Prank-call To a Pastor

Well, I just dropped off real quick there. You can catch us at 4 to 6 p .m. on Saturdays. I'm in the studio with my other elder and pastor at Apologia Church. His name is the.

Bear, Luke Pearson.

What's up?

And we're also with Joy Tembe here.

Hello.

Well, again, 4 to 6 p .m. on Saturdays. You can catch us and also catch the back episodes at ApologiaRadio .com. Here's the deal. We were trying to squeeze into this one little episode. We were stealing the episode from Tom.

We're trying to squeeze in sort of a little flavor of Apologia Radio. So we were trying to do a prank call, some theologically rich stuff. And so we're going to give it a shot again. And if it doesn't work live here on the air, you can listen into the show on the weekends and listen to the past episodes of us prank calling Christian bookstores, other pastors.

We like to have fun. And again, we have serious moments of well-known theologians and scholars and scientists on. We would like to have a good time and so make the show something enjoyable to listen to.

So here we go. I'm going to call Duncan as a character, by the way. I don't think I mentioned that. I'm not calling as Jeff Durbin. I'm calling as Leroy.

Oh, no.

So here we go. I'm gonna get myself ready here. OK, here we go. OK. And yes, Luke, turn around. Shut your mouth. Don't talk to me.

Here we go.

The Prank Call to Pastor Duncan

Pastor Duncan.

Yeah.

Pastor Duncan, it's Leroy.

Sorry?

Leroy that ran the deal. Tell him I'm calling you.

Yeah.

Pastor, this is Leroy Hubbard from Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church.

Oh, OK.

How are you doing there?

Good, man. Yourself?

I'm doing well, doing real well. Sorry it took so long to get back to you, Pastor Duncan.

It's OK.

You linked up with that Vision Arizona, correct?

Yeah.

Tell me about yourself, Pastor Duncan. You got quite a little accent there. What was that from?

It's from.

From where?

Australia.

I would guess maybe New Zealand.

That's a joke, Pastor.

That's a joke. Tell me why. Why? Why one link up with the Vision?

With Vision Arizona?

Yes, sir. Pastor, let's cut to the chase for a moment now. What is your doctrine?

Doctrine? What part of my doctrine are you asking about?

You know, Baptist by nature or what?

By nature. I'm a follower. Right.

That's what I was going to ask you that again. Mrs. Zion Missionary Baptist Church. And we want to help support your work there in Austria. And so what we're doing is asking the doctrinal questions because we want to serve you.

Brandy, how to find things to say about you. So, Pastor, again, this is Leroy and I to ask you. We want to ask you about if you sprinkle, if you tinkle, pour or dunk.

Now, that's a joke, Pastor.

Pastor Duncan, just I'm just joking with you.

Yeah, yeah. No. Yeah. I mean, I would say dunk. You know, I think the nice thing about Australia.

Well, when you plan and when you plan and going on out there, don't. We fly. Have you ever been to Austria?

Yeah. I mean, I live there 20.

You know, what kind of what are you? Are you a young man? Are you old man? What kind of what kind of state are you in? What kind of a shape?

I'm 33 years old.

You do you do what now?

Brazilian jiu jitsu, the mixed martial arts.

That that's amazing, Pastor. I'm also into this. Maybe maybe it would do this. My name again is Pastor Leroy. Yeah. Missionary Baptist Church. Maybe perhaps for the for the funding for your church. You and I could wrestle for it.

That's a joke, Pastor. That's a joke, Pastor.

Pastor, Pastor Duncan, listen, I'm what some people might refer to as a big man. I got. I got a bit of a jiggle neck. That's a joke, Pastor. What translation of the scriptures, Duncan, do you use?

What translation? Typically, I I preach from only because all my memory verses are in it, and I say that usually I study.

And the ESV. Yeah, I would have figured maybe use the ASV.

The American standard?

No, the Australian standard version, Pastor.

That's just Leroy, and that's a joke, Pastor.

