Philemen, yeah,

Philemen, yeah.

Hey, everybody, it's Matt.

This is the 10-minute Bible Hour podcast.

And one of the things that I really enjoy when I study history are those moments

where the things that are legends that came up in like, I don't even know, Scooby-Doo cartoons

or some book I read as a kid. It's just, you know, it's in the ether, these legends, these

myths, these stories, these little cultural nods that you have no

idea when it was thought of or where it comes from, but kind of everybody's heard of it.

I love it when I'm studying history and I find out that, oh, that thing I've always heard of,

it's from right here.

I had no idea.

That is kind of how Frigia is for me. It's a gold mine of that kind of thing. And maybe the reason that it's such a gold mine and there's so much gold of that

type in Frigia is because that is where the legendary King Midas, who whatever he touched turned to

gold is from. I thought that was kind of artful. I had fun with that one.

No, the King Midas thing. Everybody's heard of the Midas touch, right? I mean, Midas is a brand.

What do they do? Breaks and stuff. I don't know. In my experience, that hasn't always turned to

gold for me, but Midas, I mean, it's still a brand name in our country today. So clearly, this character

from history from somewhere casts a very long shadow, and everybody's heard of the Midas touch.

That's still an expression that we use for somebody who, it just everything works out for them.

Whatever they touch, just turns to gold right

and we never forget the second part of that myth that legend where it's cautionary it's like well

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