Live From The Path · Season 2012, Episode 31
The Donkey Decision
Topics covered
- Studio life — Openings, banter, technical trouble, guests, and sign-offs around the studio table. ≈ 0:20
- GodIsImaginary.com series response — The hosts' weekly rebuttal of the '50 proofs God is imaginary' website. ≈ 6:07
- Biblical contradictions — Whether alleged inconsistencies in Scripture undermine God's character or the faith. ≈ 6:07
- Hell and judgment — The nature of hell as eternal torment and who bears responsibility for it. ≈ 6:07
- God's sovereignty and justice — God as sovereign judge: his justice versus human murder, and consequences versus contradiction. ≈ 9:30
- Faith and parenting — Raising children in the faith: teaching Scripture, prayer, and answering hard questions at bedtime. ≈ 16:30
- Eschatology — The hosts' view of end-times speculation: live ready, don't obsess. ≈ 32:17
- Non-biblical signs of the apocalypse — The recurring game: read a news story, vote whether it signals the end times. ≈ 37:54
- Dear LFTP advice — Listener questions answered on-air with the hosts' advice. ≈ 54:58
Segments
- Show open and the building-maintenance grievance 0:20–1:56
The show opens from the Pathway Studios on a warm evening. A host vents comic frustration about the building: chairs left out, the air conditioner turned down by someone, and a pile of rock and a broken sidewalk that have gone unrepaired for months. The bit closes with a mock-vow to 'never pursue a building' until they learn to care for the one they have, then pivots into the night's agenda.
- Tonight's agenda, Pants banter, and a video glitch 1:56–4:14
The hosts lay out the night's plan: week 16 of the GodIsImaginary.com series (contradictions in the Bible), the return of the 'non-biblical signs of the apocalypse' game, and Dear LFTP advice. A host jokes that Pants is on hand to give advice, identifies Pants as the voice of the show's opening and YouTube buffers, and the segment ends amid a short video feed glitch.
- Guest Rick Gray on his veteran mural 4:14–6:07
After the feed returns, guest Rick Gray is brought on-air and asked about his latest project: repainting a giant mural in Valley Junction commemorating the American veteran, on the local VFW hall. Banter follows about retouching the mural's faces and whether Dan could have fought in the Revolutionary War, and a host rehashes the night's agenda for viewers who missed it.
- Week 16 of GodIsImaginary.com: 'Contemplate the contradictions' 6:07–9:29
A host reads aloud proof number 16 from the GodIsImaginary.com author: that biblical contradictions prove God is imaginary. The proof cites Moses ordering 3,000 deaths after receiving 'thou shalt not kill' (Exodus 32), alleged biblical support for slavery and torture, hell as eternal torment, and God's curse of painful childbirth on Eve (Genesis 3). The reading is followed by the hosts' first rebuttals: the author is not disproving God, only disagreeing with him.
- Hosts' rebuttal: murder versus God's justice 9:30–13:23
The hosts answer the Exodus 32 objection by distinguishing individual murder from God-commanded justice: 'thou shalt not kill' forbids taking justice into one's own hands, while God as sovereign judge may decree a cleansing judgment. They argue the author's premise fails on its own terms: disliking God's justice does not make him imaginary, prompting the riff that his site should be renamed 'idontlikegod.com' — '50 ways to leave your God.'
- Childbirth, consequences, and consistency 13:24–15:14
The hosts take up the 'childbirth is torture' claim and answer that consequences are not contradictions: God warned, people disobeyed, and the result is consistency, not inconsistency. The discussion touches divine versus human consequences and the limits of human comprehension of God's purposes ('we can't comprehend the game' as pawns on a chessboard).
- Adam in the garden: did he just stand by? 15:14–16:30
A host wonders aloud whether Adam simply stood by while Eve ate the fruit, musing that Adam might have hoped God would replace Eve ('God will make me another one'). The hosts joke about retiring Adam-and-Eve marriage illustrations ('love your wife like Adam'), one is teased for being asked to defend Adam, and another reframes the moment as humbling: everyone makes the same choice.
- Kids, Scripture, and the Trinity at bedtime 16:30–25:32
Several hosts share stories of young children and faith: a six-year-old reading the Egermeier Children's Bible grasps that Satan twists Scripture; another child asks whether Jesus praying is 'just praying to himself,' prompting a fumbling bedtime explanation of the Trinity that ends with the child's conclusion that God 'will explain it to us when we get there.' A second child's plan to save Jesus from the devil by hitting him with a rock 'present' closes the segment with laughter.
- Heart check and a preview of week 17's leprechauns 25:32–27:15
Wrapping the series segment, a host distinguishes honest questions from hostile ones: many of the proofs rest on decent underlying questions worth wrestling with, but the value is lost if the motive is just 'giving God the middle finger.' Christians are urged to have a real defense of their faith. The night ends with a look at proof 17 ('think about leprechauns') and a joke about a Lucky Charms sponsorship.
- Cereal and gross-food banter 27:17–32:14
A long comedy riff sparked by eating noises: whether one could eat someone else's half-eaten bowl of cereal (peanut butter Captain Crunch gets a pass from one host), wet bread in the sink giving 'the three-bucket willies,' a childhood brother who lost his appetite to sibling slurping, and Pants' willingness to eat anything. The segment is pure studio banter with no theological content.
- Why they don't obsess over end-times predictions 32:17–37:53
Before the game, the hosts share their philosophy of eschatology: end-times fixation annoys them when the lost are dying outside the church's door. One guarantees the world will not end in December of the current year because of Mayan 2012 predictions — 'a thief that bought a billboard' is not 'thief in the night.' They mock far-future prophetic timelines (blue heifer ashes, a 3,600-year alien-seeding planet from a book) and land on 'live ready, let God handle the rest.'
- Non-biblical sign #1: the Fix-a-Flat buttocks case 37:54–43:45
The game opens with the news story of O'Neal Morris, arrested in South Florida for injecting Fix-a-Flat and other substances in a black-market buttocks-enhancing business, facing manslaughter charges after a client's death. The hosts riff on hearing the aerosol can shake and the absurdity of van-based cosmetic surgery, and the chat votes this story 'end times.'
- Non-biblical sign #2: the mayor and the 500-pound donkey 43:46–49:49
The second news story: a South Texas mayor found dead, apparently kicked and trampled by an aggressive 500-pound donkey. The hosts dig into donkey facts (territorial range, brays audible for three kilometers), joke about the donkey defending its nine square miles, and vote 'more time' — though they pledge to watch that part of Texas.
- Non-biblical sign #3: the man who only says 'yeah' 49:57–53:31
The third story: Jason Gordon Youngblood, found in a Key Largo resort pool in all his clothes, answering every question from security and deputies with a screamed 'yeah' and karate gestures. The hosts imagine the James Brown versus Kool-Aid Man variants, note he was jailed without drug charges, and split the vote — one calls it 'the end' for its sheer quirkiness.
- Game wrap: the rejected story and final tally 53:31–54:58
The host discards a fourth news story he failed to pre-read ('I've made the mistake of picking random news stories before') and tallies the votes: roughly two for 'more time,' one-and-a-half for 'end times.' The segment closes with the 'yeah' chorus, the 'Botox donkey' joke, and a Balaam's-donkey punchline, then yields to the advice segment.
- Dear LFTP: the mother-in-law's pre-death eulogy 54:58–59:26
A listener writes that their mother-in-law insists her adopted son and the listener each write her eulogy so she can read it before she dies. Guest Rick Gray says he would just refuse; the hosts riff on Dr. Seuss eulogies, being fired from the eulogy committee, and the impossibility of writing with real feeling for someone still alive. The advice settles on a polite but firm 'no.'
