Can the GotQuestions.org staff answer Bible questions while eating spicy wings? -Podcast Episode 237

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Now we're eating some hot wings. We're in it. There it is. Ready? The first couple should be fine.

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I'm not ready. All right, let's do this.

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Lord, I'm pleading. We know this is going to be painful, but please protect us from anything like really bad, like holes in mouths or tongues or lips or stomachs or intestines or anything like that.

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I don't want to presume upon your grace, but I ask for it.

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Why are you laughing back there? He's like, it's my bad decisions.

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Welcome to a very special edition of the Got Questions podcast. Joining me today is Nelson. You'll see

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Nelson on our YouTube channel quite a bit and in some of our podcast episodes. Nelson and I both absolutely love buffalo wings.

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Nelson can handle them a lot spicier than I can. But today we're going to be doing a buffalo wing challenge where through our show, we happen to like on YouTube called

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Hot Ones, where they interview guests and ask them difficult questions based on their lives, their careers, and then have them eat increasingly spicy wings throughout the episode.

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We're going to be doing something similar today where Nelson and I are going to go through the 10 wings from Hot Ones and ask each other questions in between.

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So the wings should start relatively manageable. And by the end, we imagine we're going to be in a lot of pain.

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So thank you for joining us in our adventure today. So Nelson, you ready for this?

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No, no, I am not ready for this at all. We've talked about this for a little while now and it's been exciting, but this is the moment that we'll see how it goes.

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If that first one's spicy, I don't know what to do then. If it's like real bad. So we'll see. Well, this is not live so we can bail.

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That's true. First one is called the

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Garlic Fresno Edition. All right. Sounds shall we?

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Yes. It's garlic and a smidge of spice on it.

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Yeah. I'm kind of surprised it has this already this little bit. It's not a lot, but I thought there'd be like next to nothing on the first one.

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I can feel the tingle, but I'm not too bad. This one is a 1700 on the

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Schoolville level. 1700. 1700. All right.

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Do I have to do a question? You want to go first? I'm hungry. All right.

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I'll ask you. You introduce. I'm going to go through all my napkins.

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No doubt. All right. First of our questions. If you were stranded on a desert island with a

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GotQuestions employee, who would you want to be with? Probably an easy one.

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Often guests on GotQuestions episode of the podcast is Jeff and Kevin.

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I think I would choose Jeff because he's a little bit of a survivalist and he's very handy.

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Very good at building things and not dying in the process. So I think if I had to, my goal is to survive.

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I would ask. I wouldn't want Jeff. My goal is to have a great time and die after not too long.

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I guess I would choose my wife, Melissa. It depends on what the goal is. Die after not too long. Because your wife does the contract here as well.

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All right. So we move on to the next. So wing number two. It's called Seeing Double with 6200

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Schoolville units. So this should be about three times as spicy as the last.

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The first one. Let's give it a go. Waiting to see if Nelson's head explodes in flames.

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To me, it tastes just as mild as the other one. I don't taste anything different.

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Of course, on the show, it's always like sometimes they wait like a few minutes and all of a sudden one of the guests just like gets hit with like some fire.

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But yeah, it's tasty. It's fine. I think I actually like the flavor of this one a little bit better than the first one.

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I like the garlic one better. Taste wise. It's a little bad for me. It's fine. So for your question, you can invite any three people from the

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Bible to lunch. Who would they be? And let me qualify. We're not allowed to say Jesus for any of these.

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For any of the answers? Not even for one of the three? No. All right. Job. I'd like to talk to him and see how he lived life and what he thought now, being in eternity.

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I'd like to be Peter. I think I'd like to see his life. He's outspoken disciple of Christ and see.

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Yeah. And third, who so many characters. Who'd I choose?

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Jesus is dead. Jesus is dead. Yeah. I'd love to know the stories, the backstories. Yeah. Hear about that.

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That'd be awesome. Cool. All right. Number three is fermented kimchi, which

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I am not a fan of kimchi in general. So I'm curious is how much like kimchi is this one going to taste like?

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It's like chunks of it on there. Yeah. All right. Let's do this. Smells like kimchi.

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Surprise. It's, of course, spicy at 18 ,000, 18 ,000.

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This is going to be bad when our lips are full of hot sauce. No, but for 18 ,000, not bad.

