Dead Men Walking Podcast Joshua Kuipers Reformed Funny Moments: Jokes, Music, & Weird Church Moments

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What's up, Jake? What have you been up to this weekend? That was a little hot for the intro, but I know

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I didn't get it. Bring it on. Bring it on home. It's okay. We're excited tonight.

00:28

We're having a good time tonight. Yeah. Yeah. This is going to be fun. I just got back from camping again. Nice. Living in a camper this summer, baby.

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Nothing wrong with that. That's actually really cool. We've got a guy that's a state rep for our county. This is behind me.

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He's a commentator. He calls everyone Dave. Wow. Yeah.

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I've been doing it for four years. I'm like, that's not going to last. I'm going to keep doing it. I'll say, hey, Joe. How old is he?

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All right, babe. 55. I'm like, all right, babe. Is this guy like 80? I mean, what?

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I don't know. All right, babe. Gotcha, babe. I'm like, that guy, he's going down one of these days.

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I don't know. He's going to keep doing it. You don't care. I love it. Oh, man. But yeah, I did a little camping.

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Don't ever call me, babe. Whoever you are. Don't call me. And don't call me, Shirley, either. Or that.

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Hey. All right. Movie quote right there. There you go. So that voice right there is our guest tonight.

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And he jumped in. Yes. I love it. I love that. Could not wait for us to get your stupid banner.

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I know. Right. So we could then introduce him. He is. Oh, geez. Go ahead.

01:35

I mean, he's got it. You got it. Funny moments. Okay. First of all, you guys are going to have to go check this out because it's a hilarious channel.

01:40

It's picking up all kinds of steam. It's got hundreds of thousands, if not millions of views across. We'll say millions.

01:48

Yeah. Hundreds of millions. Hundreds of billions. Billions of views. Of views. I think this guy just took over the number one spot from Lady Gaga.

01:57

That's right. Oh, wow. That's new. That's really news to me, man.

02:02

It's Mr. Joshua Kuipers. How are you, sir? Hey. I'm doing phenomenal. How are you guys?

02:11

The fake audience. I wasn't fake. Went right over what he said. How are you, man?

02:16

How you doing? I'm doing great. How are you? Good. Awesome. Thanks so much for being here. We want to give you a few minutes to introduce yourself.

02:25

Tell everyone what you're about and give us a little info on this reformed funny moments if you don't mind.

02:31

Yeah. A little bit about myself. I graduated from Grove City College as a mechanical engineer.

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I currently work as a mechanical designer in the food industry. I'm very involved with my church and what

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I do. Also, I make reformed video content that makes people laugh, cry, and have goosebumps on my channel.

02:51

Yeah. Absolutely. Had all those emotions. Hold on. Back the train up here. You're a mechanical food engineer?

02:58

Is that what you just said? No, no, no, no. Mechanical engineer by degree, but I work in the food industry.

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So, yeah, the company that I work with, we help manufacture machines that help make dough -based products like cookies, pretzels, crackers, stuff like that.

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So you probably heard of Kellogg's or PepsiCo, stuff like those companies.

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You know, that's awesome. I actually have been watching a documentary on Hulu about how businesses got started, and I actually know how

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Kellogg's got started. Post got started. Post actually stole the Kellogg -

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Secret recipe. Secret recipe from, yeah, from Mr. Kellogg himself. I think the Kellogg thing was like religious or something to do with -

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It was new agey, it seemed. It was new agey, right? Yeah, it was wild. But yeah, that's a really cool show if anybody wants to see how businesses started in America.

04:02

That's really cool though, Josh. I love that. And we live in Michigan, so we're about two hours away. Awesome. Where in Michigan?

04:09

We are in - We can't tell you. Oh, okay. He does look kind of shady.

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I don't know. Well, I was born in Michigan. Oh, where are you? Where at? Grand Rapids. Oh, nice, nice.

04:20

We're on the other side of the state. We're right above Toledo. We're Monroe County. Yeah, Monroe County. Okay. But I have friends that live in Aiden.

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We go up there and visit them all the time. We like Grand Rapids. It's a nice little place. Oh, yeah. Usually do a week in South Haven on the west side of the state there.

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But anyway, everyone listening in Ubekistan does not care. No. Yeah, aren't you guys the number one in Ubekistan or something like that?

04:40

That's right. That's right. All our friends over there. Ukraine's close second. Come on. That's right, man.

04:45

We just got the numbers today. So great. But yeah, we're going to get into a little bit more about the Reform Funny Moments, the

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YouTube channel, your production company that you run. But first, we want to do a little Newsy News. J -Dog, you ready?

04:57

Let's do it. Let's do it. News, the news, the Newsy Newsy News, the news, the news, the

05:02

Newsy Newsy News News. We got some news. Oh, yeah.

