Keith Foskey & Friends Comedy Hour

Sometimes I feel the weight of the world fall down on me

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Calvinist degree speaking So I mix a manly drink Pepsi, shoe polish

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Calvinists He's nice Your Calvinist Podcast is filmed before a live studio audience

And hey guys, this is Keith Fawcett And this is not your Calvinist Podcast But I just love the intro so much

I decided to play it anyway Today we are doing something completely different And maybe one day I'll have an intro song for this show

This show is the Fawcett, Keith Fawcett Comedy Hour Keith Fawcett and Friends Comedy Hour And I am joined today by a group of really funny guys

And we are going to be bantering about some funny issues and funny subjects I'm going to bring them all in now and introduce them

And we're going to talk about what we're doing today The four gentlemen I have to my immediate right

Or your left or whatever it is on the screen Is my friend Tim Frazier Tim Frazier is a budding stand -up comic like myself

We've both been doing some stand -up comedy How long have you been doing stand -up now, Tim? About a year, a year and a half

Awesome, awesome And below him is Jake Korn Jake Korn who looks very unhappy,

I don't know why But he's our serious man, he's the straight man for today

Jake is a theater student, graduate

Tell me what it is, you have a theater background I guess is the answer And you've done all kinds of fun stuff in that regard

And he's a hilarious person And I wanted him to be part of today's show Again, he's making a face,

I don't know if he agrees with me What's your background in theater again? Well first, I don't like to ever be introduced as funny

Because then I just end up letting people down So why don't we start low and let me come in and surprise you I was an acting major in college

Which comes in really useful in the army I get to act like I enjoy it And I'll act like I belong in this group

Okay, well good deal, good deal I'm glad to have you And of course, the man below me right here

Which that sounds weird, but the man on the screen below me Is Marcus Pittman Marcus Pittman is the founder and the head of LorTV And he's a pretty comedic person in his own right

But the subject of today is going to be movies So I felt like having Marcus on this introductory episode

Would be a lot of fun So Marcus, tell us a little bit more about yourself And have you ever done stand -up at all?

Have you ever done comedy? Well, so I'm very passionate about comedy A long time ago, we did

Next Week with Jeff Durbin Which was a late night comedy show at Apologia Studios We did about two seasons of that And got to meet

Chris Weinlein Who was the writer for that show And in exchange,

Chris invited me Since I was producing a comedy show He invited me to do stand -up one time at his show

And I did one, and it went pretty well I wasn't booed or anything But it was also like a church comedy setting

So I don't know if that's a real Like that's not a real gauge of laughter Because it's all like, it's all like mercy laughs, right?

Like it's all, you never know But I've done it once, I've done stand -up once But I do consider myself a student of comedy

I think comedy is foundational for building out a culture I don't think you can do it without And every time me and Jason Farley Our chief content officer travels somewhere

We usually go to underground comedy clubs And try to get a gauge on where the comedy is moving

And it's not moving in the gay comedy direction I'll tell you that Everything that's really killing it

In the underground scene right now is anti -woke comedy And so it's pretty phenomenal to watch

It's a great time, it's a great time to be A comedian with courage, for sure, so Awesome, comedian with courage,

I like that Let's do politics I'm sure my commander -in -chief will love that You have a uniform, it's okay

I'm not sure your commander -in -chief Knows how to use the internet, so it's okay Okay But to roast

Biden is really just I mean, that's like low -hanging fruit, you know It's like making fun of everybody in the nursing home

You know, it's really not a nice thing to do Jake Okay, well let me tell everybody

I would follow him fearlessly here anyway Yeah, and by God's grace

He gave you the ability to say that I'm thankful, yes And let me tell you something else,

Jake Thank you for your service I know how much you love to hear that, so Thank you for your service, we appreciate it

I mean, you guys already paid your taxes probably, so Well, maybe not you, Keith, but everyone else Pastors don't have to pay taxes

That's why we get jets My jet is a 2003

Ford F -150 With the paint currently peeling off the hood I'm trying to figure out if I roll paint it

Like if I get a rolling, like if I Because I don't have a paint sprayer Can you roll paint on a car and it work?

So if anyone in the comments knows anything About painting vehicles You should make a YouTube video about it

Where you just roll paint your car And see how it goes That's a good comment I'm just talking about just the hood

Just the hood Just the hood I have thought about The paint will work, you said?

Well, paint works Typically it covers It's just a matter of how it looks, right?

What color is your vehicle? It is, well, it used to be navy blue And now it's sort of like an off -faded navy blue So, I mean, it would be bad

You should just stand out and paint the hood red Like candy apple red Yeah, okay

Oh, somebody just We're getting comments now Thank you guys for watching Somebody said just spray paint it

Somebody else said use PlastiDip PlastiDip That would be neat We could PlastiDip my truck

That would be great All right, so let me Let me give the outline to the audience Of what we're going to be doing today

As I said, we invited Marcus on Particularly he is a filmmaker He is a He owns a streaming service

And we want to help promote Obviously Lore TV We've had Jason Farley on before He's been on to talk about what

Lore is And if you want to go back And learn more about it You can go back and watch that show It was a couple months ago on my program

Yeah, because I'm tired of talking about it Oh, I'm sure Well, real quick Since we do have you on Can you tell people

If they want to be involved If they want to know what you're doing Or how do they get in touch with you? Yeah So if you go to LOLOR .TV

