WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.840 --> 00:00:03.720 You're listening to the Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.759 --> 00:00:06.480 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun in 3 00:00:06.599 --> 00:00:14.800 practical ways. Hey, everybody, we want to welcome you, formally 4 00:00:15.320 --> 00:00:23.120 and delightfully formally welcome. Yes, well officially, okay, officially that's 5 00:00:23.120 --> 00:00:25.760 what I meant. Yes, I didn't mean necessarily. 6 00:00:25.239 --> 00:00:29.160 If we couldn't through the screen or through your radio speak, 7 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:32.719 shake your hand, looking in the eye and say welcome. 8 00:00:33.200 --> 00:00:33.799 That be fun. 9 00:00:34.079 --> 00:00:36.200 It is our privilege to have you here. 10 00:00:36.320 --> 00:00:38.759 Yes, that's some Star Trek kind of thinking right there, 11 00:00:38.759 --> 00:00:39.119 there you go. 12 00:00:39.159 --> 00:00:39.520 That's right. 13 00:00:39.560 --> 00:00:42.280 I would love for the world to be like Star Trek. Okay, 14 00:00:42.479 --> 00:00:46.039 in terms of travel and and you know, beaming. 15 00:00:45.799 --> 00:00:49.280 Well speaking of your favorite movies. Oh, yeah, for sure. 16 00:00:49.719 --> 00:00:52.479 So today is Trivia Tuesday. Oh that's what I've heard, 17 00:00:52.679 --> 00:00:54.759 or trivia whatever day it is you're listening. 18 00:00:54.560 --> 00:00:56.560 To, like sixty seconds ago. 19 00:00:56.679 --> 00:01:00.000 Yeah, but so we know that Chris knows this movie quote. 20 00:01:00.520 --> 00:01:01.560 Yeah, well some of them. 21 00:01:01.640 --> 00:01:05.159 But let's test this overall movie trivia knowledge. 22 00:01:05.439 --> 00:01:07.159 Oh you're you're reading what Desiree wrote. 23 00:01:07.319 --> 00:01:11.760 Yes, okay, so can you answer these trivia questions correctly? 24 00:01:11.879 --> 00:01:14.280 Before the segment started, By the way, when we were. 25 00:01:14.319 --> 00:01:15.359 I was reading through them. 26 00:01:15.599 --> 00:01:16.359 Yeah you were. 27 00:01:16.439 --> 00:01:18.400 You were saying, it's hard, these are hard. I wouldn't 28 00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:21.519 know these, Okay, I wouldn't know any of these. 29 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:24.319 Okay, and I oh really yeah, and there's five. 30 00:01:24.400 --> 00:01:26.280 Yeah, but I don't know most of the movie quotes. 31 00:01:26.319 --> 00:01:29.480 You do either, so that doesn't matter. But okay, ready, okay. 32 00:01:29.959 --> 00:01:33.079 What is the name of the boat in Jaws? 33 00:01:34.120 --> 00:01:35.000 It's easy orca. 34 00:01:35.359 --> 00:01:35.760 Oh wow. 35 00:01:35.799 --> 00:01:36.480 Everybody knows that. 36 00:01:36.680 --> 00:01:39.480 Everybody. Everybody knows it except Jeff. Jeff doesn't know this. 37 00:01:41.159 --> 00:01:43.319 Okay, you didn't know that. 38 00:01:43.359 --> 00:01:44.760 I did not. Yeah, you know. 39 00:01:44.840 --> 00:01:46.959 It's if you ever met somebody who like knows so 40 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:49.359 much about football, you're like, dude, just study a bibble verse. 41 00:01:49.400 --> 00:01:52.200 Yeah yeah, yeah, right, that's me. Or guys that know movies. 42 00:01:52.439 --> 00:01:55.640 Yeah yeah, right, Okay, here we go, which Disney movie 43 00:01:55.680 --> 00:01:58.480 was the first full length animated feature produced in the 44 00:01:58.560 --> 00:01:59.040 United States. 45 00:01:59.040 --> 00:02:02.159 Okay, this is not hard. Come on snow White in 46 00:02:02.159 --> 00:02:06.120 the Seven Doors. Yeah, that he risked, really, yeah, he 47 00:02:06.200 --> 00:02:08.719 risked everything that was like nineteen thirty nine or thirty 48 00:02:08.759 --> 00:02:11.719 eight or something like that, and he risked everything on 49 00:02:12.639 --> 00:02:14.840 Snow White and the Seven Doors. So he was about 50 00:02:14.879 --> 00:02:17.879 to be bankrupt and had snow White not done well, 51 00:02:18.080 --> 00:02:19.280 he would have claimed bankruptcy. 