1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,000 Hello everyone. This is Ricky and you're 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:04,500 listening to River City Church talks where we will take a 3 00:00:04,508 --> 00:00:07,800 deeper dive into the happenings that coming up and the jetzt to 4 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:10,600 be of River City. Join us as I sit down with our 5 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:13,400 pastors ministers, and leaders to talk River City. 6 00:00:13,500 --> 00:00:15,800 Today, we are joined with our associate pastor. 7 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:17,600 Nick Fox, Nick, how are you today? 8 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:19,200 I'm good. Ricky, how are you doing? 9 00:00:19,300 --> 00:00:23,800 I'm doing great doing great. Just getting ready to go on. 10 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:27,000 Sabbatical like the rest of the church in the month of August, 11 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:29,900 we have decided that we were going to take a break. 12 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:34,600 Break and rest in Jesus and kind of push it and see what God is 13 00:00:34,900 --> 00:00:38,300 speaking to us. And I think that's a really cool 14 00:00:38,300 --> 00:00:40,700 thing that, you know, as a church, we're all doing the 15 00:00:40,700 --> 00:00:43,900 exact same thing. So no extra events and August 16 00:00:43,900 --> 00:00:46,900 were just doing Sunday morning stuff and Sunday afternoon stuff 17 00:00:46,900 --> 00:00:49,900 but what is, what a sabbatical mean to you. 18 00:00:49,900 --> 00:00:50,700 Nick? What. 19 00:00:51,100 --> 00:00:53,800 Yeah, I think that's important, right? 20 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:57,300 As we as a church, go into this month and we throw around this 21 00:00:57,300 --> 00:01:00,900 word sabbatical and hopefully Just assume that people know 22 00:01:00,900 --> 00:01:04,400 what that means, right and and I think as a church it's important 23 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:09,500 for us to kind of Hit the pause button, but not just to stop, I 24 00:01:09,500 --> 00:01:12,100 guess is the thing right? Like not it doesn't mean do 25 00:01:12,100 --> 00:01:16,000 nothing, right? I think it is is intentional 26 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:20,500 rest and I think it is a time to really focus on your 27 00:01:20,500 --> 00:01:25,200 relationship with Jesus and the idea is to take away all of the 28 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:27,400 things, right? It's almost like it's almost 29 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:30,000 like fasting, right, right. So you taking away the He's 30 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:32,900 things that would otherwise occupy your time but then you 31 00:01:32,900 --> 00:01:36,700 fill them with Jesus and it's kind of this awareness. 32 00:01:36,700 --> 00:01:40,100 And so you spend it focusing on him and delighting in him and 33 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:42,900 and maybe finding that place, you know, in nature where you 34 00:01:42,900 --> 00:01:47,300 see Jesus in nature or you see it in time with your family or 35 00:01:47,300 --> 00:01:50,200 something like that. And that's the hope this month 36 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:54,100 is that, we just peel back a lot of the scheduling and the events 37 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:56,800 and allow people more time to just rest. 38 00:01:56,800 --> 00:02:01,600 So it says God had finished his work and And has an as it had 39 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:03,800 been. So on the seventh day, he rested 40 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:08,800 from all his work, God is clear about the value and the Holiness 41 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:12,000 of rest. Yeah, and it's something that he 42 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:16,500 commands us to do correct, because it helps us push forward 43 00:02:16,500 --> 00:02:22,000 into the spirit and get closer to God and see who he wants us 44 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:24,200 to be. And I always read that in 45 00:02:24,208 --> 00:02:27,300 Genesis, you know, God had finished the work and that he 46 00:02:27,308 --> 00:02:29,100 had been doing and on the seventh day, he rested. 47 00:02:29,100 --> 00:02:31,400 I'm like what? Distressed look for God. 48 00:02:31,700 --> 00:02:33,300 Yeah. And you know, you got to 49 00:02:33,308 --> 00:02:36,000 understand this is this is the creator of the universe. 50 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,000 I don't think that he rested, because he was tired, it's not 51 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:44,300 about being tired, right? It is a, this kind of 52 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:48,600 satisfaction with his creation and the idea that that was 53 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:52,200 enough, right? Like, that's enough, I'm done. 54 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:56,600 And so I'm going to rest. I'm going to sit back and focus 55 00:02:56,600 --> 00:03:00,200 on this side. This creation and I think that 56 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:03,400 we can, we can kind of mirror that a lot in the same way too. 57 00:03:04,700 --> 00:03:07,000 I think that people sometimes think that in order to rest, it 58 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:09,200 means they have to just sit on the couch and stare at a wall, 59 00:03:09,300 --> 00:03:11,500 right? And that's not what it is. 60 00:03:11,500 --> 00:03:14,300 You know, it's this delight, you know, if we take even just from 61 00:03:14,300 --> 00:03:18,200 that passage is this delight in creation and so where where is 62 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:21,100 it in the world that you see God, right? 63 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:24,000 You know, where is it that you encounter the face of Jesus? 64 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:27,500 Is it in serving? Is it in nature? 65 00:03:27,500 --> 00:03:29,700 You know, what does that look like for you? 66 00:03:29,900 --> 00:03:31,800 And what does it look like to not? 67 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:34,400 That's the thing, you know, rest is supposed to rejuvenate and 68 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:37,900 refresh us and it doesn't mean that it's like, you know, 69 00:03:37,900 --> 00:03:40,800 sitting down and doing nothing yet, it's whatever rejuvenates, 70 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:43,000 you and refreshes. You like, for some people, it 71 00:03:43,008 --> 00:03:45,600 could be being in nature for some people to be sitting on 72 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:48,100 their couch for other people to be playing golf. 73 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:50,200 Yep. Or you know, swimming or 74 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:53,100 whatever it is that it is. But it's not just a set thing 75 00:03:53,100 --> 00:03:55,400 that you know. He says, just don't move. 76 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:57,900 Yeah, yeah, no. It's doing the good, right? 77 00:03:57,900 --> 00:03:59,800 And it's not legalistic, it's not this. 78 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:04,900 This idea of you can't carry your bed mat on the Sabbath, 79 00:04:04,900 --> 00:04:06,800 right? Otherwise, you're punished, 80 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:09,900 right. It's, it's more than that it's 81 00:04:09,900 --> 00:04:12,700 deeper than that. It's really an intentional time 82 00:04:12,700 --> 00:04:16,500 of experiencing and encountering him. 83 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:20,800 And I think it kind of pushes back to where we just wrapped up 84 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:24,400 in our fruit of the spirit sermon series. 85 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:27,600 You know, you really should be rooted in the father and yoked 86 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:29,400 in Jesus. And then in step with that 87 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:31,900 spirit. Because that rest will help with 88 00:04:31,900 --> 00:04:34,400 all of that. So Nick, you etat on 89 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:38,700 self-control, which is the last fruit of the spirit. 