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I know what's going to start season three. All right, let's keep it light.

05:17

All right. What do we got? Yeah. Yeah. So first story. Well, let's go with Elvis Presley. Someone paid seventy two thousand five hundred dollars for the weirdest piece of Elvis memorabilia ever.

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Do you guys know what it was? Was it a spit? He had a spit. I could see somebody doing something like that.

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I've heard I've heard that in like elementary school. Like someone said on eBay, they sold like this, quote unquote,

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Elvis Presley, like spit for like like thousands of dollars or something like that. So it surprised me.

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Albert Einstein's breath in a jar or somebody paid like thirty grand for it on eBay.

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That was that was definitely a fart. Someone put a fart in a jar and sold it.

06:02

You remember the potato? So it's like a great idea. Like I need to I wish I was that smart.

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But anyway, it is Elvis jumpsuit, his jumpsuit. No, no, no. Well, his jumpsuit sold a few years back for one million dollars.

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Oh, wow. But this time it's a jar of hair from the king.

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Seventy two thousand five hundred dollars. Oh, my God. Could you imagine like what are you going to do with it?

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Like when you put it up on your mantle and you're like, oh, that's actually. But I'm also thinking like it probably would decompose or something like that.

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Right. I mean, it doesn't last. I don't know. I don't know the science behind hair, but yeah, that kind of freaks me out a little bit.

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So did the did the person who sell it, who got that money? Just go. Thank you. I mean, thank you very much. He might have put it on his bald spot or something.

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That's what I would have done. Just glue it right to the bald spot. Just walk around. Yeah, right. Yeah. Or instead of the sprinkle, instead of the sprinkle stuff or whatever.

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Why are you talking about being bald when we got 25 year old? I know. Come on. Look at his young whippersnapper, full set of hair, full set of hair.

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Well, you got you over here, too. You're doing the YouTubes and the social medias and whatever those young kids are doing.

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I know. Right. Yeah. Making that money. And OK, so the second news story.

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OK, Joe Biden's president. Oh, my

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God. OK, take it easy.

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Bring it in. Bring it in. Calm down. Don't cry. Don't cry. We're going to die. Oh, we're going to die.

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Oh, but what's the real story? That was it. Oh, that's OK. That was the news.

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OK, wait, I got one for you. And I promise we didn't have anything to do with this. And that's why we were laughing beforehand.

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Minnesota farmers hemp maize aims to educate about the crop. So he took marijuana and hemp like one of those walk through mazes out of it.

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And see, it's things like this. Like what? Like where do people come up with this stuff? You know, I did a two acre hemp maize.

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People go through it. There was people coming out complaining about the smell. It's going to happen with marijuana maize.

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Oh, but they were all giggling when they came out. Yeah, yeah. Right. And they needed some. Hopefully they had some munchies there, too.

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Boom. Oh, they got like a little table at the end. You know, I'm looking for. No, no, no, no.

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That one's yours right there. That was a bad dad joke. Oh, man. Where's your Snoop Dogg?

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Like, seriously, where's your Snoop Dogg like sound effect in here somewhere? I don't know. I can't find it. I got too many drops.

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Yeah, right. Enough time. We got any more? No, that was it. That was the newsy news. Quick one. Cool. Thank you for the newsy news.

09:02

All right, Joshua. Let's get into it. So tell us all about reformed funny moments, how it came about, what gave you the idea and what's the feedback been?

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Oh, dear. So, like, really, it was just random.

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Really, honestly, that's kind of what it really started. So this

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YouTube channel is is really old. We're talking that it existed since 2010. I've been making like videos for a very, very long time.

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And pretty much my YouTube channel's history is just, you know, the history of me trying to become a better editor and trying to understand, like, how cinema works and also like doing various stuff.

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That's why there's such there was like no direction until like last year where it ranged from video essays on why

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Christian films are terrible to making a spoof movie of Batman versus Superman.

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Like, it was all over the map in regards. But eventually, like, it's sort of kind of culminated to what it was about two and a half years ago when

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I became reformed in my own thinking. That's a whole story in and of itself. Nice.

10:14

Well, it's a whole story in and of itself. And, like, I just began devouring everything I could get my hands on in regards to, like, reformed theology.

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Began listening to so many speakers, teachers, preachers, Steve Lawson, R .C. Sproul, you name it,

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I listened to it. And there's one person I listened to a lot more, and that was Dr. James White.

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You know him. He's the director of Alpha Omega Ministries. He does reformed apologetics. I love his debates and his consistency in scripture.

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And I was listening to an old dividing line of his in which he played a section of Gale Whippinger.

