker 1:Yeah, growing up in my front yard we had two. Like we never maintained them, they just always came back. We had a pear tree and a muscadine vine Nice, and just going out there, the pear tree. Over time they weren't maturing, yeah, it's like they used to. So you bite into it. They're rock hard, so they're kind of gross. Yeah, you could still eat them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but always that muscadine vine, just go out, plop one in your mouth, so good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, dude, muscadines, fig trees and pears they do pretty good in our area, just like blueberries and blackberries as well. So it's like there's okay, there you go. Figs, muscadines, blackberries, blueberries, pears I just named five different fruits that if you live in the Southeast, they will grow in your yard.
Speaker 1:And, to my point, you don't really have to do much with them anyways, and once they mature into a maintainable tree, yeah, they're a plant that continues to last year after year.
Speaker 2:You just got to do the maintenance, you just got to have good soil health and really a lot of that legwork is taken care of. If you own things like chickens that walk around these plants when they're not yielding, because they'll help with the soil, they'll scratch it up and they'll move it and their poop will get mixed in and it'll help just bring nitrogen and necessary things that the soil needs to be healthy for the plant to grow.
Speaker 1:So just so y'all know poop is good for your plants.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I like fresh raw poop Like you want it to. You want it to cook for a little bit.
Speaker 1:So make sure you put your poop in the oven before you take it out to your yeah, cook for a little bit, so make sure you put your poop in the oven before you take it out to your yeah bake it at 375 for 20 minutes before you throw it in the garden. Anyways, yeah, so we're going to get off this horse, we're going to get off this train, this train, yeah.
Speaker 2:Because we could talk about, we could do a mini-series. I mean, really, we could create our own podcast, a completely separate podcast, just about how bad our food industry is in america. What would you call that podcast? America sucks at food the america sucks at food podcast. Yeah, the america sucks at food podcast. Yeah, yeah, but that's all I got. Yeah, so we love you guys. Make sure that you like, comment and subscribe if you haven't.
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Speaker 1:Do you want to try that again? Yeah, no, I'm Jairus.
Speaker 2:Yay, anyways, yeah, let's do that again. That was awful.
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