90 00:04:39,100 --> 00:04:42,100 I thought it was really good because it helped me. 91 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:47,200 Remember that the fruit of the spirit is singular, it's not you 92 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:50,900 get kindness, or you get gentleness, or you get this or 93 00:04:50,900 --> 00:04:53,900 you get that, it's all of it together, you know, those are 94 00:04:53,900 --> 00:04:57,700 the virtues of the fruit of the spirit and self-control being 95 00:04:57,700 --> 00:05:01,600 the last one. And it's the Artist one, and you 96 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:05,400 and made a point of saying that, that word self-control in the 97 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:07,700 context of the fruit of the spirit is backward. 98 00:05:07,700 --> 00:05:10,200 Yeah. That it's control of self. 99 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:12,900 Can you expand on that? Yeah, sure. 100 00:05:12,900 --> 00:05:18,600 That, you know, I kind of came in the studying and researching 101 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:20,400 and all that, you know? And I was going to like 102 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:22,300 everybody else sounds super intelligent and throwing the 103 00:05:22,300 --> 00:05:25,300 Greek for self-control, but it's really actually kind of boring. 104 00:05:25,300 --> 00:05:29,500 It's just really truly self-control, so I decided that 105 00:05:29,500 --> 00:05:33,300 really wasn't Worth going into, but this whole idea that, you 106 00:05:33,300 --> 00:05:35,700 know, we use these other terms, you know, self-esteem and 107 00:05:35,700 --> 00:05:37,900 self-confidence, and self motivation. 108 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:43,500 And those words really do begin with self, right? 109 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:47,300 And so, I think that just because of our language, we say 110 00:05:47,300 --> 00:05:51,100 self-control and we think it's this thing that our self is is 111 00:05:51,300 --> 00:05:54,400 in control. And really the reality is that 112 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:58,100 it's backwards where when we look at this biblically, we're 113 00:05:58,100 --> 00:06:00,700 look at this. In terms of the spirit, Really 114 00:06:00,700 --> 00:06:06,000 more about controlling the self. And this idea that in order to 115 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:10,400 have self-control, you actually need to Lose Yourself to the 116 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:15,400 spirit and that was a really big eye-opener for me while I was 117 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:17,400 studying. Just, you know, the idea of 118 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:21,600 laying yourself down letting yourself go in order to have 119 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:26,300 more control, you know, I think that as a culture as a society, 120 00:06:26,300 --> 00:06:31,600 this idea is that, you know, it's more about It's more about 121 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:35,300 what yourself can do, right? You know? 122 00:06:35,300 --> 00:06:40,000 And if I just buckle down, and if I just, you know, grid it out 123 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:42,800 and I'm going to be better and I'm going to have more and I 124 00:06:42,808 --> 00:06:47,600 want to be more successful and really like so many things in 125 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:52,800 the Bible and when we read it Christianity backwards from 126 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:56,400 society, it's right, it's often opposite right? 127 00:06:56,400 --> 00:06:59,300 You said something also yesterday, you know God gave us 128 00:07:00,300 --> 00:07:03,600 Troll in order to fight the Temptation Of The Flesh. 129 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:07,800 Because Flash is immediate. Yeah, I want that now because I 130 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:12,200 want this now, you know, I can't wait, but that self-control is 131 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:18,100 no, the, the facet that gives us the other fruit, the gentleness, 132 00:07:18,100 --> 00:07:21,100 the kindness, the all the virtues that come from it. 133 00:07:21,300 --> 00:07:26,600 You read you paraphrased into message yesterday, the passage 134 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:30,000 in Galatians which talks about all the, you know, the works. 135 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:33,800 The Works of The Flash, you know, and reading that and just 136 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:37,400 reading it again. Now, it really opens my eyes to 137 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:40,600 what that passage really means. Because you read the passage and 138 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:44,700 Galatians and it's like, okay, let me in this Spirit, you know, 139 00:07:45,100 --> 00:07:48,300 all of the, you know, the debauchery and the sound of that 140 00:07:48,300 --> 00:07:51,000 all the big words, but then you read it in the message and it's, 141 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:55,900 you know, just joyless, you know, frenzied and joyless grabs 142 00:07:55,900 --> 00:07:57,900 for happiness, you know, trinkets? 143 00:07:57,900 --> 00:08:00,100 Yeah. I know paranoid loneliness. 144 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:03,700 Competition. Those are all words that we know 145 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:05,800 those are all words that we live with. 146 00:08:05,900 --> 00:08:08,000 Yeah, yeah. I think that's the value right? 147 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:11,900 In in using something like the message paraphrase. 148 00:08:11,900 --> 00:08:13,400 Like I would never recommend that. 149 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:16,300 That's the only Bible you use. But sometimes you know in 150 00:08:16,300 --> 00:08:19,900 passages like these, it's really good to kind of just look over 151 00:08:20,500 --> 00:08:24,400 and see kind of in this plain English, right? 152 00:08:25,500 --> 00:08:28,400 How it's phrased, you know? Because and the plan I think I 153 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:31,800 made I think I'm I mean, you've kind of forget what you say when 154 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:34,700 you're on stage sometimes, hopefully because that means 155 00:08:34,700 --> 00:08:38,600 that the spirits speaking and not you but, you know, the this 156 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:42,400 idea that we read, there's so many of these passages that we 157 00:08:42,500 --> 00:08:46,500 read, and I think we just get used to the words, right. 158 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:49,400 You know, and that's even just the fruit of the spirit, right? 159 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:52,900 And a lot of times when, when I'm on stage or even when 160 00:08:52,900 --> 00:08:54,500 Jason's on stage, you know, you started. 161 00:08:54,500 --> 00:08:56,200 It's like, you know, the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, 162 00:08:56,200 --> 00:08:57,600 peace, pedal. And then you just kind of put a 163 00:08:57,608 --> 00:09:00,000 little bit for the rest of it because everybody knows. 164 00:09:00,100 --> 00:09:02,100 Right? And you know, you look at 165 00:09:02,100 --> 00:09:04,400 spiritual gifts, you look at all of these things and there's just 166 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:07,400 some passages that we kind of just we kind of just blow 167 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:10,500 through them because we've read them so many times and I think 168 00:09:10,500 --> 00:09:13,500 that's the case here. You know, you were so focused on 169 00:09:13,500 --> 00:09:16,300 the fruit of the spirit. We don't often look at the 170 00:09:16,300 --> 00:09:18,600 passage about the works of the Flesh and even if we do, 171 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:21,700 there's, you know, and you even mentioned, there's words in 172 00:09:21,700 --> 00:09:27,300 there like licentiousness and debauchery and carousing. 