You can subscribe And basically the way it works Is the monthly subscriber Spends a portion of their monthly subscription

Funding movies and TV shows And animated shorts And short live action films

And stuff like that And so you can go there You can subscribe I tell people give it three months Fund a project

Every week with your monthly subscription And watch the content on the platform grow Over that period of three months

And you'll be very surprised and happy With how the platform works And how you get control Over which content goes up Awesome, awesome

Well, we're going to be talking today I wanted to create some fun content

For this video By simply asking some questions And I have my thoughts I have my answers

But I want to get your thoughts And your answers on these questions And everyone who's engaging Via the

YouTube comments You can ask And you can talk to us during this And one person did already ask

And asked where's Jake's beard I think he has it hidden Behind his army The rules for what he's allowed to wear

He's not allowed to have a beard He's currently serving In the United States Army So no beard for Jake Would you have a beard otherwise,

Jake? I think we might have lost Jake Jake is Jake is frozen

Is everybody else frozen? The feds got him Jake, you back?

Hello? All right Well, we're going to be Today talking about the subject of We're going to talk about Bible stories that would make great movies

And then great movies that would be Reimagined as Christian movies And then historical events in church history

That would make great movies That's the subject matter That we're going to walk through I gave everybody a list

And I said, hey, you know This is a situation where I want to ask each of you

To give your thoughts And again, Jake, are you Not there with us, buddy? I think he's up And he's gone

Rest in peace, Jake Oh, the rapture happened The rapture We missed it

You know what? We missed it You know what's funny is Wouldn't that just be the thing, right?

Like the rapture occurs And the three of us realized That our eschatology was really bad This is our punishment

The punishment is we missed the rapture Not because we didn't believe in Jesus But because we denied the rapture All right

Okay, so first out of the gate What Bible stories do you think Would make great movies?

Do you guys want me to go first? Do you guys want to go first? Do you have something That you've thought of before? What Bible stories?

Jake, you back? Okay, what

Bible? Yeah, man I had to go pay my Wi -Fi bill So You about knocked your background down All right, so again

What Bible? Okay, I keep worried about your background I think your background is gonna It's gonna fall right on his head

Is it attached to your chair? The problem is my gaming throne

Is just too big, man Is it just blinds? Is that like shutters That you've attached to your gaming chair?

You know, it's like one of those Changing screens from the 1850s That, you know, like women would use

You don't have that? Do you go behind it

When you're being intimate? Do you dance? Oh, no No, never mind Yeah, I read

Song of Solomon to my wife From behind a screen Oh, yeah All right

So what Bible story? And let's put this caveat on it Let's go with stories

That haven't been made into movies yet At least that we don't know of So like, you know No David stories No crucifixion stories

Things like that What Bible story do you think Would make a great movie? Who do you think should be cast

As the lead actor? And who do you think should direct it? If you care anything about directors I think maybe

Marcus would have Some thoughts on that But anybody come up with a great idea What Bible story would make a great movie?

Man Sorry, go ahead, Marcus Well, you go ahead first, Tim I was just gonna say

The story of the Nephilim Would be a banger Okay, all right Haunted Cosmos starts in an hour

Okay, don't pass But see, we have to back up,

Tim You just said the story of the Nephilim As if there's like one unilateral Just like if you're me

What is it? Genesis 6 -2? Is that what it is? They were already in the Noah movie If you take the

Sethite position Which I don't even want to tip my hat on that Because I'll make a bunch of Post -millennialists mad at me

Because apparently I don't know what it is about Post -millennialism and Nephilimism But there's like this whole tie Like maybe

Brian Sovey has created This connection, I don't know But if you take just the Sort of the

Sproul view Which is that It's just the Sethite Versus the You know what

I'm talking about, Tim? Yeah If you take that view Then it's You know, it's just a movie About interracial marriage

And then, I mean You know, it's like Guess who's coming to dinner Right? Okay, well let's change gears then

Sodom and Gomorrah That would be awesome You really Marcus just said gay comedy

Is not popular right now Oh man, could you imagine?

We have to We have to first You know Cancel proof some of our servers And stuff down the road

It'll be starring Keith And the man underneath him Okay, alright

You said it I know, I'm just I'm kicking myself Okay Alright So I would actually like to see

I don't like Bible stories As I won't wait

For a movie Because I don't think

The artist can have As much freedom As they need to To be able to Do Bible stories

In a way that Is not either Blasphemous Or whatever But what I do like Is I like the idea

Of parallel stories Alongside of Bible stories So like I was thinking The other day It'd be really cool

To be able to do Like a whole movie On the people That made the bread For communion Or the wine

For communion Like it's just About You know From the seed harvest

To the point Where it becomes bread And makes Passover For Christ But like Just like these

Parallel stuff I think there's a lot You can do That's really creative And you can do

Comedies that way You can just do Full on comedies There is

There is a really Good series That's being pitched around It was at the NRB conference They were showing it And it was like The Office But it was

Moses Like dealing With the Jews And so like You know

They're all Complaining about Whatever And they go They have to go Before Moses And Moses just has to Sit all day

And like Deal with Being a leader And he's like The opposite of Michael Scott He doesn't think

He's a good leader It was really great It was really great But I think like There's always That concern of like Where's the line there

That I think Actually restricts The creativity needed To be able to make Something great But if you do