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And I don't know if you've heard of Gale Whippinger. Gale Whippinger is this King James Fundamental Baptist crazy wacko who believed that the

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NIV Bible came from the sinking of the Titanic. And she explained for five minutes how the

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NIV Bible came from the sinking of the Titanic and how it was going to burn like a fire. So she went from the

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Titanic to the six slits caused by the iceberg and the six six -sits represent the devil.

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And eventually she got to Led Zeppelin down the road. And she was, like, all over the map in regards to, like, her train of logic.

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And I thought it was so nonsensical, I just had to animate it. So I animated her train of logic.

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You can still find it on YouTube. It's called, I think, the NIV Bible and the Sinking of the Titanic. And it was that video that's got me thinking about, is it to go that comedic direction?

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Or, like, is there possible to get more funny moments from these guys? And a couple months later, like,

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I get all my reformed stuff through YouTube. I listen through YouTube. All the sermons and podcasts and all of that.

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But occasionally I would see, like, an isolated clip that someone has posted online of a funny moment of R .C.

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Sproul or a funny moment from, you know, Vodie Bauckham or Paul Washer. And I thought, well, what if I just started compiling some of those funny moments?

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And so I began compiling the clips from Q &As. And the more

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I began assembling them, the funnier it just became. And so eventually around, I posted the first episode of Reformed Funny Moments in August 2020.

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And it wasn't until I posted the second episode, that's when I began to notice I was getting some traction.

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And each video was, like, growing to, like, 1 ,000 views. And some people were commenting. And I was like, okay, you know, people seem to like this.

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I might as well make a third one. And as soon as I made a third one, that's when my channel just blew up. It blew up.

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Like, I uploaded the third one. Next day, I went down to Texas to go see my brother.

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And then I opened up the YouTube app. And each video had about 15 ,000 views. And then the next day, it had 20 ,000 views.

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And the next day, it got 25 ,000 views. And I was like, what is going on? And people were just, like, commenting, like, saying, this is the funniest material

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I've ever seen. Like, don't you dare stop making this. And I kept getting new subscriber after new subscriber.

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And I'm just, like, kind of stunned at all of this. Because I've been making videos for 10 years.

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And now all of a sudden, like, thousands of people are just suddenly watching my content on these channels.

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It's kind of insane, really, to just think about it. And so, when I posted the fourth episode of Reformed Funny Moments, that's when

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I realized that this is my audience now. That my content is going to be geared towards Reformed Christians.

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And so, I've been making, so far we're at episode 19 of Reformed Funny Moments and works, and the channel is also expanding to make additional content that I just come up with, like, motivational videos.

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Like, I make, so, I make, I've been making motivational videos for quite a while.

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Like, I made athletic compilations in college. And with, like, Christian themes.

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Actually, I went to a Christian college. So, it was nice, like, working Christian themes. But when I became

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Reformed, like, I just, I began to notice that I wanted to make motivational videos that elevate who

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God is. I wanted to elevate the glory of God, the majesty of God, the sovereignty, the aseity,

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His beauty, His loveliness. Like, I want to exalt those things because I don't want to look in myself and think that I can find the motivation, peace, and comfort to get through my day.

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Rather, I want to behold who God is. And so, that's what I began doing is

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I began trying, I'm making these motivational videos in a very cinematic and very powerful way.

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And that, you know, mindset of just, you know, sorry, not mindset, worldview of just focusing on who

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God is made these videos far more powerful and just made, like, I guess the best way to sort of describe it is, like, seeing the comments makes them, like, people are telling me that these videos help them have a deep reverence for who

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God is, far better. They can see, like, that God is, like, holy. He is majestic.

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He is beautiful in all these ways. And I think that's my goal because there seems to be a very, there seems to be a huge lack of reverence for God in churches today, that God is just, that is holy, and He is just, and He needs to be, in a sense, feared and respected and worshiped for who

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He is. And so that's what I've been trying to do with those motivational videos, but also been expanding to other content, like interviews and with,

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I just had finished one with Jeff Durbin and just making, yeah, it was a lot of fun, but it was also extremely challenging because he is so busy.

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I did not, like, I did not know when I was getting interviewed until the day before he was scheduled interviewed, and I had to rearrange my entire flight just to get him in.

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And I want to do more of that, and I want to interview more people in regards to that.

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And, in fact, probably, I don't know when this podcast is going to land or when this episode is going to land, but I am very close to finishing the next video, which is the best of Babylon Bee, which is taking the funniest moments of the

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Babylon Bee and putting it up on YouTube to see. So, yeah, that's kind of what my channel is.

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It's Geared Towards Reformed Christians. It's compilations, interviews, and just fun videos.

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So, yeah, that is all great. And I would say this, you know, I think what you're doing, when you said, oh, wow, 15 ,000, 20 ,000, 30 ,000, what's going on?

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What you're doing is you're putting in a labor of love, really, and the reason I think I picked up on, like, episode eight or nine is where I started following and watching.

