Hey, everybody. It's Matt. This is the 10-minute Bible Hour podcast. A few years back, people started using the term goat to describe somebody who's the best of all time at a thing. And now it's become popular. You've heard this expression. Maybe for a while you were like, wait, I don't get it. How does goat mean the best ever? Well, it's the greatest of all time, the goat, see?

And I always thought that was pretty weird because it's like the exact opposite of how that term has been used historically.

Generally, you don't want to be the goat. I think that idea goes all the way back to Leviticus and the first five books of the Old Testament

where you had the scapegoat and you'd put all of the guilt of the camp on the goat and you'd

send it out into the wilderness to die and it was symbolic.

So it's weird that now, here in the last 10 years or so, goat can simultaneously mean the one who takes the

blame for everything, or it can mean the best ever of all time. I mean, I don't know, whatever.

In sports, there's a lot of debate that goes around about who is the goat, greatest of all time.

But you particularly see it in basketball. Like in baseball, I don't know, it's not, it's just

not that kind of game where you debate that. Football, I hate it, but it's Tom Brady, obviously,

so there's no conversation there. Hockey, there's no conversation. It's Wayne Gretzky.

Soccer, or as some of you call it, football, I don't know anything about that sport. I couldn't tell you what

the debate is there, but in basketball, for some reason, everybody's always very concerned about

who's the goat? Who's the greatest of all time? Well, who do you think it is? Everybody has an

opinion on this, even casual basketball fans, right? It's probably Michael Jordan. Jordan seemed to just

kind of do it effortlessly.

LeBron James has worked very hard and hired a big team to try to model himself as the goat.

It matters a lot to him.

I don't have a ton of respect for LeBron James in that regard.

I just, I don't like it. My favorite

basketball player ever is Nicola Yokic. He's probably my favorite athlete ever. I just love the way

he carries himself. If you don't know who he is, go look up clips and highlights. He's a gigantic

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