WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to the Bible guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:07.519 practical ways. 4 00:00:12.000 --> 00:00:17.199 Hey, everybody, we want to welcome you formally and delightfully 5 00:00:17.559 --> 00:00:23.519 formally welcome. Yes, well officially, okay, officially, that's what I meant. 6 00:00:23.559 --> 00:00:25.719 Yes, I didn't mean necessarily. 7 00:00:25.199 --> 00:00:27.600 If we couldn't through the screen or through your radio 8 00:00:28.879 --> 00:00:32.679 speak shake your hand, looking in the eye and say welcome. 9 00:00:33.159 --> 00:00:33.759 That be fun. 10 00:00:34.039 --> 00:00:36.200 It is our privilege to have you here. 11 00:00:36.280 --> 00:00:38.719 Yes, that's some Star Trek kind of thinking right there, 12 00:00:38.560 --> 00:00:39.079 there you go. 13 00:00:39.159 --> 00:00:39.520 That's right. 14 00:00:39.520 --> 00:00:42.240 I would love for the world to be like Star Trek. Okay, 15 00:00:42.439 --> 00:00:45.960 in terms of travel and and you know, beaming. 16 00:00:45.759 --> 00:00:47.439 Well speaking of your favorite movies. 17 00:00:47.840 --> 00:00:49.240 Oh, yeah, for sure. 18 00:00:49.679 --> 00:00:52.439 So today is Trivia Tuesday. Oh that's what I've heard, 19 00:00:52.640 --> 00:00:53.960 or trivia whatever day it is. 20 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:56.560 You're listening to the like sixty seconds ago. 21 00:00:56.640 --> 00:01:00.000 Yeah, but so we know that Chris knows this movie quote. 22 00:01:00.479 --> 00:01:01.520 Yeah, well some of them. 23 00:01:01.600 --> 00:01:05.120 But let's test his overall movie trivia knowledge. 24 00:01:05.400 --> 00:01:08.680 Oh, you're you're reading with desire, wrote yes, okay. 25 00:01:08.439 --> 00:01:11.719 So can you answer these trivia questions correctly? 26 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:14.239 Before the segment started, By the way, when we were. 27 00:01:14.280 --> 00:01:15.319 I was reading through them. 28 00:01:15.599 --> 00:01:17.920 Yeah you were. You were saying, it's hard, these are hard. 29 00:01:17.920 --> 00:01:21.040 I wouldn't know these, okay. And I wouldn't know any 30 00:01:21.120 --> 00:01:23.799 of these, okay, and I oh really yeah, and there's 31 00:01:23.799 --> 00:01:26.239 five yeah, but I don't know most of the movie quotes. 32 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:29.439 You do either, so that doesn't matter. But okay, ready, okay. 33 00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:33.040 What is the name of the boat in Jaws? 34 00:01:34.079 --> 00:01:34.959 It's easy orca? 35 00:01:35.319 --> 00:01:35.719 Oh wow. 36 00:01:35.760 --> 00:01:36.560 Everybody knows that. 37 00:01:36.640 --> 00:01:41.480 Everybody. Everybody knows it except Jeff. Jeff doesn't know this. Okay, 38 00:01:41.920 --> 00:01:42.280 I can't. 39 00:01:42.560 --> 00:01:43.280 You didn't know that. 40 00:01:43.319 --> 00:01:44.719 I did not. Yeah, you know. 41 00:01:44.799 --> 00:01:46.879 It's if you ever met somebody who like knows so 42 00:01:46.959 --> 00:01:48.079 much about football, you're. 43 00:01:47.959 --> 00:01:49.319 Like, dude, just study a bibble verse. 44 00:01:49.400 --> 00:01:51.640 Yeah yeah, yah, yeah right, that's me. Or guys that 45 00:01:51.719 --> 00:01:54.640 know movies. Yeah yeah, right, Okay, here we go. Which 46 00:01:54.719 --> 00:01:58.359 Disney movie was the first full length animated feature produced 47 00:01:58.359 --> 00:01:59.000 in the United States. 48 00:01:59.000 --> 00:01:59.920 Okay, this is not hard. 49 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:03.760 Come on snow White in the Seven Doors. Yeah that 50 00:02:03.959 --> 00:02:07.040 he risked really, yeah, he risked everything that was like 51 00:02:07.120 --> 00:02:09.520 nineteen thirty nine or thirty eight or something like that, 52 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:11.120 and he risked. 53 00:02:10.879 --> 00:02:13.639 Everything on snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. 54 00:02:14.000 --> 00:02:16.639 So he was about to be bankrupt, and had snow 55 00:02:16.639 --> 00:02:19.240 White not done well, he would have claimed bankruptcy. 