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And what it was is I'd seen most of these clips over the, you know, 15 years that I had been exploring reformed theology.

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A lot of these guys, you start to feel like you know them personally, whether you've met them or not, just because you're consuming their content.

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You kind of know the inside jokes of each person. But then what you do is you take it and you, like, put all the best of it into a nice little anywhere from four to eight -minute video.

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And it's awesome because you're kind of getting the best of that kind of feeling of brothers joking around with each other and you kind of know where they're coming from and you're kind of in the,

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I don't want to say club, but you kind of understand what they're joking about. I think of the R .C. Sproul one when they're talking about, is there evil in the world or something?

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And he's holding his, you know, Pittsburgh thing. Right, right. And he says, yeah, you guys are, you know what

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I mean? And I go, most people, if you don't know that whole thing, you'd go, what? You know, but for Christians and for the

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Reformed community, it's really cool to see that. And I think, I'm sorry, continue. I'm sorry.

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Yeah, you're fine, Josh. I was going to piggyback off of that. I think that's what makes these videos so redemptive in their qualities is because there's like two layers of redemptiveness to this.

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The first one is that these are Reformed guys that we know. Like we know and love their brothers and sisters in Christ.

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We love them like deeply. And the second thing is that these clips are actually funny. So when you have these like two layers, it's like,

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I make these videos and I watch them multiple times because it's just so, I don't know why.

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I can't explain it. It's just so funny of how these guys kid around and all that. Yeah, yeah.

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We've talked about it before on this podcast. I mean, when it comes to Reformed teaching, it is a lot of times very serious.

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This is very serious subject matter. I mean, we're talking about, you know, a holy and living God. So, you know, when you hear these guys have that dry sense of humor, you know, that kind of almost like that Michael Scott from The Office type of humor, you know, like you don't expect them to say these jokes or, you know, kind of loosen up in those

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Q &As that you've highlighted in a lot of those videos that you have, Josh. It's just been really fun to watch, you know, just these guys just kind of cut up and kind of come out of the, you know, the scholarship or the whatever.

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I mean, you know, this high level, highly educated people. Theologians with PhDs and they know how to be like human.

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They talk like us. Right. And it's like, you know, I mean, like, yeah, they are human.

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And it's like, you know, like I've said before, we do stand on the shoulders of giants and, you know, but it's like, yeah, it's just awesome to see them kind of,

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I don't know, come down to my level. Maybe not poopy jokes, but. Yeah. And it's not like slapstick humor, like sometimes, but it's actually really smart, witty dialogue.

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And that's actually what makes it kind of challenging in the editing process. It takes, it takes forever.

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Yeah. I was going to ask you, how long did it take you? So the difficult part, well, first off,

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I listened to every single Q &A in its entirety. So that every single Q &A, every single sermon

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I listened to its entirety, so I can get every juice and bit I can get out of it. And then, and then

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I'll go save it off a playlist and download it. And then I'll go through it again to get out those funny moments.

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And the hardest part in making these is not finding the funny moments. It's putting them together because there's actually a logical sequence that you have to put together and figure out.

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And sometimes, and this happens most of the time, the jokes compound upon each other. So like they say something like 25 minutes ago, they have to make a reference to, so that way

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I can have somehow weave it into the joke and punchline that happens like 25 minutes later. So that's what makes it like really challenging in a lot of different ways.

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So yeah, it's, it's really crazy. People don't understand or some people don't understand like when you're editing, it's, it's such a long process because not only are you having to watch the minimum of the entirety of whatever it is you're editing, but then you're watching it multiple times over and over.

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You're pulling back references from like you said, 25 minutes ago. I mean, that's why I said the labor that you put into that.

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I think that's one of the reasons why it's so popular on YouTube, because it's like, I can just go there and get a quick hit and I can go boom four or five minutes.

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I'm uplifted. I've laughed. Yep. I remember that from 12 years ago, that Q and a,

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I'll never know where to find it. I can't remember where it was at. I provide the links in description. So people can look at it.

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There you go. And it's just, it is really wonderful what you're doing.

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And I appreciate you doing it. And I've always said, I've never met a reformed guy with a bad sense of humor.

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There's some that are funnier than others, but we're thought of as so stoic and so serious all the time.

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And Hey, and, and you know, God hates sin. And it's like, yeah, of course he does. Right. He doesn't.

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Right. But we have the newsy news section on our show. Are you calling that a sin?

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No, no, no. I'm saying just, we like to have fun. You know, like we, it's a fun thing.

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And to see Tom Askell's reaction to that. I was going through Instagram and I listened to that.

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Oh man, this will be a great intro. Yeah. So, so I, so I have a friend who he's, he's just got into, uh,

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Paul Washer. Okay. Uh, and he goes, and now, and then he's coming down to G3 with us. Okay.