52 00:02:19.400 --> 00:02:23.159 Wow, yeah, I had no idea. Yeah, okay, what is 53 00:02:23.199 --> 00:02:27.120 the very first animal scene in Disney's the Lion King 54 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:28.759 at the beginning? 55 00:02:28.960 --> 00:02:33.039 Yes, yeah, whatever it is. Okay, first of all, I'm 56 00:02:33.080 --> 00:02:35.479 not going to get this, but I'll take a guess. 57 00:02:35.599 --> 00:02:39.479 Let me process it out loud. So I see gazelle's 58 00:02:40.400 --> 00:02:46.000 there's like the meer cats who come up. There's a rhino, 59 00:02:46.199 --> 00:02:49.520 there's giraffe, there's elephants that eventually come over. I know 60 00:02:49.560 --> 00:02:53.680 that the elephants come later. There's ants. I could see the. 61 00:02:53.599 --> 00:02:58.360 Whole thing before you before you guess. Yes, you've already 62 00:02:58.360 --> 00:02:59.879 said what first animal was. 63 00:03:00.360 --> 00:03:06.560 Oh, it's in that group. Yeah, okay, so what is first? 64 00:03:06.840 --> 00:03:07.439 What is first? 65 00:03:07.479 --> 00:03:11.080 There's zebra, but that's not you had already said zebra. 66 00:03:11.080 --> 00:03:13.680 And I know I know. Okay, okay, yeah, you're right. Okay, 67 00:03:13.719 --> 00:03:20.439 so it's hard. I'm gonna say the little meercats that 68 00:03:20.479 --> 00:03:20.919 pop up. 69 00:03:21.080 --> 00:03:27.120 Nope, but you want to keep going it's rhino rhino, Yeah, yeah, 70 00:03:27.879 --> 00:03:30.240 according to Dez, I don't know. I don't know. It's 71 00:03:30.280 --> 00:03:31.759 just what's on the shape in front of me. 72 00:03:31.879 --> 00:03:35.840 That's right, because it starts off with that low boom. Yeah, 73 00:03:35.840 --> 00:03:38.639 and then he and then he starts marching in. That's right. 74 00:03:39.919 --> 00:03:43.400 In what year was the film Forrest Gump released? 75 00:03:44.719 --> 00:03:47.840 Oh? Gee, is I'm usually really good at this. I 76 00:03:47.879 --> 00:04:00.879 know it's mid nineties. I'm I'm gonna say. 77 00:03:58.000 --> 00:04:01.879 It was ninety four. Okay, so two and two this 78 00:04:01.919 --> 00:04:03.680 is it right here? This is the majority. 79 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:05.479 Okay, oh, this is the majority. 80 00:04:05.680 --> 00:04:10.879 Yeah. So either yeah, no pressure, no pressure. Which Indiana 81 00:04:10.960 --> 00:04:15.719 Jones film sparked the controversy that led to the creation 82 00:04:15.919 --> 00:04:17.439 of the PG thirteen rating. 83 00:04:18.800 --> 00:04:22.199 First of all, wow, yeah, I did not know that 84 00:04:22.279 --> 00:04:25.959 piece of trivia one of the Indiana Jones led to 85 00:04:26.040 --> 00:04:29.240 controversy that invented. 86 00:04:28.959 --> 00:04:33.959 The PG The creation of the PG thirteen rating, well, obviously, 87 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:34.600 I'm just gonna. 88 00:04:34.439 --> 00:04:39.759 Have to talk this out. It's either a the ending 89 00:04:39.920 --> 00:04:42.240 of part one, because it was the only controversial part 90 00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:45.600 where his face melted off, which I wouldn't think would 91 00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:50.519 be that number two. Oh, there's a lot of number two. 92 00:04:51.319 --> 00:04:55.240 Temple of Doom. There's a lot there with reaching into 93 00:04:55.279 --> 00:04:59.519 the heart and pulling out the heart and the voodoo 94 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:01.399 the e Well, that's. 95 00:05:01.480 --> 00:05:02.959 That's that's monkey brains. 96 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:07.040 Monkey brains is comical but yet creepy. Then number three 97 00:05:07.360 --> 00:05:13.759 was not controversial at all. The Holy Grail z it's 98 00:05:13.759 --> 00:05:16.959 more Nazi or Nazisi. But but there was nothing creepy 99 00:05:17.000 --> 00:05:18.600 at all about it. So I'm gonna have to see 100 00:05:18.759 --> 00:05:19.519 the Temple of Doom. 101 00:05:19.720 --> 00:05:20.879 It was the Temple of Doom. 102 00:05:20.920 --> 00:05:21.279 There you go. 103 00:05:21.399 --> 00:05:22.160 You worked it out. 104 00:05:22.399 --> 00:05:23.879 I worked it out like that. 105 00:05:24.639 --> 00:05:25.720 You worked for that win. 106 00:05:25.879 --> 00:05:28.160 Hey, I I did not realize that, did you. 107 00:05:28.279 --> 00:05:30.120 I didn't know. I told you. I didn't know any 108 00:05:30.160 --> 00:05:32.519 of these, so so that was a mystery to me too. 109 00:05:32.600 --> 00:05:35.240 Hey, but but but Indiana Jones are some of your favorite. 