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I don't like that flavor, but it's not. It's not overwhelmingly hot. Why do I lick the sauce off my finger?

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I don't do that. That's not a good habit. You know, one of us sees our hands going anywhere near our eyes.

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Right. Literally stop the other person ASAP. All right. This tissue is done.

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Napkin. All right. Here's your question. What's the most recent book you've read?

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Just started a book actually today. I'm going through with my mentor about what the internet does to our brains.

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It's not specifically a Christian book. Yeah. But how the internet is spending so much time with access to unlimited information and digesting it all on a very surfacy level is programming people to never go deep.

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So it's kind of here's the problem. And here's how you continue to use the internet without falling subject to that.

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Those tendencies. So I just started just read chapter one today, but it's so far so good.

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Yeah. All right. Here we go. Most recent book. Yeah. Ring number four. Los Calientes Barbacoa.

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33 ,000 Scoville units. Almost double the last one. But I'm guessing this is going to have a little bit of a barbecue.

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Yeah. Type flavor to it. If it looks like it. These ones in the middle, of course, the hottest ones.

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Yes. They're literally want to tap it with their melting through the table, even as we see.

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All right. 18 ,000. No. 33 ,000. Definitely tastes like barbecue.

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No heat yet. I am.

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I'm still alive. Yeah. I'm not tasting a lot of spice in this one. It's a great barbecue flavor. Yeah.

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To it. Okay. I'm a big fan of Buffalo Wild Wings. I'd compare this to the hot barbecue flavor there.

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Actually go for 30. Are you tasting the spice in this one? I can tell it's there.

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Yeah. It's more of a tingle than a smooth mouth is on fire.

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There's plenty of time for that. Yeah. I don't know if you can see, but we sauce the wings fairly generously.

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Yeah. We really want to experience this. We're probably going to regret that at 7, 8, 9, and 10, but you didn't go chintzy on the sauce.

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Actually put them in a bag, shook them around in the bag, and just a lot of sauce on each wing. It's my turn or your turn?

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I asked you your book. I'm already delirious. Yeah. Wings. Nelson, what hobbies do you enjoy?

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What hobbies do I enjoy? And when are we allowed to drink at any point, or do we need to save it till we're dying?

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I think it's up to you. I think on the show, when they start taking drinks, it's a sign of weakness. Alrighty then.

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All right. I like a few different things. I'm not really into sports very much, like ball sports, but I like biking a lot.

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So mountain biking, road biking. I've done indoor climbing a bunch.

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I go to the gym. I don't know if that's really quite a sport as more of a health activity. But yeah,

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I like outdoorsy sports on anything that's kind of more adventurous. Wakeboarding, I like snowboarding, things like that.

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Nice. Wing number five. Fat Cat Gourmet German Meow's Revenge.

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54 ,000 Scoville units. It's funny because on the bottle, this has a cat, right?

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The black cat. But it reminds me of like those hairless cats. It's pretty gross, actually.

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54 ,000. Nelson, cheers. All right. This is number five, halfway through. I honestly thought

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I'd be in worse shape by this point than I am. Yeah, it goes up significantly.

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Coming up, so. I almost want to brag like, oh, this is nothing. This is easy.

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And then we'll cut to the end of the video where we're both crying in vain. We've seen the show where people are too confident.

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Early on. I am feeling something in the back of my throat, though, which is. It's there. Something's happened already.

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Oh, I can. I can feel it. It's your question, right? What's your favorite

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Bible verse? Bible verse. Life versus Romans 1136, which is from him and to him and through him are all things can be the glory forever.

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Amen. It's kind of a reminder that everything I have, everything I do is for the glory of God.

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It's when I memorize pretty early on and. It's often something if I'm going to sign a

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Bible verse in of the email or a letter or something, that's optimal when I go to. It's a really, like I said, powerful reminder.

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Good. All right. We want six. Number six. Maybe it's made in Barcelona, Spain.

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Their first Spanish hot sauce. Seventy one thousand Scoville units.

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All right. Kind of have a Latin flavor. This one's immediately spicy.

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There it is. Yeah. Seventy one thousand. All right. We're getting somewhere now.

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It's kind of exciting. This is actually our lunch, but I need to go back and meet somebody. Organize the plate better by which ones

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I want to go back to and which ones I don't. I'm keeping an order. Oh, yeah.