- Sign-off and contact info 59:27–1:00:02
After a quick apology for camera problems ('you've been looking at me for the last three minutes'), a host gives the weekly schedule (Monday nights 10–11 p.m. Central at livefromthepath.org), the YouTube channels, and the advice email address, and closes the show.
Bible references
- Exodus 32:27-28
Then Moses said to them, 'This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Each man strap a sword to his side… that day about 3,000 of the people died.'
- Genesis 3:16
I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing. With pain, you will give birth to children.
- Matthew 3:12
He will gather his wheat into the barn, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
- Matthew 13:41
cited as describing hell; not read aloud
- Matthew 13:49
cited as describing hell; not read aloud
- Genesis 2:17
God said, if you eat this, you will surely die.
- Romans 12:19
Don't take it into your own hand. I will repay.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:2
Thief in the night — not a thief that bought a billboard.
- Daniel 12:4
Daniel, shut the book. Don't write this down.
- Revelation 10:4
mentioned that the sealed-book motif happens in Revelation too
- Matthew 4
referenced via the children's Bible story of Jesus being tempted by Satan
- Numbers 22
joking reference to looking for Balaam after a talking-donkey bit
- 1 Corinthians 13:12
He'll explain it to us when we get there.
Key questions
- Do the alleged contradictions in the Bible prove that God is imaginary? (hard-question)
- Does Moses ordering the deaths of 3,000 people after receiving 'thou shalt not kill' contradict God's character? (hard-question)
- Are hell's eternal punishment and painful childbirth forms of torture, making God a torturer? (hard-question)
- Should we honor a living mother's demand that we write her eulogy for her to read and approve before she dies? (dear-lftp)
- Would you eat a stranger's half-eaten bowl of your favorite cereal? (host-framed)
- Is this news story a non-biblical sign of the apocalypse, or do we have more time? (host-framed)
People
- Guest: Rick Gray
on-air guest, asked about his current project (repainting a veteran mural in Valley Junction)
- Rick Gray
- Pants Whetstone
- Moses
- Adam
- Eve
- Jesus Christ
- Satan
- Daniel
- Balaam
- Billy Graham
- Dr. Seuss
- Pete
- O'Neal Morris
- Shuntarka Newby
- William Bolke
- David Sauer
- Jason Gordon Youngblood
- Mike Romare
- James Brown
- Kool-Aid Man
- Jen
Full transcript
From the Pathway Studios in Johnston proper, you are here on this pretty weekend. Beautiful weather outside. It's balmy here in the Pathway Studios. You know why? Why? I went back there, so I'm going to turn the air conditioner completely off. Who keeps playing? I am going to get a unit back there that no one can touch. I think that's the way to do it. First, it disturbed me that there were chairs just flying all over the place. I'm like, really? You use a chair and just put it back in the table.
It's not a big deal. I'm in a bad mood. Don't mess with me. I think that's fair. I think that's fair. But the air conditioner is on. Note to self, pants. When it gets balmy in here, Dan gets riled up. It gets riled up when people misuse. Here's the deal. I will never pursue a building until we learn to take care of this one. I think that makes sense, yeah.
We still have a pile of rock out here that's like six months old, a broken sidewalk out front that's a year and a half old. It's like, I'm not going to do it. Okay, fair enough, Dan. Thank you. You're listening to life. I'm just getting started. You're listening to Dan's angry. Dan's grievances against the building. I will never pursue a building. Write it down. Mark it.
Flag this tape. We will play it. Here's what we've got going on at Life on the Path tonight. Somebody's going to have to hose Dan down. I need a shower. Here's what we're going to do. We're going to do three targeted things. First of all, we are in week 16 on Talking from the Man from GodIsImaginary.com. And week 16, his proof that God is imaginary is look at the contradictions. So we'll listen to his argument as to how the contradictions that he proposes are, I assume, exist within the Bible. Prove that God is imaginary.
So we'll take a look. This one is one I actually see quite a bit. And I think that I find within this realm of question, there are a lot of pretty reasonable questions as to how something fits with something else. Do these things, do these provide different, does this make God's character different than what I thought it was? Are these inconsistent accounts of certain things? So I do actually find some reasonable questions within here that I explore by going to God. This guy explores by running away from God. We'll see if we can reconcile the two. We're going to resurrect something. We have not done this for quite a while. Building maintenance? Yes, kind of.
Kind of that. We're going to play non-biblical signs of the apocalypse. Oh! All right. So the function of this game is I read you a story from the news. And here's the deal. There was a part in Daniel where God was laying out things that are going to happen at the end times. And there's a point in time when he says, Daniel, shut the book. All right? Don't write this down. You're thinking Revelation. No, no, no.
It was when he's talking to Daniel. Okay. It happens as well in Revelation. Okay. So anyway, there's things that aren't to be revealed yet. And so I've got some storage from the news where it does make you think to yourself and say, hey, man, is this one of those things that is going to happen? And, like, he didn't write it down, but this is a sign that the end is near. Okay? So we're going to play some non-biblical signs of the apocalypse. Your job is to, I don't know, try to make a guess. Hey, is it the end is near? Or we've got some more time, okay, based upon this particular story.
So we're going to hit that. Also, we're going to do some advice on dear life and the path. Some people need help, Pants. I mean, times are tough, and people need advice. And we're here to help out with dear life and the path. Can I ask me for help? No, no. Not you in particular. It's a broad group in general. If they knew it was you specifically, they would have gone elsewhere. I think the letters would probably slow down. The end is near.
The end is near. Pants, I need help. No. It's over. No, it's just not going to happen. Oh, what? What? Are there problems with the video? You guys have problems? Hold on. I better give it a go. See if I've got problems.
I don't want problems. Oh, wait a minute. I haven't got my money. Hold on, a ticket. I might just know what the problem is here. No. Whoa. You just, you just. That could be a sign of that. And again, the end is near. We're in trouble. I think we got something.
I think we got something. Some trouble? Yeah. In River City? Let's see if we'll give it another shot. See if this thing flies up. Go ahead and talk amongst yourselves. Tell us about your latest project, Rick Gray. Currently, I am painting a, repainting a giant mural in Valley Junction commemorating the American veteran. It's on the BFW. Sweet. Yeah.
Is it this, are you like just retouching the same stuff or is it a new painting? No, I'm, yeah, I'm just going over the top. Gotcha. Yeah. Can you make the face look a little more like me? I can. They won't let me, but I can. Because I don't know if that would honor anybody, but it'd make me feel pretty good. I'd drive by and say, that's made in my likeness. There's me in the Revolutionary War. I'll never forget that day. Who was to say there wasn't a guy that looked like Dan fighting with the muskets and everything?
Let's see, my father was in World War II. I look an awful lot like him. There you go. I think it'll be work. Hey, hey, I think we're back. I think we're back. Hey, you're listening live from the path. Sorry about the issues we had there. Thanks for listening tonight. Anyway, just a rehash. Here's what we have going on, right? We're going to be doing non-biblical signs of the apocalypse.
I'm going to give you a news story. You're going to tell me whether this is a sign of the end times, one of those things that God said not to write down and don't put in the book. But maybe we can use just a little bit of a discernment here and see if we can pick that out. We're also going to do some. We're on week 16 of the guy from GodIsImaginary.com. His 16th proof that God is imaginary has to do with looking at the contradictions, I assume, within the scriptures. So we're going to take a look at those. That's going to be the first thing we're going to do. And finally, we're going to hit some advice. People need help. Pants is here to help. They didn't know Pants was going to help, but that's what he's here for.