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Oh yeah. Yeah. Uh, and I said, have you, and he goes, man, Paul Washers, like, cause he's coming out of like, you know, like, like assemblies of God are kind of like, you know, charismatic.

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And he's like, I listened to Paul Washington. I don't even know if I'm a Christian. Right. And I'm like, no, no, no, that's everyone.

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And I go, that's a lighter side of reform guys. So I sent him, uh, your page and he subscribed to it.

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And he's like, this is unbelievable. I didn't know, you know, these guys, cause he's listening to James White.

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I didn't know he had a funny side. It's like, well, yeah, they're, they're human. Like Jason was saying. Those thug life moments with James White, Dr.

23:18

White, man. Oh my gosh. I, I, um, I think that's one of the comments that I actually receive is sometimes occasionally see a comment where they said,

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I just was on this one other channel and I saw some, uh, non -reform people just bickering how non -reform people are not funny.

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And I just sent a link to these videos. Like what you're saying is really true that people have been sending clips like, you know, these reform guys were actually funny.

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We actually have a sense of humor. Yeah. Yeah, no, absolutely. All right. Let's shift gears here a little bit.

23:47

Yeah. We're talking about funny tonight. We got the funny guy with us or just the guy who edits the funny stuff. It seems pretty funny.

23:54

Uh, we want to talk comedy movies real quick. We're going to shift gears and we're going to say, so if you're, if you're a believer or you're a reformed guy or gal out there, like what is your kind of secret go -to funny movie that you're like, you want to know what

24:10

I do need to watch it just because there's some, there's some good stuff in there that, that makes me laugh. Like what's, and there's, there might be a little bit of a generational difference here.

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Yeah. Uh, we got about 15 years on, um, an old Joshua here, right. But, let's start with him.

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Let's start with him and say, okay, what's what, you know, obviously you have a bent towards, uh, towards comedy.

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If you're doing stuff with, with comedy. So for you, what, what's a, what's a go -to comedy movie that you like or enjoy?

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You know, the funny thing is I actually don't watch a whole lot of comedy movies. I actually watch a lot, watch a lot of like, uh, historical doc documentaries and like, uh, historical movies.

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Um, but I do have a couple that I do like, I do like a lot, like one of them is top secret.

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Uh, it's, uh, I, I forget who, who makes it, but it's the same guy that guys that did, uh, the naked gun.

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Okay. So it's actually, uh, it's actually considered to be his best, uh, his best, um, uh, his best movie, but it's not, it didn't receive like very well in the box office.

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But I like, I like movies that are smart, that actually make you think about the joke rather than like, you know, slapstick, you know, like, yeah, well, ha ha, he look at this.

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He's like, he's flailing around. Like, no, that's not funny. But if you actually like, if you actually have like, um, a setup and payoff, that's, that's usually a lot more funny.

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I also like, um, fantastic Mr. Fox. That's actually a good one. And I don't think

25:46

I've seen that. His brothers as well. Yeah. With Aubrey. Okay.

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It's a, it is it, it's that fantastic Mr. Fox. It's a cartoon, right? It's an animated.

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Well, I don't know. It's like an animated claymation or something like that. Okay. I think that's what it is.

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But, um, I also liked the blues brothers. I think that's a good, good, good movie.

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Nice. And I, okay. So I don't know if this one counts, but it got, it's called the

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Martian, the Martian with Matt Damon with Matt Damon. And the reason why

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I include that in my list is because it was awarded best globe for comedy.

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It was, it was the Mars. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. That's wild. It's where he's on Mars.

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Right. Is that, yeah. So wait, why did they include that in comedy? I thought that was, I have no idea, but it is a funny movie.

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He makes, he makes a bunch of jokes in that. Like, uh, so yeah, I, I guess those aren't like your run of the mill that you would normally,

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I like it. Right. How about you, Jason? Do you have a, like a go -to, you don't have to give three. I mean,

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I'm Josh is an over -performer, right? Right. No, that's all right, man. I mean, when it, when it comes to funny movies,

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I, I like to go as stupid as possible. Shut my brain down.

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I mean, oh dear. I mean, some, some, you know, Will Ferrell movies obviously

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Godzilla count. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Godzilla and King Kong count. It's such a dumb movie.

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No, no, the Godzilla and King Kong like mashup. So that is a cup.

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Um, uh, but yeah, I mean, you know, Will Ferrell, you know, and then Jim Carrey, dumb and dumber.