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That was much hotter than everything else. Now we're eating some hot wings. We're in it.

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There it is. So 71 ,000. I liken that to like a

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Tabasco. I don't know. Yeah, something. It's something we roll kick more than halfway.

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I turn. It's like marinating in my mouth. The heat. That's not the word

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I would use. There's a great one. I can talk.

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What do you think Jesus would say about this hot sauce? What Jesus?

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Well done. Good to know. I think I think you get a kick out of it.

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He made these peppers and he's like, all right, have at it. I think I think you get a kick out of it.

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Yeah. Okay. We're officially a number six. Okay. I think

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I can handle it. You're a little worried though, aren't you? It's above. Yeah. My preference level.

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For sure. Yeah. That last one was probably like, we're good eating good spice and all that. But yeah,

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I'm feeling the spice. All right. Where we at? We're seven black eyed.

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Susan red flag. Warning. 126 ,000.

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Scoville heat units. Almost double. My eyes are already starting to get watery from the spice.

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Why? Why? Why am I doing this? I'm worried. All right.

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When you're actually like deciding which side wing you want to eat with, there's less. It's all. There's like chunks of it on it.

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All right. There's always a moment where you're waiting for something to happen.

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Still waiting to decide what that one actually tastes like.

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It's super hot, but what's the, I don't know. What's the flavor?

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I'm like terrible. What does it say? Seven. The name inspired by pirates.

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The sauce can be an agent of chaos. That's right. Sweetness from. Stilled grape juice and raspberries just barely balances the spice of scorpion peppers.

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There we go. Does have a sweetness to it. Yeah. But yeah. First it's burning now. It's gone.

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Scorpion. Scorpions are biting. Is that what that lost that love and feeling songs about? Yes. So let's.

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So we do have a little bit of an audience and appreciate his laughter from who's turned to.

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I'm not. You asked me, you asked me about what Jesus think about this. That was the last question, right? So it's my turn to ask you.

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All right, here we go. I'm not sure my tongue is functional. No more. It gets harder to think and process.

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Where did you attend college and what degrees do you have? It's a long answer.

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You're like, no. Went to Calvary Bible College, which is now called

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Calvary University in Kansas City. Got a degree in advanced biblical studies, which did not prepare me for this at all.

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Then went to Calvary Theological Seminary, got a master's degree in Christian theology.

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Then more recently, Dallas Theological Seminary.

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Are you regretting going to all that college now? Well, I got a master of theology with the emphasis in apologetics.

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I'm currently also a student at Dallas Theological Seminary and their doctor of ministry program.

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Hope to have that done a year and a half from now. She loves studying the

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Bible, and I think it makes perfect sense why you founded this ministry. And you haven't stopped going to school since.

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I do love to learn. Learning an important lesson here today. We're done, right?

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For fans of the show Hollens, number eight, called

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The Bomb, is typically where most people are beyond their threshold for sure.

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There was an episode with Shaquille O 'Neal where he quit after the storm. It really is so hot.

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He's like, I'm not going any hotter than that. Mine looks like it has a lot more sauce than yours. That was intentional.

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You ready? Ready as I'm ever going to be. All right.

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It's like, can you see this? Mine has less, but it's there.

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All right. The bomb. You're taking like breaths before my sinuses are lighting up.

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It's spicy.

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I do not like the flavor. It's that's what a lot of people say on the show as well. The bomb is just it's just hot.

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Shut up, Brian. There goes the throat.

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The strings are looking real good. Yeah, that's just just hot.

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No. Yeah, it's just hot. That one was 135.

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And it's only a little above the last one, but it feels so much hotter. I'm sorry.

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And it's like lingering. I'm bailing. It's lingering.

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Mouth on fire. So we read some clues online about cures, something acidic.

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So like a limeade and we've got milk helping. And when we survive, if we survive, that did not help.

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It gets worse. All right.

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I have to answer a question, right? Because you have to read. Oh, it's a short answer.

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Sure. What do you do? I got questions. I make videos.

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All right. Next. I am the director of video of content on God questions ministries.

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And so I help turn our articles into videos. And you've seen me in some of those videos.

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And I also manage all of our other content on the U .S. channel on the American side.

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So we have animated videos and we have some other videos that Joel does.

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And he's a stock footage and things like that. And so I help manage our teams. And it's a great job.

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I love every minute of it. Unlike this, where I'm not living in Freeman.