He's here to give solid advice and a smooth baritone that everyone enjoys because it just goes down a little easier when Pants is saying it. So that's what's going to go on here at Life in the Path tonight. I do thank you for hanging out with us. And a little known secret is we do hear the voice of Pants quite often. That's true, yeah. In Life in the Path. He is, if you've ever listened to the start of the show, that's good old Pants Whetstone there rocking the opening. He handles all that stuff. He also handles the buffers, the voiceover buffers on the YouTube channel. You are live from the past. See? I feel like I'm right there.
It's solid gold. It's solid. We're live from the past. It's just like live. It's awesome. Do that again. Here's what we got. I'll do what I can. Let's go ahead and jump right into our GodisImaginary.com man. Here's what he's got to say. Proof number 16 that God is imaginary. Contemplate the contradictions.
A thoughtful person who thinks about God cannot help but notice the amazing contradictions. They are everywhere you look. Here's one very simple example. On the day Moses comes down from Mount Sinai with the stone tablets containing the Ten Commandments, he discovers that the Israelites have created a golden calf. To punish the people, Moses gathers a group of men and takes the following action in the book of Exodus chapter 32. Quote is, Then Moses said to them, This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says. Each man strap a sword to his side. Go back and forth through the camp from one end to the other, each killing his brother
and friend and neighbor. The Levites did as Moses commanded, and that day about 3,000 of the people died. So, one minute we have God carving into stone, thou shalt not kill. Well, in the next minute we have God telling each man to strap a sword to his side and lay waste to thousands. Wouldn't you expect the almighty ruler of the universe to be slightly more consistent than this? 3,000 dead people is a lot of commandment breaking. Obviously, that is a total contradiction. The reason why you find contradictions like that in the Bible is because God is imaginary. When you look at slavery, which he's already talked about in a previous proof, he says you get the same feeling of total contradiction.
It is obvious to modern human beings that slavery is an abomination. The fact that God is a huge proponent of slavery, which we talked about, was not true, and the Bible shows us that God is imaginary. Let's see. If you think about it, you can see the contradiction in a Christianity Today cover story about five reasons torture is always wrong. What does God plan to do to people who do not accept Jesus Christ as their Savior? According to the Christian faith, he plans to torture them for eternity in the fires of hell. Since we all know that torture is always wrong, we have a contradiction. According to Genesis, God also tortures all women for eternity with painful childbirth. For her transgression of eating the fruit, God says to Eve, I will greatly increase your
pains in childbearing. With pain, you will give birth to children. This, of course, is torture. Inflicting excruciating pain on someone as punishment is the dictionary definition of torture. As you can see here, infliction of severe physical pain is a means of punishment or coercion. So according to the Bible, God is the universe's all-powerful torturer. Unfortunately, according to Christianity Today, torture is always wrong. The fact that a perfect God is doing something that is always wrong shows you the contradiction. If you would simply look at and accept, pants, how obvious these contradictions are, you can see the truth. God is imaginary.
The evidence is all around you. I enjoy the fact that he's missing out on the fact that God's giving us the ability to have the choice to either follow him or not. And that's response to the particular point of damning people to hell. Is that what you're saying? Because the childbirth thing, I mean, that doesn't really fit with what you're saying at all. Well, no, it still fits. I could have just chosen God. Choose him. God said, don't eat the fruit. You ate the fruit.
Oh, but I didn't eat the fruit. No. But the lady did. But you would have eaten the fruit. Yeah, that's the rub of it. Okay, yeah. I mean… I would have eaten the fruit. You said, go ahead, Amanda. Have a bite. Like, you can be in the garden for a good long time. Every one of us is going to be like, okay, that one fruit, that'll look good.
That one guy said something pretty compelling about that fruit. This is good. This has got to be good. Dan, what are your thoughts on this Moses deal? The commandment, thou shalt not kill, and then directly after, he's wiping out people. Well, okay, I noticed as you were reading through his argument that he keeps shifting gears between individual responsibility and, say, government responsibility or God-given commands. The first command was, have no other gods before me, which they blatantly disregarded and put other gods before them in the form of a golden calf, wanting to go back to Egypt and all the sinning that was going on. And he was kind of like, here's the deal. If you're going to follow me, you're going to follow me.
If you're not, you're not. If you're not, so you're not, that's fine. I've got these guys who are going to follow me, and my command is for them to take these guys out. I don't have to understand it. He's God. I'm not going to question him. He's sovereign. I'm not. So it wasn't like in the Ten Commandments, when Moses says, do not commit murder, really God's saying, don't commit murder, that means I'm not to go around and say, that Rick Gray guy, I think I'm going to go ahead and take him out because he irritates me. That's murder.
If God says, you're going to take out this specific group of people, which he doesn't do these days, by the way, before he makes that leap, oh yeah, so what, God told you to kill that baby? I mean, no, he doesn't do that. It was a cleansing, a purification of the people who would become the people of God, and so he was going to start out with the right group and those who chose to follow. So that wasn't murder. That was following God's instructions. Well, and a lot of where he's coming from is, if you start with the point that, say, there is no God, then any person that is trying to execute justice on behalf of a non-existent God, yeah, is going to be ridiculous, right? But if you start from a different premise and say, there is a sovereign king of the
universe who has created everything and put it into motion, and then here's how, here's his justice in one way or another. He says, look, do not execute your own justice by murdering people on your own behalf. However, my justice looks like this. These guys have totally rejected me. They're serving another God. Here's what I want done. And the interesting also thing in this is he is missing his own point. If his point is there is no God, he's not making that point. He's just saying, I don't agree with God. Oh, yeah, correct. Yeah.
He said, I don't like what God had to say, so therefore he must be imaginary. Again, making himself God, and he's on the throne. He could, and I've seen it made, is someone tried to argue that God is a moral monster, that he's a monstrosity, and that he acts immorally. Which doesn't disprove him. Correct. Correct. And so, like, it'd be different if that's what he was trying to prove, but it doesn't make him not God. He needs to rename his website idontlikegod.com. Yeah, I disagree with God. 50 reasons I don't like God.
Or more appropriately, 50 ways in which God does not agree with me. Exactly. Dot com. 50 ways to leave your God. So what about the, childbirth is torture, seems like a bit of a stretch to me. It's not torture. It is, it's consequences for that evil woman eating of the fruit. Yeah. While the man sat there and begged and pleaded, please don't do it. Be pure like me. That's not how it works. No, it's not how it works.
It's the same as killing all those people as Moses came down. Because they knew, okay, no, you, it's me. I'm your God. You don't make any other gods. If you do, there's consequences. Exactly. Don't, don't eat this fruit. There's consequences. Yeah, you know, so I look at this and I don't say contradiction. I say consistency. God says, don't do this. There will be, there will be consequences.
Or else. And you do it and there's consequences. You're like, I can't believe what's happened. What is this? What happened to my life? Well, I got a few ideas. Well, it's the concept of divine consequences or human consequences. Yep. I mean, if you have God stepping in and saying, okay, I'm directly telling you, this is you doing my will or, you know, he's moving an army in and saying, okay, you guys aren't listening to me, so I'm going to let these guys take over. Yeah, right.
You know, I mean, he did that several times too. Agreed. So, you know, it's like, it's, it's always, it's like the chess board, you know, I mean, we can't comprehend the game. So, as a pawn or a sub pawn, you know, you're just looking at it like, oh, it's too, it's too big to even comprehend. God must be imaginative. Well, yeah, and who am I, who am I to, to look at how God, God does what he does and say, well, I just, I don't, I don't think this is the right way to go. Make your own planet. I certainly would have done differently. I ate the fruit.