173 00:09:27,300 --> 00:09:31,200 And there's, there's these words that Like, I mean it dictionary 174 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:32,500 to figure out what it is. Yeah. 175 00:09:32,500 --> 00:09:37,300 And you know I know that they're not great but I mean I've never 176 00:09:37,300 --> 00:09:41,000 really said that I was a licentious person so you kind of 177 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:42,500 just take the north, right. Yeah. 178 00:09:42,900 --> 00:09:45,300 But then when you break it down like that in the message and you 179 00:09:45,300 --> 00:09:48,400 read it, it just man it really punched me in the heart when I 180 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:52,800 read it in that paraphrase because I just it seems so 181 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:55,700 relevant exactly. And I like the way that the 182 00:09:55,700 --> 00:09:59,100 message kind of wrapped up that that section of verse and I 183 00:09:59,100 --> 00:10:00,000 could go on. Yeah. 184 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:02,500 Yeah. These aren't the only things, 185 00:10:02,500 --> 00:10:05,100 there are more. Yeah and I think in most other 186 00:10:05,100 --> 00:10:08,500 like NIV the ESV and other translations it says whatever 187 00:10:08,500 --> 00:10:13,100 the last one is and it says and the like right, you know, and 188 00:10:13,100 --> 00:10:16,200 that's how it's just kind of this like look I've given you a 189 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:21,900 list, there's so many more but these are the big ones, the big, 190 00:10:22,100 --> 00:10:24,800 you know, works of the flesh that the spirits battling. 191 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:27,900 Then you also mentioned what the fruit of the spirit is not 192 00:10:27,900 --> 00:10:29,800 correct. This kind of guy punches. 193 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:34,300 Well, Not a standard that we have to try to really, really 194 00:10:34,300 --> 00:10:38,100 hard to achieve. Not about outward activities, 195 00:10:38,100 --> 00:10:42,300 but about cultivating a spirit surrendered, heart that produces 196 00:10:42,300 --> 00:10:45,000 this fruit. Not a legalistic command laid on 197 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:47,800 our shoulders. I think people that are in 198 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:51,400 church and that have been in church for a very long time. 199 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:56,100 Sometimes forget that our works is in our Salvation. 200 00:10:56,500 --> 00:10:58,500 Yeah. The more stuff that we do in 201 00:10:58,500 --> 00:11:01,100 church just because it's Church. Does it mean that we're any 202 00:11:01,100 --> 00:11:03,800 closer that person who just found Jesus? 203 00:11:03,900 --> 00:11:04,800 Correct. Yeah. 204 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:09,000 And I think what? I was hoping a big takeaway 205 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:12,400 would be as that. This this isn't something that, 206 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:16,300 you know, if you just do it enough it'll take hold right. 207 00:11:16,300 --> 00:11:19,300 You know, it's not just like well if I'm just if I just force 208 00:11:19,300 --> 00:11:22,800 myself to be kind and maybe I'll become kind. 209 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:27,800 It's again, it's the opposite, you know, this starts inside, it 210 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:32,100 starts with this idea that If I am pressed into the spirit, if 211 00:11:32,100 --> 00:11:35,200 I'm really truly in relationship with Jesus, which is where it 212 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:39,000 needs to begin. Then the beauty is that the 213 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:42,200 spirit manifests these virtues in us. 214 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:47,400 And so it's not about being more kind, it's about becoming that 215 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:50,800 way and you become that way because of the spirit. 216 00:11:51,100 --> 00:11:54,300 And, you know, it's we can talk about what things are a lot. 217 00:11:54,300 --> 00:11:56,800 But I think sometimes it's helpful to look at what they're 218 00:11:56,800 --> 00:12:00,000 not and the beauty man, and I say it again. 219 00:12:00,300 --> 00:12:02,700 Because I think it's beautiful because it takes the pressure 220 00:12:02,700 --> 00:12:06,100 off. Is you don't just have to try 221 00:12:06,100 --> 00:12:10,200 harder, right? We're a try-hard society, right? 222 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:15,200 It's try harder and you'll be better and not with this, this 223 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:17,800 isn't the thing that you just have to try harder for it's the 224 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:21,100 thing that really you need to try less, right? 225 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:25,900 You need to just spend time with Jesus and walk in the spirit and 226 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:30,500 the more you do that, the more you become those Use of the 227 00:12:30,500 --> 00:12:31,900 fruit of the spirit. Yeah. 228 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:34,800 And that's the other thing about it being a singular spirit, 229 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:39,000 it's, you know, singular fruit. Is that they all come together. 230 00:12:39,900 --> 00:12:42,000 You can't be more gentle. Yeah. 231 00:12:42,100 --> 00:12:43,600 And less kind. Yeah. 232 00:12:43,900 --> 00:12:47,200 You can't, you know, be one without all of them. 233 00:12:47,300 --> 00:12:49,000 Yeah. And that's, you know, the 234 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:54,200 ingredients analogy that I used. It's, it's you can't just have 235 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:57,000 love joy, peace. And then throw in Anger, right? 236 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:01,600 It's just doesn't work that way. Now you You may feel that maybe 237 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:04,700 you have less Joy at times, you may feel that your piece isn't 238 00:13:04,700 --> 00:13:08,600 there at times, but I think that really speaks to this battle 239 00:13:08,700 --> 00:13:13,600 right between the Flesh and the spirit and the idea that you 240 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:16,300 kind of have an idea. And if I'm wrong, then I'm sure 241 00:13:16,300 --> 00:13:19,800 that Jesus will tell me someday. But the way the way I 242 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:24,900 interpreted is you kind of have an indication of which one's 243 00:13:24,900 --> 00:13:29,000 winning in this battle right based on which you see more of 244 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:30,900 right, you know, knowledge. Of the tools. 245 00:13:30,900 --> 00:13:34,400 Yeah, exactly. And you know, do you see more 246 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:38,800 love and kindness and gentleness and joy and peace in your life? 247 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:41,800 When the good news? Is that the spirits probably on 248 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:43,100 The Winning Side? Conger went outside. 249 00:13:43,100 --> 00:13:48,500 Yeah but unfortunately if you see more of those works of the 250 00:13:48,508 --> 00:13:51,500 Flesh in your life, you know, these the idea of like never 251 00:13:51,500 --> 00:13:58,400 being satisfied and never having peace and this paranoid 252 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:00,500 loneliness, right? The way that it was Weird. 253 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:04,900 If you see more of those than unfortunately, maybe you're not 254 00:14:04,900 --> 00:14:07,800 pressed in enough, right? And maybe the flesh is winning. 255 00:14:08,300 --> 00:14:10,700 Yeah. And that's, I think it's kind of 256 00:14:10,900 --> 00:14:15,600 nice to have an indicator to look at to give us an idea of 257 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:18,200 hey I'm really tipping the scale, the wrong way. 258 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:20,900 So maybe I should spend more time with you. 259 00:14:20,900 --> 00:14:23,800 In the thing is is an outward indicator as well other people 260 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:25,300 see it. Yeah. 261 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:28,500 And other people can can you know call you on it? 262 00:14:28,500 --> 00:14:32,500 I guess you know you just have Be willing to allow them to do 263 00:14:32,500 --> 00:14:35,300 that, you know, to save people in your life, you know. 264 00:14:35,500 --> 00:14:37,600 A how am I doing? Yeah. 265 00:14:37,700 --> 00:14:43,200 Well, you came back to the analogy of your cooking, Nick, 266 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:45,000 which I'm going to be like, doubting Thomas. 267 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:46,900 I'm not going to believe it until I actually feel it and 268 00:14:46,900 --> 00:14:50,400 taste it, okay? Because you said you are you 269 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:52,900 love to cook and whatnot? What is your favorite dish to 270 00:14:52,900 --> 00:14:56,600 cook? Oh man, I really love cooking, 271 00:14:56,700 --> 00:14:59,900 pretty much everything I really like Italian food. 272 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:03,700 Dude, I would argue that, I make a pretty mean lasagna. 