56 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:23.120 Wow, yeah, I had no idea. Yeah, okay, what is 57 00:02:23.159 --> 00:02:27.120 the very first animal scene in Disney's the Lion King 58 00:02:27.960 --> 00:02:28.719 at the beginning? 59 00:02:28.919 --> 00:02:31.639 Yes, yeah, whatever it is? 60 00:02:31.759 --> 00:02:33.599 Okay, First of all, I'm not going to get this, 61 00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:36.719 but I'll take a guess. Let me process it out loud. 62 00:02:37.800 --> 00:02:42.759 So I see gazelle's there's like the meer cats who 63 00:02:42.919 --> 00:02:48.159 come up. There's a rhino, there's giraffe. There's elephants that 64 00:02:48.240 --> 00:02:50.759 eventually come over. I know that the elephants come later. 65 00:02:51.280 --> 00:02:52.000 There's ants. 66 00:02:53.039 --> 00:02:53.639 I could see the. 67 00:02:53.560 --> 00:02:58.319 Whole thing before you before you guess. Yes, you've already 68 00:02:58.360 --> 00:02:59.840 said what the first animal was. 69 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:06.439 Oh, it's in that group. Yeah, okay, so what is first? 70 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:09.599 What is first? There's zebra, that's. 71 00:03:09.240 --> 00:03:11.919 Not You've had already said zebra, and I know I know. 72 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:16.280 Okay, okay, yeah, you're right. Okay, So it's hard. I'm 73 00:03:16.280 --> 00:03:20.919 gonna say the little meercats that pop up. 74 00:03:21.039 --> 00:03:25.360 Nope, ah, but you want to keep going, it's rhino 75 00:03:26.280 --> 00:03:29.919 rhino y according to Dez, I don't know. I don't know. 76 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:32.159 It's just what's on the shape in front of me, that's. 77 00:03:32.080 --> 00:03:35.879 Right, because it starts off with that low yeah, and 78 00:03:35.919 --> 00:03:37.560 then he and then he starts marching in. 79 00:03:38.120 --> 00:03:38.599 That's right. 80 00:03:39.879 --> 00:03:43.360 In what year was the film Forrest Gump released? 81 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:44.879 Oh? 82 00:03:45.000 --> 00:03:47.879 Gee, is I'm usually really good at this. I know 83 00:03:47.919 --> 00:03:48.840 it's mid nineties. 84 00:03:51.400 --> 00:04:00.840 I'm I'm gonna say. 85 00:03:57.960 --> 00:04:01.840 It was ninety four. Okay, so two and two? This 86 00:04:01.879 --> 00:04:03.639 is it right here? This is the majority. 87 00:04:03.800 --> 00:04:05.439 Okay, oh, this is the majority. 88 00:04:05.639 --> 00:04:10.840 Yeah. So either yeah, no pressure, no pressure. Which Indiana 89 00:04:10.919 --> 00:04:15.680 Jones film sparked the controversy that led to the creation 90 00:04:15.879 --> 00:04:17.399 of the PG thirteen rating. 91 00:04:18.759 --> 00:04:22.160 First of all, wow, yeah, I did not know that 92 00:04:22.240 --> 00:04:25.920 piece of trivia one of the Indiana Jones led to 93 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:29.079 controversy that invented the. 94 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:33.920 PG The creation of the PG thirteen rating, well, obviously, 95 00:04:33.959 --> 00:04:34.639 I'm just gonna. 96 00:04:34.399 --> 00:04:36.680 Have to talk this out. 97 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:40.959 It's either a the ending of part one, because it 98 00:04:41.000 --> 00:04:43.399 was the only controversial part where his face melted off, 99 00:04:44.360 --> 00:04:49.360 which I wouldn't think would be that number two. Oh, 100 00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:53.480 there's a lot of number two templa doom. There's a 101 00:04:53.480 --> 00:04:57.079 lot there with reaching into the heart and pulling out 102 00:04:57.079 --> 00:05:02.199 the heart and the voodoo, the evil that's that's that's 103 00:05:02.279 --> 00:05:06.319 monkey brains, monkey brains is comical but yet creepy. Then 104 00:05:06.439 --> 00:05:08.680 number three was not controversial at all. 105 00:05:10.519 --> 00:05:11.639 The Holy Grail. 