Hey everybody it's Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and I was

watching a thing a long time ago where some comedy writers were talking about how they make

their bits hit harder and one of the things they were saying is that using

terminology that is oddly specific and that includes a funnier word than a more generic word.

They couldn't tell you why. It just makes things funnier.

So I mean like, oh that thing is bigger than a car is not as funny as that thing is bigger than a Buick. And in the same way,

I think that maybe flogging is something that so many jokes have been cracked about because it's such a funny sounding word that

maybe it doesn't sound as bad as just good old-fashioned whipping.

Whip sounds mean and sharp and it seems like the thing you would say,

flog sounds like the kind of thing

that you want to put in a meme.

And so it's really easy.

It was very easy even for me

when I was going through the Book of Acts

when we did this in visual form over on the YouTube channel years ago.

It was really easy when we got to the Flog stuff to just kind of put a bit of a funny tone on it,

because just listen to the word, flog.

You have to use all the same parts of your throat and your mouth and your face

that you do when you say flam.

It's just a funny sounding word, but it is not a funny thing to have happened to you.

I don't know that because of ever having been flogged.

I know that from doing homework over the years about what being flogged is like,

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