273 00:15:04,300 --> 00:15:08,800 Okay, it's really one of my favorite dishes, you know? 274 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:11,700 I would almost always immediately answer Pizza, you 275 00:15:11,708 --> 00:15:12,900 know, like, what's your favorite pizza? 276 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:15,700 The more I think about it. And it's one of those things 277 00:15:15,700 --> 00:15:18,200 that, like, when I have it, I'm like, oh man. 278 00:15:18,700 --> 00:15:20,400 Yeah, no, I like this way better. 279 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:21,600 Yeah. I like pizza. 280 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:24,200 Yeah. Lasagna is the thing. 281 00:15:24,700 --> 00:15:32,000 I enjoy making Asian food a lot. My Says that I make really good 282 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:36,000 tacos like soft tacos, crunchy tacos, either. 283 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:37,500 I think it's more about what goes in them. 284 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:40,000 I think that what they're, you know, talking about. 285 00:15:40,300 --> 00:15:43,400 But but all of that to say, because I kind of always wanted 286 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:45,900 to go to culinary school. There's the same, there's a 287 00:15:45,908 --> 00:15:51,000 little secret for you. Yeah, I really would love to be 288 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:56,800 like a baker or like a pastry. Chef pastry chef. 289 00:15:56,800 --> 00:15:58,500 Yeah. And I've really enjoyed 290 00:15:58,500 --> 00:16:01,600 desserts. And I like I like baking. 291 00:16:02,100 --> 00:16:04,400 Well, as long as you don't put the secret ingredient in, your 292 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:07,300 fruit of the spirit is cookies into the desert. 293 00:16:07,300 --> 00:16:11,300 I think it'd be fine. Never had for those that, don't 294 00:16:11,300 --> 00:16:15,300 know what I'm talking about. Go listen to Nick sermon here on 295 00:16:15,300 --> 00:16:17,100 the podcast channel that you're on as well. 296 00:16:17,900 --> 00:16:22,200 But Nick, you kind of alluded to and I think it's a great analogy 297 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:27,300 that self-control being the last virtue of the fruit of the 298 00:16:27,300 --> 00:16:32,300 spirit is kind of like the Ask it that holds everything in, you 299 00:16:32,300 --> 00:16:35,600 know, it's like you said a cake as well. 300 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:40,300 You know, you can't speaking about having some fruit and not 301 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:45,000 the other virtues. You can't make a cake without 302 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:48,900 flour. Yeah, you know you can sprinkle 303 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:52,300 some wheat flour in it and it'll be a different kind of cake but 304 00:16:52,300 --> 00:16:56,200 you know it's not going to be that soft, you know, sponge cake 305 00:16:56,200 --> 00:17:00,200 that you you can make. And I think the analogy of Troll 306 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:07,400 being the last fruit or last virtue to come really does bring 307 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:09,900 it all back together for me. Yeah. 308 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:14,300 Because it self control effects, all of those correct? 309 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:19,800 Yeah, and I think that there is a reason, you know, I shared a 310 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:23,599 shared some quotes in my message and it seems like this is this 311 00:17:23,599 --> 00:17:28,800 is a Timeless elusive Endeavor. Yeah, everybody it's everybody. 312 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:33,500 Its Cultural, it is timeless, and in the point of reading, 313 00:17:33,500 --> 00:17:35,900 those quotes was not just, they're not just feel good 314 00:17:35,900 --> 00:17:40,300 quotes. The common theme is that This is 315 00:17:40,300 --> 00:17:43,900 impossible, right, right. And that, that all of those, all 316 00:17:43,900 --> 00:17:46,700 of those people that gave those quotes about self-control. 317 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:53,000 The point was, you can do many, many great things in your life, 318 00:17:53,500 --> 00:17:56,900 but you're really only actually great if you can have 319 00:17:56,900 --> 00:18:00,100 self-control, right? And in that just tells me that 320 00:18:00,100 --> 00:18:03,600 man, this is this is one of the hardest things in our lives 321 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:07,500 because, you know, in the world's not wrong, you are 322 00:18:07,500 --> 00:18:09,200 great. If you can have self control the 323 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:11,400 problem. The world doesn't give you a way 324 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:15,400 to do that, right? The gospel does, right? 325 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:20,200 The this idea of, of Christianity and The Guiding of 326 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:24,500 the spirit, it tells you not only do you need this thing, but 327 00:18:24,500 --> 00:18:27,800 here's how you get it, right? It's the fruit of the spirit and 328 00:18:28,100 --> 00:18:32,200 and I do think like you said and again, maybe one day I'll get to 329 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:37,100 ask Paul but I think it was last on purpose because it does truly 330 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:42,000 empower the other our virtues, you know, you've got to have 331 00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:46,700 self-control to be kind to everyone. 332 00:18:47,300 --> 00:18:50,900 It really does help to have self-control if you want to be 333 00:18:50,900 --> 00:18:54,100 gentle, you know. And if and so I kind of see it 334 00:18:54,100 --> 00:18:58,800 as this like empowering virtue when we talk about the fruit of 335 00:18:58,808 --> 00:19:04,400 the spirit and then again, maybe we speculate man, maybe maybe 336 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:06,400 I'm wrong. Maybe there was really no reason 337 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:10,700 for the order but it's That way for a reason. 338 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:14,000 And I think and I think that's what it is. 339 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:18,700 It's just it's the hardest one and it and it really does truly 340 00:19:19,300 --> 00:19:22,900 Empower all the others and I guess we'll have to ask Paul 341 00:19:22,900 --> 00:19:26,700 when we all get to heaven. And say you know my dude. 342 00:19:26,700 --> 00:19:28,600 So many questions was the purpose though. 343 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:33,500 I yeah that's the one thing that I hope and pray that you know 344 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:35,500 you know I make it there. Yeah. 345 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:36,100 Right. Yes. 346 00:19:37,100 --> 00:19:39,300 But yeah to ask those questions to those. 347 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:42,900 Saying, what did you mean - you know? 348 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:46,200 Yeah. The the fear is like we spend 349 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:49,600 all this time talking and doing this and he's like yeah I didn't 350 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:55,000 mean it like that. Yeah you're like great I spent 351 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:58,900 all my life thinking this and it wasn't that like but Paul I 352 00:19:58,900 --> 00:20:02,300 preached a sermon about this and he's like man you got it wrong. 