The parallel stuff Where it's like Outside of Scriptures And it's running

In line with it Then I think It frees you up Just to do Whatever you want And you don't Have to worry About what people

Say about it Because it's Not about scripture At all Like you could just It's just in parallel So like So those are

Those are the Bible stories I would like to see Like just during that time Ben -Hur was one of those Yeah But Isn't that like That part

George the Gospel of Thomas Just suggesting Yeah Fantastic Yeah Let's do that one That'd be a great comedy

Sixty foot cross Coming out Of the grave And then the Gospel of Thomas Maybe I'm thinking

Of a different Gnostic gospel Like isn't there one Where like a cross Comes out of the Out of the tomb Somebody in the comments

Because there's a Gospel of Judas And he talks Maybe Yeah Yeah the cross talks Yeah But Marcus Didn't they do that With the nativity

Where the animals Were talking It was like a cartoon But it was like Yeah The star

Yeah I think they should be Good movies Oh Okay Hey My kids

Probably put the nativity In their top five That's right But I think There was a lot more I think it was

It ran a lot closer To the actual story Than what I'm talking about Like Like My idea is like You don't see the

Bible Characters at all Oh okay If there's just maybe A shadow There was actually Like I heard it was a really

Bad blasphemous movie But the premise I thought was really Fascinating In the trailer But it was

It was A bunch of Hip hop artists Produced the movie I forget

I forget I forget what it was called It was like the gospel According to Some other Guy That doesn't

Doesn't exist It was basically A guy Who heard about Jesus And then became a charlatan

And like started doing All the Miracles that Jesus Was doing And then the

Romans Capture him But he becomes He becomes a believer During the process And the Romans Capture him

And demand that he Turns Jesus over Or they'll kill him And his family So like It was

It was really Fascinating But I think the movie Is like super blasphemous And it did really bad In the box office Not a

Christian movie At all But like the premise Was really good I thought it was A really great premise I remember that one Yeah Yeah So So So I think there's

A lot of freedom there I just think Look It is so lazy

Right now To just take Bible IP That's free And just do a version

Of something Right Like Like everybody Is trying to do Bible IP now

We're looking at you Chosen What? We're looking at you Chosen The Chosen Yeah Exactly He said

Bible IP Book of Mormon IP My bad I got it

Confused My bad Yeah Yeah Right So But So I just think

There's so many stories In God's world There's so much comedy In God's world

Like We don't have to tie it Into a Bible A Bible anything It could just be

A purely funny story That makes That has no theological Gospel message

Tied into it at all Because comedy is God's And so if you say

It can only be a Christian comedy If it has An evangelistic gospel track At the end of it

Then I think you're reducing The creativity of God And giving men the ability

To tell jokes and comedy Yep And I believe that I mean The Recapturing comedy

For For God In the sense of It was never not his But I mean But Using it for his glory

Is what I'm all about So I think that's That's great Jake Did you have a thought

Of a Bible story Even though You know Of course What's your idea? It's the opposite Of what

Marcus said Okay I would watch that Like I would watch that All right

I love it I just I can't get over Michael Cera saying The fleece is wet You'd watch that Talk about a wet blanket

Yeah Okay All right Yeah Okay So Here was my idea

And this is Again I think you guys have Some awesome ideas And some funny ideas My My thought was The Exit Or Genesis 30 34

Which is the The rape of Dinah The sister of Simeon And Levi Yeah that's funny

But the story No no no Hey I didn't say it had to be funny I said a good movie Because I want this movie

To be in John Wick style I want the story Of Simeon and Levi Going in Doing the

The Where they convince them To circumcise themselves And then they go in And they slaughter everybody Right But I want this to be

Like John Wick style So I mean like Who's going to play The characters right But it would have to be

Like a John Woo directed Style Revenge film That's what I'm saying

So we Because the whole story Is a revenge story right And then at the end The father's like You've made my name

You know You've embarrassed me You've made my name You know You've sullied my name Who cares

You didn't do anything You didn't do what had to be done And so the idea is That it's a It's a

It's a John Wick style Revenge film But With that Again like I said So it doesn't have to be funny

Even though I think there could be You could make it funny If Simeon and Levi Were played by Keanu Reeves And And who was the other guy

From Bill and Ted Who's the guy Who played Oh come on I don't remember

No The only thing he ever did Is it the only thing He ever did Who played

Who played Who played Bill Yeah He didn't do much Regardless That does sound like An excellent adventure

For sure My wifi bandwidth Is not good enough To pull up IMDB To check right now So I don't know

What if we got Really creative with it And what if It became A Bill and Ted 3 Well I guess they've

Already done that But It's a Bill and Ted movie Where they get sent back And they have to be Simeon and Levi Wow That reminds me of What's that Bible adventure cartoon

Remember that A while back ago With the Warner Hannah Barbera made Yeah They would actually

Go back in time To the Bible stories And what not I think it would be great

I would also like to see Some Doctor Who episodes Not with the gay doctor Dude That would be

With like With like Matt You know The actual doctors The last day doctors Would go back

In time to Bible stories But they always avoid that For some reason So Alright So now

Let's Now we're going to Think of it from A different angle We said what Bible What Bible stories

Or Bible side stories As you said Marcus Would make good movies Okay What movies

Would you like to see Reinvented as Christian movies

And I'm really thinking Like the worst kind Of Christian movies Like Like Kendrick Brothers Style You know