I should, you should listen to me. Now, have you ever thought, I don't know, I don't know if I've ever thought of that until like just a few moments ago, we were talking about that, that moment of the fruit. What, Adam was standing there when Eve ate the fruit. I wonder, was he just thinking, well, God said, if you eat this, you will surely die. So, he's thinking, well, Eve, you go ahead and eat it. We haven't been together that long. If you die, I got zebras. God will make me another one. What's he, what's he thinking? Here's what I think.
That sounds like a very man's perspective. He's going to try to get God on what he considers to be a technicality. You will surely die. I didn't eat it. Look what she did. What was his defense, right? I want to find out if she really died. Look what this woman you gave me. That's terrible. That even gives me a lower view of Adam than I had before. It's more an embarrassment. God says she'll die.
Let's see if she does. Sounds like a man action. And he is the source of the men you look and see before you today. Man, we can't use Adam and Eve in the whole marriage ceremony anymore. Love your wife like Adam. Push her off the cliff and see if she dies. He's, that doesn't work anymore. I've got to rethink that. Well, but it's. You're going to defend Adam, aren't you? No, I'm going to. I'm going to get Jen on the line right now.
Hey, Jen. Well, like ultimately we're all at. I mean, that's the rub, right? Is ultimately we're all at. And we all make that same choice in one way or another, regardless of whether we think we are capable of doing better or not. And putting yourself, like recognizing the position of the biblical Adam and then recognizing yourself in the mirror as him, like it should be a humbling, a humbling spot for you. But I mean, you have to, you have to break that rule to learn the consequence. I mean, you know, Adam, it's kind of like a, like a toddler or, you know, I mean. I got to touch.
You're the guy who had to touch the stove. You couldn't just. Yeah, I would never. Mom says it's hot. You're like, I don't know. But is the stove hot? What will happen to the mouse? I always thought, mom's pretty smart. I don't think I'll touch the stove. Yeah. No, I always thought everyone was trying to pull something over on me. I distinctly remember, like bedtime was a horrible ordeal for me.
And I would like do the little army crawl down the hallway whenever my parents had friends over. And I thought for sure that they had some amazing toy or game or something that they were keeping secret from me. Doing murals on the wall. Yeah. And I get out there and I'm like spying on them and they're talking. Like grownups are just talking. Like, why would you even keep that secret? That's like, oh, that's all boring. Going to bed. Go back to bed. I'm just going to go to bed. That's what you do.
Is this St. Elmo's fire? This is what happens when I sleep? It's like 30-something out here. This is horrible. Timothy Dutton is a disappointment. So Chris may abound. No, no. I still don't like our – I don't like his reasoning. But I'm not going to say I don't like the guy. Actually, I kind of feel for the guy because he's so – the guy is an imaginary dude. He's stretching. He's trying.
He just tried to fill 50 slots and he's had about one legitimate question. That was last week. And all the other ones have been like, yeah, he doesn't agree with me. He can't be God. And this – the cover story for five reasons torture is always wrong from Christianity today. The source of God. Yeah, this is – God speaks through Billy Graham and Christianity today. Copyright 1972. This is how it goes. And it was the – this line of logic that I love. So according to the Bible, God is the universe's all-powerful torturer. Unfortunately, according to Christianity today, torture is always wrong.
So put the two together. The Bible plus Christianity mean God is abhorrent to me. Oh, poor God. Okay, here we go. Understanding that – he's provided an additional set of information. Understanding the rationalizations. It has actually been stated by one reader that hell does not involve torture. Hell is nothing more than a separation from God, not a fiery place of torture, according to the reader. Therefore, in his mind, he's able to rationalize that God is not a torturer. In order to believe this rationalization, this reader has to completely ignore the Bible. True. We're in agreement with this man.
If you read the Bible, you cannot miss the fact that hell is a place of torture. According to the Bible, hell is a place of eternal torment. Here are several Bible verses that describe hell. And his winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly clear his threshing floor, and he will gather his wheat into the barn, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. The Son of Man – and that's Matthew 3.12 – also hits Matthew 13.41 and Matthew 13.49. A place of unquenchable fire is obviously a place of torture. What you need to do is stop rationalizing and accept the evidence that you see everywhere. Again, one does not lead to God is imaginary. It just leads to a God. This guy's had bad theology. Yep.
He's used the rationalization from a man who obviously does not read the Bible clearly. The source of truth is this Christianity today. He doesn't agree with this guy with bad theology. Therefore, it's like, dude, you've got to do better than that. I'm not a very smart guy, and I can outthink him. So here's one of the things – there's actually – I'm going to admit that this is a pretty cool poster that there's an atheist organization that's put out, and it's got like a list of 300 contradictions, and it's got them all like tied together through the book, different books. I mean, it was well done. I mean, it's not correct, but it was well done, and I think it makes sense. Like reasonably, I could have this poster up in my office if I had an office or something. I could have this poster up somewhere where as I study the Bible, I say, you know what? Something doesn't seem to be quite matching up.
I need to learn more. I need to pray. I need to pray about it. I need to think about how this fits in with God's character and say, what am I missing? You know what I'm saying? It's completely reasonable to say, hey, man, in my mind right now, these two things don't jive. What's the difference? I can look at the Moses thing where he says, you know, thou shalt not kill, and then directly people are being wiped out, and the distinction, as Rick properly pointed out, was one is a wrath of man versus a justice of God. He says, don't take it into your own hand. I will repay.
However, it is mine to pay, and I will, and here's how you're going to do it in this particular instance. And so there's a distinction there. I don't look at the two and say, well, throw the whole thing out, right? But it has to be able to be reconciled because I believe in a God of consistency. His character is always the same. So he can't be different. So something about these two has to connect. And you can see that if you study full counsel, full character. Yeah. But if you want to – but that's where I go, right? I see what potential contradiction or my misunderstanding. I go back to God's word and look for reconciliation.
Yeah, we assume – maybe we don't see the whole picture and there's more to know. Yeah. Someone who doesn't believe assumes it's a contradiction and therefore proves God's imaginary. Right. But they're nitpicking and taking one little part and – And they're always disproved by people who have actually read the Bible and they say, well, no, that's what's – Well, even people that, yeah, study the Bible to prove that it doesn't – that it – or, you know – Yeah, yeah. Do studies to prove God doesn't exist. And they're like, okay, well – I guess he does. Well, no, I'm not sure.
That didn't work. Actually, my oldest daughter and I, I have a six-year-old, had this very conversation tonight because we were reading the Ergermeyer Children's Bible about Jesus being tempted. And we were talking about Satan twisting Scripture, choosing one thing on his own and kind of twisting it around. And, like, see, I love the – this is why Jesus talks about faith of a child, right? Because I think, now, do you think that Jesus is going to be fooled by Satan's twisting of Scripture? And, of course, the kid knows. He's like, no. This is not possible. He's no dummy. Seriously. I wrote it.
I am well aware of what's in there. But, you know, but we permit stuff to be twisted around. And just to put that little thing in your mind, just like Satan did with Eve, right? Did he really say? It's that same thing. If I can only twist this a little bit. Because here's the truth of it. And I think we run the risk of being dishonest here if we don't say that if there is something that is not true in the Bible, the whole thing's bunk. It's just wrong. My God is not real. My faith is false. I'm spending my life as a fool if there's things in there that can be not true because it does not reconcile a character of God that is a God of truth.
So if he's false, then he's not a God of truth, and everything's out the window. And we're being dishonest if we can't see it like that. Which means that's a lot of defending to do. That's a lot of defense of the faith and reconciling God's character with things that go on. And are there things that I, as a human, will always misunderstand? Probably. We got after that talking about twisting the scripture talk that she goes, you know, when Jesus prays, he's just praying to himself, right? That's kind of wild. And I thought, well, kind of. So he's praying to God the Father. And then I'm sitting there trying to get this concept of the Trinity to a six-year-old. And I can't understand it.