106 00:05:13.519 --> 00:05:14.959 It's more Nazi or Nazisi. 107 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:17.560 But but there was nothing creepy at all about it. 108 00:05:17.600 --> 00:05:19.480 So I'm gonna have to see the Temple of Doom. 109 00:05:19.680 --> 00:05:20.839 It was the Temple of Doom. 110 00:05:20.879 --> 00:05:21.240 There you go. 111 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:23.839 You worked it out. I worked it out like that. 112 00:05:24.600 --> 00:05:25.680 You worked for that win. 113 00:05:25.839 --> 00:05:28.120 Hey, I I did not realize that, did you. 114 00:05:28.240 --> 00:05:30.079 I didn't know. I told you. I didn't know any 115 00:05:30.120 --> 00:05:32.480 of these, so so that was a mystery to me too. 116 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:35.240 Hey, but but but Indian Jones are some of your favorite. 117 00:05:35.399 --> 00:05:37.000 Oh yeah, I like the Indian Jones movies. 118 00:05:37.199 --> 00:05:37.560 Huh. 119 00:05:37.639 --> 00:05:38.680 It's not like I study them. 120 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:41.720 I just well, but you hear something and you remember it. 121 00:05:42.199 --> 00:05:45.879 Well, I'll remember that forever now, you think. So yeah, absolutely, yeah, 122 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:48.959 next time I watched, I'll go, did you know? Because 123 00:05:48.959 --> 00:05:51.560 that's that's me. I have. My head's full stupid little 124 00:05:51.560 --> 00:05:52.120 trivia things. 125 00:05:52.399 --> 00:05:54.639 It's like Oscar on the on the Office. He's he's 126 00:05:54.639 --> 00:06:01.439 the he's the guy that's known to be Actually yeah, actually, actually, okay, 127 00:06:02.279 --> 00:06:07.040 that was fun. But I missed almost half of them. 128 00:06:07.680 --> 00:06:12.439 No, no, you got three, right? You got sixty percent correct, 129 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:17.199 All right, almost half better than half, better than half, 130 00:06:17.240 --> 00:06:17.879 better than half. 131 00:06:17.920 --> 00:06:18.920 I missed almost half. 132 00:06:18.959 --> 00:06:19.560 You're a winner. 133 00:06:20.279 --> 00:06:22.000 That's a winner. 134 00:06:22.079 --> 00:06:23.800 You would have won an election with sixty percent of 135 00:06:23.800 --> 00:06:24.759 the vote. 136 00:06:24.759 --> 00:06:26.800 There it is, Yeah, you said it. 137 00:06:26.800 --> 00:06:32.120 Yeah, you would have won. Okay, So I have no 138 00:06:32.120 --> 00:06:36.600 no transition Oh yeah, transition transitions. I'm trying. I can't 139 00:06:36.639 --> 00:06:37.120 find one. 140 00:06:37.439 --> 00:06:42.399 Hey, speaking of speaking of winning, winning of facts that 141 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:48.639 we don't normally think about, Solomon Pepper's the Book of 142 00:06:48.680 --> 00:06:53.000 Proverbs with these facts that we should always try to remember. 143 00:06:53.759 --> 00:06:56.000 Yeah, that one works. Or I was going to say, 144 00:06:56.399 --> 00:06:58.879 speaking of winning, Solomon tells us how to win it. 145 00:06:58.959 --> 00:07:02.959 Life of Proverbs? Is that a good one? That's okay? Good? 146 00:07:03.000 --> 00:07:03.839 Good, good, that's better. 147 00:07:04.079 --> 00:07:05.759 So if you don't know when you're new to the show, 148 00:07:06.120 --> 00:07:08.279 we're trying to figure out how to do the cheesiest 149 00:07:08.279 --> 00:07:09.639 transitions into. 150 00:07:09.720 --> 00:07:11.560 Yeah, and by the way, this is a new thing. 151 00:07:11.680 --> 00:07:14.240 Yeah, this is only a couple yes, weksl okay. So 152 00:07:14.319 --> 00:07:16.639 we are in Proverbs eighteen. Now we're just going chapter 153 00:07:16.680 --> 00:07:18.920 after chapter, and we're looking at these little slogans. They're 154 00:07:18.920 --> 00:07:22.920 all one liners of wise sayings that are usually true 155 00:07:23.040 --> 00:07:26.639 in life. And so Solomon says in chapter eighteen, verse one, 156 00:07:26.800 --> 00:07:31.120 unfriendly people care only about themselves. They lash out at 157 00:07:31.160 --> 00:07:34.959 common sense. Fools have no interest in understanding. They only 158 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:38.399 want to air their own opinions. Doing wrong leads to 159 00:07:38.439 --> 00:07:43.800 disgrace and scandalous behavior brings contempt. Wise words are like 160 00:07:43.879 --> 00:07:47.439 deep waters. Wisdom flows from the whys like a bubbling brook. 