110 00:05:35.439 --> 00:05:37.000 Oh yeah, I like the Indian Jones movies. 111 00:05:37.240 --> 00:05:37.600 Huh. 112 00:05:37.680 --> 00:05:38.720 It's not like I study them. 113 00:05:38.759 --> 00:05:41.759 I just well, but you hear something and you remember it, 114 00:05:42.240 --> 00:05:42.439 will you? 115 00:05:42.839 --> 00:05:45.920 I'll remember that forever now, you think? So? Yeah? Absolutely, yeah, 116 00:05:46.279 --> 00:05:49.120 next time I watched Ago, did you know? Because that's 117 00:05:49.199 --> 00:05:52.160 that's me. I have my head's full stupid little trivia things. 118 00:05:52.439 --> 00:05:54.680 It's like Oscar on the on the Office. He's he's 119 00:05:54.680 --> 00:06:01.480 the he's the guy that's known to be Actually yeah, actually, actually, okay, 120 00:06:02.319 --> 00:06:06.839 that's fun. But I missed almost half of them. 121 00:06:07.680 --> 00:06:12.480 No, No, you got three, right, you got sixty percent correct. 122 00:06:12.759 --> 00:06:17.240 All right, almost half better than half, better than half, 123 00:06:17.279 --> 00:06:17.920 better than half. 124 00:06:17.959 --> 00:06:18.959 I missed almost half. 125 00:06:19.000 --> 00:06:19.600 You're a winner. 126 00:06:20.319 --> 00:06:22.079 That's a winner. 127 00:06:22.120 --> 00:06:23.839 You would have won an election with sixty percent of 128 00:06:23.839 --> 00:06:24.800 the vote. 129 00:06:24.800 --> 00:06:26.759 There it is, Yeah, you said it. 130 00:06:26.839 --> 00:06:32.160 Yeah, you would have won. Okay, So I have no 131 00:06:32.160 --> 00:06:36.680 no transition Oh yeah, transition transitions. I'm trying. I can't 132 00:06:36.680 --> 00:06:37.160 find one. 133 00:06:37.480 --> 00:06:42.439 Hey, speaking of speaking of winning, winning of facts that 134 00:06:42.519 --> 00:06:48.680 we don't normally think about, Solomon Pepper's the Book of 135 00:06:48.720 --> 00:06:53.040 Proverbs with these facts that we should always try to remember. 136 00:06:53.800 --> 00:06:56.040 Yeah, that one works. Or I was going to say, 137 00:06:56.439 --> 00:06:58.920 speaking of winning, Solomon tells us how to win it. 138 00:06:59.000 --> 00:07:03.360 Life of Proverbs? Is that a good one? That's okay? Good? Good, good, 139 00:07:03.439 --> 00:07:05.360 that's better. So if you don't know when you're new 140 00:07:05.360 --> 00:07:07.480 to the show, we're trying to figure out how to 141 00:07:07.519 --> 00:07:09.680 do the cheesiest transitions into. 142 00:07:09.759 --> 00:07:11.600 Yeah, and by the way, this is a new thing. 143 00:07:11.680 --> 00:07:14.279 Yeah, this is only a couple yes, weksl okay. So 144 00:07:14.319 --> 00:07:16.680 we are in Proverbs eighteen. Now we're just going chapter 145 00:07:16.720 --> 00:07:18.959 after chapter and we're looking at these little slogans. They're 146 00:07:18.959 --> 00:07:22.959 all one liners of whise sayings that are usually true 147 00:07:23.079 --> 00:07:26.720 in life. And so Solomon says in Chapter eighteen, verse one. 148 00:07:26.839 --> 00:07:31.160 Unfriendly people care only about themselves. They lash out at 149 00:07:31.160 --> 00:07:35.000 common sense. Fools have no interest in understanding. They only 150 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:38.439 want to air their own opinions. Doing wrong leads to 151 00:07:38.480 --> 00:07:43.800 disgrace and scandalous behavior brings contempt. Wise words are like 152 00:07:43.920 --> 00:07:47.480 deep waters. Wisdom flows from the wys like a bubbling brook. 153 00:07:48.839 --> 00:07:51.120 It is not right to quit the guilty or deny 154 00:07:51.319 --> 00:07:55.399 justice to the innocent. Fool's words get them into constant corals. 