And so after I got about a minute in, I said, here's the thing to recognize. We're told in the Bible that there's just some stuff that we're not going to get. God obviously understands it. And she goes, he'll explain it to us when we get there. And I said, that's correct. I mean, it's not that the concept can't be understood, but it can only be understood on our level. Like, generally what I'll try to put into something is, like, rationalization as to why it is this way. And that's where I'm never going to be able to reconcile. God's why and my why are completely different, right? I take – I do petty things. God does always the right thing. Our whys will never come together consistently where I'm like, we see eye to eye in this one, brother.
Chet says – oh, another interaction with a young'un. She told me tonight that she could have saved Jesus from talking to the devil by hitting the devil with a rock after telling him it was a present. I like the ruse. Hey, it's a present. Do you like it? Upside your head? The gift of pain. Oh, man. I didn't see that coming. All right. Well, you're listening live from the path. That was – oh, shoot.
You know what? I better see what we're coming up next week. So that was week – that was number 16. We're trucking along on our 50-week voyage to figure out why God is imaginary. Don't dismiss some of these questions for where they could be important in that there are people who run into barriers in their Christian faith because of stuff like this. This guy is obviously just trying to pick a fight, right? But the basis of some of these are completely reasonable to me. They're questions that I've had. There's things that I've had to think about and try to reconcile with God's word and see what they look like in his character. And it's – although we have a little fun with the premise, which I'm sure he would have a little fun if the same guy watched our show and picked it apart. Exactly. But generally speaking, these are – a lot of them are decent questions.
Some of them are not. But a lot of them are decent questions that I think people of faith want to say, how do I – how am I supposed to see this? How do I reconcile this with this? And I think it's an appropriate question, an appropriate discussion to have. The question is, are you actually trying to find an answer or are you just trying to give God the middle finger? Right. And so that's – that's the basis of – that's why – it doesn't make it valuable if all we're doing is like trying to read what this guy wrote and kind of mock it for a while. Right. Like that's – first of all, it's a bad heart. And second of all, it doesn't value anything. But it's fun. It is fun.
And there is value to it in actually seeing the underlying questions of these are, for the most part, decent questions that we should be going through. And can we defend the faith as we're asked to? Do we have a defense of our faith? And we should be able to do that. So let's see. Where was that? Next week – where did he go? Okay. Proof number 17 for next week is – ooh, think about leprechauns. All right. This one – this one smells – This one smells as if I've seen it before.
But I guess we will see. We must have Lucky Charms as a sponsor next week. Yeah. Or at least a box sitting here snacking. Something. That's true. Yeah. I feel like I don't – Yellow stars and pink clovers. I eat – I feel like – I can't take people eating cereal in front of me anymore. I just can't. I used to be able to do it.
But, like, I mean, the slopping around and the – My thing is chips. You can't have people eat chips? I'll totally – I'll totally take cereal over, like, a bag of Doritos. Like, just the noise? It's the crunchy. Yeah. I – I'll take Slurpee over crunchy for sure. Drop, drop, drop, drop, drop, drop, drop, like – I do remember that – Stuff in the beard. My youngest brother used to sit between me and my other brother when we were eating cereal every morning,
and he couldn't eat because of the sounds that the two of us made. Me and Pete were so disgusting to him that he just lost his appetite every morning. Let me ask you this question. Great, Rick. I'm going to get a little personal here. All right. If someone were to offer you – I mean, your favorite cereal of all time, haven't had it for years, and they had eaten half of it and offered you the remainder, would you be willing to drink – to eat it? Absolutely. Perhaps you would, too. Oh, yeah. There's no way.
There's no way it's happening. A half-eaten bowl of cereal is, like, the grossest thing I could think of. But you said your favorite cereal that you haven't eaten in years. Because that implies you're getting to the – I like it crunchy. When it gets soggy, eh. So the best part is, like, the first 10 spoonfuls. It's – okay, fine. I'll even say it's within – he's taken three bites. It's still got some crunch to it. But, I mean, he's been in there slopping around in it. I have a two-year-old at home, and I don't get to eat anything that doesn't have slobber on it. I mean, I can't eat a sandwich.
I can't eat a bowl of cereal. I have to hide in a closet if I want to eat something by myself. What are you doing in there? Yeah, and he's like, Daddy! I have gas. Leave me alone. I'm like, I gave up years ago. Actually, my older sister, she made a point of never letting me eat an entire sandwich by myself. She would be like, can I have a bite? And she would pester me for a bite until she got one. And she'd eat a bite of every sandwich for years and years. So, I'm not very proprietary about my food.
And if it's my favorite cereal. Now, if it's just, like, golden grams or something, like, I'll take it or leave it. I'd rather have a fresh bowl. So, what is your favorite? But if we're talking peanut butter Captain Crunch, like, oh, forget about it. That stuff's still crunchy after half a bowl. And, you know, and especially if it's like a – if we're talking like a family member or somebody close, I mean, I'm not going to, you know, I'm not going to ask a stranger for the rest of his – Yeah. You're not going to finish that, are you? With scabrous lesions on his face. I'm like, well, I might pass.
But, you know, if my wife was the one that started the bowl, I'm like, I'm totally going to finish that. Pants, no stipulations you eat that half-eaten bowl of cereal? Yeah. I know I've eaten worse. If the guy comes up to me and says, hey, hey, you want this? Yes, I'm full. I'm like, well, yeah. Ben, you haven't put anything in it, have you? I like the poison check, the honesty of the man. Oh, no, no, it's fine. Yes, have some. You can trust me on it.
I appreciate it. You want the bowl back? Oh, man, I just – that just sounds really gross to me. Yeah. That was good. It's the same thing as wet bread in the sink. Like, that gives me the willies. The three-bucket willies. I can't stand it. Wet bread in the sink? Yeah, like if someone eats a – let's say you got done eating dinner and there's like a half a piece of bread or a sandwich or whatever, and somehow it doesn't get scraped off in the garbage.
It gets in the sink and then some, you know, mindless nimrod goes in there and there's run in the water. Now you got a – oh, like a soaked sandwich. It's like petting the underbelly of a sick turtle. That would be pretty disgusting. That's gross. Those – I can't take it. Those are the two – I'm out. I'm out with it. I got to – I'll put a sheet over the sink and just call it a day. We're moving. I don't want anything to do with it. I'm the biggest ninny about it too.
I just want – whoever's responsible is fixing it. I'll stick my hand in a lot of stuff to be honest with you. But like wet bread in the sink, I don't care. I'll find the guy responsible and like go get that out of there. That's good to know. That's like your raw chicken to Jared, Roy. He can't – oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yep, yep, yep. Pants, you have the personal characteristics of a homeless man is a general thought. It's true. Okay, brilliant. I'm going to say you were talking about – I still slobber on everything. Yeah.
I drool. This is so good. I do what I want. No. That's true. All right. We're going to rock back into non-biblical signs of the apocalypse. Some of the things that were going to happen at the end of times, the Lord said don't write that down. And we may have come upon some. So we're going to take a look at those tonight. Things that are in the news. We need to know if the end of the world is coming.
I'm not much of an end of the world guy. As a matter of fact, I see a lot of guys spend way too much time on it. Preachers even. It really rubs me the wrong way. I'm like, you know what? There's people living and dying right outside your road who don't – if they don't know Jesus, they don't give a crap about your prediction. So why don't we work on the know Jesus part? I think it's really funny how many people are talking about the Mayans in the 2012. And I'm like – people are shocked when I tell them, I can guarantee you the world will not end in December of this year. I promise it won't. It's not going to happen.