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That's all right. So just for reference, that was 135 and it was very, very hot.

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Very hot. The next one jumps up to 700 ,000. Turn my plate.

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Sure. It won't stop. Well, maybe we can effectively just burn off our taste buds.

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Drinking something gives you. Momentary relief. That's why the ice cream at the end is good.

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You can just have your ice cream slowly. I'm. I'm not giving up.

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So you're going back and forth in the drinks. He's like, one of these has got to work. I river.

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700 ,000. It's the Apollo pepper.

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And if you want to know more, look it up. All right. It's hard to talk and think.

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I'm almost like shaking for this one. I think this is going to be very.

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Unmanageable. How much worse could it possibly be?

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Cheers. Cheers.

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All right. Still 700 ,000. Little tangy in the beginning.

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I'm not tasting the spice yet. So I'm really afraid when it's going to happen.

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I don't know. This might be one of the slow burns. Nope.

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Touch your face. Oh, you're close.

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Oh, it's in the back of my throat. I don't know if the number eight just prepared me for number nine, or if number nine doesn't hit you.

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The bomb hit me or worse. This one is, but it's slow.

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I mean, it's definitely increasing. I can. All right.

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Whose turn is it? Now your turn to. Yeah. No, I mean, that's what

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I'm trying to ask him, right? That's right. What roles do you serve in or have you served in at your church?

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Most of them other than I've never served. I've never been a pastor in official sense. Currently, I am on the elder team.

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And this year serving as the treasurer. I've been the chairman of the elder board.

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I've been. Secretary. Teach Sunday school type classes.

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Preach occasionally. Do. Most roles other than an official pastor.

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I assume that most people in your church know that you run got questions. Does that does that make you like one of the question guys or they are going to be asking you?

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Ask me questions, but they know I'm just an ordinary guy. I'm just I'm just saying to most people in the church, everyone.

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So I'll be someone who comes up and seems a little starstruck.

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Yeah. Someone who got questions and meant time to them over the past 20 years. But that doesn't happen very often.

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Someone to me. They need me. I'm a normal guy. Normal guy on fire.

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But no, the bomb was way worse. The bomb was way worse. I almost want to take another bite.

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But I want to be for some truth. We've got a couple of questions left. So how about you ask me?

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I'm going to take another bite. Okay. You asked me. Go ahead. Are you involved in any other ministries outside of questions?

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Ministry. Well, yeah. My church recently moved churches, move states.

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So we're at a new church now and beginning to get plugged in there and looking to do preaching there.

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I own a ministry Bible Munch, which is a short devotional content channel on YouTube, which

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I have not posted on in quite a while because I've been busy moving and busy doing and doing stuff.

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Forgot questions, right? Basically. Yeah. Ever since I've gone full time, we've got questions. I haven't updated Bible Munch yet, but I certainly plan to get back on that.

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Something I really enjoy doing as an outlet for teaching creativity. Sorry.

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One more time. If you were in a tag team cage fight with a

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Bible character, let me read that again. I can't read. If you were in a tag team cage fight, what

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Bible character would you want as your teammate? Again, not a lot of Jesus because having

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God in the flesh on your team would be a huge advantage, but I think Samson would be the obvious one, but is it long haired

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Samson or short haired Samson, but not going with obvious choice.

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I mean, I think David, I'm more of a skilled fighter.

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It wasn't just like superhuman strong, excuse me.

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All the different battles. Go on, go on. He won by wits. He won by effort. He won by strategy, obviously with the

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Lord's help, not by just being bigger, better, stronger as everyone else. Really good aim with a slingshot.

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Yeah. All right. Could you do us a favor and grab the bottle of the X pepper sauce for the dab?

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Seriously. Sauce is already. We're doing it. It's tradition. It's part of the show on the show.

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They have their wings sauced up like ours, but they actually, it's a choice on the show.

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It's tradition to add a, to add a dab of this sauce. This is the

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X pepper heat level 11 out of 10. So 2 .6

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million Scoville units. So this is almost four times as hot as the last one.

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the pepper X recently won Guinness book of world records for hottest pepper on, on earth.

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And this is, you look at the ingredients, it's basically pepper X ground up, pepper X oil, pepper

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X. Everything says over 91 % pepper X. The other nine is probably water. I'd imagine this would have to be, if not the hottest sauce in the world.