155 00:07:55.399 --> 00:07:59.480 They're asking for a beating. The mouths of fools are 156 00:07:59.519 --> 00:08:03.079 their ruin. They trap themselves with their lips. Rumors are 157 00:08:03.160 --> 00:08:06.959 dainty morsels that sink deep into one's heart. A lazy 158 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:10.319 person is as bad as someone who destroys things. The 159 00:08:10.399 --> 00:08:13.040 name of the Lord is a strong fortress. The godly 160 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:16.160 run to him and are safe. The rich think of 161 00:08:16.199 --> 00:08:18.399 their wealth as a strong defense, and they imagine it 162 00:08:18.439 --> 00:08:23.319 to be a high wall of safety. Haughtiness goes before destruction. 163 00:08:23.839 --> 00:08:28.360 Humility precedes honor. Spouting off before listening to the facts 164 00:08:28.360 --> 00:08:33.000 is both shameful and foolish. The human spirit can endure 165 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:36.120 a sick body, but who can bear a crushed spirit? 166 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:40.480 Intelligent people are always ready to learn. Their ears are 167 00:08:40.480 --> 00:08:44.759 open for knowledge. Giving a gift can open doors. It 168 00:08:44.799 --> 00:08:49.279 gives access to important people. The first to speaking court 169 00:08:49.399 --> 00:08:52.039 sounds right until the cross examination begins. 170 00:08:52.679 --> 00:08:53.159 Wow. 171 00:08:53.360 --> 00:08:54.200 That's a good one, isn't it. 172 00:08:54.399 --> 00:08:54.919 Yeah. 173 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:58.000 Flipping a coin can end arguments. That settles disputes between 174 00:08:58.039 --> 00:09:02.159 powerful opponents. An offended friend is harder to win back 175 00:09:02.200 --> 00:09:05.759 than a fortified city. Arguments separate friends like a gate 176 00:09:05.799 --> 00:09:10.240 locked with bars. Wise words satisfy like a good meal. 177 00:09:10.639 --> 00:09:14.759 The right words bring satisfaction. The tongue can bring life 178 00:09:14.919 --> 00:09:17.759 or death. Those who love to walk talk will reap 179 00:09:17.799 --> 00:09:21.960 the consequences. The man who finds a wife finds a treasure, 180 00:09:22.039 --> 00:09:25.559 and he receives honor from the lord. The poor plead 181 00:09:25.639 --> 00:09:30.559 for mercy, The rich answer with insults. There are friends 182 00:09:30.600 --> 00:09:33.159 who destroy each other, but a real friend stick closer 183 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:37.399 than a brother. That's good, and well, there you go. 184 00:09:37.600 --> 00:09:39.039 The word friends is in quotes. 185 00:09:39.480 --> 00:09:42.080 There are quote unquote friends who destroy each other. 186 00:09:42.120 --> 00:09:45.320 Right, but a real friend sticks close to the brother. 187 00:09:45.519 --> 00:09:49.440 Did we do a thing at heritage? I'm struggling with 188 00:09:49.480 --> 00:09:51.559 my throat today. Did we do a thing at heritage 189 00:09:51.559 --> 00:09:53.879 where we couldn't tell me? 190 00:09:56.639 --> 00:10:03.000 Yeah? Yeah, yeah. People who act like your friends, but aren't. 191 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:07.759 Yes, frenemies yea. So yeah, there's a lot there isn't there. 192 00:10:07.960 --> 00:10:11.000 Yeah, you know, So this would be a good time 193 00:10:11.039 --> 00:10:14.039 to reference this idea whenever you do. Whenever I do 194 00:10:14.720 --> 00:10:17.759 a basic study of any kind, like a devotional thing, 195 00:10:17.799 --> 00:10:21.919 I like to use the soap acronym. Right, soap sap 196 00:10:22.559 --> 00:10:26.240 s means you start with the scriptures. So the scripture 197 00:10:26.279 --> 00:10:29.960 in front of us here today is Proverbs eighteen, right, 198 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:31.799 and we read it and so we just read that 199 00:10:31.919 --> 00:10:33.559 and we read it all the way through. It's always 200 00:10:33.600 --> 00:10:35.320 good to to read out loud. Sometimes you hear it 201 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:37.720 in a different way. Whatever. So if you're with a 202 00:10:37.720 --> 00:10:40.399 friend like I, let's say you wanted to do this show, 203 00:10:41.039 --> 00:10:44.720 but you're hanging out at Starbucks, a good way and 204 00:10:45.320 --> 00:10:47.600 around the world. This is what we teach people, is 205 00:10:47.639 --> 00:10:49.080 you read it out loud. Have your friend read it 206 00:10:49.080 --> 00:10:51.000 out loud, so both of you are hearing it out loud. 207 00:10:51.240 --> 00:10:53.759 There's something special about that. I don't know why, but 208 00:10:53.879 --> 00:10:56.519 you just remember more. So start with scripture, and then 209 00:10:56.519 --> 00:10:59.000 the O is observations. And what you're observing is what 210 00:10:59.039 --> 00:11:02.240 does it say about God? What does it say about people? 