353 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:06,800 He's like yeah I was listening and well let's hope not, it 354 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:09,400 wasn't about that at all. But no I'm Nick, you did it. 355 00:20:09,700 --> 00:20:12,300 Little job the whole teaching team did a phenomenal job with 356 00:20:12,300 --> 00:20:15,700 this series. It has been super impactful in 357 00:20:15,700 --> 00:20:18,900 my life listening to the different aspects of the fruit 358 00:20:18,900 --> 00:20:23,000 of the spirit and you know revamping my thinking process 359 00:20:23,100 --> 00:20:25,600 about those. So thank you so much for for 360 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:28,500 leading that team for what you do at River City. 361 00:20:28,500 --> 00:20:31,300 And you know just kind of keeping us all in track when 362 00:20:31,900 --> 00:20:34,300 Jason and Natalie were on their sabbatical and sure. 363 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:38,900 And I do briefly I just really do want to give a shout-out to 364 00:20:38,900 --> 00:20:41,000 the teaching team. Team, they're they're 365 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:43,800 incredible. And they step up when we need 366 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:46,200 them to. And, you know, the reality is 367 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:48,600 that some of these people, they make it onstage, one time in an 368 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:52,600 entire year, right? And and I get up a little bit 369 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:56,200 more but you know, Jason he's up every week and he gets feedback, 370 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:57,800 you know, and he can run, he can correct. 371 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:01,000 Something that maybe he says or he can, you know, come back the 372 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:03,800 next week and do something better than he thought. 373 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:06,500 He did the previous week. And for most of the people on 374 00:21:06,508 --> 00:21:09,500 this team, they get to talk once a year. 375 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:12,500 Here. And so that's a lot of pressure 376 00:21:12,900 --> 00:21:15,600 because that's what you're going to be remembered for. 377 00:21:15,900 --> 00:21:16,800 Yeah. Right. 378 00:21:16,900 --> 00:21:20,100 Is, is that message? You gave that one time during 379 00:21:20,100 --> 00:21:23,400 this one series? And they just really, man, they 380 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:27,300 blew it out of the park and you got Jason Casey, Rebecca kuribon 381 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:31,400 Greg, Logan and RJ strauch and they really truly. 382 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:34,300 They just, we all worked really well together. 383 00:21:34,300 --> 00:21:37,200 Plan. This series, it was seamless. 384 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:41,100 It really, was it flowed from from Jason's introduction at the 385 00:21:41,100 --> 00:21:44,200 very beginning, all through. And then your wrap up at the 386 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:48,100 end, it was like just want like y'all wrote all your messages 387 00:21:48,100 --> 00:21:50,700 together, which I know that's not the case. 388 00:21:50,700 --> 00:21:53,800 But you know, the other thing that I would like to, you know, 389 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:56,000 say about our teaching team, you know, I've been in other 390 00:21:56,000 --> 00:22:00,300 churches where the teaching pastors are all out and then, 391 00:22:00,300 --> 00:22:04,400 you know, the teaching team would come in and it's like, oh 392 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:08,300 great, you know. And you get that sense of like, 393 00:22:08,300 --> 00:22:10,000 okay well the main path. Stop there. 394 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:12,400 And it's not about the main Pastor, it's about the word that 395 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:16,000 is You Know spoken that God has it should be, it should be yeah 396 00:22:16,300 --> 00:22:21,300 you know but here at our church it's just so refreshing that the 397 00:22:21,300 --> 00:22:23,000 entire teaching team. Yeah. 398 00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:26,800 Ra1 speakers. Yeah and it's not time that you 399 00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:28,200 want to take off church. Right. 400 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:30,700 You know and and that's you know I think what you're talking 401 00:22:30,700 --> 00:22:32,700 about too. Is this idea that like hey lead 402 00:22:32,700 --> 00:22:35,500 pastors out for a month? That means we can skip church 403 00:22:35,500 --> 00:22:39,100 and I don't think and I love Jason. 404 00:22:39,100 --> 00:22:43,200 He's He's great. He's wonderful and he is a one 405 00:22:43,300 --> 00:22:46,700 teaching Pastor like he's incredible but there's not this 406 00:22:46,700 --> 00:22:50,300 huge letdown I guess is what I'm saying you know, where it's like 407 00:22:50,300 --> 00:22:52,600 man, Jason's out. So we're going to go on vacation 408 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:56,500 wait until he gets back. They bring it man and it's 409 00:22:56,500 --> 00:22:59,800 really a time that you don't you don't want to miss. 410 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:02,700 It's just unique perspectives and they're all great teachers. 411 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:06,200 We're just we're absolutely blessed to have a teaching team 412 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:08,200 as deep as we do. Yeah. 413 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:11,100 I'm just really Really proud of them and grateful for them. 414 00:23:11,100 --> 00:23:14,000 They're they're amazing people. And what a blessing to the 415 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:18,500 senior leadership as well to know that your church is in good 416 00:23:18,500 --> 00:23:21,300 hands. And the messages are going to be 417 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:25,000 sound and biblically based. Yeah. 418 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:26,600 And you don't have to worry about it. 419 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:27,900 Yeah. You don't have to pay a speaker 420 00:23:27,900 --> 00:23:31,100 to come in and you don't ask, you know, another Pastor from 421 00:23:31,100 --> 00:23:33,700 another church to fill in for you or anything like that. 422 00:23:33,700 --> 00:23:36,600 No, they're, they're great. And like I said on Sunday there, 423 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:39,300 they're always there on call, they're ready, you know, Chase. 424 00:23:39,500 --> 00:23:42,300 I'm sick. If I'm out, if we get to a place 425 00:23:42,300 --> 00:23:45,000 where and I think we had to do that once this year, actually, 426 00:23:46,500 --> 00:23:50,600 they're ready, and they do it on a moment's notice and they're 427 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:53,100 just incredible to be able to craft and teach that quickly. 428 00:23:53,100 --> 00:23:56,900 I just so word to the wise if you see one of our teaching team 429 00:23:56,900 --> 00:23:59,300 members up to preach that Sunday, don't miss it, don't 430 00:23:59,300 --> 00:24:02,200 miss it because you're going to miss an amazing sermon Nick. 431 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:04,900 You were in charge for the last month, while Jason and Natalie 432 00:24:04,900 --> 00:24:07,700 were out of town. If we had a vending machine here 433 00:24:07,700 --> 00:24:10,800 at the church, what three items. You put in it for me. 434 00:24:10,900 --> 00:24:13,600 Like what would I like to really be in it? 435 00:24:14,300 --> 00:24:16,600 Anything rhesus anything in fast. 436 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:19,000 Great bars necrosis and not Ricci Reese's. 437 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:23,200 That's and grown-up up north. Yeah, that's how everyone says, 438 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:26,000 I know Ricci cups, I had a friend from New York and it's 439 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,800 like, can I get some Reese's? I'm like, what are Reese's Ricci 440 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:33,500 cups? No Reese, my favorite, absolute 441 00:24:33,500 --> 00:24:36,600 favorite. I like the fast-break bars, 442 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:39,100 they've kind of overtaking, even the big cups for me. 443 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:41,700 Okay, so good, I think I've had a fast. 444 00:24:41,700 --> 00:24:44,800 So if you, if you're listening to this and you want to make me 445 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:47,000 really happy on the Sunday premium fast, break for. 446 00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:53,200 I would also like sparkling water of some sort like, because 447 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:55,600 I'm just saying there's a refrigerated section in this 448 00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:58,100 vending machine, okay? Since I get to create it, okay? 449 00:24:58,500 --> 00:25:03,200 I would love for sparkling water to Pacheco or san Pellegrino 450 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:08,400 really. And either of them, and let's go 451 00:25:08,900 --> 00:25:12,800 save. Let's do like a spicy trail mix 452 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:15,900 of some sort. Okay, there now we have it all 453 00:25:15,900 --> 00:25:18,500 all the snacks out of the snack. So if you are hearing this, 454 00:25:18,500 --> 00:25:21,000 you'll know what to bring Nick. That was the whole point of that 455 00:25:21,100 --> 00:25:23,900 sighs. I assumed, I assume, would you 456 00:25:23,900 --> 00:25:25,800 go to space and travel if you could? 