Sermon Illustration Movies But these are Like here's my idea Just to give you To get the ball rolling

I'll go first this time Since I went last I'm going to just give you My idea was If Jurassic Park Was re

Remade As a Kendrick Brothers movie For the purpose Of promoting Young Earth Creationism So So So So the dinosaurs

Are actually Demons Because Satan Hid the dinosaurs In the dirt To make us doubt God Is that what you're saying

And you said Cosmos No Maybe Maybe plant

Eaters Yes Maybe just terrified Of the dinosaurs

And the dinosaurs Come up and lick them Like puppies And then it just It just gives it a

Big lick on the face And you're like Oh And the dinosaurs All have to have feathers Yeah Well here's

Here's Here's the premise Okay Underneath Ken Ham's Ark There's a Scientific Laboratory Right And underneath Underneath Ken Ham's Ark They're Recreating Dinosaurs To prove

That they could Live alongside Of man Again This is This is This is Trying to Argue for Young Earth Creationism But they're

Doing it for An entirely Different reason It's still Jurassic Park It's still Science It's still Creating dinosaurs It's still

Cloning them But they're Cloning them For the purpose Of proving Young Earth Creationism And it's a

Kendrick's Brothers Movie And I I can just See it I don't Want it I don't I don't Want it To be a Kendrick's Brothers Movie I want

This to be Real Okay Do they Like could They actually Can we

Can we Can we Can we Can we Can we Can we Can we Can we Can we Can we Hans Jurassic Park Ken Hans Jurassic Park All right

That So that's mine. That's my, if the movies were, if a movie was turned into a

Christian movie. You guys have other ideas? Yeah. Hear me out. Shawshank Redemption, but it parallels

Paul's time in prison. And so instead of digging a tunnel and escaping prison, he just starts singing hymns and all the doors fly open.

First time I ever saw the apostle Paul. You're really into the sodomy movies, man.

I didn't say it. He said it. Okay.

I'm, I'm just thinking like, you know, Morgan Freeman, who's the, is there a Christian Morgan Freeman?

Is there somebody with that voice that, that, that would be able to narrate this movie?

Is James Earl Jones, a Christian or? I don't know. I don't know.

Anybody know? Oh, you know, Votie Bacchum narrated by Votie Bacchum.

There you go. Narrated by Votie Bacchum. Got it. That's it.

All right. Well, how can I present a real movie that Jason Farley just finished the script for?

Oh yeah. Yes, please. Yeah. So it's, it's, it's, it's basically shark

NATO, but it's called feds versus fins or feds and fins.

And the idea is that the idea is that there's a, there's five youth and a youth group named

Calvin, Luther, Martin, Lloyd, and Jones. And they, they are in all nighter and the feds come with these giant, they've mutated themselves into sharks.

And then they're, they're going to come and they're going to stop these Christians from talking about Christian nationalism.

And it's just, so that's the basic premise. And, and he actually did finish a script for it.

And it is a real movie that we're going to make. We're going to figure out how to fund because the idea is like, let's fund like the lowest, worst movie

Christian movie ever made. Cause the idea is one, it's really funny. Like, like there, there's a scene in it that a guy gets eaten and he's in half and he says, preach the gospel to me.

And like the guy starts going through the four spiritual laws and talking about how God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life.

We'll see the seven mountain mandate. Best comedic script.

It really is hilarious. But the idea of that is really, we can't know, like everybody takes

Christian movies too seriously. Like they, they treat them as if they're precious and they're not, they're just stories ultimately at the end of the day.

And we can't determine what a good movie is unless we know what a bad movie is. So it's basically flipping.

This is what all the trauma style films do. They flip postmodernism on their head and say, no, this is actually a bad movie and it's on purpose.

So there is an objective standard to good and bad, and this is bad. And so, so it's

I'm really excited about that one. So hopefully we'll, we'll start funding for that soon because the plan is to do it with all volunteers and just be as cheap and poor as possible as part of the job.

I think you just described my ministry, but as part of the cheap and poor as possible as part of the job.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's going to be underneath on my headstone. It's going to be underneath, you know, he died like this and this is why he was cheap as poor as possible.

All right. Jake, did you have an idea for the great movies that would be re -imagined as Christian movies?

Come on. All right. So the first one is gremlins, right? Because gremlins is already an allegory for sin.

We're just going to make it a lot more obvious. Right. And so, you know, you start to feed your sin after midnight.

Yes. Keith go. No, I was just going to say, can you explain that? But you're already doing it. So go ahead. An allegory for sin.

It starts off cute. You bring it into your home, but then you feed it after midnight and it grows and it multiplies.

And so we're going to make each of the gremlins that appears to be more obvious us, you know, specific type of besetting sin bonus content.

I don't know how well you remember the movie gremlins, but deep cut will actually show when

Santa gets burned alive. Because obviously Santa is against Christmas is against Christianity.

Second idea. This is not a movie TV show undercover boss, but God goes to work at a janitor station in Joel Osteen's church.

God is going to be okay. Okay. It played by Bodie.

I can't tell you how great of an idea that is.

Just the idea of an undercover boss that would make a great skit. I'm not going to lie. That may become,

I may have to just send you like, like a check and pay your royalties when

I make that video. Cause you know, I love to make skits and an undercover boss skit where, where, where God visits a church to be the undercover boss.