211 00:11:02.600 --> 00:11:04.840 And what really just jumps off the page and captures 212 00:11:04.840 --> 00:11:07.840 my attention? Right, So there's only one phrase in here 213 00:11:07.879 --> 00:11:09.759 that talks about God, and that's the name of the 214 00:11:09.759 --> 00:11:13.399 Lord is a strong fortress? Right is that the only one? 215 00:11:14.399 --> 00:11:15.159 I think so? Yeah? 216 00:11:15.159 --> 00:11:16.159 I think so. Yeah. 217 00:11:16.320 --> 00:11:19.679 So these are life principles that have to do with 218 00:11:19.759 --> 00:11:21.799 others and yourself. 219 00:11:21.480 --> 00:11:24.120 Yeah, yep. And so then the other side is what 220 00:11:24.159 --> 00:11:26.320 does it say about people? Well, man, the whole chapters 221 00:11:26.320 --> 00:11:29.039 about people? Right then, like you and I like to do, 222 00:11:29.240 --> 00:11:31.480 will often go so what jumps off the page at us? 223 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:33.879 And the front of me? Thing jumped off the page 224 00:11:33.879 --> 00:11:36.679 at you or whatever? Right, there's several of those things. Then, 225 00:11:37.159 --> 00:11:39.519 So s is you start with the scriptures? Oh, you 226 00:11:39.559 --> 00:11:41.519 start with observations? What's to say about God? What does 227 00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:43.720 it say about people? And what really jumps off the 228 00:11:43.720 --> 00:11:47.720 page or captures my attention? And then the a is application? 229 00:11:48.799 --> 00:11:52.279 So then is there a command to obey? Is there 230 00:11:52.440 --> 00:11:55.679 a sin or a behavior to avoid? Is there something 231 00:11:55.679 --> 00:11:59.159 I should begin doing? Is there a promise to claim 232 00:11:59.720 --> 00:12:02.559 right those kinds of things? What does this mean to 233 00:12:02.600 --> 00:12:05.039 my life? Really? How do I apply this to my life? 234 00:12:05.080 --> 00:12:07.360 Who should I tell this to? Those things? And then 235 00:12:07.440 --> 00:12:10.000 p you just wrap it up with prayer. Right, God, Hey, 236 00:12:10.000 --> 00:12:11.360 this is what I learned today, This is what I 237 00:12:11.399 --> 00:12:13.399 feel like you taught me. And you go through what 238 00:12:13.440 --> 00:12:16.080 you learned about God, what you learned about humanity in general, 239 00:12:16.639 --> 00:12:19.399 the things that really captured your tension, and then God, 240 00:12:19.480 --> 00:12:23.200 I see this, you know, this thing to avoid, I 241 00:12:23.200 --> 00:12:26.159 should be careful about letting my words get me into chorls, 242 00:12:26.240 --> 00:12:30.080 or I should be careful about, you know, talking too 243 00:12:30.120 --> 00:12:32.200 much when I really don't know what I'm talking about. Whatever, 244 00:12:32.240 --> 00:12:34.320 you know, because I see these things, and so then 245 00:12:34.360 --> 00:12:36.360 you tell God what you saw, and then you're tell 246 00:12:36.440 --> 00:12:39.320 him as a result of that, this is what I 247 00:12:39.399 --> 00:12:41.759 want to do over the next day or two or three. 248 00:12:42.000 --> 00:12:43.559 Help me with those things, you know, as you go 249 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:45.320 on and the rest of your prayers. So soap is 250 00:12:45.360 --> 00:12:48.879 a really great acronym, and really that process is really 251 00:12:48.919 --> 00:12:52.759 how you and I filter through all these chapters. Anyways, right, yes, yeah. 252 00:12:52.600 --> 00:12:57.879 Really, yeah, you know, so observing and then what jumps 253 00:12:57.919 --> 00:13:01.519 off of the page at you? Yeah, thirteen, spouting off 254 00:13:01.759 --> 00:13:05.720 before listening to the facts is both shameful and foolish. 