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I mean, it's, you know, when it, when it comes to comedy movies anyway, but, uh, you know, when it, whenever it gets too, um, too crass, of course, you know, um,

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I'm out usually. Yeah. Um, but yeah, I mean, it's, it's always fun to just shut the old brain down and watch

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Wayne's world, you know? So two of the, uh, two of the ones that I just kind of go to, or I'll go back and rewatch maybe once every couple of years is

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I, I think I figured out why I like them. Uh, one was very popular. One wasn't so popular, but I think it's because they relate to kind of phases that I were in my life.

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So when I was working retail for almost 10 years and office space came out,

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I think it was at the end of the nineties or something. And it didn't really do that good at the box office, Jennifer Aniston and it's a couple other guys.

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I can't remember their names, but it was so true to how office work is.

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Um, it's the same way when I hear people who are in like in, uh, serving or like on a wait staff say that the show, which

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I've never seen it, the movie waiting is so true. It's like, so, so the guy who wrote that worked at an office, the guy who wrote waiting was a waiter.

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Like you, you can make comedy about it because it's so real. Yeah. Uh, so that one's good.

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And then just being involved in political campaigns and being an elected official and all that, like black sheep, when that came out with, with Tommy boy,

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I remember I was, I was younger and I got up in the middle of the night to go to, to go get a drink of water.

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And I just sat down and it was like being reran on like TBS or whatever the heck, I don't know, back, you know, 20 years ago when cable, when cable was still around,

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I don't even know. Uh, and I sat there watching it and there's a scene in there where he's, he's out door knocking.

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Now if you've ever ran a campaign or worked on a campaign or tried to get elected, like you door knock, you wear out shoes.

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Yeah. He holds up this little thing. He goes, and it was this house way down a Hill and he goes, every vote counts, you know?

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And he just falls down this Hill for like, you know, three and a half minutes. Yeah. And, and I'm, and I'm crying laughing.

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I couldn't have been, I was like maybe 18 or 19 or something. I don't know why is this so funny, but it's because I had had those types of situations where it's like, you go through this farmer's field over a bridge, you step in like his cow manure just to deliver some stupid like,

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Hey, vote for me. I'm going to change the world. And so those are the kind of, kind of the two.

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And I think I do that because I don't know they're relatable. And of course all the, like you said, the will Ferrell stuff is funny and stuff.

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I've seen ground hog day. Yeah. That's yeah. I've never seen it all the way.

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It's it's on all day long. Right. On a ground hog day every year. Correct.

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Is it on, on TV? I'm pretty sure. I don't know. I don't know. But yeah, but anyway, yeah, I've seen it.

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I love Bill Murray. I mean, Bill Murray. So I told Jason this and on the podcast, I was in this weird thing where we grew up in kind of a legalistic church when

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I was younger. So like I have this whole section of the eighties where it was like no rock music, no movies.

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Like I've never seen Goonies. I just watched star Wars for the first time a few years ago. Nothing with fantasy magic little mermaid was out.

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She had cleavage. Could you watch the left behind series? No, no, no, no, no.

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That was later on. And then the church we were in just picked it up and loved it. And I just remember thinking, I don't think, I don't know my eschatology that well, but I'm in a youth group and I'm going,

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I just doesn't seem right. Yeah. Oh man.

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Oh, speaking of let's segue into that. So we got any fun, personal stories about church or youth group that we want to throw out there for the listeners that we wanted to cover.

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Did you have anything, Jay? Did you have anything Joshua? I had one that just happened a couple of weeks ago.

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Start us off. Let's go. And then we'll jump to Josh. So, okay. So, the spirit just hit me.

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I started like crying like crazy anyway. And I was like, it's not crying. I was like, I was playing guitar in the worship band.

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Right. So I unplugged my guitar. Well, I don't really remember to unplug my inner ears ever really, because I never used inner ears.

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I was a touring musician for years and years and years. And I only use a floor monitor. Like I never had to pull my inner ears out.

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Right. You wanted to be deaf is what you're saying. Yeah, yeah, exactly. So, so I ended up not unplugging my inner ears and it, my inner ears are connected to a box.

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That box got pulled as I ran towards the backstage door to get a

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Kleenex. And yeah, that thing just fell over, slammed down the ground during the middle of like a really quiet, like, you know, the, the, the, the worship pastor was like saying this really somber thing, like, you know, it's like a worship fail video.

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I don't know who makes those, but they do. I'm not sure if that's, I don't know if that, that was actually recorded or not.

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Cause it was the 9am service that that happened in. But if you guys can get ahold of that footage, it's probably pretty funny.

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I'm going to go find it. I'm going to go find it. We're going to, we're going to post it. Go ahead and ask

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Rick, man. He didn't tell me. He's probably got it. Yeah. Yeah. Talk about keeping you humble, huh? I know. Awesome.

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Josh, what do you got for us? Oh dear. You know, honestly, like I completely forget my youth group days and I I'm so old.

