This is Undaunted Life, a man's podcast.

I'm your host, Kyle Thompson.

Let's get into it.

Welcome back to the Forging Table.

The mission of Undaunted Life is equipping men to pushback darkness with content that forges spiritual mental and physical resilience.

At the Forging Table, you'll see a group of regular guys forging spiritual resilience by digging into God's Word, and we're welcoming person of integrity and honor, and that's spelled

M-E-N-S-C-H, by the way, and the third definition is a decent, responsible person with admirable

characteristics.

And I just got to say right now, there is a minch at this table right now, and it's the guy right

across from me, and that is Howard Wickersham, and that is because we've had some weird stuff go down with

forging tables a lot of stuff that we don't really talk about on camera but uh the guy that was

supposed to be sitting in that seat you know this isn't my story to tell but uh father-in-law

major major medical issues he had to hop on an airplane and you know of course he's a dutiful guy

and so he told me hey 48 hours ago he's like hey man we're hopping on

a plane father-in-law he flatlined a couple times overnight we got to go so it's like of all the

things for him to be worrying about i didn't give two craps about what was happening at the forging

table but in that moment it's like okay we're either going to rock with the three of us, which would have been fine, or we're going to have to find a fourth. And my first phone call was Howard, and you were like, okay, I got it. Let me talk to

the wife. And then here you are less than 48 hours later. It's more like 30, one and a half hours

or something like that. And here you are sitting't just hop in and he's just going to like kind of flow with us. You studied. Like you, you studied and you woke up what? You said you woke up really early this morning and knocked out the last few chapters. Yeah. So we're very, very thankful for you. But we do need to address the elephant in the room. And we need to talk about the fact that Ryan, that might be the greatest shirt in the history of the forging table.

Is that a shirt or is that a shacket?

It's a shacket.

Okay, for those of you that aren't aware, like that is a shirt jacket.

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