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Like close to it. I'm ready. I'm excited for this one. I'm excited for you.

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I'm excited for this one. Nelson, you're fired. Try to have yours. Yes, please.

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Pour it on. No, I'm not going to pour it. Dab. All right.

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Dab, dab, slightly bigger depth for you.

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This is it. do a little scripture reading here.

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You have to eat lab. So yay. Do I walk through the shadow of death?

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I will fear no evil, evil for power with me, thy rod and staff. They comfort me.

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You leave me besides still waters. Something about comforting my soul.

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My soul's okay. I'm going to need some mouth comfort. Just a second.

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So cheers. Cheers. It's been fun. Here we go. On a sauce in the world. I don't know if right to dab.

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Still alive. Here it comes.

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Everyone's like dead silence. It has a flavor to it.

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At least it's neat. It's just, it's slow as well.

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I thought this was going to be like a, an immediate type of hit.

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I tell you what, the bomb had that immediate punch in the face. I can see why a lot of people quit on that one.

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This one, my tongue is on fire. Back of the throat for me, more than it's hot.

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And that's it. That's all the sauces. It increasingly is going up.

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All right. Is it? Who's trying to disagree? Do you remember?

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There's two left. So it doesn't matter. Oh, it's getting worse. This one actually says for Shay.

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So this one. Actually, there are two for Shay. Did you get both of them? Yes, I did. Well, then you can answer.

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All right. So Shay, how many flavors of Mountain Dew have you tried? So I, I got to correct someone.

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Not a Mountain Dew addict. I'm a Mountain Dew connoisseur. Right. Then line between those two.

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It doesn't stop getting hot. As far as I know, I tried all of them.

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I'm Mountain Dew. They started just as one flavor. There's only like three flavors. All right. No, there's like, I think in the history, there's been like 30 or 40 different flavors.

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And now they come out special flavors every year. Some flavors come out, really schedule every few years.

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Favorite flavors. Mountain Dew, pitch black is number one. I'm surprised you can talk.

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The pineapple, number two. What was the first one?

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Pitch black. It's kind of like grape. Oh, okay. Buffalo wild wings. They have legend, which to me tastes a lot like pitch black.

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Then classic green flavor. And then code red. My top four all time go -tos.

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She always has a stack of nicely flavored Mountain Dew in his office.

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If you see in his podcast, that green thing in his background, it's kind of faded out. It's a Mountain Dew fridge, which holds a couple of cans of Mountain Dew in it.

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More for decoration, I think, but it's funny. No. Oh, man. I've been totally honest.

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Still, the bomb was worse. The bomb was for even, even the last one. The last one.

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I don't know about you, but my mouth is just increasingly getting hotter. Shay, the first question

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I can't. The first question I got questions. The first question I got questions received was, how would you describe the

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Trinity to an unbeliever? How would you answer that question now? you can pick it up off the table.

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That was our very first question. It's one of those things. The Trinity is an essential to faith, vitally important doctrine.

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I don't know. There's far more. It was important. The right word, far more crucial things to explain to an unbeliever.

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The Trinity, don't want to waste so much time going to one God, three persons, co -equal, co -eternal, all those things.

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When this person needs, understand that Jesus died for their sins. So obviously you don't want to ignore the question.

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So you try to explain, there's one God who has revealed himself. No, it is three persons, a

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Father, Son, Holy Spirit, but there's only one God. How exactly that works, you don't know, but that's what the

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Bible teaches. So even if we don't fully understand God, we trust.

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This is what God has revealed to be true about himself. All right. Something along those lines. Yeah. Very good.

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All right. We made it. That's the end of the run. The official challenge complete.

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Congratulations. You too. We made it. So Shay, I've eaten the hot wings.

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I've done the Buffalo wild wings challenge. Not too much of a challenge. Shay hasn't done that.

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And so this is a quite a feat for you. And congratulations. This is amazing. Like I said,

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I was okay until. The bombs. And at that point, my whole mouth is just.

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Yeah. So completely on fire. The other two to me almost didn't make it any hotter.

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Maybe just burn all the taste buds. And that was it. I mean, if you try this on his own, like first. All right, let's close it out.

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Right. I usually close out with. Got questions. The Bible has answers, but we'll help you find them.

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But. I don't think that's appropriate. So I'll just say. See ya.