Ep. 411 - When Comfort Becomes an Idol

Ray Comfort (0:01)

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Oscar Navarro (1:04)

And you guys remember the moment where he has like this bag of sand and he's looking at the idol and he takes a little bit of sand out to make sure it weighs the perfect amount and then he grabs the idol and perfect timing puts the sand on the mechanism so that he can take the idol and what happens it's almost like the mountain comes alive in anger and it starts to shake and it starts to attack him and it starts throwing everything because it's taken. Indy has taken its idol. That is us. When people are threatening the idol on our hearts, we shake with anger, with anxiousness, with uncertainty. And so for many ways, whether it's comfort or power or the praise of other people or control, a great litmus test for you is, I think it's Luther that says, follow the breadcrumbs.

What makes you angry? What makes you anxious and uncertain? What makes you unkind? There's usually an idol being threatened behind that behavior.

Emeal "EZ" Zwayne (2:10)

Why do we do the things we do? Oh, why do we do the things we do? Oh, why do we do, do, do, do, do, the things we do, oh.

Okay, so this song was inspired by something that I believe is absolutely reprehensible that human beings do. And Mark, you've done it. Don't deny it. You've done it. Turkey bowling.

Oscar Navarro (2:38)

Turkey bowling? Remind me what that is. What is that?

Emeal "EZ" Zwayne (2:40)

Turkey. Come on, you're kidding me?

Oscar Navarro (2:42)

What is turkey bowling?

Emeal "EZ" Zwayne (2:43)

It's like the cool Christian youth group thing.

Mark Spence (2:45)

Oh, they throw an actual turkey.

Emeal "EZ" Zwayne (2:47)

They go and they buy these butterball turkeys.

Oscar Navarro (2:50)

Wait, this is a thing?

Ray Comfort (2:51)

I mean, they're not, they're not alive.

Emeal "EZ" Zwayne (2:53)

No.

Ray Comfort (2:53)

Oh, okay. That would be way cooler. I couldn't think how they could do that.

Oscar Navarro (2:58)

I'd be to that, though.

Mark Spence (2:59)

What are the pens, though? Remind me, are they normal pens?

Emeal "EZ" Zwayne (3:02)

Yeah, I don't know. They set up, I don't know, crazy stuff.

But the insanity of it is that it gets all slimy. You're taking it, you're throwing it, and they use like soap and whatnot, and they roll it.

Mark Spence (3:14)

I've never done it, but I've heard of it.

Emeal "EZ" Zwayne (3:17)

Yeah, I figured it was something you do regularly, and you too, Oscar.

Oscar Navarro (3:20)

I have a question. Can somebody reach out to the people who make avocados and ask them to change the toy that's inside? I have so many wooden balls.

Ray Comfort (3:31)

That's really funny, Oscar. That's funny.

Emeal "EZ" Zwayne (3:35)

Avocados. You guys like avocados?

Ray Comfort (3:37)

Oscar's still smiling.

Do you read that somewhere? I don't remember.

Emeal "EZ" Zwayne (3:40)

Yeah.

Oscar Navarro (3:40)

Okay.

Emeal "EZ" Zwayne (3:41)

Is there something you guys like, but hate in a certain context?

Oscar Navarro (3:45)

Ray Comfort. You.

Emeal "EZ" Zwayne (3:49)

I love avocados. Hate guacamole.

Oscar Navarro (3:53)

That's weird to me. What? That's crazy.

Mark Spence (3:55)

So you hate the seasoning.

Emeal "EZ" Zwayne (3:56)

You guys are insane.

Oscar Navarro (3:57)

What's wrong with guacamole? The look.

Mark Spence (4:00)

You make guacamole in your mouth before you swallow it.

Emeal "EZ" Zwayne (4:03)

No, but see, I put sugar with avocado.

Oscar Navarro (4:05)

Of course, you do. Do you actually?