Sweet, merciful mercy. It is literally 99.1 degrees in here. I went on a little vacation with my family.

It was lovely, by the way. Thank you for asking. We found $100 tickets to Los Angeles, California,

which is a town in California. And we flew there from Denver, Colorado, which is in Colorado.

And we went to the Libreia tar pits. They got pits out there full of oil and tar. It just smells like asphalt. And then all these animals back in the day, they were like, that doesn't look like that'd be a big problem. And they just walked right in there because they were stupid and guileless. And then they got caught in there. And basically like a bazillion animals fell into the the tar pits, and then the tar pits kind of belch and fart, and they cycle everything, and then all of the, it articulates all the skeletons. Well, it doesn't really articulate them. It just strips them down to bone, and then it jumbles them all up, which I guess is like the exact opposite of the word I use, as the exact opposite of articulating. So it was just a lovely time

altogether. We had a great time. But let me tell you what, I left all of my temperature

control devices off here at home. I just got home. It's boiling. It's insane. I'm dripping sweat

down. Let me, you know what? I don't think I can do the headphones today because it's just,

it's that hot and I

I got the AC running as hard as it can run but I don't know this is I'll let you know what the

temperature is at when I conclude our conversation today. Remember last time around we were

talking about Nathaniel he seemed like a rogue with a heart of gold type. I characterized him as

someone played by John Stamos who sits in the back of the classroom, and wears leather.

Maybe he's got long curly black hair, maybe a little bit of a perm. And he's too cool for class. But deep down, you know that guy cares about everybody.

You know he's got a soft heart. Well, Nathaniel can't help himself but dish out a little bit of the snark here when he gets told that the Messiah has been found.

Now, this is very exciting, by the way, here as we're getting well into week one of Jesus, because apparently these are young men who had some idea that the Messiah was going to show up.

They maybe weren't the best at reading the Old Testament,

or what we call the Old Testament, but these young men, they heard a rumor that something cool

was happening with John the Baptist, same rumor the religious leaders heard earlier in John 1,

and they come down to where John the Baptist is baptizing, presumably they got baptized,

because they suspect that there's maybe something even bigger than John the Baptist in play. And it takes a couple of nudges from John the Baptist to get them to realize that Jesus, he is like, you guys don't know it yet, gentlemen, but this is why you're here. It's for that guy right there. Look, the Lamb of God. And so initially, two of these disciples hear that and they're like,

all right, we'll follow Jesus. We don't really know what to do. They have kind of a clumsy exchange,

but they're like, all right, we'll follow along. It starts to make sense to them. They hear enough in a day or part of a day to be like, this is it. This is the Messiah. I don't know what they heard. I don't know what they saw. I don't know if John's testimony was enough, but whatever the case,

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