161 00:07:48.800 --> 00:07:51.120 It is not right to quit the guilty or deny 162 00:07:51.279 --> 00:07:55.360 justice to the innocent. Fool's words get them into constant corals. 163 00:07:55.360 --> 00:07:59.480 They're asking for a beating. The mouths of fools are 164 00:07:59.480 --> 00:08:03.040 their ruin. They trap themselves with their lips. Rumors are 165 00:08:03.120 --> 00:08:06.920 dainty morsels that sink deep into one's heart. A lazy 166 00:08:06.959 --> 00:08:10.279 person is as bad as someone who destroys things. The 167 00:08:10.360 --> 00:08:13.000 name of the Lord is a strong fortress. The godly 168 00:08:13.079 --> 00:08:16.160 run to him and are safe. The rich think of 169 00:08:16.160 --> 00:08:18.360 their wealth as a strong defense, and they imagine it 170 00:08:18.399 --> 00:08:23.279 to be a high wall of safety. Haughtiness goes before destruction. 171 00:08:23.839 --> 00:08:28.319 Humility precedes honor. Spouting off before listening to the facts 172 00:08:28.319 --> 00:08:32.960 is both shameful and foolish. The human spirit can endure 173 00:08:32.960 --> 00:08:36.120 a sick body, but who can bear a crushed spirit? 174 00:08:37.320 --> 00:08:40.440 Intelligent people are always ready to learn. Their ears are 175 00:08:40.480 --> 00:08:44.720 open for knowledge. Giving a gift can open doors. It 176 00:08:44.759 --> 00:08:49.240 gives access to important people. The first to speaking court 177 00:08:49.360 --> 00:08:51.960 sounds right until the cross examination begins. 178 00:08:52.679 --> 00:08:53.120 Wow. 179 00:08:53.320 --> 00:08:54.240 That's a good one, isn't it. 180 00:08:54.360 --> 00:08:54.879 Yeah. 181 00:08:54.919 --> 00:08:58.000 Flipping a coin can end arguments. That settles disputes between 182 00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:02.120 powerful opponents. An offended friend is harder to win back 183 00:09:02.159 --> 00:09:05.720 than a fortified city. Arguments separate friends like a gate 184 00:09:05.759 --> 00:09:10.200 locked with bars. Wise words satisfy like a good meal. 185 00:09:10.639 --> 00:09:14.720 The right words bring satisfaction. The tongue can bring life 186 00:09:14.879 --> 00:09:17.720 or death. Those who love to walk talk will reap 187 00:09:17.759 --> 00:09:21.919 the consequences. The man who finds a wife finds a treasure, 188 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:25.519 and he receives honor from the lord. The poor plead 189 00:09:25.600 --> 00:09:30.519 for mercy, The rich answer with insults. There are friends 190 00:09:30.559 --> 00:09:33.080 who destroy each other, but a real friend stick closer 191 00:09:33.159 --> 00:09:37.360 than a brother. That's good, and well, there you go. 192 00:09:37.559 --> 00:09:39.080 The word friends is in quotes. 193 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:41.879 There are quote unquote friends who destroy each. 194 00:09:41.759 --> 00:09:45.279 Other, right, but a real friend sticks close to the brother. 195 00:09:45.480 --> 00:09:49.440 Did we do a thing at heritage? I'm struggling with 196 00:09:49.440 --> 00:09:51.519 my throat today. Did we do a thing at heritage 197 00:09:51.519 --> 00:09:51.879 where we. 198 00:09:51.840 --> 00:10:01.799 Couldn't tell me? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, people who act like 199 00:10:01.840 --> 00:10:02.440 your friends but. 200 00:10:02.440 --> 00:10:07.279 Aren't yes, frenemies Yea. So yeah, there's a lot there 201 00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:07.720 isn't there. 