That's that's gold. I'd be willing to give them my two CV convictions for that one.

We can make it an angel, you know, like a Herald of that's fine. Okay.

All right. Oh man. That that's, that's, that's good. That's good.

All right. Of the, of the three questions I sent you guys, here's the last one it's on the same vein. And then we're going to get into just some, some other stuff as we as we draw it out.

But is there a historical event? And I guess we already sort of talked about this because we said, okay, movies based on the

Bible. And we have our ideas about that movies that exist pointing back to the

Bible. Third question, historical events that would make great movies that have not been made into movies.

And we've had a few of these in the comments, like one, one brother had to go back and find it. But somebody in the comments mentioned the council of Nicaea as a movie, but you have to include

St. Nicholas slapping areas. Even if it didn't happen, we still want it to happen. Rewrite my joke.

Thanks for that random. Oh, I'm sorry. Well, okay. I apologize.

That was that's obviously that wasn't my joke. Well, somebody shout out to the commenter there.

And all right. So ideas guys for what historical event makes a great movie.

And again, because it's not Bible, you can be creative with it. What's that historical event that James White's always talking about the, the thing in Germany or something like that.

Have you, like he did a whole podcast with sheologians about it. Oh yeah. The, uh, the

Anabaptists in Munster. Oh, is it a Baptist? Oh yeah. Anabaptists.

They're Anabaptists in Munster. And they like took over the city and started making all these like laws to like, give us your wives and nobody wears clothes.

And you know, they're still hanging. Their skeletons are still hanging from the city entrance today.

Wow. Will Smith just comment and said the Munster rebellion. Thank you. Well, I got it right, bro.

You should be in my Elijah movie. My Elijah, maybe like he's making it.

You should be here. He loved my pitch. We're doing it. Yeah.

Marcus, Marcus doesn't realize that all this is, is just one big pitch meeting to him. I've accepted one in college.

I'm ready. I also like, I would love to do, um, like an episodic doc, uh, not an episodic

TV series where every episode is a completely unique, uh, episode like Black Mirror or Twilight Zone or something like that.

Or, um, but, but it would be about, um, uh, individual martyrs from the book of martyrs.

So, so, so that would be something I would like, I, I've, the fact that that hasn't been done is just a tragedy.

Um, so, so stuff like that, I think would be really good. Um, so, but I also, uh, one of my dream series to make would be, uh, uh, a historical series, uh, much like, uh, the

Patriot with Mel Gibson, but it's all about the Black River regiment during the time of the American revolution.

Um, so, so that's something I striking off my second one. Thanks. Yeah. Yeah.

I'm, I'm an army chaplain who's a Calvinist, so I wasn't going to bring them up, but okay. Thanks for that. Go on.

Yeah, that's what I would do. No man. Black Road regiment is awesome. They are the coolest.

I don't know. I feel like there's a lot of directions this could go. You could do like, part of me would be like, um,

I don't know, like maybe like, a Joseph Smith biopic, but as a comedy where South Park already did that.

Oh, they shut it down or something. And then you see how the book of Mormon was built.

Have you ever seen that? It's fantastic. I, when I was at apology,

Jeff Durbin told me, he's like, you gotta watch South Park by, uh, you gotta watch this episode of South Park by, uh, on Mormonism.

And he said, it's the most historically accurate interpretation of the start of Mormonism I've ever seen.

And he's right. The, I just want to,

I just want to stop for a minute and say that, that I think that it's interesting that Jeff Durbin told you that you needed to watch an episode of South Park.

I just think that this by itself is a clip. It's one of the most brilliant shows on television.

Like if, if you really want to understand comedy, um, and, and why they're still relevant after 30 years on TV, um, uh, there's a lot of it stuff is inappropriate, but when, when they're right about stuff, they're dead on right about it.

Um, and, and, and, uh, when, especially when it came to Scientology, they're wrong on Christian, uh,

Christianity, they're completely wrong on that. But when it came to like Scientology and Mormonism, they, they were, they were dead on, um, and, and, and they're, they're just brilliant satirists.

Um, and, and, and I think, you know, one of the lack, one of the problems of, uh,

Christianity right now is we don't have any brilliant satirists. Um, we don't have any brilliant comedians, uh, except for you,

Keith. But we don't, we don't, we don't have, we don't, we don't have any really platformed high level, uh,

Christian comedians. And mainly because all of our comedy, we've secluded ourselves to church comedy and we haven't gone out and built mainstream names for ourselves and, uh, actually got into the world, um, that as we should have.

Um, and, but, but a Christian version of South Park or, or, or a sort of, uh, adult animated cartoon series that had some sort of Christian foundation to it,

I think would probably be one of the most transformative pieces of culture we've ever had.

And so one day that'll happen. Bro. Two men in a white button up shirts just showed up at Tim's door.

Like someone needs to check on him. He in trouble. They're like, not today.

We heard what you was saying. The Mormons in charge of stream yard have said no to Tim Frazier.

He's gone. All right. We'll be, we'll be careful. We'll be careful. Well, I hope he comes back because the last part, and I know you got to go, uh,

Marcus pretty soon here. So we're going to wrap up. I'll do your church history.

I didn't do mine either. So go ahead, do it. All right. Are you familiar with the great disappointment? This is the first,

Oh, I have a thousand jokes about like, nevermind. I just, your wedding night.