255 00:13:05.759 --> 00:13:11.039 So here's a question, pready know what you canna say? No, 256 00:13:09.960 --> 00:13:12.320 But that's good. That's good. 257 00:13:12.879 --> 00:13:14.840 No, I was just gonna say, do you have a 258 00:13:14.879 --> 00:13:18.480 tendency to do that? Do you think yourself or do 259 00:13:18.559 --> 00:13:21.120 you think that's something that other people do to you? 260 00:13:21.279 --> 00:13:24.360 Yeah? No, I do that. I very quickly get to 261 00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:26.639 the end of what you're saying sometimes and I wind 262 00:13:26.679 --> 00:13:28.720 up saying dumb things. And do you think that that 263 00:13:28.960 --> 00:13:32.039 particularly hurt my wife with that a lot? Yeah? 264 00:13:32.080 --> 00:13:34.120 And do you think that that's just like a part 265 00:13:34.159 --> 00:13:37.440 of a personality wiring. I mean, obviously it's something that could. 266 00:13:37.240 --> 00:13:39.240 Be learned, right, No, it's just because I'm a fool. 267 00:13:39.240 --> 00:13:45.200 The Bible says, and we've already talked about it, the fools. 268 00:13:45.240 --> 00:13:49.360 You know, you can't fix a fool. So no, no, 269 00:13:49.639 --> 00:13:51.559 it is. It's one of those things. The reason why 270 00:13:51.639 --> 00:13:53.919 Solomon has to tell us all these things is a 271 00:13:53.960 --> 00:13:56.360 wise person reads those things and goes, ooh, I should 272 00:13:56.399 --> 00:14:00.000 work on that, and a foolish person goes, that's dumb, right, right, right. 273 00:14:00.159 --> 00:14:02.159 So I think a wise person would say, yeah, I 274 00:14:02.159 --> 00:14:04.039 think I struggle with that. I'd jump into an answer 275 00:14:04.120 --> 00:14:06.879 too quickly sometimes rather than hearing the whole story. 276 00:14:06.919 --> 00:14:08.879 And that's part of the teachability thing that we talked 277 00:14:08.879 --> 00:14:13.720 about was it yesterday? Yep, Yeah, that's that's really good. 278 00:14:14.200 --> 00:14:16.440 That's really good. Well, it says in two verses later, 279 00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:18.840 intelligent people are always ready to learn. That's right, and 280 00:14:18.879 --> 00:14:21.799 their ears are open for knowledge. So the idea that, like, 281 00:14:21.879 --> 00:14:24.159 you know, because the reason why I asked that question, 282 00:14:24.200 --> 00:14:26.960 by the way, is because there are certain personalities that 283 00:14:27.000 --> 00:14:29.559 want to get to the end, you know, like, don't 284 00:14:29.559 --> 00:14:31.600 give me that. In fact, I had lunch with somebody 285 00:14:31.639 --> 00:14:34.960 yesterday and he said, he said, yeah, he goes, I'm 286 00:14:34.960 --> 00:14:37.200 not a detailed person. He said, don't give me the labor, 287 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:39.480 just give me the baby. 288 00:14:39.919 --> 00:14:43.000 Well, I think for men in general, we tend to 289 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:45.480 be fixers. We want to fix a thing. That's a 290 00:14:45.519 --> 00:14:49.120 really generalized statement, but it seems to be true. And 291 00:14:49.200 --> 00:14:53.919 so I am that. So if not everybody, lots of people, 292 00:14:54.039 --> 00:14:56.039 I go into meetings you've been in meetings before, where 293 00:14:56.039 --> 00:14:57.840 I go in and I just I'll ask a probing 294 00:14:57.919 --> 00:15:00.679 question and sit back, just let somebody talk for twenty minutes, 295 00:15:00.679 --> 00:15:03.159 trying to figure out what are they thinking, why are 296 00:15:03.200 --> 00:15:05.320 they doing, what they're doing whatever, Let them talk it out, 297 00:15:05.360 --> 00:15:08.000 and then I'll jump in sometimes. So you see me 298 00:15:08.039 --> 00:15:11.440 do that too, but particularly if somebody comes in. And 299 00:15:12.159 --> 00:15:15.919 I'm not super fond of problems, but I like solving problems. 