202 00:10:07.919 --> 00:10:10.960 Yeah, you know, So this would be a good time 203 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:14.000 to reference this idea whenever you do. Whenever I do 204 00:10:14.679 --> 00:10:17.720 a basic study of any kind, like a devotional thing, 205 00:10:17.759 --> 00:10:21.879 I like to use the soap acronym. Right, soap sap 206 00:10:22.559 --> 00:10:26.200 s means you start with the scriptures. So the scripture 207 00:10:26.240 --> 00:10:29.919 in front of us here today is Proverbs eighteen, right, 208 00:10:29.960 --> 00:10:31.759 and we read it and so we just read that 209 00:10:31.879 --> 00:10:33.519 and we read it all the way through. It's always 210 00:10:33.519 --> 00:10:35.200 a good I to read out loud. Sometimes you hear 211 00:10:35.240 --> 00:10:37.559 it in a different way. Whatever. So if you're with 212 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:39.639 a friend like I, let's say you wanted to do 213 00:10:39.799 --> 00:10:44.039 this show, but you're hanging out at Starbucks, a good 214 00:10:44.120 --> 00:10:46.720 way and around the world. This is what we teach 215 00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:48.799 people is you read it out loud. Have your friend 216 00:10:48.840 --> 00:10:50.279 read it out loud, so both of you are hearing 217 00:10:50.360 --> 00:10:52.759 it out loud. There's something special about that. I don't 218 00:10:52.759 --> 00:10:55.960 know why, but you just remember more. So start with scripture, 219 00:10:56.240 --> 00:10:58.720 and then the O is observations. And what you're observing 220 00:10:58.799 --> 00:11:01.039 is what does it say about God? What does it 221 00:11:01.120 --> 00:11:04.120 say about people and what really just jumps off the 222 00:11:04.120 --> 00:11:07.159 page and captures my attention? Right? So there's only one 223 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:09.320 phrase in here that talks about God, and that's the 224 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:12.679 name of the Lord is a strong fortress? Right is 225 00:11:12.720 --> 00:11:13.360 that the only one? 226 00:11:14.360 --> 00:11:14.679 I think? 227 00:11:14.720 --> 00:11:15.080 So? Yeah? 228 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:16.120 I think so yeah. 229 00:11:16.279 --> 00:11:19.639 So these are life principles that have to do with 230 00:11:19.759 --> 00:11:21.240 others and yourself? 231 00:11:21.440 --> 00:11:22.320 Yeah, yep. 232 00:11:22.600 --> 00:11:24.399 And so then the other side is what does it 233 00:11:24.399 --> 00:11:26.799 say about people? Well, man, the whole chapters about people? 234 00:11:27.039 --> 00:11:29.399 Right then, like you and I like to do, will 235 00:11:29.399 --> 00:11:31.440 often go so what jumps off the page at us 236 00:11:31.960 --> 00:11:33.840 and the front of me? Thing jumped off the page 237 00:11:33.840 --> 00:11:36.639 at you or whatever? Right, there's several of those things then, 238 00:11:37.120 --> 00:11:39.519 So s is you start with the scriptures? Oh, you 239 00:11:39.519 --> 00:11:41.440 start with observations? What's to say about God? What does 240 00:11:41.480 --> 00:11:43.679 it say about people? And what really jumps off the 241 00:11:43.720 --> 00:11:47.679 page or captures my attention? And then the a is application? 242 00:11:48.799 --> 00:11:52.240 So then is there a command to obey? Is there 243 00:11:52.399 --> 00:11:55.639 a sin or a behavior to avoid? Is there something 244 00:11:55.639 --> 00:11:59.840 I should begin doing? Is there a promise to claim? Right? 245 00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:03.639 Those kinds of things? What does this mean to my life? Really? 246 00:12:03.639 --> 00:12:05.480 How do I apply this to my life? Who should 247 00:12:05.519 --> 00:12:07.799 I tell this to? Those things? And then p you 248 00:12:07.919 --> 00:12:10.080 just wrap it up with prayer. Right, God, Hey, this 249 00:12:10.159 --> 00:12:11.559 is what I learned today, This is what I feel 250 00:12:11.600 --> 00:12:13.480 like you taught me. And you go through what you 251 00:12:13.559 --> 00:12:16.039 learned about God, what you learned about humanity in general, 252 00:12:16.600 --> 00:12:19.360 the things that really captured your tension, and then God, 253 00:12:19.440 --> 00:12:23.159 I see