AMA: My Grandpa's Truck, "Christian Masturbation", My Critics, & More (Ep. 944)

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This is UndauntedLife A Man's Podcast. I'm your host, Kyle Thompson. Let's get into it. And what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses and trust of faithful men who will be able to teach others also. That's 2nd Timothy 2.2. Guys, thanks so much for being on the show today. We're going to do some AMA today, but before we get there, I'm wanting just to always say, I love saying this from the beginning, so thankful to our donors. So we have guys like you for years now that have hopped on board to be monthly donors to us. So guys, we got guys giving 10 bucks a month, guys are doing 20 bucks a month, some guys are doing 50, 60, 70 bucks a month. We have a handful of guys doing 100 or so. And the thing is, is we don't have like magic donors that are like behind the scenes writing us enormous checks. It's not really something that we have. It's just guys like you that love this content. They love the idea of equipping men around the globe to push back darkness. 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And I'll find an inbox. I'm like, oh my gosh, these messages are like a year old. I haven't responded to these people. So if you did not get a response from me on Facebook, it's not because I'm ignoring you, it's because I literally didn't see it. But I respond to almost every single email and almost every single DM. So let's get into the first AMA here. I recently saw where you posted on Instagram that you bought your grandfather's old Ford. What's the story behind that? So yes, I posted a picture of me and my dad and I had a 1979 Ford F100. It's a Ford Ranger, it's a Lariat and it was loaded up on the back of a trailer. I was gonna trailer it from my hometown. I did trailer it from my hometown of Lawton, Oklahoma, all the way up here to the Oklahoma City area. And it was such a fun experience, but I guess I need to back up just a little bit. So that is the first vehicle that I personally ever drove, okay. So, and it's the only truck I ever saw my grandpa drive. And there was a day, I was 12, maybe 13 years old, where my grandpa met his house and he just says, hey son, get in the truck. And so I go to get on the passenger side, he's like, nah, get in the driver's seat. So I don't know exactly what he's doing. And so we both get in, you know, I opened that huge door, right? You know, it's not like these modern doors that's, you know, shut like, it's like a wham, right? So I shut this door and he just hands me the keys. And he says, drive me around the neighborhood, son. Again, I'm like 12 or 13 This is super illegal. But hey, it's law in Oklahoma. If you know about law in Oklahoma, a lot of, you know, illegal stuff happens from time to time. So I throw the keys in the ignition and I pull it out of the driveway. I drive them around the neighborhood. And so it's got a, you know, 466 in there. And he was telling me to punch it when we'd have, you know, some clearance in different areas. And that's exactly what I did. I would punch it in the boom, that thing would take off on me. And my grandpa just sat there, just stoic, just big smile on his face. You know, he was just kind of chilling on the bench seat with his arm up, just watching his grandson drive his truck. And at one point I even blow through a stop sign. Because I think I knew about the concept of stop signs. Because obviously I was, you know, 12, 13 years old. I knew what a stop sign was, but I was so overwhelmed, right? There was so much happening in the central nervous system that I was like, holy crap, missed the stop sign entirely. Just blew right through it. I can't remember if my grandpa just laughed or smiled, but it didn't really bother him. So I just kind of got to drive it all around. And right before my grandfather passed away, they rebuilt the engine. He passed away and then the truck was inherited by my father. And I always knew that I was going to own that truck, especially since it had been so well maintained by my grandfather, so well maintained by my dad. And I was like, man, that's not just an old truck, because old trucks are awesome. It's not just an old truck, that's my grandpa's truck. You know what I mean? And it's the only thing I saw him drive, the only truck I saw him drive. And the first vehicle that I drove still runs, I mean, it probably had a few hundred miles put on it since the engine was rebuilt, so it's in great condition. And I just knew it was going to be mine someday. And so I reach out to my dad and I was like, dad, you know, I want to go and get the truck. I want to get it up here. You know, I want to take it to a shop. There's a buddy I know that does some alterations and they know how to work on old vehicles because I don't want it to be a show truck, you know what I mean? I just want it to stay running. And, you know, so we worked it out to where, you know, did a deal, got the truck, my buddy Adam from The Forging Table, he helped me trailer it back up here to Oklahoma City, took it to the shop. And even the people in the shop and the owner, like, not, I mean, it's an old truck, so it's cool. I mean, this is like a shop where they make like race cars, like stuff that's just insane. And so just watching people gather around this truck and just look at it and see how well preserved it was and to hear the story of me driving it, and it's my grandpa's truck, and my grandpa bought that truck August 1st, 1979, right? So he put the first mile on that