Listen, Pastor Duncan, I want to I want to ask you a bit more in the future about what with the other elder clan at my church. What what what type what type of church government you believe in? You follow the you follow the Moses model.

You got you pardon the red scene. All the people Israel following you through it.

Oh, OK. Yeah. I'm an elder driven.

So, you know, elders and deacons, I think you're only you're only 33 years old. Call yourself an elder.

I beg to differ, Pastor Duncan. That's a joke, Pastor.

Listen, I got to go evangelize or fossilize.

All right, Pastor.

I'll call you back, evangelize or fossilize.

That's a joke, Pastor. That's a joke.

I love it.

Oh, I can't believe it actually worked.

I told you I told you would.

That was amazing. Yeah, that was. That was legitimately amazing.

He's probably like, what is this happened?

That's just incredible.

I can't believe we actually got him like he really enjoyed that, though. It did. Like he wishes that you're a real person. And OK, listen, maybe let's just never tell him. No, no, no, no. I just always be this character.

I wanted so badly to go over the top with Leroy. But I couldn't. Yeah. Like I had I had stuff written down here. I was going to say to him, like I was going to say, Pastor, Pastor Leroy,.

Leroy Hubbard, Pastor.

And I know my body temple to hold its bet. And I'm trying to watch what I eat. And so I only order out the dollar menu at McDonald's.

That's a joke, Pastor. That's a joke.

But I knew that was wouldn't have worked.

Oh, man. So how are we going to let them know?

I don't know. I don't think just let it just let it happen. Yeah, let's just let it happen. And so, Duncan, gotcha. I was completely skeptical. I did not think that was going to work. So now this is perfect.

Everyone got to get a little flavor of apology or radio.

What we like to do.

We like to listen. I think a lack of a sense of humor shows a lack of intelligence. So, yeah, so we like to have fun and enjoy life. I think it should be full of joy. And so Duncan's a good friend of ours.

He's a hilarious dude.

Yeah, you didn't get that just now.

No, he actually held back.

Yeah, Duncan is hilarious.

Like you are.

You will laugh like every minute you're with the guy. He is hilarious. He was completely serious there. Yeah, I want to thank Randy Deal from Vision Arizona. Yeah. For hooking us up, like calling ahead of time and like setting this whole thing up.

So he thought someone was really calling to support him.

Yeah. Apologize.

We don't have any money to give you, Duncan.

Now he's probably all upset. He's like, whoa, I thought this guy was going to help.

Give him like a dollar.

He's at home right now with his wife. Thinking that was a strange phone call. I don't want to play in a church anymore.

Should I? Have you ever been to Australia? He said he was from Australia.

I know. I like it.

He has an ASV.

That was. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Joy hooked me up with that before we started.

I was thinking it was a good stuff to do.

Go ahead. I said, I guess I should tell my story of Duncan real quick so people know how funny he normally is.

OK. Oh, yeah.

So Jeff and I saw him a couple of weeks ago now, and he he came up to me totally serious and says, whenever I see you and Jeff, I think of two precious unicorns. That's Duncan. That's how I get that from the phone call.

He obviously didn't hear the undercurrent of unicorn in your voice.

LDS Apologetics and the Problem of Fast-Talking

I want you guys to hear on leaps. We have limited time here. We have a two hour show normally for us, but this is Tom's show. So we're just busting out the hour show. We can. I want you guys to hear me talking to a friend of mine.

I've known for over 10 years at the temple. He's LDS. I'm going to let you hear a funny part of the clip of us being in the temple. No, thanks, Paul. I disagree that. That's why it shows that Mormonism collapses.

It doesn't. It hasn't restored prophets and apostles to the church because a biblical prophet, you wouldn't do that with. I'm willing to bet if I handed you a copy of Luke, Luke, you talk so fast. OK, I'm willing to bet if I handed you a copy of, let's say, one of Paul's writings.

Yes, absolutely.

Do you know about the fallacy of fast talking?

I might because I had some some some yerba mate before I came. It's it's a tea.

Are you on caffeine or some or are you hyperactive?

No, no, no, no. I'm just excited to talk to you.