457 00:25:26,300 --> 00:25:30,100 Oh yeah, I think it would be incredible. 458 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:35,400 I have it's so hard to explain because I on the surface. 459 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:37,500 I want to say I'm afraid of heights but it's not. 460 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:42,000 It's not that simple. Like I'm not scared of being 461 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:45,600 high up, I'm afraid of falling. Okay. 462 00:25:45,700 --> 00:25:46,900 Yeah. Like I don't mind being on a 463 00:25:46,908 --> 00:25:49,500 mountain, I just don't want to be on the edge of the mountain, 464 00:25:49,500 --> 00:25:52,600 where there's a chance that I could fall off them, right? 465 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:55,100 So yeah. And I love, I love being an 466 00:25:55,100 --> 00:25:57,400 airplanes. I don't like the take-off or the 467 00:25:57,400 --> 00:25:59,300 landing, but once I'm up, I'm fine. 468 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:02,700 Yeah, I would I think, being in space would be pretty 469 00:26:02,700 --> 00:26:04,800 incredible. There's no risk of falling 470 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:07,300 because it'll just flow. Just, you'll float into the 471 00:26:07,300 --> 00:26:09,300 nothing but you'll just flow. Correct? 472 00:26:09,700 --> 00:26:12,200 If you were given a thousand dollars to spend on your closest 473 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:16,500 friend, what would you get them? What was that little you cleared 474 00:26:16,500 --> 00:26:18,600 your throat? Like it was when I do see you A 475 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:23,000 tingle. Oh gosh thousand dollars. 476 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,300 Okay. Thousand dollars to spend on my 477 00:26:25,300 --> 00:26:26,800 closest friend, when I put out by. 478 00:26:26,900 --> 00:26:32,000 Yeah, oh well, I think I love to give gifts so much Ricky. 479 00:26:32,700 --> 00:26:36,600 It's hard for me to narrow it down because there's a couple 480 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:39,000 faces that pop in my head, right? 481 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,000 And I think That they would like different things. 482 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:47,100 I think that a trip probably would be the thing and whether 483 00:26:47,100 --> 00:26:50,000 they take me along was up to them, but I would, I would like 484 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:54,300 to plan a trip, particularly those that are really close to 485 00:26:54,300 --> 00:26:58,400 me all love baseball, and I actually just had this 486 00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:03,100 conversation with Aaron Jason's brother, the other night, and 487 00:27:03,100 --> 00:27:08,400 I've had this dream for years of a Father's Day, present, being a 488 00:27:08,408 --> 00:27:12,700 trick, a trip, Omaha to watch The College World Series and I 489 00:27:12,708 --> 00:27:13,900 just think that would be incredible. 490 00:27:13,900 --> 00:27:17,700 So it's almost like I would, I would get them the gift that I 491 00:27:17,700 --> 00:27:19,500 wanted. Now thankfully they die 492 00:27:19,500 --> 00:27:22,800 understand. But yeah I think a trip is a 493 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:25,900 good one because I really it kind of goes back to this idea 494 00:27:25,900 --> 00:27:31,700 of gifts or wonderful but they don't typically lasts and so I 495 00:27:31,700 --> 00:27:34,100 really would rather create a memory, right? 496 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:36,900 So I think a trip would be the thing that I do. 497 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:39,600 That's awesome. I've been Inking. 498 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:43,300 I think we talked about it. Having a guy's trip on a train. 499 00:27:43,500 --> 00:27:46,400 Yeah. So in hitting all the MLB parks 500 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:48,500 that are along the realize, that would be awesome. 501 00:27:48,500 --> 00:27:53,900 I've never, I've never ridden on a train, this is so if I 502 00:27:53,900 --> 00:27:57,400 recommend it 100%, I did a trip a couple years ago where I love 503 00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:00,900 from San Antonio and went to Chicago and it was a 32-hour 504 00:28:00,900 --> 00:28:04,200 train trip, but you just sit there and you just like watch 505 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:08,200 the scenery go by you make some amazing friendships that I still 506 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:12,400 have today. Typically older generation of 507 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:15,500 people but the stories that they tell you about their lives. 508 00:28:15,500 --> 00:28:18,600 You know, I met a lady who lived through the Great Depression and 509 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:20,300 the stuff that her family had to go through. 510 00:28:20,300 --> 00:28:24,300 I met another gentleman who at the time, I think he served WWII 511 00:28:24,300 --> 00:28:27,200 and Korea and you know the stories that he was saying and 512 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:30,100 these are just people that you meet during dinner time because 513 00:28:30,100 --> 00:28:31,500 it's communal dinner. Yeah. 514 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:34,900 So you have to sit with strangers and as an introvert. 515 00:28:34,900 --> 00:28:37,200 It's really hard for me to do that. 516 00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:40,000 But you know, you get these people that These Amazing 517 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:41,900 Stories. And if I were to put myself, you 518 00:28:41,900 --> 00:28:45,200 know, taking myself out of that and stretched myself. 519 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:46,900 I would have heard these stories. 520 00:28:46,900 --> 00:28:48,400 Yeah. And I wouldn't have had these 521 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:53,500 amazing friendships of these amazing people that you just 522 00:28:53,500 --> 00:28:55,700 meet in passing fun. That's so fun. 523 00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:58,600 I mean, maybe I don't know how it goes. 524 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:00,900 Maybe you could take a train to Omaha. 525 00:29:01,100 --> 00:29:03,500 We could combine the trips really good. 526 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:06,300 Have to figure out to figure it out, but yeah, I'm coming on 527 00:29:06,300 --> 00:29:07,300 that trip. Just FYI? 528 00:29:07,900 --> 00:29:09,300 Yes, you're invited, you're there. 529 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:11,500 Nick, what do you consider yourself an expert at? 530 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:15,100 Oh my gosh. Ricky um had a changeup the 531 00:29:15,100 --> 00:29:17,600 questions because you've been in all depart cast, you've heard 532 00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:19,900 all my questions. So I had to pull out the big 533 00:29:19,900 --> 00:29:22,400 guns today and I came like locked and loaded like I knew 534 00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:24,300 the questions that were coming so I already knew my answer is 535 00:29:24,300 --> 00:29:25,900 no now you're just throwing it up there. 536 00:29:25,900 --> 00:29:27,100 What's your favorite meal to cook? 537 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:28,800 Yeah. Gosh. 538 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:34,600 What am I an expert at? I guess because of my Education 539 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:38,000 and Training. I am an expert at teaching. 540 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:41,900 Yeah I was at in Education for 15 years, you know, I had to be 541 00:29:41,908 --> 00:29:46,200 an expert in in Youth and in teaching and classroom 542 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:48,700 management and Ryan curriculum and all of those things. 