vehicle, right? And when I got the truck, they still had the temporary tag from August 1st, 1979 I have that, right? I even have a handwritten maintenance log with my grandpa's handwriting in there. So all the maintenance he did, right? The oil changes, you know, tire rotations, my new tires, anything he had to have done to the engine, you know, when he got some different exhausts put on there, like all that was, it's handwritten, right? And so it's special for like a myriad of reasons. But one of the reasons why I wanted it is because here recently, I've just been really overwhelmed and obsessed with this idea of legacy because I have two sons, you know, there's a lot of pressure on dads with sons to make sure they pass on things. There's all these people doing rites of passage now, and I'm not anti that at all. I love that kind of stuff. But you have dads that are like, crap, like, how am I going to get the stuff that's important to me into the brains and hearts of my kiddos, especially my sons? How can I make sure that they're ready to live without me? I mean, go back to that episode I did on the road. You know, that's all kind of part of this as well. And I remember sitting here at the forging table, and Russell Uessas was to my right. I remember looking down at his wrist, and he had this old Timex watch. It was really small. And I was about to start, you know, poking fun at the watch, because like, hey, man, why you got such a small watch? And he like stopped me dead in my tracks. And he's like, dude, that's my grandfather's watch. Don't, like, this is an important watch. And immediately, I was overwhelmed by like, oh crap, I know exactly what he's talking about. Like, dude, that's your grandpa's watch? Like, and he told the story about how he found a guy here locally that works on Timex watches to keep them running. And like, it was just such a cool thing. So every time Russell Uessas looks down at his wrist and looks at his watch, he thinks of his grandpa. He thinks of all the things they did together. He thinks of the legacy of his name, the Uessas name and what he's gonna be passing on to his daughters and to his son and all those things. And I was just like, that is so awesome. So that truck, I wanna keep it in such good condition that one day I bring James out and then I bring Elijah out and it's gonna be like, all right, son, drive me around town, drive me around the neighborhood. Right? So that would be four generations of people that drove that truck, right? My grandpa, Robert, my dad, me, and then my sons. Like how cool is that? And then I thought about the watches because, you know, an old classic truck is maybe something you don't drive every day. And then, you know, I'm gonna pass down firearms and really cool, you know, knives like the ones I got made through Doss and the Nehemiahs and some other cool stuff that, you know, are in the safes. But you don't use a hunting knife every day. Like, you don't use your firearm every day, even if it's your everyday carry. But a watch, I mean, you look down at your wrist, how many times a day to look for the time or the date? And how cool is that? So, you know, I invested in a couple of nice watches. Don't worry, guys, I didn't buy Rolexes, right? I'm not trying to end up on preachers and sneakers or in Nathan Atfield's algorithm or anything like that. But, you know, nice watches that, you know, are well made. You know, there's people all over the world that can work on them. The company's gonna be around. And they're gonna run by the time I pass them down to my sons. And then the idea is that they will end up passing them down to their sons. So I can just, you know, imagine assuming, you know, Rapture hasn't happened yet or whatever, that if my grandsons one day, whether I'm here or not, they look down at their wrists and they think about the times they had with, you know, Grandpa Kyle, right? And I also think about the custom Bibles that I had made by Ace Bookbinding here in Oklahoma City. So I keep one here in my studio and it's got the gospel symbols that were made famous by Phil Robertson there on the spine. It's got my logo, the UndauntedLife logo on the front. It's got my name and I basically, a replica of this one or, you know, exact copy of this one in my truck. That's the one that I take out. And when I'm going to a waiting room somewhere, you know, I hang on to that. And, you know, by the time my boys inherit these, you know, they should be well worn. I take really good care of my stuff. Like people are like, hey, did you get some new shoes? I'm like, yeah, these are like 15 years old. So, you know, I take really, really good care of my stuff. I always have. It's just what I was taught by my grandpa and my dad. And so I want to pass these down. And then also you've heard me talk about on the forging table, my Bible journals. So Crossway has these amazing Bible journal sets. They have one that's kind of, you know, normal spine and one that's like spiral bound. The spiral bound one is my preference because it sits flat really well. But it's individual books of the Bible where the ESV scriptures on the left and the right side of the page is just open note pages. And so every time we're doing a series at Faith Bible Church, because it's just expository preaching verse by verse through books of the Bible, I have that Bible journal with me because I can't really write in physical Bibles. Like, you know, I would never write in this Bible. It just doesn't jive with me. I just highlighting and writing in this just makes me feel funny.