Because Thief in the Night, that's not a Thief in the Night. That's not a Thief in the Night. Right. Kind of ringing the doorbell. That's a thief that bought a billboard and he put the date on it. So I know when it's not going to be and that's going to be in the middle of December this year. Do you think – all right, pardon the question, Pants, but think about this for just a second. Do you think that it's possible that I could – what is that? Dan, are you listening to the show? I was trying to find – You're listening to last week's show. I got it on my phone and I'm like, wait a minute.
So, Pants, do you think I could delay the return of the Lord by buying a new fresh billboard daily saying today is the end? Just a thought. I think it would have to be a different person every day. I mean, if it's the same person, after a week or so, you've already discredited yourself. So people aren't listening. So – It could still be Thief in the Night. You need – Because nobody trusts me. You need somebody who has plausible believability every day. So, you know. That would take a lot of work.
Yeah. I think the Lord knows I can't pull that off. Yeah. That I'm coming back regardless. That's a crazy networking. You can do some amazing things through Facebook, but I think that's beyond the realm. Yeah. Doesn't it pretty much say throughout the Bible, be prepared because – Jesus is coming. That is the theme. Jesus comes over and over and over. So –
In so many different ways and different stories. As a Christian. Yeah. Just be ready. You do. I mean, you do partially believe, yeah, tomorrow is the last day. So now what – so I could get a longstanding billboard with like a thief character that says, it may be tonight. It could be. Yeah. Matthew 9. Whatever it is.
Here's what I don't like about – I love the people and everything, but when they really get all crazy about the end time stuff is it's always way in the future. You ever notice that? It's like, well, this has to happen and that has to happen. And they're like big things, you know. Yeah. We've got to rebuild the temple. Well, if you're going to do it biblically, you've got to get the blue heifer ashes. I mean, there's all this stuff. You look in the scripture, it has to happen. It's like – so, which means we're pretty well – we're okay. He's not coming.
Yeah. Because they've got to do this first and that war has to happen and this has to happen. It's like – Jesus said, no, no, no. It could literally be any moment. Yeah. Yeah. That's where they missed the point. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I read a book and the guy said there was this planet on an elliptical orbit in our universe.
So, like, right now it's way over on the other side of the sun and it comes back every 3,600 years or something. And, you know – So, that'll be it. So, you know, it's – Obviously. And, like, yeah, they're aliens who seeded this planet and they come back and forth every time the planet loops back by. And then they – but that's a year for them. Coming around again. 3,600 years. And you're like, well, they'll be coming back through, but it's going to be another 187 years from now. I say a little party night when they come and seed the planet. I'm like, well, see, yeah, anyone who could conceivably be reading your book is already going to be dead.
Yeah. So, it's all – Just disproving. Hyperbole. Yeah, it doesn't matter. He just saw the Star Trek episode where they had that vacation aboard. You're, like, throwing Darson aboard. You're just making stuff up. Yeah, yeah. And, you know, it's silly. You know, there's a lot of time and there's a lot of effort and a lot of guys that spend time dissecting stuff and saying, you know, I am a pretty millennialist, omnilentious. Just, like, all this stuff about the end of times.
Here's where I fall. I feel like I want to know that I'm good for it. And past that, I'm pretty sure God's good for it, right? Yeah. So, like, whatever it is, he's got it. Whatever happens, I'm sure there'll be a line and he'll say, right this way, foost. You know, it's not like, hey, do you know what's going to happen? Because if you don't, you're out. I feel like you'll have it under control. And he doesn't need me critiquing as to whether it went to the way that I thought it was going to happen or not. So, like, as long as I'm good on this end, I feel like things are going to be fine on the other side. And I waste very little time and energy thinking or doing anything about it except for to get more people good on this side of the deal.
Exactly. I thought it was really interesting. You did a sermon several years ago where you were saying that when you first started preaching, you were convinced that Jesus was coming back in your lifetime. Yeah. And then progressively, it's like, well, maybe that's a little conceited. Or, I mean. I think every generation should look at it that way, though. Well, and that gives you the motivation to. Exactly. To, yeah, have a fire. Live like you were dying or the pants was. That's my new slogan, pants.
What do you think of it? Okay. Non-biblical signs of the apocalypse. Here we go. Your job, chat, and here in studio is to decide whether this is a sign of the end times or whether we have a little bit longer. Here we go. A South Florida woman who was accused of injecting people with fix-a-flat and other substances in a black market buttock-enhancing business was released on Bond Friday. O'Neal Morris, 31, posted a $25,000 bond and walked out of the Broward County main jail. Morris' bond was reduced from its original $150,000 as part of an agreement with prosecutors, said Morris' attorney, Mike Romare. We decided in negotiations in exchange for a bond reduction to waive our right to a speedy trial, which typically is supposed to take place within 175 days. Morris will also be placed on house arrest with a monitor and has to surrender her passport. Morris, who police said was born a man and identifies as a woman, was arrested in late July on charges of practicing medicine without a license and manslaughter.
Oh, shoot, I shouldn't have laughed before this. And manslaughtered in the death of Chautarka Newby, 32. She died in March in Tallahassee from one assistant medical examiner called Massive Systemic Silicone Migration as a result of cosmetic silicone injections, according to authorities. Morris has been arrested multiple times for performing cosmetic procedures without a license in Broward and Miami-Dade counties, but Newby is the only person who has died from her treatments. Morris maintains she had nothing to do with the death, and we intend on proving her innocence in reference to that particular case in court. So a Florida woman is charged with manslaughter for practicing medicine without a license because she is injecting fix-a-flat in a woman's buttocks. So that's like tire stuff. Yeah. Your tire, like, it needs something to seal the rubber so that your tire will seal the hole, whatever thing's in it. And this is going in someone's behind as cosmetic surgery. As an injection, like in a bun. I mean, doesn't that throw you off, like, just before it happens when you hear that shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake.
I mean, doesn't that, you say, hey, man, something's not right. Something's not right about this operation. I heard the shaking and the thing that's in the can. The medical procedure via aerosol can is always bad. I would think the fact you're doing it in some dude's van would probably also make you think, well, these surgical lights just aren't like they used to be. This Obamacare is just, I don't know. And that's, I mean, it's like, it's like Botox parties or anything. I mean, if you're inviting someone into your house or especially cosmetic house or their house or garage or, I mean, you know why it's, it's, it's, it's ludicrous to try and save money doing that. I mean, if you're going to do it, do it. If you can't afford it, don't do it. Seriously, how much do you trust Phyllis? Your friend who goes, hey, you want to, you want to come over for some Botox?
I got a needle and some fat. Well, you know, even, I mean, Botox, best case scenario, you're shooting poison into your face. Yes. You're killing those nerves so that they don't, they don't wrinkle. So that's just, it's a bad idea. I'm the guy who like doesn't even take a dicetylamol unless it's really desperate. Yeah. So to like the thought of injecting a foreign substance into my body just to perhaps all the better. To look better to other people. Yeah. You know, I mean, ultimately it's like your, your self-esteem is so damaged that you're, I mean. I mean, I'm totally connected to how people view me.
Yeah. Yeah. And, and it's, I mean, but it's, it's self-efficacy. It's not self, I mean, I don't know. I, I've never cared what other people thought. I knew from very early age that I was really weird and to just not even try. I watched my brother and sister try and fit in and I'm like, that's not for it. That looks like a waste of time. You can. Wow. That's a lot of energy. You can eat those crunch bears.