Yeah, no, I got it. Okay. No, no, no. So this is, this is the, uh, the end of the

Millerites, the original Millerites during the great awake, the second great awakening, the not so good awakening.

Uh, this was the first big end time prophecy where like this

Miller dude, like brought everybody to this cliff and he was like, Hey, Jesus is coming. And I want to kind of film it in the style of the

Scott's tots episode of the office. You know, just how awkward that, that build up to just this awkward ending.

In fact, there's a historical story of one of the other preachers there saying, Jesus is stuck in the clouds.

We got to pray him out of the clouds. But I think if you just play it with that real, like awkward,

Michael Scott energy, it would be so bomb. All right.

That's mine. Just the fact that you mentioned the Scott's tots episode as the premise behind that.

I think that's, that's very awkward. All right. Well, mine, I didn't mention mine.

I forgot. Oh, Tim's back. There you go. Hey, you're back. Yeah. I'm sorry about that guys. I lost audio.

So I couldn't the past three minutes. So I had to exit out and come back in. Well, we're going, no, no, we, we thought the

Mormons got you. We, you said something about Mormonism. You went away. I said, are the Mormons in charge of stream stream yard? Cause I think they, they raptured you out.

Yeah. But my idea was kind of simple talking about historical things.

There's something called the cadaver synod. It was during a time in Roman Catholic history where there was a

Pope who didn't like the Pope who came before him. So he exhumed his body and they had his bones there and they put his bones on trial, but there was somebody behind him who was playing him like a puppet, like answering questions, like moving his head up at like, like answering yes, answering no, literally holding like him, like, like he was a puppet.

And so I just think that would make a hilarious movie of some guy who's so vindictive that he's to dig up another guy's bones just to condemn him.

It might not make a whole film. That might be like a short film, like a student film. But I think that would be a funny, a funny premise.

The cadaver synod would just be the name of the movie. I think it'd be great. So that's my idea.

All right, guys. Well, I have, we got a few minutes left. I know Marcus is going to be leaving soon and I want to contact me.

So I'll stay, I'll stay on until, until that happens. So, Oh, okay. Cool.

Cool. Well, what I want to do now is I know that Tim and I both are doing standup comedy and I have a show coming up on April 19th.

So if anybody's in Jacksonville wants to come to Murray Hill theater, there's going to be a group of comedians there who are performing and I'm performing along with them.

And so I've been working on bits and trying. Are you recording it?

Yeah, I will. I'll record it. Yeah. Okay. And, um, I've already done a couple of shows, um, and, and they haven't been great.

I'm working on my voice. I'm trying to find, um, I'm a storyteller and sometimes my stories go long.

So I'm trying to, uh, trying to tighten up the stories to make them better. And so my thought was if Tim wanted to do this,

I know I wanted to do this. And if you guys have thoughts, maybe give feedback on some of the premises that I'm working on, maybe give me thoughts on ideas.

And maybe even if you have thoughts about skits that you think we could do. Um, I know like, you know, me,

I do videos all the time. I've been trying to get, um, Jake to do a funny video with me. He does podcasts with me all the time.

Jake would, you know, we, we, we there's, I, I just wanted to have an idea session and I wanted to hear from the audience.

That's why we're doing this live. So that's what the next portion is about is just throwing out comedic ideas, whether it be for videos or skits or bits, things that we're working on.

And, um, and that's, that was, that was what this last portion was going to be about. And I know not everybody here does stand up, but if you, if you have ideas or thoughts or things that you thought would make a funny bit, that's what this part was going to be about.

So Tim, what's, what's, what's a bit you're working on right now that you'd want to talk through and kind of, kind of share with us what, what you're working through?

Yeah. Yeah. So I've got, uh, I've got one I've been working on. It's pretty, it's a short one. Sometimes, especially when

I'm doing open mics, you have to get a laugh very quickly. Right. Um, or it's game over.

So, um, whereas sometimes I have like narrative style bits, a lot of times

I just kind of focus on, um, you know, one after another punchlines kind of a situation or scenarios.

Right. So one that I'm working on right now is like everybody in the world is on a health kick right now.

So, um, I have all these people around me who are trying to quit smoking and drinking because it's like one of the hardest things you can do.

Like everyone says quitting smoking is super hard. Um, and I go into how

I read that book by David's got by David Goggins. And he talks about how, uh, doing hard things makes you a better person and we're all supposed to do hard things.

So, uh, in that spirit, I've started smoking and drinking a lot. So when I try to quit, it's going to be way harder.

And, um, so it was either, it was either do that or run a marathon and I have bad knees.

So that's the, uh, that's the whole bit right now that I'm trying to line out. Um, I have to kind of get the, uh, the verbiage down and, and condense it and, um, maybe add a couple other little lines in there, but that's one that I've been working on for a couple of weeks.

So speaking, speaking of running, I have a little offhanded comment that I make sometimes. And it is, it's kind of funny.

I'll tell people I'm in training for my first half K half K is only like 800 feet, but I'm just, it's a lot for me.

So this is like, let's be like, I'm training for a five cam training for a marathon while I'm in,

I'm in training for my first half K it's about the distance from my, from my couch to my refrigerator. That's yeah.

So what about you guys? You guys have any thoughts or bits? I have some things I want to work through, but, uh, don't want to leave you guys out.

