Welcome to episode 142 of Bible Talk, a podcast brought you by Nine Marks and Southern Seminary.

My name is Alex Duke, and with me are my three, there are three friends in this room today.

Hallelujah.

Sam O'Made.

Jim Hamilton.

And on the, on the camera, we have.

Albert, what's your last name?

So you know, Albert.

He was dying to do this yesterday.

When we started this podcast five years ago, the man who edited it, his name was Alberto.

And now we have Albert O.

Is there ever any confusion between you and Albert M?

Who's Albert M? Think about where we are. Oh. Oh. I don't think. Yeah. He's the upgrade.

Albert O is the upgrade. All right. Um, guys, it is so good to be here. Albert O. Thank you for serving us. He's the director of Southern Productions. That's your title, correct? And he's doing a wonderful job serving us. Um, got, you got something to say? Yeah. Didn't you show us your props yesterday? Like you showed us your piggy bank. Well, I got my piggy bank. And then I got my my I got my master's gnome and Jim.

Today I brought my C-271 wooden baseball bat.

I'm not going to threaten you with this.

Is there a story behind that particular bat?

You know, I actually didn't swing this bat in college.

When I moved to Louisville, I played briefly in a men's league, and there was a member of our church who gave me this bat.

And then unfortunately, I broke it.

I caught one off the end, you know.

But when the bat broke, one of the umpires said to me when I went back up to pick it up, he said that bat went down like a warrior.

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