this, you know, this thing to avoid, I 254 00:12:23.159 --> 00:12:26.120 should be careful about letting my words get me into chorls, 255 00:12:26.200 --> 00:12:30.039 or I should be careful about, you know, talking too 256 00:12:30.080 --> 00:12:32.159 much when I really don't know what I'm talking about. Whatever, 257 00:12:32.200 --> 00:12:34.279 you know, because I see these things, and so then 258 00:12:34.320 --> 00:12:36.320 you tell God what you saw, and then you're tell 259 00:12:36.399 --> 00:12:39.279 him as a result of that, this is what I 260 00:12:39.360 --> 00:12:41.720 want to do over the next day or two or three. 261 00:12:41.960 --> 00:12:43.519 Help me with those things, you know, as you go 262 00:12:43.559 --> 00:12:45.279 on and the rest of your prayers. So soap is 263 00:12:45.320 --> 00:12:48.840 a really great acronym. And really that process is really 264 00:12:48.879 --> 00:12:51.159 how you and I filter through all these chapters. 265 00:12:51.159 --> 00:12:56.399 Anyways, right, yes, yeah, really, yeah, you know, so observing 266 00:12:56.559 --> 00:13:00.480 and then what jumps off of the page at you? Yeah, thirteen, 267 00:13:00.679 --> 00:13:04.399 spouting off before listening to the facts is both shameful 268 00:13:04.440 --> 00:13:05.159 and foolish. 269 00:13:05.720 --> 00:13:06.639 So here's a question. 270 00:13:06.679 --> 00:13:11.679 Already, know what you can say? No, but that's good, 271 00:13:11.799 --> 00:13:12.279 that's good. 272 00:13:12.840 --> 00:13:14.799 No, I was just gonna say, do you have a 273 00:13:14.840 --> 00:13:16.679 tendency to do that? 274 00:13:16.840 --> 00:13:19.799 Do you think yourself or do you think that's something 275 00:13:19.840 --> 00:13:21.080 that other people do to you? 276 00:13:21.240 --> 00:13:24.320 Yeah? No, I do that. I very quickly get to 277 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:26.600 the end of what you're saying sometimes and I wind 278 00:13:26.679 --> 00:13:28.720 up saying dumb things. And do you think that that 279 00:13:28.919 --> 00:13:32.000 particularly hurt my wife with that a lot? Yeah? 280 00:13:32.039 --> 00:13:34.080 And do you think that that's just like a part 281 00:13:34.120 --> 00:13:35.559 of a personality wiring. 282 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:37.399 I mean, obviously it's something that could. 283 00:13:37.200 --> 00:13:39.200 Be learned, right, No, it's just because I'm a fool, 284 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:45.159 of the Bible says, and we've already talked about it, the fools. 285 00:13:45.200 --> 00:13:49.320 You know, you can't fix a fool, So no, no, 286 00:13:49.600 --> 00:13:51.519 it is. It's one of those things. The reason why 287 00:13:51.600 --> 00:13:53.879 Solomon has to tell us all these things is a 288 00:13:53.919 --> 00:13:56.320 wise person reads those things and goes, oh, I should 289 00:13:56.360 --> 00:14:00.000 work on that, and a foolish person goes, that's dumb, right, right, right. 290 00:14:00.120 --> 00:14:02.120 So I think a wise person would say, yeah, I 291 00:14:02.120 --> 00:14:04.080 think I struggle with that. I'd jump into an answer 292 00:14:04.080 --> 00:14:06.840 too quickly sometimes rather than hearing the whole story. 293 00:14:06.879 --> 00:14:08.840 And that's part of the teachability thing that we talked 294 00:14:08.840 --> 00:14:10.600 about was it yesterday? 295 00:14:10.720 --> 00:14:14.799 Yep, Yeah, that's that's really good. That's really good. 296 00:14:14.840 --> 00:14:17.240 Well, it says in two verses later, intelligent people are 297 00:14:17.240 --> 00:14:18.120 always ready to learn. 298 00:14:18.279 --> 00:14:20.120 That's right, and their ears are open for knowledge. 