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So like I was very involved in my youth group, but I don't remember like it probably maybe come to me like later, but I do have a story from when

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I worked at chapel staff at Grove city college. So like, so I don't know if, did you guys go to a

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I went to a Christian college where they had chapel service requirements. And so I had, and, and I was working on the chapel staff, which helped, you know, or get help, help out in the chapel events.

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And, um, one of my duties and responsibilities was to, was to read scripture or to pray before the main speaker that would speak.

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And, uh, I was assigned to prayer the night before and I wrote out a marvelous, beautiful prayer.

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And the next morning, like just before I got up, Dr. Keilwater, the guy who was in charge of him said to me,

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Josh, you really have, we're running low on time. You need to cut your prayers short. I was like, okay.

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So I walk up and this is before thousands of people. Right. So I walk up and I said, dear God, thank you.

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Amen. And I just walked right down. Like no reference.

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Everyone's listening. Nope. Nope. Cause you know, cause like, like the student body has like a repetition of like a prayer lasting for like 30 seconds or a minute.

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And there's like literally five seconds, get up, go down, get out. I looked over at,

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I looked at her, Dr. Keilwater. He said, perfect. There you go. Awesome.

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Oh, well I'm going to tell embarrassing music one too, because you reminded me, Jason. And this is one that taught me a lesson in humility.

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It really did. So I was at this church where we would, where, where the pastor kind of took me under his wing, uh, in my mid twenties and we would go around and he would kind of like present me and a couple other people to like do a special song.

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It was, it was a predominantly black church. So it's very, uh, it was, it was kind of tradition, right? Like you go around.

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So we go to this larger church near us here in Toledo. And there's probably, I don't know, 500 people in the audience.

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And I'm just grumbling the whole time. I didn't want to be there. My sister who's nine years younger than me. She was probably like 17 at the time she was going to play guitar.

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I was going to play piano, do a special song, be done. I don't want to be there. I have a bad attitude.

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I'm just not having a good day. I'm sitting there next to my sister, trying to make her laugh, making fun of people, just kind of saying stuff off the cuff.

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She's going, Greg, stop, stop, you know? And I'm just one of those things. So we get up there and, uh,

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I never start off well in F and I don't know why I picked a song in F it was, uh, I think it was, he reigns by the newsboys.

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And it started in F I transposed it out of C to F for some reason. I don't know why I get up there.

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I hit an F she hits an F she's fine. And I'm nowhere near in key, nowhere near 500 people staring at me.

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I'm me and her are white. It's predominantly black. They're looking at us like, all right, let's see what you got. And I continue,

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I start singing off key for probably the first three minutes of the song. I can't get in key

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Jason. And it is like, and my sister is beside me and I just see her stepping back like this.

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I don't know him out front. It's just me and a keyboard. She's beside me. And by the time I'm halfway through the song, I look around and she's gone.

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She's gone. She wanted to sink into the background. So now it's just me out there in a keyboard. I get into the second verse, finally, straighten it out.

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As we straighten it out, we get, I get into key the, you know, the I was using a delay on the keyboard to try to give it more like of a string sound.

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It was just a whole debacle, right? I get, I finally get into key and now it's to the point to where I just sound average.

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I don't even sound good. I'm just back in key. This one lady stands up and she just goes, yes, my

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Lord. It just gives me like the slow clap. Like, thank God, this little punk got in key. Oh man.

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I immediately got off stage, went in the car and sulked. And the next day the Lord just dealt with me. He was like, you idiot.

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Like bad attitude, making fun of people. He's like, you want to know what? I'm in heaven and I do as I please. You didn't get in key for the first four and a half minutes of that five minute song.

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And my sister never lets me live it down to this day. Every time she sees me, she goes, Hey, you want to go do he rains?

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Yeah. Yeah. Right. I'll have to ask her about that next time. So embarrassing, dude. So humbling.

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There's such good musicians there too. Right. Like sometimes I would get, you know, I actually, when you send me like reform, like, you know, funny, like moments that you had personally, like sometimes

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I'll get mean comments, you know, on my YouTube channel. And you said you saw the ninth episode, right?

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So the ninth episode was Valentine's day theme. And so in it, in it, I took,

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I took some like reformed puns, like, Hey baby, is your name grace because you're irresistible like that, like that type of humor.

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And a lot of people liked it. Some people didn't. And one of them said this, he said this quote, quote, quote, give over with this rubbish cartoons and a cheesy one -liners.

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It's not funny. I used to love these videos, but you're scraping the bottom of the barrel now. Oh my gosh.

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I better change my life. I commented. Yeah. I mean, aren't those always really funny that just to read though, like, like somebody's behind a keyboard at their house and they're so angry about whatever you're doing.

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You know, I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to change this person's life by writing a page long essay on why

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John Calvin and Gustin are heretics because they believe in infant baptism. Like that's like, that's actually happened.