What is your thing that see? This is the thing is that you overwhelm people. You are into karate and fast talking. Do you drink 20 cups of coffee a day?

Actually, I don't drink coffee.

What what what are you on? You want some kind of medication?

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Stefan, when you ask me a question, I'm going to answer it honestly. And I'm going to I'm going to give you the scriptures.

I mean, you you are just overwhelming.

OK, all right. Well, we'll go as slow as possible because I love you. No, but you, I mean, OK, your point is, I feel like I'm in a karate tournament.

And I don't even have a belt.

You do have a black belt on. No, I don't. That's a black belt, Stefan.

Yeah, the color is black. But I'm holding up my pants with one hand and you are I don't know how many degrees black belt.

Five. I have five black belts.

Unmatched. You are a rocket scientist, theologian.

No, no, no, no. I'm not. I'm not. I just love you. I love you. And listen, I care. And so when I point when you ask me a question, I want to answer it and I'm going to answer it fully and faithfully. I don't think that I don't think that it's genuine.

In your tract, you don't answer anything fully. You take soundbites from Brigham Young. Yeah. And he said his volume Journal of Discourses is what, like two feet or three feet.

It's a it's big. It's big. It's big.

Yeah. And in your tract is like one page. Front and back.

Yeah, because I have to hand out thousands. I don't have books to hand out, Stefan. So look, look, look what you're doing.

I can I said positive.

Yeah. You totally leave out because how much how much poison does it take to kill you, Stefan?

Oh, like freedom from religion. Dot org would argue the same thing, Stefan. And they take only the foul things that they can figure out from the Bible. And they say Christianity will poison you.

Well, if I can answer the point that we were on, what I was showing you was that a biblical prophet, a biblical prophets. I'm not allowed to disagree with the biblical prophets revelation from God. What you're doing is you're claiming as your foundation that we stand on the biblical view of prophets.

We have them restored to our church. But then when I press you on something that your biblical, quote unquote, biblical prophet said, you say I reject that. He says you're damned.

Well, what about Thomas?

There's a little sampling of the caffeinated Jeff Durbin black belt ninja.

What are you on?

Amphetamines.

Seriously.

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But you can get a copy of it ahead of time and get a little discount on it. It's answering a fool. It's with side 10 Bruton Kate. It's how to do biblical apologetics. Psalm 14 is where it comes from. And Luke, quick comment.

You want to give for the show?

I love apologetics.

Did I say that? Yeah, you did.

OK, I like to on our show. I like to share comments that people have left us on iTunes. And this is a very good one. So I think I'll share just to give you guys a taste of what we do.

So the subject is how many stars is it? First of all, oh, it's five five stars.

We have 26 five star ratings. And the subject is your beard is so loud. Clearly, that's referring to me and not Jeff. Oh, no. It's by Puritan Apocalypse. That's a great name. It says love the show. Discovered you guys through kitty cat.

That's Jeff, by the way. All of my anti papal comments on Facebook. So I know you were legit. Everything you mentioned makes me think you stole my diary. I hope to join you on the battlefield sometime.

Being as I am a West Valley guy. Keep it up. Praying for you three.

Right on. Thank you.

Puritan Apocalypse.

What did you say about my beard?

Well, your beard's not very loud. It's there, Luke.

Why on this show do you do this to me? It's not even our regular time period in front of like the drive time hour.

You're just going to be well, you know what?

You don't have any friends.

But my beard's loud.

Nobody likes you.

Someone else had something to say for you. Just there.

Grow your beard, Jeff. And you guys can have a loudness competition.

I'm going to tell you guys real fast. The joy. This is some chill music, by the way.

I know.

I'm easing out of the show with Tom Brown.

Yeah.

This has been Tom Brown's show. Welcome to Corner Nia.

Yeah.

Joy has a spirit beard.

That's all I wanted to say.

She has a spirit beard.

This is Jeff Durbin, Luke Pearson, Joy Temi, ApologiaRadio .com. Saturdays, 4 to 6 p .m. Thanks, Tom.