299 00:14:20.679 --> 00:14:23.360 So the idea that, like, you know, because the reason 300 00:14:23.360 --> 00:14:25.279 why I asked that question, by the way, is because 301 00:14:25.320 --> 00:14:27.879 there are certain personalities that want to get to the end, 302 00:14:28.519 --> 00:14:30.559 you know, like, don't give me that. In fact, I 303 00:14:30.639 --> 00:14:34.480 had lunch with somebody yesterday and he said, he said, yeah, 304 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:36.519 he goes, I'm not a detailed person. He said, don't 305 00:14:36.559 --> 00:14:39.440 give me the labor, just give me the baby. 306 00:14:39.879 --> 00:14:42.960 Well, I think for men in general, we tend to 307 00:14:42.960 --> 00:14:45.360 be fixers. We want to fix a thing. Yeah, that's 308 00:14:45.360 --> 00:14:48.360 a really generalized statement, but it seems to be true. 309 00:14:48.960 --> 00:14:53.559 And so I am that. So if not everybody, lots 310 00:14:53.559 --> 00:14:55.759 of people, I go into meetings you've been in meetings before, 311 00:14:55.799 --> 00:14:57.320 where I go in and I just I'll ask a 312 00:14:57.480 --> 00:14:59.519 probing question and sit back, just let somebody talk for 313 00:15:00.080 --> 00:15:02.759 twenty minutes, trying to figure out what are they thinking, 314 00:15:02.799 --> 00:15:04.799 why are they doing, what they're doing whatever, Let them 315 00:15:04.840 --> 00:15:07.279 talk it out, and then I'll jump in sometimes. So 316 00:15:07.519 --> 00:15:10.159 you see me do that too, but particularly if somebody 317 00:15:10.159 --> 00:15:14.519 comes in. And I'm not super fond of problems, but 318 00:15:14.600 --> 00:15:19.000 I like solving problems. Probably the first really really good 319 00:15:19.080 --> 00:15:21.200 job I've ever had in my life, I was working 320 00:15:21.240 --> 00:15:24.080 for Marriott Hotels and I've been there about six weeks 321 00:15:24.200 --> 00:15:27.360 and my boss comes in, a boss. He wasn't even 322 00:15:27.399 --> 00:15:29.679 my boss, but a boss. We had twelve hundred and 323 00:15:29.720 --> 00:15:32.759 eighty rooms. We had nine hundred employees at our one hotel. 324 00:15:32.759 --> 00:15:34.759 I'm Michigan Avenue in Chicago, nine hundred, so it was 325 00:15:34.759 --> 00:15:37.600 a big hotel. And so this boss comes. He says, hey, Jeff, 326 00:15:38.120 --> 00:15:40.200 keep coming in to my office. I said sure. He says, 327 00:15:40.720 --> 00:15:43.240 you like the talk and I said yeah. He said 328 00:15:43.240 --> 00:15:45.919 you like interfacing with people? I said sure. So I 329 00:15:45.960 --> 00:15:47.879 noticed the job that you have is behind the scenes 330 00:15:47.879 --> 00:15:50.080 all the time. He said, are you good at problem solving? 331 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:51.879 I said yeah, I think so. He said, can I 332 00:15:51.960 --> 00:15:53.320 run you through a battery of test? I think I 333 00:15:53.360 --> 00:15:55.200 have a cool job for you. I said sure. So 334 00:15:55.200 --> 00:15:57.120 they ran me through this battery of tests and it's 335 00:15:57.159 --> 00:16:01.039 all problem solving, tests, quick problem solving, and how do 336 00:16:01.080 --> 00:16:02.919 you delight people? But I just didn't realize that was 337 00:16:03.120 --> 00:16:05.840 the thing. And so then they put me in charge 338 00:16:05.840 --> 00:16:09.600 of I answered every single complaint from all twelve hundred 339 00:16:09.600 --> 00:16:12.600 and eighty rooms every night. That was my job. I 340 00:16:12.639 --> 00:16:15.120 had thirty people that would just run and go solve 341 00:16:15.159 --> 00:16:17.679 all the problems from every single complaint in the hotel. 342 00:16:17.919 --> 00:16:21.440 That's what I did, and I loved it. What Yeah, 343 00:16:22.159 --> 00:16:24.840 you know that I loved that job. 344 00:16:24.919 --> 00:16:29.679 I knew everything about you working at Marritt Hotels except 345 00:16:29.720 --> 00:16:32.080 for that that was your job descript. 