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Has anyone ever on a YouTube comments or Facebook? Oh, good point. You've changed my mind. It never happened in the history of social media.

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No, we get some of those comments too on our stuff. And it's crazy because we do stuff that we just find funny.

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Yeah. We'll do little stuff. Like we did. We did. I still don't know why I say this. We did a Latino bill

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Johnson where he's talking in a thick accent. For some reason, we just pictured him as Latino.

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And he's like, yes, you know, Jason does it. I don't do it. And he was talking about the prophecy that Trump, that Chris, Chris, he was, he said that Trump was going to be president.

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And he's going to get a little oops. Yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah, we had, yeah. And we laughed so hard when we recorded it and like 82 people online were like, yeah, that's okay.

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We're not really into it. We're like, what the heck? But then even the Joel Osteen one, like, I was just like, this is hilarious.

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Like we coming up with different stuff, but yeah. But anyway, for sure. Do, do what, you know, obviously do what you like.

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Because what you're doing right now is working. I think, like I said, as we kind of book on this here and finish up, I mean, the channel is blown up.

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It's got, got great content. You also run a production company, right? So do you do anything besides the

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YouTube stuff? Well, it's not a company is a very, you're being very nice when you say company, it's just, it's just, it, it's just me.

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It's just me like doing a production, production work behind. It's just me, my, me and my editing software and my crazy ideas that I have in mind.

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So I do have, I do have like a good friend of mine,

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Dan. In fact, he's, he helped me with like the the Jeff Durbin interview. He helped me set up, get in contact with him and all that.

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So besides that, it's really just me doing freelance stuff. Not really.

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I mean, people there, occasionally people would ask me for favors or just help out. And I have been,

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I have done some freelance work. I actually filmed a wedding one time and I, let me tell you, filming a wedding is extremely stressful.

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It is really stressful. You're always trying to get the right angles. You don't want to screw up or otherwise you're not going to get the right footage.

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But, but it's, it's really a blessing to put it together though, because you get to see cause you get to see their reaction and just like someone must relive the moment that they experience and all of that.

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But besides that, you know, occasionally people ask me for favors. Well, there was a person named,

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I forget his name. He he was in charge of the digital media for one passage ministries.

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And he actually, he actually reached out to me and said he loved my reformed like funny moments.

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Can you put together a highlight of Steve Lawson? And that's how that episode was, was put together.

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So I put together all the funny clips I had of Steve Lawson. I put it in a particular episode and he put it on his digital media platform on Instagram and all that.

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So I occasionally do, I occasionally, you know, do work or do favors. But other than that, like, this is just a passionate hobby of mine that I do on the side.

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And it feels like a production company. It feels like I'm doing, I'm doing, I'm doing a lot of work, but it is so worth it.

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I love, I love the feedback and the reactions that I get from, from people. And I just love making people laugh.

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That's the one thing I really enjoy making. So awesome. What do you got for him? No, thank you so much for your time,

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Josh. We really appreciate it. Oh, did we, did we know we're still there?

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Oh, can you hear us? Yes. Yes. I'm just, I'm just really still. No, we do appreciate your, your time coming on.

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And why don't you throw out, uh, the links again for everyone listening and, you know, where they can find you and come find your

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YouTube stuff. Uh, yeah. So you can find me at Kuiper Belt Productions.

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It's a K U I P E R. Uh, you, if you forget it's a cost illustrative belt in our own solar system.

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So, uh, you can also find me on, you can find me on primarily on YouTube. That's where I post my content.

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You also can find me on Instagram, uh, Twitter, uh, by at Facebook, just type in a

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Kuiper Belt, one one seven. So you can find me in those social media platforms. Uh, so yeah.

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All right, Joshua, thank you so much for coming on and don't you worry we will be reaching out to you for help.

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But we do appreciate everyone who does listen, uh, who does comment, who does, uh, share our videos on Instagram and, and, uh,

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Facebook and, and jump on the YouTube channel and check us out. We're doing this for the glory of God. We do appreciate you guys telling a friend, leaving us comments, giving us constructive criticism.

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And, uh, we have, we absolutely have fun doing this. I think tonight was a little bit different of an episode.

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We want to do something a little different with Josh on. And I think we accomplished that. Yeah. And make sure you guys go check out

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Josh's videos, man. They are really funny and really awesome. Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. Like he said, they're both funny, uplifting, and they're giving glory to God, which is what, which is what we aim to do here.

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And we know you're definitely doing it on your YouTube channel, Josh. Thanks so much for coming on tonight and laughing with us and having a little fun as always.

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God bless. Be sure to follow us on Facebook and Instagram at dead men, walking podcast for full video podcast episodes and clips, or email us at dead men, walking podcast at gmail .com.