Yeah, exactly. I'm like, I'll eat the rest of that peanut butter crunch. You can have a golden ground. I mean, so they're, they're like putting them in the butt cheeks. Yeah. Yeah. I assume like. So they're running bigger butts. Yeah. So, I mean, cut hole in buttocks, insert, fix a flat plastic tube off. Big buttocks. I mean, is that, is that, what comes out of that?
Is that air or is it? It's like a tar-ish. I'm thinking of visioning like a tar. I think it's air, but it's got to be mixed with something that, that seals rubber. Seals a, a hole. That's not good. I don't want to put anything that seals a hole in that end of my body. Yeah. There's some holes I want to keep going. That hole needs to be not sealed. It's, it's. Yeah.
Yeah. You want to seal that hole. That sounds like the end for that person. Well, it was the end for one. Literally. So the, the chat said, I mean, this type of behavior, the chat says, is the end of time. Like we're, this is one of the things that was not written down in the Bible, but it's an indication that the world is ending its near is when people are injecting fix-a-flat in another's buttocks, doing medical treatment outside the home in this fashion. It says it's the end of times. Pants? I, I'd agree with the chat if everybody was doing it.
If it's not the end of times, it should be. Oh, it should be brought on. The Lord, Lord Jesus, save us from this. Is that what you're saying? Yeah. Okay. I don't think it's the craziest thing that people have come up with to do to each other. I mean, like Egyptians were tattooing each other's eyeballs. There's people tattooing each other's eyeballs in prison with needles and stuff. I'm like, you know, people will do crazy things to each other. I had no idea this was going on. That'd be kind of cool.
Put a little cross. No, it's like the whites. They do like, like they black out the whites of their eyes. Oh. They do them in solid red or, um. That just sounds painful. Yeah. And freaky. That's wild. Well, I suppose that's the guy you don't mess with, right? I get contacts. For sure.
Yeah. It's like he gets his private area on the yard. They keep the Botox away from him. Okay. I'm going to say because we're specifically talking about someone's rear end, I'll say it is the end. It is the end of time. It is the end of time. Phonetically connected. So, yeah. Yeah. It's the end of.
Okay. All right. In another round of, um, uh, headline funny, but potentially not funny. Uh, they say that U.S. politics, whose two major parties are represented by a donkey and an elephant, is a full contact sport. But one small South Texas town is dealing with tragedy after their mayor was killed by an aggressive 500-pound donkey. William Bolke had been in office only since May, but was reportedly well-liked by local residents in Hollywood Park, 15 miles north of San Antonio. Not by the donkey. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Uh, the San Antonio Express News reports that Bolke was found on Monday by a Tosca, uh,
Tosca County officials. We'll probably never know what triggered it. The, uh, Chief Deputy David Sauer told the paper, but it was evident that this particular donkey was involved based on the evidence at the scene and what we saw on this donkey. The donkey is still reportedly roaming the grounds of Bolke's property while his family decides what to do with it. The aggressive donkey is believed to have kicked and trampled Bolke to death on Monday morning while he worked on his farm. Aggressive behavior in donkeys is certainly not unheard of, and while donkeys are not as popular as dogs, thousands of, what a weird thing to say, thousands of farm owners in Texas have turned to donkeys in recent years to serve as guards over their sheep and cattle. What do donkeys do?
Like, what kind of noise do they make? Scare away the coyotes. Let's see, donkeys are hard animals. What does that mean? Oh, herd animals. That's what makes way more sense. They don't eat much. I don't understand the jargon. Kind of bony. Donkeys are herd animals, but they are also territorial ones that can attempt to establish dominance over areas up to nine square miles. I had no idea.
That's a wide range. Sauer said it's possible the donkey that killed Bolke was acting out in this sort of dominant behavior. His family released a statement posted on the city's website which said, Bill suffered a fatal injury while taking care of his prized cow herd near Pleasanton. Bill, your mayor, dearly loves serving you, our community, and we only wish he was here to continue doing so while they're making the necessary funeral arrangements. Nine square miles. I didn't realize. So, like, a donkey could go somewhere and they just decide that he owns his house and the next five houses around him. Okay, now, a 500-pound donkey, is that a big donkey?
It sounds like a lot of donkey. I don't know. I guess I was imagining maybe 250, 300 being maybe the normal, but they're like a little horse. That's a bit average side. Yeah. How do you know that? He's a wealth of trivial average. Well, like, when you go buy a side of beef or something, how much is a typical cow at market time? Are they, like, 700 pounds or 500? I don't know.
I mean, if he's herding several cows, he's got to be a good-sized donkey, you know? I mean, because it seems strange that they segued from sheep to cows. I mean, like… Well, I was just thinking weight-wise. Yeah. Oh, oh. Yeah, like 700 pounds, probably. Okay, all right. Well, it may be normal. So, it says, here's the characteristics of your standard donkey. Donkeys vary considerably in size depending on breed and management. The height at the withers ranges from 7.3 hands to 15.3 hands.
And the weight from 80 to 480 kilograms, so anywhere between 180 to 1,000 pounds. Wow. Working donkeys in the poorest countries have a life expectancy of 12 to 15 years. In more prosperous countries, they may have a lifespan of 30 to 50 years. Wow. Well, they do not form harems. I'm a one donkey donkey. Hey, check this out. The loud call… They claim nine miles to themselves. They're too lazy to go out another nine miles to find another. It says the loud call or bray of the donkey can last for 20 seconds and can be heard over
three kilometers. No wonder he does nine square miles. Yeehaw. That's a heck of a deal, man. Although he can't bark more than once, like the dog goes, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop. But if he's got 20 seconds per bray… Why do you need more than one? Why do you need to do it? I don't know. I feel like the dog does it more than once on purpose. Is it only because he doesn't have 20 seconds worth of it? He's trying to be the donkey?
He wished he really could be? Jealous. All right. All right. I don't know. Pants, what are your thoughts? Into the times or just we still got some more time? I think we still have some more time. Not for that guy, but we still have more time. Okay. It works once. Don't tell it every time someone's deceased in the story.
The end for that guy. I'll tell you what. Jeez. Stop telling stories where somebody dies. I can't help you. It's the end of times. Everybody dies in these stories. Sort of the nature of the bees. I think we still got more time. Chad says more time. Rick? I got to go with, yeah.
It seems like a rogue donkey. If it was packs of wild donkeys killing people at their leisure, that would, you know. Like that movie with the sheep. Some bee movie that had killer sheep. Maybe the donkey thought someone was coming to inject fix-a-flat in him. Dig the pun. Go ahead, Dan. I do not believe it is the apocalypse that God is bringing. However, it could be the end of that area because the biggest disturbing part of this whole story is the fact that the family couldn't decide what to do with the donkey. Yeah. Why is the donkey still alive? That donkey would have been shot dead about 20 seconds after the first kick.
Yeah. What do we do with it? Look at that. He's beating up dead. That donkey's been a donkey for us for quite a few years. He's just guarding his territory. Who's going to herd the cattle? I mean, it's really unfortunate what happened to Dad. But, you know. Hey, people come and people go. You saw the way he treated that donkey. He probably had it coming.
We have to paint his whole existence by this one incident. That's right. I mean, it doesn't define him as a donkey. All right. I'm going to save more time. I would agree. But I'm going to keep an eye on that part of Texas. If I see any more trouble, I reserve the right to change my vote. Yeah. There still could be trouble. All right. All right.