346 00:16:31.799 --> 00:16:35.799 Yeah yeah, like wow, So complaints all night? Now did 347 00:16:35.879 --> 00:16:37.919 you talk with the people who complained or did y? 348 00:16:38.120 --> 00:16:40.639 Yeah? The phone? So this was really cool. This was 349 00:16:40.679 --> 00:16:43.919 back in you know, nineteen ninety color Ide was like 350 00:16:44.000 --> 00:16:46.159 brand new. So I had a phone on my desk 351 00:16:46.240 --> 00:16:48.879 and I knew every single room, and then I would 352 00:16:48.919 --> 00:16:52.000 print off a manifest of everybody that was in the 353 00:16:52.039 --> 00:16:55.320 in every hotel room. And then I went to booking 354 00:16:55.559 --> 00:16:57.759 and I discovered what the codes were, and then I 355 00:16:57.759 --> 00:16:59.639 would figure out how many nights a year did you 356 00:16:59.679 --> 00:17:01.480 stay in one of our hotels and were you traveling 357 00:17:01.480 --> 00:17:04.200 on a business expense or your own personal expenses? And 358 00:17:04.279 --> 00:17:06.519 so then I would make highlights, make notes so I 359 00:17:06.720 --> 00:17:08.319 knew who I was talking to. So then you call 360 00:17:08.400 --> 00:17:10.480 from room twelve eighty five, and i'd be able to 361 00:17:10.519 --> 00:17:12.960 see twelve eighty five. Oh, he's a high roller. He's 362 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:16.440 traveling with a business account and he stays sixty five 363 00:17:16.519 --> 00:17:18.640 nights a year. Well, buddy, i'd back off, you know, 364 00:17:18.680 --> 00:17:21.640 bend over backwards for your your pillows not fluffy, and 365 00:17:21.680 --> 00:17:23.039 you want to tell me off, I'm going to send 366 00:17:23.079 --> 00:17:25.119 you to out for stake in the Blue Man group 367 00:17:25.119 --> 00:17:29.160 and a limousine. Right. Oh, I could spend fifteen hundred 368 00:17:29.200 --> 00:17:33.279 dollars to keep you happy per person per room. Yeah, 369 00:17:33.480 --> 00:17:35.839 for the high rollers. Yeah, if you've been in our 370 00:17:35.839 --> 00:17:37.839 hotel for fifteen nights a year, I could do almost 371 00:17:37.880 --> 00:17:41.400 anything to make you happy. Wow. So it was fantastic, right, 372 00:17:41.599 --> 00:17:46.599 So because I was highly empowered, I delighted in solving 373 00:17:46.599 --> 00:17:49.240 people's problems. It was famb because it turned into a game. 374 00:17:49.319 --> 00:17:51.599 So instead of me getting mad, shut up, you're an idiot. 375 00:17:51.680 --> 00:17:54.160 That was a fluffy pillow. Instead I was like, oh, sortain, 376 00:17:54.160 --> 00:17:55.759 I'm so sorry. What can't I do to make you happy? 377 00:17:55.839 --> 00:17:57.839 You know what I'm going to send up, you know, 378 00:17:57.920 --> 00:17:59.440 six pillows. You'll be able to test them all out. 379 00:17:59.480 --> 00:18:01.440 But in the meantime, you should not have to suffer 380 00:18:01.440 --> 00:18:04.160 through that kind of stuff. We delight in providing better service. 381 00:18:04.200 --> 00:18:06.680 Why don't I just give you and your wife a 382 00:18:06.680 --> 00:18:09.680 fifty dollars gift card to our steakhouse downtown or downstairs? 383 00:18:10.319 --> 00:18:10.559 Yeah? 384 00:18:10.599 --> 00:18:13.599 What right? So I'd send in ten extra pillows, let 385 00:18:13.599 --> 00:18:15.599 them pick them all out, because you know, different pillows 386 00:18:15.599 --> 00:18:17.599 have different fluffiness to them. We had all these different 387 00:18:17.599 --> 00:18:20.480 styles or blankets or whatever. I'd send them four extra 388 00:18:20.519 --> 00:18:23.160 boxes of chocolates, the whole nine yards. And you know, 389 00:18:23.240 --> 00:18:25.440 if you stayed there forty nights, fifty nights a year. 390 00:18:25.839 --> 00:18:29.319 So for me, that that problem solving thing was a 391 00:18:29.359 --> 00:18:32.240 delight in that, and that became a big part of 392 00:18:32.240 --> 00:18:34.920 my life, just trying to solve people's But because of that, 393 00:18:35.680 --> 00:18:38.200 my wife comes sometimes she wants to talk to me 394 00:18:38.519 --> 00:18:41.960 about how she feels about a thing. Yeah, And I go, yeah, yeah, 395 00:18:41.960 --> 00:18:44.119 I hear you. Here's what you should do. Yeah, And 396 00:18:44.160 --> 00:18:46.680 she's like, wasn't looking for an answer, didn't need you 397 00:18:46.720 --> 00:18:48.319 to fix it. I want you to feel it with 398 00:18:48.359 --> 00:18:48.920 me for a minute. 399 00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:49.279 Yeah. 400 00:18:49.319 --> 00:18:51.160 And that's where that's where I would say that spouting 401 00:18:51.160 --> 00:18:53.119