543 00:29:48,700 --> 00:29:51,500 So I guess. Yeah, I guess I Would by default 544 00:29:51,500 --> 00:29:54,200 be an expert at teaching while you're in the role, you're in 545 00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:56,700 taking care of all of us and making sure we're all doing the 546 00:29:56,700 --> 00:30:00,000 right thing. Do you have any specific piece 547 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:03,700 of art that you admire? I am in art fan. 548 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:10,300 I love art museums and and going I probably the The piece of art 549 00:30:10,300 --> 00:30:14,300 in my home, that I treasure the most is actually from our 550 00:30:14,300 --> 00:30:15,100 daughter. Ella. 551 00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:20,600 Yeah, she is an amazing. She loves sketch art and she's 552 00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:25,800 an amazing sketch artist, and she will sometimes copy art that 553 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:29,400 we have in the home and do it herself or she will watch 554 00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:30,900 tutorials. And then all the sudden, you 555 00:30:30,900 --> 00:30:33,300 have this beautiful art that she's created. 556 00:30:33,300 --> 00:30:36,000 And so, there's, there's little pieces of her art, kind of hung 557 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:39,900 all throughout our house and I absolutely, Ali treasure. 558 00:30:39,900 --> 00:30:42,600 That's awesome. Nick was there ever a time that 559 00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:45,900 you begged your parents for something and they would say no, 560 00:30:45,900 --> 00:30:49,300 no, no. Then finally gave in this is 561 00:30:49,300 --> 00:30:50,700 more for me. What story? 562 00:30:50,900 --> 00:30:54,600 I wonder I mean and if they're listening to this, yeah, I think 563 00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:58,900 that, you know, when we were, when I was really young, we were 564 00:30:58,900 --> 00:31:02,400 super young family and dad was going to school and working a 565 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:03,900 couple of jobs. We didn't have a lot of money 566 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:08,100 and so I'm sure that as a kid, I often begged for things that we 567 00:31:08,100 --> 00:31:12,100 couldn't afford to have. Um, as I got older, I would say 568 00:31:12,300 --> 00:31:13,900 I can't think of anything off the top of my head. 569 00:31:13,900 --> 00:31:16,700 I would say it was probably something to do with sports with 570 00:31:16,700 --> 00:31:18,500 days. Fall in particular, is probably 571 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:22,900 a good thing, new glove or bad or, you know, cleats that I 572 00:31:22,908 --> 00:31:26,800 wanted or something like that. I'm sure that there was a moment 573 00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:30,000 where I were them down, until I got what I wanted. 574 00:31:30,100 --> 00:31:32,500 So I have a story about this and this is why I ask this question 575 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:35,700 as a kid, I think it was eight seven or eight. 576 00:31:35,700 --> 00:31:39,700 I asked my dad for a cow because I wanted a cow You know, I don't 577 00:31:39,700 --> 00:31:41,100 know why. I just wanted to cow. 578 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:44,000 Okay, just hanging out in the living room where I guess 579 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:46,100 because we lived in the city so it was not like we had to 580 00:31:46,108 --> 00:31:49,100 property for the cow but I just was infatuated with cows. 581 00:31:49,100 --> 00:31:52,000 I still kind of am infatuated with with Boba and I don't know 582 00:31:52,008 --> 00:31:53,300 why. I think they're cute. 583 00:31:54,300 --> 00:31:55,800 Yeah, learning stuff about me now. 584 00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:58,900 So fast forward. Eight years. 585 00:31:59,100 --> 00:32:01,500 I'm 16. I'm in high school that drive 586 00:32:01,500 --> 00:32:04,500 home in mind. You, we live in the city and I 587 00:32:04,508 --> 00:32:07,400 hear this moving and I'm like, what is this mooing? 588 00:32:07,700 --> 00:32:09,200 And I'm like, searching the house. 589 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:11,300 See if there's like a TV that's on or what not? 590 00:32:11,300 --> 00:32:13,900 And probably go outside and in our dog run. 591 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:17,800 Is this little calf? No way and he's mooing and I was 592 00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:20,900 like, okay. So I'm super confused because 593 00:32:20,900 --> 00:32:25,200 I'm like, how did this cow get into her yard and whatnot? 594 00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:29,500 So I call my mom like Mom, there's a cow and she goes, call 595 00:32:29,500 --> 00:32:32,100 your dad. I'm like, okay, so I called my 596 00:32:32,100 --> 00:32:34,300 father and I'm like, there's a cow in the backyard. 597 00:32:34,300 --> 00:32:35,300 He goes. Yeah, that's your cow. 598 00:32:36,700 --> 00:32:39,200 It's like I don't want to cow, he goes. 599 00:32:39,300 --> 00:32:41,200 No, you asked for a cow? Am I? 600 00:32:41,300 --> 00:32:44,300 I was 8, you know, I'm 16. What am I supposed to do with 601 00:32:44,300 --> 00:32:45,500 the cow? Now he goes, I don't know. 602 00:32:45,500 --> 00:32:48,400 That's not my problem. Like, he took some time to save 603 00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:51,800 the money to buy a cow, man. You all my dad was, yes, my dish 604 00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:57,300 was an ingenious man, he was a mechanic and sometimes customers 605 00:32:57,300 --> 00:33:00,100 couldn't pay for their work. So he would trade stuff. 606 00:33:00,100 --> 00:33:03,800 Yeah, he would barter. And one of his clients, had a 607 00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:07,300 cattle farm Ranch that he took care of and whatnot and one of 608 00:33:07,300 --> 00:33:11,000 the one of the cows had a Calf and the calf. 609 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:15,200 Yeah, and he traded work for a cow at, huh. 610 00:33:15,500 --> 00:33:19,400 So now I'm stuck with this cow, and he's like, no now, it's your 611 00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:20,900 cow. So I'm going to join it. 612 00:33:20,900 --> 00:33:24,300 Hey, you do the whole thing. Just leave it in your backyard. 613 00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:26,700 Yeah, we took it to the ranch that it came from. 614 00:33:26,700 --> 00:33:29,500 Would have been awesome if you just randomly had this calendar. 615 00:33:29,500 --> 00:33:31,800 We ignored of. But we had a neighbor that was 616 00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:35,000 just not having it because this cow was just moving. 617 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,100 I'm sure it was loud. It was super loud. 618 00:33:37,100 --> 00:33:39,000 It was super loud supplies. My story. 619 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:41,400 I had A cow when I was asked, I thought you were going to tell 620 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:44,600 me you asked for a cow and he gave you a steak or something. 621 00:33:44,700 --> 00:33:48,300 Oh no, we had to take after. Yeah, that was the most, that 622 00:33:48,300 --> 00:33:49,500 was the other part. Awesome. 623 00:33:49,500 --> 00:33:53,100 We showed the cow and, you know, got sold and whatnot. 624 00:33:53,100 --> 00:33:56,300 And then a couple weeks later we had steak and I'm eating the 625 00:33:56,300 --> 00:33:59,400 steak and it's the most delicious steak I've ever had in 626 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:02,000 my life and lo and behold it was my cow. 627 00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:04,500 That's not the best part of that. 628 00:34:04,500 --> 00:34:10,900 So no, no, Nick is here your wedding day and Hire any Wedding 629 00:34:10,900 --> 00:34:14,400 Singer in the world. Who would you have hired? 630 00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:19,900 Wow, there's so many I can't even and I'm going to change 631 00:34:19,900 --> 00:34:21,500 kind of the question living or dead. 632 00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:23,900 Oh, gosh! You just made it even harder. 633 00:34:23,900 --> 00:34:25,900 I know. That's not fair. 634 00:34:27,500 --> 00:34:30,400 Yeah, I'm trying to I'm an over-thinker and so I'm trying 635 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:32,600 not to completely overthink this. 636 00:34:33,300 --> 00:34:36,600 So, for some reason, immediately, when you ask that 637 00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:40,199 question, John Legend came. Into my mind. 638 00:34:40,199 --> 00:34:42,600 Yeah, so we'll just go with that. 639 00:34:42,699 --> 00:34:44,100 So I don't overthink it too much. 640 00:34:44,199 --> 00:34:46,500 All right, John Legend on his piano. 