Let's see if we can do. We might have room for like one or two more. All right. Deputies were called when Jason Gordon Youngblood, a man from Utah claiming to be a Special Forces soldier, allegedly sat in a Key Largo Resort's pool with all his clothes on and was uncooperative with the hotel's security who were trying to get him out of the water, reports KeysNet and the Florida Keys. Youngblood, 30, repeatedly screaming, yeah, his response to every question that both security and the deputy had asked him. The deputy tried to get him to a relative's room for safekeeping, but along the way, Youngblood made karate gestures. And started yelling, yes, again, before scuffling with the deputy and cursing him,
according to the report. He ended up in jail. So basically he's in jail for saying, yeah, a bunch of times. And karate gestures. I like that he didn't break out the karate until they were trying to lead him away. He sounds like an agreeable fellow, personally. Here's what I'm really disappointed. The story does not give me the context of this, yeah. Like, what type of, yeah, it was. I would give up to $25 to find, like, an audio recording of, was it like a, yeah? Or was it a, yeah? Yeah.
Like a James Brown, yeah. Like, what? Or a Kool-Aid man. Oh, yeah. Oh, hold on. Let me see if I can get you a picture of this guy. Oh, it doesn't go very big. Hold on. Hold on, Chad. Just give me two seconds. I'm going to see if he, I'll get you. And then you can, you can imagine him however you wish.
Here he comes. There's the man right there. Yeah! Yeah! I had a beefier military dude pictured in my mind. No, that's the guy. That's why he kept his clothes on. Yeah. Definitely Kool-Aid. Yeah, I had the Kool-Aid. Oh, yeah! I don't believe that's the end of times.
I believe that is the end of a bad drug habit. No, hold on. I don't know if it did not indicate, because they would have had to charge him with that. They didn't charge him with public intox. They didn't charge him with any drug-related, like, no paraphernalia or anything. He's just in prison for resisting. But the brain cells have been damaged. Yeah, I mean, if he was on acid or something, he wouldn't have anything on him. Oh, yeah. He would just be on acid. Or bath salts. Bath salts.
See, now, the bath salts zombie thing, that… That was freaky. That's apocalyptic. That did sound apocalyptic. Yeah. I'm like, you're… I don't know if you're ingesting these bath salts or smoking them or something. Yeah, I don't know. But anything that makes you want to eat somebody's face, it's disturbing. Something's… Yeah, there's something really wrong with that. Okay, so that's not this guy.
What are our thoughts? More time. On man, he has himself into the slammer? I'm saying it's… I'd say it's the end. That's just quirky enough for me to say. This is going… Like, a guy ends up in prison because he can't control the yaz coming out of his mouth, and he's swimming in full Monty. Yeah, I don't know. We're towards the end. I think it's somewhere in Peter when you hear the trumpet or the guy saying,
Yeah! Yeah! The sky will recede like a scroll. This is what I like about it. This is like, YoungBlood30 repeatedly screaming, oh, it was a screaming yeah, his response to every question that both security and the deputy asked him. Now, Pants, if you're the security guy, do you feel like you would start kind of messing around with him? He's like, Yeah! Hey, dude, you got a hairy back? Yeah! Would you eat the rest of my cereal?
Probably. But if it's golden grass. All right, all right. All right, let's see if we got one more here. Wait, what does this mean? Oh, no, that's not good. Oh, that's not good either. No. No. I had one, but I did not read it all the way through. That was a mistake. I should have read that one all the time.
I tell you what, you know what, we're going to call it a day on that one. I've made the mistake of picking random news stories and or random websites on this before. Yeah. Matter of fact, I seem to remember pulling up a Teddy Ruxpin video on YouTube and getting a B word flown out of it. So we're just going to let those news stories lie. Over, Teddy. You know, so like what were our overall votes here? We had two for more time, two for end times. Well, one and a half. Because I'm the only guy that took end times on the yeah guy, right? Yeah.
All right, okay. So overall, we'll say, yeah! Yeah! We're going more time. Everybody starts doing it. I'm in. Yeah. More time. Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! If I find a Botox donkey that's saying that on the street, I'm calling it a day.
I'm just going to stand out in the sun and say, take me now, Jesus. You started looking for Balaam. All right. Where's the master's poles? I know they're around here. Okay. So that's it. I don't know. We're going to be all right, I think, for the next week. And by all right means Jesus is one and a half answers to be in here. And that's a positive. So let's look forward to that.
Those were non-biblical signs of the apocalypse. Here we go. People need advice. It says, dear life in the path, my mother-in-law is insisting that her adopted son and I each write a eulogy for her so she can read it before she dies. Wow. We don't think her request is appropriate and have told her so, but she keeps insisting. What do you think? Rick Gray, what are your thoughts? If someone asked me that, I would just flat out say no. If they kept insisting, I would probably write them something and then not use that as a eulogy and just be like, here, this is what you get.
And then go ahead and do whatever you want. Doesn't that present an awkward situation where you write something and she says, no, I don't like it? Maybe you've been fired from the eulogy committee. I don't really think she should get a vote. It's a eulogy. You don't get to say. But, you know, I remember being the best man at my brother's wedding and his fiance was quite insistent that she got to read my toast. I'm like, absolutely not. You know, there's no reason for that. Yeah, I agree.
The first time you hear it. Yeah. And, you know. Uh-oh. It's kind of different though. I tapped something and now we're all question marks. Oh. It is the end times. We lost like every camera except for me. Well, more me. Look at that. My light's on, so it must be a computer issue.
But you're looking fine. Chet says, humor the old bird. Write it up. That's what I say. It's not going to hurt anything. You write up and if they want to edit it, okay, whatever. And then you put it in a file or let them make it all nice and gushy. They're the most wonderful person I've ever heard in my life. See, I would probably have a hard time not being sarcastic and writing something. That would be, yeah. I'd write it like a Dr. Seuss eulogy. It would be very, very tongue-in-cheek.
I couldn't do it in love. I don't think I could do a serious one until after it was, until it was time to actually eulogize somebody. And I think that's what I would say, is like, look, I can write you something. Yeah, that's fair. But there's no emotional input because you're still alive. Yeah, right. So I'm looking at it like you're being greedy and trying to make me give you something that nobody ever really gets. Right, right. It's hard to mourn you. You don't get to come to your own funeral.
Yeah, exactly. Chad suggested to submit one that says, she held on longer than we would have hoped. Pants, what are your thoughts? Are you going to write this thing up or not? I'd probably tell her, yeah, give me a little bit. Go online, find some Dr. Seuss eulogy or something. Because I did that for my brother's rehearsal dinner for his wedding. I just did a Dr. Seuss vows. Wait, because you were going to read their vows? Well, for the whole wedding. It was an entire Dr. Seuss. Oh, okay, okay.
Did that, and that's probably what I'd give to her. All right, all right. Yeah, I wouldn't write it. I couldn't do it. But I couldn't do it with any sort of love in my heart, right? I would just be a jerk about it. I can playfully say, I'm not giving it to you. I'm not going to do it in a less snarky fashion than I would if I went to the trouble to have to write something. I would probably end up being offensive and causing some sort of risk. So I would probably just say, no, no, it's not going to happen. No, I'm sorry. And if that's enough for this person to chuck me from the – she has a choice, right?
Like, if – when she dies, I'll say, hey, man, I'd really like to say something at my mom's funeral. What are your thoughts? Yeah. Yeah. Even though she was kind of mad about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She didn't want that. She really – no, she would have preferred it. You didn't know her like that. She read this thing that her neighbor wrote, and she really liked that. So she doesn't want me to speak. Well, there's also a nice Dr. Seuss thing that my friend put together.
There's actually a decent amount of them. I'd just type that in on you. There's a good amount. Thanks, man. Yep. You're helpful. There are millions of people doing eulogies this week based upon your recommendations. All right, so quick apology. We got camera problems, so you've been looking at me for the last three minutes. I'm sorry about that. I tried to keep that off me if at all possible. Thanks for listening to Live from the Path.
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