300 00:15:17.360 --> 00:15:19.879 Probably the first really really good job I ever had 301 00:15:19.879 --> 00:15:22.840 in my life, I was working for Marriott Hotels and 302 00:15:22.879 --> 00:15:26.080 I've been there about six weeks and my boss comes in, 303 00:15:26.279 --> 00:15:28.759 a boss. He wasn't even my boss, but a boss. 304 00:15:28.879 --> 00:15:31.080 We had twelve hundred and eighty rooms. We had nine 305 00:15:31.159 --> 00:15:34.000 hundred employees at our one hotel. I'm Michigan event in Chicago, 306 00:15:34.120 --> 00:15:36.279 nine hundred, so it was a big hotel. And so 307 00:15:36.320 --> 00:15:38.559 this boss comes. He says, hey, Jeff, keep coming in 308 00:15:38.559 --> 00:15:41.200 to my office. I said sure. He says, you like the 309 00:15:41.240 --> 00:15:44.200 talk and I said yeah. He said you like interfacing 310 00:15:44.200 --> 00:15:46.559 with people? I said sure. So I noticed the job 311 00:15:46.600 --> 00:15:48.399 that you have is behind the scenes all the time. 312 00:15:48.600 --> 00:15:50.879 He said, are you good at problem solving? I said yeah, 313 00:15:50.919 --> 00:15:52.399 I think so. He said, can I run you through 314 00:15:52.399 --> 00:15:53.919 a battery of test? I think I have a cool 315 00:15:53.960 --> 00:15:55.720 job for you. I said sure. So they ran me 316 00:15:55.720 --> 00:15:58.399 through this battery of tests and it's all problem solving, tests, 317 00:15:58.559 --> 00:16:02.120 quick problem solving, and how do you delight people. I 318 00:16:02.159 --> 00:16:04.679 just didn't realize that was the thing, And so then 319 00:16:04.879 --> 00:16:08.039 they put me in charge of I answered every single 320 00:16:08.080 --> 00:16:10.919 complaint from all twelve hundred and eighty rooms every night. 321 00:16:11.480 --> 00:16:13.840 That was my job. I had thirty people that would 322 00:16:13.879 --> 00:16:16.519 just run and go solve all the problems from every 323 00:16:16.559 --> 00:16:18.799 single complaint in the hotel. That's what I did, and 324 00:16:18.840 --> 00:16:24.399 I loved it. What Yeah, you know that I loved 325 00:16:24.440 --> 00:16:24.879 that job. 326 00:16:24.960 --> 00:16:29.720 I knew everything about you working at Marriott Hotels except 327 00:16:29.759 --> 00:16:31.720 for that that was your job description. 328 00:16:31.799 --> 00:16:35.039 Yeah yeah, Like wow, So complaints all night? 329 00:16:35.200 --> 00:16:37.720 Now did you talk with the people who complained or 330 00:16:37.720 --> 00:16:38.120 did yeah? 331 00:16:38.159 --> 00:16:40.679 Yeah, the phone? So this was really cool. This was 332 00:16:40.720 --> 00:16:43.919 back in you know, nineteen ninety color Ide was like 333 00:16:44.039 --> 00:16:46.200 brand new. So I had a phone on my desk 334 00:16:46.279 --> 00:16:48.919 and I knew every single room, and then I would 335 00:16:48.960 --> 00:16:52.039 print off a manifest of everybody that was in the 336 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:55.360 in every hotel room. And then I went to booking 337 00:16:55.600 --> 00:16:57.759 and I discovered what the codes were, and then I 338 00:16:57.799 --> 00:16:59.679 would figure out how many nights a year did you 339 00:16:59.679 --> 00:17:01.519 stay in one of our hotels and were you traveling 340 00:17:01.519 --> 00:17:04.240 on a business expense or your own personal expenses? And 341 00:17:04.319 --> 00:17:06.559 so then I would make highlights, make notes so I 342 00:17:06.759 --> 00:17:08.359 knew who I was talking to. So then you call 343 00:17:08.440 --> 00:17:10.519 from room twelve eighty five and i'd be able to 344 00:17:10.559 --> 00:17:13.000 see twelve eighty five. Oh, he's a high roller. He's 345 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:16.480 traveling with a business account and he stays sixty five 346 00:17:16.559 --> 00:17:18.680 nights a year. Well, buddy, i'd back off, you know, 347 00:17:18.720 --> 00:17:21.640 bend over backwards for your your pillows not fluffy, and 348 00:17:21.680 --> 00:17:23.079 you want to tell me off, I'm going to send 349 00:17:23.119 --> 00:17:25.119 you to out for stake in a blue man group 350 00:17:25.160 --> 00:17:29.200 and a limousine. Right. Oh, I could spend fifteen hundred 351 00:17:29.200 --> 00:17:33.319 dollars to keep you happy per