641 00:34:46,500 --> 00:34:48,100 Yeah. What is one word? 642 00:34:48,100 --> 00:34:49,900 That you always struggle to spell correctly? 643 00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:52,699 Well, I told you I'm an English teacher. 644 00:34:52,699 --> 00:34:55,100 Right. Mmm, I ask this question. 645 00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:58,700 Oh gosh. Um, I know I know that there are 646 00:34:58,700 --> 00:35:00,500 a couple. I just can't think right now, 647 00:35:00,500 --> 00:35:04,900 what they are. I think the i before e rule, 648 00:35:04,900 --> 00:35:06,400 sometimes gets me. Yeah. 649 00:35:07,700 --> 00:35:10,800 And so words like, Receive and things like that. 650 00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:13,500 I think I have to be very careful and pay attention, 651 00:35:13,500 --> 00:35:15,000 right? I'm trying to spell them out. 652 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,500 Mine is below and Bellow. Okay? 653 00:35:17,700 --> 00:35:20,000 Because it's just either one L or two L's. 654 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:22,900 Yeah, and I always spell it correct incorrectly and they're, 655 00:35:22,900 --> 00:35:26,700 like, hello, what I do and a teacher and I think it was like, 656 00:35:26,700 --> 00:35:32,700 third grade and it was for the words, desert and desert. 657 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:36,800 And she told us that dessert always has two s's because it 658 00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:39,800 has sweet stuff. So that's how I Ember that 659 00:35:40,100 --> 00:35:42,400 desert is two s's and desert is one. 660 00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:45,900 I remember s serving. Oh yeah same idea. 661 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:48,400 Yeah that's how I remember how to spell. 662 00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:54,200 Yeah, so you were educator. I was what was the most 663 00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:56,200 memorable class you've ever taken? 664 00:35:56,800 --> 00:36:01,400 I've ever taken, um, I took a couple of my English classes, 665 00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:07,200 probably when I went to Cleveland State for one year and 666 00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:09,700 I got to take a lot of my concentration, which It was 667 00:36:09,700 --> 00:36:15,200 literature and I took a class called black masterpieces and it 668 00:36:15,208 --> 00:36:20,100 was a focus on African-American literature and that class was, 669 00:36:20,100 --> 00:36:24,000 was really, really good. It was probably, yeah. 670 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,800 In a good way. That was my most memorable class 671 00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:30,100 and then I had another class that was in a bad way. 672 00:36:30,100 --> 00:36:33,900 The most memorable class and it was Greek and Roman mythology. 673 00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:40,100 And the teacher was the professor actually Lee he stood 674 00:36:40,100 --> 00:36:43,200 at the board with his back to us and just wrote notes while he 675 00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:46,500 talked the entire time and then what erase and just keep 676 00:36:46,500 --> 00:36:48,000 writing. Like it was. 677 00:36:48,300 --> 00:36:49,500 I don't know that I ever saw his face. 678 00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:53,300 Like I don't know what it looks like. 679 00:36:53,300 --> 00:36:53,900 Yeah. All right. 680 00:36:53,900 --> 00:36:55,500 Nick. One more question and then we're 681 00:36:55,500 --> 00:36:57,200 going to Rapid Fire. OK, you ready? 682 00:36:57,200 --> 00:36:58,800 I am. What three things would you 683 00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:02,800 leave in a time capsule for people to open in 50 years for 684 00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:06,300 like in general to know the time or about me both? 685 00:37:06,300 --> 00:37:13,400 Okay, that's not helpful. For me, I would leave a Bible. 686 00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:17,200 I would leave a baseball glove and I would leave a picture of 687 00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:18,200 my family. Nice. 688 00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:19,800 That would be. If I were, it was your time 689 00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:20,500 capsule? Yeah. 690 00:37:20,700 --> 00:37:25,800 Okay, ready for Rapid Fire? I probably not, but I'm here and 691 00:37:25,900 --> 00:37:27,000 I don't have anywhere else to go. 692 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:29,300 So what would you do with an extra hour in a day? 693 00:37:29,500 --> 00:37:33,500 I would spend it with my family preferably on Water Somewhere. 694 00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:35,300 What is something that you love that? 695 00:37:35,300 --> 00:37:38,400 It's vintage who I love old cars. 696 00:37:38,500 --> 00:37:41,100 I really Truly I love old cars, nice. 697 00:37:41,500 --> 00:37:44,400 If you could be a personal assistant to anyone, who would 698 00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:46,700 it be? Am I supposed to say Jason since 699 00:37:46,700 --> 00:37:49,700 he might listen to this? Okay, if you said Jason, I'm 700 00:37:49,708 --> 00:37:53,300 going to smack you. I oh gosh, that is. 701 00:37:53,300 --> 00:37:57,500 Wow, personal assistant. I think it'd be it would man. 702 00:37:57,500 --> 00:38:00,600 It would probably be awful, but I think it would be so 703 00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:05,200 interesting to be an assistant to Elon Musk because he's so 704 00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:06,800 eccentric. You think it'd be so 705 00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:08,700 interesting. It would be if you had to lose 706 00:38:08,700 --> 00:38:10,800 one of your Senses, which one would you give up? 707 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:16,900 Um, not cite. Not hearing maybe smell. 708 00:38:16,900 --> 00:38:19,300 Okay, as long as I could taste, I would hate to be able to smell 709 00:38:19,300 --> 00:38:22,300 and not taste, but I think I could not smell and taste I 710 00:38:22,308 --> 00:38:25,100 would be okay, okay. Name something on your to-do 711 00:38:25,100 --> 00:38:30,500 list that never gets done. Diet is that. 712 00:38:30,500 --> 00:38:34,200 Yeah, yeah. And lastly, who's someone you'd 713 00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:37,200 like to trade places with for a day and be really corny to say, 714 00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:41,700 no one that's a valid answer is Well, for a day I think it would 715 00:38:41,700 --> 00:38:44,600 be it would be and I don't have a specific person in mind. 716 00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:47,600 I think that it would be really cool to trade places with a 717 00:38:47,608 --> 00:38:50,300 professional baseball player. Just for one day, just for one 718 00:38:50,300 --> 00:38:53,800 day just to play, just to play it in the show and the show just 719 00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:55,900 to be in the show and be so good. 720 00:38:55,900 --> 00:38:58,200 Thank you so much again for being on the podcast. 721 00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:02,700 It's always a pleasure to kind of pick your brain and to see 722 00:39:02,700 --> 00:39:06,300 what's behind the curtain. It's just to say and just thank 723 00:39:06,300 --> 00:39:08,500 you again for your amazing leadership. 724 00:39:08,900 --> 00:39:13,700 Oh, He's in your friendship and just always being that steady 725 00:39:13,700 --> 00:39:17,400 force that we can all look up to and just know that it's going to 726 00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:20,700 be okay. Yeah so you can find all of 727 00:39:20,700 --> 00:39:25,700 Nick's information on our website at www.searchtv.org send 728 00:39:25,700 --> 00:39:29,900 him an email, sent him a text and just you know if you haven't 729 00:39:29,900 --> 00:39:31,500 met Nick, find them in the foyer. 730 00:39:31,500 --> 00:39:34,000 He'll be gone for the next two weeks on a sabbatical. 731 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:38,500 So I hope that you find rest and peace and your time away. 732 00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:41,000 And that's all we're going to do for today. 733 00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:42,700 So we'll catch you all on the flip side.