Is there anything that you've just thought, Hey, this would be funny, or this would be something that. Well, I really try not to be funny.

I was funny in high school and that's how I ended up in the army. So, you know, I I'm actually really trying more to be financially responsible and like a good parent.

So the funny thing didn't work out for me. I ended up here. That's really all I got to show for it. So thus far,

I'm not really the guy you should ask. Yeah.

Yeah. I'll, I don't, I don't have a funny bit or idea, but I'll just come in with some encouragement and say, uh, what you guys are doing as comedians is vitally important.

Um, and it's, it's a, like, I don't think people understand how foundational comedy is to a

Christian culture. And without that, um, we, we really do lose and a conservative politics right now has no comedy in it.

Um, there's no, there's nothing funny. Everything's taken so seriously. Um, and, uh, I think what you guys are doing, uh, should be encouraged and praised and you guys should have the freedom to go on stage and bomb and fail and get better.

And I think that's really hard to do in the church comedy context. Um, because, because, you know,

I talked to Christian comedians all the time and their, their act has to be pristine before they go out to the church circuit.

Cause if they fail at the church circuit, they never get invited back again. Um, and so, so just like continue working on your joke craft, watch people, you know, take a classical education approach to comedy, which is just watch people, even though you might disagree with them or, or find them inappropriate or whatever, but like learn the skills and the craft that's involved in that sort of thing.

And, uh, and like really, like really start like pioneering, uh, the craft of comedy again, it's super important.

And now is like the time, uh, to really work on those jokes and sets because seriously, me and Jason went to, um, we went to, uh, the, the comedy cellar in New York city.

It's like one of those popular comedy clubs. It's hard to get tickets. We were fortunate. There's a guy there that night that does pass them out.

So we got, we got tickets to the comedy cellar. And I kid you not every comedian that came up there told jokes with a conservative lean, except one lesbian, lesbian gets up there and she says, where's my lesbians at?

And nobody raises their hands. Like nobody raises their hands. She's like, nobody, nobody, nobody raised their hands.

And somebody in the audience said, I'm a queer. And she's like, you don't count. And then she said, who wants to see my scar?

And she lists up her like appendix scar or whatever. And then just like walks off stage. Like, so she completely failed.

Nobody finds that comedy funny anymore. So that's a real opportunity for Christians to come in and go, you guys can really run the comedy world, like at the comedy cellar in New York city, in the liberal city, you guys could actually own it because everything is, is so anti -woke now in the comedy world.

And 10 years from now, the best comedians and we're already starting to see it. The, the, the, the highest grossing comedians now are all ones who take jabs at the woke left and whatnot.

So we see that from Chappelle. We see that from a lot of the comedy, Joe Rogan, it's not a comedy podcast, but Joe Rogan for sure.

And then, and then that, and just like study the craft. That's so important. Like, nobody studies the craft in Christianity.

Like, you're not going to learn to be a great comedian if you only watch Tim Hawkins. Like you have, you have to watch everybody.

And like, you know, Conan O 'Brien, he's doing, he's getting back on TV and stuff.

So he's doing a lot of press stuff and he's doing a travel show. And, and, and this guy's a

Harvard grad, Conan O 'Brien's a Harvard grad. He's doing a travel show. And he said that he said to his crew before they started filming the travel show,

I want to go to these countries and I want people to learn less about the country than when I got there.

And, and, and, and what he meant by that is I want the show to be funny. Like funny is the priority for the show.

And the learning is something they'll retain secondary. But if it's not funny, they're not going to watch the show and they're going to learn anything.

So the main focus is comedy and not learning about the culture, not learning about the country. And he said that too, on his late night show too, where it's like, like dumb comedy is more important than smart comedy.

And so I think like that's something we have to learn because we think that all of our jokes that we craft as Christian comedians, like have to have some sort of theological leaning or bend to it.

And it doesn't, it can just be funny because God made funny. He also said on the Hot Ones interview, he was asked if he was teaching a class and on the history of comedy, what old books would he reference to show that the basic building blocks of comedy have always been around.

And he said, there's comedy in the old Testament and there's comedy in the new Testament. So, so that would be, that'd be my encouragement to you guys as comedians, just like work really hard, perfect your craft and fail over and over and over again.

And it's okay. If the church crowd gets mad at you for telling a joke, because that's how you get better.

And we need to, we need to have a backbone for that. And that's just part of bombing. Well, I appreciate that.

That was super encouraging to me. And I'm, you know, I'm kind of struggling right now because I really enjoy comedy.

I have been a, I've been a consumer of comedy and a lover of comedy since I was six years old, introduced to comedy through Bill Cosby of all people, which

I know his life became a dramatic downturn. But as far as his ability to tell stories and make me laugh as a child, it was, you know, it was just sort of what, what sort of was formative and you know, growing up and listening to people.

And the other day I had an opportunity to spend 30 minutes with a comedian who'd been doing it for over 10 years.

And he, he, he wasn't a Christian comedian. He was just a guy who was at the same club

I was doing. And he was very nice to me. It was very encouraging. He listened to my set. He said,

Hey, your stories are a little long. They're funny at the end, but you know, you got to get there quicker. And that was helpful for me to hear somebody who's been doing it to give me real live, immediate feedback.

That was helpful. But it was also interesting because he's like, well, yeah, if you do this, you could do this and you could do this and you can make money here and make money here.