person per room. Yeah, 352 00:17:33.519 --> 00:17:35.880 for the high rollers. Yeah, if you've been in our 353 00:17:35.880 --> 00:17:37.880 hotel for fifteen nights a year, I could do almost 354 00:17:37.920 --> 00:17:41.440 anything to make you happy. Wow. So it was fantastic, right, 355 00:17:41.640 --> 00:17:46.640 So because I was highly empowered, I delighted in solving 356 00:17:46.640 --> 00:17:49.240 people's problems. It was famb because it turned into a game. 357 00:17:49.359 --> 00:17:51.160 So instead of me getting mad and shut up, you're 358 00:17:51.160 --> 00:17:54.200 an idiot, that was a fluffy pillow. Instead I was like, oh, certain, 359 00:17:54.200 --> 00:17:55.839 I'm so sorry. What can I do to make you happy? 360 00:17:55.880 --> 00:17:57.880 You know what I'm going to send up, you know, 361 00:17:57.960 --> 00:17:59.480 six pillows. You'll be able to test them all out. 362 00:17:59.480 --> 00:18:01.480 But in the meantime you should not have to suffer 363 00:18:01.480 --> 00:18:04.200 through that kind of stuff. We delight in providing better service. 364 00:18:04.240 --> 00:18:06.720 Why don't I just give you and your wife a 365 00:18:06.720 --> 00:18:09.720 fifty dollars gift card to our steakhouse downtown or downstairs? 366 00:18:10.359 --> 00:18:10.559 Yeah? 367 00:18:10.640 --> 00:18:13.599 What right? So I'd send in ten extra pillows, let 368 00:18:13.640 --> 00:18:15.640 them pick them all out, because you know, different pillows 369 00:18:15.640 --> 00:18:17.640 have different fluffiness to them. We had all these different 370 00:18:17.640 --> 00:18:20.519 styles or blankets or whatever. I'd send them four extra 371 00:18:20.559 --> 00:18:23.240 boxes of chocolates, the whole nine yards. And you know, 372 00:18:23.279 --> 00:18:25.480 if you stayed there forty nights, fifty nights a year. 373 00:18:25.880 --> 00:18:29.359 So for me, that that problem solving thing was a 374 00:18:29.400 --> 00:18:32.279 delight in that, and that became a big part of 375 00:18:32.279 --> 00:18:34.960 my life, just trying to sell people. But because of that, 376 00:18:35.720 --> 00:18:38.200 my wife comes sometimes she wants to talk to me 377 00:18:38.559 --> 00:18:41.960 about how she feels about a thing. Yeah, And I go, yeah, yeah, 378 00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:44.160 I hear you. Here's what you should do. Yeah, And 379 00:18:44.200 --> 00:18:46.720 she's like, wasn't looking for an answer, didn't need you 380 00:18:46.759 --> 00:18:48.359 to fix it. I want you to feel it with 381 00:18:48.400 --> 00:18:48.960 me for a minute. 382 00:18:49.039 --> 00:18:49.319 Yeah. 383 00:18:49.359 --> 00:18:51.200 And that's where that's where I would say that spouting 384 00:18:51.200 --> 00:18:53.160 off thing comes from, because I'm quick to try to 385 00:18:53.200 --> 00:18:55.960 solve a problem and she's not want me to solve 386 00:18:55.960 --> 00:18:57.799 the problem. She's want me to feel the problem for 387 00:18:57.799 --> 00:18:58.200 a minute. 388 00:18:58.319 --> 00:19:04.000 Yeah, just saw a clip yesterday with Family, Modern Family 389 00:19:04.519 --> 00:19:07.920 and Phil. You know, he's my favorite character almost on 390 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:10.839 any TV show ever created ever. Okay, he he's married, 391 00:19:10.880 --> 00:19:14.720 you know, uh, with the with the family there family, 392 00:19:14.759 --> 00:19:18.440 but anyway, so he's but he's he's sitting there with 393 00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:20.400 like a green mask on, with a bunch of women 394 00:19:20.440 --> 00:19:22.799 at some salon or something, right, because he has these 395 00:19:22.839 --> 00:19:25.480 like tendencies and he goes, what, ladies, what are you 396 00:19:25.480 --> 00:19:27.359 trying to tell me? He goes, you're trying to tell 397 00:19:27.400 --> 00:19:30.680 me the next time. My wife says, oh, I got 398 00:19:30.680 --> 00:19:33.480 stuck in traffic. He goes, I shouldn't say, why don't 399 00:19:33.519 --> 00:19:39.039 you try leaving half an hour earlier? No, so what 400 00:19:39.079 --> 00:19:41.079 you're saying is I should just say, oh that that's 401 00:19:41.119 --> 00:19:46.839