And I was like, well, my, my main job, my life, my calling is pastor. I do comedy because I love it.

And I think it's funny. And I think it does engage the culture it's in. And so it's, it really is like a there there's like, this is something

I want to get better at because I enjoy it, but it isn't something I want to pursue as a job or anything like that.

And so that's where I think it would be different for me than others. Yeah. Say that again, brother. I was going to say, yeah, that's, that's me as well.

I, um, uh, it's not, it's not like something I want to. Oh, well, and he's gone again.

Yeah. I don't know what happened. I was going to do that joke. He stole it. Let me get my, but here's a, you know,

I, I, I did say we're going to keep this to an hour. Let me give you what I'm working on. You tell me if you think this is funny, cause I'm working on this for the 19th and this would be where we try to draw everything in.

Um, the last couple of times I performed. No, I think that's hilarious.

All right, Tim, you're back. I keep getting raptured out of here. I don't know what the deal. Yeah. I don't know.

It didn't take them. I'm going to, I I'm going to work through, or I'm going to talk through a bit.

I'm working on you guys. Tell me if you think it's funny or if you think it's going to go, if it's not going to go, you give me your feedback. And again, people in the comments, give me their feedback as well.

I'm not going to do it as if I'm performing it. I'm just going to talk you through why I think this is funny. One of the things that I want to mention that I have, huh?

I love it when jokes are explained. Yeah. Okay. Well, what

I wanted to say is I is I want to walk on stage and I want to say, you know, welcome everybody. Everybody. My main job in life is

I'm a pastor and being a pastor normally makes people very uncomfortable. It's, it's like saying

God's representative has entered the chat. You don't want that guy around if you're trying to have fun. So tonight

I've basically just thrown over this entire event because I've told you I'm here.

So you're not allowed to have fun. So that was kind of my first like, like thought. And I, my wife and I years ago, she was working for this big company and we went to this big event.

Everybody was drinking. She introduces me to her boss's boss, like this, the head guy of the company.

And he turns around, he's three sheets of the wind. He's basically falling over at the bar and she says, hi, this is my husband.

He is a pastor. And the guy went, he got really straight.

He grabbed my hand. He pulled me in tight, shoulder to shoulder and whispered in my ear. I went to the altar last week.

That's what he said. This is, this is a guy who's drunk. He's three sheets of the wind. He pulls me in. He goes, I went to the altar last week.

And my only thought was, I don't think it took. Okay.

Nobody laughed. I don't even know if you can hear me. Does that make sense?

Is it like kind of just like the God's representative thing? Is that, is that making sense? Is it holding together?

I like it. Okay. That's a very distinct character that you have as, as a pastor doing comedy.

And so I would just, I would just lean into it. I would lean into it and really like dive into the, to the, to the weird and awkwardness of that,

I think. And also, but also hit them with what they don't expect from a pastor.

You know, like those sort of things. But, but yeah, I think, I think, you know,

Jerry Seinfeld says all the time, this goes back to your point about shortening things. Jerry Seinfeld says he meticulously removes any unnecessary word from every joke.

Like that's like his focus is like, it's not about shortening the story. It's about every, is that word necessary?

And, and, and, and so like, that's, that's super important. And, and you're the comedian who told you that was like super right.

So. Yeah. Awesome. I did real quick. I was,

I was going to say that as a pastor, there are jobs that we do that are outside of the normal part of our job.

And I know Jake is a pastor, so he would, he would understand this. You have your normal duties of study, pray, preach all those things, but then you have the extra things.

And for me, it's, it's weddings and funerals. And one of those is exponentially worse than the other.

And it's not the one that you think, because it's the wedding that's terrible.

I can, a funeral can be planned, produced and executed in less than 48 hours.

Perfectly. No problems. But a wedding on the other hand has something called premarital counseling.

Premarital counseling is where you're taking two people. You're putting them through a course, telling them this thing that they're about to enter into is going to be the most important thing in their life.

It's going to last the rest of their life. And they only get to try it once. And we're going to learn all of this in four weeks.

Air Force bootcamp is twice that. And you're only expected to do that for four years. So is that, that's kind of, yeah.

Yeah. All right. I like that. I just wanted to, that was, yeah. Okay. I'm working through it guys.

I want to thank y 'all for being on the show today. Tim, did you have anything else you wanted to add before we, because we're over the hour now,

I want to begin to close us out. No, you're good. I'm good. I appreciate it. And this has been a lot of fun.

Well, I'm hoping to do this maybe once every six, eight weeks, just get a

Marcus. Thank you so much. And we're praying for you guys over at Laura, that it continues to be successful. God bless. Don't steal my undercover boss idea.

Hey, I want to make that with you. We can do that. Hey man, we can do that in my green screen studio.

It's right here. That's amazing. All right. So Jake, thank you for being on, for having some fun ideas to share with us and for giving some good feedback.

I appreciate it. And Tim as well, guys who are watching, thank you for being a part. I've loved the comments

I've seen come in. I'm sorry. I wasn't able to respond to every one of them. If you like this and you want us to do it in the future, leave me a comment below and maybe every month and a half or so I'll get a group of guys on who love comedy and want to talk about it.

And if you have a subject you'd like for us to address, like today we talked about movies. Maybe you'd like to see us talk about something else, leave it in the comment and we'll look forward to it in the future.